After returning to Chengdu, Zhu Youxiao formally organized the white pole soldiers under Qin Liangyu into the Yulin Army Right Guard Army Town.
In addition, the chieftain soldiers who participated in the war and directly sent troops to assist the court in suppressing the rebellion were also incorporated.
From then on, their identities and names have completely changed. They are no longer barbarian armed forces that the court discards when they are used up, and civil servants look down upon.
All their treatment is the same as that of the Yulin Army, but there will be differences in equipment. After all, the environment and situation they face are also different.
The focus of the Ming Dynasty in the recent ten or twenty years can only be placed in the north.
In the era without Maxim, the scimitars and war horses of the northern nomads would always be the greatest threat to the farming civilization of the Central Plains dynasty.
Moreover, the field combat capabilities of these chieftain soldiers are already strong, especially the white pole soldiers, which can be said to be the pinnacle of infantry in this era.
The military quality is high, so there is no need to develop and equip firearms in large quantities like the Habayashi Army. This will only invalidate martial arts.
Zhu Youxiao, who attaches great importance to the army, could not absorb such a powerful army in front of him.
The southwest region had a very low sense of presence throughout the late Ming Dynasty.
Even the battles and deeds led by Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others are compared with the records of Liaodong and the establishment of slaves.
There are only a few hasty mentions in the history books, so many people only know about the deeds of the Baigan soldiers who loyally protected the country and went north to aid the Liao Dynasty, and most other things are unknown.
With an elite army of more than 10,000 men guarding the middle of the Sichuan, and cooperating with the Duke of Guizhou in Yunnan, this southwest land will have no worries for the time being.
He has no foundation in the South. If he really wants to implement any policy, it will be difficult to implement it unless he is here in person like now.
Therefore, he must expand the authority and influence of his emperor and let the people in the southwest know that it is still the Ming Dynasty and the emperor is still named Zhu.
As the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. In the eyes of the people, the emperor is aloof and more divine than the gods and Buddhas. They cannot come into contact with him in their lifetime.
Moreover, due to the underdeveloped information transportation and the people in the southwest border areas, they are already relatively isolated.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is a wall between us and the outside world, and we are completely ignorant of worldly affairs. The outside world does not know what is going on inside, and the things outside cannot be transmitted to the inside.
During the Hongwu period, Taizu had been in power for ten years, but many people in the southwest and Guangdong and Guangxi areas did not know that the dynasty had changed and the Meng Yuan Dynasty had been expelled from the Han Dynasty.
But for local wealthy families and officials with a certain status, the emperor may frighten them, but they are not yet obedient.
Fortunately, Qin Liangyu was here, otherwise he would not have dared to gather together these elite soldiers who were not directly under his control.
These armies of theirs are private armies, and the Ministry of War has no direct jurisdiction or power to mobilize them.
Even if the officials knew the emperor's intentions, there was nothing they could do.
We can only talk nonsense with the emperor on the issue of establishing military towns.
He would slowly use the military town system to guard and rule an area.
The camp system and the garrison system are destined to be abolished and eliminated.
A professional soldier is a professional soldier. There is no such thing as wearing armor in wartime and working in the fields and growing food in his spare time.
After stabilizing the situation in Kechuan and Guizhou provinces, Zhu Youxiao finally felt relieved and could just wait for the policies to be implemented with peace of mind.
This time he went south to conquer the two chieftains in She'an and carry out the policy of returning natives to the countryside much more smoothly than he expected. Excluding the time spent on the journey, it only took more than two months.
But it took too long to leave the capital this time. Although there are ministers he trusts in the capital staying behind and there are no troubles anywhere, he always feels inexplicably uneasy in his heart.
After inspecting the military camps, government offices and treasury in Chengdu, Zhu Youxiao took the two princes to the Shu Palace.
As the only branch of the vassal king in Sichuan, the status and attention of the King of Shu are quite high.
In addition, in the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu loved and favored the first generation Shu king very much, and gave the first generation Shu king many gifts and privileges that the vassal kings did not have.
Zhu Yuanzhang even said in front of his courtiers that to bring peace to the world, one king would be enough, and two kings could compete for hegemony.
It is not difficult to see from these words how much Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to Sichuan Shu.
And such an important place, which Zhu Yuanzhang said was enough to dominate the world, was awarded to his eleventh son Zhu Chun.
Then he gave great support, with constant rewards every year, and he was also extremely protective.
Therefore, the lives of the successive kings of Shu were extremely prosperous. Compared with the kings of Shu, the emperor Zhu Youxiao was as poor as a beggar.
They all said how much land and fertile land King Fu occupied in Henan, how much gold and silver the Emperor Wanli rewarded King Fu, how rich King Fu was, and how much grain he had in his treasury.
But compared with King Shu, King Fu is just a man with a little money, and the two are not in the same order of magnitude at all.
In the early Ming Dynasty, when the first king of Shu was still alive, the king of Shu was already the richest man in the world. After more than two hundred years of development, the assets on his account can only be described in astronomical figures.
During the Wanli period, when Zhang Juzheng measured the land across the country, all the vassal kings owned were also measured and inventoried.
In the entire Chengdu Prefecture, 70% of the fertile farmland in the eleven counties belongs to the king of Shu, and the remaining 10% belongs to the local wealthy officials and gentry.
In fact, 20% of it belongs to them, because they have combined with local officials to occupy the land that originally belonged to the military households in the guard station under various names.
Then he deceived the court and the emperor with a high-sounding military field sign, and turned military households into his slaves.
Those who need land the most and can only rely on land to survive only occupy one-tenth of the fertile farmland in Chengdu.
Why does the King of Shu own so much land? It is still because of human greed, and people's hearts are not as strong as snakes swallowing elephants.
The King of Shu did not take advantage of others, nor did he use privileges to force the people, nor did he use so-called means to annex.
Most of this much land belongs to the common people themselves, who willingly came to Chengdu with their land records and household registrations, and personally dedicated these lands to the King of Shu.
The reason why they were willing was that they thought they had found a loophole in the court's laws.
In the Ming Dynasty, vassal kings did not need to pay taxes. After the common people found out, they wanted to put the land in the name of the Shu Palace and then evade taxes.
The King of Shu is not a great sage, so naturally he will not refuse the fat meat that comes to his door.
He doesn't care if you are here to show your name. Now that the land register is stamped with the seal of my King of Shu, it is naturally mine. Even if he goes to the emperor, he will not be afraid at all.
In the end, these speculators who wanted to evade taxes had nothing to lose. The fertile land was given away to others, and their families had no way to make money, so they slowly became slaves of wealthy households and the king of Shu, cultivating for them for generations.
Regarding this kind of thing, Zhu Youxiao just wanted to say that you deserve it.