Peiping.

Thirty miles east of Zhuo County.

Wang Dabing, who is nearly 30 years old, has become a captain, and when he was a teenager, he and his partners often talked about his ambition to become a general when he grew up, and he no longer talked about it.

But did he still have this idea in his heart, when he was a child, he sometimes joked, and when he asked him, Wang Dabing didn't say much about it.

It's not dawn.

Ximei was already busy around the stove.

Two guests came to the house, scholars from the capital, who came to Beiping for research and stayed in their house, not only to entertain guests, but also to leave home and return to the west thousands of miles away.

Ximei, who has a big belly, works very quickly, and today the heads of the other seven families in the area will also come to see off her husband, in order to entertain the guests, Ximei needs to cook a large table of dishes.

The children in the house are still asleep.

is different from other families, because Wang Dabing has been fighting in the West for several years, so the younger couple only has two children, and Wang Dabing's hair children have at least four children, so Wang Dabing worked hard, and Ximei became pregnant with another one.

But this time I gave birth to a baby, I'm afraid Wang Dabing can't be around.

It didn't take long for the mother-in-law and sister-in-law who lived in the next house to come to help, and just steamed a pot of steamed buns, the uncles had already come to the door, including several heads of families in the area, and Fa Xiao, who had a good relationship with Wang Dabing since childhood.

Although Wang Dabing spent less time in his hometown as an adult because he joined the army, because he was a child, Wang Dabing was the head of the local children, and there were many people who came.

Looked at.

Those Wang Dabing's friends went back very conspicuously, asking their mothers-in-law to help, and sent tables and chairs, as well as some food.

The precinct is also a semi-closed society.

If it were normal times, if it wasn't to do things, there would not be so many people from each family, only the heads of each family would come, but today is different, Wang Dabing's house is particularly lively.

The military households have plenty of money and no longer care about petty profits, and the atmosphere has improved.

Being generous depends on money.

So the economy determines many things, including the overall level of morality.

"I heard that Dawa is going to Sasamaland?"

"It's going to be war again."

The old man shook his head, "It's not this, the eldest baby is moving over there?" ”

Wang Dabing's old father was already sitting at the table with several old people, they didn't need to do anything, and they naturally had their own children to work.

These old people are very stylish.

Eight households per well.

Beiping was the first to implement the system of slicing wells, although Zhuozhou is not as early as the surrounding area of Beiping City, but it is not too late, the initial rise of buildings, has become more than 20 buildings.

In the forty or fifty people of that year, those young boys and girls got married and married, although there was no separation, but a new batch of children became lively.

Including Ximei, she also gave birth to two children, because Wang Dabing followed His Majesty the Emperor on the westward expedition for many years, which delayed the birth of children, so that their husband and wife were in the local area, and they could be regarded as having fewer children.

Today, the population of the area has reached more than 120 people, including about 40 children and teenagers.

The descendants got together with Wang Dabing and accompanied the old people.

Everyone looked at Wang Dabing.

Wang Dabing said with a smile: "The guard has been advocating it, and the army is also advocating it, since this is the case, I will also sign up." ”

"The guard advocates, but we don't let go, do the guards dare to force it."

An old man spoke big words.

According to the health center's advocacy, the male of each family must be separated.

These men who come out of the household cannot inherit the family's acres, but the family's wealth can be shared, but they will be arranged to go to new land and obtain new acres.

Not many people want to leave their hometowns.

Life in Beiping is colorful, whether it is a school, leaving such a Beiping, going to a strange borderland, like two worlds of life, often read the newspaper, the military households, know the gap.

Coupled with the heritage of the big family's 100 acres of land, it can still be maintained at present, so there are not many people who respond to Wei's call.

Wang Dabing smiled and didn't argue with the old man.

People are like that.

"You go to that Raush Samarkand, the court always has to give benefits, right?" Someone asked curiously.

Wang Dabing nodded and explained, "It will be divided into three hundred acres of land." ”

"Three hundred acres?"

Everyone said in surprise.

"You can plant 300 acres, but your two boys can't do it, and your daughter-in-law has one in her belly, and you have to go to the barracks, do you want to let the land be barren?"

"There are military households who will help each other."

"Isn't it canceled?"

"It's set up again, but it's not like it used to be, but that's what we call it." Wang Dabing explained very carefully, and said: "However, the 300 acres of land are not as good as the mainland. ”

Fertile land is rare, more hilly and desert.

Half-farming, half-pastoral.

"How can military households help each other?"

"The military household mutual gang has recruited a lot of hired agricultural workers in the local area, and they only need to give food and a little salary, and these expenses will be deducted from the harvest in the field, plus the maintenance expenses of the military household mutual gang, as well as the taxes handed over to the imperial court, and the rest will be their own."

"Isn't that a landlord, better than a landlord."

Someone laughed.

"You kid, don't follow your Uncle Tuesday's mess." An old man quipped.

At that time, some military households in the Beiping area had insufficient labor, and the maintenance government opened an opening to allow military households to use Goryeo and Waguo female workers.

Some of them are tired, and the old Zhou Tou in their area is very happy, there are two Korean female workers at home, so they often quarrel with each other, if it weren't for the fear of fines, the old Zhou Tou's wife would have gone to the guard to sue him.

Fines are not also fines at home, and Lao Zhoutou's wife is reluctant.

In the kitchen, Ximei fried the spoon loudly, it seemed that Ximei was dissatisfied, and people let out joyful laughter.

Two scholars were invited to the table by the elders.

The children are already up.

The children of the workers are tired of school, naughty, and brave and ruthless, and the children of the military families also do not like to study, and often skip school.

After the children of each family got up, they rode their horses and left the house in twos and threes to go to the social school in the health center, and those older children either lived in the state school or stopped studying.

They were all stuffed with a few hot buns by their own mothers.

A breakfast, which lasted a full hour.

People personally bid farewell to Wang Dabing.

Wang Dabing and his second brother rode to the railway station in the city, and after Wang Dabing left the barracks by train, the horse he rode would be led home by the second brother.

A family of two or three horses is the norm.

The two brothers talked a lot on the road.

Livestock could not enter the platform, and after Wang Dabing separated from his younger brother, he entered the platform alone.

He is an active soldier, there is a military waist card hanging on his waist, very eye-catching, the platform provides half-price train tickets, you can go anywhere in Daming, as long as there is a track.

"When most of the people were unwilling, the policies of the imperial court were very implemented."

"Not necessarily."

The two scholars discussed.

The two of them were dressed in Chinese uniforms, and a red peach blossom was sewn on the pocket of the upper left chest, and if there were people who knew the goods, they could know which department the two came from based on the color and appearance of the peach blossom.

Research Division.

The Research Department is a very large department with a variety of organizations, including the Workers' and Peasants' Population Distribution Project Group.

The two stopped arguing about the issue and began to talk about the situation of local military households.

"When it was divided into acres, there was a lot of blank space, and now the military households rely on the scraps of wasteland, which is also an additional supplement, but this is contrary to His Royal Highness the Prince's idea."

Each household has five to six people, and one hundred acres of land.

Cultivate 70 acres to ensure the existence of nature, leave room for wild beasts to live, let people understand the principle of competition with nature, and not degenerate into a civilized species that even cockroaches dare not step on.

In addition, the use of agricultural machinery not only guarantees the economic foundation of the military households, but also strengthens the physical fitness of the military households, as well as the great development of agricultural efficiency, and finally has the consumption capacity, forming a circular system of economic development.

The former is the necessary economic foundation for an agricultural society to enter an industrial society, so the average land is now less than seven acres, and when the new generation grows up, their reproduction will greatly reduce this number of acres.

Society is changing, not eternal, like a boat on a river.

Ten years ago it might have been like this, Megatron, and ten years later it might be like that again, decaying.

"The agricultural population still accounts for the largest proportion in the Ming society, and if the problem of the agricultural population cannot be solved, then the foundation of economic development will lead to bankruptcy."

"The policy of separating military households in the area has become an urgent matter."

"I'm afraid that this move will make most of the military households dissatisfied, and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not dare to decide this matter rashly."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has done many things.

Whether it is against the nobles, or against the private commercial houses, or even against the Daming Industry Bureau, etc., everything is an incredible action, but each of them has made His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suppress.

By what?

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's great prestige among the military households.

The swallow picture hanging in the main hall of each house is the biggest support of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Why won't even the emperor fight with His Royal Highness the Prince, in addition to the deep love between father and son, His Royal Highness the Prince's prestige is too great, and even surpassed Emperor Taizu, and the military household is the basic plate of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Don't look at Emperor Taizu's very harsh treatment of the founding heroes, but the treatment given by Emperor Taizu to the founding nobles is very high, and each noble has a successor to inherit their glory, which can be said to be a bit excessive.

Therefore, the basic plate of Emperor Taizu is still the founding nobles.

Through the nobles, the armed forces were mastered.

But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince chose decentralization to combat the blood-sucking situation of the elite forces on the people, so he also needed his basic plate, and finally fell on the military households.

"Although there are many soldiers like Wang Dabing, the base of military households is too small."

"Ten years."

"In about ten years, the current consumption power of military households will be hollowed out because of the adulthood of the new generation, and the area will lose its role in regulating the economic system."

After completing their research in Beiping, the two scholars returned to the capital.

The phenomenon in Peiping is enough to summarize the military household organizations in various localities.

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The population of Shaanxi Province has recovered to 5 million.

Through the Hexi Corridor, enter the Province of the Western Regions, as well as the Province of Yili Li. The population of the Western Regions Province also exceeds 1 million, while the population of the Yili Province is currently less than 500,000.

According to the imperial court's plan, the total population of the Western Regions Province and the Yili Province should reach 2 million, and the current shortfall is still 500,000.

It also strives to put the inside and outside the province.

The Han Chinese mainly gathered in Samarkand and Bukhara.

Tashkent Propaganda Division, Barihei Propaganda Division, Mulu Propaganda Division, Mashhad Propaganda Division and other places, the main population is still local, estimated to have a population of 10 million, large and small kingdoms hundreds.

Most of the kingdoms, which were now nominally subordinate to the Ming court, made offerings to Samarkand every year during the period of the Timurid Khanate.

The Ming garrisoned a total of 50,000 troops in the local area, of which less than 300,000 were relocated.

When Timur was alive, the population of the entire Timurid Khanate was about 28.5 million, and such a population was, of course, not in the actual control territory, but in the total population of various kingdoms.

It includes Central and West Asia, and even parts of Eastern Europe.

At present, the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty stop in Central Asia, as far as Mashhad, in front of the door of West Asia, and if you want to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Central Asia, the Ming Dynasty needs to relocate at least 500,000 people in order to do it.

At this stage.

Because the Ming Dynasty promoted the kingship in the local area, there was a violent conflict.

Even the governors of the Delhi Sultanate were ready to threaten the rule of the Ming Dynasty in southern Central Asia, and after Timur captured Delhi, although they had no choice but to withdraw due to the local resistance, the governors of the Delhi Sultanate also became independent and became large and small warlords.

Compared with the unified sultanate, such a warlord autonomous kingdom is more difficult to govern, so the main direction of the Ming army is still to govern Samarkand.

The leaders of Almaty attacked the local Ming army camp.

When the Ming army marched westward, it considered two routes, one was along the Ili River Valley, and the other was along the Tianshan Valley, passing through the Tianshan Grand Canyon, and finally chose the Ili River Valley.

Almaty is the gateway to the Ili River valley and the Tien Shan valley.

Later, the Siberian Cossack army from Omsk, Russia, built a castle in the area at the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains, named Zailiysky, and a year later changed its name to Verny, and in the second half of the 19th century, it became the administrative center of the Central Asian Governorate of Tsarist Russia.

It was Almaty that was later the largest city in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan is a sparsely populated country with a total area of nearly 3 million square kilometers, but a population of just over 19 million people.

Its population tends to be very concentrated, mainly in the Ili Valley, and the city of Almaty alone is home to more than two million people.

During the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions Protectorate was established, and the Central Plains Dynasty began to rule the present-day Xinjiang region for the first time, and at that time, the Ili River valley was also suitable for agriculture, so the Almaty region also became the territory of the Han Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Turks came to the Ili River Valley, merged with the local Wusun people, and became the rulers of the Ili River Valley.

Later, the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks and re-established the Anxi and Anbei Protectorates, and Almaty remained under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The climate in Central Asia is very arid and rainless, which makes Central Asia a "natural pasture" for nomadic peoples.

Just like the natural dividing line between the Central Plains and the steppe nomads in ancient China, a region with such a climate is definitely not suitable for the development of farming culture and farming people.

However, there is a slight difference between Central Asia and the Mongolian steppe, that is, in the scattered oases and narrow areas near the rivers in Central Asia, there are actually some areas suitable for agriculture.

Therefore, agriculture in the Almaty region provides a lot of productivity for the local area, and it is also the richest place in the surrounding area.

Of course, the Ming army will not miss here.

More than 10,000 Han Chinese who migrated to Almaty lived in Almaty, and relied on the supply of the hinterland, as well as the systematic organization and advanced agricultural tools and technology, to cultivate one acre after another.

The military household gangs are the organizers of the local productive forces.

In addition to bringing a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, and camels, a large number of local people were recruited to provide food and wages for the locals to supplement the shortage of labor of the Han people.

Systematic management has brought efficient labor results.

Soon the local chiefs felt threatened.

The Han people are too good at farming.

Their acres were multiplied every year, and the construction of the ditches was made more efficient by the plowshare-like machines powered by steam wagons, steam engines, and ropes pulled in the ditches.

Over the course of a few years, the Han people built a lot of infrastructure, especially water conservancy projects, diverted water from the lakes, and planted trees.

They divided the fields into large fields.

It was stipulated that each household should raise a certain number of cattle and sheep not to exceed the load of the land, and through water conservancy projects, more acres of land were cultivated, and the military household mutual gangs absorbed the local poor.

In less than ten or twenty years, the local chiefs will be threatened by the Han Chinese.

If the contradiction in the Mashhad region is a contradiction between civilizations, then the contradiction in the Almaty region is a contradiction between the ecological environment and the productive forces.

Comparison of productive forces between advanced civilizations and backward civilizations.

Undoubtedly, an advanced civilization will defeat a backward civilization.

Therefore, since ancient times, the expansion of Chinese civilization has been unswerving, not mainly relying on war to conquer places, but gradually encroaching through production and digestion.

When the competition for productivity is not good, it will be war.

Chinese civilization does not like war.

Because productivity is the means to be invincible.

Therefore, it can often be seen through historical books that the Central Plains Dynasty often only had very low demands for various ministries, and it was good for each ministry to remain stable.

Traditional farming is harder than industry.

A nation that can grow flowers on barren land, even if it is changed to industrial struggle, is bound to be excellent and great, which is the result determined by the attributes of civilization.

There are pros and cons to everything.

The common people seek stability and do not like disorder.

The local Ming army's friendly tactics led them to passivity, and the leaders of Almaty raided and killed dozens of civilians in the settlement, and robbed the settlement of all supplies, and finally set a fire.

When the Ming army arrived, all they saw was a piece of ruins.

The general from Senan Province was unusually angry.

This is his defense zone.

His Majesty the Emperor was about to arrive in Yili Province, which was only three thousand miles away, and Huo Zhen didn't know how His Majesty the Emperor would punish him, but he showed a vicious gaze.

(End of chapter)