The entire Datong military town has 146,000 hectares of tuntian, the scale is very large, of course, this is the result of the nine years of Wanli inventory, originally only 98,000 hectares, the rest were all occupied by the generals and local gentry.

Everyone was shouting that the military household was having a hard time, but everyone basically ignored it.

More people know about suffering, but no one knows how bitter it is.

Many people say that military generals have a low status, but compared to military households, they are still the superior people of this era. It's just that compared with the gentry, they are inferior in social status and the share of social resources.

Military households, an existence that is worse than ordinary people and tenants, as the little grandfather of the British government, Zhang Weixian has never heard of it.

In the past, when he was in the school palace, every time he talked about military households, the emperor was noncommittal, which Zhang Weixian remembered very clearly. Now he saw something that he had only read in books before, and he really saw it now.

The land in front of Zhang Weixian is 10,000 acres, and it is also a large piece of tuntian in the entire Datong Mansion.

This land belongs to Datongwei, and Zhang Weixian's side is followed by the civil officials who divided the land this time. The deposition of the military household system and the change to the conscription system, one of the entry points chosen by Zeng Xingwu was to divide the land.

Starting from this point and giving benefits to military households can make military households taste the sweetness.

In this way, they will believe the words of the imperial court and be willing to make a choice. If you start directly from the personnel and change the military membership to ordinary people, Zeng Xingwu thinks that many people will run away directly.

Over the years, the number of fugitives has increased every year, and every bad year there will be countless fugitives.

According to the military household system, even if a child of a military household is literate, you will not be able to gain fame, because the imperial court system does not allow it, so it cuts off the possibility of the military household turning over, and the father dies and the son succeeds, so that the military family has no chance to turn over for generations.

They are desperate, with no light ahead, and can only live in a state of confusion every day. Farming to fill the stomach is actually a kind of luxury for military households, and the income from ordinary tuntian is opened at 37 percent, and military households only have 3 shares, and even 28 shares in some places.

In these three parts, they will also be detained by the generals, and their lives are comparable to pigs and dogs.

In front of Zhang Weixian, there was a group of people standing in the black, all of whom were military households. Different from what is usually seen when performing martial arts, these people are not in bright armor, nor are they holding swords in their hands, let alone military appearance.

They all have yellow muscles and thin bones, and the half-grown baby is even holding a big head, hiding behind the adults, looking at this side timidly.

These people all have military status, that is, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Weixian checked when he went out of Beijing, there are more than 760,000 soldiers on the nine sides of the entire Ming Dynasty, and now Zhang Weixian knows that these are the numbers on the books, which are insulting to the books.

Datongwei has a total of 140,000 people with military status, but looking at the current situation, I am afraid that there are less than 10,000 people who can be pulled out to fight.

Zhang Weixian glanced at Zeng Qing, the commander of the guard beside him, and saw that he was standing aside with an embarrassed face.

Although Zhang Weixian was angry in his heart, he also knew that he couldn't scold Zeng Qing, the entire border army was like this, after all, the imperial court had no money to allocate and no food for them, they were barely surviving, and they had to fight against the Tartars, which was already difficult for them.

After the purge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor a few days ago, these generals who can survive are not wicked people who drink the blood of soldiers.

Zhang Weixian personally asked a general, and his main thing was to pretend, that is, the establishment of 1,000 people, only 700 people, and the remaining 300 people did not exist, that is, empty salaries. Zhang Weixian still remembers the words of the thousand households, and he did his best to support these seven hundred people.

When he was taken off his armor, Zhang Weixian saw patched underwear.

Layer upon layer, the stitches of the patches were very thick, and he sewed them himself, and as for his mother-in-law, she died a few years ago. There is no money, there is no way to marry another wife, this thousand households are called Chu Feng, and he cried like a baby at that time.

At that moment, Zhang Weixian stood there, speechless for a long time, he didn't know what to say.

These people have been guarding the land for the Ming Dynasty in this year, compared to those scholars who are drunk and dreaming all day long, they are carrying knives to guard the country for the Ming Dynasty. At that moment, Zhang Weixian felt that a fire was ignited in his heart.

He is a general, and his home is a British government, and he feels sorry for these people.

At that moment, Zhang Weixian thought of the emperor, he thought of the emperor's silence, every time he heard the military household, the emperor's silence was very long, and the sadness in his eyes could not be hidden, at this moment Zhang Weixian understood, it was guilt!

Guilt can kill!

"Zeng commanded the envoy, have all the people arrived?" Zhang Weixian stuck Zeng Qing and asked lightly.

Zeng Qing hurriedly nodded: "Back to the little grandfather, it's here, a total of two thousand and one hundred people!" ”

Zhang Weixian nodded, there are two thousand one hundred people here, and Zeng Qing's one guard is only five thousand six hundred. In front of them, half of them were accounted for, and the remaining half were mostly Zeng Qing's personal soldiers, relying on them to fight.

This is still good, in exchange for those captured commanders, there are only a thousand men to fight.

Zhang Weixian knew that 2,100 people did not represent 2,100 people, but 2,100 households and 2,100 families.

The main obligation of the military household is to send a man to serve as a soldier in the guard, called the regular army, and the other children are called the surplus or the rest of the army, and the regular army must have at least one surplus to accompany him to help him live.

The regular army served in the guard, and had to bring his wife with him to live a stable life and have children, and everyone here had a family.

Although the treatment of the pro-soldiers was better, their families and relatives still wanted to farm, but this time they were not called over. This is still a border army, and it is still Datong Town, known as the first army in the world.

What about the rest of the place? What are the local health centers like? Zhang Weixian didn't dare to think about it, he was afraid that he would be out of breath.

"Let their own households bring out their own people!" Zhang Weixian didn't say anything, just ordered lightly.

Although these people look miserable, they also have their own belongings, after all, they have household registration. It's just that they are more like tenants now, you are his family, you are his family, and the ones who rent their fields to plant are those Ming officers.

"Yes, little grandfather!" Zeng Qing nodded, and then began to let people divide people.

Today's northwest is a little cold, Zhang Weixian looked at the military households below, many of them were still wearing single clothes, so cold that they couldn't help but be a little red. Looking up at the slightly gloomy sky, Zhang Weixian's heart was very tyrannical, and he wanted to kill people now.

The people were quickly divided, and Zhang Weixian said directly to his own guards behind him: "Go, send one person from each hundred households to help them understand." ”

"Yes, little grandfather!" The guards behind Zhang Weixian quickly dispersed, and their faces were also ugly.

Zeng Qing's 100 households have been trained, and they have been trained on how to talk to the people below about the division of land and the change of household registration. Zhang Weixian did this for fear that someone would play tricks, and for many officers, this was cutting off their financial resources.

But at this moment, Zhang Weixian was looking forward to someone coming out to make trouble, because he really wanted to kill, and his hand pressed the sword that the emperor gave him tightly.

More than 2,000 people were divided into more than 20 groups, and 100 households had already begun to explain. Zhang Weixian quietly walked to the back of the group, quietly listening to the hundreds of households inside to explain to everyone, he wanted to experience the feelings of these military households.

"The emperor has issued an order to divide the land for everyone, and I see that there is no such land."

Zhang Weixian's standing group of people is a bearded man, his face is very rough, he speaks very loudly, and his Guanzhong accent is very strong, after so many days in Datong, Zhang Weixian can understand most of them.

The bearded man pointed to the surrounding fields and said, "Each of your families can get a piece of land, and every man over the age of sixteen can get ten acres of land, five acres of land for women, five acres for men under the age of sixteen, and three acres for women. ”

"In the future, these fields will not collect grain, but only pay field tax."

Everyone looked at each other, many people couldn't believe it, and some people trembled and asked, "My lord, is this true?" ”

"Of course it's true, this is the emperor's holy decree, do I dare to fake the holy decree, I don't have so many heads to chop off!" The bearded Baihu said with a smile: "In the future, you will be the same as ordinary people, and the court will give you the title deed." ”

"Children can study, take scientific examinations, and become officials, and a better day is coming."

I don't know who cried first, and then there were continuous cries, a group of scrawny military households, crying loudly at this moment, crying hoarsely, as if they wanted to cry out their hearts and lungs.

The crying was contagious, and when everyone figured out what was going on, the whole field became a cry.

Zhang Weixian looked at this scene and glanced at a person not far away, who immediately understood and shouted loudly: "Long live the emperor!" Long live the emperor! ”

So in the heart-rending cry, the emperor's shout of long live shook the sky.

Zhang Weixian saw this scene, and his mood was a little better, he believed that these people would not forget this day in this life, or several generations, forget these things, and use these people as soldiers to become a strong army.

At this moment, Zhang Weixian had an impulse, an urge to stay here.

Select soldiers, train them, and build them into a strong army in the northwest.

The rest of the things do not need Zhang Weixian to participate, surveying the land, issuing the title deed, and registering with the tax department, and the whole process is smooth and orderly. However, Zhang Weixian still left his own men and kept an eye on them to prevent someone from doing ghosts.

Zhang Weixian knew that he was not popular in the northwest, but he didn't care. He is the little grandfather of the British government, a celebrity in front of the emperor, he doesn't care what others think of him, his heart has never been so firm.