Wuying Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang compared the kings.

"How do you feel about your three months of training outside?"

Su Wang Zhu Ao: "The people are simple, and the people are in their own business." ”

Zhu Zhi, King of Liao: "The people are full, and the treasury is overflowing." ”

Minwang Zhu Yang: "There are a lot of fun and delicious places!" ”

Zhu Yunwen said: "The upper and lower levels are full of friends, the army and the people are rich, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, worthy of the rule of Hongwu!" ”

Zhu Yunxi: "How difficult the people's livelihood is, it is not easy for the people. ”

Zhu Yunwen immediately seized the loophole: "In the prosperous era of Hongwu, under the rule of Fengyang Mansion in the central capital, why is the people's livelihood difficult?" ”

Pick the good ones to say?

Zhu Yunxi counterattacked: "King Hui rarely goes out of the central capital, so he naturally doesn't know the pain of the military households losing their land, and they don't understand that the craftsmen are worried about their wages, and even lose their lives. ”

Seeing that Lao Zhu's face was not good-looking, he said that he was like a troll.

Zhu Yunxi hurriedly added: "I have made a decision in the world, natural disasters are frequent, all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, and the people's livelihood is difficult, but it is precisely because of this that the emperor's grandfather can try to govern the world in peace, and there is a situation of governing the world." ”

"However, there are still traitors who bully the people, smear the court, and dig into the corners of the country."

After a few words, it is about to lead to the invasion of military land by Xungui and the killing of craftsmen by Jiang Xiahou.

Who knows, Zhu Yunxi miscalculated.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't ask at all: "Just feel it, you haven't run in vain in the past three months." ”

Let's change the topic directly.

"How many guards are there inside and outside my Daming?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes swept around the kings: "Those who know come out to speak." ”

There are so many places in the country, who knows.

One by one, you look at me, I look at you.

For a while, no one answered.

Taking a step forward, Zhu Yunxi replied: "Back to the emperor's grandfather, I have three hundred and twenty-nine internal and external guards in the Ming Dynasty, and sixty-five in the Thousand Households. ”

"Good!"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "How many people are in the total number of troops in the country?" ”

This time, Zhu Yunwen stepped forward and replied: "Back to the emperor's grandfather, the total number of troops in the country is more than 1.91 million. ”

Now that we know the number of guards, multiply by the fixed number of people in each guardhouse, and we will get the total number.

Such a simple arithmetic problem, the game is quick arithmetic!

Since losing to Zhu Yunxi in arithmetic in the main hall last time, Zhu Yunwen began to study arithmetic hard, and today he finally shined and appeared in front of the emperor's grandfather.

The only variable here is to guard the Thousand Households, because the number of people is not necessarily.

Some of the guards are under the jurisdiction of two ordinary thousand households, and some have three thousand households.

Therefore, Zhu Yunwen replied that there were more than 1.91 million people, and the error was within 10,000.

Several princes looked at him in amazement, admiring his arithmetic abilities.

Zhu Yunwen was complacent, waiting for the emperor's grandfather to praise him.

Who knows, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Yunxi, you talk about it." ”

Zhu Yunxi didn't have time to think about it, and blurted out: "As my grandson knows, the total number of troops in the Ming Dynasty is one hundred and twenty-one thousand, one hundred and forty-four thousand. ”

Are they all accurate to single digits?

Zhu Yunwen was slightly startled, and then said: "There is a difference of nearly 700,000 people from the rated soldiers, how is this possible!" ”

The slap in the face scene is coming.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked suspicious: "Yunxi, how do you know?" ”

Obviously, Lao Zhu affirmed this answer.

Zhu Yunxi replied: "My grandson trained in Fengyang Mansion, learned the tactics of military formation from the founding prince, Wei Guogong and others, and learned about the guards of my Ming Dynasty all over the country. ”

Xu Yungong, the Duke of Wei, served in the Governor's Office of the Chinese Army, and was in charge of the Wei Office.

Just ask.

Zhu Yunwen, who was obsessed with his arithmetic achievements, was still not convinced, and asked: "According to the number of guards in the country, the total number of troops is about 1.9 million, why is there so much difference?" ”

Zhu Yunxi smiled: "This is the gap between reality and ideals. ”

The phenomenon of military households fleeing and eating empty salaries always exists.

Zhu Yunwen, who has always been idealistic, may have a hard time understanding this.

Of course, the officers in the early Ming Dynasty could not eat any empty salaries, and at most they encroached on the fields of military households.

Because the imperial court raises the army, it doesn't cost money at all.

The military cantonment system in the Ming Dynasty's guard system solved the problems of the army's finances and food and salaries very well.

Tuntian is one of the important responsibilities of officials at all levels of the army, and they are basically self-sufficient in terms of salaries and grain.

Zhu Yuanzhang said proudly: "The country raises millions of soldiers, and it doesn't cost the people a grain of rice, and it all depends on the army." ”

It was not until the Jiajing period that the Ming army's Tuntian was greatly damaged, and the income of the Tuntian was less than one-third of that in the Hongwu period, and the system of the guard center basically collapsed.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to lack of money, salary and food, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army became very stretched.

Who will work for the court if there is no money?

It can be said that as long as the Ming army has enough food, fields, and hope for life, the Ming army can beat the Tartars out of the Xiang!

When it comes to military households, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to conduct an in-depth investigation of the achievements of the Fengyang experience of the kings.

"Zhu Yang, let's talk about it, how much is the monthly income of the general banner of the infantry army?"

"Ah......h

Min Wang Zhu Yang scratched his head for a while.

Although he is also practicing in Fengyang and participating in drills, he spends most of his time playing around.

For a while, I went shopping in Zhongdu City, and for a while, I went to Changhuaiwei to live for a few days.

The farthest went to Suzhou, saying that it was to the hometown of Queen Xiaoci Ma.

"Yun Wei, tell me about it."

Zhu Yuanzhang began to roll call.

Zhu Yunwen originally thought that he would be able to test the tactics of the military formation, so he prepared for more than a month in advance, but he didn't know that the test was actually logistics......

Where did he know this, he frowned tightly, and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and shook his head again and again.

"Yun Hee."

Everyone's hope Zhu Yunxi came out to show himself again, and he replied easily: "The general banner of the infantry army has five buckets with one stone, and the small flag has one stone and two buckets." ”

"What else?" Zhu Yuanzhang's expression was full of relief.

Zhu Yunxi said: "The people who fill the army have eight buckets, the horse herding thousand households have one stone, the people Ding has made up the army drills one stone, and the Jiangyang Henghai army has a little class, and the hands are one stone and five buckets." ”

"How to subsidize the death of a sergeant?"

"The dead soldiers will be given one stone for the funeral, and half of the dead in the camp."

"Where's Eunjun?"

The sinners who are on the border are called Enjun.

Zhu Yunxi said: "Enjun's family has more than four people with one stone, three people with less than six buckets, and those who have no family with four buckets." ”

"How do you get the sergeant's moon salt?"

"Those who have a family have two catties, and those who don't have one catty."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked more than a dozen questions in a row, and Zhu Yunxi answered them fluently.

He gave a clear answer to the supply of the monthly rations and salt, war horses, weapons, cotton, winter clothes, and salt monopoly income of the guards and soldiers.

Xueba's performance made the kings embarrassed.

Even Zhu Yunwen was impressed.

Zhu Yunxi smiled, and said in his heart This Fengyang experience, you are going on vacation to gild.

And I'm here to improve myself!

Not only to engage in the economy to make money.

It is also engaged in army building and developing contacts in the army.

Develop your own power in all directions!

In just three months, Zhu Yunxi has preliminarily built his own shogunate framework, just waiting for it to flourish in the future!

"Zhu Gui!"

Zhu Yuanzhang named the acting king again.

"Millions of troops across the country, especially those in the northern part of the country, eat horses and chew horses, how to solve the problem when there is a shortage of food?"

Zhu Gui thought for a while and replied: "When the grain is insufficient, you can use the people's grain to transport it, and let the merchants plug the grain in exchange for the government's salt." ”

Military rations were urgently needed on the border, and the imperial court needed to buy grain from the interior.

But the cost of buying grain is huge, so how can you get it without spending a penny?

Zhu Yuanzhang thought of opening the Chinese law, and the imperial court recruited merchants to exchange grain for salt, and the merchants led the salt to take the corresponding salt and then sell it.

The imperial court of successive dynasties implemented the monopoly of salt and iron, and the cost of salt was extremely low, and the production was simple and large.

Salt is exchanged for grain, and this trade is not a loss.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, again: "There is a shortage of war horses in Saibei, how to solve it?" ”

Zhu Quan said: "As the thirteenth brother said, to solve the problem by opening the Chinese law, let the merchants exchange grain for salt if there is a shortage of grain, and let the merchants exchange horses for salt if there is a shortage of war horses, and the flexibility and mobility will make up for the shortage of military salaries in a timely manner." ”

"Good! After the New Year, you will go to the north of the country to become a vassal. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was very relieved and finally relieved.

As the king of Sai, being familiar with the method of opening the middle is the basic operation.

If King Dai and King Ning can't answer, Zhu Yuanzhang is afraid that he will burst out and beat people.

At present, although the Mengyuan forces have been driven out of China, their military power is still relatively strong.

They are located in the northern grassland region, always ready to invade the south, and have the potential to make a comeback, which is the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the northwest, Yunnan and other border areas are also not stable, and the military pressure of the Ming Dynasty is extremely great, so Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to the development of the army.

In this Wuyingdian examination, Zhu Yunxi became the best without dispute.

His score in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart increased from seven points to nine points, chasing Yan Wang Zhu Di.

As for Zhu Yunwen, he stood still.