Chapter 7 Chapter 112 Military Village Reform

My lord, my lord, the emperor can't just abandon us like this!During the time of Emperor Taizu Gao, we were designated as military households, and it was not easy for generations. Why did the imperial court change the regulations and drive us out?I know my lord, although the villain is old, but in another year, the villain can be discharged from the army and let his son take over. Otherwise, the villain will retire early. My son is very strong and can fight , He can fight! Zhang Jun is now focusing on suppressing the bandits, and handed over the details of the military system reform to a few of his subordinates. Ding Yu and Tang Jie are listed as fellow commanders, second only to him. There are grievances in the church, but you can't leave them alone, and the fault is on your side. Therefore, Tang Jie, like Ding Yu, often leaves the commander's office to patrol the local guards and solve problems in time.

To say that reform is difficult, in fact, the most difficult thing lies in people's thinking. The life of the farmer is worse than that of the tenants, so that some farmers often flee the guard with their families, but now that Xia Xun is going to find another job for them, some people feel panicked as if the sky is falling. The farmer’s rice bowl is not enough to eat, but it is an iron rice bowl after all, and they are holding it in their hands. They are asked to contract and lease the land to make a living by themselves. Some people inevitably feel uneasy about this uncertain future.

And some veterans who were originally soldiers, but now have no conditions to continue to perform their obligations as soldiers, made more trouble. In their view, the households in Liaodong were not as wealthy as those in the pass, not to mention that the land was allocated for free. For them, although the officials of the chief envoy and the yamen have made it very clear to them, before the harvest comes, the guard will still take care of their food and lodging, and help them carefully analyze the income they get from farming, which is only more than the salary of soldiers. Not good, and they were out of the military at that time, and they could do part-time jobs and do some business during the slack season. These subsidies plus the income from farming were hundreds of times better than being a big soldier.

But whatever you say, whether it is true or not, you will only find out next autumn. If you are stripped of the military household today, you will no longer be a member of the guard tomorrow. If something happens by then, who will guarantee it? Their future livelihood?With this worry, as long as someone complains and calls for grievances, there will be some people who seem to be right and wrong. In fact, because the life of the farmer is not easy, not many of them really have a strong desire to resist, they just carry out instinctively. Confession, longing for reassurance and reassurance over and over again.

For this mentality, Wanshiyu, who has climbed up step by step from a small official, and many officials under him who were promoted from the local area, know it well, so they all help the generals of the guard, explaining, appeasing, and calming everyone down again and again. Emotions.But Tang Jie was not like this, Tang Jie scowled, and reprimanded in a deep voice: What are you calling?Crying babies have milk, don't they? One sentence calmed down the complaining soldiers, Tang Jie glanced at them coldly, and said: "You guys, are you village husbands?"Local farmers in Liaodong produce enough from their own fields to support a family, but what about you?When Emperor Taizu Gao made great efforts to open up a large area of ​​fertile land in Liaodong, how much has been abandoned now?How many fields are abandoned and not planted every year, and the barren grass has become like wild land?

snort!You stubborn people, when you were in the guards, you just perfunctory and refused to work diligently, forcing the court to transport food from the pass every year. If it weren't for this, would the emperor have made up his mind to separate the army and ask you to fend for yourself? After reprimanding the farmer, he turned to those warriors classified as peasants, and said disdainfully: Look at your virtues, old, disabled, fighting?Can you still fight?Your Excellency, the governor, is going to fight big battles and make great achievements in the management of Liaodong. Can you make it happen with you trash?Your Excellency Governor clears you out so that the troops can be freed up to recruit young and strong warriors from Liaodong, understand?A group of trash occupying the latrines, the separation of the military camps is an imperial decree, this is a military order, if you dare to talk nonsense, I will cut off your heads!

Tang Jie's words angered those veterans, and the farmer was fine with it. The most violent reaction was originally the dismissed soldiers. Tang Jie insulted them, and they became even more angry. A slightly lame veteran rushed forward angrily, tore open his skirt with a sneer, revealing several criss-crossing scars on his chest, and said tremblingly, "Master Tongzhi!"You say the villain is trash?The villain became a soldier at the age of seventeen, and he has been in Liaodong for more than thirty years. He has fought against the Tartars, the Jurchens, and the bearded horse bandits in Liaodong. How many times he has narrowly escaped death? Scars, I worked them out for the court, and now the adults say I'm a waste, and they want to kick me away!Success, my lord, the villain has never resisted orders in his life, and today he will resist your imperial decree, your military order, kill my head, kill me!

The veteran took off his military cap, revealing his gray hair, and handed his head to Tang Jie.Tang Jie was annoyed, pushed his head away in disgust, and cursed: You bastard, you want to play a rascal with me, don't you?Come, tie him up and whip him forty times! Tang Jie gave an order, and all the soldiers swarmed up like wolves and tigers. Those dismissed soldiers suddenly exploded and swarmed up to protect the old soldier, chatting with Tang Jie's soldiers They scolded each other, someone was holding a knife and gun, emotionally, and they were about to stir up a mutiny. Seeing this, Tang Jie was secretly happy. He was about to stir up another fire and completely turned these soldiers back, when suddenly a Guan'er, with his two hat wings flickering, shouted anxiously: "Everyone, don't mess up, don't mess up!"

That person is Kaiyuan Tongpan Moke, Amu'er has been handed over to Zhang Jun, and he doesn't have much to do.Due to the shortage of manpower in the Chief Envoy Division, there were no corresponding officials in many positions for a while, so Wan Shiyu also arrested him. He was originally an official of the Kaiyuan Military and Military Affairs Department. I am also familiar with their affairs, which is of great help to Wanshiyu. Tang Jie saw that it was him who came, and knew that it was someone from Xia Xun's side, so he didn't dare to blatantly instigate, but just stood there angrily as if he had been offended.Every official has a different way of doing things. As long as Xia Xun doesn't catch him deliberately causing trouble, you can at most say that he doesn't know how to do things, and his way is simple and rude, but you can't help him. The officialdom is more complicated than that. The battlefield is here.

Mo Ke first greeted Tang Jie with a smile, then turned to the soldiers who were about to explode, and said loudly: "Everyone, don't get excited, this truth has been said a lot, why don't you understand it?"Master Tang was also annoyed at your stubbornness, so he reprimanded you a few words, what's the matter, after serving as a soldier all your life, if you really lose your life at the end of the day, if you are convicted of inciting mutiny by the court, not only will you be unlucky, but what about your wife and children? Temporarily suppressing everyone's anger, Mo Ke conveniently said: Your worries are simply superfluous.Think about it, the imperial court reopened the government office in Liaodong now, right?Why did you withdraw before?Because there are no people to control!Now that the government is opened and the government is built, will there be fewer people?If the common people have no way to live, can the government still stand?If the government did not have this spectrum in mind, it would not have agreed to the restructuring of the military colony.After you changed military households to civilian households, as long as you work hard, are you afraid that you will have no food?

Mo Ke said to the angry veteran again: Brother, you don't need to worry about farming oxen, plowshares, and grain seeds.As for the residence, no one forced you to move out before the new house was built. As for the land, the cultivated fields in the military colony were allocated to you. Tell me, is this not enough?Mr. Wan said that in addition to distributing agricultural tools and grain seeds according to the number of acres you contracted and the number of people in your family, when setting taxes, you will also reduce them according to the length of your military service. Think about it, so and so , Can you still be hungry? Mo Ke's words were sensible and reasonable, and quickly calmed down the conflict.But similar things kept happening. Wherever Tang Jie went, it was like a torch approaching a dry firewood sprinkled with oil. It always caused incidents of one kind or another, and even caused several small armed conflicts. Xia Xun knew about these things, but he didn't care at all.Recently, Xia Xun has been very leisurely, and has completely become a hand-off shopkeeper. The military is handed over to Zhang Jun, and the civil affairs are handed over to Wan Shiyu, while he himself suddenly cares about foreign affairs, culture and education. Xia Xun often went to the government school to ask about the teachings of the recruited gentlemen. Nowadays, some Confucian scholars in Liaodong, especially the learned and talented gentlemen from rich families, have gone to the government school to learn from Zhang Xitong's unremitting efforts. The civil officials in Liaodong made extensive publicity, called friends and friends, and recruited scribes from the customs to teach.In addition, Xia Xun's contacts with the leaders of various tribes have gradually increased, and they often come and go for banquets. Since the return of the North Korean envoys, North Korea has taken a hard look at the northern part of the island. I am afraid that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will change his mind and really take away all the territory except the land of Sanhan. As for the territory and areas west of the Yalu River and Tumen River The members, they didn't even dare to think about it anymore, they could only watch them fall into Daming's arms one by one with hatred and anxiety. For these subordinate tribes, Xia Xun began to consciously induce them to engage in business, agriculture, and work while placing them nearby, and persuaded their children to go to government schools. Things are going very well. Tang Jie's reaction was expected, but he didn't want to care.If he had to come forward for everything, then what kind of official did he fight for Wan Shiyu and Zhang Jun?These two people, one in charge of the army and the other in charge of the people, are the two leaders of Liaodong. If they can't even get rid of a subordinate who has caused trouble, then they may encounter many problems in the future. Could it be that they will all go to Jinling to invite them? Can't he solve it? Sure enough, within two days, Zhang Jun, who heard Ding Yu, Mo Ke and other officials' reactions, transferred Tang Jie away and appointed him to inspect and inspect the construction of beacon towers in various places in Liaodong. Things got turned up.Tang Jie has not been idle because of this, he travels everywhere, and there is always turmoil in reform places, so he specializes in collecting negative news, secretly reporting to Qiu Fu, and rectifying black materials on Xia Xun, Zhang Jun, Wan Shiyu and others . At this time, Zhang Jun's secret deployment of the beards of the Anti-Tiandao gang has also begun to enter the stage of network collection