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Before the troops move, food and grass will come first.

The 20,000 army set out in Shandong, and it was very expensive to eat horses and chew along the way.

Jiang Yueguang, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, had a headache.

Logically speaking, the Shence Army was a new army trained by the emperor, and it should allocate silver and grain from the inner treasury. However, a large part of the stored grain in the treasury was used to stabilize the price of grain. It was easy to talk about the silver, but it was difficult to make up the grain.

In desperation, Jiang Yueguang had to submit a memorial to the emperor and requested that the grain confiscated from the Shen family grain warehouse be used as military rations.

Zhu Cilang was angry and laughed when he saw this memorial.

What a good Minister of Revenue. When encountering difficulties, you only know how to reach out to me. If I have to solve everything in the end, what else do you, the Minister of Revenue?

Zhu Cilang also knew what the crux of the problem lies.

Since the founding of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty, it has remeasured the land nationwide and implemented resource redistribution.

It can be seen that the distribution of land resources was relatively even at the beginning, and the conflicts between landlords, self-cultivated farmers and tenants were not serious.

But as time goes by, land annexation becomes more and more serious, and more and more places are concentrated in the hands of a few people.

These few people are generally divided into two categories, one is scholars with fame and fortune.

Generally, you can get tax exemption privileges as long as you are above the juren, and the land under your name can be exempted from taxes.

It is said that there were not too many juren in the Ming Dynasty, and even thousands of juren could not occupy too many resources.

But there are policies above and countermeasures below.

In order to exempt land from taxes, ordinary self-cultivated farmers attach the land under their own name to fellow villagers and Jinshi, which is the so-called dedication.

After one operation, the land from the farmer became the land of the juren and the master of the Jinshi, so naturally no longer taxed.

Another type of people is the royal family.

Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants reproductive quickly, and there were tens of thousands of royal families in the sect's residence in the ten generations.

Of course, not all these people are princes or princes, but may be just the lowest-level clan relatives.

But to some extent, it also shows the huge number of royal families.

Take the princes and princes as an example, all of them have their own farmlands.

These farms do not pay taxes.

Logically speaking, the prince's lands are destined to die and will not have a major impact on the overall tax revenue of the court.

But rules are dead, and people live.

The vassal kings embezzled people's land from time to time, and it is also common for farmers to actively contribute land to tax exemption.

Most local officials turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it.

Otherwise, what should I do? Could it be that with dozens of "wolf-like tiger" servants rushed to the gate of the royal palace and asked the vassal king why he embezzled the land?

It is these two types of people that have made a large amount of land exempt from taxes, and the imperial court can collect less and less taxes.

In desperation, the court could only allocate more taxes to self-cultivated farmers who had no power, which led to more and more self-cultivated farmers going bankrupt.

A considerable part of the large-scale peasant uprising broke out in the late Ming Dynasty was land annexation, and the Little Ice Age was just a catalyst.

It is not easy to solve both problems.

Take the tax exemption for scholars. If Zhu Cilang had carried out land reform now, he would definitely push the gentry and landlords who originally supported the Ming Dynasty to the opposite side and force them to become the leader of the Qing Dynasty.

Even if land reform is to be implemented, it is not now. It must be implemented until the Qing Dynasty is completely defeated.

What's more, to implement land reform, we must remeasure the land across the country. Now the fish scale album in the hands of the imperial court was drawn when the one-whip method was implemented in the early years of Wanli, and it is no longer countable.

This workload is huge. The current crisis in the country is definitely not a time to be distracted.

It is OK to implement land reform on a small scale, but it has little effect. Zhu Cilang feels that it is more in line with the current situation to work hard to fight Qing Dynasty.

The money matter is easy to solve. It is effective to search corrupt officials and profiteers. Inventory alone is enough to spend at least three years.

But food is a difficult problem.

Nanzhili produces grain in limited quantities, even less than that in Guangdong and Guangxi. The entire south is actually relying on the grain import from Huguang.

Huguang is not entirely in the hands of the Ming Dynasty now. Bai Wang tribe and Zuo Liang Yu tribe confront each other across the river, and friction occurs from time to time.

When wars are possible at any time, farmers are not able to calm down and farm well.

Because they have to worry about being arrested and going to the army to be a master.

After all, this is a proposition between a family and a country.

War will also cause the already unstable food prices to soar, and even if you have money in your hand, you can't buy food.

Therefore, for Zhu Cilang, the significance of regaining the four prefectures of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, De'an and Chengtian is no less than the significance of regaining the Shenjing.

The former allowed the Ming Dynasty to monopolize the grain silo in Huguang and solve the problem of having enough food. The latter was more of a political symbol.

If it were based on the original historical development, Li Zicheng would probably abandon Guanzhong and flee into Huguang. At that time, the chance of Zuo Liangyu fleeing along the river increased greatly.

What Zhu Cilang needs to do is to avoid this situation.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty must not be allowed to easily take Guanzhong.

Gao Jie's troops of the Northern Expedition became the most critical part of the entire plan.

If necessary, Zhu Cilang even wanted Qin Gongming's troops and the 10th Battalion of the Shence Army to reinforce Gao Jie.

Of course, the most important thing at the moment is to supply military rations.

Gao Jie's army rations could be raised locally in Shandong. However, the military rations on the Shence Army Road must be allocated by the court.

Zhu Cixuan did not intend to let the Shence Army raise food according to the guest army model, which was no different from looting the soldiers, and would turn a piece of white paper into a dirty and blackened Shence Army.

Zhu Cilang had no choice but to allocate the grain from the Shen family's granary that had just been confiscated to Zhao Xin and let him serve as military rations for him.

Alas, the grain was poured out and went out. Zhu Cilang acted as a grain shop assistant.

I just hope that this Northern Expedition plan can achieve the due effect and gain more time for Zhu Cixuan and the Ming Dynasty.

The decisive battle with the Qing Dynasty was far from here, and before that, Zhu Cixuan had a lot of work to do.

"A man came here and sent an order to order the Minister of War Lu Zhenfei, Minister of Works Gao Hongtu, Minister of Revenue Jiang Yueguang, Commander of the Shence Army Zhao Xin quickly entered the palace to meet you."

The Shence Army is about to set out, and Zhu Cilang still has many things to tell.

It involves some matters of cooperation between various departments, and he has to explain it clearly with Lu Zhenfei, Jiang Yueguang, Gao Hongtu, and Zhao Xin in person.

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"The whole people are united, and the mountains are shaking.

Only loyalty and righteousness are the qi fighting against the bull.

The Lord will kiss me, better than my parents.

If you violate military laws, you will not be free.

The order is Mingxi, and the reward and punishment letter is given.

I dare to stay late when I go to the water and fire!

Report to the emperor and save the head of Guizhou.

Kill all the enemy Gu Xi and find a title of marquis.”

The soldiers from the Shence Army camps gathered at the colonel and sang military songs together.

The military songs are loud and sing the family and country feelings of the Han family, the ambitions and pride of the descendants of Yan and Huang, and the innocent heart of the Chinese people.

Liu Sanshui's throat was already hoarse, his eyes turned red, and he clenched his fists and silently said in his heart: Report to the emperor, save the Qianshou. Kill all the enemy's enemies and find a title of marquis!

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Chapter completed!