The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 56
"Isn't there still military farmland?" Zhu Gaochi thought of this matter, military households have quite a few acres of military farmland, even if they are disabled, they will not have no means of living.

Even if you can't grow the land yourself, you can rent it out for rent.

"You don't understand the truth in it." Zhu Di shook his head and told Zhu Gaochi, "From the founding of your grandfather to the present, the army has been changing all the time."

When the country was founded in the early Ming Dynasty, there were rebels in the Ming army; there were troops attached to the Yuan Dynasty and other forces; there were those who were punished for crimes;

25 years down.

The army has changed several times, and military households have become the main force of the army.

Military households have military fields, but military households are based on households, not individuals, so military fields belong to families, not to individual people.

A military household needs to send Zheng Ding and Yu Ding, and when necessary, they will even transfer three or five people.

Although there are many military farms, the population of military households is also large. Especially after 25 years of spreading branches and leaves, the life of military households is no longer as rich as before, and of course it is not poverty.

This also formed a major feature of the Ming army.

Combat power varies with the level of income, the upper limit can be very high, and the lower limit can be astonishingly low.

Zhu Di was satisfied with the growth of the boss, and stopped treating him as a child as before, and began to teach him some outside things seriously.

After the explanation, Zhu Di said with emotion: "You were born in a wealthy family, and you don't understand the hardships of farming. Farming is heavy physical work. Disabled soldiers lose their labor force. In people's eyes, they are just idlers. It's okay for a year or two. Time It's easy to be treated harshly when you grow up."

"Sending offenders to the army as punishment, isn't that telling the people that the status of sergeants is low?" Zhu Gaochi pointed out the shortcomings.

Zhu Di couldn't help laughing twice, "Sent to the frontier to serve as an army, just as a dead soldier, how can it be compared with a serious soldier."

"But my son heard that many ordinary people are unwilling to marry their daughters to military households, for fear of being implicated by military households."

According to Zhu Gaochi's knowledge, by the time of Zhu Di, this trend had spread all over the country, and it was indeed a big hidden danger.

"It's just that the people are afraid of death, so they don't want to be soldiers." Zhu Di showed dissatisfaction on his face.

What Zhu Di said made Zhu Gaochi suddenly realize that what Zhu Di said was indeed reasonable, it was not as simple as he thought.

People will die in war, and compared with the rewards that can be obtained, the risks and benefits cannot attract the desires of the people.

The roots still come from human nature.

According to Zhu Di, is it true that the more prosperous the Ming Dynasty was, and the more prosperous the people were, the less people would be willing to serve as soldiers?

This is very contradictory.

If Daming was poor, it would make the people who had nothing to be willing to serve as soldiers, and if Daming was rich, it would make the people unwilling to serve as soldiers.

The root lies in productivity, and an agricultural society cannot support the army for a long time.

Daming is rich, so if he wants to encourage the common people to serve as soldiers, he needs to provide more generous military pay to attract people's hearts.

Combined with Zhu Di's statement, Zhu Gaochi has a clearer understanding of Daming's army and the way to get along in the future.

Money is not everything, but money is necessary.

He also thought about whether the generals in the late Ming Dynasty liked to support their families and allocated military expenditures to them.

Otherwise, the small military salary will continue to be divided equally among all the soldiers, so that everyone will not get much.

So this meager military salary, compared with the risk of being injured and sacrificed in a war, which soldier is willing to sacrifice his life.

On the contrary, because of the concentration of military pay, the servants gained huge benefits, so the servants were willing to fight with their lives, which created the phenomenon that the servants in the hands of the generals in the late Ming Dynasty were the elite.

From an economic point of view, it is indeed in line with this principle, and industrial development can solve many problems.

How to win over the army has always been a question that Zhu Gaochi has been thinking about, but it is not the first priority at the moment.

Winning the army and leading the army to fight is what Zhu Di should do. That is his strength, and his own strength is the development of industry.

Zhu Di is his own father, and he is his eldest son.

The interest relationship between father and son is as stable as Mount Tai. The division of labor and cooperation and complementarity are the most beneficial.

But thinking of his second brother Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaochi felt that at least he should be familiar with the army and let people know his existence.

"1000 people are too many." Zhu Gaochi said in embarrassment, and then proposed a solution: "You can choose the most difficult people among them, and recruit 20 people first."

When Zhu Di heard the number of only 20 people, he immediately lost interest.

Seeing his father's expression, Zhu Gaochi quickly explained: "The scale of the factory and engineering team is not large, but it will only take a while, and the scale will become larger in the future, so that more disabled soldiers can be recruited, which will definitely solve my father's regret. "

That's right, it's only been a long time for the boss to run the factory, and Zhu Di is happy again.

"Boss." Zhu Di, who had expectations, became interested, "You must understand a truth."

Zhu Gaochi listened obediently with his hands down.When needed, he can fight with reason in front of Zhu Di, and Zhu Di will not get angry.

But the two fathers and sons are not ordinary people, and they still have to have the proper etiquette, which is a matter of propriety.

"As long as you really think about the people below, they will also be sincerely loyal to you. This is the truth that people want." Zhu Di has his own way of contemplating human nature after years of conquest.

Zhu Gaochi fully accepted Zhu Di's principles.

In terms of vision, Zhu Gaochi doesn't think he will lose to Zhu Di, but he is not necessarily Zhu Di's opponent when it comes to dealing with the world.

In the future, Zhu Di rebelled with hundreds of soldiers, and despite the huge gap in strength, he was able to win the allegiance of the old army that had been controlled by the court. This is Zhu Di's win over people's hearts.

How did you win over?Not a few empty words, but years of sincere dedication and real money.

Then.

Zhu Di knew that the prince's health was not good. Although Zhu Di didn't know that the prince would die, besides feeling sad, would he have other thoughts?

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help looking at Zhu Di, and just happened to meet Zhu Di's eyes that were also looking at him, which shocked him.

Zhu Di stroked his chin.

"Boss." Zhu Di asked tentatively: "There are many guards in Beiping Prefecture, how to find out which one is the most difficult, this is not easy."

Zhu Gaochi immediately took the hook.

"This matter is no small matter, it must be fair, otherwise it will cause dissatisfaction in the soldiers' hearts, and a good thing will turn into a bad thing. In order not to be concealed by the people below, my son is willing to investigate it himself."

"it is good."

Zhu Di nodded calmly.

The boss's ambition is not small, he is an engineering team, and he wants to visit the guard in person, and he didn't ask a few questions when he learned that his uncle was seriously ill.

Ginger is still old and hot, and Zhu Gaochi can see everything in front of Zhu Di.

But who made Zhu Gaochi the eldest son of Zhu Di, Zhu Di didn't say much, and didn't stop the boss.

(End of this chapter)