"Don't just stare at this little thing in front of your eyelids, now that the country is broken, it's hard to say whether this family can be saved." Zhu Gongqi sighed.

The old prince spoke, and whether the following families wanted to or not, they naturally had to take out the money at this time. According to the meaning of the old King Zhou, if you can keep the wealth by spending a few million silver dollars, then there is nothing to hesitate and reluctant, and even as long as it is stable, even if it costs 10 million, it is worth it.

In the end, there were the thirty-six county princes of Zhou, each of which contributed 100,000 silver dollars, and the Zhou Wangfu family contributed 1 million, and the rest of the families made up 2.4 million, making a total of 6 million silver dollars.

Fortunately, now the Four Seas Bank is all over the world, and it is convenient for everyone to make money, so they went directly to the VIP room of the Kaifeng branch and exchanged a large amount of silver tickets, which is easy to carry.

"Let's go to the barracks like this, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, we have to find someone to introduce it, and we are not familiar with those officers in Kaifeng Town."

Zhu Shaoxuan, the son of King Zhou, wiped the sweat on his forehead and said with an embarrassed face.

Looking at the pile of silver tickets in the leather bag in front of him, he really felt pain.

But what he said was also the truth, it turned out that this area of Henan was first Chen Yongfu, and then Zuo Liangyu, and it was not until not long ago that the nine-headed bird entered the ground in Henan. The newly established Kaifeng town was dominated by the towns of Denglai and Huguang, plus some of the original Yu army and newly recruited soldiers. Soon after the establishment of Kaifeng Town, it returned to Kaifeng for training. As a result, not long after, the imperial court abolished Kaifeng Town.

Now that the new dynasty has opened the country, the original Kaifeng Town has been restored, but the original chief military officer Zhang Guozhu has now been transferred to Beijing as the commander of the guards. Today's Kaifeng chief military officer is Qi Guoyuan.

I heard that this Qi general soldier with only one eye was originally called Qi Yuan, and now he has been given the name Guoyuan by the new emperor, and he can be regarded as a member of the country, and he has entered the list of henchmen of the Han Emperor.

When this Qi Duyan arrived, the world was still under Zhu Mingxia at that time, and the Zhou Dynasty was the emperor of Kaifeng, and no one took these people in his eyes. What's more, they also heard that Qi Guoyuan had been a bandit in the past, and they were even more disdainful.

It's just that feng shui takes turns, and the sky has changed in a blink of an eye, and now Qi Guoyuan has been crowned the founder of the country and has become the chief military officer of a town.

Zhu Shaoyan hated Qi Guoyuan, who was born as a bandit, and didn't know how to deal with this kind of person.

Zhu Gongqi thought for a while, "The new governor of the Central Plains, Lord Li, is the son-in-law of the old King Anton, and when he was the governor of Henan, he came to visit the old man. Such. I will write an invitation, and I will send someone to Governor Li, who happened to be in Kaifeng recently, and we will not only worship this Buddha, but also take the opportunity to ask him to introduce General Qi to the army. ”

In this world, we have to have a good relationship with those who are soldiers.

Zhuxian Town in the south of Kaifeng is the place where the soldiers and horses of Kaifeng Town are stationed. Kaifeng Town is one of the four major commercial towns in the Ming Dynasty, and Jingdezhen and other three towns are equally famous, and the famous place where the world's merchants gather.

The camp in Kaifeng Town was built next to the Shahe River. The town is by the river. The big camp is not in the town, but next to Zhuxian Town, there are strong fortresses and forts to defend it.

After the founding of the Longhan state. Liu Jun began to increase the number of soldiers and horses.

The Central Plains Military Region has jurisdiction over Shandong and Henan provinces, and the original Denglai had an integrated army of 30,000 horses, but now Kaifeng Town has been re-established, and it is a town without formation.

According to today's methodology. The army of the Han Empire was divided into six categories: the integrated army, the missing army, the frame army, the mobilization army, the reserve army, and the township army.

The integrated army, also known as the A type army, is fully composed of two divisions, six associations, and an army of 30,000 people. The army lacking is divided into two levels, type B and type C, and the second class army is two divisions, four associations, and 20,000 people. The C Army has an establishment of 15,000 men in the first division and three divisions, but the lack of division associations still maintains a command structure and is staffed with officers.

As for the shelf army, it has a numbered establishment, a headquarters, basic officers, non-commissioned officers, and stockpiled weapons, but there is no regular training, only conventional weapons. When the war requires, a maximum of ten days is required to recruit reservists to assemble. Each shelf army only maintains a strength of about one division in non-war times, and the rest of the divisions only maintain a shelf.

The lower-level mobilization army is actually just a large arsenal, equipped with the most basic command system, a small number of major officers, no non-commissioned officers, mobilized only in wartime, and it takes at least a month to mobilize, and there are no soldiers in peacetime.

Even lower is the reserve army, which is equivalent to the source of those rack armies and mobilization armies. These soldiers are reservists, mostly retired soldiers, or registered young and strong, occasionally trained in the autumn and winter, only to maintain the most basic mobilization officers, mobilized and assembled in wartime, to supplement the various shelf corps and mobilization corps.

The lowest level of the entire Han army is the township army, which is actually the militia and township regiments, which are organized in peacetime and equipped with the most basic weapons. When necessary, they are also called up as supplementary soldiers to supplement the regular army.

This new ladder system not only makes it unnecessary for the officers and soldiers to maintain a large army at all times, but it can also maintain the backbone and establishment of the army, and once there is a police force and a war breaks out, the Han army can be mobilized in the shortest possible time and supplement those who are lacking in formation.

According to the plan of the Privy Council, each military region should have at least one integrated army, and according to military needs, it should be equipped with other armies of different ranks.

The Central Plains Military Region has the integrated army of Denglai Town under its jurisdiction, and the lack of an army of Kaifeng Town.

Kaifeng Town is a type B army, with two divisions and four associations and 20,000 soldiers and horses. The Central Plains Military Region is also equipped with a shelf army, a mobilization army, and a reserve army and a township army. When necessary, the two provinces of the Central Plains Military Region can mobilize and organize at least four armies within a month.

Qi Guoyuan's second-class army did not participate in the encirclement and suppression of bandits in western Henan, and their original task was to reorganize and train. And now, Qi Guoyuan has one more task, to monitor the eastern region of Henan, especially those former Ming clans and local gentry, to maintain stability.

Li Shuchu, the governor of the Central Plains, is now in the Kaifeng military camp in Zhuxian Town, which is now called the 21st Army, with two divisions and four associations fully equipped.

Although it is a type B army, it is still the central army of the Han Empire.

To maintain the stability of the Central Plains Army, the 21st Army is very important.

Li Shuchu originally served as the governor of Henan, and now he has been transferred to the governor of the Central Plains, which is not only the emperor's trust in him, but also his dependence, and hopes that at this time, there will be he, an important minister who is familiar with Henan, to preside over the situation in the Central Plains.

As soon as Li Shuchu arrived, he came to Henan first, and he knew very well that the situation in the Central Plains was stable and that Henan was the most important thing. Henan is stable, then the Central Plains is safe. In order to stabilize Henan, two steps are scored, one is to suppress bandits and quell chaos in the western part of Henan, and the other is to maintain stability in the eastern part of Henan.

When he took office, he came with an edict from the emperor himself.

The emperor had several instructions for him to take office, one was to maintain the stability of the Central Plains. Second, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive census in the Central Plains to check the registered population, the acres of land, and the commercial trade. Then the most important thing is to collect taxes well, such as salt tax, tea tax, tobacco and alcohol tax, and commercial tax.

Collecting taxes was only the basic duty of the local officials, but the requirements given to him by the emperor were not simple.

"The officials and gentry pay the grain and errand in one body, whether they are honorable relatives or gentlemen, they no longer enjoy preferential exemptions. The emperor said that for those who have made meritorious contributions to the court, the court can reward them with money and knights, but they will never enjoy preferential exemption from servitude. ”

Li Shuchu clearly knew the meaning of the emperor's edict, and the sword pointed directly at the preferential privileges enjoyed by the wealthy and powerful gentlemen of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the loss of court taxes caused by a large number of contributions.

This is a sharp sword, but it will inevitably hurt the interests of countless people at once.

If this sword is cut down, I don't know how many people will have to jump.

But the emperor's will is also obvious, and such privileges must no longer be tolerated in the Han Dynasty. Continue to tolerate these parasites, then the big man will never be strong.

Li Shuchu did not hesitate, he saw with his own eyes that the empire was now gradually recovering a lot, and he was willing to follow the emperor and revive China.

In order to complete the emperor's dispatch, it is necessary to have the strong support of the military, otherwise at this time, a bad one will easily lead to chaos.

In extraordinary times, extraordinary things must be preceded.

"We first have to take Kaifeng's Zhou Wang family to open the knife, we have to let them hand over the fields that have been encroached upon and donated over the years, in addition, in the future, we must ban their privilege to set up customs fees, and the right to monopolize salt and tea must also be withdrawn, and the most important point is that the commercial tax must no longer be collected by them."

In the fortress, Li Shuchu and Qi Guoyuan drank tea and talked about plans.

The commercial tax of Kaifeng has always belonged to the king of Zhou. As early as the Hongwu Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Kaifeng's commercial tax to the king of Zhou, and since then, Kaifeng's commercial tax has been collected by the Zhou king's mansion.

This is a very ridiculous thing, the tax collection of the imperial court actually fell into the hands of private individuals.

Now, everything has to change.

"Your Majesty said that you will give preferential treatment to the clan of the previous dynasty." Qi Guoyuan said with a smile.

"Isn't it a privilege to save their lives? All we have to do is to cancel the privileges they originally enjoyed, and as long as they are willing to cooperate, they can even retain their rich wealth in the end, and it is not a problem to be rich idlers. Although Li Shuchu married the daughter of the Zhu family, he would not favor the Zhu family on this issue.

Qi Guoyuan pushed the black blindfold on the blind eye with his hand.

"If you want me to say, if you don't cut the grass and don't remove the roots, there will be endless troubles after all. For these former dynasty clans, it can't be too good. At the very least, even if they are not exiled as soldiers, they can't be allowed to continue to be at ease as the emperor of the earth in all parts of the world. Simply, send them all to Jingshi, so that they are all under their noses, and they don't have to worry about any thoughts they shouldn't have. ”

Li Shuchu didn't speak, he thought to himself, sooner or later, it is estimated that there will be this day, but not now. At this time, the emperor always needs to show more benevolence and righteousness, otherwise, how can he stabilize the hearts of the people in the world.

Qi Guoyuan said twice, "There are so many Great Ming Sect Domains, I heard that there are no less than 100,000 of them. If the homes of these clansmen were copied, it was estimated that the land, shops, gold and silver copied would be worth at least ten years of taxes. ”

Li Shuchu shook his head, "Ten years? Definitely more than that. (To be continued.) )