Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

"Take it easy. I always feel that these Japanese people have no credibility at all."

In her previous life, Zhang Xin didn’t like Japan’s repeated tribute payments despite repeated bans.

In the past two years, Japanese pirates have begun to appear frequently again. The only thing we can infer is that Japan is having a hard time.

A cornered dog will jump over the wall.

Who knows what else can be done.

"Well, my father asked the guards in various places to strengthen their vigilance."

Zhu Gaochi nodded to show that he understood.

"I heard from Zhanyong that there is trouble in Jiaozhi again."

The Beijing News does not report real-time political events, but Zhang Xin has her own sources of information.

"Well, the Li family member who used to occupy the magpie's nest, Li Li, has made a comeback. He was beaten away by Uncle Seventeen and now he has fled to Laos. Today, Dad issued an imperial decree, ordering Laos to drive out the Li family and not to take them in. I think Dad is probably hoping that they won't listen to him."

Zhu Gaochi thought this was an unexpected surprise.

"Isn't it pretty solid? How many people?"

Zhang Xin frowned.

In this lifetime, the people of Jiaozhi have revolted only a few times, and they have been submitting for nearly ten years. Could there still be trouble?

Prince Ning and Zhang Fu have been there the whole time.

There is no reason!

The Jiangnan gang still refuses to give up?

But logically speaking, various business areas led by the royal family have developed rapidly in recent years, and they are becoming more and more dependent on the royal family, so they will not seek their own destruction.

"It was picked by someone with ulterior motives. There aren't many people here, and the incident caused by the farming is not a big deal. We might even be able to take advantage of the opportunity to take over Laos."

Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhang Xin's frown, and unconsciously explained the matter clearly to Zhang Xin as he did every time before.

A while ago, Li Bin, the Marquis of Fengcheng and the general commander of Jiaozhi, made a statement.

It is said that Jiaozhi has a large amount of wasteland, and now that it has been annexed for several years, the people are relatively stable. We can consider implementing the policy of dividing the army into groups and cultivating land to provide food and wages, just like in the country, based on the precedents of various dusi, wei, and suo.

This saves the trouble of transporting grain from the country to Jiaozhi by sea every time.

Not only is the loss huge, but it also requires a lot of manpower.

Zhu Di agreed.

The Ministry of War allocated the number of troops for garrison and conscription according to the severity of the location of the local garrisons in Jiaozhi.

The seven guards of Jiaozhou, namely Left, Right, Front, and Center, Zhenyi, Changjiang, and Qinghua, had one-tenth of the official troops be used for farming and nine-tenths for preparation for conscription. The local troops had seven-tenths be used for farming and three-tenths for preparation for conscription.

In Jiaozhou Weiwei, Sanjiang Wei, and Shiqiao Qianhu Suo, the government troops were to use two-tenths of their troops to cultivate the land and eight-tenths to prepare for conscription. The local troops were to use eight-tenths of their troops to cultivate the land and two-tenths to prepare for conscription.

In addition, each garrison soldier shall be required to pay 35 shi of rice per year.

In the three garrisons of Nghe An, Xinping and Hue, three-tenths of the official army was used for farming, and seven-tenths for preparation for conscription. Six-tenths of the local army was used for farming, and four-tenths for preparation for conscription;

In the three thousand households of Yanzhou, Nanping and Xin'an, the official troops do not engage in farming at all, while three-tenths of the local troops are engaged in farming and the other seven-tenths are prepared for conscription.

The above-mentioned soldiers are required to pay 18 shi of rice per year for each garrison soldier.

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The government troops are the troops dispatched from the country to garrison. They are mainly used for expedition and defense.

The local army was composed of people recruited from the local area. The local army mainly cultivated land.

In the view of the Ministry of War, this division is natural.

No matter what kind of garrison there is in the country, there are fixed rules for garrisoning and mobilizing troops, and there is also a distinction between official troops and local troops.

Except when there is a war, there will be changes. Otherwise, everything goes according to the routine.

But the local people, that is, the Turkish army, do not think so.

Most of them are illiterate. After all these years, even if there are medical students in the army who teach reading, in the end they can only understand numbers.

They did not look at the actual amount of military farmland, but only at who worked more and who worked less, and also at the difference between the annual tax of 35 shi and 18 shi in different places.

At first, it was just gossip among the local troops.

It was said that the imperial court did not treat the local troops as human beings and enslaved the Jiaozhi people, etc.

After it was spread so many times, many people took it to heart.

In addition, although the idea of ​​military farming is to reclaim wasteland for cultivation, in reality the process of reclamation inevitably involves the occupation of local people’s land.

The reputation of the imperial court changed. It went from helping everyone live a good life to occupying land and enslaving the people.

Li Li, who had been hiding for a long time, took advantage of the opportunity and sneaked in.

Soon, several thousand people joined the uprising.

King Ning discovered this.

Of course, Prince Ning knew what Zhu Di was thinking.

So they reluctantly allowed Li Li to develop for a while, and then drove him towards Laos.

Sure enough, Laos took the people in.

However, in the court, whether it was memorials or reports, the actual situation was not stated, only that someone in Jiaozhi had rebelled.

"I see. There is still not enough land. Uncle Seventeen will go with the flow."

Zhang Xin understood.

In the final analysis, there are just too many people.

These ten years of rest and recuperation were not in vain.

Even the capital city began to be crowded with people.

"Well, if we take over Laos, there will be more. There is already a Laotian Military and Civilian Comforting Office there."

Zhu Gaochi was very motivated.

"Uncle Seventeen?"

Zhang Xin basically felt that there was no suspense.

In April of the second year of Yongle, the Laotian Military and Civilian Consolation Office was established, with the native official Dao Xiandai as the envoy. The tribute was quite timely and the Laotians were very respectful to Zhu Di.

I never found an opportunity to take over this place.

Now that the opportunity has come to me, it couldn’t be better.

Laos is a very large area.

It extends to Shuiwei in the east, Jiaozhi in the south, Babai in the west, Cheli in the north, and borders Jiaozhi at Sanguan in the southeast. It is a month's journey from Yunnan Provincial Administration (now Kunming) in the northwest.

There are two Xuanweisi next to it, namely Luchuan and Myanmar.

They are all places with warm climates and abundant production.

And it is more convenient to advance westward and northward.

"That should be the case. Dad wanted to go north in the spring, and he was too busy to go."

Zhu Gaochi felt that there was no one else.

"Okay. Uncle Seventeen's eldest son can also go to the battlefield to fight, right?"

Zhang Xin thought of Zhu Panyan and Zhu Panye.

"Didn't he ask for the title of Crown Prince a few years ago? I envy Uncle Seventeen's life. But where does he get all that spirit from? I am convinced!"

Zhu Gaochi had a look of admiration on his face.

Among his father's brothers, the one he envied the most was his Seventeenth Uncle.

I heard that in Jiaozhi, Uncle Seventeen spent his time going out to sea, playing the piano and reading books. He also built a Taoist temple in Jiaozhi, where he worshipped the Immortal of the South Pole, Laozi, Zhuangzi, and clay dolls of cranes and deer.

He called himself Luxian, and when he had nothing to do, he compiled many books for his father, including "Tongjian Boyan", "Family Instructions", "Ningguo Yifan", "Secret History of Han and Tang Dynasties", "Historical Digest", "Literature", and "Shipu".

Not only can he edit books, his seventeenth uncle can also make musical instruments.

The "Zhonghe" zither, nicknamed "Flying Waterfalls and Continuous Pearls", was so beautiful that even the craftsmen who specialized in making zithers in the palace felt ashamed of themselves.

[Small science: During the Hongwu and Yongle years, the military farming system of various regions was generally very scientific. The amount of food handed over by the military farming was quite a lot, and the remaining amount was enough to support the military's own food and wages. Therefore, this chapter is written in a little more detail for everyone to see.]