"The soldiers in Zhu Yuanzhang's team are all human beings, not immortals, as long as they are human, they have to eat, and they have to pay military salaries. People are iron and rice are steel, and soldiers can't afford to pick up swords and guns if they don't eat twice. ”

"And on the eve of the war, the sergeants had to eat a good meal, eat meat in a big bowl, and drink wine. If you can't even eat a meal of rice and meat, who will go to attack the city for you? ”

"You must know that attacking the city is a life of nine deaths, and it is very likely that if you go, you will go and there will be no return. Therefore, the meal on the eve of the Great War will probably be their last. ”

"In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the people were starving. The road was full of people who were starving, and there were no people for thousands of miles. ”

"However, in this cruel environment, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to make his soldiers not hungry and eat well before the war, how did he do it?" Qin Yu said: "Don't tell me that it's the food that the soldiers grow in their own fields. In times when there is no war, it is possible to tuntian. During the period when the war continued, it was impossible to do it. ”

"It's Li Shanchang." Zhu Yuanzhangdao,

"Li Shanchang is a good hand at handling logistics, and after Zhu Yuanzhang occupies a state and county, he will let Li Shanchang manage it."

"He encouraged farming in the state capital and recalled displaced people......"

"Li Shanchang is Zhu Yuanzhang's Xiao He."

"Li Shanchang is indeed an expert in this area, and it is precisely for this reason that he has established his status as the first minister of the Ming Dynasty." QIN Yudao,

"When people in the world watch wars, they like to watch the vigorous battlefield battles and watch the excitement. However, they do not know that the adequacy of the sergeant's salary is the key to determining the victory or defeat of a war. ”

It is precisely because of this that those who engage in logistics are the greatest contributors to the imperial court. Because the soldiers can't do without food for a day. ”

"However, you said that Li Shanchang recalled the displaced people and encouraged farming, so that he could raise a large amount of military food for Zhu Yuanzhang, obviously deceiving those who don't understand."

"Why?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in surprise.

"Because now that a large number of people have been displaced, the fields are destined to be barren." QIN Yudao,

"And it takes at least half a year from cultivation to harvesting. There will be a long window period. Soldiers or people can't do without food for a day, how to solve this gap period? ”

"In addition, if the fields that have been left unused for a long time are replanted, there will definitely be no good harvest in the coming year. What's more, the grain production in ancient times was very low and low. In addition, it was a disaster year, locust plagues, droughts, and the climate was not conducive to food production. ”

"The little food he encouraged farming to produce is probably not enough for the people, so where can we provide a large amount of food to the troops?"

"Therefore, the grain harvested by the people can only be regarded as an auxiliary source of military food, not the main source." Zhu Yuanzhang's expression froze when he heard this, he had always thought that the food that Li Shanchang raised for him was all grown from the land.

It was a good result of his governance of the jurisdiction. However, it is clear that this is not the case.

"Since the grain cultivated by the people in the occupied prefectures and counties is not the main source of military rations, how did Li Shanchang do it in the first place to meet the needs of the troops' food and salary?" The secret is estimated to be known only to Li Shanchang himself, Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself.

"I'll tell you one more thing, and you'll be able to understand where Li Shanchang got the food from." QIN Yudao,

"In ancient times, most of the grain was in the hands of the gentry."

"They were the second layer of the pyramid, the pyramid collapsed, and they were very little affected."

"There's one more thing you know better than anyone else. That is, the people do not have their own land at all. ”

"If the people don't have their own land, why are so many people displaced in a year of famine and war? Can they continue to be attached to the landlords and gentry? ”

"Because of the war years, the gentry and landlords, fearing that they would be regarded as the object of robbery, immediately shrank their feathers and drove out the tenant farmers they employed."

"In the year of famine, when the output of grain is not enough to cover their rations, the tenant farmers will also be driven away." 、

"So, in the year of famine and war, a large number of displaced people appeared."

What I mean by this is that the homeless people in ancient times were actually driven out of their homes by the landlords and gentry. The reason why I say this passage is because there are many people who are not clear about the details of this. They thought that the reason for the emergence of displaced people in ancient times was famine and the decay of the imperial court, which had little to do with the landlords and gentry. ”

"Not bad." Zhu Yuanzhangdao,

"The landlords don't really have to drive out the tenant farmers themselves, they just need to take back the land and not rent it to the tenant farmers. Then the imperial court came to collect all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the tenant farmers, and the people could not afford to pay the taxes, and they had to leave their homes and become exiles after being crushed to the last drop of blood. ”

"The landlord is the owner of the tenant farmer, and without the protection of the owner, the tenant farmer is driven out of his home every minute."

"Since the people don't have land at all, how can Li Shanchang encourage the people to farm?" Qin Yu asked.

"What does Mr. mean......" Zhu Yuanzhang heard the words as if he had been empowered,

"The main source of military rations that Li Shanchang raised for Zhu Yuanzhang was actually the local gentry and landlords?"

"You finally get it." QIN Yudao,

And if he wanted to encourage farming, he also had to deal with the local landlords and gentry. The fields belonged to the landlords and gentry, and the gentry and landlords did not agree, and the people had no land to plant. ”

"In addition,"

"Li Shanchang is in the rear, and it is absolutely impossible to use force to snatch grain from the landlords and gentry. He did not have an army, while the landlord gentry, however, had their own armament. Moreover, the gentry and landlords everywhere are in collusion, and they are not isolated individuals. Various families have dealings, and the collective power they form cannot be underestimated. ”

"So if he uses tough means to raise food from the landlords and gentry, it will inevitably cause a fire in the rear. This kind of thing, Li Shanchang, who is smart and intelligent, will not do it. ”

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhangdao,

"Since Li Shanchang managed logistics, there has never been a fire in the backyard in the rear prefecture and county occupied by Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Since you can't use force, and you have to raise food and pay from others, how does Li Shanchang achieve a balance?" Qin Yu asked again,

He could not teach the landlords every day to make them virtuous and give him food and pay him gratuitously. They are very realistic, Li Shanchang can't give them enough benefits, and he can't raise food. ”

"So they must have reached some kind of tacit understanding, some kind of deal." Zhu Yuanzhang's expression froze and said.