The Sakai family, who saw the scene of these old Ming military families receiving pension silver, burst into tears at this time.

Because, Sakai Ieji thought of the scene when his family was a low-level samurai, and the treatment was low, and there were only quilts, pots, and stones at home.

According to history, the reason why poor samurai in Japan had stones in their homes was because they could sweat by lifting stones to ward off the cold in winter.

In short, this is all related to the fact that many daimyo cut their expenses, which led to a decline in the treatment of low-ranking samurai.

"They are more kind to those who serve the king than we are!"

And Sakai remembered this situation in his past, and was touched by the scene in front of him, and said this with tears.

Masuda Nagamori knows Daming better, and said:

"They weren't like this before, as far as I know, most of the time this country despises its own warriors, and it is inferior to us in terms of heavy martial arts!"

"It's just that the emperor has changed after he ascended the throne, but they still surprise me that they still care about the life and death of the old warrior and give him back the silver dollar."

This shows that the Ming Emperor is really a benevolent and virtuous king! In order for these people, who are no longer useful to the empire, to live like individuals, he should have put in a lot of effort! ”

"I really want to be his samurai now!"

"Because he didn't treat the warrior as a utensil, he discarded it when he was old, regardless of whether he lived or died."

Masuda Nagamori then couldn't help but say a few more words.

Sakai Ieji muttered at this time: "When will we be able to give a reward to the elderly samurai who have dedicated their lives to the lord like Ming Guo, so why will we be forced to become a ronin or even starve to death?" ”

When Masuda Nagamori and Sakai Ieji sighed at the scene of the old military households receiving the pension silver in front of them, they were also overjoyed at the old military households of the filial piety who were receiving the pension money and listened to the subordinate officials reciting the content of the holy decree over and over again.

Some asked with a look of disbelief, some praised the emperor on the spot, and many spontaneously knelt down, looking north and worshipping in tears.

"Wu Chong, the Xiaoling Guard, thank the emperor, may my emperor live long live, long live, long live!"

Wu Chong, the second son of Wu Yu, the original filial piety guard, knelt down directly and kowtowed several times when he received the pension silver and thanked the holy decree.

Because Wu Chongzheng was worried because he was over sixty years old, the imperial court did not issue subsidies again, and his grandson happened to be ill at this time, and he had no money for treatment, so he could only go to the temple to ask for the Bodhisattva.

Although the Ming Dynasty has implemented new rituals and abolished many kneeling rituals, the customs are not difficult to change overnight.

For ordinary soldiers and civilians, kneeling has long been a way for them to express their respect, so it is difficult to change it for a while.

After all, they kneel when they ask for the Bodhisattva, and they kneel when they ask for their ancestors.

In any case, Wu Chong's kneeling at this time was that he really wanted to kneel, and if it was not for the persecution of the king's French rites, it could be regarded as no servile kneeling.

And Wu Chong shouted his name and identity loudly to the holy decree at this time, which could be regarded as expressing a sense of honor.

Obviously, he still identifies with his identity as an old military household of Xiaolingwei.

Even though the imperial court was not so kind to these military households before this, he was still very proud of the fact that his ancestors followed Zhu Yuanzhang to drive out the Tartars, restore the Han family's rivers and mountains, establish the Ming Dynasty, and then become the military household of Xiaoling.

"Zhang Huan, the filial piety guard, thank the emperor, may my emperor live long live, long live, long live!"

"Xiaoling Guard, Hu Cheng Defu, thank the emperor, may my emperor live long live, long live, long live!"

……

As soon as Wu Chong shouted like this, several old military households who still had a sense of honor shouted along.

In the past, other military families would have thought that their behavior of thinking that they were honorable in spirit but was not actually regarded as a person by the imperial court was ridiculous.

But now there are no military households laughing at them.

Because now the holy decree does say that their efforts are worthy of being remembered by the country and the nation, as well as by the emperor, so they will choose to treat them favorably and value them.

Therefore, not only did the military households not laugh at these people who seemed to be easily moved, but there was also a ripple in their hearts, and they gradually straightened their backs, and began to have a sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty established by their ancestors, and some wanted to do the same.

Even Ying Tianxun pressed Liu Fangyu and didn't laugh at these old military households.

He did not draw a clear line between himself and these old military households because he had already become a member of the scholar class through the imperial examination, and thought that these old military households were not as noble as himself.

Now, because of the emperor's reform of your army, he began to accept his military status, and he did not draw a clear line with these old military households, and even looked at all this with some empathy and tears.

Then, he also looked into the distance, as if he also saw the glorious scene of his ancestors in the past who was ordered to go on the Northern Expedition and get rid of the Central Plains.

At this time, the red sun hung high in the distance, and the sky was full of glow.

"It's not too late for Sangyu, and it shouldn't be too late for your army to come now."

Liu Fangyu muttered to herself again for a while.

"Lao Mei, you said, how good would it be if the imperial court had been so good as early as the beginning of the country, there were still many military households at that time, many of them were veterans who were good at fighting, maybe they wouldn't have fled to become slaves of big families, and maybe the territory would have been larger than Meng Yuan?"

Regarding Zhu Yijun's reform of the military system, improving the status of military households, and giving preferential treatment to military households, Xiao Lingwei's commander Mei Shi and Xiao Lingwei's commander Xiao Gang's reaction to this was that after the pension money was distributed and the patrol was over, they found a place to drink, and it seemed that only a drink could be worthy of their current mood.

Xiao Gang couldn't help but ask Mei Shi drunkenly at this moment.

Mei Shi smiled bitterly and picked up a bowl of wine, then drank it all, and then slapped the wine bowl on the table and said:

"That's right!"

"I don't know if Uncle Cheng Cheng (Liu Bowen) only told Grandpa Tai about the benefits of raising soldiers in Tuntian, but didn't tell him that if this military defense law is not bad, it has to make the military households of the military guards more expensive than the civilian households? That's why I didn't do it in the first place! ”

"Anyway, the consequence of not doing this at that time was that after a long time, no one wanted to farm and work hard."

"In any case, the current Your Majesty is a person who understands and knows that he can't let his knife rust and passivate, and he has to smelt and pour iron often."

Xiao Gang covered his face as he spoke, twitched twice, and asked, "With Your Majesty's decree, wouldn't those civil officials in the southern capital city dare not ridicule us casually?" ”

Mei Shi nodded and hiccuped: "Naturally! ”

"Both civil and military are the way of the noble, you must follow Mr. to read and write, and you can't be blind."

Liu Fangyu and other officials continued to carry out the national policy of military reform in accordance with the holy decree, so the next day, he came to Xiaolingwei's new social school, admonished the children of a military family to study hard, and conveyed to them the emperor's expectations for them and their grace in their studies.

Zhu Yijun is now giving grace widely, turning the military household into an aristocracy and building it into his own power base, essentially because the imperial court is richer, so that he has such capital.

There are also emperors in history who have tried such efforts, but Zhu Yijun is not alone, but he has not succeeded.

And Zhu Yijun's success now is mainly because he is not only your army, he also made a big cake before your army.

The first is external expansion, and the second is the internal reform with the help of Zhang Juzheng and others, which has released a lot of productive forces, so that social wealth has been increasing.

That's why he can successfully raise the army.

Otherwise, if Zhu Yijun rashly raised the army without increasing social wealth, it would cause the status of military households to increase, but the civilian households would suffer greater losses because of greater financial pressure, which would lead to frequent peasant uprisings.

It is precisely because Zhu Yijun first increased his social wealth, and then permanently exempted forced labor and all kinds of miscellaneous taxes, so that the people in the world actually live more like individuals than before, so Zhu Yijun is now relatively smooth in your army, and not many people are resisting through uprisings, and then there is no truth to some scholars and doctors who oppose this reform.

While Liu Fangyu and others were implementing the national policy of military reform, Masuda Nagamori and Sakai Ieji and their entourage continued to take a boat north along the Qinhuai River to Nanjing.

And they also saw the scene of the Ming people living a rich and comfortable life on the road.

"Suddenly spring is weak, plum blossoms are snowflying."

"Who can be thousands of miles away and never think about returning."

On this day, Masuda Nagamori was on the outskirts of Nandu, and he saw a group of half-grown teenagers reciting poems in the waterfront, with an elegant style, and poured wine into the river while being happy.

And while listening to these young scholars reciting poems, he smiled at Sakai Ieji and said, "The Tang people of the Ming Kingdom are really rich!" Otherwise, it wouldn't be so idle. ”

"That's right, look there."

Sakai Ieji pointed to the shore as he spoke, and Masuda Nagamori then saw people on the shore dancing with swords in the market for the fun of the people, and there were many onlookers, as if nothing was wrong, some of them were holding dogs or cats.

"It's really idle, don't these people farm and weave?"

Masuda Nagamori couldn't help but say something, and then, he heard the sound of singing again.

Then, he saw a woodcutter playing the flute in a pavilion when he was unloading firewood, and there were even merchants playing the harp and tea customers listening to books around the fireplace.

"Boatman, why are the people of your country so idle?"

"Because the emperor is good! The edict was issued to exempt the people forever, especially after the emperor's western tour severely punished the evil officials and inferior gentry who did not obey the order to implement the exemption from forced labor, and there was no official gentry who dared to serve the people casually, and among the people, there was no need to work too hard if they were not rich or noble, and they didn't have to work too hard, and they didn't have to worry about themselves anymore when they earned enough money to feed their families, so they naturally became idle. ”

"And don't look at the fact that there are a lot of idle people now, if you don't go to Oda to weave, you can save more money than before!"

"Who makes the grain shipped from overseas now, and there is more cotton cloth made by big machines in the mainland, and food and clothing are not expensive, and there is no need to pay silver, and the land rent has also dropped a lot, so it is more generous than when I was tired before."

"I also found out that this money is really not hard to save, and it has to be met in a good time."

The boatman sang happily as he spoke.

Looking at my sister across the river, I waved to my brother and nodded; Turn my brother into a little yellow eel, swim across the river and entangle my sister ......"

(End of chapter)