The success of the coke refinery model gave Zhu Gaochi the confidence to go to Zhu Di.

"You're going to the military again?"

Hearing that Zhu Gaochi was going to recruit people from the military household, Zhu Di felt a toothache.

Last time, I asked the boss to go to the health center to check the poor households, mainly to exercise the boss's ability, but the boss made such a big move that even Tang Yun was alarmed.

A commander, a prince of the palace, in the end, only recruited more than 20 people.

"How many people are you going to recruit this time?"

"Two thousand people to be recruited."

"Sss

"Ahem."

……

Zhu Di choked on his own saliva, coughing and his face was flushed, which startled Zhu Gaochi, and hurriedly stepped forward to pat Zhu Di on the back.

After a while, Zhu Di waved his left hand, preventing Zhu Gaochi from patting his back.

"Recruiting so many people? You used it. ”

"Xishan, Shijing, Wanping, Beiping, Daxing. Daxing, Wanping, Liangxiang, Fangshan. Two main lines, as well as several branch lines, totaling hundreds of miles of railway, my son plans to complete it in three months, so it will require a lot of manpower. ”

Zhu Di touched his chin.

Railways can transport troops.

However, the railway, which is only 100 miles, is of great military significance and does not play much role.

"If you build a thousand-mile railway, can you do it?"

Zhu Di couldn't help but ask, he wanted to build the railway to the grassland.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

No, I can't.

Zhu Di wondered, he could repair it for a hundred miles, why couldn't he do it for a thousand miles?

"Repair can be repaired, but how to protect the railway on the grassland? I'm afraid it won't be long before the rails are stolen. ”

"You're thoughtful."

Zhu Di understood, it's not that he can't repair it, but people don't allow it, and if he wants to build a railway in the grassland, he has to continue to clean up.

The surrounding area of Beiping can be repaired, because who dares to steal the railroad tracks?

Even if someone steals.

But it can be traced and controlled.

The grass principle does not work.

"Two thousand people is not a small number, let's discuss it with a few commanders first."

"How long?"

"Three or five days."

Zhu Gaochi was dissatisfied.

"Two days."

Zhu Di took the initiative to change his words, who made the boss have the ability.

Not only can he make money, but he can also solve the problem of military households, Zhu Di couldn't help but sigh, he is the old man, and he also depends on his son's face.

Day 3.

Inside the hall.

Several people sat on the Taishi chair, waiting for the arrival of King Yan, and the three people were the commanders of the left guard, the middle guard, and the right guard of Yanshan.

"I heard that the eldest prince went to the guardhouse, there was such a big movement, why did he recruit more than 20 people?"

Chen Xian, the commander of the right guard, asked Tang Yun, the commander of the central guard, with a big grin.

Chen Xian is old and started from Zhu Yuanzhang.

Survived from the killing, fought in the south and north for decades, and made great achievements.

Tang Yun smiled, but didn't pay much attention to Chen Xian.

Zhang Yu is not young, but he is a descendant of the previous dynasty, Hongwu only surrendered in the eighteenth year, and he was only transferred to Yanshanwei last year.

Seeing that the two were not very harmonious, they leaned over and sympathized with Tang Yun.

"The eldest prince is famous, I haven't had private contact with it, I heard that you have traveled all the way with the eldest prince, what do you know?"

Chen Xian took two sips of the teacup, didn't say anything, as if he didn't care, his eyes didn't blink.

"The eldest prince has a gentle personality, polite words, cares about the soldiers in his actions, loves the people, and has the style of a prince."

"That's good." Zhang Yu smiled with satisfaction.

At this time.

Zhu Di walked in.

"King Yan."

The three of them hurriedly got up to greet each other.

"Everyone sit, we are all our own people, there are no outsiders here, don't care about hypocrisy, just feel free."

Although King Yan said this, several people were still very respectful.

Among several people, even if Zhang Yu is a general of the former dynasty, he has been fighting with today's saints for many years, and no one is without temper.

With the rise of the three divisions, the governor's office of the five armies is also improving.

King Yan's power gradually became smaller, and everyone knew it.

Not to mention the Beiping guards, only the left, middle and right three guards of Yanshan have always been only the head of the king of Yan, in addition to being the guard of the king of Yan, more is the prestige of the king of Yan.

Because King Yan can win battles.

He led the Northern Expedition many times and returned victorious, and the entire Beiping was his subordinates, who did not respect him.

And King Yan loves his subordinates and often rewards his generals.

Naturally.

The prestige of King Yan is very high in the entire Beiping Guard. Whether it is a general or a soldier, they are willing to listen to the command of King Yan.

The sage praised King Yan in Yingtianfu, and said in public that King Yan was the head of the kings in the north, this sentence was not empty words.

The guards of the kings of Qin and Jin were larger than those of the kings of Yan.

But the talents of the two are not as good as King Yan, and their merits are even worse than King Yan, and their prestige in the local guards is far inferior to King Yan.

It is also the reason why the three divisions of Beiping dare not learn from the Xi'an officials to confront the King of Qin and the King of Yan in Beiping.

The truth of the matter is as simple as that, it is not that Zhu Di has three heads and six arms.

"I invited the three of you here today, because we have an idea to discuss with you, and if you think it is feasible, then we will start doing it."

"What the prince wants to do, he will support it." The veteran Tang Yun replied.

Zhu Di nodded with satisfaction.

"Some time ago, the boss of our family who was not a weapon ran to disturb you, and also disturbed the guards of the middle guard."

"After he came back, we scolded him, but he had some things to say, and there were a lot of poor families about the military households."

"All of you here have been fighting horses all their lives, and the military truth is more transparent than ours, and the soldiers must maintain a simple style, but the atmosphere is the atmosphere, not that the soldiers have to live a hard life, let alone that they can't live a hard life."

"If you can't get by, who wants to fight with your life?"

"One more thing."

"Now that the war has stopped, there is no need for families to serve, resulting in a large number of idlers, and the family life cannot be maintained, which is a great hidden danger."

The more Zhu Di said that his face became more and more ugly, he had seen this problem, but he didn't pay attention to it, in addition to having no way to solve it, he got used to it after seeing too much.

If you get used to it, you will naturally get used to it and don't think there is any big problem.

It wasn't until the boss repeatedly mentioned this problem and said that there was a way to solve it that Zhu Di thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this problem was very serious.

"King Yan said it well, his subordinates were confused before, but there was no way to do it, and his subordinates have been buried in their hearts."

"King Yan actually took the initiative to mention it today, please let his subordinates say one thing too."

The commander of Yanshan's right guard made Chen Xian very excited.

He had already seen the problem, but what could he do, he didn't expect King Yan to raise this question today.

If the problem is raised, it will definitely be solved.

In order to attract the attention of the rest, he hurriedly added: "I don't know if you have noticed that in these years of war, the soldiers are not as energetic as they are in the war every year. ”

"I think that back then, I followed the saint to fight the world, and under an order, the sons and daughters under my command were as brave as a tiger, unstoppable, there was no enemy in the north and south, and how many times I won a big victory with outnumbered enemies."

"Now it's not as good as every year."

"For example, last year's northern expedition, if it weren't for King Yan's strategy, I'm afraid we would have to return in vain like the West Road."

"There are even more generals who dare to fight only if they have to double their troops, not because they are cowardly, but because they know that the combat power of the soldiers is not as good as before."

"Why is the combat power declining, I don't need to explain."

The hall fell silent.

King Yan is a rising star in the army, he grows up fast, and no one underestimates him among several veterans, so the four of them are all people who know the soldiers.

The health system is not a perfect law.

From the beginning of the establishment of the guard, there were scarce soldiers who fled, and in the three years of Hongwu, there were more than 47,900 fugitive soldiers.

At this time, it can also be explained by fear of war.

But by the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu this year, no one knows how many have fled.

Fear of war is no longer the main reason for soldiers to flee.

Rather, military households have less and less land per capita, and soldiers are getting poorer and poorer.

In the past, I was afraid of death and fled, but now I am fleeing to survive.

The guard system is not only a military system, to be precise, it is half a civilian and half a soldier, and each military household must provide regular ding, surplus ding, and so on.

"The country is safe and secure, the population is multiplying too fast, and last year there were only 1.2 million military households in our country, but after counting, they became 2 million households.

Even if each household only provides one zhengding, it is equivalent to maintaining two million soldiers in the guard, and the annual ration of 24 million stone is not affordable.

In the past, there was a lot of idle land in the surrounding area, and there was land to be cultivated, but today there is still wasteland in the surrounding area for the guard to reclaim.

The young people of the military household not only can't eat enough, but also can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

After Tang Yun finished speaking, he sneered twice.

With a mocking face, he scolded, "The sage is still too merciful to the officials, the population of military households is growing so fast, but the civilian households have not moved much, it is still 60 million, which shows the slackness of officials in official affairs." ”

"Huh."

Everyone sneered twice.

The noble generals of the early Ming Dynasty were not bitter, and few of them had a good impression of officials, so they naturally agreed with Tang Yun's words.

Everyone has explained the plight of military households clearly, but no one has a way to solve it.

In the end, they all looked at Zhu Di and listened to what King Yan had to do.

Zhu Di coughed twice, he hesitated for a long time about this matter, and only made a decision because of the stimulation of his eldest son's 10,000 taels of silver.

"My Imperial Guard can be said to be the extreme of the method of cultivation and warfare, but there is no arable land in the world, and it is bitter cold in all directions."

"Our boss has built a few factories in Beiping, you should have heard of it, and the profits are quite rich."

"There is a shortage of workers to manpower, and the boss said that he can try the method of labor warfare."

"The Law of Warfare?"

The crowd looked at each other and never listened.

"Combined with the health center, the factory can recruit a large number of idle health center population, and you can get wages, and the factory can maintain discipline."

As soon as Zhu Di's words fell, Tang Yun clapped his hands and smiled, "This method is good, but the eldest prince's factory, can it recruit many people?" ”

Only more than 20 people were recruited in the previous round.

Not to mention the Beiping Zhuwei at this scale, only any of the three guards in Yanshan, that is also a drop in the bucket, not worth mentioning.

Zhu Di was also worried, but the boss vowed to recruit more than 2,000 people in one go, and promised to continue to recruit more.

Zhu Di didn't understand the factory.

It's just that the boss has only had results in a few months, which makes Zhu Di have to be convinced.

"Two thousand?"

Compared with the more than 20 people in the previous trip, it has increased a hundred times at once, and everyone took a deep breath and showed excited looks.

Two thousand people can alleviate the problem of Yanshan Sanwei, and it would be nice if there could be more.

"But if 2,000 people are released, will it affect the drill, so that when the soldiers are to be used in the future, they will not be able to use it?"

Zhang Yu had new doubts.

That's the character he is.

I want to be ahead of everything and don't like unexpected trouble.

"We've thought about your worries." Zhu Di smiled: "But you can rest assured, not only will it not affect the exercise, but it will be stricter than before." ”

In this case, everyone spoke out in support.

Isn't there a shortage of manpower in the engineering team?

Provided by military households.

And it is not disorganized, but provided in units of 100 households.

Twenty centurions are formed.

Five centians were assigned to the engineering team, and fifteen hundred-man teams were assigned to the railway engineering team.

(End of chapter)