After returning from the palace, Liu Jun's brows have been furrowed.

He summoned Liu Yunzhen, who had now almost become the liaison between him and Liu Qiao, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and Liu Yunsheng, the commander of the Nine Gates.

"What has Your Majesty been doing lately?" Liu Jun asked.

Liu Yunzhen now has another identity, that is, the emperor's close attendant, a member of the guard's army. Driving around every day, he naturally knows the emperor's movements best.

"Your Majesty has been practicing guns recently."

"Gun practice?"

Liu Yunzhen nodded yes and replied that the emperor had recruited more than 200 young children from the families of the meritorious nobles in Beijing during this time, and they were practicing riding and archery every day and learning guns.

"Your Majesty organized these sons and daughters into a company, using the current establishment of the new army, a company of more than 200 people, under which there are four teams, each team has four platoons, each platoon has more than ten people, and each platoon has four squads. His Majesty has been very concerned about this recently, and he personally named this company the Longxiang Cavalry Company, and appointed himself as the company commander. ”

"Your Majesty also transferred a lot of equipment from the guards and pro-army, and the Longxiang cavalry company was each equipped with two horses, a rifle plus four handcuffs, and four cavalry cannons and six mountain grenades."

The more Liu Jun listened, the more unsightly his face became.

"Why have these things never been mentioned to me?"

"It's just His Majesty's play, and it shouldn't be taken seriously."

Liu Jun's face sank, "This is a joke?" ”

Liu Yunzhen was reprimanded, so she had to bow her head.

"Okay, in the future, you can remember to tell me at any time about this kind of thing, what Your Majesty does every day and what you see, you have to tell me in detail."

"Yes."

The emperor himself trained a group of young soldiers, and also formed a dragon inlaid cavalry company, and also engaged in such a complete set of equipment, and practiced day and night. In Liu Yunsheng's view, maybe all this is just the young emperor's fun. But Liu Jun was not careless. Zhu Cihong actually practiced in the palace, thinking at best, maybe Zhu Cihong just ascended the throne at a young age and became the emperor, and no one controlled him, just like Emperor Wuzong Zhengde. But Liu Jun feels that things are not so simple.

What if Zhu Cihong is the same as Kang Mazi Xuanye?

Historically, Kang Mazi was also a teenager who succeeded to the throne, assisted by the four auxiliary ministers, and later Ao Bai monopolized the power, and as a result, Kang Mazi picked a group of teenagers to accompany him to practice wrestling every day, and then one day summoned Ao Bai into the palace to meet him. suddenly sent the teenagers to make a move, and a group of little rabbit cubs beat the master to death with random punches, and won the worship in one fell swoop.

Liu Jun is very wary of this.

He knows that what he has done in recent years is indeed very powerful, and I don't know how many people hate him in their eyes. Maybe the little emperor is also dissatisfied with this? Or did someone explain the situation to the emperor to him?

No one knows what the emperor thinks.

Although Liu Jun now has the initiative in the court, there is still a Wu Fu. If the emperor suddenly overshadows him one day, it is still possible.

"It's time to speed things up." Liu Jun said in his heart.

Liu Jun has not been in a hurry for a showdown in the past, because he knows that his foundation is not deep. Once the usurper is in power, then he may face rebellion everywhere. Even he didn't know that once he really usurped the throne, his own Chu army. How many of his Chu allies will stand firmly on his side.

And Qingren has been staring at it all the time.

If one is not handled well, it may be internal and external troubles, and smoke is everywhere.

Liu Jun hopes to become the center. To grasp the government, as much as possible, first through the central court of the Ming Dynasty, to step up the deployment of their own people. Not only should they have military power and control over Gyeonggi and the surrounding areas, but they should also strengthen local control.

However, it seems that there are still many variables.

Perhaps after repelling this Qing attack, he should step up. As long as the Qing army is repelled this time, it will be difficult for the Qing army to raise such a large-scale attack in a short period of one or two years. This invasion should have tossed away the last bit of the Qing Dynasty's savings.

Let's wait until this battle is over.

Repel the Qing army first, and then sweep away Li Zicheng and other bandits.

Sitting at his desk, Liu Jun flipped through the latest report from Henan. Zhang Shan and Cai Yuan, two admirals, joined forces and used troops in Henan, and everything went smoothly. Although in the eyes of some officials in the imperial court, they moved slowly, but Liu Jun was very satisfied.

Although the recovery of Zhangshan and their cities was slow, they were not just driving away the bandits. They all got his secret order to take advantage of this march to straighten out the Henan region.

Whenever Zhang Shan and his team entered a city, they would conduct a social census to check the number of people, the number of acres of land, the situation of shops and workshops, etc., and then implement rent reduction and interest reduction, suppress mountain bandits and water thieves, and also crack down on illegal salt dealers, track down the minting of private money, and check the high loans.

It can be said that their task is extremely heavy, but it is also extremely important.

In order to allow them to carry out these works smoothly, Liu Jun also specially sent inspectors to inspect the imperial history and Jinyi guards to assist, and directly investigated the local gentry who obstructed and did not cooperate with the work, dismissed the officials, and then appointed some officers in the Chu army to temporarily act as local officials, and established security regiments and militia teams in various places.

Wherever they went, they had to requisition the grain stored by the local squires and merchants, set up granaries in the localities, and organize the people to resume production with work for relief.

In the western part of Henan, it is now a sea change.

A large number of acres of land that had been occupied by the army were cleared out, and many fields concealed by the landlords were cleared out, and a large amount of grain was requisitioned from the landlords' homes, and then lent to the people, and they were organized to resume production and rebuild their homes after the war.

The reports sent back from Henan show that although the gentry in these places were very dissatisfied with this rectification, the local people were very supportive. A large number of fleeing people began to return, although it was still a time of scarcity, but the government lent them grain, organized them to cooperate in farming, repaired water conservancy, and gave them exemption and exemption from their past loans and rents, and there were no bandits in the township, and everything was improving.

Liu Jun took out another piece of paper with a set of data written on it.

According to preliminary statistics, there are about 1.1 billion mu of cultivated land in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, of which about 200 million mu are official fields and nearly 800 million mu are private fields.

Among the more than 200 million acres of official fields, they are divided into official fields and people's tenants, as well as military tun fields. In addition, the Huangzhuang is about 5 million mu, and the vassal king's village is about 20 million mu. However, because most of the areas in eastern and western Liaodong are now in a state of actual temporary abandonment, there are many military cantonment losses, plus a large number of military cantonments that have been occupied over the years, in fact, the number of military cantonments on the books is less than 80 million, which is still the number after several rounds of cleanup.

There is still a long way to go to clear out the more than 200 million acres of military cantonments.

But even if there are only 80 million acres of military tuns for the time being, it is quite good. Because these were originally military tuns, but now they are all changed to mintun, and these lands are still tuntian, which is different from mintian. The tax on private land is very low, about three liters per mu, while Mintun is actually state-owned land, and the tun households are tenants.

Although there are differences in the yield per mu in the north and south, on average, the yield per mu can reach about one stone and two stones, and even if the rent is collected according to three into five, there will be at least four buckets and two liters a year, and 80 million mu will have 33.6 million stones.

If all the 80 million stone rents can be collected, the one-year rent will exceed the land rent of all the people's fields in the imperial court over the years. In fact, for more than 100 years in the imperial court, the grain of the military tun was said to be for the army, but in fact, the army of the guard could not fight, so these military tuns were completely wasted.

Historically, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, with the continuous use of troops and tight finances, Jia Rudao introduced the public land system, which limited the number of acres of land owned by officials according to their grades, and the government paid for the excess part to buy back the part. He led the imperial court to finally buy back 10 million mu of official land, and then gave the people tenant seeds, and collected as much as five or six million stones a year in rent.

In fact, Jia Nidao's tenant rent of official land reached as much as 50% or even 60%, which was far higher than Liu Jun's tenant rent. If Liu Jun increases the tenant rent of tuntian to five or six dou per mu, then these 80 million mu of tuntian can even reach more than 40 million stone grain.

And Tuntian is actually still a small head.

Daming has at least 800 million mu of land, which is the number of acres measured by Wanli time, and Liu Jun estimates that there will be some concealment. But even if it is calculated according to these 800 million mu, according to the tax of three liters and three in five per mu, it is still 26.8 million stones. In addition, there are 100 million mu of official land tenants, and the tax on these official fields is higher, which is five liters and three in five per mu, which adds up to 5.35 million stones.

If all this grain can be collected, then 40 million stone a year for military land, 5.35 million stone a year for official land, and 26.85 million stone a year for private land, the sum of the three will be 72.2 million stone.

And now the imperial court has less than 26 million yuan a year, and it still owes a large amount every year.

72.2 million stone grain, if the imperial court can really collect so much grain in the future, these grains will be converted into silver, and the imperial court's finances will be completely surplus.

No matter how developed commerce is, in this era, land is the most important, because land is related to food, and the people depend on food.

In this era, food has always been an extremely valuable commodity. If the government can collect enough grain every year, and there can be a lot of surplus grain storage, then the imperial court will have the most precious materials, which can be used not only to fight wars and calm chaos, but also to help the people.

From a certain point of view, when we control the land, we can control the grain, and with the food, we can control the situation in the whole world.

Although Liu Jun has channels to transport grain from overseas, it can only be a small amount. In the past, there was an old saying that you don't sell wages for 100 miles and don't sell grain for thousands of miles, because grain transportation is difficult and the freight rate is very high. If only part of the grain is transported to Tianjin and Beijing, then there is no problem. However, if a large amount of grain is to be transferred to Henan, Shaanxi, or even Sichuan, the price will be extremely high.

The best way is to establish large-scale grain storage bases in the two capitals and important land and water wharves such as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, so that the overall situation can be coordinated and grain will become the most powerful bargaining chip for stabilizing the situation in the world.

The 80 million mu military tun will become the first target that Liu Jun will strive for and master.

As for the more than 20 million mu of Wang Zhuang in the hands of the clansmen, let it go for the time being, and then count it later. (To be continued.) )