"Don't just focus on this little thing in front of your eyelids. Now that the country is destroyed, it's hard to say whether this family can be kept. ●⌒," Zhu Gongzai sighed.

The old prince spoke, and no matter whether the following families were willing or not, they naturally had to take out the money at this time. According to the old Zhou king's intention, if spending millions of silver dollars can protect wealth, there is nothing to hesitate to let go, and even if it is exchanged for stability, it is worth spending ten million.

Finally, there were the thirty-six county princes of the Zhou princes, each of which paid 100,000 silver dollars, and the Zhou princes' family paid 1 million yuan, and the remaining families raised 2.4 million yuan, bringing together a total of 6 million silver dollars.

Fortunately, the banks in the world are everywhere, and it is convenient for each company to raise money. They went directly to the VIP room of the Kaifeng branch and exchanged large amounts of silver notes, which is convenient to carry.

"It's not appropriate for us to go to the military camp like this. We have to find someone to introduce it. We are not familiar with the officers in Kaifeng Town."

The Crown Prince of Zhou, Zhu Shaojiong, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a embarrassed look on his face.

Looking at the stacks of silver notes in the bag in front of him, he felt really hurt.

But what he said was the truth. It turned out that the area in Henan was Chen Yongfu first and Zuo Liangyu, and it was not until not long ago that Jiutou entered the ground in Henan. The newly established Kaifeng Town was mainly Denglai and Huguang towns, plus some of the original Henan army and newly recruited soldiers. Shortly after Kaifeng Town was established, it returned to Kaifeng for training. As a result, the imperial court abolished Kaifeng Town again.

Now that the new dynasty was founded, the former Kaifeng Town was restored, but the original general Zhang Guozhu has now been transferred to the capital to serve as the admiral of the personal guards. The current general Kaifeng is Qi Guoyuan.

I heard that General Qi, who had only one eye, was originally named Qi Yuan, but now he was named Guo Yuan by the new emperor. He is also considered a member of the name of Guo Yuan, and he has become the confidant of the Han Emperor.

When Qi was in office, the world was still Zhu Ming and the king of Zhou was the local emperor of Kaifeng. No one took these people seriously. What's more, they heard that Qi Guoyuan was a bandit in the past, and they were even more despised.

But the feng shui changes. In a blink of an eye, the sky changes. Now Qi Guoyuan has already sealed the Kaiguozi and become the general of a town.

Zhu Shaojiong hated Qi Guoyuan, who was born in a bandit, from the bottom of his heart, and did not know how to deal with such a person.

Zhu Gongyi thought for a while. "The new Governor of the Central Plains, Lord Li, is the son-in-law of the old King Andong. When he was the governor of Henan, he came to visit me. In this way, I wrote an invitation and sent someone to Governor Li to the place. He happened to be in Kaifeng recently. We worship this Buddha and take the opportunity to invite him to introduce General Qi."

Nowadays, we must have a good relationship with the soldiers.

Zhuxian Town, on the south side of Kaifeng, is the place where the troops of Kaifeng Town are stationed. Kaifeng Town is one of the four major merchant towns in the Ming Dynasty. It is as famous as the other three towns such as Jingdezhen and is famous for gatherings of merchants in the world.

The Daying in Kaifeng Town is built next to the Shahe River and next to the town. The Daying is not in the town, but next to Zhuxian Town. It has strong ridges and forts to defend itself.

After the founding of the Longhan Kingdom, Liu Jun began to increase his troops.

The Central Plains Military Region has two provinces, Shandong and Henan. There was originally a reorganized army of Denglai, with 30,000 troops. Now Kaifeng Town is rebuilt, which is a missing town.

According to the current organizational law, the Han Empire's army is divided into six categories: reorganized army, short-term army, scout army, mobilized army and reserve army, and township army.

The reorganized army is also called the A Army. It has two divisions with a total of 6 divisions and 30,000 people and one army. The missing army is divided into two levels, B and C. The B Army is composed of two divisions, four divisions, and 20,000 people, and the C Army is composed of 1,000 troops, and the third division of C. However, the lack of divisions still maintains the command structure and is equipped with officers.

As for the Jiazi Army, it has a number organization. It has a command center, basic officers, non-commissioned officers and stock weapons, but there is no conventional training, only conventional weapons. When war requires a maximum of ten days, reserve soldiers will be collected to assemble. Each Jiazi Army only maintains about one or more military forces in non-war times, while the remaining divisions only maintain their posture.

The lower-level mobilization army is actually just a large arsenal with the most basic command system. A few major officers, without non-commissioned officers, are mobilized in wartime. It takes at least one month to mobilize, and they are not equipped with soldiers in normal times.

The lower level is the reserve army, which is equivalent to the source of the squads and mobilization armies. These soldiers are reserve soldiers, mostly retired soldiers or registered young and strong men. They occasionally train in autumn and winter, and only maintain the most basic mobilization officers, mobilize and gather during wars, supplementing the various squads and mobilizing troops.

The lowest level of the entire Han army is the township army. These are actually militia township corpses. They are usually organized and equipped with the most basic weapons. They are trained in their spare time, occasionally assist in bandit suppression and private pursuit, etc., and are responsible for assisting defense in the county and township in wartime. If necessary, they will also be recruited as supplementary troops to join the regular army.

This new ladder system not only allows the official army to maintain a large army at any time, but also maintains the backbone and organization of the army. Once a policeman and a war occurs, the Han army can mobilize in the shortest time and supplement those missing troops.

According to the plan of the Privy Council, each military region has at least one reorganized army, and other armies of different levels are equipped according to military needs.

The Central Plains Military Region has the reorganized army, Denglai Town, and the missing army, Kaifeng Town.

Kaifeng Town is a B-type army, with two divisions, four associations and 20,000 troops. The Central Plains Military Region is also equipped with a scaffolding army, a mobilization army, and a reserve army and a township army. When necessary, the two provinces of the Central Plains Military Region can mobilize and form at least four armies within one month.

The B-class army of Qi Guoyuan did not participate in the encirclement and suppression of bandits in western Henan. Their original task was to train. Now, Qi Guoyuan has another task to monitor the eastern part of Henan, especially those former Ming vassals and local officials and gentry, and maintain stability.

Li Shuchu, the governor of the Central Plains, is now in the Kaifeng military camp in Zhuxian Town. Kaifeng Town is now the 21st Army, with two divisions and four associations full of equipment.

Although it is a B-rank army, it is still the direct ace Central Army of the Han Empire.

To maintain the stability of the Central Plains Army, the 21st Army is very important.

Li Shuchu used to be the governor of Henan, and now he was transferred to the Governor of the Central Plains. This is not only the emperor's trust in him and his reliance on him. I hope that at this time, he, an important official who is familiar with Henan, will come to preside over the situation in the Central Plains.

As soon as Li Shuchu took office, he came to Henan first. He knew very well that the stability of the Central Plains was the focus of Henan. If Henan was stable, the Central Plains would be safe. To stabilize Henan, two steps would be to suppress the bandits and quell the rebellion in western Henan, and the other would be to maintain stability in eastern Henan.

When he took office, he came with the emperor's handwriting.

The emperor gave several instructions on his appointment. First, we must maintain stability in the Central Plains. Second, we must carry out a comprehensive census in the Central Plains, check the registered population, clear the land and acres, and check the trade. Then the most important thing is to collect taxes, salt tax, tea tax, tobacco and alcohol tax, and commercial tax.

Taxation is only the basic responsibility of local officials, but the emperor's requirements for him are not simple.

"Officials and gentry paid food together to serve, and no longer enjoyed exemption, whether they were honorary or gentlemen. The emperor said that for those ministers who had meritorious service, the court could reward money and granted famous titles, but they would never enjoy exemption."

Li Shuchu knew very well the meaning of the emperor's edict. The sword pointed directly at the privileges and exemptions enjoyed by the powerful and powerful gentlemen in the Ming Dynasty, as well as the losses of the court taxes caused by the large-scale contributions.

This is a sharp sword, but it will inevitably harm the interests of countless people at once.

After this sword was cut, I don’t know how many people would jump up.

But the emperor's will is also very obvious. We must never tolerate such privileges repeating in the Han Dynasty. If we continue to tolerate these parasites, the Han Dynasty will never become powerful.

Li Shuchu did not hesitate. He watched with his own eyes that the empire has gradually recovered a lot of vitality. He was willing to follow the emperor and revive China.

To complete the emperor's order, you must have strong support from the military, otherwise at this time, a bad opportunity will easily lead to chaos.

In extraordinary times, extraordinary things must be done first.

"We must first take the King of Zhou in Kaifeng and let them hand over all the fields they have occupied and offered for the past years. In addition, they must ban their privileges of setting up customs and charging fees in the future, and the right to sell salt and tea must also be revoked. The most important thing is that they can no longer collect the commercial tax."

In the fortress, Li Shuchu and Qi Guoyuan were drinking tea and discussing plans.

The commercial tax in Kaifeng has always belonged to the King of Zhou. As early as the Hongwu Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Kaifeng's commercial tax to the King of Zhou. Since then, Kaifeng's commercial tax has been collected by the Zhou Palace.

This is a very ridiculous thing. The tax collection of the court actually fell into the hands of the private person.

Now, everything has to change.

"Your Majesty said that you should treat the royal family of the previous dynasty with preferential treatment." Qi Guoyuan laughed.

"Isn't it a preferential treatment for preserving their lives? What we have to do is to cancel the privileges they originally enjoy. As long as they are willing to cooperate, they can even maintain rich wealth in the end, and it is no problem to be a wealthy and idle person." Although Li Shuchu married a royal family girl from the Zhu family, he would not favor the Zhu family on this issue.

Qi Guoyuan pushed the dark eye mask with his hand that was blinded.

"If you want me to say that if you cut the grass and don't eradicate the roots, there will be endless troubles. It's not too good for these royal families in the previous dynasty. At least, even if you don't take the army to exile, you can't let them continue to be free and free in the world. Just send them all to the capital, so that they can't be worried about what they shouldn't have."

Li Shuchu didn't say anything. He thought, sooner or later, this day would probably be there, but not now. At this time, the emperor always needs to show more benevolence and righteousness. If not, how can he calm the hearts of the world?

Qi Guoyuan said yellingly, "There are so many vassals in the Ming Dynasty, and I heard that there are no less than 100,000. If the families of these vassals are confiscated, the land, shops, gold and silver that are confiscated will probably be worth at least ten years of taxes."
Chapter completed!