Seeing that neither of them had any intention of objecting, Lao Zhu gave the matter to it.

It's just that when the two of them retired, Lao Zhu opened his mouth and called out to Sun Chuanting, "Sun Chuanting, wait a minute, we have something to tell you." ”

Seeing that Sun Chuanting was stopped, Hou Sui was not too surprised, and thought that Lao Zhu was going to continue to appease Sun Chuanting, so he didn't pay too much attention and turned around and left directly.

And Sun Chuanting obviously thought the same way, but there were not too many other emotions in his heart, since the emperor had set a strategy, then he would carry it out, and he would definitely not resist the decree because of this.

It's just that to his surprise, Lao Zhu didn't leave him behind to appease him.

"Hou Sui is in Xiangyang, and if you call Huguang's materials, Xiangyang's grain and grass will definitely not be a problem."

Lao Zhu looked at Sun Chuanting and asked a question that Sun Chuanting didn't think of, "But the disaster in Shaanxi is serious, what should you do with the food and salary in Tongguan?" ”

“？？？”

Sun Chuanting was a little confused, he didn't quite understand what Lao Zhu meant, "Your Majesty, shouldn't my Tongguan's food and salary be allocated by the household department?" ”

Hou Sui asked for the control of Huguang's materials, so he didn't need the imperial court to send him materials, but he needed it.

What does the emperor mean by asking? Sun Chuanting had a faint bad premonition in his heart, it couldn't be that he wanted them to fight again, and he didn't want to pay food, right?

Sure enough, after he asked this, Lao Zhu spread his hands very handfully and said, "We have no money and no food." ”

"When we go on the expedition, we can give you a part of the food and salary to recruit new soldiers, but we can't give it later."

"Your Majesty, although the treasury is empty, in order to exterminate the rebels, you can squeeze out some, right?"

Today's Daming is really poor, but for such a big thing as the extermination of the anti-thieves, he Sun Chuanting doesn't believe that the imperial court can't come up with the food and salary for the bandits, unless the emperor doesn't want to give it to him at all.

"We have other uses for that money, and we don't plan to give it to you."

Lao Zhu spoke very sincerely, and did not hide the slightest hint that he had money and did not give it to Sun Chuanting, "So you have to figure out your own way for the food and salary of your army." ”

"Oh, by the way, Li Zicheng is not too difficult for you to deal with, so when you besieged Li Zicheng in Tongguan, try to expand the army as much as possible and help us train an elite army, and we will use them to fight those Tartars outside the pass."

“……”

When Sun Chuanting heard Lao Zhu's words, his blood pressure surged for a while, and he suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted.

Let him form an army, don't give him any money, and let him train an elite army, really take him Sun Chuanting as a god.

If you don't have any money, look at the emperor's meaning, obviously he doesn't even want to give out grain and grass, so even if the soldiers he recruits are iron men, he can't bear it.

"Your Majesty......"

Sun Chuanting barely squeezed out a smile, and then said: "Without food, this soldier can't practice." ”

"Why don't you have food?"

Lao Zhu looked at Sun Chuanting with some surprise, and said, "Didn't we tell you and let you raise it yourself?" ”

"So much food, the minister will go ......"

Sun Chuanting was halfway through his words, when he suddenly remembered something, he couldn't help but look at Lao Zhu in disbelief, and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?" ”

"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has been a military cantonment system."

Lao Zhu looked at Sun Chuanting and said lightly: "With the military tun system, even if the situation in the Ming Dynasty is worse, it is impossible for the soldiers to be without food." ”

"But now, the military camp exists in name only, and it's time to clean up these silverfish."

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he subconsciously took a deep breath and tried to calm down as much as possible.

The so-called military cantonment system is the system set by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, in line with the idea of foolish soldiers in agriculture, he divided the world's household registration into peasant households and military households, military households for generations as soldiers, farming in peacetime, and participating in wartime wars.

During the Hongwu period, more than 400 guards were divided, each with 5,600 people, distributed throughout the country.

The imperial court allocated a large amount of land to the soldiers of each guard, allowing them to implement the tuntian system and divide the proportion of cultivation.

For example, in the border pass, as long as thirty percent of the soldiers in a guard post are responsible for garrisoning, the remaining seventy percent will go to farming, and if there is a war, the remaining seventy percent will also join the battle.

And these soldiers, the food that is cultivated, will be all supplied to the soldiers.

To tell the truth, this system has made Lao Zhu proud for a long time, and during the Hongwu period, he also made a bold statement, saying that I raised millions of soldiers and did not cost the people a grain of rice.

There was no hint of braggadocio in this sentence, because Lao Zhu did have an army of 1.8 million at that time.

But Lao Zhu never thought that his perfect system would be corrupted like this by later generations.

In fact, there is no problem with his system, but the problem is people's selfish desires.

With the serious annexation of land, those powerful people felt dissatisfied after embezzling the people's land, but they had nothing to embezzle, so they would turn their attention to the land of Juntun.

All kinds of dignitaries, officers and generals, and even eunuchs who led the troops began to attack the fields of the military tun, resulting in the vast majority of the military tun being occupied by private individuals.

And the most excessive thing is that after the military tun was occupied by private individuals, those military households in charge of the tuntian, if they did not want to starve to death when they had no land to plant, had to go to those who had encroached on the fields to become tenants and were forced to cultivate for them.

But the problem is that very few of these people who embezzle the military camps have a charitable heart, so most of the military households who work under them cannot support their families, so they have to flee one after another.

For their escape, those generals and leading officers not only did not strictly manage them, but on the contrary, they were happy.

After all, all military households have quotas, and they are all recorded, and if they run away, it will be more convenient for them to eat the vacancies of the fugitive soldiers.

As a result, the shortage of soldiers in various local guards has become more and more serious, and the so-called military cantonment system has long been abolished.

When Lao Zhu learned about this at the beginning, his liver hurt.

He never imagined that the military system that he claimed to be perfect would be reduced to this.

Not only did it not bring benefits to military households, but it became a burden on military households.

It is precisely because of this that his plan is to let Sun Chuanting reorganize the military cantonment system and let the soldiers return to Hongwu.

It's just that you can't be in a hurry at this time, and those who can encroach on the military tun don't have a little bit of power, if they directly force them back, it will be a little more than worth the loss.

It just so happened that after several wars and disasters in Shaanxi for many years, it was the best time to implement the military cantonment system, so Lao Zhu planned to let Sun Chuanting first straighten out the military cantonment in Tongguan, and then slowly cover the entire Shaanxi.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the military tun is widely implicated."

Sun Chuanting looked at Lao Zhu and wanted to know Lao Zhu's determination to rectify the military camp this time, so he asked with a little tentativeness: "If you tamper with these people, I am afraid it will attract criticism in the court." ”

"Even if it involves the king of heaven, you don't have to give them face."

Lao Zhu slapped the table suddenly, with a hint of anger in his tone, and said, "Let's see who will jump out this time." ”