Zhu Cijiong scratched his head and said: "Father, this kind of words are somewhat similar to the military system of the Sui and Tang dynasties. ”

"It's really a bit similar to the government military system." Chongzhen nodded, and said: "But our Ming Dynasty will not be so picky, and the ordnance and grain and grass still have to be prepared for the militia." ”

Originated in the Western Wei Dynasty, perfected in the Sui Dynasty, and reached the ultimate in the Tang Dynasty, it is Chongzhen's favorite military system.

Throughout the 5,000-year history of China, the government soldiers of the Sui and Tang dynasties can be regarded as capable of fighting, at least far better than the recruited soldiers of the Song Dynasty and the guard army of the Ming Dynasty, and more advanced than the compulsory military system of the Qin and Han dynasties.

To put it bluntly, the government military system is to select a group of professional military households nationwide.

These professional military households do not have to bear heavy conscription, miscellaneous labor, or even pay taxes, and specialize in fighting wars.

The state provided these professional military households with better living conditions, and when they had to go to war, each of these professional military households would send a government soldier to carry their own armaments, horses, and even dry food to fight for the imperial court.

Moreover, the war is obligatory, and there is no silver or rice, but there is a reward for winning the war, and a part of the profit seized from the battlefield can be shared.

This is somewhat similar to the grass valley of the nomadic regime.

Such government soldiers, because they are semi-full-time, have sufficient training time, and their military literacy will be relatively high, and because their families are relatively well-off, they can afford to have good armor and weapons, so most of them are very strong in combat, which can be seen from the battlefield performance of the Sui army and the Tang army.

Therefore, Chongzhen wanted to rebuild and improve the military system.

"But there are also flaws in the government military system." Zhu Cihong said.

"The government military system is complementary to the Juntian system, when the Tang Dynasty arrived in Xuanzong, the Juntian system was destroyed, and the government military system collapsed, and foreign conscriptions could only be recruited."

"After the Song Dynasty, it has always been a conscription system."

"But the defect of the conscription system is that the soldiers have a low willingness to fight and are prone to salary."

"So in this dynasty, Grandpa Tai created the guard system again, which can be regarded as a disguised restoration of the government military system."

"However, the guard system is also unable to overcome the defects of the government military system, and the senior generals of the guards have begun to invade Tuntian on a large scale, and the low-level military households have to fight for the court without food, and they have no time to train, which has led to the deterioration of combat effectiveness, and the army of the guard center in Jiajing has become unusable."

Speaking of this, Zhu Cihong said again: "When the Japanese rebellion broke out, the Ming Dynasty could only restore the recruitment system and recruit Yiwu miners as soldiers to clean up the Japanese invaders, because the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Weisuo army had long been rotten and unbearable. ”

Zhu Cijiong also echoed: "Father, it seems that this method is not a long-term solution. ”

"Is there any long-term solution in the world? Any policy or law can be called a good law and good governance as long as it can ensure that it is effective at the beginning of its promulgation. Waving his hand, Chongzhen said again, "However, the military system of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Sui and Tang dynasties, as well as the guard system created by the great grandfather, were all defeated by land annexation, but it is worth discussing." ”

Zhu Cihong said solemnly: "Not only is the government military system and the guard system defeated by land annexation, since ancient times, the collapse of many dynasties has been caused by land annexation, and so is my Ming Dynasty." ”

"If it weren't for the provincial vassal kings and imperial relatives who encroached on too many farmlands,"

"If it weren't for the official gentry of the provinces to evade forced labor and military service through trickery and sprinkling,"

"My Ming Dynasty will not be embarrassed to this point, let alone be dragged down by millions of salaries."

After a pause, Zhu Cihong said sadly: "The hateful thing is that when my father and emperor raised money from those relatives of the emperor last year, he still had the face to cry poor, deliberately set up stalls on the street to sell the utensils in the house, and those official gentry, while high-sounding opposition to the ban on the opening of the sea, but the sea trade was very happy, while shouting that the court could not compete with the people for profit, but on the other hand, the mining tax, commercial tax, and city tax were all in the bag, which is really hateful and killable!" ”

"Hey, that's a big topic." Chongzhen waved his hand.

"Unless the Ming Dynasty prohibits the sale of land, it is impossible to fundamentally eradicate land annexation."

"But a complete ban on land trading is obviously not possible, if it is really a complete ban on land trading, it won't take a few days, and my father may follow in the footsteps of Emperor Wuzong and your imperial uncle, and also fall into the water, hehe."

Chongzhen said interestingly, but Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong's little brothers looked awe-inspiring, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is not good.

"Don't talk about that." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Speaking of land annexation, it is impossible to completely eradicate it, at least in the past fifty years, but it is still possible to prohibit land sales of a specific nature." ”

It is indeed difficult to comprehensively curb land annexation, the landlord class's greed for and demand for land is engraved in the genes, and the bourgeoisie is also greedy for land annexation, which is nothing more than a different purpose, the landlord class annexes land to grow food, and the bourgeoisie annexes land to build houses and factories to build large farms.

By the way, drive the little people into the factory to work.

Anyway, the land will be snatched from the hands of the small people.

Without the backing of the state apparatus, the common people would not be able to hold on to the land at all.

So what Chongzhen has to do is to use the state apparatus to back up a specific group of people.

To act as a backing for all the common people and completely lock up the land annexation is wishful thinking.

In a word, it is impossible for Chongzhen to offend all those with vested interests, so he is looking for death.

If the landlord class is not allowed to buy and sell land freely, the bourgeoisie will not be happy, and the key ordinary people will not be happy either.

Let's just say that now, if the village cadres stop the demolition,

Do you see those villagers happy? Dare to use a knife to play with you!

So Chongzhen won't do such a stupid thing, at most, he will limit a part of the land.

Zhu Cihong's political understanding is indeed very high, and as soon as Chongzhen said it, he reacted immediately.

At that moment, Zhu Cihong said: "Father is saying that the four million mu of official land that is worth the border army of the thirty towns is forbidden to be bought and sold? ”

"It's not just these four million acres that are forbidden to be bought and sold." Chongzhen groaned and said, "In the future, when the second batch of recruits retires, they will also follow this law, by the way, this statement must also be changed, saying that it is not very good to offend, and it is a reward!" Let's just say that in order to reward the meritorious soldiers who have made meritorious contributions to the country, each person will be rewarded with the purchase amount of 25 acres of grace land! ”

"That is to say, they can buy 25 acres of Entian at an ultra-low price of 225 yuan per mu in the limited state capital."

"These twenty-five acres of grace land are the grace of the court and the emperor's reward, so it is strictly forbidden to buy and sell, because buying and selling the grace of the court is a great crime of disrespect, and if there is a violation, the grace should be recovered."

After a pause, he said: "This article needs to be written into the Emperor's ancestral teachings." ”

Chongzhen believes that this article should have the opportunity to continue for a long time, rather than seeking a comprehensive ban on land annexation, but only on a small scale, and with the double endorsement of the imperial court and the emperor's ancestral teachings.

Then there were twenty border towns like Xuzhou, and the Ming Dynasty had 3.2 million soldiers.

The restricted land is only 80 million mu, accounting for only 700 million mu of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty, which is only a little more than 10%, so it should not attract the crazy bite of various land interest groups.

The descendants of the Zhu family should not be stupid enough to dig this foundation.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to having more than 3 million government soldiers, and the ownership of the enfields of these government soldiers is locked in the name of Emperor Ming Zuxun, and will never be annexed.

Zhu Cihong thought for a while and said: "If this is the case, the grace fields of these border armies will indeed not be annexed again, but there is still a problem that cannot be ignored, that is, the population will increase after two generations, what should I do?" ”

Zhu Cijiong nodded again and again and said: "Yes, after two generations, it may have multiplied to hundreds of dings, and the twenty-five acres of entian land were divided into more than 100 households, and each household was only two cents of land, so it would not be able to raise government soldiers." ”

Chongzhen said: "Then it is mandatory to divide the family, only the eldest son is allowed to inherit the grace field, as for the other sons, they cannot inherit even a cent of the grace field from Lao Tzu, if they want to support themselves, they can only go out by themselves, but when the imperial court has a new conscription quota, it can be given priority." ”

For this, Chongzhen obviously also considered it.

Like Zhu Cijiong said, it can't be said that it is completely impossible to reproduce to Baiding after two generations, but it is definitely very few.

Because this is calculable, twenty-five acres of grace land can guarantee a good life, but it is impossible to live a life without shame and shame with three wives and four concubines.

At best, a wife and a concubine are up to the sky.

If you have one wife and one concubine, you can survive the most ten children.

Suppose ten children are half male and half female, which is five sons.

This is a special case, usually five or six children, two or three sons.

In other words, twice as many government soldiers will be born in 20 years, and if 500,000 conscripts are retired in the early days of Zhongxing, 1 million government soldiers will be born within 20 years, isn't this a burden at all?

Because at this time, it was just in time for the expansion period of the Ming Dynasty.

These million soldiers who have received strict military training from their fathers since childhood, and do not have to pay a penny of silver, will become the most solid military backing for the Ming Dynasty's external expansion, which is simply perfect!

Well, Chongzhen has even calculated the expansion in twenty years.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen said: "After laying a new territory, you can establish a new government soldier town, these new government soldiers can not only guard the frontier for the Ming Dynasty, but also provide a steady stream of reserve soldiers for the central court when there is a big war, so that my Ming Dynasty will be invincible for hundreds of years." ”

"Does my father mean overseas territories?" Zhu Cijiong's eyes lit up.

Subconsciously, Zhu Cijiong glanced down at the waist knife that Chongzhen rewarded him.

At that moment, Zhu Cijiong said: "Father, one day, the sons and daughters will take these newly grown soldiers to overseas to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty and realize the true coming of all nations." ”

(End of chapter)