"Your Highness......"

Lu Wenzhao's voice in the backyard of the Imperial Horse Prison sounded behind Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen also knew that Lu Wenzhao had something to say, so he continued to shoot arrows: "Get up"

Lu Wenzhao accepted the gift, and then said to Zhu Youzhen:

"The situation of the health centers in the Beizhili area has been clarified."

"Let's talk about it!" Zhu Youjian continued to shoot arrows without looking back, and occasionally challenged the difficult continuous bead shooting.

Seeing this, Lu Wenzhao took out a book and handed it with both hands, and responded:

"In the area of Beizhili, there are still 34 guards, 16 offices, and seven battalions of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, with 227,400 people on paper."

"In addition, there are the mausoleum guards of the eleven imperial tombs of Tianshou Mountain, as well as the twenty-six guards of Shangzhi."

"Right now, on the boundary of Beizhili, excluding the Beijing camp, there are a total of 71 guards, 16 institutes, and 7 battalions, 413,600 military households and 21,000 battalions on paper."

"But the people below took a look, except for Jizhen's empty salary of about forty percent, Shangzhi Twenty-six Guards and Eleven Tomb Guards of sixty percent, the rest of the guards have basically existed in name only, each guard only has a hundred or so families, and sixteen offices are not enough to make up a thousand families."

"Jizhen is forty percent empty...... Zhu Youzhen shot an arrow and sneered:

"In other words, the guards of the Beiping Dusi plus the soldiers and horses of Jizhen, as well as the 26 guards of Shangzhi, Jingying, and Beizhili are 555,600 people?"

"On paper, it should be like this......" Lu Wenzhao couldn't say anything, but Zhu You couldn't help but shake his head in his heart after hearing it.

Nearly 560,000 soldiers and horses, but in the second year of Chongzhen's rebellion, even the 60,000 people under the command of Huang Taiji could not be stopped.

"According to your words......" Zhu Youzhen handed the bow to the little eunuch next to him, wiped his hands with a cloth and said:

"The entire guard station of Beizhili, even if you add the seven guards and one battalion of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, can't even pull out 100,000 people?"

"It should ...... It's like this......" Lu Wenzhao replied to Zhu Youzhen with some difficulty, but Zhu Youzhen said:

"The soldiers and horses in Jizhen, I remember that there are 86,000 people at the moment, and you said that forty percent of them are paid empty salaries, so there are only about 50,000 people in Jizhen, right?"

"Less than 50,000, because four battalions of soldiers and horses were killed in the war to aid Liao, so there are only about 40,000 people at the moment, but only three battalions can fight in the war, and the rest are really a little ......" Lu Wenzhao said the real number of people and horses in Jizhen, but he didn't dare to say the rest of the words.

However, even if he said it very vaguely, as soon as this amount was said, Zhu Youzhen's heart was the same as that of Spiegel.

Jizhen, which has only 40,000 people, is currently eating the military salary of 86,000 people, that is, nearly 500,000 taels.

With the addition of the 26 guards of the Beijing camp and Shangzhi, the annual military expenditure of the entire Beizhili is at least 3 million taels.

Three million taels to raise these wine bags and rice bags? It's better to raise Liaodong!

Zhu Youzhen was laughed at angrily, but it was easier to implement his idea with such a Beizhili.

First of all, it is necessary to vacate the soldiers and horses in Miyun, Huairou and Changping in the hands of Jizhen, and then remove them or supplement them to Yongping.

The gateway of Yongping is Shanhaiguan, and the soldiers who can fight in Miyun should have more than 10,000 people.

These more than 10,000 people, plus the original garrison of Changping, can completely become a force to support Liaodong.

As for the seven guards and one battalion in his hands, he can follow the plan and dismantle the two left and right guards in Tongzhou, and then replace the three guards and two battalions in Changping, Miyun, and Huairou.

In this way, more than 70,000 taels of military salaries can be saved for two battalions, and a large amount of land can be harvested.

"How many acres of land was a household in the Northern Zhili Army set by Emperor Taizu Gao?"

Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked, and Lu Wenzhao knew that His Royal Highness was dealing with the affairs of the guard during this time, so he had already learned about the guard system.

Therefore, at the same time as Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, he went through it in his mind, and then replied:

"At the beginning of the country, Emperor Taizu Gao set a military tun field ranging from ten to fifty acres for the whole country."

"In Beizhili, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Henan and other northern places, a military household can be allocated 50 acres of military tun fields."

"At the beginning of the country, the army should pay 12 stones of grain per hectare, and later set it as 4 stones, but since the beginning of the Zhengde period, the grain of the guard has been insufficient......"

"Fifty acres of ......" Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu You checked and calculated that after removing the soldiers of the two battalions in the stone box camp, the five guards and two institutes were 30,000 households, that is, 1.5 million mu of cultivated land......

Such a huge amount of cultivated land made Zhu Youzhen's eyes light up, and his breathing became heavier.

As long as the imperial brother allows him to do it, then he will not encounter much resistance.

To put it bluntly, the system of guards has been corrupted, and although the military cantonment system has been tested by feudalism for 2,000 years in history, and even has its establishment in later generations, if we want to rebuild the military cantonment system, we must expand outward.

The military tuns in the Ming Dynasty have long been embezzled by the officers and nobles of those guards.

Just like the 1.5 million mu of military tun land at present, I am afraid that there is not even one-third of the military households.

Proceed to clarify the military tuntian, and give the corrupt guards officers to soft treatment, even if they can't raid their homes, but the recovered fields can also be used by the imperial horse supervisor.

Even if it can't be used by the imperial horse supervisor, as long as the field is distributed to the people, and then according to Zhu Yuanzhang's 12 stone grain per hectare, 180,000 stone grain can be harvested every year.

This is just a small phenomenon among the dozens of guards in Beizhili.

If the military tuntian in Beizhili can be clarified, then there will be tens of millions of acres of military tuntian, which can contribute millions of stone grain to the Ming Dynasty every year and feed 200,000 soldiers and horses.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Lu Wenzhao:

"When I return to Beijing this time, I will ask the imperial brother to expand the number of Nanzhen Fusi, and you are ready to recruit people from some people on the periphery of Beizhen Fusi and Jinyiwei, and this time you should be able to increase the number of Nanzhen Fusi from three thousand to about eight thousand."

"I know what to do, thank you, Your Highness!" When Lu Wenzhao heard the news, he hurriedly saluted, and Zhu Youzhen also waved his hand and said:

"Okay, don't do these false courtesies, go to the capital with me tomorrow, and all the recruited Jinyi guards, as long as they can go on a business trip, will be sent to Shanxi, Gansu, Shandong and other places immediately."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao nodded.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen walked to the Yamen of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, with a lot of thoughts in his mind, and then walked directly into the study and began to clarify and write a detailed note on the guard's system.

I believe that as long as the interests and disadvantages are clearly explained, the good royal brother will only support him and will not stop him.

There are more than 89 million mu of land in the world, and if it can be clarified, according to 30 stones per hectare and 46 catties of grain per mu, then the land endowment that can increase the income of the Ming Dynasty in a year is 26.7 million stones.

This is equivalent to one year and four months of land income during the Wanli period, and it was directly handed over to the emperor.

If these grains are stored, then even if there is a great drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty, 80 million stones can be hoarded in three years, which is enough for disaster relief.

Even if it is not used for disaster relief, selling grain according to the market price of grain in Beizhili can get more than 13 million taels of silver.

Isn't military spending enough? Didn't the Ming Dynasty fall because it collapsed financially and couldn't afford to raise an army?

This additional financial income of more than 13 million taels of silver per year is enough for the Ming Dynasty to support more than 300,000 elites like the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers.

With more than 300,000 elites, Zhu Youzhen can completely beat the whole world with his eyes closed!

As long as the logistics can keep up, a good royal brother is the emperor on which the sun never sets.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said: "Lu Wenzhao, get ready, set off early tomorrow morning and return to the capital." ”

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao returned the salute, and Zhu Youzhen also returned to the Yamen of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, cleaned himself up a little, and then went to bed early.

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Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Youzhen and Lu Wenzhao set off with the Yanshan camp and returned to the capital south.

In just over half an hour, more than 30 of them rode to the Xiaoyu River in the south of Gonghua City.

The war horse was hot and sweating, and Zhu Youzhen was also holding a kettle and raising his hand to feed an adult river meandering horse.

It has been half a month since he learned to ride a horse, and thanks to the benefits of this body and talent after crossing, Zhu Youzhen can already easily control this kind of adult horse.

Looking at the military horse that drank water and ate a handful of beans, Zhu Youzhen stroked it with his hand, and then said to Lu Wenzhao, who had been vigilant next to him:

"Okay, don't be too vigilant, with the ability of thirty cavalry under your command, unless you encounter the same number of elite border troops, or encounter hundreds of people besieged and killed, no one will want to sneak attack."

"The safety of His Highness is the first priority for the lowly office." Lu Wenzhao saw Zhu Youzhen say this, and said his thoughts.

When these words were spoken, although Zhu Youzhen chuckled helplessly, he still nodded secretly in his heart.

After resting for a quarter of an hour, after the sweat of the war horse was dry, Zhu Youzhen took the lead in turning over and getting on the horse, and the rest of the brocade guards saw this and followed Lu Wenzhao to turn over and get on the horse together.

"Drive!"

After Zhu Youzhen shook the reins of his horse, the two horsemen took the initiative to assume the position of the vanguard, and the other twenty-eight brocade guards protected Zhu Youzhen and Lu Wenzhao respectively.

Looking at these brocade guards, Zhu Youzhen only felt that ordinary brocade guards who only took five taels or six dollars a year were really miserable, so he thought about it and said to Lu Wenzhao:

"If you can settle the affairs of Miyun and many other guards this time, and then clarify the acres of land, Jinyiwei's income should also rise."

"If the number of Jinyiwei in Nanzhen Fusi can be increased to 10,000, then all the people in Nanzhen Fusi will be doubled in terms of the original Yulu."

"This ...... Thank you Your Highness for your kindness, but you don't have to force it to succeed or not. Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Lu Wenzhao and the surrounding Jinyi guards were excited at first, but soon Lu Wenzhao thanked Meiyi.

This is Lu Wenzhao's cleverness, he knows that there is no trace of the current matter, if he is directly thankful, if it doesn't work out afterwards, it will be a bit of a slap in the face of His Royal Highness.

It's a gratitude, and then look at whether it is successful or not, and you don't need to nod your head directly to thank you.

However, after his officialdom words were heard by Zhu Youzhen, he smiled and said:

"It's a bit difficult, but it's not a big deal, so you just wait for the increase."

The tens of thousands of people in the entire Nanzhen Fusi have more than doubled, at most about 200,000 taels.

200,000 taels of silver and maintaining an intelligence agency of tens of thousands of people is very cost-effective for Zhu Youzhen.

With this in mind, they continued to gallop downward, while a two-horse cart headed north, thirteen miles to the east, out of sight.

In front of the carriage, Shen Lian, who was dressed in the ordinary scarlet clothes of the brocade guard, calmly looked around, vigilant to the north.

Behind him, Yang Lu was driving four people.

Because the road taken by Zhu Youzhen was a little snowy, it was not easy for the carriage to walk, so Shen Lian chose to take the easy road, so the two of them missed it.

This miss has led to other chain of events.

Three hours later, Shen Lian and the others arrived at the Yanshan camp.

After checking the street signs at the checkpoint, Yang Lu and the others were left at the checkpoint, waiting for Shen Lian to finish reporting the matter and take them to Yanshan.

Sitting in the car, Yang Lu and the others always felt a little uneasy as they watched Shen Lian ride away from the horse.

As for Shen Lian Cema, after being inspected again at the gate of the camp, he took advantage of Yang Lu's absence and they were not there, so he immediately asked:

"Is Your Highness in the camp?"

"It's not a coincidence that you came, Your Highness, they just went south and returned to the capital an hour ago."

Hearing Shen Lian's question, a sentry commander responded, and Shen Lian, who heard this, frowned and said:

"Who's the biggest in the camp right now?"

"Naturally, it's Cao's palm print." The sentry commander replied instinctively, and Shen Lian also returned the salute, and then rode towards the Yamen of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

However, after a tea time, he came to the front door of the Yamen of the Imperial Horse Eunuch, met the eunuch stationed there, and after showing the token, under the guidance of the eunuch stationed there, he came to the study in the front yard of the Yamen, and saw Cao Huachun and Yang Lian, who was talking with Cao Huachun.

"Shen Lian, the chief flag officer of the Fusi Division of Nanzhen, has an important matter to report to His Highness, and I hope that Admiral Cao will give him a waist card in the palace."

Shen Lian's level was not enough to enter the palace, so he had to come to Cao Huachun.

However, Cao Huachun was not familiar with Shen Lian, he only knew Lu Jianxing, so he frowned and said:

"What is the need to disturb Your Highness so urgently? It is not too late for His Highness to return to camp. ”

The words "return to the camp" represent at least half a month.

Shen Lian couldn't wait so long, and neither could the hungry people in Huaibei, so he could only grit his teeth and say:

"This matter is urgent, and it is related to the life and death of millions of people in Huaibei!"

"Huh?" Hearing Shen Lian's words, Yang Lian, who was still sitting next to him and looking at the Qingling drawings, suddenly raised his head.

Although he has a stubborn temper, his brain is not stupid, so he draws inferences:

"But about the grain shortage in Huaibei?"

"This ......" Hearing this, Shen Lian instinctively thought that he shouldn't tell Yang Lian, after all, Yang Lian was a Wenchen.

As for Cao Huachun, he also felt that it was inappropriate, because his task was to stabilize Yang Lian in the Yanshan camp and maintain order in the Yanshan camp by the way.

However, both of them underestimated Yang Lian, just from Shen Lian's hesitant expression, Yang Lian stood up and said to Yang Lian:

"If it really concerns millions of people, then the old man must enter the capital now!"

"Yang gave the matter, without the will of Long live, you can't leave the imperial tomb." When Cao Huachun saw Yang Lian say this, he immediately became anxious.

It's just that Yang Lian didn't give him face, but said directly to the military officer standing at the door:

"Ask someone to send news from Huaibei to see if the famine in Huaibei has been resolved."

Yang Lian was determined to know about the affairs of the people of Huaibei, just because he saw a very solemn expression on Shen Lian's face.

Jin Yiwei has experienced too much life and death, and the things that can make them all have such solemn expressions must be very serious.

"Shen Zongqi, maybe tell the old man, what happened in Huaibei?"

"......" Yang Lian tried to pry Shen Lian's mouth open, but Shen Lian did not respond.

However, when Cao Huachun saw this, he knew that even if Shen Lian didn't say it, he would use Yang Lian's intelligence network to control the Donglin Party.

As long as you investigate carefully, I am afraid that you will be able to find out about the situation in Huaibei within two days.

Therefore, Cao Huachun could only make it possible for Yang Lian to forcibly leave the Yanshan camp, and said to Shen Lian:

"Stand down."

"Humph!" Hearing Cao Huachun's words, without waiting for Shen Lian to respond, Yang Lian snorted coldly, and then strode out of the study and walked towards his residence.

However, after Yang Lian left, Cao Huachun asked:

"Let's talk about it, what's wrong with Huaibei?"

At this time, Cao Huachun didn't pay attention, Yang Lian, who had originally walked out of the study, actually squatted at the door of the study at this moment, listening carefully.

Shen Lian, who was defenseless, directly told Cao Huachun about the situation in Huaibei that he and Lu Jianxing had seen.

However, in just more than 100 words, Cao Huachun's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he couldn't believe that someone dared to use the lives of millions of hungry people to do business.

Millions of hungry people......

The last time it appeared in a kind of description, it was during the Chenghua period.

If this one is not done well, it will trigger a huge rebellion that will affect Jiangnan, Shandong, and Henan.

Cao Huachun's forehead oozed cold sweat in the blink of an eye, and his hands and feet were cold.

And at this time, the door at the door was suddenly pushed open, and Yang Lian's face was gloomy and said:

"Huaibei...... Has it really come to this point? ”

Easy children to eat, white bones thousands of miles......

This kind of sentence of only eight words in the book is unbelievable for Yang Lian, who once served as the magistrate of Changshu County and often wandered among the people.

"This ...... Yang gave the matter, how did you ......"

Cao Huachun really didn't expect that Yang Lian, who was in the middle of the matter, would squat at the door for half a cup of tea.

This is like a high-level official in the capital in later generations, squatting at the door of another department and eavesdropping on other people's conversations, which is not ...... at all I'm ashamed to say it.

But right now, no one is bothering about it.

There is nothing more important than investigating the affairs of Huaibei as soon as possible!

Thinking of this, after Yang Lian saw the expressions of Cao Huachun and Shen Lian, he determined the authenticity of this matter.

He immediately turned around, and then said to the military officer at the door:

"Pack up your things, set off now, and go back to Beijing!"

"Yang is in the middle of the matter! You can't return to Beijing without the will of Banzai! ”

Cao Huachun was also anxious when he saw this, and instantly stopped in front of him, but he was pushed away by Yang Lian, a stubborn old man, and said:

"I returned to Beijing as an official in the military department, and I took the national disaster as the priority, who would dare to stop me?!"

He spoke righteously and firmly, and then left the Imperial Horse Prison Yamen with the military officer.

Cao Huachun also knew that now was not the time to regret their carelessness, so he immediately tore off the waist card around his waist and stuffed it into Shen Lian's hand and said:

"You immediately take the token, hurry back to Beijing for five hundred miles, and be sure to tell His Highness that Huaibei and Yang Lian know about Huaibei and returning to Beijing."

"As for the old man named Yang Lu you mentioned, I will ask someone to arrange for him to go to the wasteland in the Huairou area to cultivate, you don't have to worry."

"Humble command!" Hearing Cao Huachun's words, Shen Lian immediately turned around and withdrew from the Imperial Horse Supervisor's yamen, and then simply asked the little eunuch to help him change a horse, and took Cao Huachun's token out of the barracks and galloped south.

When passing through the checkpoint, he reined in his horse and said to Yang Lu and others, who were about to get up:

"What are you waiting for, someone will wait to take you to Huairou Fatian, don't worry, I have something urgent, I'll see you in the future...... Drive! ”

In the gloomy environment, Shen Lian rode his horse and ran south in the snow.

It's just that within a few seconds, without waiting for Yang Lu and the others to drive away, a carriage stopped in front of them, Yang Lian lifted the curtain and said to Yang Lu:

"You've seen people who are hungry in Huaibei, right?"

"It's the grass people......" Yang Lu looked at Yang Lian's momentum and did not look like ordinary people, plus the carriage came out of the Yanshan camp, and hurriedly made a move.

"In that case, then you will go south with your own officials!"

After that, Yang Lian motioned to the military officer to ask them to drive, and at this time, the soldiers standing at the checkpoint also realized that something was wrong.

"Call someone to inform Admiral Cao that the people brought by the chief flag officer of Jinyi Wei have been taken away by Yang in the matter."

When the soldier heard the order, he hurriedly rode away the only horse in the checkpoint, and Cao Huachun got the news after a quarter of an hour.

"It's broken!" Cao Huachun didn't expect that Yang Lian, an old boy, would do such a thing as cutting off Hu regardless of the face of civil officials.

But at the moment, he didn't have time to get angry, he could only say to the brocade guard left on the side:

"It's too late now, so I can only fly pigeons to pass the book and tell His Highness about Yang Lian taking people south."

"Command!" When Jin Yiwei heard this, he hurriedly went to run errands, while Cao Huachun was walking left and right, and he was inexplicably panicked.

He has a feeling that after this matter is stabbed in the capital, it will be the first major case of the new dynasty!

Tomorrow should be two watches, a total of about 10,000 words

In addition, thanks to Cz, the boss of the alliance for rewarding

(End of chapter)