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One by one, the news spread to the tea room on the top floor of the treasure building, Zhu Houzhao was already dancing excitedly, obviously his plan was successful, although this plan was raised by Liu Chengfeng, and it was also Liu Chengfeng to make up for the leaks, but in Zhu Houzhao's opinion, this is a very great achievement, his face was swollen and red, his eyes looked at Liu Chengfeng as if he could speak, and said excitedly: "Master Liu, have you succeeded?" Now more than 2,000 people have pre-leased, and in a few days, all these lands will be leased, ha...... Hongu said that he had done a great thing today. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Liu Chengfeng is also happy in his heart, this Zhu Houzhao is half of his disciple, he is happy to see him today, and he has learned half of his skills, and he is also very pleased, of course, more importantly, he knows in his heart that this time he took the opportunity to make a lot of money, in fact, the prince and the land he bought is not only so little, Liu Chengfeng left a hand in advance, and did not push out all the land, and wait until this treasure workshop is successful and then push out the remaining land one by one, so that The first industrial park of the Ming Dynasty will really show its embryonic form, when he and the prince's income will not only exceed 10 million a year, but 20 million is not unusual, this Jingshi is the political and economic center of the Ming Dynasty after all, with the rise of the workshop, the land has become the lifeblood, but now Zhu Houzhao looked at him with a bright face, he nodded hurriedly and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, now is not the time to be happy, since everyone has paid the deposit, we still have a lot of things to do, the road must be built before the end of the year, and, The manpower that should be recruited should be recruited, the warehouse should be built in advance, and the wharf and so on, in short, the construction should be started as soon as possible and completed as soon as possible, I have asked people to calculate, if you want to speed up the progress of the project, you need many people to start work at the same time, but I am afraid that the craftsmen and laborers required will need tens of thousands. ”

Zhu Houzhao said boldly: "Tens of thousands are tens of thousands, recruiting everywhere, we don't have many other people in Daming, are you afraid that no one will do the work if you have silver?" ”

Liu Chengfeng smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that what he thought was simple, you must know that at the same time as the construction started, those merchants who rented the land also had to recruit people to build their workshops, hundreds of thousands of workshops were built at the same time, and the manpower required was tens of thousands.

Liu Chengfeng told Zhu Houzhao his truth, Zhu Houzhao rubbed the fine beard that grew under his lips, and couldn't help but say, "That's it...... If this is the case, wouldn't it cause a shortage of labor in Beijing, hey, this palace didn't think of this, it's really not good that the manpower is too high, so how about finding some manpower from somewhere else? ”

Liu Chengfeng spread his hands: "Where to find it for a while?" There are a lot of them in Henan and other places, but when they arrive in Beijing, the daylily is cold. ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help scratching his head: "What can I do, now that everyone's money has been collected, if it is not built as soon as possible, won't this palace be laughed at?" ”

Liu Chengfeng strolled and took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "Your Highness, Weichen has thought of a way. ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "What's the way?" ”

Liu Chengfeng only said two words: "Military household!" ”

Zhu Houzhao's eyes narrowed, and he muttered: "Military household? ”

Military ...... This is a unique phenomenon of the Ming Dynasty, this system was learned from the Yuan Dynasty, but it was really carried forward in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu implemented a military system, that is, the so-called military household system, he set up hundreds of thousands of military households in the world, stationed in various provinces with thousands of households, and then distributed the land to these military households, so that they can farm themselves in peacetime to feed themselves, and then go out with the army in wartime to protect the family and defend the country.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with this system, he believed that it was too difficult to raise soldiers, and the money spent was too much, and this kind of military household system obviously had a great advantage, that is, the state could raise an army of one million without spending a single soldier, which greatly reduced the burden on the state. However, he may not have thought that this system also has a fatal flaw, that is, his military cantonment system did not raise a million troops, but raised a nest of good tenants.

To put it bluntly, in the beginning, the system was actually very perfect, these people did farm work when they were busy, practiced when they were slack, and there seemed to be no problem with supporting themselves. The biggest problem is that in the military households, those thousands of households have gradually degenerated from military officers to landlords, think about it, there is nothing in the world for so many years, even if there is something, there are only a few occasional thieves to make trouble, they are also hereditary from generation to generation, Lao Tzu is a good man's son, most of them are bastards, their lives come from the harvest in the military camp, the harvest is high, they are rich, the harvest is not high, they have to be disgraced.

So, thousands of households, hundreds of households are naturally not very happy, as for the matter of the practice has long forgotten everything, every day thinking about the harvest in the field, this military camp is ostensibly the state is the court, but in fact it is their private, they naturally hope that the military households under the head do more farm work, even when the farm is slack, you can raise a few more pigs.

The final result is that the combat effectiveness of these so-called military households is almost low to the point of outrageous, the Ming Dynasty history was rampant, hundreds of officials and soldiers can not beat dozens of Japanese soldiers, thousands of officers and soldiers were chased and slashed by hundreds of people, and these officials and soldiers are actually military households, to put it bluntly, it is a group of guys with knives and hoes, nothing more than in order to exterminate the Japanese invaders, the imperial court had to let the generals recruit the army on their own, so the Qi family army and the Yu family army came into being, think about it, The total number of the so-called Qi family army and the Yu family army combined did not exceed 10,000 people, and it took less than a few years for such a small armed force to solve the problem of hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in several provinces south of the Yangtze River to be solved at once.

Daming claims to have two million military households, but in Liu Chengfeng's view, once the new army expands in the future, reaching 50,000, it will be enough to destroy these military households, saying so much, it is nothing more than a bloody fact, that is, the so-called military households are actually synonymous with waste, these people's lives are very miserable, they are called soldiers, but there is no military salary, every plough land for a living, exploited by the officials, even tenants are not as good, more importantly, they can never change their nationality, born to be a military household will always be a military household.

As soon as Liu Chengfeng said this, Zhu Houzhao understood what Liu Chengfeng meant no matter how stupid he was, there were a lot of military households near the Beijing Division, dozens of them, and the number of people was seventy or eighty thousand, if so many manpower could be used, it would be able to solve the current problem, but Zhu Houzhao couldn't help scratching his head and said: "Master Liu, this seems to be a bad rule, this is the ancestral system established by Emperor Taizu Gao." ”

In Liu Chengfeng's view, there are many shortcomings in the Ming Dynasty, and this military household system is the most prominent one, when will it be over, but at the moment he is not interested in reforming the military household system, just smiled and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, military households can farm, why can't they work, besides, we don't give silver?" ”

Zhu Houzhao was asked by Liu Chengfeng's rhetorical question, Emperor Taizu also made a holy decree at that time, saying that soldiers should be raised by soldiers, since military households can farm to support themselves, why can't they rely on work to support themselves? Anyway, it's just to feed, and the workhouse earns more, he couldn't help laughing, and said: "What Master Liu said is right, who said that military households can't work, or I should go to the palace?" ”

Liu Chengfeng shook his head: "Going to the palace is like we are ignoring, but it is like we are thieves, we are doing things above board, what is there to be afraid of." Directly send some people to deal with thousands of households in various places, and tell them that as long as there are people who are willing to work, each person will be given two taels of silver a month, and three meals a day, and if they are willing, they will come, and if they are unwilling, they will be left to them. ”

As soon as Liu Chengfeng said this, Zhu Houzhao was happy, and said: "These thousands of officials in the palace know, the most greedy and excessive, one work is two taels of silver, I am afraid that all these wages will be in their pockets, they naturally want to call one more one, this matter is also seen by the palace, but then again, this beckoning palace let Liu accompany the palace to fight, but if something really happens at that time, Master Liu will stand up and speak to the palace." ”

Liu Chengfeng naturally patted his chest and said, "The prince and Weichen are in the same breath, how dare they stand by coldly." ”

After getting Liu Chengfeng's guarantee, this Zhu Houzhao said a few words to Liu Chengfeng with great interest before he said with satisfaction: "It's not early, and the palace has to go back as soon as possible." ”

After that, he hurriedly went out from the back door of the treasure building, and took the car back to the East Palace with great interest, in fact, Zhu Houzhao did not bring Liu Jin and these people when he came out this time, Liu Jin and they saw that the prince had not come back and had already become anxious to become ants in a hot pot, and asked people to inquire around one by one, and the rest were standing at the door of the East Palace and waiting, and when they saw Zhu Houzhao's car arrived, they rushed up, and said kindly: "Your Highness, I want to die as a slave." The one said, "What does Your Highness have to do with it, and do the slaves and maidservants still want to live?" ”

While shouting and asking for warmth, they hid a few words of complaint in their words, and together they took Zhu Houzhao next, Zhu Houzhao was in a very good mood, just smiled, and said to Liu Jin, who was holding him: "What's the hurry, this palace is not a three-year-old child, are you still afraid of getting lost, besides, this palace is to find Master Liu, there is Master Liu, who dares to hurt this palace, you don't have to worry about it." ”

(To be continued)