"Your Highness, to impress these people, is nothing more than seducing them with benefits and moving them with emotions." Hu Ye said.

"Oh, let me tell you in detail." Zhu Di sat upright and listened carefully to Hu Ye.

"Your Highness, in fact, many of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the capital of the Peking University are local people. For this group of people, as long as your Highness can make their families rich, they will naturally be grateful to You. Even if they do not turn against you, they will definitely not make things difficult for You."

"As for the other part, they are not locals and have no sense of belonging to this place. But as far as I know, the people in the Governor's Office of the Five Army have a very bad attitude towards them. Take Zhou Jie's subordinates as an example. They were injured by the soldiers in Brother Zhang's camp, and Zhou Jie didn't ask for anyone to save them, but I would find someone to save them. So there will be a large number of people who will not work for Zhou Yi and the others. As long as His Highness Yan has a good attitude towards the soldiers on weekdays, especially the pensions for the wounded soldiers, then this group of people will definitely turn against each other." Hu Ye analyzed.

Hu Ye said that these things were still the same. As far as he knew, it only took one night to raise an army from the Yan Palace to the capture of the entire Beiping City.

In ancient times, if it was a real sword and a gun, it would be impossible to capture Beiping City in one night. Then there is only one possibility, that is, a large part of the defenders of the Five Army Governor's Office in Beiping surrendered to Zhu Di, so that Zhu Di's troops could take Beiping without bloodshed.

That's why Hu Ye made these suggestions, as long as the Internet is in control of the people of these defenders. Once Zhu Di rebelled, they would immediately turn against each other. It would take Zhu Di to take over Peking for a matter of minutes.

"These are things that I should do. But these things are easier said than done. I have been in the fiefdom for more than ten years, and I have worked hard to govern. I thought the lives of the people had improved greatly. But if you hadn't told me, I would have thought that the lives of the people in Peking had been well-fed and well-dressed. I didn't expect that there were so many people in the midst of hunger and cold."

"As for the pensions for the wounded soldiers, you don't know anything about this. In addition to the taxes in the entire Yan land, the remaining money and grain of our mansion are also in short supply. Otherwise, the rewards outside the border last time were granted, I wouldn't have only rewarded the soldiers. Do you know that I had already paid off my old capital at that time, and the mansion really couldn't afford any money and grain." Zhu Di said helplessly, it was really hard to cook without rice.

Although Hu Ye knew that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were very poor, he did not expect that he would be so poor that even the prince had to pay his own pockets to reward soldiers who made meritorious deeds.

"Your Highness didn't say a few days ago that your fiefdom pays more taxes than those in the wealthy areas in Jiangnan? Why are you so poor now that you cry?" Hu Ye asked in confusion.

"You don't know about this. Before, I, Yandi, fought against the Northern Yuan Dynasty for many years, and captured a lot of cattle, sheep and horses every year, so there are naturally more taxes that can be paid. However, in recent years, the scope of activities of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has become smaller and smaller. I have not gained many times when I went to the expedition. If you hadn't told you the direction this time, I would have returned in vain this time. But every time I went to the expedition, I had to use a large amount of military material, and military pay and military rations were a big burden. So now I am no longer able to go to the expedition again, and the taxes paid to Nanjing this year will also be reduced a lot." Zhu Di said.

"Your Highness, there is no need to go to the expedition. This Northern Expedition has seriously damaged the vitality of the Northern Yuan, so it is impossible for them to go south to invade again in a short period of time. So the current problem Your Highness is facing is only one, that is money." Hu Ye rubbed his fingers and looked like a profiteer.

"With money, Your Highness can reduce the taxes of the people. The people can naturally rest and recuperate, and they can really be as Your Highness said before, everyone has food to eat and everyone has clothes to wear."

"With money, Your Highness can increase the pension, and the soldiers under his command will naturally be more loyal. And those from the Governor's Office of the Five Army are naturally more willing to follow Your Highness. Because these people join the army just for money, it is nonsense to say that they serve the country. If you don't have money, who will give you your life?" Hu Ye said without hesitation.

"Boy is talking nonsense, no one in the army wants to serve the country, and they are all military families, who will be the ones who don't join the army?" Zhang Yu was very dissatisfied with Hu Ye's theory because Hu Ye described them as profit-oriented soldiers.

"They came from military families to serve in the army. Isn't it because of this that they can only pay half of the tax? In the final analysis, it's still money. If you ask his family to pay the full tax, how many of these soldiers can stay?" Hu Ye sneered.

This problem has always been the root of the Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, the military household system was useless. The national treasury had no money and food, so it was not easy to care whether anyone was a military household or not, and it still collected taxes at full capacity. As a result, a large number of military households fled. In severe cases, only more than a hundred people were left in one hundred households.

Therefore, Hu Ye believes that this military household registration system must be changed, but it is not now, because Hu Ye does not have this ability and the Ming Dynasty did not have that much money to implement a more powerful recruitment system.

"Boy is talking nonsense..." Although Hu Ye's words made sense, Zhang Yu was still very disdainful. Just when he was about to refute it, he was interrupted by Zhu Di.

"Okay, Hu Ye's words are not unreasonable. The implementation of the military household system is because the treasury has no money, so the existence of half-soldiers and half-agricultural people has appeared. Therefore, this system is unreasonable, but it is the best way at present. It can only be improved slowly in the future." Zhu Di interrupted Zhang Yu's words, and then said to Hu Ye, "You have a good vision and can see the crux of this system, but this is also a helpless move and will not be able to correct it for a while."

"Your Highness said very well that this system will not be able to be changed for a while. Besides, this is a system set by Emperor Hongwu himself and must not be changed at will. However, Your Highness can make plans early, and it is better to solve these disadvantages as soon as possible ascend to the throne tomorrow." Hu Ye said.

"Little donor, why are you so sure that Your Highness will definitely ascend the throne?"

Just as Hu Ye was talking, Zhang Fu brought two people into the inner hall, one of which was Daoyan, and the other was very unfamiliar. The sentence just now was what Monk Daoyan said.

After hearing Daoyan's words, Hu Ye did not answer, but just looked at the relatively stranger. Being able to enter Zhu Di's inner hall must be Zhu Di's confidant.

"Hu Ye, but it's okay, they are all their own people." Zhu Di saw that Hu Ye seemed a little hesitant, so he reminded him.

"Because I believe in my master's words," Hu Ye said loudly.

"Although I am confident about Master Ling, I am skeptical about what has not happened, so I will solve the current problem first. As you said just now, the biggest problem at present is money. I don't know if your master has any good way to make money quickly." Zhu Di said to Hu Ye, and signaled Zhang Fu and others to sit down.

The stranger also sat down and looked at Hu Ye very strangely. He never thought that a little baby in his early teens could attend a meeting of the level of King Yan.

"Of course, although it is not a peerless method to turn stones into gold, it is also a good idea. However, this method is contrary to the policies formulated by Emperor Hongwu. Do Your Highness really want to listen?" Hu Ye glanced at the stranger and said to Zhu Di.
Chapter completed!