My wife never spoke about military affairs before. She always told Zhu Pingjin that she didn't understand and was not interested, so Zhu Pingjin's outline did not discuss military affairs at all.

Hearing his wife's objection, Zhu Pingjin was a little surprised.

"I'm not against you sneaking up on building an army. I have an opinion on the positioning you have given to the Guardian Team! Luo Yuhong explained to her husband.

"I knew in Yazhou that Chen Youfu wanted to train the Zhuang protection team, and Hong Qihui objected. Why? It's not that Hong Qihui doesn't know the general situation, but every labor is precious in the busy farming season!

When the rain comes, men, women, the elderly, children, all the people have to go to plant the rice. The seedlings will be harvested one day earlier, and the rice in the second season will be one day longer, and it may be harvested a few catties more!

The harvest season is even more intense, and the harvest is rushed as soon as the weather is clear. If it's half an hour late, it's raining heavily, and the year's harvest will rot in the ground!

But farming is the opposite of farming. When the farm is slack, the farmers are all grinding and rubbing their skin, and they don't get up at nine o'clock in the morning......"

"And what do you mean?"

"I mean it very simply. Since it is called the village protection team, it must be combined with the farm. They all train when they are not working, and they all work in the fields when they are busy! Chen Youfu said that when the local rioters come, they will kill people when they see them. Only when men, women, and children go together can they win! ”

"Well, what my wife said is reasonable! Li Chongwen also raised this issue. It seems that the comrades working on the front line have the same opinion! ”

Zhu Pingjin pondered for a long time, and then said: "In the past, I envisioned one county and one brigade, and first built a backbone squadron; One middle village and one squadron, first build a backbone team. It seems that this approach is too idealistic and clearly out of touch with reality. Is this good: We have made a slight revision, the military establishment at the county and village levels will not change, and the practice of building a backbone squadron at the county level will not change. But at the Zhongzhuang level, we are flexible and don't force any backbone squads. All the men come to participate in the training during the slack season, and all the men work in the fields when the farm is busy. In this way, it can not only expand the base of soldiers, but also improve the overall training level, and also strengthen the organization and management of Wang Zhuang's households. Once the war starts, we can mobilize enough troops from the local area at any time! ”

Zhu Pingjin turned in time and moved closer to his wife, so Luo Yuhong generously expressed her understanding.

"In the past, in rural areas, it was called full-time, semi-full-time, and non-full-time. You're from the city, and you've never been in the countryside, so it's normal not to know. But it is really not enough to defend an entire county in a company. Chen Youfu and Hong Qihui suggested that two or three more squadrons should be set up under the brigade. The squadron conducts training in peacetime and mobilizes to replenish the source of troops in wartime. As long as you are well trained, pull out the same as fighting. ”

Zhu Pingjin thought for a moment and praised it: "Fully, half-off and non-off." Simple and easy to understand, the name is good! ”

"Okay, pass!" Luo Yuhong made the final decision.

As she spoke, she bent down to pick up a quill from the make-up basket she was carrying, took out an ink porcelain bottle and dipped it in water, and began to record.

"You're a good thing! That's what you wrote to me with this, right? Zhu Pingjin leaned over and asked.

"Don't interrupt! The meeting continued. ”

"There is still a big problem in the army, there is a shortage of cadres! There is a shortage of military cadres and political work cadres. I pushed Brother Yun'er, a hairy child, to the front desk, which was also a helpless move......"

"I've thought about it." Luo Yuhong didn't wait for Zhu Pingjin to finish speaking, and immediately interjected: "The army is like this, and so is Wang Zhuang. You know, Hong Qihui rejects eunuchs very much, he treats Wang Zhuang as a small county official, and Zhuang Tou as a nine-grade official! Therefore, he wholeheartedly attracted scholars to do things. But those who read didn't buy it, so he was not a human being.

Coincidentally! Yesterday afternoon, Luo Jingyun's classmates came to bother me. They wanted to learn from Brother Yun to be a soldier, and Xiaohong beat them out. I think that since Brother Yun is a battalion-level officer, his classmates can also lead the troops, but they have to ......"

"Set up a university for military and political cadres!" Zhu Pingjin quickly regained his right to speak.

"Not only to choose, but also to cultivate, that is my D cadre policy! Hang up the recruitment sign, pass the written and oral examination, and then sign the labor contract. Like Zhu Mouren back then, he first put it in the most difficult environment at the grassroots level to exercise, and then chose it through the work performance appraisal. Cultivation is more important than selection. It is necessary to teach by word and deed, and it is also necessary to study intensively on a regular basis, improve the theoretical level, and ensure that the thinking can keep up with the development of the situation in a timely manner......"

"Don't be your D-school! Just make money by issuing fake diplomas. Luo Yuhong grunted, interrupting Zhu Pingjin's talking, "Vocational training should be divided into levels. Those with a talent or above, those with a child's education, illiterate and semi-literate, can't stew in a big pot! ”

"Okay, pass!"

Zhu Pingjin made a final decision: "I am responsible for the specific regulations of running the school!" ”

"What's next, is the food issue?"

"That's right! Those who know me, so is my wife! ”

Zhu Pingjin was complimenting his wife, but a sudden flash of spark stimulated his imagination.

"Wait, you said that Brother Yun'er's classmates all asked to join the army?"

"That's right! What ...... do you have?"

"What kind of wife you have, what kind of husband you have. In the same way, what kind of students there are, what kind of teachers there are......"

Luo Yuhong was very disdainful of Zhu Pingjin's behavior of inspiring everywhere.

"People invited you to dinner, but you served someone else's pot!"

"I'm solving the problem of Yun Ge'er's teacher reemployment!"

Zhu Pingjin approached his wife and tried to defend himself: "What age is it now?" What is the social ethos? In a word, heavy literature and light martial arts! It is not easy to teach a bunch of militants in such a bad atmosphere! Not only to use it, but also to use it well! Tell me about the teacher, is it a private school? ”

"The school that my father found for Brother Yun is a bit like a community school, but it is not a righteous school. It's just that dozens of families have contributed money, rented a house, and hired a teacher together. Dolls from several nearby streets are reading there, large and small. I remember seeing the teacher the year before last, tall, soft-spoken, polite, and unimpressed. I heard that the teacher's ancestor had carried dung and water, but he was beaten out at the entrance of the examination room...... However, I think it is better to recruit openly from the public, so that we can find a large number of talents in a fair and just manner. ”

"You're mass production, I'm making it private!" Zhu Pingjin didn't care, "When will you let him vote for a post to meet." ”

"Okay. Moving on to the food issue. ”

"The second question is about food. The root cause of the grain problem is natural and man-made disasters, the abandonment of cultivated land, and the peasants' enthusiasm for farming is very low, and its essence is the contradiction between the needs of the population and the grain output!

According to the current grain yield level, if one person has four acres of cultivated land, he will have to go hungry if there is less, and it is even more impossible to develop, and this is the "food and clothing constant" between the population and the cultivated land. In the current grim situation, it is too luxurious to talk about food and clothing, and I want to talk about the "constant of life and death".

Sichuan Province has 13 prefectures, 6 Zhili prefectures, 15 prefectures, 111 counties, as well as 1 Xuanfu Division, 1 pacification division, and 16 chief officials. In addition, there are a number of military and civilian guards. Master Li checked the figures on file for me, and said that there were 3 million dings (Note 1) in Sichuan, 13.4 million mu of cultivated land. After the 10th year of Wanli (Note 2), according to the amount of grain, there were 20 million mu of cultivated land at once, and the total amount was about 30 million (Note 3).

Cheng Xiangfeng is a caring person. He took the initiative to check the historical records and said that the cultivated land in Sichuan was stable at about 450,000 hectares in the former Song Dynasty and the north and south. I remember that in the Qing Dynasty, there were 450,000 hectares of cultivated land in Sichuan, which may have been the limit of cultivated land in Sichuan in the pre-industrial era.

The amount of arable land and the number of people are there, but I can't believe it. Why? The arable land figures may be more accurate, but the population figures are just flying all over the sky!

According to the population statistics of the Hongwu period, Sichuan was 6 million. Now that 300 years have passed, there are 3 million left? According to the population statistics of Jiajing in the 21st year, Sichuan is 4 million. Decades have passed, but there is a million less? This is neither logical nor common sense!

How did the data of three million dings come about? Master Li explained, that's just the figure of the government's grain and taxes! The people of the Shu Wangfu don't pay taxes, aren't we human? The six guards of the Chengdu garrison are all military and do not pay taxes, so are they not people? Tusi only pays tribute and does not pay taxes, and the population is also not counted. Master Li also explained that there were a large number of hidden households who evaded taxes in all dynasties. When Wanli was whipped, the poll tax was included in the field tax. If the government does not collect taxes on the basis of capitation, it loses the enthusiasm for population counting. In order to save trouble and money, the yamen often copied the previous data and reported ......"

"It's data corruption!" Luo Yuhong interjected coldly, "I only understood on a trip to Yazhou: it turns out that the Ming Dynasty was brought down by corrupt officials!" ”

Note 1: Cao Shuji's "Chinese Oral History", Sichuan's population peaked during the Wanli period, and then gradually declined due to war, natural disasters and plagues, and the total population of the country was estimated to be 150 million at the end of the Ming Dynasty, of which the population of Sichuan was 7.35 million.

Note 2: Wanli Qingzhang, Sichuan completed the time from the tenth to the eleventh year of Wanli.

The Sichuan local chronicles cite a figure that says that in 1578 (the sixth year of Wanli), the cultivated area of Sichuan was 134,000 hectares. After the war during the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were only 10,000 hectares of cultivated land left in Sichuan. According to the extreme state of two acres of land to feed one person, the population of Sichuan was 6.7 million at the beginning of Wanli and 500,000 at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. This is a 92.5 per cent decrease from the previous figure of 6.7 million. It can be seen that the local historical materials of Sichuan about the population of Sichuan in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the record of "ten to ninety-five" is very accurate. By the end of the Kangxi Dynasty, the total amount of cultivated land in Sichuan had been fully restored and increased on the basis of the Ming Dynasty. In the Yongzheng year, the amount of cultivated land was further expanded, and it has basically remained stable since then.

Note 3: Xiangmu has not been able to find the amount of cultivated land in Sichuan after the whip, which is estimated to be about 30 million mu in terms of grain amount. According to some literature, it should be 39 million mu.