Wei Yan said: "We only need to follow what Your Majesty said about Daxing Tuntian, and then cherish the people, the people and sergeants will work hard to produce and be self-sufficient, and Your Highness can rule with a bow." ”

Zhu Ao was very dissatisfied with this answer, the so-called vertical arch and rule is actually the rule of inaction, not to say no, but the effect is too slow, the Han Dynasty ruled for 60 years without doing anything before daring to argue with the Huns, he can't wait so long.

Zhu Ao asked: "The general of the Ganzhou Left Guard has already told this king about this problem before, and the military household of my Su Domain can divide a hundred acres of land, which looks like a lot, but the question is which household can plant a hundred acres of land, so in fact, there is not a lot of useful land in the hand, and most of it has to be wasted." ”

Wei Yanxiang was speechless for a while, glanced at Zhu Ao with his eyes, and said, "That's according to His Highness's will....."

Zhu Ao didn't answer him directly, and continued: "My army of Su Fan is stationed in this place, and the army is self-sufficient? ”

Wei Yanxiang rolled his eyes and arched his hand: "It still needs to be allocated by the imperial court." It's just that not only our feudal lords are like this, but other feudal kings also need the imperial court to allocate grain, not to mention that they also have the support of merchants who are greedy for the benefits of opening China and France. ”

The method of opening the Chinese has already appeared in this article, and it is briefly introduced here. To put it simply, the opening of the Sino-French law means that merchants can transport a certain amount of grain to the border, and then they can obtain a corresponding amount of salt, and then they can use the salt to go to the state-owned salt factory to support salt and sell salt for profit. Later, the merchants thought that it was too expensive to transport grain from the south to the north (in ancient times, the cost of transporting grain by land was very huge, and often the grain transported over was not consumed), so they bought land near the border and hired local farmers to cultivate it, and then handed over the grain to the border army in exchange for salt, which was called Shangtun.

Zhu Ao said: "According to the meaning of this king, we must change this production model of one family and one household, the efficiency of this model is too low, and the ability of small households to resist risks is also very poor, and a slight natural disaster will not be able to bear it." ”

Wei Yanxian's mind turned several times, the string in his head suddenly collapsed tightly, and his eyes stared at Zhu Ao, as if he wanted to see through the mind of this young but unfathomable prince, and said, "Dare to ask His Highness what model he wants to adopt?" ”

Zhu Ao didn't think about it, and replied categorically, "Hire." ”

Wei Yansheng almost jumped up, this is obviously a challenge to the system set by Zhu Yuanzhang, if Lao Zhu knows, he is the end of his official position, and whether his life can be saved is still two words, and immediately refused sternly: "No!" The purpose of His Majesty's implementation of the military camp is to educate the soldiers in the peasants, so that the soldiers can be self-sufficient, and no longer waste a grain of rice on the people, and the distribution of land to the soldiers is also to stabilize the morale of the army, so that they can defend the border with peace of mind. And His Highness wants to take away their land today, and turn them into proletarian tenants, so that the morale of the army will not be disturbed? How does His Royal Highness explain to the Emperor? ”

Frankly speaking, Wei Yanxian's knowledge was good, and he was also a leader in that era, but Zhu Ao had hundreds of years of knowledge more than them, so he was naturally not limited to the rules customized by Lao Zhu. In his view, Lao Zhu is a pure small-scale peasant thought.

Zhu Ao said unhurriedly: "Can the sergeants really be self-sufficient? Has the so-called 'raising a million soldiers without spending a grain of rice on the people' really been achieved? If this is the case, then why do the border towns still need the imperial court to transport grain, and why do they still need Shangtun? ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone didn't dare to speak, the sentence quoted by Zhu Ao was the words that Lao Zhu was proud of, who dared to pour dirty water on this sentence was purely looking for death, they all stared at Zhu Ao with shocked eyes, I don't know why this prince dared to say such a big rebellious thing, is it really the emperor of Tiangao?

In Zhu Ao's view, Lao Zhu's sentence "raising a million soldiers does not cost the people a grain of rice" is completely his own ideal, and it has not been realized at all in reality, everyone knows that no one dares to say it, if he doesn't say it, then he can't continue to say the following words, and said: "We are all Your Majesty's courtiers, dare to ask how can you share your Majesty's worries as courtiers?" ”

Everyone is an old officialdom who is old and sophisticated, and they know that Zhu Ao is a self-questioning and self-answering question, so no one speaks, waiting for Zhu Ao to continue.

Zhu Ao continued: "Is it to abide by the old rules, sitting here and waiting for my father to bother to relieve us? Or do you think about change when you are poor, find a way to be self-sufficient, and don't let your father and the emperor worry about him? ”

Wei Yansheng still refused to give in, and arched his hand: "Naturally, I am trying to be self-sufficient, but I dare to ask Your Highness, how can Your Highness be sure that you can be self-sufficient by hiring?" If we fail, we will not only worry the emperor, but also destroy the system formulated by his old man, how will it end? ”

Zhu Ao knows that the production efficiency of the large farms in later generations is definitely not comparable to the natural economy of a single household, and the large farms have abundant funds, not only have strong anti-risk capabilities, but also have enough strength to develop and promote new technologies.

But the problem now is that Zhu Ao has crossed over, and the people of the Ming Dynasty who understand things he understands can't understand, their concept is that once the common people lose their land, they will become homeless, and once they become homeless, they will be easy to rebel, so the rulers of the past dynasties have advocated that the cultivator has his land, and the picture is a stability, as for the efficiency, then it doesn't matter.

Shang Ying said well: "The people should not start with worry, but can be happy with happiness." ”

Zhu Ao said: "Wei Changshi's worries are not unreasonable, but this king thinks that it is not the land that stabilizes people's hearts, but the grain, no matter how much land there is, what is the use of not being able to produce food?" As for the question raised by Wei Changshi, this king can't answer you for the time being, I'm afraid you won't believe it. Let's test it with actual results in the future. ”

"Of course, please rest assured that Wei Changshi. The king will not force the military households to give up their land, and the king will make them voluntarily accept the king's claims. ”

Zhu Ao is not stupid, there are a lot of people like Wei Yansheng who think about small farmers, if he comes hard, I am afraid that he will provoke a mutiny, which will not be beautiful. The only way to deal with this situation is to take it slowly, so that the sergeants will realize that Zhu Hao's way is beneficial to them, and they will voluntarily accept it.

Wei Yansheng wanted to say something, but Zhu Ao interrupted him and said, "Okay." Today, it was supposed to be for the two commanders to pick up the wind, but it turned out to be a political discussion. We've said enough, so let's stop for today. Come and set the wine, play music. ”