Zhu Yijun glanced at the rising sun in the distance at this time.

At that time, the sky was already red, and the sun was shining all over the world.

Zhu Yijun smiled at this, and then instructed Zhang Yuangong, the British minister in charge: "Although the people don't care about these losses now, they still have to pay compensation." ”

Zhang Yuangong said yes here.

Queen Du Shi also smiled because of this, and Qiu Bo glanced at Zhu Yijun affectionately.

Next, Zhu Yijun and his southern patrol team naturally stayed overnight, hungry and thirsty, and unconsciously went all the way to Zhongtunwei in Xingzhou.

Saying.

Ren Yonggang, who was originally a military household in Xingzhou Zhongtunwei, did not expect that the imperial court would have a noble army and carry out military reform, which made him, a fugitive military household who returned to Tunwei, so he witnessed the changes in his own garrison, and how his military households suddenly became more wealthy.

Now Ren Yonggang has all the profits from the pencil business to invest in a pencil factory because of the excellent military subsidy and the tuition exemption for his children, which made him suddenly become a wealthy man in Weili during the year of military reform.

This makes Ren Yonggang now also raise a few maids to serve his wife's Ruiya and himself.

However, even if Ren Yonggang made a fortune, he still let his children go to school in Weili's government-run health school.

Because as far as he knew, the teachers invited by Weixue were all from Juren, and many of them were graduates of Xingming Academy, and this was not something he could invite himself, so he didn't invite Xixi.

On this day, Ren Yonggang was taking a carriage to pick up his child from Weixue, and he heard his son say that the emperor was coming to guard himself, so he was surprised and asked: "The emperor is coming?" ”

"Yes!"

"Gentlemen said that the emperor's southern tour will pass through us, and he has decided to stay here for a day, and tomorrow there will be officers and soldiers of Jin Wuwei who will come to Weili to guard first!"

"In addition, we, the students of Weixue, will be announced by the emperor, and the emperor will test our knowledge."

Ren Yonggang's son Ren Aiming replied at this time.

After Ren Yong heard this, he instructed his son: "Then you have to prepare seriously, don't lose your face in front of the emperor at that time, and don't let the emperor down, you must know that I can have you, it all depends on the good of the emperor today, so that you and I have the opportunity to make a fortune by buying the subscription coupons of the imperial court, and then I got your mother, and because the emperor was exempted from forced labor and horse price silver, so that you Lao Tzu and I can go back to the guard to farm with peace of mind, and now it is because you give a lot of subsidies to military families like Lao Tzu and set up a medical center, so that you can have someone to serve, If you are sick, you can still have a medical center in Weili to give you free treatment, otherwise the serious illness you had last year would have been gone for a long time. ”

"I know, I also know that it is because of this that you named me Aiming, and you want me to love Daming."

Ren Aiming replied.

"It's good to know, people should know gratitude, and the emperor's kindness is also kindness."

Ren Yonggang nodded, took a puff of dry tobacco after speaking, and then looked out the car window with a full face.

At this time, the carriage of the Ren family was almost at his home, so Ren Yonggang had already seen his wife Ruiya with a big belly, waiting outside the door with two maidservants.

Ren Aiming had already jumped out of the car at this time and ran towards Ruiya.

And Ren Yonggang also got out of the car shortly after this, and said to Ruiya: "Hun family, tell you a news." ”

"What's the news?"

Ruiya hugged her son Ren Aiming and asked.

Ren Yonggang said with a smile: "The emperor wants to come to our guard." ”

After hearing this, Ruiya immediately smiled and said: "This is really big news, but I don't know if there is a chance to meet the real person, we can live such a worry-free life as we have now, and it is all up to him." ”

"Yes, if it weren't for the emperor, the old lady Liu next door would still be begging for hundreds of meals now! Where can I get a pension subsidy all of a sudden, because I am a military household, and now I can still eat and wear every day, and even my son has returned. ”

Ren Yonggang followed and agreed, and Ruiya instructed: "Tell me to go down, after the emperor comes up, all the shops will not open, and they will all have a holiday to see the emperor." ”

"Hey!"

Ruiya agreed with a smile, and then asked again: "To see the emperor, why don't you bring something to the emperor, whether you can hand it over or not, it is also a novelty." ”

"It makes sense, bring a few bundles of pencils that we made ourselves in the guard, maybe you can come in and enter the palace to participate in that fair."

"When the time comes, by the way, the big rooster raised at home will be slaughtered, burned, boiled and sprinkled with salted water, whether the emperor can eat it or not, it is the heart of our military households."

"Good! I'll arrange for them to prepare. ”

……

Because of Zhu Yijun's noble army, the life of the military household is indeed much better than before.

Not to mention that widows, widows and lonely people have something to support, medical security, education support and housing subsidies are also much better than those of other household registrations.

After Zhu Yijun came to Xingzhou Zhongtunwei, accompanied by Deng Ning, the commander of the guard, he saw with his own eyes that there were all brick houses on the periphery of Xingzhou Zhongtunwei.

These brick houses are all lined up in a row, neat and clean, and there are small courtyards outside each tile house, and melons, fruits and vegetables are planted in the small courtyard.

Because it was noon, Zhu Yijun saw that many brick houses had ambiguous cooking smoke, the sound of chickens and dogs barking, and many people even cooked meat on the stove in the courtyard, and the coal piled up next to the stove was like a hill.

"These are all ordinary military households?"

Zhu Yijun couldn't help but ask Deng Ning at this time.

Deng Ning replied with a smile: "Your Majesty Shengming, these are the places where ordinary military households live in a concentrated manner, inheriting Your Majesty's grace and power, and distributing housing subsidies to the Tianxia Guard, so the minister was ordered to hire workers to build brick houses for them, so as not to make them sick because the thatched huts cannot withstand the cold and strong wind and rain, and even affect the growth of children. ”

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Do you have your own single compound?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, those who built their own compounds are all in the Guard City."

Deng Ning replied at this time.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun asked: "How many people build their own compounds?" ”

Deng Ning replied: "Thanks to His Majesty's blessings, exempt from meager endowments, and created this prosperous era, over the years, many military households in Benwei have also made a fortune by relying on all kinds of policies to benefit the people and their own diligence, whether they are engaged in business or business, or even craftsmen and even writing scripts, there are rich people, and they have built a courtyard; What's more, according to the requirements of the holy decree, the military households only have the right to use the houses built by the Weili officials after they are allocated, and do not have the right to buy and sell, let alone the right to demolish and build without authorization, so the military households who become rich will basically set up another compound in the city. ”

Zhu Yijun nodded, and said with a smile to the ministers who followed Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue, Shen Li, etc.:

"It's good to have a lot of compounds, which shows that there are indeed rich and noble among military households, of course, more importantly, ordinary military households can also have two or three large buildings and a small courtyard, which not only shows that you, the commander of the guard, have not swallowed up public funds, but also manage them properly, so that I can see such a large military residential area."

"Thanks to Your Majesty's praise, the minister did this not only because he was loyal to the king, but also because he couldn't bear to defend the military household to continue to live like before, and thanks to His Majesty's benevolence, the minister also had such an opportunity, thanks to Your Majesty's grace, and let the military household of this guard finally no longer reduce Ding every year because of the flight of a large number of military households, but increase Ding every year because of the increase in the number of relatives in the military household."

Dunning choked up as he spoke.

Whether he deliberately cherished the military households in Zhu Yijun's performance at the moment, or whether he sincerely cherished the feelings of his fellow villagers for the military households of Benwei, it was certain that he did not dare to deduct the subsidies given to the military households by the imperial court now, nor did he dare to disobey the imperial court's policy of preferential treatment of military households.

Because Zhu Yijun had already let the bureaucrats of the world know during his last western tour that it was not the emperor's idea alone, it was impossible for them to resist the will of the imperial court, and if they did, the end would only be miserable.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, with the growth of the interests of the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, it is mainly due to the interests obtained from external expansion, and the crackdown on illegal internal profits is very severe, so the internal exploitation of the world's elites and bureaucrats has not been as excessive as before, and they have all converged a lot.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun can see many row of brick houses in Zhongtunwei, Xingzhou at this time.

And Shen Li, a university scholar, also saw that there were so many brick houses that they stretched all the way to the skyline, and under the reflection of the red sun, there seemed to contain countless hopes, so he couldn't help but say to Zhu Yijun:

"Your Majesty, when the minister entered Beijing in the past, there were still many thatched huts and shacks here, and because a large number of military households fled, even the thatched huts and shacks were few, neither roosters nor dogs barked, and now there can be this change, if the minister did not see it with his own eyes, he could not believe it, it is enough to see that the dynasty has really been prosperous in these years!"

Zhu Yijun knew that Shen Li, as a child of a military family, would inevitably be more excited to see that the military family could live so well, so he smiled and said: "Qing has never made such boasting about the prosperous world, but now I can't help but say it first!" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Yijun asked Deng Ning: "Why do people cook meat in the courtyard outside the house, is there a different custom in Xingzhou Zhongwei today?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, they all intend to serve Your Majesty because they learned that Your Majesty is coming today, so they cook meat at home."

Deng Ning replied at this time.

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything more after hearing this.

But as the chariot he rode in got closer and closer to these brick houses, he saw that a large table had been placed in the brick courtyard of each house, and the table was full of all kinds of chickens, ducks, and fish.

So much so that Zhu Yijun looked at it, as if it was a huge ordinary military residential area, like a large manor holding a big banquet, and every courtyard was a private seat.

And these soldiers were all at this time, and they looked at him in the courtyard, and their faces were full of smiles and expectations.

Zhu Yijun was a little moved by the simple expression of the soldiers, so he couldn't help but burst into tears, but said with a smile in his mouth:

"I didn't really do anything, I just treated them as human beings."

(End of chapter)