Over in Europe, when the huge "butterfly wings" were flapping vigorously. Thousands of miles away in the Ming Empire, people still didn't know that King Louis XIV of France had decided to go to war... This is the way of transmitting information in this era.

It was so inefficient that it would take at least five or six months for a sailing ship to sail from Europe to the mainland of Ming Dynasty!

Fortunately, the military and diplomatic leaders of the Ming Empire in this era are still relatively sharp. Not only can they see the world with wide eyes, but they can also use the abacus beads to calculate the people of the world. They will not wait until the n-nation coalition forces come to attack.

, and then began to prepare for war in a panic.

In fact, they had long realized that the war was about to break out. Even if the French did not take the initiative to provoke the war, they themselves would start the war. Therefore, starting from the end of the 25th year of Hongxing's reign, the Ming Empire began to prepare for a war.

There is a worldwide war.

Moreover, Emperor Zhu of the Ming Empire was very "wise" and turned his main attention to the New World on the other side of the Pacific Ocean from the beginning. Although he did not intend to give up the Indian Ocean and Central Asia, those two areas did not require the Ming Empire itself to invest too much money.

The great strength was supported by the Timurid Empire, Jungar, Khoshote, and Dai! However, he did not expect that the French would launch an attack on the east coast of the Pacific.

In his opinion, it would be difficult for the French and New Spain to transfer larger fleets from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Moreover, there is not much oil and water in the Americas, so it should not be as attractive as India.

Therefore, Zhu Cixiang and his Generalissimo's Office did not concentrate all the navy's main ships into the Eastern Fleet at the beginning, and sent them all to the United States of New Zealand.

Instead, most of the main ships were concentrated in Guangzhou Bay, the home port in Nanyang, on standby, and the strength of the Malacca fleet guarding the Strait of Malacca was greatly strengthened.

At the same time, the Ming Navy also began to form a Western fleet, preparing to compete with the French and Dutch in the Little Western Ocean (Indian Ocean).

However, these naval preparations are nothing compared to the two nomadic families that the Ming Dynasty is planning to invest in the North American continent.

Two nomadic households were Emperor Zhu’s trump card in his struggle for world hegemony twenty or thirty years earlier. Emperor Zhu himself would not have thought that such a big deal as the struggle for world hegemony would be completed by nomadic people. However, Zhu Cixiang tricked him into becoming the Ming Dynasty Fang.

Niuwa, no, Zhu Hekun and Zhu Hezhen, who were the cattle herding kings of the Ming Dynasty, were even more depressed. They originally thought they were "little local tycoon kings", but unexpectedly they were suddenly tricked by their own father into becoming Mongolians who herd cattle and sheep.

And instead of grazing on the grasslands of the Ming Dynasty or Chahar and Tumote, they had to travel across the ocean to nomadic herds on the grasslands of the New World continent.

Inside the military and civilian command and envoy office of Jining Guard Bastion, which is extremely majestic on the outside but very simple inside, there is a group of people wearing dirty leather robes and shiny buns on their heads.

Officials from thousands of households and hundreds of officials under Jiningwei are sitting on the maza, curiously looking at the distinguished guests who have arrived today.

Today, most of the dozen or twenty military towns in the Ming Dynasty have restored the settings of guard posts, thousand-household posts, and one-hundred-household posts. However, these guard posts, thousand-household posts, and one-hundred-household posts are not the same as those in the early Ming Dynasty.

The Hundred Household Offices are still different. What they govern is not the population (households), but the military service fields (pastures). This is not the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, there were fewer people and more land. If you control the people, you will control the land. Now

There were 200 million people in the Ming Dynasty. Although it was not as good as the more than one billion people in later generations, there were still many people compared to the fertile fields and pastures.

When there are too many people, it becomes difficult to manage them, because to manage people you have to manage food! Theoretically, the land in the garrison is used to raise soldiers, but in practice, raising people is always more important than raising soldiers. Whether it is raising children in ordinary military households

, it is still more important for senior military households to raise children than to raise soldiers. If the land management is enough, it will not be a problem. The more people, the better. But if the land is relatively insufficient, the trouble will be big. The cost of raising people will inevitably go into raising soldiers.

The cost will be gone when the troops are used.

Therefore, those military towns with a high degree of autonomy began to implement the "military service land" system. They no longer controlled the number of households, but only the number of land. The land (pasture) was either distributed (to meritorious officials) or contracted (ordinary soldiers and civilians could contract it), and then

Let the soldiers and civilians who inherit the land work as soldiers or pay taxes. This will make management much easier. The military town only needs to follow the land register to manage the people and ask for money.

Another advantage of implementing the "military service field" system is that it can implement official transfer management and examination management to a certain extent. If you manage households, it will be easy to form layers of dependence, and it will affect the whole body, and it will be rectified.

It's too difficult.

However, this method of managing land without caring about people also has a disadvantage, that is, there are too many homeless people with no future. In the case of managing land, if you cannot complete your military service and cannot pay the money, the land will be confiscated. In this case, the land will be confiscated.

Down below, the military households and civilian households below who have contracted the land are not willing to raise idle people, and they can't afford it!

Therefore, there were more and more Dingyu who had no way out and no industry, which became a big problem for the northern soldiers.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty expanded everywhere in recent years, and the court also recruited scouts from military towns, so Ding Yu from the North Military Town still had somewhere to go. Not only did he have a place to go, but he could also pick and choose.

The first good place to go is of course to become a Scout. This is almost the road to success for a boy from a border town in Beidi! In recent years, at least one-third of the new officers in the Ming Army were from Scouts.

In addition, there are many Scouts who became civil servants after retiring and became bureaucrats with no worries about food and clothing. And these Scout officials who rose to prominence were often able to marry wives who came from Yingtian nobles and southeastern capitalists.

To put it bluntly, these people who married them with large sums of money had counterattacked from the bottom and entered the ruling group of the Ming Dynasty. Their role was similar to that of the imported "Xiao Ge Lao" from the Tianfang Sect.

The second best place is to follow the princes of the Ming Dynasty or the young masters of the feudal town to form a group and go out to act as lackeys. The "soft rice kings" of the Ming Dynasty cannot only rely on their father-in-law, but also have to have their own people.

Although this group of lackeys may not be able to become officials, they will definitely be allocated a large piece of land and have many opportunities for advancement, which is much better than suffering in this town.

Leaving the town to enlist as a soldier is the third place to go. It is not a good place, but it is still a way out. The new Ming army now implements a recruitment system, and recruits mostly from the cold and barren places. This is Emperor Zhu's little calculation, not only

Elite soldiers can be found in remote and remote areas, and rebels are prone to emerge from harsh and barren areas! If the strong men there can be recruited as soldiers, won't there be no one to become rebels?

Now, officials from thousands of households and officials from hundreds of households here in Anbei Town have heard about the fourth good place to go to the New World to become a cowboy!

Is this a good place? Those who herd cattle and sheep can do so here in Anbei. Why go to the New World?

Looking at the thousands of households below who were just dumbfounded and silent, Zhu Hebao, the governor of Anbei Jiedu, talked to the very depressed "big cowboy king" Zhu Hekun (his younger brother He Zhen was the little cowboy king and was now deceiving people in the Daning army).

) glanced at each other, both of them dumbfounded.

But no matter whether we laugh or cry, we still have to do the errands assigned by the emperor.

Zhu Hebao, the son of the acting king Zhu Cijiong, coughed, nodded to the people below and said: "The number of people who go to the New World to join the nomadic households is limited. A hundred households only have seven boys and seven girls, that is, seven couples, two couples.

You can't be over 25 years old, and you can bring or not bring children. It doesn't matter whether you are Mongolian or Han, but you must be able to speak Chinese.

A couple can pay 100 taels of silver as a settling-in fee, and then follow His Highness King Huai (Zhu Hekun) empty-handed. His Highness King Huai will not treat them badly!
Chapter completed!