A few days ago, a little eunuch named Wang Yongji, a steward of the Luwang Mansion, came to the vicinity of Houjiazhuang with four or five people, and when he was discovered by the patrol cavalry of the "Red Banner Army", he refused to accept the inspection and interrogation.

The little eunuch here does not mean that he is young, this eggless goods is over thirty years old, but because he has no rank, he is just a small leader who manages a dozen eunuchs.

In fact, such eunuchs are not eunuchs, but the people will not distinguish between them, and they think they are eunuchs when they see such people, and there are more than 100,000 eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and there will be no more than 1,000 eunuchs who can be called eunuchs, and the others are just slaves without eggs.

The "Red Banner Army" is less servile and more confident, and the cavalry is a proud class, and it is a soldier who will move forward bravely against the Jiannu cavalry.

The vast majority of cavalrymen who have served for more than a year have decapitation skills of the third level or above, and this team of men and horses on patrol duty is a small flag eleven horsemen.

The small flag officer, who had intercepted a few eunuchs and asked for routine inspections, was an old qualification with the rank of a warrior who had not been able to write 200 words silently until now, but now because of the adoption of the non-commissioned officer system to take care of many good soldiers, the requirements for selecting officers have been raised to more than 500 words.

The name of this cavalry small banner officer is Zhou Liangchen, and along with Liu Fenyong and Yuan Siming, he belongs to the leadership of Huang Han and his son.

That group of people was a hundred general Ming army selected by Han Zhikuan, and it was also the first Biao Ming army led by Huang Han and his son.

There were a total of 33 cavalrymen in the three small flag officers, and less than 20 were still in service, six of them were killed in battle, including a small flag officer, and nine were retired because they were disabled and could not ride to fight, and four of them were not of high disability level and became flag guards.

Among the survivors were Liu Fenyong and Yuan Siming, two small flag officers at that time, the "Red Banner Army" who now has the rank of general, and He Yongqing, a warrior near Huang Han.

Several years have passed, and the "Red Banner Army" has fought dozens of battles, large and small, and in each battle, these veteran cavalrymen have basically participated in the battle, and have made too many military achievements, and in fact, only three people have not been mixed with the officers on active duty.

The fundamental reason is that these three non-commissioned officers have nothing to say when they fight, and they just can't write.

He Yongqing, as the head of the family, should be better than Zhou Liangchen and Shen Sixiao, who are still serving as cavalry flag officers at the grassroots level.

Zhou Liangchen, a small flag officer with the rank of warrior, was respected in the barracks, and had fought side by side with Li Ruolian and Fang Zhenghua, and had also drunk with people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

He had seen a lot of big scenes, knew a lot of real eunuchs, and saw a few little eunuchs from the palace so rude, which made him furious.

Fortunately, Zhou Liangchen has been educated by Huang Han for many years, and he has long lost the habit of being a ruffian.

When he saw that the little eunuch was only happy, he did not beat them, but locked up the five men and starved them for three days, and told them when they were polite and able to speak well before letting them out and asking them the purpose of running here.

Fox and fake tiger people are often unproductive, Wang Yongji was still scolding when he was just locked up, shouting that if his prince knew about it, he would definitely kill these soldiers.

On the same day, the news that Zhou Liangchen had locked up the slaves of the Lu Wang family spread far and wide, and He Yongqing learned the news, and he was worried that his short-tempered comrades-in-arms would be in trouble, and immediately saw the opportunity to report to Huang Han.

Whether it is the prince of the Ming Dynasty or the scholar, folk rumors abound that they are not good birds, in fact, there is a big reason why they are all domestic slaves doing evil.

Even the relatives who can't be beaten by the eight poles use the names of officials and royal relatives to run rampant, and the people in power may not know what these people are doing.

Huang Han learned that he didn't take the arrogant and unclean Luwang slave seriously at all, and he still didn't beat or scold He Yongqing until the five people were so hungry that they could be released to eat.

What did they scold Dongpinghou and the "Red Banner Army"? Take the initiative to confess in the form of words and sign and pledge, and handle similar situations in the future.

He Yongqing was originally worried that Zhou Liangchen was going to cause a big disaster, but after listening to the guidance of the head of the family, he was so happy that he couldn't see his eyes, and immediately told Zhou Liangchen the good news, and widely publicized it in the army.

When the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" saw that the head of the family did not hesitate to offend the prince in order to protect his robes, they all felt warmth and felt the strength of the collective.

Where have the arrogant house slaves been bullied like this, and they were honest after being starved for two days, but they refused to write down the words of scolding Dongpinghou and signed them, Zhou Liangchen still did not beat or scold, and continued to starve them.

On the third day, the five house slaves were completely relented, and the "Red Banner Army" magistrate got the confession documents before they drank two bowls of porridge and released them.

It is conceivable that these people will definitely add fuel and vinegar when they return to King Lu's Mansion and cry to the high-level eunuchs about what happened to them when they came to Houjiazhuang to do business, and these low-level little eunuchs will not be able to see King Lu casually.

Huang Han also read a lot of information compiled by Qiwei during this time, all of them were feudal kings and county kings who had fiefs in Henan, and King Lu's reputation was actually not bad, and he was still a versatile literati, and he played Go at the level of a national player.

He was ready to use King Lu as a breakthrough to solve the big problem of occupying hundreds of thousands of acres of fiefdoms belonging to the vassal kings and county kings.

In the early years of Wanli, after Zhang Juzheng's integration and statistics, it was confirmed that the entire Ming Dynasty had more than 700 million acres of land, which was less than half of the more than 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land in later generations.

The average tax rate of land is less than four liters of corn per mu, and Henan's field tax is lower than the average tax rate, about three liters and two acres.

In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "three salaries" were not collected at the same time, and most of the so-called "training salaries" in the later years of Chongzhen were borne by Jiangnan, because Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi were basically broken.

The maximum positive tax per mu of land in Henan will not exceed four cents of silver, and the Ming official generally calculates the field tax according to the eight cents of silver per stone of grain.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called fiefs of vassal kings, county kings, and even dukes, marquises, and earls are actually owned by them, which does not mean that they own hundreds of thousands or even millions of private land.

The acres of land have owners, and the emperor often gives tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres of fiefdom to a certain vassal king, where does the need for so many ripe fields come from?

The real situation is that the ownership of the land remains unchanged, but the land endowment that should have been received by the household department has become the food of the vassal king.

In history, Zhu Changxun, the favorite of the Wanli Emperor, went to the fiefdom of Luoyang to become a vassal, Wanli was afraid that this son would have a bad time, so he gave 40,000 hectares of fertile land, which is not a hectare of later generations representing fifteen acres of land.

In ancient times, until the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, one hectare of land was fifty acres, which shows that King Fu had two million acres of fertile land, although one acre in this era was less than one acre in later generations, and the total amount was terrifying.