The old man couldn't help but sigh that he hadn't done anything to oppress the people back then, but he was getting old and old, and he often felt guilty when he realized that what he did was evil.

Especially when the hundreds and thousands of households in the guard house bullied the descendants of these old soldiers.

It has been 20 years since the establishment of the guard system, and some of the guards are already old and have passed away, and their descendants have taken over and served as guards.

For such a person, those heads and brains above are also unceremonious, and most of the fields that should have been hereditary have been occupied by these leaders.

Those hereditary guards became tenants in the fields of the chiefs, even worse than tenants, even if the old soldiers themselves had the heart to speak out, after all, they could not fight the overall situation.

So the old pawn himself can see clearly, although Zhu Yuanzhang took away their land that should have been hereditary through the reform of the guard.

But the old man knew in his heart that it was hard to say whether these lands could really be inherited and left to his non-existent descendants.

In the final analysis, he is just an old soldier, a soldier, not an official.

What's more, the imperial court also gave enough compensation, and when he went to Daning to act as a private household, his descendants were not restricted from the imperial examinations, and they did not have to be oppressed by the generals above, isn't this good?

The pawn continued.

"Maybe when we were there, we did win the battle, but in the end it didn't do us any good, there was no booty, no money, all of them were won by the leaders of the guard.

I didn't want to fight anymore, but in the spring, I routinely swept the Mongols abroad, and it was the domestic slaves of the generals of the guard who contributed to the effort, and it had nothing to do with us. ”

"Expelling the Tartars and restoring the Central Plains, Your Majesty's old man's wish has been fulfilled, and small people like us just hope to have a good rest.

Not far away is Rehe, which the locals say was the route of the Tartars heading south.

But I have been here for more than ten years, and none of the Tartars dare to live here, I only hope to be buried here after death, and I will never see the day when the Tartars go south. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, this old man may not have seen anyone for a long time, this time I heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was a general under Chang Yuchun, and he was also interested, and then said.

"What I can't understand the most is actually why the imperial court let those Tartars go and let them live well in Beiping and Daning, how good is it that these Tartars are dead? The imperial court is a bit rough in this matter, and it's not spicy enough! ”

He Qiu was a little embarrassed on the side, this was what he proposed, but he also knew that if he wanted to talk to this old man about any big reason, he wouldn't understand it.

Since the beginning of the war with Zhu Yuanzhang, this old soldier has basically been fighting the Tartars, that is, he has come to the guard, and every spring he has to go out to clean the Tartars, set fire to the grassland, and force the Tartars to move north.

He Qiu's proposal to let the Tartars belong to them, for these elderly soldiers, is undoubtedly a negation of everything they have worked hard to do before.

It's normal for this old man to have such grievances.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood at a higher level, and he also knew that with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to wipe out all these Mongols, and now it would be beneficial for the Ming Dynasty to ease the relationship and try to turn them into his own people.

To put it darkly, these people in the Northern Yuan Dynasty are already so wasted, and they are still the 'old friends' of the Ming Dynasty, even if they fight in the future, it is better than fighting with a tribe that came out of nowhere on the grassland.

But he also knows that there are not a few ideas of this old man, and there are many people in the army and even in the border areas who have such thoughts.

After all, the two sides have had a deep blood feud in the past few decades, and there may even be some ancestors who have been bullied by the Tartars.

So many hatreds gathered together are not easy to dissolve, even if the Ming Dynasty wants to, Mongolia may not necessarily want to.

It's just that based on every ordinary person, they can think like this, but as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang can't think like this, just like after he ascended the throne, even if he hated the Mongolian Tatars, he still recognized the Yuan Dynasty as an orthodox dynasty in the Central Plains.

Momentary whims can never replace the emperor's rational thinking.

Zhu Yuanzhang understood the old man's thoughts very well, but he didn't think it was wrong, but just smiled and asked.

"Do you think the Mongol Tartars will rebel?"

The old man was silent for a long time, and then sighed.

"I don't think so, I've also been to Miyun, and the local Mongols have become no different from the Han Chinese, and it's only been a few years?

It's the same on the other side of the river, the local Tatars do business with the Han people every year, some marry Han girls, and some Han people marry Mongolian girls, and they have long been indistinguishable from each other. I don't know what is good about that group of Mongolian, and who is willing to marry them? ”

The old pawn complained again, but finally spoke.

"Whether it is the Mongolian Tartars outside or inside the Sai, life is better than before, as long as they are not fools, they will not rebel again.

What's more, most of them are now settled in the grassland, and they don't run around this grazing anymore, but it's the opposite, our Ming army found them as soon as they got out of the jam, and it was not easy to fight them?

I just want to do the opposite, and in the end, I don't have that ability! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, he didn't expect this old man to say such insightful words.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel a little regretful in his heart, if he carried out the reform of the guard as soon as possible, with the knowledge and skills of this old soldier, I am afraid that he could also mix with a half-official position and contribute to the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Just looking at the old pawn's gray hair like him and his body more rickety than him, Zhu Yuanzhang could only put this idea in his heart.

Next, I'm afraid that some veterans need to be included in the management of the imperial court, even if it is good to be a small official, at least loyalty is guaranteed.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought in his heart.

However, from his conversation with this old man, he knew at least one thing, the people's will is clear, in the new deal.

It is this hardcore guard soldier who is in favor of the reform of the military system of the guard, which shows what the guard is like, and who are the people who oppose his change of the military system.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared at Lan Yu without leaving a trace, and his scalp was numb, Lan Yu knew that he might not be able to escape a scolding, and even dismissed.

Zhu Yuanzhang replied with a pleasant face and gestured to the accompanying eunuch behind him, took out a silver ingot from his waist, and handed it to the old soldier.

"After all, I am a brother who serves the country, I am a general, but I also came out of the soldier, I will see you today, I can't let you still live a hard life."

The old pawn smiled softly.

"It's true that my silver taels were swept away, but if you have hands and feet, even if you hunt and save some savings, if you don't starve me, you won't need your money."

For ordinary people like him who have gone through the troubled times, starving to death can already be regarded as the virtue of the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking that back then, when he hadn't joined the rebel army, he didn't even have a few clothes at home, and he remembered that embarrassment all his life.