Looking at Yang Feng, who was grinning with bared teeth, many people who had been paying attention to him secretly frowned. These days, everyone can't even eat enough, and these wines are already the best wine that Qianhu can come up with, but looking at the appearance of this newcomer Yang Qianhu, he doesn't seem to be very satisfied with this wine.

Yang Feng, who put down the wine glass, swept his eyes and saw everyone's expressions in his eyes, and he knew that his performance just now must have misunderstood many people. He could only smile bitterly and shake his head: "Everyone, I'm really embarrassed, the taste of this wine is really a little choking, this is the first time this kind of wine has been drunk, so I choked for a while, apologize for the official, and the official drinks a glass of himself." ”

After speaking, Yang Feng picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of wine and drank it all, and then turned the wine glass upside down to signal to everyone.

"Good!"

Yang Feng's move won a round of applause from everyone, and even the faces of those who were originally a little dissatisfied with him looked a lot better. Some people's senses for him are also a lot better, after all, as a Shangguan, he can apologize so sincerely, such a mind is definitely very good.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, everyone came over to toast, and Geng Deputy Qianhu introduced Yang Feng one by one on the side.

"This is the calming Qi Yan, this is the official Li Ge, these are the hundred households Gou Xingma, Yan Di, Guanghai, He Sheng, Xu Li, Cao Yingyu ......"

"Deputy Geng Qianhu, don't just care about introducing others, but forget about yourself." After listening to Deputy Geng's introduction, Yang Feng smiled and said to Deputy Geng Qianhu.

Deputy Geng Qianhu bowed down and said: "This is the negligence of the lowly position, the lowly position is called Geng Bingyi, and the lowly name does not dare to ask Lord Lao." ”

Yang Feng glanced at the people in the room, and already had some impressions in his heart, don't look at the poverty of this thousand households, but all the official positions are full.

After pondering for a while, Yang Feng asked again: "This official has just arrived, but there is something I want to ask you, whether the military fields of our Qianhu Institute are still there, I don't know what the situation is now, whether someone is cultivating it on time?" ”

As soon as Yang Feng's words came out, the whole room immediately fell silent, and everyone stopped talking.

"Why, no one is talking?" Yang Feng's face immediately became a little difficult to look at, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes, "Where is Li Ge?" ”

"The subordinates are here!"

A middle-aged man about thirty years old, with a vegetable face, a beard under his chin, wearing a long robe, and looking like a scholar, stood up and bowed to Yang Feng.

"Li Ge, you are the official of our Qianhu Office, and all the big and small accounts are under your control. Now you come and tell the official, what is the total amount of all the land in this thousand households? How many are left now? In whose hands are they all? ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone's hearts tightened, could it be that this new Qianhu Lord wanted to fight for a field for himself? But it's a matter of course to think about it, as a thousand households of thousands of households, they naturally want to take the lion's share, but how to divide the interests has to be negotiated. Once this person is involved in his own interests, he will be nervous, and there is no way to avoid vulgarity throughout the ages, and for a while, everyone's eyes were on Yang Feng and Li Ge.

Li Ge had a bitter face, and said with a stumbling face: "So that the thousands of households know that during the Hongwu period, our thousands of households should have 7,687 acres of military land, after hundreds of years of changes, now we still have 2,257 acres left, and now these remaining military fields are in the hands of our colleagues present, and our thousands of households can only barely survive on these military fields every year." ”

"Just over 2,000 acres left?" Yang Feng couldn't help but let out an exclamation: "Where is the remaining more than 5,000 acres of military land, is it possible to fly to the sky?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but smile bitterly, this new Qianhu Lord really didn't know anything, and he didn't even know such a simple thing.

Yang Feng's face turned cold: "Li Yanmu, come on, whose name are these military fields under now?" ”

Looking at the coldness on Yang Feng's face, I don't know why Li Ge's heart trembled a little, he could only say helplessly: "Where else can I go, these military fields have been changed by the national dynasty for more than 200 years, and now they have fallen into the name of many powerful people in Nanjing City, can we still ask for a thousand households to come back?" ”

Yang Feng's eyes flashed cold, he glanced at Geng Bingyi, and after seeing him nodding with a wry smile, he already believed six or seven points in his heart, because no one dared to lie to people in this kind of thing that could be known by asking, that would be too stupid.

Yang Feng sat down again and began to ask about some things again. Everyone is not stupid, they don't dare to hide it from Yang Feng, a thousand households, in this kind of big thing, after all, there are so many people present, if they lie, it will be bad if they are exposed in the future. Everyone, you say a word, and gradually Yang Feng has a general understanding of the affairs of Qianhusuo.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of military households was very low, even lower than that of civilian households, but military households were one of the important sources of soldiers in the country, so the Ming Dynasty was very strict in the control of military households, and the general military households must serve for life. But if you think about it with your knees, how many people can be an official and become a secretary of the Ministry of War, that is, a ministerial-level cadre? Therefore, in the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the number of people who could be exempted from military status was very limited.

Not only that, but the treatment of military households is also very low. In addition to sending more than one ding to the guard to fill the army, each military household also paid one more ding to serve with the army. In some places, each military household was even ordered to send 2-3 surplus soldiers to engage in all kinds of heavy labor with the army.

When a soldier goes to serve in the guard, his uniform and the cost of the journey are all borne by his family. During the period of service in the guards, the soldiers provided their own clothing, and their food and salary did not increase due to the birth of children and the increase in population, so the wives and children of the soldiers were often poorly clothed and hungry. Military households are also not exempt from some conscription because of the provision of military personnel, and their living conditions are not as good as those of civilian households. Not only the family, but the soldiers who went to the guard station were not much better than their families. Soldiers are exploited by the officers, and military rations are often withheld by the officers, or they are not paid. Some guards did not pay military salaries for several years, and some sergeants even made a living by begging, so the combat effectiveness of such military households can be imagined.

Even if it is not counted, the tun fields originally allocated to the sergeants are often encroached upon by the powerful and the generals, and the generals not only let the sergeants farm and plough for them, but even let the sergeants fish and collect wood for them and sell smuggled goods, in short, the sergeants have become tools and hard labor in their hands.

Hearing this, Yang Feng's brows had already wrinkled into a Sichuan character, although these officers did not say it explicitly, but Yang Feng knew that the remaining officers of the Thousand Households in Jiangdong Gate had definitely been divided by these officers. It's just that what else can Yang Feng say, because now that even he has become a member of the exploiting class, he will definitely give him a part of the military land with these officers when he takes office.

That's a good nonsense, the ass decides the head, what can Yang Feng do now?