Known as the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jie, the land in the family is as high as 400,000 mu, which is still an official known for his integrity, which shows how crazy the Ming scholars are actually tax-free.

Later generations have used big data to analyze the tax-free land in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's registered cultivated land is about 900 million mu, according to the number of scholars to calculate, if only according to the tax-free amount to tax-exempt, then there are about 16 million acres of land tax-free in the country.

That is, the tax-free land of the scholars accounts for one-fifty-fourth of all cultivated land, plus the tax-free land of groups such as princes and princes, even if the Ming Dynasty reaches the later period, no matter how to exempt the land tax, at least 500 million mu of land can be taxed.

But in reality? In the late Ming Dynasty, there is a saying that the population and land tax of the world are used to feed ninety percent of the tax-free population, and the more serious the land annexation is in the later period, the more serious the land annexation, the more landless the people, the more displaced people, so more and more small people who can't survive become bandits, become bandits, and then naturally there is a vigorous peasant uprising.

It is said that the income of Ming officials is low, but if the tax-free land is added, is it still low?

For example, Jin non-commissioned officers, they have 2,000 acres of tax-free land under their names, and according to the average tax of six yuan per mu of land in Daming, they can save at least 1,200 taels a year, why do you say at least?

Because a lot of land grows twice a year, it is necessary to pay taxes twice, that is, summer tax and autumn tax, not to mention that the tax-free land under the name of the non-commissioned officer is far more than 2,000 mu.

So land can be said to be the lifeblood of scholars, but Zhu Houzhao heard his younger brother say that he plans to reform the land tax of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Houzhao is sure that as long as Zhu Houwei moves these two things, the entire officialdom will be earthquaked, and there is no telling how many officials in the court will die with their lives!

As for the military generals, their interests are firstly empty salaries and soldiers' blood, and secondly, land.

The former is the main source of income for the border army and the forbidden army, and the fundamental reason why many generals are rich is that they eat enough empty salaries and drink enough blood of soldiers, and the emperors of all dynasties know it, but they dare not move, and the reason why they dare not move is not afraid of mutiny, but because they are afraid of backlash.

How to regurgitate? The bright ones can't come and the dark ones, such as raising the self-respect, such as arsoning the enemy and plundering, and so on.

For the imperial power, the most important thing is to seek stability, only when the country is stable, can we be qualified to consider what national peace and security, what political clarity, the enemy army from time to time hit under the nose, then talk about a yarn.

As for punishing this kind of general, of course you can, but this kind of atmosphere has long been formed, you change one to a new one, or a bird, and ten is still the same, then it's a fart.

So the emperor and the court boss all knew about this kind of thing, and then they all chose to pinch their noses and admit it.

Zhu Houzhao just loves to play, he is not stupid, and he has learned the imperial art of governing the country for so many years, how can he look at the problem so one-sidedly.

Therefore, as long as we calm down and analyze, it is not difficult to see Zhu Houwei's strategy for reforming the military system.

Abolishing the three battalions of the forbidden army and reorganizing the Shence Army is harmless at all, because the establishment of the three battalions itself is not much, and the combat effectiveness is a weak chicken, the emperor for the safety of the capital, reorganized the three battalions and then tempered a strong army, there is nothing to make a fuss about.

What's more, Beijing has not been killed by barbarians to the city, there is a fierce and capable army stationed, from the emperor to the minister to the small people, everyone can feel at ease.

This kind of good thing doesn't need to be paid by the household, who is so neurotic that it will oppose it.

This is Zhu Houwei's first step in adapting the world's soldiers and horses, and now that the reorganization of the Shence Army has been completed, and it has shown its strong military strength, the only thing missing is to go to the battlefield to verify its combat effectiveness.

Now Zhu Houwei has scattered and mixed the three battalions of Bloody Battle, Xiaocai and Shenji, and each battalion has six or seven thousand soldiers and horses stationed on the six sides, saying that it is to reorganize the border army, but in fact he wants them to seize the military power of the border army generals!

The border army is not rotten wood, at least the generals still have some combat effectiveness, but they are going with the emperor's will, if those chief military officers dare to resist openly, it is a rebellion, this is a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, forgive them and they don't have the courage.

But these border army generals are deeply rooted in the border towns, and they will definitely try their best to find a stump for the battalions that come to take over, and even make a shady hand.

However, there are no constraints at all for Zhu Houzhao and the generals who were born in Yongwangwei.

Because the most powerful thing about the original Yongwangwei and the current Shence Army is nothing else, that is, strict military discipline and harsh military discipline!

Everything is in accordance with the system and regulations, and if you don't agree with each other, I will talk to you about military law, and let you have a thousand tracks, as long as you enter the big camp, what can you do except be at the mercy of you?

Revolt? Mutiny? Zhu Houwei asked them to purge the border army, it is impossible not to know that this possibility will appear, so how to deal with it?

Very simple!

Repression! Slaughter!

Zhu Houzhao didn't mind killing Xuanfu at all, because he didn't want to waste time, and he could take time out to hunt in the grassland after finishing the nine sides a day earlier.

The second point is that the interests of military generals are land, but this land actually refers to the garrison.

The generals of the garrison are hereditary, and the military households are hereditary, that is to say, these military households have been private tenant farmers of the generals of the Wei for generations, so the land under the name of the Wei is naturally open and upright to become the land under the name of the Wei commander, thousands or even hundreds of households.

These lands were used by the Ming Dynasty to raise soldiers, that is, the original intention of deceiving oneself and saying that one million male soldiers could be raised without spending a penny of silver from the imperial court?

But if these lands that can support millions of male soldiers are not guards, do they need to pay land tax?

Of course you have to pay it, so it has something to do with not spending money to raise soldiers?

Zhu Houzhao felt that his younger brother was a little too radical, and if he abolished the Tianxia Guard, it would affect the interests of all the generals of the Guard, and nine percent of them might provoke a mutiny.

The combat effectiveness of these peasant soldiers may not be worth mentioning, but the destructive power is certainly extremely amazing, especially in the rich south, if the guards are plundered, the whole south will be ruined!

Zhu Houzhao felt that it was necessary to persuade his younger brother, who was too eager for quick success.

"Zhou Ning."

"The last general!" The Shence army commanded Zhou Ning to come out of the ranks.

"I will send an order to the military department in the near future, change the 26th guard of Beijing to the Tiance Army, and establish the Beizhili Military Region, at that time, this Shence Army camp will be the Tiance Army camp, you allocate 10,000 soldiers and horses from the forward battalion, and these 10,000 soldiers are the seeds of the rectification of the Tiance Army!"

"The last will obey." Zhou Ning responded to the order, but he sighed slightly in his heart, the establishment of the Beizhili Military Region and the reorganization of the 26th Guard, then there is a chance that the dismantled and fragmented Shence Army will not exist......

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