"Second brother, now that there is an outbreak of alien beasts, the guano business that Biao'er set up for you can't be done? How is your family now? Can the income and expenditure be balanced?" In the middle of this military meeting, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly spoke
asked.
Xu Da was stunned when he heard this. Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't called him his second brother for a long time...
But soon he said calmly: "What's wrong with the balance? The salary your Majesty has given us is high enough, and there are also various benefits and natural resources. Our family still has more than 3,000 acres of land. What now?
It's all mechanized and requires a lot less manpower, so we can make a living just relying on these fields."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, believing that Xu Da was telling the truth.
But he also knew that Xu Da did not tell the whole truth.
Xu's family has a big business, and the family's expenses are not small.
What's more, now that martial arts is prosperous, younger generations like them all want to practice martial arts, which is another big expense.
Now that powerful institutions like the Metropolitan Procuratorate are keeping an eye on it, there is no opportunity for corruption, bribery, expropriation, or land annexation. Therefore, if you say you are rich, you are indeed rich, but you do not have those who bought and sold in the early Ming Dynasty and took advantage of the east wind of industrialization.
The businessmen and factory owners who are at the forefront are rich.
"Old Chang, where is your family?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again.
"Hey, it's all the same!"
"I think it's much more moisturizing than before." Chang Yuchun said with a smile.
What he said is true. The increase in productivity brought about by the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty allowed the entire society to accumulate wealth.
From the princes and princes down to the common people, everyone is benefiting from it and their lives are getting better.
"But I feel a little unhappy in my heart, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.
Everyone was silent for a while after hearing this, and finally Chang Yuchun said: "Since His Majesty asked, we won't hide it."
"Brothers mainly feel that there is some imbalance in their hearts. Although we have no worries about food, clothing and money, we can only do this. On the contrary, the temptations in society are getting bigger and bigger."
"I don't know about other military regions. Anyway, in the southern military region where I am located, ninth-grade military attachés have begun to resign voluntarily. After investigation, I found that they were poached by some factory owners."
"Although the welfare benefits in our military are good, the benefits offered by those people are even better."
"Some of the shallow-eyed ones just ran away."
"There are not many such things now, but I'm afraid there will be more and more in the future."
"I have heard about these things. Those who leave are basically those who have no hope of promotion and want to make a fortune for their families."
"Now that the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more developed, various restrictions on the military have been lifted. This kind of thing is normal."
"But we will make them understand that their choice is wrong."
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at everyone present, pointed to the world map in front of him and said: "Have you seen this world map? After we have completely conquered the world this time, we will conduct a Lord Award."
"Give those soldiers who fought in all directions for our Ming Dynasty a land to live and settle down, so that they will have no worries when they fight for us in the future."
"To put it more clearly, the land in this world, except for the Ming Dynasty, is reserved for the generals in the army who have fought for us for decades. From the king to the smallest sergeant in the army, we will allocate the land.
, and even if he dies after the division, the land will belong to his son and grandson. As long as he does not sell it, the land will always belong to their family and will be protected by the laws of the Ming Dynasty."
Upon hearing this, Xu Da and others' eyes lit up, and their breathing began to become rapid at the same time.
What is the most precious wealth in this world?
There is no doubt that it is land.
Factories will close down due to poor management, wealth will disappear, and only the land can continuously produce crops.
This is family business.
Especially for Chinese people, their attachment to land is deep in their bones.
If this news spreads, the entire Ming Dynasty New Army officers at all levels will definitely go crazy with excitement.
"Second brother, you are a third-class king, and you have made several great contributions since then. We have kept these in mind. I will not mention your title to you, but I will give you more land, and this world map will be
Here, you can choose for yourself, I will give you one hundred thousand hectares of land first."
Xu Da felt that his heart was about to stop beating.
What is the concept of one hundred thousand hectares of land? This is already equivalent to the size of a county.
He will own all the land in a county, which Xu Da would not have dared to think about before.
And now that farming has achieved preliminary industrialization, the manpower required has been greatly reduced. If Zhu Yuanzhang really granted him a hundred thousand hectares of land, it would be equivalent to granting him a golden mountain that would always produce gold on its own.
From now on, he no longer has to worry about his family's livelihood.
"The same goes for you, Lao Chang, and Qi Jiguang. You will also be included in the Ming Dynasty's Lord system in the future. Of course, you won't be able to keep up with the land allocation this time. Let's do it next time!"
"In the future, the Lord's land sealing will be customized and will be done every ten years to ensure that all soldiers who serve the country can get the land they deserve and have no worries..."
"Of course, it's just a land grant. I don't care what you plant, but you still have to pay taxes. Do you understand?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.
"Understood!" This time everyone responded with a particularly loud voice.
This closed-door military meeting lasted for two full hours.
No one knows what the specific content is except the generals involved.
But Lu Fang and Huang Jin, who were guarding the gate, could clearly feel that when these generals walked out of the hall, the expressions on their faces were filled with excitement and impatience.
Apparently Zhu Yuanzhang made another exciting promise to everyone.
And soon, when these generals conveyed the contents of the meeting layer by layer, the officers and soldiers of the three major battalions of the capital who had just been purged by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty also began to get excited.
Everyone is gearing up and preparing to work hard for the bright future of Ming Dynasty and themselves.
And at the same time that the army was mobilized by Zhu Yuanzhang,
The three reform methods proposed by Zhu Biao were quickly promoted from the central to local levels.
It is different from the original Zhang Juzheng reforms in history.
At that time, Zhang Juzheng was fighting alone. He was like a lone fighter, fighting against the entire Ming Dynasty system, the gentry, the bureaucracy, and even the imperial power.
He knew he couldn't do anything but did it, and he did it to the end of his life for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Juzheng is a hero, and his reforms were tragic and full of blood and tears.
But now reform is no longer Zhang Juzheng’s business alone.
Yan Song and Xu Jie were pushed to the front, while Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong, who were really doing the work, disappeared behind the scenes. In this way, the backlash they suffered was much smaller.
As for Yan Song and Xu Jie, they were the targets that Zhu Yuanzhang set up for the world's gentry.
Its function is to attract firepower and prevent Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong's reforms from being disturbed by these people.
The results of this are also remarkable, both the examination method and the one-whip method are being advanced in an orderly manner.
Even the new Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes began to be gradually promoted in this dimension.
However, the integrated grain payment policy, which touched the greatest interests of the officials and gentry, was still hindered. Just as Gao Gong had worried before, this policy was collectively resisted by all local officials once it was implemented.
When they discovered that the imperial court was determined to implement this policy, 30% of the officials immediately signed up and left to express their determination to refuse to cooperate in the implementation of this policy.
And as this policy became more and more popular, more and more officials began to abandon their posts.
Xu Yuan is one of these people.
He was originally a seventh-rank official, and his family was a landowner in Nanzhili. His family owned tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.
His monthly salary as an official was only a few taels of silver, but the tax revenue from his family's thousands of acres of fertile land in one year was more than his salary in a hundred years as an official.
How could he support such a policy.
The first time he heard about the so-called policy of paying grain to both officials and gentry, he immediately hung up his official seal and voluntarily resigned and went home.
Moreover, he also actively called his friends and informed his fellow villagers, party members, and colleagues, and everyone agreed to resign in protest to the court.
In Xu Yuan's view, as long as there are enough officials who resign, the court will naturally take back their orders.
After all, Ming Dynasty still needs them to govern.
Besides, as scholar-officials, they rule the world together with the Holy One. They can also be regarded as half-masters of the Ming Dynasty. Is there any reason in this world to collect taxes from the masters?
This makes no sense.
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew very well what these people thought.
Zhu Yuanzhang gave answers to their demands with actions.
He first dispatched officials from the early Ming Dynasty to take over the positions of these resigned officials, and then directly sent Jin Yiwei to arrest all these officials.
The Three Law Divisions judged them as dereliction of duty, and their fate was to be exiled for ten thousand miles.
When receiving the result of the trial, all the officials who abandoned their offices and returned home were shocked.
The furthest distance of exile in the Ming Dynasty was only three thousand miles, and they were already exiled to the ends of the earth. What the hell is this exile of ten thousand miles?
And the imperial court is really brave!
Now that 60% of the officials have resigned, does the imperial court really want to send 60% of the Ming Dynasty officials directly into exile to guard the border?
Who will manage the Ming Dynasty for Your Majesty then?
Zhu Yuanzhang obviously did not need them to answer this question, and they would soon have no time to think about it, because they would soon understand the true meaning of being exiled for ten thousand miles.
Xu Yuan was eventually reorganized and assigned to a new Ming army.
Then these new troops left the Ming Dynasty on warships and sailed into the ocean.
Two months later, he appeared on a completely unfamiliar land.
"Where is this?" Xu Yuan looked around blankly after getting off the boat.
However, at this moment, a group of yellow-skinned native Indians wearing animal skins and holding wooden sticks gathered around them in the distance with curious faces.
"Mr. Xu, the rest is up to you."
"Your mission is to spread the light of Ming civilization throughout the Americas and turn the Americans into my Ming subjects..." A general smiled and patted Xu Yuan's shoulder and spoke.