Zhu Yuanzhang saw that everyone was coming, and asked,

"How can the number of elderly households in the two state capitals in Henan be so different?

DID YOU KNOW? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's words seem to be asking everyone,

But the direction of the eyes is the book of the military department,

Seeing that the secretary of the military department frowned, Zhu Yuanzhang motioned to Xu Sima to step forward with his eyes, and brought the data of the survey of the number of elderly households in his hand to the secretary of the military department.

The military department Shangshu took it with both hands and thanked Xu Sima,

He looked down.

Regarding the issue of Daming's household registration, I didn't ask the household department book, but asked the military department book, which looks a little strange.

But, in fact, there is no problem,

The household department holds the household registration of the people, while the military department holds the household registration of the military department.

What's more, it's the early years of the Ming Dynasty,

The state capitals are full of governors' offices, and the soldiers of these governors are all in the military ranks.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that when there was no war in the Governor's Mansion, he stipulated that the ratio of the number of Tuntian and the number of soldiers preparing for war was eight to two.

But the actual situation is that in addition to the Governor's Mansion in Beijing, almost every soldier in the other prefecture capitals needs Tuntian.

Tuntian is their main task.

For example, in the conquest of Liaodong and Korea, the soldiers and horses transferred by the generals were all transferred from the Jingzhong Governor's Office.

The soldiers and horses of Jingdong Prefecture are the most combative.

As for the borders of which are defended by the king of Cyprus, who have their own soldiers and horses,

So just like Ru Taisu said, if Lao Zhu wants to understand this, if he asks the household department if he understands, he has to ask the military department.

The military department really didn't pay attention to this situation, but since His Majesty asked about himself, he could only think about the military system.

Looking at Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion again, the military department seems to understand.

"Your Majesty, there is actually a difference between the two places."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed,

Asked

"What is the difference, can send so many old people?"

Shen Jin, the secretary of the military department, said respectfully,

"Your Majesty, Runing Mansion is close to the Huai River."

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, and then became even more enlightened.

The words of Ru Taisu, the secretary of the household department, and the words of Shen Jin, the secretary of the military department,

It adds up to the answer.

This shows that Lao Zhu's previous thinking is fine,

At the same time, he called the secretary of the household department, the secretary of the military department, and the governor of the metropolitan government.

This matter is inseparable from these three people.

Shen Jin, the secretary of the military department, continued,

"Your Majesty,

The income from the cultivation of the soldiers of the Governor's Mansion must be handed over to the imperial court, and then the military department will allocate one stone of grain per month, which is twelve stones a year.

Henan is a grain warehouse, the hinterland of the Central Plains, and Runing Mansion is close to the Huai River, which is the important place of Cao Yun, so its main thing is farming.

The arable land in Runing Mansion is not barren, the grain yield is high, and there are many people, so there are naturally more old people.

And on the contrary,

The capital of Nanyang Mansion, near the land route, is an important place for the king of the border to borrow troops,

According to the regulations of the Ming military system, the king of Cyprus can transfer the soldiers and horses of the governor's mansion, but the transferred soldiers and horses will have to go to battle, and there is no time to farm.

If they don't farm and don't pay grain, they won't have one stone a month.

Therefore, after being transferred out, they could only spend the price of eight stones a year, hire someone to farm the land, and score four stones for themselves.

However, this is also half of the money, and the lower half of the savings will simply take the military expenses of the king of Cyprus, and the land of the original state capital will be barren.

Nanyang Mansion can't collect land every year, and it has to share the same taxes as Runing Mansion.

10,000 cents is also that money, and 100 people are also those money.

Although His Royal Highness the Holy Sun has pushed a whip law, the situation of Nanyang Mansion is difficult to reverse.

There are fewer and fewer people, and there are naturally fewer old people. ”

Shen Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said a lot, but he completely explained this matter.

To put it simply,

The same place does not have a fate,

Runing Mansion has to be lucky, and the soldiers of the government are farming at full power,

If the grain yield is high, the policy is good, and there are more people, there will be more elderly people.

The Ming Dynasty wars were frequent, and the soldiers of the Nanning Prefecture were transferred from time to time.

As soon as the government soldiers were transferred, part of the fields in the military camp were short, there was little food, there were few people, and there were fewer old people.

Speaking of which, the key is still in the military system of this prefecture.

Other words

Obviously,

The government military system is a little out of place.

Farming is farming, fighting is fighting, mixing these two things together, for the Ming Dynasty, which is now developing rapidly, is a bit outdated.

Of course

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the government military system made great contributions.

Not only in the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that at the beginning of the founding of many dynasties, they all took the route of ploughing and warfare, which was manifested in the existence of government soldiers.

Farming in leisure time, fighting in wartime.

Before Liao Jinyuan entered the Central Plains, it was basically this battle mode, and the Mongols' thousand-household system was a production organization and a combat unit.

It can ensure extremely high combat effectiveness and production at the same time.

However, there is no one-and-done system, and now the government and military system of the Ming Dynasty has entered a state of suspension.

They don't need to fight a war, but sometimes they have to be transferred when they are short of people, which makes them not understand the battle and the land in the end.

Moreover, it is now the twentieth year of Hongwu, that is to say, it has been twenty years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the original government soldiers have already been replaced.

In the past, the government soldiers were really able to do it, farming in their spare time, and directly changing their hoes to bows and arrows in wartime, maintaining extremely high combat effectiveness.

But the current government soldiers are not good, and there are even many government soldiers who have not even been on the battlefield, and as time goes by, they will lose their combat effectiveness more and more.

The main battle of the government soldiers is a farming war, if you don't even have combat effectiveness, I might as well directly allocate the land of the military camp to the peasants to plant, why bother to keep the government soldiers?

So

The government soldiers in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the government soldiers of Hongwu and Yongle age,

Except that they are all called government soldiers, they have nothing in common.

The government soldiers in the middle of the Ming Dynasty were completely ineffective.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of dilemma was also encountered, and the government soldiers became more and more wasted, and it was better to use them to farm the land than to use the peasants directly.

The solution given by the Tang Dynasty was,

Changed the conscripts to professional soldiers.

directly dismiss the government soldiers and withdraw their civil registration,

Then use the money of the imperial court to hire professional soldiers, just be responsible for the war, and don't care about the rest, and you don't need to farm.

This method is very good, and it can be said that it completely solves the problems existing in the government military system.

Xu Sima's eyes flashed, and he asked at the right time,

"Your Majesty, but you want to change to a mercenary?"

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head,

I don't see that I agree, I still don't agree,

Just lost in thought.