In the four years of Zhengde that Zhu Houzhao had crossed over, there was also a person who found that a large number of fields in the military camp had been encroached upon, and the encroachers often farmed more than 1,000 hectares of land by private soldiers, but they 'did not lose the grains'.

The so-called grain is the 'agricultural tax' that military households need to pay. In recent years, there have been officials who have pointed out the situation of not losing grains, but most of them have stayed in words.

The first serious person who wanted to take these people under the knife was actually Liu Jin.

He sent a royal historian named Zhou Dong to Ningxia, and when he arrived, he took Ningxia's capital commander to open the knife.

However, Liu Jin and the people he sent were not 'professional', Liu Jin himself thought that he was in power and could not make any trouble, and after Zhou Dong arrived in Ningxia, he ate, drank, and took according to it, and even changed the weights and measures (changing one hectare and one hundred mu to one hectare and fifty mu), and in this way to check the land, from the command of the capital to the hundreds of households and general banners below, none of them did not occupy the land.

To put it bluntly, this guy is not here to run errands, but to make a fortune.

So in the end, of course, it was a vigorous start, and a simple failure.

Grandpa Mao said that in doing anything, you must first distinguish who your enemies are and who your friends are.

The matter of the military camp involves both the frontier and the inland guards, and the people who encroach on the land are the officers themselves, the second are the eunuchs, the third is the clan, and the fourth is the local tyrants who are born by the rights.

The Ming court has the rules of sending eunuchs and eunuchs to supervise the army, and these people can be holy lotus flowers when they go to each guard?

And Liu Jin himself is a eunuch, so if he does this, it is easy for him to dig his own grave.

But then again, Liu Jin and the emperor are two different things, Liu Jin's power is not stable after all, if someone opposes it, and crowns it in the name of 'eunuch party', and kills it in the name of 'Qing Jun's side', the emperor sees a lot of movement, once he gives up on him, he is a dead end.

When the emperor came to investigate, it was different, although those who opposed it could still play the banner of the Qing monarch's side, but the emperor would not give up on himself. Well...... There were emperors in the Song Dynasty who gave up themselves, but Zhu Houzhao would not give up.

In fact, in the last years of each dynasty, they all faced the situation of land annexation, and the harm was basically the same, that is, the people were not able to make a living, the army was empty and unpaid, and the combat strength was insufficient.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the guard system, and after the fields of the military tun were annexed, the lack of combat power of the guards was more serious. During the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, there was even a terrible record of 1.2 million fleeing military households.

So there is a need for reforms, a redistribution of wealth, a reinvigoration of military prestige,

But if we really want to push for this reform, there will be another kind of voice that 'offends too many people and fears that there will be turmoil'. It seems that these people are gods descending from heaven, with three heads and six arms, and no one can move or touch them.

It's strange - are these guards strong?

Or is it a mess when fighting foreign enemies, and when it's your turn to rebel, you will instantly turn into a god soldier from the sky? Isn't there a contradiction?

It's a bit confusing.

In fact, it is really difficult to judge how strong these counterattack forces are, and even Zhu Houzhao, a person from later generations, can't understand it, after all, Liu Jin's inventory of the military tun was very powerful.

If it is said that the rebellion of the vassal king is used as a symbol, then there is nothing to be afraid of.

Because that rebellion was a joke at all, it was wiped out in ten days, and even King Ning was not as good.

In short, throw stones to ask for directions, and first send this Zhang Xuan to the northwest in the name of cleaning up the horse farm and military tun. Let's see how powerful the so-called counterattack is.

Actually, there's no need to panic.

In that place, there were 30,000 soldiers of Zhou Shangwen who were recruited, and strictly speaking, they did not belong to the soldiers of the guard, and their military supplies and grass were all provided by the imperial court.

Speaking of which, no matter what military system in the past dynasties will be converted to recruitment in the middle and late stages, that is, the original soldiers and horses are all gone, and they have to spend money to train new troops in the event of war. In the Ming Dynasty, in fact, since the Tumu Fort, there has been a conscription system.

Another part is the soldiers of the Hetao led by Wang Shouren, a total of eight guards, of which four guards are cavalry and four guards are foot soldiers. These people are considered to be soldiers of the guard, but they are all new to the Hetao, and the acres of land are initially divided, and basically there is not much obvious and serious encroachment on the land.

Although the number of these 70,000 troops is far behind that of the guards in Gansu and Ningxia, their combat strength is far ahead.

One of them is the new Feng Ping, and most of the middle-level officers are from military academies, they are the 'rising new forces', and with the current young emperor, there is no shortage of glory and wealth, and if anyone can rebel against them, it must be a god in the cult, and everyone must abandon their wives and children and believe in this cult.

The other one, Wang Shouren doesn't need to say more.

One in the west and the other in the north, they control the interior in a pincer shape.

If there really is someone who pulls the flag and rebels, how to defeat these 70,000 people, you have to pray and pray.

If the reason given by Zhang Xuan is a little passionate and emotional, then Zhu Houzhao's preparation is confident and rational.

Based on this, there is this scene where the emperor and the ministers are planning this matter.

The same Zhengde four years, the same thing.

In different time and space, but in different situations.

Now it is not the eunuch who wants to do this, but the emperor, and the power he has is not just an imperial history and the power of the illusory imperial power, this time it really has physical power.

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

On the afternoon of June 21, the emperor discussed the issue with his ministers for the first time.

And he came prepared, and when everyone arrived, he gave them some intuitive ideas about numbers.

First of all, the specific number of Juntun, I don't know it in the Zhengde period, but there are a number in the Hongwu period - about 89 million mu.

Because of the different geographical environment and soil conditions, the yield per mu varies from place to place, and normally speaking, one mu of land can harvest three to four stones of grain and rice, that is, about 400 to 600 catties. However, the average yield per mu is much lower, about 1.5 stones.

Zhu Yuanzhang initially set the tax at two buckets and four liters per mu, but this tax rate was also done by him, and by the Yongle period, it was already insufficient, and later Zhu Di halved the tax and set it at one bucket and two liters, that is, 0.12 stones.

Based on 89 million mu, theoretically 130 million stone of grain should be produced, of which 10.68 million stone of grain should be tax grain. Of course, this is theoretical, but in practice, farming is highly susceptible to the effects of the weather, and it is impossible to tell where there is a drought or waterlogging and the yield will be reduced.

Similarly, the grains of the tuntian will fluctuate up and down, but even if the figure of 10.68 million is multiplied by a loss of 0.8, there should be 8.5 million stone of grain.

But in reality?

In the first year of Yongle, the number of grains in Tuntian was 23 million stones, because of the tax cut, so in the eighth year of Yongle, the grains in Tuntian were 10.36 million stones. This is barely normal, after all, you cut taxes.

But then the madness followed.

In the twenty-first year of Yongle, the grain of Tuntian was halved again, becoming 5.17 million stones.

There was a brief rise in the first year of Hongxi, which was 6.13 million stones.

It's a pity that it didn't last long, and it dropped to 4.6 million stone in the early years of Xuande.

By the ninth year of Xuande, the number of grains in the country's tuntian was 2,307,807 stones.

These figures are all recorded clearly in the "Ming Shilu".

That was still the prosperous era of Xuande.

In the current Hongzhi and Zhengde years, the number of acres of Tuntian in the country must have decreased sharply from the initial 89 million mu, and the specific investigation will be known, but the number of Tuntian grains is this number, and the number of Zhengde three years is 1.46 million stones.

Almost negligible.

Therefore, the Ming generation has a record of the complete collapse of the Juntun grain in the middle and late stages.

This series of things, Zhu Houzhao has already asked the attendant room to carefully check the records of each dynasty, and then sort it out.

Numbers speak for themselves. Looking at these numbers, what to do, don't you still understand?

He also did not forget to remind, "The figures in this are all from the actual records, and none of them are fake." ”

The records of various dynasties are very authoritative records, and they are all repaired by the civil officials themselves, which must be overturned, and it is not too much for Zhu Houzhao to dig up the ancestral graves of those who repair the records.

The Emperor's tricks are the same as ever.

When he pushes for such a major change, he never does it himself, but ties everyone to his chariot, that is, forces them to take a stand.

This is so that in the unlikely event that things don't go well and there are rebel forces, the entire imperial court can be united with the outside world, so that it will not start to split from the cabinet and the six ministries.

This is a methodology learned in the new era, uniting all the forces that can be united.

If there is an official who has expressed his inconsistent stance before and after, in this moral environment, he will not only lose his official position, but also lose his reputation, that is, all the achievements of his life, and he will not make this decision.

What's better than in the past is that Zhu Houzhao doesn't have to go through various means, most of the current court supports him, and seeing these numbers supports him even more.

The cabinets of Yang Yiqing, Wang Wei, and Wang Bing, Wang Hua of the Ministry of Rites, Liang Chu of the Ministry of Officials, Han Wen of the Ministry of Households, Zhao Shen of the Criminal Department, He Jian of the Ministry of Industry, and Qi Chengsui of the Ministry of War......

The officials just sighed,

Wang Wei, who had just returned to Beijing, said sadly: "Back then, the Duke of Negative Tu (Ma Wensheng) once said that I don't know what year it began, Tuntian was abolished, and there was no book left. In fact, where is five or six out of ten, it should be eight or nine out of ten. ”

Yang Yi waited for today early in the morning, "Your Majesty, from this point of view, if you want to prosper the Ming Dynasty, you must remove the disadvantages of the military tun, otherwise the world's guards will be eroded, and once something happens, it will be fragile, so how can it be called a prosperous world?" ”

Weichen seconded. Wang Bing was a little ruthless, "Since ancient times, there has been no fragile prosperity!" ”

Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists, thinking about the situation of Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian at the beginning, and to this day, his efforts have not been in vain, "I often think that if these grains of the imperial court are missing, but they can fall on the heads of the people, everyone in the world is self-sufficient, and it is not too bad." But in reality, there are people everywhere, and hungry people everywhere. The court is poor and the people are rich, this is also a grace to the world, but if the court is poor and the people are poor, I will never tolerate it! ”

Yang Yiqing suggested: "Your Majesty, this matter is very important, and it must be well planned and deployed. In order to minimize the impact and the least loss. ”

"Hmm!"

Zhu Houzhao signaled with his eyes, and the commander of Jinyiwei made Mao Wen speak, "It is rumored that the Ningxia garrison has commanded He Jinyi to bribe bribes, bells and drums, and jade, and it seems that there is a circle to occupy 2,500 hectares of Tuntian!" Weichen thought that the imperial court should order the important ministers to investigate their crimes and order them to return the land within a time limit to set an example. ”

Ho Kam Yi, this is the first unlucky person. And to say it is not too much, Zhu Houzhao has been waiting for this day when the time is ripe for ten years.

"Intended!"