Zhu Youxiang's attitude was unusually hearty, and without hesitation, he promised to take out one million taels of silver, as for what Su Tiancheng said, it would be returned after three years, Zhu Youxiang was not in a hurry.

King Fu's wealth is relatively famous in the imperial court, but despite his wealth, it is not a trivial matter to take out a million taels of silver, Zhu Youxiang is so supportive, Su Tiancheng is still very happy.

Zhu Xianxuan's fief is in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and King Fu's fief is in Luoyang, Henan Province, both of which are not far from Shaanxi, so after Zhu Xianxuan and Zhu Youxiang expressed their positions, Su Tiancheng immediately sent the elite soldiers of the Jiangning battalion to Taiyuan and Luoyang to escort the gold, because silver is not easy to carry, converted into gold, it is 100,000 taels, the volume is not large, and it will not be eye-catching.

Zhu Xianxuan and Zhu Youxiang went together to do work for King Qin, King Rui and King Han, King Qin was in Xi'an Mansion, King Rui was in Hanzhong Mansion, King Han was in Pingliang Mansion, Hanzhong Mansion and Pingliang Mansion were not very safe, so Su Tiancheng sent 5,000 Jiangning battalion soldiers, and they were soldiers from the pro-military battalion and the scout battalion, escorting along the road, and the team was led by Liu Tiehan, the commander of the scout battalion guard.

The shadow of the rogue was not visible along the way.

Five days later, Zhu Xianxuan and Zhu Youxiang brought back 150,000 taels of gold.

The raising of silver went so smoothly that Su Tiancheng was very happy.

The most difficult thing was solved.

The distribution plan has long been clear, the eight prefects under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi, no yamen allocated 300,000 taels of silver, these silver are divided into two parts, of which 200,000 taels are used to solve the problem of seeds and cultivated land, including relief for the people, the remaining 100,000 taels of silver are used to solve the difficulties of the government, and the remaining silver is used as a reserve fund for the governor's yamen to hold. Relief place at any time.

The silver is definitely not enough, there are many counties under the jurisdiction of the prefect yamen, but it is impossible for the governor's yamen to completely solve it, and the prefecture and county themselves have to find a way, as for what to do, everyone has a head. Always have to find a way.

The Jiangning battalion was divided into three, with more than 30,000 people stationed in Xi'an, 20,000 in Hanzhong, and 10,000 in Fengxiang.

The responsibilities of the Jiangning battalion are also very clear, the soldiers stationed in Xi'an Prefecture are specifically responsible for the security of Yan'an Mansion, Qingyang Mansion and Lintao Mansion, and the soldiers of the Jiangning Battalion stationed in Fengxiang Mansion are responsible for the security of Pingliang Mansion and Gongchang Mansion, and the soldiers of the Jiangning Battalion stationed in Hanzhong Mansion. He is only responsible for the security of Hanzhong Mansion.

Hong Chengchou was stationed in Xi'an Mansion and was in full charge, Sun Chuanting was stationed in Hanzhong Mansion, and Bi Maokang was stationed in Fengxiang Mansion.

It's already early November.

The first step has been successfully completed, and the next step is the key reform.

There are also quite a few garrison troops stationed in Shaanxi. Most of them are under the jurisdiction of the Commander-in-Command, the combat effectiveness of these guard sergeants. It is not flattering, except for the border troops stationed at the border passes, the tasks they undertake are different, there are some combat effectiveness in front of them, and the rest of the guards exist in name only. The officers of the guard station are just messing around, relying on empty salaries to maintain their survival.

Shaanxi's guard station, notorious, here guard sergeant. The situation of fleeing is very common, and the irony is that most of the elite strength of the Liukou is the former sergeant of the Shaanxi Guard, and after the mutiny, most of them took refuge in the Liukou, which strengthened the strength of the Liukou, and also caused a headache for the imperial court.

After Su Tiancheng came to Shaanxi, the first thing that needed to be reformed was the affairs of the guard's army.

It is not too difficult to dismantle the army of the guard, and after the Jiangning battalion came to Shaanxi, except for the army stationed at the border pass, the rest were not needed.

Su Tiancheng's idea, after the abolition of the guard, some sergeants were arranged to the inspection department of Fuzhou County to become a local militia group, focusing on maintaining local law and order, this part of the sergeant's expenses, Fuzhou County is directly responsible, and the remaining sergeants are all going home to farm.

After more than a month, the 30,000 surrendered rogues who had been stranded in the barracks had almost finished their education, and these people were also sent home and returned to farming, so as to make up for the shortage of labor to the greatest extent.

Such an idea is very beautiful, but it is extremely dangerous to implement.

The military household system was set by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and lasted for hundreds of years, and if you want to abolish such a system easily, you may have to risk cutting off your head.

Besides, although the establishment of the guard post lagged far behind the development needs of the society, it fed a group of officers, who became rich by drinking the blood of soldiers and eating empty salaries, and became a force that should not be underestimated.

Such a reform, if not paid attention to it a little, may cause the biggest riot in Shaanxi, if the officers of the Shaanxi Guard Office take the initiative to take refuge in the Liukou and oppose the imperial court, the impact will be fatal.

But such a reform must be carried out.

The two biggest problems faced by Su Tiancheng are the problem of silver shortage, which has been solved, and the second problem is the problem of land annexation, which is even more fatal.

The land annexation in Shaanxi is nothing more than two large pieces, one is the land annexed by the gentry and wealthy households, and the second is the official land, including the cultivated land occupied by Wei, and the statistical data is already in Su Tiancheng's hands.

Shaanxi Provincial Guards have some special features, the cultivated land occupied by the guards is completely incomparable with the south, especially near the Ningxia Wei area, and close to the Yulin Wei area, the land occupied by the Wei is astronomical, all the cultivated land in the nearby Fuzhou County, almost all belong to the capital and the guard, this situation, in the place near the border pass, is a common situation, these places, in the early Ming Dynasty, are mainly used to garrison the border army, used to resist the invasion of Mongolia, Fuzhou County is also mainly for the capital division, the guard service.

This kind of system, which lasted for hundreds of years, to the Wanli period, was completely inconsistent with the actual situation, the imperial court was ready to carry out reforms, but it involved the interests of all aspects, and finally gave up, plus these places, belong to poor places, grain production is not high, and no one pays special attention to it, and it has slowly dragged on until now.

Shaanxi Province has a total of 640,000 hectares of cultivated land, equivalent to 64 million mu, of which there are 210,000 hectares of official land, which always occupies one-third of the cultivated land, and the real private land, but only 300,000 hectares, less than one-half, this is an extremely abnormal phenomenon.

Even when the land annexation was at its most serious, the cultivated land in the south still accounted for about 60% of the cultivated land, that is to say, about 60% of the land was responsible for all the land endowments, and the people in the south felt that the taxes were too heavy.

But in Shaanxi, the amount of private land only occupies about 40 percent, that is, about 40 percent of the cultivated land, which bears all the taxes, and the land endowment on the heads of the people has more than doubled.

Considering that Shaanxi's grain output is not high, the average harvest of grain per mu of cultivated land is only 1.2 to 1.4 stones, and each mu is less than one stone in the south.

The attitude of the government is also worth playing, the officials think of exploiting the people, not only normal taxes, but also on this basis, a lot of other taxes, such as what salary, training salary, war horse tax, etc., to pay the taxes to the court, it doesn't matter if you can't collect them, anyway, in arrears, other taxes that can be levied must be collected, and there can be no arrears, because these silver are the small treasury of the government and officials.

Poverty is a vicious circle, the government is poor, it is exploited on the people, the people have no way to live, they rise up to rebel, in this case, the situation in Shaanxi is getting worse and worse, almost into a dead end.

It's no wonder that there are so many man-made rebellions in Shaanxi.

It is no wonder that the officials in the imperial court are reluctant to come to Shaanxi.

Su Tiancheng must break this strange circle, the only way to break it is to overthrow the original system and start anew, tinkering is useless, and no matter how much silver is invested, it will have no effect.

The accumulation of hundreds of years of thinking, coupled with his familiarity with the historical situation, made Su Tiancheng aware of the role of the economic lever, and he must make drastic reforms.

Reform is a fatal matter, especially when it involves the interests of the elite class, and it is even more difficult, because many reforms throughout the ages can only be carried out or implemented through bloodshed.

Reform in Shaanxi Province seems simple, but if such a thing is considered in the entire Ming Dynasty and discussed in the imperial court, it will cause an uproar, which affects the interests of the powerful and may encounter a crazy counterattack.

Su Tiancheng hesitated for the first time.

He didn't want to touch the fundamentals, and wanted to develop the economy through roughly gentle means, so as to enhance the strength of the imperial court and make the Ming Dynasty stronger.

But in Shaanxi Province, the territory is larger, and the influence formed is not ordinary, and it may even touch the fundamental interests of the powerful, so at this time, he must consider the impact.

There are only two ways, the first is to raise a large amount of silver by raising silver, creating superficial prosperity, or even indulging in smuggling, etc., such a situation can be fooled for a while, everyone is happy, such a method, will not touch the interests of the tax, but in the end, it is the people who suffer, and this false prosperity, the harm caused is long-term, even fatal.

The second is to carry out reforms, at the beginning, it does not need to be so thorough, but the final way out is to establish a mature system, and use economic levers to leverage the market, that is, the market economy after a few hundred years, to do this, it may have to pay a huge price.

Su Tiancheng felt that he was caught in a dilemma, whether to be responsible for history or to be a pure politician, this choice was very difficult. (To be continued......)