"We want to fight! We want to join the army! We want to fight..."

The shouts like a sea of ​​waves have already crossed the tall walls of Laoshan Palace and reached Emperor Zhu who was listening to the report on the petition of his troops by Hao Yaoqi, the director of the Martial Arts Hall, and Feng Sizhong, the commander of the Young Guards, in the Huangji Hall.

in the ears.

Zhu Cixi stood up suddenly and said in a deep voice: "Let's go and have a look with me."

As he spoke, he quickly walked out of the Huangji Palace. Hao Yaoqi, Feng Sizhong, as well as the admiral Dongchang eunuch Pan Shuchen who was in charge of the security of Laoshan Palace, and the foreman Zhang Chaoyong, the son of the British Duke, as well as some guards and eunuchs.

, all followed Emperor Zhu with equipment.

The Huangji Gate has been tightly closed. The Imperial Guards and Dongchang Guards guarding the gate (Zhu Cixiang's safety is jointly taken care of by the Imperial Guards and Dongchang Guards) are all facing a formidable enemy, and they all carry flintlock rifles to the gate tower.

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Outside the city gate building, there was a sea of ​​people at this time, filling the entire square outside Huangji Gate. The number of people was probably in the tens of thousands! Everyone was wearing narrow-sleeved military uniforms. They should be military cadets and ordinary people from Pukou and Laoshan.

school students, as well as some "scumbag knights" and perhaps some children of the Northern Yimin who came from the East City of Nanjing.

These people are all here to petition, or to be more precise, they are all here to petition!

They were all envious of the upcoming Battle of Anton and wanted to join them to make contributions and obtain land coupons.

"Your Majesty, there is some confusion in the Youth Army camp. Everyone is eager to fight. I have strictly suppressed it... Now calm has been restored." Feng Sizhong, who was following Emperor Zhu, reported to the group under his jurisdiction

The situation of the Jiubian Youth Army seems to be better than that of the military academy managed by Hao Yaoqi.

Most of the cadets in the martial arts hall are from the nth generation. They were already very courageous, but now they have gone to the military academy, and they have been raised by Emperor Zhu as a big bad wolf since they were young, stimulating their ferocity and maintaining their fighting spirit. Now they are a little difficult to control.

The Jiubian boys were poor and helpless, and were detained in the military camp to receive education and training at the same time. They all considered the military camp as their home and Emperor Zhu as their father, so their obedience was much stronger than that of the military academy cadets.

But Zhu Cixi also knew that this group of young soldiers were really more ferocious when they caused trouble... No matter how much trouble the aristocratic officers and cadets made, they were still the successors of feudalism. They had a share in the Ming Dynasty, so how could they destroy their own country?

"It looks a bit like a revolution..." Emperor Zhu suddenly whispered to himself.

"Your Majesty, you mean...revolution?" Hao Yaoqi asked, not understanding what this word meant.

"The Tang-Wu revolution followed nature and responded to man... This is what is said in "Yi.Ge.YunCi"." Feng Sizhong has read many books, and he immediately said the origin of "revolution"

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Hao Yaoqi also understood now that he could be the director of the martial arts hall because he was forced by Li Yan to make up a lot of lessons, and now he was half a civilized person.

"Your Majesty, they, they don't mean that..."

Zhu Cixi smiled: "I know, I know...I know they are all loyal ministers! They are eager to fight, which is good!"

Now Emperor Zhu has enough resources in his hands to allocate. Whether they are the n-generation military officers, the bitter Jiubian boy, or the children of the righteous people, they can all benefit from him. Of course, they will not make a revolution - these people have made it clear.

, and is also a member of Zhu Ming's ruling group.

As long as the New World can continue to absorb their surplus personnel, the world should be able to rely on their force to maintain stability.

Thinking of this, Emperor Zhu finally breathed out and said to his left and right: "It is my decree that the third-year cadets are allowed to graduate early, and the second-year cadets are allowed to join the army with the title of temporary captain and be incorporated into the Nine-Border Youth Army. Each group.

An additional 15,000 quotas will be given to the northern volunteers in Nanjing and Pukou to join the army as volunteers and heroes.

In addition, all athletes who prepare their own good horses and muskets to join the army will be awarded the title of temporary captain and allowed to enlist in the army!"

If someone wanted to fight with him, Emperor Zhu of course had to do it... Anyway, land coupons with a face value of 150 million taels can be issued, so there is no need to worry about not being able to pay military pay.

As Zhu Cixiang's oral instructions were loudly conveyed by the edict officials to the young people in the square who were shouting for war, the sound of "Long Live the Mountain" replaced the original noise, and the square outside Huangji Gate was boiling again.

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"Land... coupon? What does this mean?"

Kunming, in the Wuhua Palace, Li Guo, who had just arrived in Kunming, received detailed reports on the re-issuance of land coupons in the Ming Dynasty in early June of the tenth year of the joint rule - this is not a secret, it is going to be listed. How can the transaction be kept secret?

Moreover, in order to support the economic development of Wuhan Prefecture, Zhu Cixi did not impose a strict economic blockade on Sichuan under Dashun's rule. Instead, he allowed merchant ships from Sichuan to go to Hankou for trade after being inspected at Badong Pass and paying customs duties. Therefore, Every year, hundreds of wooden boats from Sichuan and the Yangtze River leave for Hankou carrying lacquerware, Qingcheng tea, porcelain bamboo weaving, Sichuan embroidery, silverware, Sichuan peppercorns, silk carpets and other products produced in Sichuan.

Nowadays, the industry and commerce in Dashun is mainly government-run, and small private industrial and commercial operators are not allowed to leave the province to conduct trade without permission - Dashun is a feudal country, so the government-run business in Dashun is not the same concept as the state-run business in later generations. The biggest difference between the two is that most of the craftsmen in Dashun's official handicrafts are unpaid craftsmen, that is, small craftsmen who work hard. If there are no private handicrafts to provide craftsmen, then the government's handicrafts will not be able to operate. .

Because the industrial and commercial merchants in Dashun could not leave their homeland without permission, those who "went abroad" to trade in Hankou were all "royal merchants" sent by the Dashun Industrial Government and the Household Government. Of course, they also had the responsibility of collecting intelligence from the Ming Dynasty.

Gu Junen, the Minister of the Workers' Government who was also in charge of intelligence collection, quickly explained to Li Guo: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Zhu family has converted the land outside the customs that he has not yet obtained into 50 million acres, at the price of 3 taels of silver per acre. One hundred and fifty million taels of land coupons are used to pay for the army."

"Then there is no money left in the Ming Dynasty..." Li Guo nodded, "But the idea of ​​land coupons is not bad. Draw a big pie and show it to the people below. Will the people below believe this?"

"Should...should you believe it?" Gu Junen said, "It's so big outside the customs, there must be 50 million acres. And last time Emperor Zhu discounted 100 million acres of land in the Central Plains and issued land coupons, it seems Most of them have been cashed out, and only some of the land coupons in Beisan Town are still being traded on the market."

The land coupons issued in the last round are not one type, but are divided into 21 types according to the location of the land and the quality of the land, including three types from upper, middle and lower in Shanxi, three types from upper, middle and lower in Hebei, and three types from upper, middle and lower in Henan. There are three types: upper, middle and lower in Shandong, three in upper, middle and lower in Shuofang, three in upper, middle and lower in Anbei, and three in upper, middle and lower in Beiping. These twenty-one types of land coupons are all negotiable and tradable. If you want to invest in the north People on large farms can purchase corresponding land vouchers through the exchanges of Salt Trading Company and Maritime Trading Company in Nanjing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. People who are allocated land vouchers but do not want to farm can sell land vouchers for money.

In order to effectively develop the land in the north as soon as possible, the twenty-one types of land coupons have a time limit. Among them, the land coupons in the four inner provinces have a short time limit and are almost expiring now, so they are basically redeemed.

Land. The land coupons in the outer three towns have a long validity period, so there are still many traded on the market.

"The land coupons this time are different," Qin Wang Sun Kewang, one of the eight political kings, said with a smile, "This time it's a way of eating Mao Liang, as long as the Mao Liang can be supplied... Your Majesty, you guys also

We can do this and issue some land coupons so that the brothers below can have something to look forward to."

"King Qin, do you want us to follow Emperor Zhu Yin's example and eat the grain?" Li Guo always felt that it was a little bad, "What if the grain will not be available for a while?"

"Hi," Sun Kewang waved his hand, "Your Majesty, if a three-year-old boy eats me to death, which of the brothers below is not a bunch of boys? They all can't stand it. They are all longing for land, and their eyes are red. Let's
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