In the Ming Dynasty, military households had the lowest status, even lower than that of farmers and merchants.

During the Hongwu period, the garrison system was prosperous, and Zhu Yuanzhang also made a bold statement that I would raise millions of powerful soldiers without spending a grain of food for the people.

It is exactly the opposite to this day.

The numerous garrisons and military households across the country have become a major problem that the imperial court cannot deal with, and it is also a time bomb that may detonate at any time.

Zhu Youxiao made a plan to prepare for the disaster that this problem brought about in later generations, so he let Zhu Xieyuan come to the Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces where the conflicts broke out in the future in advance to rectify the military garrisons.

However, even Zhu Xieyuan could not have imagined that under the appearance of the collapse of the garrison system, the many fundamental systems at the bottom had already collapsed.

Household registration system and land system are all difficult to deal with...

Zhu Xieyuan sorted out his mood so that he could make himself more credible. He turned to the assistant official and asked:

"Zhenxiwei collected military garrison tax last year. How did it be taxed?"

Having said so much information just now, the assistant official is no longer so scared when he reacts, he said:

"Return to the Governor, he collected one dou and two liters of grain per mu for the military camps in the Guards."

Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne in the 47th year of Wanli, and in the first year of Tianqi, he issued an edict to reduce and exempt national taxes.

The edict clearly stipulates that from the first year of Tianqi to the third year of Tianqi, national taxes will be reduced and exempted, and a new taxation policy will be implemented starting from the third year of Tianqi.

That is, the maximum tax on official land in the country shall not exceed five liters per mu, and three to five liters per mu, while the private land shall be reduced by another two liters.

In other words, in some poor areas across the country, the lowest tax per mu is only three liters, which is the lowest time in history.

In Zhu Youxiao's edict, there was no clear provision on the military garrison of the garrison. It was not that I didn't expect it, but that I did not dare.

The military camps of the garrison affected too many benefits. The reduction and exemption of national taxes at that time was just a move to win people's hearts when they ascended the throne.

The new taxation policy issued in the third year of the Tianqi period is actually creating momentum for subsequent reforms.

It happened naturally at that time and did not cause any waves, but once it was involved in the military camp, it was afraid that the turmoil would start.

Zhu Youxiao knew in his heart that he had to slowly plan for the military camps of the garrison.

According to the ancestral system during the Hongwu period, the military farm tax shall not exceed one dou per mu. Zhenxiwei is taxed, and after the tax reduction in the third year of Tianqi, it is actually higher than in previous years!

This shows the independence of the military garrisons in the country's fields.

Since almost all the military stations of the Guards involved civil servants and generals across the country, these grassroots managers of the Ming Dynasty were not afraid that the court would come to investigate seriously.

This is how I have been here for so many years.

Yu Wei is just one of them, and the situation in various garrisons is obviously not very good.

More importantly, these heavy military taxes almost all entered the pockets of local civil servants, generals, landlords and gentry.

As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao did not see in the financial memorials of the Ministry of Revenue that the military garrison taxes in all parts of the country increased the income of the court.

Zhu Xieyuan was in the place and knew better about this situation.

Take Zhenxiwei as an example. The guards are in the desert, and even if the military households are willing to farm, they cannot achieve it for various reasons.

Under such circumstances, Zhenxiwei still imposed such heavy military taxes, which was like robbing money and killing people.

The most direct manifestation of the inability to survive in military households is that since Hongwu, the phenomenon of escape among military households across the country has been repeatedly banned.

Even though the court had strict orders, the military households still took risks and fled with their families.

This situation began to increase dramatically during the Wanli period, and by the current Tianqi period, it became even more common.

So, what are the consequences of military escape?

It is the military household and the whole family, and they will never be able to see each other!

During the Yongle period, Zhu Di set strict rules on the increasing phenomenon of military households' escape, that is, one person fled and implicated the entire clan.

If a military household fled, the local government would go to the fleeing military household to capture another soldier, which is called filling in the gap.

This has led to the current situation of difficulty in marrying a military household. Few women are willing to marry a military household, because if you marry a military household, you will also cheat your whole family.

Some military households have indeed thought of a solution, which is to sacrifice themselves and free the entire clan from the sea of ​​suffering.

That is, they will never marry or have children in their entire lives. They think that as soon as they die, their identity as a military household will end.

But this still doesn't work. Zhu Di also stipulates that if there is no one in the military household, it is impossible for the nine tribes to be left without a single person.

The local government will still capture a family from the military relative who has no heirs after his death to replace him, which is called "Tingque".

If the military households don’t run away, they work in the garrison honestly and work hard, they will definitely be better until they retire, right?

Still not...

Zhu Youxiao also found it very strange. Even the pharmacy thought about the resettlement of widowed elderly people and the free welfare home of the Ming Dynasty, but it did not provide military households with any form of "retirement security".

Simply put, even if you have the guarantee of spending your best years after retirement, you can still give these poor people a hope for their miserable life, right?

In the second year of Yongle, Zhu Di still said that later emperors must comply with the rules:

"Anyone who is over 60 years old and is disabled and young, is allowed to farm and eat on their own."

To put it bluntly, you have been a military household for your whole life, farming and garrisoning the court. When you are old and disabled, you have to die.

Alas! How miserable is the word!

Therefore, since Zhu Youxiaoda succeeded to the throne, he was planning to reform the garrison to make the military households better.

Completely reform this system that has been backward for more than 200 years and has been completely backward!

As for Zhu Di's ancestral system, Zhu Youxiao honestly didn't care, because he was not his ancestor at all.

When Zhu Xieyuan heard the tax collection efforts, he took a deep breath!

Military garrisons are already so sparse that even a few of the military households who still want to farm honestly are still exploited by military officers and local powerful people.

In this case of the lowest military status, military settlement taxes that are more severe than ordinary farmers must be imposed.

To put it bluntly, this is because I don’t want people to live and force them to rebel!

When they heard this, even the military servants below had their eyes dulled because they really couldn't see any hope from such days.

Zhu Xieyuan sighed. He really wanted to give these military households a promise, but taxation is indeed not something he can decide.

This is not to ask the Shangfang Sword to kill a commander. Only the current emperor can make a clear decision on taxes!

He exhaled and said:

"One thousand acres of military camps and one hundred thousand military households have to collect such a high tax. This governor will report to the capital tonight to request tax reduction for everyone!"

"What I said is not the military garrison tax of your town Xiwei, but the military garrison tax of all garrisons in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces!"

Until then, the military households raised their eyes.

Reducing military garrison taxes, a good thing, has been waiting day and night since the third year of the Tianqi period.

But, can the emperor agree...?

Some people believe that since the emperor can reduce the land tax, the military garrison tax will definitely have hope.

Some people are still desperate. They feel that it is impossible for the Wei Institute to cover the whole country, and the two dynasties of Hongwu and Yongle to be the first.

Besides, the emperor is only over 20 years old, how dare he go against the wishes of his ancestors?

Zhu Xieyuan looked at the discussion below and frowned because he did not hear much expected cheer from it.

More than that, there are silence and cold eyes, and there are very few people who believe that tax cuts are going to be reduced...
Chapter completed!