"Father, do you know why the Wolf Breaking Army would rather die than retreat?”
"I really don't know about that."
Zhu Yuanzhang was also curious as to why Zhu Biao's Wolf Breaking Army was so powerful.
If it was because of Zhu Biao's training method, Deng Yu and the others had trained soldiers according to the Wolf Breaking Army's training method, but it was far from the Wolf Breaking Army that Zhu Biao had trained.
Zhu Yuanzhang and the others were puzzled. In the end, they could only conclude that Zhu Biao was destined. Those soldiers had to display their strength in front of him.
However, this reason was only to comfort themselves because they could not find the reason.
"Father has read a saying before. It's called granaries know etiquette, food and clothing know honor and disgrace.”
"This is what the pipe said."
Although Zhu Yuanzhang had never been educated when he was young, he had followed the Great School of Confucianism after he gained power. Of course, he knew this sentence.
"Father is right."
"What does this have to do with the Wolf Breaking Army?”
Zhu Yuanzhang still did not understand what Zhu Biao meant.
"Guan Zi said that when food is abundant, people will know to pay attention to etiquette. When people were well-dressed and full, they would understand honor and shame. In your son's eyes, this army is the same.”
"Only when they have no worries can they not fear death.”
Hearing Zhu Biao's words, something flashed through Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, but he couldn't grasp it.
"I promised the five thousand soldiers of the Wolf Breaking Army that if they were to die in battle, I would pay for their parents, wives, and children. Until his parents died of old age, his widowed wife remarried, or his son came of age.”
"But if they dare to violate the military rules and do anything detrimental to the army, I will kill their entire family.”
"It is because of this that they have such outstanding combat strength.”
"Biao Er, your idea is good, but we can afford to support 5,000 people. Now, we have 300,000 soldiers under us. We can't afford to support their parents, wives, and children.”
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a moment. He felt that this was a good method. Although it was a good method, it was a pity that it could not be implemented.
"Father should have a lot of official land in his hands now.”
Zhu Biao didn't answer Zhu Yuanzhang's question. Instead, he asked a question.
Zhu Yuanzhang carefully counted the official fields he had seized from the Yuan Dynasty since the uprising and replied.
"About 3.7 million mu.”
Why did the people return to the Yuan Dynasty? Wasn't it because they had occupied a large number of fertile fields and turned them into pastures?
Zhu Yuanzhang's official fields also came from this. Naturally, he treated the fields of the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty as his official fields.
"Father, what do you think about giving each of the 300,000 soldiers five Mu of land?”
"Also, Father, you have to make it clear that as long as you defeat Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, as long as you have more and more land, you will give them more land. 20 Mu, 30 Mu, or even more is fine. The rent collection was always fixed at one bucket and two liters.”
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang calculated.
Even if each of them had 50 mu of land, Zhu Yuanzhang only had 50 million mu of land.
Compared to all the civilian fields, it was only a small portion.
Moreover, if Zhu Yuanzhang really issued the land distribution law, those soldiers would fight with all their might.
Then, there would be no need for an army of one million soldiers.
Moreover, they also had to pay taxes. Although the taxes they paid were not much, they were enough to raise troops.
This could be considered as using soldiers to raise soldiers. He no longer had to worry about military expenses.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang slammed his fist heavily on the table, his eyes practically shining.
"What a good way to raise a soldier with a soldier, a good way to raise a soldier with a soldier! Biao 'er, you've really solved a big problem for me!”
No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang was so excited.
After all, this was Zhu Yuanzhang's own idea. It was just that his son had brought it up first.
Of course, he felt that his son had a telepathic connection with him. His son had even explained everything to him that he had yet to understand.
This was made by Wei in the early Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Biao had only brought it up in advance.
It would be strange if Zhu Yuanzhang was unhappy.
In the end, although the Wei system became a piece of waste paper, it could be said that it was completely contrary to Zhu Yuanzhang's imagination.
However, in the current situation, Zhu Yuanzhang was definitely a genius who could come up with this idea.
This was a perfect way to raise a weapon with a weapon.
Moreover, this was an excellent treatment for the soldiers.
If you were willing to farm, you could guard your own land and live a relatively rich life.
If they didn't want to farm, they could contract out all the land and live quite well.
This idea could also be considered a good ending for the group of people who started out with Zhu Yuanzhang.
This could be considered as backing them up.
However, the problem was that as time passed, especially the reigning monarch, he would not be so wise.
Anyone could come and take the land of these soldiers, and they might even be treated as free slaves.
Actually, it wasn't a matter of policy. It was mainly a matter of the monarch.
As long as the ruler was wise, this policy would continue well.
Zhu Biao also knew that it was impossible to guarantee that his descendants would all be wise rulers.
But he didn't plan to use this system to let Da Ming live for thousands of generations.
This was just a matter of fact, suggesting the best method for now.
When the world was unified, he would naturally find a way to find out who had the land and then take it back to the state.
As for the method, Zhu Yuanzhang had already provided it.
In the 20th year of Hongwu, he ordered the son of the country to give birth to Wu Chun and others, and divided them into prefectures and counties to determine the area according to the grain. Four grain chiefs were set up in each district to measure the radius of the fields, followed by the number of the grain, and the names of the owners and the feet of the fields were written in them. They were compiled into books, shaped like fish scales, called fish scale atlas.
That's right, this was written in the history books.
Zhu Yuanzhang had already provided Zhu Biao with an idea.
Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed an extremely powerful person. Zhu Biao had only mentioned this because he had the memories of the later generations.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang relied on his identity as an ancient man to achieve almost everything perfectly.
Now that Zhu Biao had brought him up in advance, it would definitely go smoothly and quickly.
"Father, although the system proposed by my son can solve a temporary problem, it cannot be used as a long-term solution.”
"Why?"
Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand. In his opinion, Zhu Biao's policy of raising troops with troops was perfect enough. Why couldn't it be passed down as a national policy forever?
"Father, you can guarantee that your son will be a wise ruler. Even if your son can guarantee that your grandson will be a wise ruler, what about after three generations?”
"My son cannot guarantee that he will still be a monarch who has the ability and courage to control the local powerful families.”
"Could it be that father is willing to die after his great cause has been passed down for three generations?”
Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Zhu Biao's words and his expression changed.
Of course, he couldn't accept the fact that he could only protect three generations of his foundation. What he was pursuing was a thousand generations.
Even if there weren't thousands of generations, there had to be eight or ten generations.
"Then how should we resolve this matter?
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