"That is to say, you, General Liu, were arrested by the imperial court because they were unwilling to go to Liaodong because the soldiers were unwilling to go to Liaodong, and you were arrested because they were afraid of the enemy's stay, and you escorted his cronies to write a letter to defend yourself."

Yang Xin said.

At this time, they were already in an entertainment place in the famous Jiaofang Sixi Courtyard.

But it's mostly drinking.

After all, it's just noon, how can there be any other interests at this time, besides, this is a formal entertainment place, and the official camp of the teaching workshop is nothing more than finding a few women to play music and sing a song to accompany a drink, everyone is a civilized person, and they will not do anything else. However, Cao Wenzhao and others were still flattered, how could they, the poor soldiers, have the money to go to such a high-end entertainment place, and they have to spend a year or two of their military salaries if they come here, and the premise is that they can pay military salaries.

Because of this, they quickly put their hearts into Yang Xin.

"It's not that the brothers are afraid, we are soldiers to go to the battlefield, there is nothing terrible about fighting, being a soldier is to fight, even if we die on the battlefield, there is nothing to say, but this battlefield can't let us ignore our relatives at home! We can't die on the battlefield, and our wives and children will starve to death later! ”

Cao Wenzhao said.

"Are you a guard or a recruit?"

Yang Xin asked curiously.

"How can there be guards who can fight, they are running out, the nine sides have been recruited since the time of Sejong, the guards are planting land and paying food to supplement military supplies, and those who fight are all recruits, speaking of which, their military salaries are not low, when recruiting, the settlement fee is three taels, two taels of food for the expedition, and one or two halves of the monthly salary, but one or two halves include five buckets of silver in the true color of rice, in short, it is eighteen taels of silver a year."

Chen Yujie said next to him.

"Chen Gongzi, can you have another drink!"

The pretty woman next to her held a wine glass, sent it to Chen Yujie's mouth, and said delicately.

Chen Yujie smiled and grabbed her slender jade hand and drank it all, the pretty woman immediately kissed him on the face with shyness, Chen Gongzi laughed heartily, it is estimated that he is also used to this kind of place, an absolute habitual offender, what he has never been here is purely talking nonsense with his eyes open.

"That's a lot!"

Yang Xin pushed away the hand of the little beauty beside him and said.

The military salary of eighteen taels is not low, and according to the price of rice in the capital, it is enough to feed a family of five.

"It's a lot that they can get their hands on, who doesn't deduct from top to bottom? This amount of silver came out of the household department, passed through the military department to the hands of the governor, and then from the governor to the hands of the general soldiers and generals at all levels, and each layer had to drift away a part, and finally in their hands, it is estimated that even thirty percent of them will not be left. Otherwise who to eat from top to bottom? Every year, the military salary of the nine sides is fat, feeding everyone from top to bottom, for example, Liu Kongyin sent people to the palace for activities this time, and the silver must be deducted from the soldier's salary, and he must not pay it himself.

And this time Xuanzhen made trouble, in fact, the two taels of grain were exhausted, and the dissatisfaction of the soldiers finally had to be reissued by an additional person to the two taels of horse price silver, and finally subsided. This month, the first batch of soldiers and horses from Xuanzhen have arrived in Liaodong, and they set off in April, but the situation in Liaodong is tense, and the imperial court wants them to continue to send troops, but the governor does not want to send them anymore, and the Xuanfu also has to warn the Mongols. ”

Chen Yujie said with a sense of wine.

"Then there are still six or seven taels left, and this will cost seven or eight stone rice!"

Yang Xin said.

"Brother Yang, when I set off for the next trip, the price of rice in Xuanzhen was already four taels."

Cao Wenzhao said with a wry smile.

"Huh?!"

Yang Xin was stunned.

"We admit that the military salary is not low, the military salary set by the imperial court is enough for us to support our family, and even our wives and children can eat enough, even if only a small part of these military salaries go to us, we can barely bear it, but the military salary remains the same, but the price of rice keeps rising day by day. After we got the military salary, we had to buy rice from the merchants, but after the salt law was changed, all the merchants on the original nine sides were deserted, and the military households in various places fled to the ground, and the local grain was simply not enough, so we had to rely on the grain merchants to transport it from the customs.

Then the price of food depends on the sky.

In a good year, when there is a lot of grain produced in the nine sides, the price of grain drops, and we can barely support our families.

We're going to starve. ”

Cao Wenzhao said.

"In other words, the key is that the grain production in the nine sides is insufficient."

Yang Xin said.

Cao Wenzhao nodded.

"Then why doesn't the imperial court want to increase the grain production of the Nine Sides?"

Yang Xin said.

"The land in the nine borders is barren, drought and lack of water, and it is impossible to grow rice, at most it is to grow wheat, millet and other drought-tolerant ones, but these yields are too low to beat much."

Cao Wenzhao said.

"That's all an excuse, it's not that the nine sides can't produce food!"

Chen Yujie said drunkenly.

After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all, then shook his head and looked at Yang Xin with drunken eyes......

"It's not that the nine sides can't produce food.

Datong, Xuanfu, where can Liaodong not produce grain?

Take Liaodong as an example, do you know how much the grain price in Liaodong was when it opened?

One money, one penny of silver and one stone, the imperial court stipulated that gold and silver were four stones per two folds of rice, but now it has risen to four taels and one stone of Liaodong, one penny of silver and one stone of rice, which is lower than the price of the imperial court tax silver.

This is the nine sides that can't beat the grain?

Can't beat the grain, can it be as low as a penny of silver and a stone of rice?

This is the price of rice in Liaodong for five years of orthodoxy, which is well documented, this is whether you can beat grain? Liaodong has been a prosperous place since the Han Dynasty, Goguryeo, Khitan all established a country in Liaodong, and even outside the border wall of Liaodong, there is still the Bohai State dominating for a while, if they can't beat the grain, they can't eat the soil.

But why is it that there is no food now?

They can't have enough food, and when they have enough food, how can the price of food rise? Who do you think are behind those grain merchants? As I said before, the annual military salary of Jiubian is a piece of fat, and it is also the largest piece of the Ming Dynasty, more than 10 million taels per year, not only those I said before, but also other high-ranking officials and nobles. They don't care about military affairs, and they can't deduct the salaries of the greedy Mexican army, but they can share it through trade such as grain prices, salt prices, etc., and the price of rice is also the most important means, and only when the price of rice is high can they make a lot of money. Even in a good year, they have to make the price of rice high, which is nothing more than selling the grain from the nine sides to the Mongols, and even selling it to Jiannu, don't think that those merchants will not cooperate with the enemy, and the Jin merchants will make a fortune by collaborating with the enemy. They secretly sold grain to the enemy, so that the price of rice rose again, and those who ate this bowl of rice could make a lot of money.

Let's be honest.

The imperial court spends a lot of silver on the nine sides every year, and the military salaries of the soldiers on the nine sides are actually not low, the system of the Ming Dynasty is actually good, and the emperor will not want the nine sides to erode, this country is the emperor's, but ......"

Chen Yujie lay on Yang Xin's shoulder, snorting wine and smirking.

He obviously drank too much, otherwise this kind of thing would not be said outside, obviously if you want to put something out of his mouth in the future, it should be the best way to get him drunk, this kind of usually serious person will often go to the other extreme once drunk.

"It's all rotten in the middle, from the court to the locality, from the civil servants to the generals, from the nobles to the gentry!"

He patted Yang Xin on the shoulder, staggered and waved his other hand and said.

"How do you fix that?"

Yang Xin asked with an unchanged face.

Cao Wenzhao was a little embarrassed, it was obvious that this person was not just a fierce general.

"Resolved? Can't fix it!

There is a way to solve it, we have a lot of things in the Ming Dynasty, not want to do, know how to do it, you can really do it, take Tianjin rice planting as an example, where rice can be planted, and it has also been planted, and even according to estimates, only the wasteland in Tianjin can be reclaimed, so that Jingshi does not need Jiangnan Caoliang. But it could not be cultivated, because the gentry of Beizhili were all opposed, and they were afraid that once this happened, when the output of Tianjin was not enough, they would raise taxes to them to fill the gap, and they opposed it together, and in the end His Majesty was helpless.

It's the same with the Nine Sides.

It doesn't matter how much the court pays the soldiers!

That's not a matter of silver at all, you can't buy five buckets of rice in Xuanfu for one or two halves a month, so you can afford to buy one stone of rice if you add three taels? Whimsical, your military salary is increased to three taels a month, I can guarantee that the price of rice will be doubled if you add tomorrow today, maybe you can't even buy five buckets, the highest price of rice in Liaodong Jiajing 38 years eight taels of silver and one stone, do you think Xuanfu four taels is a lot?

You don't understand what the Nine Sides are?

Is it the barrier of the Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall against the enemy?

No, the nine sides are just the money boxes of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military and rich businessmen, the emperor collects taxes from all over the country to fill the money boxes, they take them from it and put it in their pockets, and the remaining scum is kept to keep this money box from breaking.

Is it true that the imperial court can't beat Jiannu?

Jokes, Qi Wuyi's art of war is there, the Qi family army is not dead, those veterans who follow Qi Wuyi are a lot alive, just do it, the nine-sided post is 860,000, the actual 590,000, 590,000 Qi family army, destroying Jiannu is like pressing an ant to death!

But after destroying Jiannu, this cash box is gone!

The princes of the court are not stupid, Jiannu is nothing, they all know very well that Jiannu is just a disease of scabies, but with this disease of scabies, only then can the emperor continue to invest the silver in Liaodong, and put it into this money box for all those who eat this to reach out and take it, without Jiannu, there will be no money box, and if there is no money box, where can I get the silver? Therefore, Jiannu will not be exterminated, and will even continue to grow bigger, the number of officers and soldiers in Liaodong will have to increase, and the military spending invested there will have to be increased, and even taxes will be raised on the people for this, so that this money bag will become bigger and bigger, and it will be bigger and bigger, bang, it will be broken! ”

Chen Yujie suddenly turned his back to the sky and opened his arms......

"I think he's drunk!"

Yang Xin said with a serious face.

"I also feel that Chen Gongzi has drunk too much, and he is talking nonsense!"

Cao Wenzhao said with deep sympathy.

Yang Xin quickly took out Chen Yujie's wallet, then took out a silver ticket from it and stuffed it directly into the chest of the pretty woman next to him, who screamed in surprise, and then smiled

(Thanks to the book friend Qing YY Lemon, the years are long, the white clothes of the little tanhua, Jin An Mingyue, Lin Lingsu 2018, the galloping man, Qi Xiangfang, Luo passing, I am a grass mud ma, Juventus fans and others for the rewards) ......