Zheng Xunrui thought that the only way to solve the dilemma was the mutual market, of course, his mutual market was different from the understanding of the imperial court, that is, the mutual market was directly controlled by the government and traded, and the private mutual market was not allowed for the time being.

This is the conclusion he came to after careful consideration, such a practice is somewhat inconsistent with the rules of the imperial court, after all, the adults in the imperial court, the construction of the mutual market, is controlled by the merchants, and the construction of the yì is completely exempted from trade taxes.

Zheng Xunrui wouldn't do this, he wasn't a fool, since he was the governor of Yansui, then he had the final say here.

The place where Yulinwei is stationed has a natural advantage in interacting with Mongolian tribes.

In addition, Zheng Xunrui can also take advantage of this opportunity to boldly buy war horses, have grain in his hands, and exchange it for it, there is no problem, high-priced grain, get gold and silver, and then buy grain from the south on a large scale.

Maize and sweet potatoes must be treasures in the grassland, and the Mongolian tribes who come to the market will flock to each other.

Mongolia has suffered a snow disaster and is struggling in the abyss, the mutual market at this time is the time to knock on the bamboo, Zheng Xunrui will not be polite, when it is time to make a move, he will make a move.

Zheng Xunrui came to Yansui Town and was stationed in the governor's yamen.

Zheng Jinhong had already made a good front stop, and everything was arranged.

Entering Yulin Town from Mizhi County, Zheng Xunrui felt different, as if he had entered a primitive tribe, or a beggar tribe.

The area of Yulin Town is not large, but the location is very important, it is the border town of the imperial court, the fort here, all have Yulinwei moderation, and the governor of Yansui is directly controlled by Yulinwei, is their top boss, for a long time, Yulin Town is responsible for defending the Mongolian tribes, and the importance of Shanxi Datong is the same, it is a place that the imperial court attaches great importance to, but later due to the changes in the military situation in Liaodong, the attention of the imperial court went to Liaodong, and relatively ignored Yulin and Datong.

Yulin Town's guard camp fort and so on, completely implement the military household system, which the imperial court has always adhered to, has never changed, although many other places have implemented the mercenary system, but Yulin and Datong land, still has not changed, the military households here, can not leave, must be stationed for a lifetime.

Zheng Xunrui was most impressed by the fact that he didn't see very decent people along the way, and he didn't even see people with very complete clothes, all of them were in tatters, and what shocked him the most was that when he was in Guideburg, he saw a few people working in the fields, who were already very old, and almost couldn't straighten their waists.

Needless to say, some of the other situations I have seen, men working in the fields, women on the side unclothed, with children, often showing sensitive parts of the body, not caring at all, as if they do not know what shame is.

Such a situation is the greatest irony of the military household system.

Everyone knows that the military household system is unsustainable, Yansui has been in drought for many years, almost no harvest, the taxes borne by the military households are far higher than the peasant households, and the peasant households cannot maintain them, and they will all rebel, not to mention the military households, and what is even worse is that the military households cannot get the money, and the poor little money will be deducted.

According to the rules of the imperial court, the monthly salary of the border army is one or two five dollars of silver, of which one or two pieces of silver can be converted into one stone of grain, and the remaining five dollars of silver can be obtained.

That is to say, what the imperial court needs to be responsible for is the military salary of five cents of silver per month for each sergeant, and the rest needs to be earned by the guards themselves.

Under such circumstances, the sergeant could not have a chance to live, he could not eat enough, and his family was also implicated, so under such circumstances, how could it be possible not to mutiny.

In fact, the mutinous sergeants, that is, the need for the imperial court to allocate military salaries, this requirement is not excessive.

What is even more hateful is the deduction of military salaries by officers at all levels.

The military salary that was finally allocated, the officers deducted it became a habit, otherwise these officers would not be rich, in addition, they were paid empty salaries, the establishment was 1,000 people, obviously there were only 100 people left, and the report was still 1,000 people, crazy empty salaries, anyway, the silver was taken out by the imperial court, and you said that these officers ate empty salaries, but their greed exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, not only eating empty salaries, but also deducting military salaries.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the Jizhen Mutiny and the Ningyuan Mutiny all had the problem of arrears and deduction of military salaries.

This is the case in Liaodong, not to mention places like Datong and Yulin.

Zheng Xunrui walked very slowly along the way, and when he observed carefully, some things that happened in the imperial court and other places appeared in his mind at the same time, including some things that were about to happen that he had sorted out.

There are three things that have happened.

On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the Yellow River burst its banks, the people of Mengjin and Jin, countless casualties, a large area of famine was formed instantly, the imperial court had no silver relief, these victims were desperate, rebelled in the center, and some of them entered Shanxi and joined the ranks of the Liukou, so that the power of the Liukou grew rapidly.

Also in June, the rebel general Kong Youde Geng Zhongming and others captured Laizhou, during which the governor of Shandong, Xu Congzhi, was martyred, and Denglai was completely plunged into chaos, and in the imperial court, there were still people arguing about appeasement and extermination, and the confused emperor could not make up his mind.

In July, the eunuch Cao Huachun supervised the Jingying and removed Tang Wenzheng from the post of the commander of the Jingying, and Cao Huachun, a eunuch who was almost as famous as Wang Chengen, finally began to show his head.

There are four things that are about to happen.

In August, Min Hongxue, the secretary of the ministry, was dismissed, Min Hongxue was Wen Tiren's henchman, and Li Changgeng, the former secretary of the Ministry of Works, was appointed as the secretary of the ministry, in September, Chen Yuting, the imperial history of the left capital, was reprimanded by the emperor, Chen Yuting was Zhou Yanru's person, which means that the battle between Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru has entered the white-hot Cheng dù, and the court will enter the atmosphere of continuous party contention, but unfortunately the emperor still thinks that he can control the contradiction between Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, and the emperor does not want the ministers below to be too united.

In September, Liu Xiang, a pirate from Fujian and Guangdong, rebelled, and Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang, decided to appease him, but Liu Xiang pretended to agree, and finally detained and killed the officials who appeased him, so that Guangdong and Fujian fell into chaos again.

The most important thing is that the Liukou gathered in Shanxi in September, and were active in the area of Taiyuan Mansion and Pingyang Mansion, conquering Daning, Xizhou, Zezhou, Shouyang and other prefectures and counties, and breaking the king Gao Yingxiang, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, the eight kings, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others, the strength became unprecedentedly strong, and they were able to take the county and the county of the prefecture lightly, which shocked the imperial court, and the imperial court had to send heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Liukou.

The last incident has a huge impact on Zheng Xunrui.

He remembered very well that because of the vigorous encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, the rogue soldiers were divided into several routes, some entered Beizhili, some entered Sichuan, some entered Huguang, and some returned to Shaanxi, and those who returned to Shaanxi must have returned to Yan'an and other places.

Zheng Xunrui must prepare in advance, and today's Yan'an Mansion must not be attacked by rogues.

In a few months, so many big things have happened, which means that Da Ming is really exhausted, Zheng Xunrui is like a tinkerer, trying to repair small gaps while watching bigger holes appear.

The many situations observed in Yulin Town made Zheng Xunrui's heart cold.

The border town has reached such a Cheng dù, the court ignores it, the officers are desperately greedy for ink, the military households have no way to live, and the sergeants are always thinking about mutiny, this is like a crater, or a barrel of explosives, as long as there is a spark, it will detonate in an instant, and what shakes is the Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, it is very likely that the liukou will enter the territory of Yansui when the imperial court begins a large-scale encirclement and suppression, and on the other hand, the miserable situation in Yulin Town, Zheng Xunrui said that there is no chance of hardship, and he really doesn't know where to start.

When he came to the governor's yamen, Zheng Xunrui didn't have time to rest, so he first listened to Yang He's report on the situation.

Yang He was first sent to Shenmu, ready to contact the merchants of Shenmu to see how to buy war horses, but the situation soon changed, Zheng Xunrui became the governor of Yansui, so Yang He did not need to stay in Shenmu, and soon rushed to Yansui Town, and Zheng Jinhong and others who arrived here will meet, his task is still unchanged, or contact the purchase of war horses, at this time can already be contacted publicly.

Yang He had already contacted Shang Jia and was willing to exchange five stones of grain for the price of one Uzhumuqin horse, providing two thousand war horses, so he needed 10,000 stones of grain.

Zheng Xunrui immediately denied this opinion, now there is no need for such a high price, the Mongolian steppe has fallen into a large-scale famine, grain is the root of life, relatively speaking, war horses are not so important, and they can't support war horses, at this time exchange, at most two to three stones of grain, you can exchange for a Uzhumuqin horse, this middle businessman, the heart is too dark, thinking that Zheng Xunrui does not know, the price of a stone of grain on the grassland has risen to four taels of gold.

Zheng Xunrui decided to send Yang He to the grassland to contact in person, this business is very important, not only to exchange war horses, but also to sell grain to the Mongolian tribes, and after making a lot of gold, he turned to buy a large amount of grain in the south.

Only in this way can we stabilize the Yansui area.