After breakfast, Zhu Yuanzhang and the others watched the Wolf Breaker Army's morning training.
Zhu Yuanzhang was still very satisfied with Zhu Rong and Zhu Rong's performance.
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and gave Zhu Xi and Zhu Xi ten days of leave.
After Zhu Yuanzhang sorted out the government affairs for half a year, he began to solve the problem of Chen Han's surrender.
Zhu Yuanzhang had taken down Jiangzhou and achieved a huge victory.
However, the trouble that he brought to Zhu Yuanzhang almost made him anxious.
Currently, the generals that Wu Country could use were almost all surrendered generals.
More than 30% of the soldiers were Chen Han's surrendered soldiers.
Don't look at how quickly they defected to Zhu Yuanzhang. Could it be that they couldn't defected to others as quickly in the future?
Zhu Yuanzhang was happy at first, but now he was even more worried.
And what if the people in the newly recruited land didn't agree with the rule of Wu?
For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Ji, Song Lian, Yang Xian, Hu Weiyong, Gui Yanliang, and the other great Confucians quoted the classics and argued for a long time, but they did not come up with any good ideas.
Zhu Yuanzhang's mood worsened.
Everyone argued until Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xi rested happily for ten days.
Until the day Zhu Biao's ten-day holiday ended.
Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang finally decide on many new policies.
Let's talk about military affairs first.
Zhu Yuanzhang directly set a huge military reform, replacing more than half of the officials in the Ministry of Central Affairs.
Shao Rong, Xu Da, Tang He, Chang Yuchun and Deng Yu were the leaders.
This was also to allow the five of them to balance each other and make the army more stable.
Let's talk about civil affairs.
In order to stabilize the people's livelihood, Zhu Yuanzhang directly changed the salt tax.
Lower.
Lower, lower, and lower.
He directly changed Yan's tax from one in five to one in twenty.
He set up the Treasure Source Bureau and ordered the casting of large and medium-sized Tongbao Coins, which were in line with the copper coins of the past dynasties.
With these two decrees, even the land that Zhu Yuanzhang had just taken into his hands immediately became much more stable.
At least they could live.
However, when Zhu Biao went to look for Zhu Yuanzhang after resting, he realized that Zhu Yuanzhang was not much happier. He was still sitting at the table with a worried expression.
"Father, hasn't the matter been resolved? Why do you still look so worried?”
"Biao Er is here?"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled when he saw Zhu Biao.
"Have you rested?"
"My son has rested well."
Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at the chair beside him and gestured for Zhu Biao to sit down.
After Zhu Biao sat down, Zhu Yuanzhang spoke.
"Actually, be it the military reform or the casting of copper coins, at most, it will take some effort, but it really isn't troublesome.”
"Biao Er, do you know what the most troublesome thing for us is?”
Zhu Biao thought for a moment before answering Zhu Yuanzhang's question.
"It's a land issue."
Even in the future, land was the foundation of a country.
Furthermore, this was the current feudal era. Land was the most important thing.
With land, there would be more food.
Food was a hard currency, something that could be used to recruit soldiers, buy horses, and fight for territory.
If the territory was big, wouldn't he be king?
Moreover, if the land problem was too serious, it would also cause political instability.
All the rebellions in the past dynasties were due to the problem of land.
This question was almost unchanging. Zhu Yuanzhang was really going bald because of this!。
Moreover, they were fighting continuously now.
There were barren mountains and wastelands everywhere, and no one went to exploit them at all.
Moreover, there were too many landless refugees now. There were people without land everywhere. This group of people was also a big problem.
There was a very important problem here.
If Zhu Yuanzhang encouraged Liu Min to open up wasteland, who would own the land they opened up?
These lands originally had owners, and their owners had returned.
Should he return the land to those people or something?
If they returned it, no one would be willing to explore it again.
But if he didn't return it, wouldn't he become a robber?
Moreover, there were still many squires on the land now. How should they be dealt with?
There were also those powerful landowners who had a large amount of land in their hands and were definitely unwilling to hand it over.
How should he get along with them?
This group of people was even more troublesome than the refugees.
Because they had land and food, they might rebel.
However, if they were allowed to hold a large amount of land in their hands, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have the money to raise troops.
Then what was he going to do?
He could just go home and farm.
There was also a very realistic problem. The treatment of Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers was very low.
When they were alive, they could naturally receive military pay, but when they died, they had nothing.
Their wives and children would all become refugees.
The Wolf Breaker Army was not afraid of death because Zhu Biao had promised them that he would raise their children even if they died.
"Biao really knows us the best!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was instantly amused.
"Biao Er, do you have any way to solve the land problem and maintain the morale of the army?”
It was said that after Chen Youliang arrived in Wuchang, he began to improve the treatment of soldiers.
Zhu Yuanzhang's army was also somewhat unstable.
These were the two problems that Zhu Yuanzhang was most worried about. One was land, and the other was morale.
Zhu Biao started to think seriously.
"Father, there are only two aspects to the land problem.”
"Firstly, the problem of the land being reclaimed by the refugees is easy to solve.
This problem was the easiest to solve. As long as the original owner was not found within five years, this disciple would be given to them. They only needed to pay taxes for Great Ming. If the original owner returned within five years, he would be given another piece of wasteland and let him explore it himself. After all, his original piece of land was also a piece of barren land.”
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up when he heard Zhu Biao's words.
"Good, my son is smart!"
Zhu Biao's method not only solved the problem of who owned the land, but also greatly motivated the people to open up wasteland.
As long as you open up wasteland, the land will be yours, and the country will exempt you from taxes for three years.
"Secondly, let the tyrants pay their taxes first. We can't fall out with them yet. They are still useful now.”
"Father, when your great cause is accomplished, I will have a way to make them obediently hand over the land.”
"Good! Sure!"
Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Biao's words and repeatedly cheered. He had this idea in his heart, but it had not formed yet.
Now that Zhu Biao had said it, he felt that Zhu Biao and he had a telepathic connection.
"As for the morale of the army, do you know why the Wolf Breaking Army would rather die than retreat?”
Zhu Biao thought about it and asked.
What Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao wanted to do was not enough with just five thousand soldiers. Zhu Biao had to raise the combat level of the entire army.
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