Yongle Emperor's grandson: Zhu Yuanzhang with cheats, Zhu Di went crazy

Chapter 55 covers the entire Ming Dynasty career (seeking investment, follow-up reading, collection)
The cool morning breeze brought a hint of freshness through the car curtains.

The squeaking sound of the wheels was like a lullaby, making Zhu Zhanjun drowsy.

The fresh fragrance of the girl at the tip of your nose and the head resting on the soft legs make people feel comfortable from the bottom of their hearts.

He was really too tired last night and Zhu Zhanjun is very sleepy now.

This old man is really annoying.

After dinner, he was still not quiet and pulled Zhu Zhanjun to read the memorial in the middle of the night.

I would comment while watching. If I felt it was handled well, I would nod and praise it. If it was irrelevant, I would kick it.

Zhu Zhanjun was suffering from both mental and physical torture. It was not until three o'clock in the morning that he returned to his room to rest, looking exhausted.

Xiaohu came before dawn in the morning and told him that everyone had gathered and was waiting for him.

Zhu Zhanjun had no choice but to get up from the bed, lie down in the carriage, and take a nap with his head resting on the maid's legs.

"Your Highness, Your Highness..."

Qiu Xue's gentle call rang in my ears, the voice was so soft and tender.

Zhu Zhanjun opened his eyes dazedly. The little girl picked up the wet handkerchief beside her and gently wiped Zhu Zhanjun's face.

"Your Highness, we have arrived."

"My life is a life of hard work."

He muttered something, took the tea handed to him by the little girl Qiu Yu, and rinsed his mouth.

"Gudong!"

His spirit instantly recovered, he stretched, lifted the curtain of the carriage and walked out.

Looking around, there were already thousands of people standing densely on the threshing ground in front of the imperial farm.

Some people have tall and straight postures, with a hint of toughness that is different from ordinary people.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that these people were military men, and had all been on the battlefield and killed people.

"Your Highness is here."

Someone shouted and the waiting crowd all looked over. Zhu Zhanjun also saw the whole appearance of these people clearly.

Although some of these people stood upright, most of them were half-sitting or leaning on crutches.

Some were missing legs, others had broken arms.

Zhu Zhanjun even saw that many of them were missing ears or eyes, and some had scars of varying sizes on their faces and necks.

These people were the first group of people chosen by Zhu Zhanjun and Lao Zhu.

They have a unified identity, the military households of the Ming Dynasty.

There are just some differences. In addition to their title of military households, they also have to add the word "disabled".

Zhu Zhanjun once considered how to quickly implement his high-yield grain production plan.

It is probably difficult for ordinary people to implement it.

Although the imperial court controlled the people, these households had their own choices. Compared to the imaginary and exaggerated stories, they believed more in their own seeds rather than the high-yield crops that they had not seen with their own eyes.

Even if the people accept high-yield grain, they will not buy seeds unless they have no other choice.

Compared to seeds that cost money, people trust the food they save more.

If the people fail to grow anything in two years, the world will be in an uproar. If the old man doesn't punish him, he will have a hard time explaining to the people.

Zhu Zhanjun was wondering if there was any way to make people all over the world gradually accept the concept of changing seeds once a year.

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Zhanjun thought of a career, a military household of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming law stipulates that if the crops grown by military households are from the imperial court, five out of ten will be collected.

Those who are self-sufficient receive three out of ten.

Simply put, the military households cultivated land, and the grain seeds and farming tools were distributed by the imperial court. When they harvested the crops the following year, they had to hand over 50% as repayment and tax.

If you have prepared everything yourself, you only need to hand over 30%.

With this regulation, Zhu Zhanjun can distribute seeds as a matter of course. The military households who have tasted the sweetness of the year will naturally accept it happily. Even if they don't accept it, they must execute it if it is a forced order.

This is the benefit of being a military household.

Moreover, the military households of the Ming Dynasty covered the entire country. As long as these military households planted high-yield crops, ordinary people would definitely be curious and inquire about the reasons.

With the example of military households and their promotion, the common people will believe and take this rule for granted.

There is a saying that goes, it’s better for gossips to spread it once than for the government to say it a hundred times.

This is the truth.

What’s more important is that as high-yield seeds are promoted among military households, the fate and future of these military households are in the hands of Zhu Zhanjun.

Use grain to control the army, use the army to penetrate the people, and use the people to control the officials.

According to Zhu Zhanjun's idea, as long as the plan goes smoothly, the world will be in his hands in about ten years.

Of course, Zhu Zhanjun also understood that there is no shortage of smart people in the world.

After knowing the characteristics of his seeds, anyone with a little common sense can guess the future results.

Zhu Zhanjun discussed with Lao Zhu and decided to start with those disabled military households who had no productivity.

Use the method of boiling a frog in warm water to infiltrate the military household system little by little.

Even if someone found out, he could say that he was doing it for the good of the court.

These wounded soldiers shed blood and sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty, but their lives were so hard. He couldn't bear to see this, so couldn't he help the Ming court solve its problems?
In Zhu Zhanjun and Lao Zhu's plan, the seeds would initially only be given to disabled military households, and these had to be military households that had joined the Veterans Chamber of Commerce.

After one or two years, the other military households must have felt unbalanced when they saw that they had worked so hard for a year, but others had only paid half of their grain and their warehouses were still full, while they themselves almost starved to death.

Faced with imbalance, they only have two choices.

First, like these disabled military households, join the Veterans Chamber of Commerce founded by Zhu Zhanjun and get the opportunity to obtain high-yield seeds from the chamber of commerce.

Second, let the court issue an order and let Zhu Zhanjun provide them with high-yield seeds.

But, is this possible?

Even if the imperial court gave an order, Zhu Zhanjun could refuse on the pretext that the yield was insufficient and that he could only provide seeds to these disabled military households.

He said no, what could people do to him.

If the imperial court dares to take forceful action, the military households of the Veterans Chamber of Commerce who have received favors will not let it go.

It is true that they are disabled, but that doesn't mean that their brothers and uncles are the same as them.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that if one person joined the army, the entire family would become military households.

Humans are the most food-protective animals in the world. If you cut off their food and destroy their family's hope, they can really do anything crazy.

Of course, this plan is not without flaws, and that is that the old man, the emperor, will be killed directly.

Or it could be the officers of the garrison who ordered these people to hand over food or grow crops.

Judging from the old man’s performance over the past two days, Zhu Zhanjun felt that the possibility of the old man personally taking action was very small.

It is even possible that he would condone his behavior and allow Zhu Zhanjun to increase his own power and prestige, thus achieving the goal that the old man had planned.

After all, making the second son the crown prince is not an easy task for the old man to achieve even if he is the emperor of a country.

He worked hard for this matter, and as the protagonist, Zhu Zhanjun naturally couldn't just sit there and do nothing.

As for the garrison officers, Zhu Zhanjun had already come up with a rough plan.

On the pretext of experimenting with high-yield grain planting, these military households that joined the Chamber of Commerce were separated out and removed from the management of the garrison officers.

Even if they did not leave, the garrison officers had no power to give orders, and were not allowed to increase grain taxes or take away crops for various reasons.

Zhu Zhanjun even had an idea that in the future, the grain taxes paid by these military households who joined the Chamber of Commerce would be collected by the Veterans Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the court, and then handed over to the court in a unified manner.

Without the old man's participation and the constraints of the garrison officers.

The civil and military officials could only stare blankly as Zhu Zhanjun took control of the Ming army households and the people of the world step by step.

(End of this chapter)