Zhu Yijun, who was sitting in the chariot and walking slowly, would also look back a few times to see the battalion soldiers who appeared on the mountains from time to time.

He could see how burning the eyes of those battalion soldiers were, and he could see that these battalion soldiers clearly had a trace of respect for him, like the look of an unruly wild wolf when he looked at the wolf king.

But looking at the tattered cotton clothes that have not been changed off on their bodies, and the barked trees on the mountain plains, Zhu Yijun still thinks that these battalion soldiers are indistinguishable from the hungry people when he first comes, and those who don't know will not know that they will be the regular field army of the Ming Dynasty.

"Back to Your Majesty."

"Some of them still think that they are going to go on the expedition today, and they are reluctant to immediately change into new winter clothes that have just been issued, for fear that they will be damaged on the battlefield."

"But then, they should be willing to put on their new winter coats."

Not much.

Zhang Jingxiu walked back and reported to him the results of the question he had sent to the Jinyi guards to ask why the soldiers of the battalion did not wear new winter clothes.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and then said to Zhang Jingxiu:

"Si Wen, the people of our Han family need to be treated more kindly by meat eaters like you and me!"

"Your Majesty said yes."

"As His Majesty mentioned in the Hadith in the Notes on the Lives of the Outside World, it is not enough to reassure the people, and that not letting the head of the Qianqian go hungry and become rich in the ravines is only the minimum requirement for those who govern the country, and that benefiting the people and enriching the people and satisfying the people's ever-increasing legitimate needs is the consciousness that the ruler should have."

Zhang Jingxiu bowed back at this time.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and continued to expound his feelings, saying:

"Therefore, I feel that the court's kindness to my people is not enough!"

"If it is just to let it earn from its labor, this is something that many meat eaters can do, even if it is the lord of China, and we can do it if we want to, and as the same ancestor as we, we must have higher requirements for ourselves to be able to rule the world."

"If you really allow your own people not to be treated well, or even suffer from hunger and cold, then isn't it just a foreigner who gives his people a little food, and they are willing to be slaves?"

"Even if he is afraid that a foreigner will have a little kindness to him, he is afraid that he will feel it from the bottom of his heart, and he is willing to aim his sword at his own compatriots!"

"And we have to be kind to our people, that is, to raise the threshold for them to be bought, and we don't have to worry about them being bought by some small favors."

As he spoke, Zhu Yijun thought of the situation in history when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and the combat effectiveness of the Han army that surrendered to them greatly increased, and he knew that there was a reason why the ordinary Han officers and soldiers themselves were not regarded too seriously by the imperial court.

……

"Your Majesty has been so kind to these people of his!"

"I'm really afraid that there will be more and more people in the future."

And in Yilu Town, a squire here, Gu Wenjin, a squire here, couldn't help but sigh when he saw that a man who was transporting grain for the army of the Son of Heaven was queuing up to receive wages from officials.

Mao Weili echoed and said: "Isn't it, the people who transport the grain not only pay their wages, but even if there is an accident in the grain carriage that dumps and destroys the seedlings, there will be a grain officer who is responsible for compensating the seedlings and directly compensating them in cash!" In addition, a few women are needed to do laundry and cook temporarily, all of them are given money, and a few women are just there, so what is there; When the Son of Heaven disturbs the people, he must give money; In the future, when Shi Eun Xianda goes out, once he needs to use the villagers, won't he not only have to give money, but also thank him and be willing to help? ”

"If you accidentally destroy the seedlings, will you not only have to pay for the seedlings, but also have to send someone to apologize?"

"yes!"

"It's not good for edification! In the future, the simple wind in Luli will be gone! ”

"People will only ask for money when they need to contribute on their own, and even want to have trouble with those who travel far away."

Gu Wenjin agreed, and poked the ground a few times with his cane.

"At least now there are more and more Diao people!"

"My tenants no longer come to deliver winter animals, and if I force them, they will not want to rent anymore, but would rather go to work, saying that last winter, because the house needed manpower to build a house, they had to start paying wages, and they had to give more, otherwise they would not do it! said that if the salary given is about the same as the salary given by His Majesty, then it is better to work for His Majesty, because it is at least much more honorable to work for His Majesty. ”

Mao Weili asked Gu Wenjin as he spoke: "Tell me, is this a tricky wind that grows and grows out of profit?" ”

"I'm afraid that if I get used to this kind of treatment for too long, it will be difficult to correct it if I want to."

Gu Wenjin sighed.

Whether ordinary soldiers and civilians should be treated well, Gu Wenjin and other squires are obviously different from what Zhu Yijun thinks.

But for Zhu Yijun, the scope of his consideration for this is not only the stability and prosperity of the current one or two decades, but the stability and prosperity of more than a hundred years.

Therefore, he knew that the more he treated his own people, the more he regarded them as human beings, the more conducive to the long-term stability of this land, and the more he cared about the immediate interests, the more he squeezed his people to death, and even ate their grain, and plundered their future production value, the faster it would collapse.

And the effect of Zhu Yijun's inspection of the world according to this kind of thinking is that his patrol did not cause disturbance to the people, but instead invigorated the local economy.

Because Zhu Yijun came with not only a large number of silver dollars, but also a large number of followers, so he was willing to spend money everywhere he went, which would drive consumption and change local social production relations.

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

At this time, on the way to Ningxia, there were many people who took turns to transport artillery and ammunition to the front line, and directly lined up in a long line, although it was dark, they were still under the light of torches, and continued to actively transport these things to the front line.

Moreover, these people are very hard-working.

The reason is that the imperial court gave money.

The point is that there are still many people who are willing to work hard, so that they can be transported in shifts.

The reason for this is that the court gave money, which led to many people being willing to come and work hard.

After all, this is different from the conscription, which also has to prepare its own food, so many people will desert and hide; And the imperial court not only provided food and shelter but also paid wages, which naturally made many people come to contribute, even if they would rather let the family's farm work be postponed appropriately, they were not willing to miss such an opportunity to make money.

Today's Ming population is too large, and the landless people have already become the majority of the population of the entire empire, so there is no shortage of idle labor at all.

That's why.

Many of the gentry's workshops had to begin to pay the common people who worked for themselves, instead of just providing food and lodging, and were forced to begin to transition to a mercenary mode of production, rather than just food and shelter, as before, or simply making them slaves.

Of course.

The premise of all this is related to the fact that the policy of exemption from forced labor is actually implemented.

Only when the policy of exemption from forced labor is really implemented, can the idle labor force freely look for work, and then freely earn income other than agricultural production through their own labor.

Regardless of whether the local bureaucrats and gentry took the initiative to comply with the decree and carried out the holy decree of exemption from forced labor, or were forced to passively comply with the decree of exemption from forced labor by a series of measures taken by Zhu Yijun after he left the palace and toured the west.

In any case, when forced labor is really abolished, a large number of idle laborers are really liberated, and they can increase their income, which in turn brings a more prosperous economy to the country.

As a result, many people began to change from peasants to workers, or at least to become peasant workers in the role of workers.

As a result, more people have the awareness that their labor force also needs to be respected and exchanged for monetary equivalents, and no longer feel that their strength is renewable anyway, so it is not worth asking for money.

The emergence of more and more workers and peasant workers can also be said to be fundamentally destroying the landlord economy.

Because the worker is not self-sufficient, he needs to trade the remuneration of his labor to obtain various necessities of life, even if he is a migrant worker, as long as he is still working in other places, he also needs to consume.

This will further increase the scale of consumption, more and more vendors, and further activate the commodity economy.

The landlords and gentry also had to be forced to transform, from recruiting tenants to workers, and from collecting more grain to collecting more money.

It's just that this change was forcibly brought about by Zhu Yijun, the emperor, and his ruling group.

And not this society emerges from the bottom up.

Because in the Ming Dynasty, except for the coastal areas, most of them were farmers and landlords.

Therefore, the rich and noble families in the world have not established an employment model for the use of idle labor, either making them slaves become tenant slaves, or sharing or including food and housing for long-term and short-term workers, or organized by the government to serve, in short, there is very little wage.

And in this, the idle labor force is mainly organized by the government to serve.

After all, because of the limited land, the landlords could absorb a limited number of servants, slaves, and long-term laborers, and most of the people would never become workers in their lives.

Even if someone rises by doing business, there is little incentive to expand the scale of production and then increase the number of workers, but more often after the commercial income reaches a certain stage, they will also buy land and become a landlord, who makes the self-sufficient small peasant economy too strong, the money earned by business alone is really limited and unstable, it is better to buy a field and become a landlord, even if you can't get rich and rich, you can be self-sufficient.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun, the emperor, is now forever exempt from forced labor, not to mention that he will also pay the people for his own service, which is simply digging the roots of the landlord economy and forcibly using the power of the state to promote the emergence of more workers or peasant workers.

But Zhu Yijun was able to give the Ming court enough financial resources to forcibly use the power of the state to promote the emergence of more workers and migrant workers because his court seized a lot of wealth from overseas and returned.

Otherwise, where would he have so much money to sprinkle?

He even said very generously that everything for this western tour would be borne by the internal funds, and tens of millions of taels of silver dollars were prepared in advance as the cost of this western tour.

This is the same reason why the landlord economy of the ancient Chinese dynasty was very strong and not easy to destroy, and it was the wealth that the huge landlord class obtained by not treating its own people as human beings, making the society dominated by the landlord economy very solid and difficult to transform.

Zhu Yijun was able to dig the roots of the landlord class because he made many foreigners bear the cost of being squeezed hard, and then became the price that he could dig the roots of the landlord economy.

Otherwise, Zhu Yijun would not have been able to cut the source of internal tax revenue and at the same time avoid forced labor forever, and he would have repeatedly treated the military and civilians as human beings when he was inspecting the world, and then frantically threw money, so that more cracks began to be dug into the solid ice of the landlord economy, which had a stable history of 1,000 years.

At a time when there is no substantial increase in productivity, if any reform is to succeed, someone will have to bear the price of reform.

Zhu Yijun made Waiyi bear the main cost of his own reforms.

"If this society must eat people in order to achieve long-term peace and stability, then turning people who eat themselves into eating outsiders is also a kind of progress, right?"

In March of the twentieth year of Wanli, Shaanxi Zhenrong.

Zhu Yijun stood on the city wall here, looking at the red sun sinking in the west, the large amount of cooking smoke rising outside the city, and the soldiers and traders who were cooking meat in the cooking smoke, and couldn't help muttering such a sentence.

These merchants and townsmen all came from a long journey to make money, and now they have all made a lot of money, so they all smile and sing and dance from time to time.

And after Zhu Yijun watched this scene, a sense of accomplishment arose.

For him, who has food, women's sex, and goods at his fingertips, this kind of scene and atmosphere of peace, cheerfulness and satisfaction of all the people makes him feel even more happy.

"Your Majesty!"

"The soldiers who are waiting for the reward have arrived."

At this time, Tian Le came over and reported to Zhu Yijun.

It turned out that Zhu Yijun decided to personally give additional rewards to these 300 officers and soldiers because he heard that the 300 military households of the Zhenrong Station had repelled more than 5,000 cavalry that had invaded from the border wall in Ningxia in the past, and had also killed one Tatar 10,000 households and hundreds of Hu prisoners, so he decided to personally give these 300 officers and soldiers additional rewards in recognition of the merits of these guards who did not fall into the prestige of the military households at the beginning of the country.

Therefore, at this time, Tian Le brought these nearly 200 Zhenrong military households who could still walk.

Zhu Yijun said "um" after Tian Le said this, and then looked at these military households.

"I am very pleased that there are still you loyal and brave people who dare to sacrifice their lives to serve the country and defend the family, and I happen to be here today, so I will give each of you fifty taels of silver dollars and ten horses of silk as a reward, which is regarded as an additional reward in addition to the reward according to merit."

As Zhu Yijun spoke, he ordered someone to bring up the silver dollar and silk cloth.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Then, Zhu Yijun personally took Zhang Jingxiu, Tian Le, and Chen Wenliang to distribute the reward silver and silk to these officers and soldiers.

These officers and soldiers are either pouting or pursed, their eyes are watery, and they have obviously killed people one by one, and now they look more fragile and sensitive than children.

At the same time, Zhu Yijun also sent a secret box to each officer and soldier, saying: "Remember to write a letter to me." ”

Then, Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Go down and prepare for the banquet, I asked the imperial chef to prepare delicious dishes for you, and you can also taste what the imperial banquet that the prince usually eats in Guanglu Temple tastes." ”

Zhu Yijun did all this, all of which was to practice his decision to treat ordinary soldiers and civilians as human beings, whether it was material or spiritual, to give him the feeling of being seen and respected for the country and the people, and the effect of this is being reflected in the way of war in Ningxia Town at the moment.

Zhu Yixi, the former king of Qin, and his ministers saw only a few hundred officers and soldiers directly defeat his more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and pushed the chariot and broke into his guard firearms array without fear, and because of this, they had to cry:

"Lone wants to surrender, Lone wants to go back to Xi'an, Lone is not quiet! These officers and soldiers are terrible! Whining! ”

Sorry, today is too busy and inefficient to have to repeat the chapter

(End of chapter)