Public grievances accumulate!

Holding a chess piece in his hand and staring at the chessboard, Zhu Guoqiang remained silent for a long time.

In fact, for him, the Ming Dynasty was just a chessboard. As a chess player, he had to consider it in a comprehensive manner.

By giving soldiers certain privileges and enhancing their social status is the most common practice in later generations. No soldier has to queue up, rides for free, and other privileges... are actually optional.

To put it bluntly, why Zhu Guoqiang gave so many privileges to military households was caused by the decline of the status of military personnel since the Song Dynasty. In order to re-establish the martial spirit of the Han people, improving the status of military personnel was the easiest and most effective way.

In fact, there are precedents in how Zhu Guoqiang improves the status of a military member. For example, the judicial privileges of military households seem to be privileged, but they are the common principle in later generations - military criminal cases are under the jurisdiction of the army.

As for rewarding land, it is said that it is to borrow Zhu Yuanzhang's military household system, rather than to say that it is to borrow the "Fifth Year of Emperor Gaodi" by Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of Han. With this edict, Liu Bang granted all soldiers of his army the titles of doctors or above, allowing them to enjoy the land, land, houses and other treatments based on the title, and reduced the rent, taxes and labor of all soldiers and their families, establishing a privileged class with interests binding; at the same time, Liu Bang enfeoffed a group of powerful princes of the Liu family in the Guandong area, as the Pingfan of the Liu family regime. Although this measure later revealed many disadvantages, under the background of the fact that the royal family was young and weak, and the heroes and relatives were strong, it was a necessary measure to ensure the security of the Liu family's imperial power.

Through the fifth year of Emperor Gao's reign, Liu Bang established a powerful meritorious and interest class for the Han Dynasty regime to ensure that any foreign surname usurpation of the Han imperial power would be subject to fierce counterattack by this interest group.

Zhu Guo was very strong, and by rewarding military merits to military households, he quickly established a powerful military class that was bound to the rights and interests of the Ming Dynasty. The "Junx Group" with more than 1.6 million small landlords as the core became the most trustworthy force of the Ming Dynasty's imperial power.

What does this little landlord have in military merit?

“…10,000 households, registered population, 296.3 million mu of land…”

What are these numbers?

It is the number of military households in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu State is not unfamiliar with these numbers, but there is another number.

The Ming Dynasty had a population of 130 million and more than 900 million mu of land.

The population of military households is less than one-sixth of the total population, but they own nearly one-third of the land. Of course, about 30 million mu of them belong to the royal family and the ministers, but even so, those "military landlords" are generally all over the country, from outside the Northeast to Chenghua Province.

And what do these numbers mean?

It means that the privileges possessed by the Ming military households - they do not pay grain or work, they occupy more than one-third of the land. They do not pay imperial grain or do not serve corvee, they enjoy judicial privileges, and their lives are enviable and jealous in the eyes of any household.

What about envy and jealousy?

Of course I just hate it!

This is exactly the so-called "citizen resentment". In fact, it is not just public resentment, but there are probably "gentlemen's resentment". After all, the excellence and exemption of officials and gentry is relatively limited.

Even Zhu Guoqiang could guess why those officials suddenly "dislike the people" after an article. To put it bluntly, it was because of envy and jealousy.

Of course, one of the more important reasons is that they hate it.

What is the resentment among the people is clearly because these gentry have resentment, and it is hard to say whether the people are full of resentment.

But those body shaping must be full of complaints. They must be thinking in their hearts why these big-headed soldiers can enjoy the privileges they enjoyed in the past.

Why do they have to pay taxes to the court, but those big-headed soldiers don’t have to pay taxes?

They are envious, they are jealous.

Of course, in the end it all turns into one word.

hatred!

How could Zhu Guoqiang not know the little thoughts of those gentry one by one?

When those people did not pay food and did not work as a job, did they ever think about "public grievance"?

"Public grievances accumulate..."

Zhu Guoqiang sneered.

"It is not certain that the people are not resentful, but what is certain is that the preferential treatment of military households must have accumulated grievances from local gentry. Of course, they dare not express their thoughts, but it does not prevent them from talking about the common people's skin to themselves."

With a cold smile, Zhu Guoqiang said again.

"But they forgot, who I am. People say that officials and officials protect each other! Those who are officials protect each other, let alone our military households? Let them know what it means to protect each household. In the past, when they were there, the people went where they were going to reason. Now, let them taste this kind of taste too."

Officials protect each other!

Not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in all dynasties, this has been a hot topic. How can we avoid this topic?

In addition to relying on so-called classmates, those officials established a close network of relationships in the same year. They also established a closer network of relationships through in-laws.

Not to mention others, just in the cabinet, Zhang Bingwen and Fang Yizhi, they are relatives, and they are not relatives of the same generation.

How could relatives like this not protect each other?

And even if Zhu Guoqiang wants to restrict such a thing, he can't restrain it. Why?

Because from ancient times to the present, Chinese marriages have always been of equal importance. Is it possible that if you ask a juren's daughter to marry a Bai Ding who is ignorant of her big words?

Even if you have a daughter yourself, it is impossible to marry her daughter to such a person.

This is the so-called equality of the family, which closely links everyone in these places. The so-called scholarly family is to establish a close network of relationships through marriage between men and women.

Even hundreds of years later, Nanjing and Yan'an can become relatives. You say this network of relationships is terrible.

This network of relationships cannot even be stopped. Because even the emperor cannot interfere with the marriage among the people.

Could it be that the daughter of a rich man must marry the poor, and the daughter of a poor man must marry the rich? Is it possible? Is it realistic?

A good match, even hundreds of years later, is a truth that many people recognize. This is true in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. Even if it is Zhu Guoqiang, this emperor is very helpless.

How to fight them?

That is to support another group and use another group to fight against another group

This group is the current military household in the Ming Dynasty!

Compared with the so-called gentry, the Ming Dynasty had more military households, and they were distributed all over the country. Compared with the gentry in those places, they enjoyed more privileges. This destined that they would become thorns in the eyes of the gentry.

Why is this happening?

Because those villages are not stupid people, they can also settle accounts. They can clearly calculate the Daming. To put it bluntly, the reason why they gave so many preferential treatment to these military households is to give them taxes that they had stolen and then transfer them to those military households to preferential treatment.

How could the countryside whose flesh had been cut off from their bodies be so angry at these military households?

Besides, for those so-called scholars, they look down on military households in their hearts, and those people are rough people in their eyes.

They are born to urinate less than a pot.

In the end, what will happen?

Even the local gentry can't stand the military protection and military protection, and also look down on the local villages. A clear relationship will be formed between the two types of people. They will fight and supervise each other from the local to the center. Just like now, the countryside seizes an opportunity to attack the military households. Will the military households not take revenge in the future?

They will definitely make money with the countryside fish and meat.

In this situation, the people will enjoy the happiness.

Even in the local area, balance is also needed. The military households and gentry are the balance between Zhu Guoqiang.

"But this does not mean that I will indulge the military households in the world. There is a saying among the people that protect the calf, but not all calfs! Some calfs should be killed."

His Majesty's words made Chen Wudi's whole body, and a cold sweat broke out on his back. How could he not hear what His Majesty meant? He was telling him that His Majesty is good to protect his son. But if someone really oppresses the people, don't blame the military law for being ruthless then!

Military law is definitely much stricter than the "Ming Dynasty Law".

"Your Majesty said very well. We are so kind to those military households. If they still bully the people, it will be really unwilling to heaven. Then, let alone protecting the calf, you must be punished first. If this is not the case, it will definitely not be able to quell the public's anger."

"The truth is this truth, but the matter now..."

Zhu Guoqiang asked back.

"Invincible, what do you think you should do?"

"this……"

His Majesty's rhetoric asked Chen Wudi, who was originally preparing to express his determination to rectify the military households in the world, to think for a moment, and then said.

"Your Majesty, I think that for now, what the people are most dissatisfied with is not the privileges enjoyed by military households. The reason why they are willing to join the army is because we have given military households so much preferential treatment. What they are most dissatisfied with is that we restrict the ordinary people and have the opportunity to become military households."

Looking at His Majesty, Chen Wudi said cautiously.

"I think some of our current methods really need to be changed, at least we must let the people see hope and satisfy the people. This will make the people feel grateful to His Majesty."

Chen Wudi's words made Zhu Guoqiang nod and said.

"Yeah, keep talking."

"They can modify the current method. Two points can be modified. The first is to modify the method recommended by the military households to join the army. Originally, they had to pay money to get the army to provide them with guarantees. Now it can be changed to be a soldier as long as they are good families. This can be done by the local government. As long as they are good families, they can do so. In this way, the conflicts will naturally not be concentrated on ordinary military households. At that time, can ordinary civilian households become soldiers? What does it have to do with ordinary military households?"

You see, military households are the same to protect each other. This idea is to get rid of yourself and turn the blame on others.

When the government issued a certificate, will there be any dirty things happening? It has nothing to do with the military households. Even military households can use this matter to attack those civilian officials like they are now.

The honorary ministers are not all the fuel-efficient lamps.

Of course, Zhu Guoqiang was naturally happy to see this. Only when the two sides of them balance each other can the people live a good life.

For the Ming Dynasty, the two of them are the real pressure relief valves, because they cannot let the other party take advantage of the people. Instead, they will be jealous of the other party taking advantage of the people.

"Um,"

Nodding slightly, Zhu Guoqiang said again.

"What about two?"

"What about the second one? It is to increase the number of recruitment places!"

"Increase the recruitment quota?"

After looking at Chen Wudi, Zhu Guoqiang felt a little alert in his heart.
To be continued...