Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 652 The Way of Enlightenment
In fact, the emperor was not idle at this time, nor could he be idle.

If you don't find something for yourself to do, or wander around in the pile of rouge and powder every day, it will be too much for you.

After working on the steam engine, Zhu Yixi read Lu Daqi's memorial.

This old boy has been away from Beijing for almost a year. He is afraid that the emperor will forget him, so he writes letters every now and then to report.

This trick is very effective, Zhu Yixi looked at his complaints about the military household guard system, realistically, but also with relish.

Lu Daqi went to the Nine Sides, except that he was straightforward in Ji Town at the beginning, the rest of the places were not as difficult as imagined.

The military officers annexed the land, and their normal life was happy, but at the end of the dynasty, elite soldiers from the nine sides were continuously dispatched to the interior to quell the chaos, and they had to work harder for the king from time to time.

The lack of money is enough, the key is drought, plague, and finally added a border problem. If the land cannot be swallowed up, these officers would have already lost their homes.

After arriving in Wanli, the elites of the important towns on the Nine Borders were all the generals' personal soldiers and servants, and they could barely prop up the Great Wall by relying on them.

Soldiers suffer from lack of food and clothing; generals also suffer from exhaustion for more than ten years, which is not as good as the greed of ink for a year by civilian officials.

Therefore, the border town has long been decayed.

In this case, if you don't change it, you will die, and if you change it, you will die, so Zhu Yixi decided to push the matter down to save trouble.

The poor generals received the imperial court's salary, handed over the army without saying a word, and raised their hands in favor of various policies.

Military households are not rare, they all want to be civilian households.

Later, when Lu Daqi was in various military towns, the most important task was to resolve cases accumulated over the years.

And because of the dispersion of the population, various natural disasters and diseases, and large-scale abandonment, the land problem was easily solved.

"Good guy."

Zhu Yixi looked at the memorials and found that several military towns did not have 100,000 people in total. This was added to the military towns in Shaanxi such as Guyuan and Yulin that had been resettled long ago. In fact, there were only [-] to [-] people.

As for the common people, the ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the garrison, for tens of miles around the county seat, you can't hear chickens barking or barking, and there is no cooking smoke at all.

It is conceivable that if the people are not relocated, these lines of defense will shrink hundreds of miles in a few years.

What happened to the chaos in the Qing Dynasty? Wasn't it because there were too many casualties in the Shaanxi-Gansu area at the end of the Ming Dynasty, resulting in a vacancy in the population, which gave people an opportunity to take advantage of.

After all, the land is there, if you are not there, others will come.

You must know that Shaanxi is the stronghold of the Han people, which shows how miserable the end of the Ming Dynasty was.

Originally, Zhu Yixi was still a little hesitant. Is it unnecessary to relocate the population to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region?

A smaller population is also beneficial to the restoration of the Northern Shaanxi Plain.

But the living space that was finally vacated is not for making wedding dresses for others.

"The matter of relocation seems to be urgent."

Zhu Yixi murmured in his heart, and his determination became stronger day by day.

And then look down, it is Lu Daqi's conception of Mengxue, his words:
"Among the military households, children have little choice but to wield knives and guns, and work in the fields as tenants."

"In Jiangnan and other places, although there are not many folk sociology, there are still some, but there are very few military households, and there are few rumors in border towns. The enlightenment of military households is several times that of ordinary people. The business is difficult..."

In the Ming Dynasty, military households could participate in the imperial examination, and they were all good citizens.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, except businessmen and people of low status, can take the imperial examination, and the carp jumps over the dragon's gate.

For example, Li Dongyang, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, etc., even the children of Yanhu, have produced 15 Shujishi.

Some experts have counted that among the more than 1 Shujishi in the Ming Dynasty, 620 were from peasant households, 333 were from military households, and 37 were from artisan households.

From the Jingtai period to the end, about 100 out of every 30 Jinshi came from military households.

But these are only military households in the interior, military households in border towns, but they are horrible, and food is sometimes not guaranteed.

Ordinary people are comfortable seeing the imperial court expanding its territory, but for those military households, coming to this barren land, the logistics cannot be guaranteed, it is simply a terrible place.

And why was it possible in the Manchu Qing period?That's because the Mongols were tamed and the means of self-government were adopted.

Generals such as Yili and Ussuritai basically just coordinated those tribes and stationed a few thousand people symbolically.

The Ming Dynasty will not work. There are 60,000 people stationed in Datong, Shanxi alone, and the supply pressure is too great.

When Qianlong pacified the Junggar people, the supply pressure was too great to garrison troops to suppress them, so he simply slaughtered them all and went to the roots.

Therefore, after Zhu Yixi subdued the Mongolian tribes in Monan, he required thousands and hundreds of households to build temples and schools.

Mongolians either study and devote themselves to Ming Dynasty, or become monks and pray to Buddha for Ming Dynasty.

The rest is herding sheep and contributing to the economy of Ming Dynasty.

"So, follow the example of Monan and set up sociology?"

Zhu Yixi rubbed his chin and thought about it.

As for sociology, he is willing to do it, but the court can resist in terms of money, but it is difficult to find scholars. Even the first teacher is a scarce resource.

How much does it cost to be a teacher?Just go to the abacus as the accountant, and you will earn a lot in a year.

"That's a problem."

Zhu Yixi thought for a while, and asked Zhu Mou to be found directly.

He jumped from the Minister of the Ministry of Households to the Minister of Rites, and his life is free.

Zhu Mou has studied in Zongxue for several years, so he can read and write well, but it is difficult to maintain etiquette, so he simply handed it over to the two servants.

Diplomacy is nothing, and the examination is over, but he is very idle.

Hearing the emperor's call, the servants were full of joy and prepared their official robes in an orderly manner.

The lady at the side came out with her son in her arms, smiling all over her face: "You are the busiest of these six books."

"Important court affairs, what do you know?"

For the sake of his son, Zhu Mou didn't bother to argue with her.

"I don't understand."

Madam handed her son to the wet nurse, and then she approached and said, "I heard that Lu Shangshu came back from Gansu, so he entered the cabinet directly."

"There is one more person in the cabinet, so it's okay to add another person. The emperor trusts you the most and is busy with things the most. You have to reward me no matter what..."

"Bullshit!"

After scolding, Zhu Mou felt turmoil in his heart.

In the past, the three-person cabinet was extremely stable, but now the balance has broken and it has become four people.

Just like what the woman said, there is no difference between four people and five people doing things...

After tidying up his clothes, Zhu Mou came to the villa with his mind on his mind.

"Extract some goat's milk and give it to the nurse."

The madam curled her lips, watched her husband leave, and thought to herself, this man must be self-motivated, and it must be my virtuous wife who ignites the fire.

"Ma'am——" the nanny was overwhelmed, exaggeratedly moving the mountains, as if to say, I still need milk like this?

"This is for the young master to strengthen his body, you must drink it."

Madam said involuntarily: "I heard that the princes in the palace drink goat's milk now, they are very strong. Our young master is still young, so I'm afraid it's not easy to contaminate it. If you drink it, it's equivalent to him drinking it."

(End of this chapter)