Ming Dynasty: My father Yongle, Forever Reigns Over Mountains and Rivers

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"Erhu!"

"Open the door quickly, Erhu!"

It was just dawn, and there was a knock on the door early in the morning.

Zhang Erhu stepped forward to open the door impatiently, and saw that the person coming was Mr. Liu, the head of the same village.

As soon as he saw Mr. Liu, Zhang Erhu looked a little unnatural.

To put it bluntly, the length of a village is one mile. A mile is divided into one hundred and ten households. The ten households with the most Dingliang serve as the chiefs of the village, and the remaining one hundred households are called the head of the village.

The li chief was responsible for "managing the affairs of the li", mainly collecting taxes and collecting corvees.

Therefore, ordinary people don't like it very much when the village chief comes to visit.

"Master Liu, my family's taxes and grain have been paid, what are you doing..."

Zhang Erhu suppressed the panic in his heart and said bravely.

Unexpectedly, the boss, Mr. Liu, actually smiled and comforted him with a few gentle words. He was completely different from the domineering and arrogant person he used to be.

What's happening here?

Zhang Erhu was even more shocked and confused.

He asked himself that he was just a poor soldier with no money left in his family, let alone anything worthy of Mr. Liu's concern, so why did Mr. Liu deliberately show his kindness.

Military households have a low status and must perform military service for generations, and military service is even more onerous.

A male needs to join the flag army. The flag army is divided into two categories: one is for daily drills and preparations for battle; the other is responsible for farming and is a product of the farming system; a male needs to join the regular army, which means having the most formal The establishment of the army; a man joins the auxiliary army, and his main responsibility is to assist the main army and provide the main army with military uniforms, food and other necessary supplies.

These military services are all performed by adult males. If there are no adult males in some military families, the younger boys must be recorded in the register. When the boys reach adulthood, the previous military service will be made up.

This also means that if the male in the family dies, the descendants will need to perform more military service to make up for the owed military service.

In other words, even if there are no men in your family now, the military service has been recorded in your book. You will never be able to escape and you will have to serve for generations to come!

The key point is that serving in the military is their duty, which means that they have no salary and payment at all. Even if they are transferred to other places for military service, they have to provide their own dry food and food, just like those humble corvee coolies!

It is precisely because of this that the status of military households is extremely humble, even far inferior to merchants who do business for profit.

After all, merchants can have enough to eat and drink and live a luxurious life, but what about military households like Zhang Erhu?

Even having enough food and clothing has become a luxury, and from time to time they are worried that military service will suddenly be reduced again, and they will be asked to prepare their own dry food and travel to serve in other places, which will undoubtedly kill them!

Zhang Erhu is now quite old and is about to run away for three years, but he still has not found a wife.

It's not that he doesn't want to find her, it's that no one wants to marry him!

Just because he is a military household, not only is he poor, but he also has to perform military service.

If a woman really marries him, Zhang Erhu, not only will she have to suffer hardships with him, but her descendants will also become military households and have to live such a hard life for generations without any hope. Who would be willing to do that? Woolen cloth?

Even if those women were willing, their parents would not be willing. No one would push their daughters into the fire pit!

Because of this, there are many military households like Zhang Erhu who cannot get a wife. They are now desperate, disappointed with the court and themselves, and their lives have come to an end.

Zhang Erhu was such a big man, so naturally he was not willing to be a useless military household for the rest of his life, so he ran away directly.

In other words, Zhang Erhu was a deserter who fled to Liujiacun to remain anonymous.

Now when he saw Mr. Liu coming to the door, asking questions in a confused manner, and asking for help uncharacteristically, Zhang Erhu subconsciously thought that this old guy had found out his identity as a deserter.

So Zhang Erhu was furious to the extreme. He had really had enough of this hard life! Deserting is a capital crime. Once caught, you will be immediately sent back to the original guard station to serve until death!

Zhang Erhu directly pulled out a sharp knife and stared at Master Liu fiercely.

Since death is inevitable no matter what, it would be better to die quickly!

Liu Lizhang was so frightened by this action that he stepped back and shouted hurriedly: "Erhu, what are you doing?"

"I'm here to tell you some good news. Don't be ridiculous!"

"Good news?" Zhang Erhu smiled, "You bastards who work for me, you just discovered my identity as a deserter, and you still want to deceive me?"

"Oh, you kid!" Liu Lizhang stamped his feet, "What good news!"

"The imperial court has ordered a comprehensive reform of the military system, the abolition of the guard military system, and the comprehensive implementation of the recruitment system!"

"Every military base is now undergoing elimination and selection. The soldiers who pass the selection will not only receive pay every month, but they no longer have to undertake the task of farming, but only need to be responsible for training and fighting!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Erhu froze in disbelief and couldn't believe it at all.

Soldiers don't have to do hard labor in the fields, but they still get monthly salary?

How is this possible?

"impossible!"

"Don't even think about lying to me again!"

Liu Lichang smiled and reassured: "This is all true, the imperial list has been posted!"

"I know you are a deserter, so I came to inform you. It is written on the imperial list that all deserters from the guard station will immediately return to the guard station to be screened. All sins will be forgotten!"

"Erhu, spring is coming for your military households!"

Liu Lichang spoke with great envy, feeling unhappy in his heart.

He, Mr. Liu, also came from a military household. UU Reading www. uukanshu.net Because he has made military exploits, he can spend his old age as a li Changan when he is old.

Liu Lichang has seen the miserable life of military households over the years and remembered it in his heart.

But what can he, a lowly lieutenant, change?

Master Liu could only turn a blind eye to deserters like Zhang Erhu and protect them in disguise.

No one wants to be a deserter and commit a capital crime!

If the lives of military households were not so miserable, who would be willing to flee their homeland?

"Go back, kid, and try to pass the screening!"

"The emperor is wise and mighty, and the prince loves the people as much as his own son. They really take the military households into their hearts!"

"In the future, there will no longer be humble guardsmen, but only brave and respected soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!"

After repeatedly confirming that Liu Lizhang was not joking, Zhang Erhu finally confirmed the good news and actually sat on the ground and cried bitterly.

Such a big man burst into tears.

In recent years, the lives of their military households have been too miserable and too difficult.

Zhang Erhu cried because he wanted to vent all his grievances and grief and anger.

Liu Lichang was also in tears and stepped forward to pat his back.

"Those guards officers who bullied others and enslaved the soldiers were all investigated and punished one by one."

"In addition, in the future, each major group army will have a review department to review generals and officers, and they are strictly prohibited from bullying and enslaving officers."

"My child, this time, a good time has come!"

"The hardships you have endured in the past are all worth it!"

Zhang Erhu cried heartily, packed his luggage hastily, then bid farewell to Liu Lichang and hurried back to his home base.

Similar scenes happened all over the world.

When the new military system was spread to the world, it instantly caused shock and an uproar in the world!

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