Chapter 016: The First Fire Burns

Dengzhou Wei's left Qiansu, the middle hundred, can also be shown as the guard company of the battalion commander of the thousand households. The original Baihu official was Gao Wang's nephew Gao Yuan, and when he resigned, Gao Yuan also followed the seal, accompanied by more than 20 family soldiers from Gao Wang.

Cheng Shijie was very aware of the responsibilities and responsibilities of the hundred households, and then he looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "Mingyu, you are here to be the official of the hundred households." ”

"Xie Dongjia, Xie Qianhu!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Let the book come over!" ”

The secretary is the tuntian of the thousand households, as well as the training of the troops, and can be regarded as the deputy of the thousand households. Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu should theoretically have a deputy Qianhu, but the predecessor Qianhu Gao Wang is very strong, and Han Wenfei, a hereditary deputy Qianhu who is over sixty years old, has been ill for half a year, even if Cheng Shijie, the new Qianhu, takes office, he still does not come.

As the saying goes, if you have no desire, you don't want to ask for anything, as long as he doesn't want to take power and is unwilling to do things, Cheng Shijie has no way to deal with him, and the promotion or punishment at the level of deputy Qianhu is no longer Cheng Shijie's turn to manage. Of course, Cheng Shijie has the right to make suggestions to the commander and envoy, but he does not have the right to dispose of it.

The current book is called Zhang Ruyi, a skinny little old man, similar to Shen Mingyu back then, and Cheng Shijie can't tell his age from his appearance.

Liu Mingyu met many people during this time, except for the command of the envoy in Dengzhouwei, he saw more than a dozen fat men with collagen on their faces.

"Humble and humble Zhang Ruyi to meet Lord Qianhu!"

"Zhang Ruyi, you can introduce the situation of Zuo Qianhu to this Qianhu!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Ruyi's eloquence is not bad, and he explained the basic situation of Zuo Qianhu clearly in just a few words.

There are now 7,485 households in Zuoqianhu, all of which are military households, with a total of 14,857 people, belonging to 1000 households.

Cheng Shijie was surprised: "So many people? ”

In fact, Cheng Shijie thought that there were 1,120 people in a thousand households, but he would have thought that the population was more than ten times larger.

"The adults of the thousand households don't know that when the population of the left thousand households was the largest, when it was the Jiajing Dynasty, there were more than 54,000 people in the entire thousand households."

"So, there are more than 30,000 people missing? Where are the people? ”

"Some died, some escaped, the weather is dry today, and the grain harvest in our thousands of households is going to be in arrears, I don't know how many people will starve to death!"

"How many military fields are there in Qianhuwei!"

Zhang Ruyi turned around and went out, and after a while, he brought over a huge box: "It's all here, with a total of more than 23,000 mu of military land, less than two mu of land per capita, all of which are inferior fields." ”

Cheng Shijie also lamented that Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention in setting up the guard post system was to hide soldiers from the people, so that each guard post could train while engaged in production, and that if he picked up a hoe, he would be a farmer, and if he picked up a weapon, he would be a soldier, and he would be self-sufficient, and he would open up more land and increase grain harvest without affecting the national defense force.

His intentions were good, and for this reason, he set a death rule, once he entered the army, his descendants would be in the army, and those who escaped from the guard would cut off their ears and noses at best, and behead at worst! At the beginning, the guard system did play a huge role, not to mention making great contributions to maintaining local law and order, and handed over tens of millions of stone grain to the treasury every year, and at most in the Yongle Dynasty, all the guards of the Ming Dynasty could provide more than 23 million stone grain taxes for the imperial court.

These achievements prove that Zhu Yuanzhang is right, but unfortunately, he didn't realize that nothing is immutable, and when Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the two strongmen, fell, everything slowly changed.

The soldiers of the guard were cultivating less and less land, bearing heavier and heavier taxes and servitude, and finally fled one after another, and in order to encroach on more military land, the generals of the guard even encouraged or forced the soldiers to flee.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the guard had completely lost its original function, not only did not have a grain of grain handed over to the state treasury, but the state also had to allocate a large amount of money and grain to feed the millions of vulnerable officers and soldiers of the guard.

Cheng Shijie has now become a landlord, and more than 23,000 acres of land are his, he looked at Zhang Ruyi and said, "How much grain is there in the Qianhu House now?" ”

"There is no grain, the grain harvested last autumn has already sold out to thousands of households! Now the granary, even rats don't want to go in! ”

"How can there be no food?"

Cheng Shijie feels that Gao Wang is really a pig's brain, and now that there is a drought year after year, why don't you reserve grain?

Zhang Ruyi smiled bitterly: "After the autumn, Gao Qianhu sold the grain, and only left two or three hundred catties of gross grain for each military household, where is there enough food to eat!" Everyone is desperately saving, only eating one meal a day, a meal of wild vegetables and a porridge of miscellaneous grains, just like that, it still doesn't work, there is still nearly a month before the autumn harvest, more than 20 people have starved to death, I don't know how many people will starve to death! ”

The plan can never catch up with the changes, Cheng Shijie was originally going to take advantage of Gao Wang's retirement, this bastard took away everything Zuo Qianhu could take, and bought some food with his own money, which could win people's hearts.

Now the best rice grain in Dengzhou is only five yuan of silver, even if each person is given one stone of grain, that is, the expenditure of five hundred taels of silver, Cheng Shijie can afford to spend it.

But the problem is that there are more than 14,800 people in Zuoqianhu, which means that if each person is given one stone of grain, it will cost 3,000 taels of silver.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie became angry: "Look forward to this bastard!" ”

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhang Ruyi and said, "We don't have any more capable of fighting?" ”

Zhang Ruyi asked puzzledly, "What does Lord Qianhu mean ......?"

"There are only a few dozen people in the middle 100 households, and the 1,000 households should be drawn from the whole 1,000 households to enrich the middle 100 households!"

"The Lord of a Thousand Households wants to recruit family soldiers?"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Notice, this thousand households will recruit family soldiers, eat enough every day, and give one or two silver every month!" ”

"Yes!"

After Zhang Ruyi left, Song Kangnian smiled: "Lord Qianhu wants to ......"

"If you don't kill Gao Wang, this bastard, this thousand households will not be able to sleep well!"

All along, Cheng Shijie has been cautious and humble in life. But when he saw the situation in Dengzhou Zuoqianhu, he was like being in an ice cellar.

An army, which was raised to be called Hanako, looked at those soldiers with dead faces, it was really miserable, there was no iron armor in the entire thousand households, only less than fifty rusty fire guns, these fire guns did not know if they could be fired, and more than half of the soldiers in the whole thousand households did not even have a decent pair of pants.

Such an army may not be able to take advantage of the homeless people, can the soldiers be blamed for not being brave?

Can this blame the soldiers for being disloyal to the monarch and the country?

It's all bullshit, if such an army can win the war, then it's hell, but the problem is that the Ming Dynasty relied on these armies to survive from the Wanli year to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, internal and external troubles, natural and man-made disasters.

When Cheng Shijie sent someone to inform all the elites of the Thousand Households that he was going to recruit family soldiers, he also asked people to cook in the Thousand Households Mansion, and even if a few hundred people lived in the Thousand Households, it would not be a problem for the three houses to be very large.

The soldiers of the middle hundred households were gathered and told them to cook, that is, they washed the rice, put it in a pot to boil porridge, and threw any radish, dried meat, salt, and vegetables into the pot.

More than thirty cauldrons soon came out of the smell of food, and these young people who were already hungry were looking forward to it.

As night approached, the gates of the thousand houses were densely packed with volunteers and elites.

Shen Mingyu stood at the door, with a Tang straight knife hanging from his waist.

"Do you want to eat a full meal?"

"Yes!"

"Thousands of households don't raise waste, and if you want to eat enough, then you have to see if you have the ability!"

A tall man walked over, his bones and joints were thick, his muscles were also very developed, and he looked very strong, but in fact, this was just an illusion. This is a man who carries a bag at the dock, carrying a bag is very hard, heavy manual labor has polished a strong body for them, but because the nutrition can not keep up, they will soon dry up their essence and blood, at most in their thirties began to bend over their backs, and they exhausted their vitality at the age of forty, and they can live to be fifty years old, and those who can live to sixty years old are called old birthday stars.

Shen Mingyu suddenly raised his leg and kicked towards the strong man.

The strong man took a hard kick, and his body only shook, but he did not take half a step back.

"Okay, you count one, go in and eat!"

The man said: "It's really full!" ”

"A spit and a nail!"

"I have a lot of food!"

"Eat as much as you want, be careful not to be strangled!"

The strong man raised his legs and entered the house of a thousand households.

"Who else?"