Chapter 54 Food, Military Reform and Operation Thunder!
The Ming Dynasty's countless luxury ornaments and various arms were very popular with the Annan nobles and the Portuguese and Spanish.
The terrifying combat effectiveness of Zheng Zhilong's navy and the Ming Dynasty's new army also prevented these people from having other thoughts.
So all grain transactions go smoothly!
The people of the Ming Dynasty exchanged countless supplies for the food of the Annan and Nanyang people in the south.
As for the Little Ice Age, whether the people of Annam and Nanyang could eat well, eat well, and whether they starved to death was none of the business of the nobles and colonists.
All in all, the grain trade is going fast!
But money is consumed too quickly.
Even with the selfless dedication of the feudal lord, even if Miaoqu Pavilion produced countless fine industrial products, they could not withstand the consumption of Ming Dynasty's money.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen was forced to be a villain again by Chen Mu.
Zhu Youjian looked at the document in his hand, panting and looking excited.
"Master Hou, do you really want to take action against the military household?"
Chen Mu gnawed on the watermelon grown in the greenhouse and nodded silently: "You don't feel right?"
Zhu Youjian was a little worried: "There are as many as two million guards in the world! If one of them is bad, the world will be in chaos!"
Chen Mu chuckled: "How do you compare with the feudal lord?"
Zhu Youjian paced back and forth: "It's different, the world's health centers are too scattered."
"A military order to take the school exam will solve the problem."
Zhu Youjian was still a little undecided.
boom!
Chen Mu directly smashed the watermelon into Chongzhen's face.
Chongzhen screamed in pain.
"Are you going to fuck your special girl?"
"I..." Zhu Youjian looked at Chen Mu's cold expression, clamped his legs and trembled violently.
"Do it, do it naturally!"
The first year of Chongzhen, the end of April.
The new army compiled by the Ming Dynasty suddenly moved on a large scale.
In addition to the 10,000 sergeants guarding the capital, the other newly-organized new troops were divided into nine groups with the help of four-wheeled carriages and headed towards the important town of Ming Dynasty and the companion capital of Jinling.
At the same time, Wei Zhongxian and Dongchang Fanzi, who had been leisurely for more than ten days, also received an order: anti-corruption!
This anti-corruption campaign mainly targets the nobles of the Ming Dynasty and the generals of the hereditary guards of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why they targeted the generals of the Ming Dynasty was naturally because they had trained 100,000 new troops.
The firepower that surpasses this era is completely crushing against the warriors of the old era.
The Ninth Route New Army worked hard and finally arrived at the important border defense towns before June 1st.
Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty Weekly took action and issued two imperial edicts at the same time.
The first of the two imperial edicts is innovation.
Starting from July 1, the first year of Chongzhen, all military households in the Ming Dynasty were cancelled. The recruitment of soldiers was officially held using the recruitment system!
All the land in the guardhouse will be transferred to the Ming Dynasty, and the military households can rent it for free. Even if the tax holiday ends, the rent will be half cheaper than other land in the Ming Dynasty.
As for the land owned by generals, it is based on their official positions. The land that has been corrupted will be inspected and the excess will be given a small amount of compensation. The corrupted portion will be directly confiscated and returned to the public!
All generals and soldiers who want to serve as soldiers need to pass the test before they can continue to serve as the new army of the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the hereditary, middle and low-level personnel of the guard from being unable to adapt to social life, they can be provided with conditions for transformation and re-employment. Jiubian Important Town
You need to undergo reorganization and training before you can rejoin the team.
The second imperial edict is an anti-corruption announcement.
In the more than 260 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the military establishment has been corrupted, the nobles have suffered from cholera, and the soldiers and systems that once protected the country have gradually turned into bad governance.
In order to make the Ming Dynasty permanent, an anti-corruption plan has been launched. All Ming Guard generals whose corruption reaches a certain scale will have their titles revoked, and those who have committed the most heinous crimes will undergo lifelong reform through labor.
If you want hereditary generals to have a chance to be punished, then follow the feudal king and set out for the New World!
After that, any soldier who reports corruption to his superiors can be promoted. Those with outstanding performance can be promoted to three levels in a row!
As soon as the imperial edict was issued, the hereditary generals in the guard stations all over the world, thousands or hundreds of households, were in an uproar with their little flags, but the eyes of the military households in the guard stations were gleaming.
The health system system customized by Zhu Taizu was very good in the early stage.
It is a pity that the guardhouse in the later period became the private reserve of the hereditary generals of the Ming Dynasty.
The border defense is not bad, but the lives of the military households in the inland guard posts are worse than those of tenant farmers.
Now that I heard His Majesty the Emperor's reform of the guard system, I naturally welcomed it.
This is a battle between those who have vested interests and those who have immediate losses in Ming Dynasty.
Naturally, the generals in the hereditary garrison resisted.
Unfortunately, the fighting power of the Nine Route New Army was too fierce. The fire of resistance was easily extinguished before it was ignited.
At last count, Xungui and Jiangmen sacrificed more than 7,000 innocent lives to prove the powerful combat effectiveness of the new army.
Jinling, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, did not cause any chaos and was easily controlled!
Eighty percent of Wei Guogong's property and land, which was in charge of Jinling, were confiscated.
All the descendants of the Jinling lineage were forced to move to the New World America with the vassal king!
Countless nobles who had made people angry and committed many evil deeds were controlled by the new army.
These parties must work their entire lives to gain the opportunity for redemption.
The property of nobles and generals was confiscated, and those who returned to the public were confiscated. This innovation allowed the Ming Dynasty officials to once again obtain 40 million acres of land and seize 150 million taels of gold and silver.
Capture corrupt Ming Dynasty nobles, hereditary generals, and their families totaling 70,000 people.
They will either follow the feudal king to the New World and open up the world.
Either stay in Ming Dynasty and undergo labor reform day and night, there is no choice!
Chapter completed!