The Ming Dynasty has three battalions of the forbidden army, each guard of the Beijing camp and a large number of garrisons, plus the nine-sided border army that is claimed to be huge in number but actually has less than 20% of the combat strength.

He wanted to smash the army of the whole Ming Dynasty and rebuild it, but you can imagine how difficult it is, and you can imagine how much silver it will cost.

But spending money is still a trivial matter, because as long as the army of the Ming Dynasty can be reborn, then the Ming Dynasty, which has millions of strong troops, will inevitably launch a war to conquer, expand the territory, plunder the boundless resources, and at the worst there are war reparations.

In other words, the money spent on the army will be earned back by Zhu Houwei sooner or later, and the rate of return will definitely exceed the investment, all he needs is the upfront investment.

But the army is different from the vassal king, and the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty has basically been abolished since the success of the Yongle Emperor's Jingnan.

To put it bluntly, the kings are just a group of super powerful people with noble titles, living extravagantly, and acting without scruples.

The core value of the vassal king is the army, but it is a pity that the Yongle Emperor himself rebelled and was afraid of the kings rebelling, so he directly cut off ninety percent of the kings' personal guards.

So it's very easy for Zhu Houwei to clean up the kings, all he has to bear is a painless infamy, what kind of meanness and lack of kindness, what six relatives don't recognize, can hurt his fur?

But the army is different, the command of the Daming guard makes the hereditary system, that is to say, the cantonment system has long been degenerated, the cantonment is the tenant farmers of the general, and the land of the guard is completely the private property of the general, which is a chain of interests.

Zhu Houwei wants to reform the garrison, that is, to cut off this chain of interests, and what kind of changes will be caused in the end cannot be controlled at all, so he can only take it step by step, otherwise as long as one or two percent of the guards put up a rebel flag, the consequences will be disastrous.

Of course, it is not impossible to let the world be in chaos so as to achieve the goal of world governance, but now is not a troubled time, and there is no need for Zhu Houwei to turn the originally peaceful tomorrow into a hell on earth.

The result of this is that if there is no strong king, then a generation of dynasties will inevitably decline, even if the Ming Dynasty can continue to live for two hundred years, it will be useless.

And the most fatal thing is that the chaotic world will inevitably cause a sharp decline in the population, which is simply unbearable for Zhu Houwei, who is ambitious and wants to vigorously develop the population, so as to achieve his goal of colonizing the world.

Therefore, Zhu Houwei chose to encroach, step by step, little by little, to change the status quo of the army, so that as long as it was not a thunderous means, General Weisuo was unlikely to take risks.

Since it is a boiled frog in warm water, it is naturally too early to say.

In Zhu Houwei's heart, there is only one purpose to earn money and spend money, so that the people can be rich and thus drive the country's wealth.

In later generations, Zhu Houwei did not learn economics, but he was exposed to it, coupled with his long-term involvement in the forum, as a keyboard fighter with rich combat experience, he has his own understanding and cognition of the wealth of the country and the strength of the people.

This cognition can be summed up in two words!

Infrastructure!

The reason why the great China of later generations will have the title of infrastructure madness is because the country uses a huge amount of financial revenue to carry out infrastructure construction.

After the infrastructure is completed, it will drive local economic development, and then continue to feed back to the national finance, thus successfully forming a virtuous circle.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and this is actually the truth.

Nationwide infrastructure requires a huge amount of labor, so a wave of migrant workers emerged, liberating a large number of people from the land and entering the working class.

Migrant workers use their hard work to create wealth, so as to achieve a well-off family, which is another virtuous circle.

However, it was almost impossible to achieve this set in the previous Ming Dynasty, and the reason in the final analysis was finance.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the finances have never been rich, and the fiscal deficits are very common.

The meager treasury must be paid to the powerful and officials, the army must be paid, disaster relief must be relieved, this is required and that, and if the little silver is enough, it is called a ghost.

Ordinary expenses are stretched, and infrastructure is also built......

Zhu Houwei knew very well that building infrastructure would be the same as rectifying the clan, and it would not cause a backlash from the interests of the civilian clique, but on the contrary, they would raise their hands and feet in favor of it, because they themselves would be able to benefit from the infrastructure.

If there is no clan in the local area, then the local finances will be rich, and if the local areas are rich, the government's finances will also increase, and the same is true between the two.

But the premise is that Zhu Houwei can't ask the household department for money, of course, he will definitely not be able to ask for it.

There is no one in the imperial study except Zhu Houwei, which means that Zhu Houwei needs to meditate, and the most taboo thing when contemplating is to be interrupted.

But sometimes even if his train of thought is interrupted, Zhu Houwei can't get angry, and even has to smile all over his face.

For example, when she was in Huzhou, Sister Yu liked Zhu Houwei to enter the study alone without asking, but now that she is in the capital, this old problem has not changed.

After giving birth, Sister Yu'er has a little less eccentricity on her body, and a little more grace and elegance as a noblewoman, but this is not important.

The important thing is the doll that Sister Yu is holding in her arms, which is only a little bigger than a kitten.

"Yu'er is here." Zhu Houwei bounced up from the throne as fast as he could, and then walked straight to Sister Yu'er, who was only two or three months old from his arms, but he was already the son of King Ding, Zhu Zaikun.

Sister Yu'er's beautiful eyes inexplicably revealed a trace of resentment......

Zhu Zaiwen was sleeping with Zhengxiang, and suddenly left the warm and familiar mother's arms, and immediately opened his eyes, and then unceremoniously cried.

Zhu Houwei's head was full of black lines, and then he reluctantly sent the little guy back to Sister Yu'er, the familiar taste came back, the little guy closed his eyes, and began to sleep sweetly again.

Zhu Houwei felt that his majesty had been seriously provoked.

It's a pity that they didn't ......

"Just came back from the Queen Mother?"

Sister Yu snorted.

Zhu Houwei sighed, it has been a few months, and the queen mother has obviously not come out of the resentment that her niece failed to become the queen, so none of Zhu Houwei's other women, including Queen Xue Zhilei, have been treated by the queen mother.

However, after Zhang Shaohua was reprimanded by him, he seemed to understand the reason, and knew that in this deep palace, if there was no emperor's favor, then even if there was a queen mother, this day would definitely not be easy, so even if it was deliberate, it was nine points more restrained.

After all, she is already a woman in her name, and Zhu Houwei is fortunate to be a demon in order to prevent Zhang Shaohua from continuing to be a demon, so that the face of the queen mother is much better.

Until Sister Yu entered Beijing......