Chapter 153: The Drawbacks of the Guards System
The conversation with Zhang Xin was quite pleasant.
Chen Kan knew that as long as the interests were sufficient, there was nothing in this world that could not be discussed.
Zhang Xin signed his name on the contract.
Then he called the housekeeper and instructed: "Take the name of the Marquis, and invite the Marquis of Xiping, the Marquis of Taishou, the Marquis of Jing'an, the Duke of Chengguo, the Duke of Qi, and the Marquis of Xincheng to come...... Dinner. ”
Zhang Xin gave an order, and almost all the powerful generals of the Beijing Division were invited, and in less than half an hour, all the princes gathered in the Longping Marquis Mansion.
They also received perfume and soap sent by Chen Kan, and when they heard from the subordinates of the Marquis of Longping, Chen Kan had found Zhang Xin.
They rushed over without stopping.
When Zhang Xin informed the generals of Chen Kan's distribution method, as well as the cost and price of these two things, the generals also showed the same shocked expression as Zhang Xin when he first learned about it.
It's not that the generals haven't seen the world.
Mainly, the profits in this are so staggering that all the caravans in their homes combined, the profits may not be as high as these two things.
Although the whole Jiangmen only accounts for two components, once these two things are popularized throughout the country, they are even shipped out of the country for sale.
With such a huge wealth, it is not small to distribute it to each family.
Mu Sheng preliminarily estimated that if the operation is good, the annual income of each household will not be less than 50,000 taels of silver.
It was the equivalent of fifty thousand taels of silver that had been picked up for nothing.
As soon as the data estimated by Mu Sheng came out, a group of generals who had already been in high positions and had honed their hearts as hard as stones suddenly became calm.
Fifty thousand taels!
And it's 50,000 taels a year, a lot of money, which is definitely a lot of money.
A group of generals who originally came to see Chen Kan was not pleasing to their eyes, but their eyes suddenly became kind.
How to describe it, it's like looking at a walking lump of humanoid gold, or, to put it another way, like looking at the living God of Wealth.
The generals were not stupid people, and they knew why Chen Kan would give up such a huge fortune.
So there were kind smiles on their faces.
"As a disciple of Mr. Fang, this calmness that treats money like dung is much better than ours."
"If you have time to come to the house to sit down, let the rebel son in the house touch your aura, speaking of your father Chen Heng, he also had some friendship with the general back then......
"Yes, in the final analysis, Chen Xiaozi is still from Jiangmen, no, there are some good things, the first thing to think about is our Jiangmen."
"Hahahaha, yes, yes, there is a successor to the Marquis of Puding......"
What is money is a bastard, the more you look at it, the better it looks, this is the most typical representative.
A group of Qiu Ba also automatically pulled Chen Kan to the side of the gate, and even his dead ghost father became their best friend when he was alive.
That's where gift-giving comes in.
With 50,000 taels of silver, in exchange for reconciliation with Jiangmen, Chen Kan felt that it was worth it.
What's more, with perfume and soap as a link in the future, Chen Kan was able to tie the door to him.
Because he never thought of revealing the secret recipe to Jiangmen.
There is an advantage to holding the secret recipe tightly in your hand, that is, if Chen Kan is in trouble in the future, for the sake of losing 50,000 taels of face every year, the generals will also pull him with their hands.
In the past few months, Chen Kan has been like a spider, constantly weaving a huge web, turning the royal family, the gate, and the civil officials into a node on the web.
The line connecting these nodes is the interest and the ability of Chen Kan.
And the center of this net is Chen Kan himself.
Now this net is still very fragile, but Chen Kan believes that one day, this net will become indestructible!
When the generals in Beijing signed their names on the contract and pressed their handprints.
Zhang Xin beckoned, and all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas were lifted up like flowing water.
Kabuki, who had been kept in the Hou Mansion, came to the class and began to perform a show for the diners.
Mu Sheng took the initiative to talk to Chen Kanpan and said: "Your Majesty and the Ministry of Officials have agreed to the policy you proposed to change the land and return to the stream, and I will go back to Yunnan in a few days, and I will take the lead in selecting a few prefectures and counties to start implementing it." ”
Chen Kan raised his glass to Mu Sheng and asked, "Is Master Hou going back to Yunnan?" ”
Mu Sheng said: "The situation in Yunnan is chaotic, and I can't stay in Beijing for a long time, so I am very satisfied to be able to come back and take a look." ”
Chen Kan nodded: "That kid will first congratulate Hou Ye on his victory." ”
"To borrow your auspicious words, Ben Jiang also hopes that the chaotic situation in Yunnan can be resolved once and for all."
The two chatted dryly, and the atmosphere was far from warm.
Mu Sheng suddenly sighed with emotion: "Chen boy, you are a capable person, if you have any good ideas in the future, don't hide them, the soldiers guarding the frontier will not have a good time." ”
Chen Kan nodded and didn't say much.
In fact, throughout the Ming Dynasty, not only the border army, but all military households had a hard time.
The military system of the Ming Dynasty was the guard system.
When Grandpa Tai established this system, it was originally intended to educate soldiers and farmers.
The military family is a family of soldiers, the father dies and the son succeeds, and the military literacy can also be passed from father to son, and son to grandson, so that the combat power of the army can also be guaranteed.
The imperial court raised a million soldiers, but it did not cost the people a grain of food.
I have to say that during the reign of Grandpa Tai, the guard system did provide great convenience and foundation for the Ming army's victory in a hundred battles.
Moreover, Grandpa Tai even took into account the heavy living burden of the military household and gave a good compensation.
Give more land and be exempted from servitude.
At the same time, it is easier for military households to rise than ordinary people, as long as they make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, they can be knighted.
It stands to reason that this can be regarded as a policy that is conducive to the people's livelihood and the strengthening of the army, and has the best of both worlds.
But..... The ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny.
Grandpa Tai has taken everything into account, but he has not taken into account people's hearts.
After a long time, the disadvantages of the powerful system of the guard center broke out, first of all, the power was too centralized, and the officers of the guard house held the power of life and death over the military households.
As a result, the officers enslaved the military households as slaves and maids, and not only wantonly usurped the military households' property, but also turned the military households into their own private soldiers and tenants.
By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, military households had actually been completely reduced to tools for the officers of the guard to farm land and accumulate wealth, and their lives were not as good as ordinary people, and there was no combat effectiveness at all.
In other words, there is no need to wait until the middle and late stages, because the escape of military households during the Hongwu period has been repeatedly banned.
In the Yongle Dynasty, due to the fact that there were many foreign wars, the disadvantages of the guard system were not as obvious as those of the Hongwu Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was most proud of the two major systems, the system of sealing the kings and the system of guards, none of which played the effect he expected in his heart.