When Sun Yuanhua heard that the emperor said that at least one million households of Tunwei in the North American continent would be assigned, he couldn't help but take a breath.

If there are 100,000 households, you may be able to get together. If there are 1 million households, you can't get together no matter how hard you get together!

He plucked up his courage and said frankly: "Your Majesty, you can't get together so many guards."

Zhu Cijing nodded again and said, "I know that I came to you to discuss the expansion of the garrison. Do you think the strategy of expanding the garrison is feasible?"

When Sun Yuanhua heard this, his eyes lit up. Now Tunwei is a popular commodity. I don’t know how many people want to convert to Tunwei. However, there are too many yamen involved in the transfer of household registration. The Ministry of War is poaching people. If the emperor doesn’t mention it, he will not even dare to think about it.

Now, since the emperor mentioned it, there is no problem at all. He hurriedly bowed: "The emperor is wise, it is a great thing to expand the garrison. Many commanders of the Dushiwei Office have asked Weichen. Many of their relatives and friends want to transfer to military households, but Weichen cannot help them."

Zhu Cijiu couldn't help but say, "There is such a thing, why haven't you mentioned it to me?"

Sun Yuanhua explained embarrassedly: "Emperor, this farmer is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue, the craftsman is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Works, the military household is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, the music household is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, the crime is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, and the officials are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel. This is a rule set by the Taizu Dynasty. If the Wei ministers help them with the matter, they will be digging other yamen."

When Zhu Cijiu heard this, his face turned red. He had never thought about it. Indeed, if Sun Yuanhua opened the hole, the farmers would no longer farm, the craftsmen would no longer work, and all came to be military households, that would not be a mess.

Now it seems that two million households are not too much, but too fewer. He asked tentatively: "Since so many people want to change their households, it should be fine to expand two million military households."

Sure enough, Sun Yuanhua said without hesitation: "Emperor, I'm afraid two million households are not enough. If I can transfer, most of the people will probably want to transfer to military households."

Zhu Cijing really didn't expect that the people would have such an idea, because in his opinion, although the income of the Tunwei military households increased, they had to risk their lives to fight for the country. They might die at any time and rush to be Tunwei. Isn't that a typical case of asking for money and not having life?

He didn't know that there were quite a lot of people who wanted money but didn't have life at this time. You should know that since the Ming Dynasty became peaceful, ordinary people have been relaxed and their families have not been more than one young and strong.

Even if they sacrifice their lives for the country, many people are willing to do so because their sacrifices can be exchanged for the happiness of their whole family.

Besides, the casualty rate of the Ming army is actually not high. At most one or two out of ten people can be sacrificed. Whoever encounters it can only blame himself for not having the fate to enjoy the happiness. What's there to be afraid of?

Since everyone is not afraid of death, then that's OK, Zhu Cijiu said proudly: "Then simply expand it to two hundred Dushi, so as to avoid the lack of people in the future and have to expand it again."

Two hundred Dushi are just one thousand garrisons, five thousand 1,600 households, and a total of five and six hundred million households, with a population of at least 30 to 40 million!

You know, the local population of the Ming Dynasty is only more than 100 million. In order to ensure loyalty, this military household can only recruit local residents. In other words, a small half of the Ming Dynasty must be converted into military households. Isn’t this a bit of a military force?

In fact, this is not the case. The current military households in the Tunwei are not simple reserves, and they actually bear a lot of economic functions.

Although they do not have to pay taxes for farming, they still have to pay taxes for transactions.

Now Tunwei is not just a farming area. All the mining of the Ming Dynasty has now been transferred to Tunwei in various places. With this item alone, the tax generated far exceeds their farming income.

There are also transaction taxes such as wood, medicinal materials, animal skins, animal meat, and local specialties, which are enough to offset the tax on their farming.

Tunwei has become the main body of the production and supply of raw materials in the Ming Dynasty, and has played a huge role in promoting the economic development of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, they play an irreplaceable role in maintaining the stability of the newly occupied territory, assisting colonial expansion, and ensuring the quality of regular legion troops.

It can be said that Tunwei has become the basis for the prosperity of the Ming Empire, occupying a small half of the local population, not much.

Given that the income of the Tunwei far exceeds that of ordinary people, Sun Yuanhua estimated that if the order to expand the Tunwei would be robbed, the quota of military households would be snatched wildly. He specifically made suggestions to Zhu Cijiu that the corresponding quota would be given based on the number of civilians in various places.

In other words, the total population of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the two Xingdusi, and the Liaodong Chengtian Prefecture, were added together, and the quota was allocated according to the proportion of the population in each place, so that there would be no situation of looting.

Zhu Cijing naturally had no objection to this. Based on Sun Yuanhua's proposal, he asked the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works to jointly issue official documents, ordering the local prefectures, prefectures and county governments to be responsible for the specific recruitment and registration, and the local command and entrustment departments are responsible for the approval, and finally the Ministry of War reviews and confirms.

At the same time, he also asked the Beijing News to publish a whole advertisement to announce the news of the expansion of enrollment in Tunwei, and attached the registration review process.

As for the officers of the guards at all levels, they naturally cannot be selected among ordinary people. Zhu Cijiu considered it and simply issued an order to let the Ministry of War join hands with the army, naval corps and local guards to jointly elect the guards.

Among them, the commander of the municipal commander, the commander of the garrison, and the fifth rank of Qianhu were directly selected from the retired personnel of the regular army, and the military rank was determined according to the military merits and the rank before retirement.

Hundred households, general flags, and small flags are selected from the various headquarters and military personnel, with both military merit and experience.

Once the news of the expansion of Tunwei was announced, the entire Ming Dynasty caused another sensation.

The high income of the Tunwei now is obvious to all. Even the income of a thousand households can exceed that of a county magistrate, and the income of an ordinary military household is four or five times higher than that of farmers and craftsmen. This kind of good thing is just a rush to get on.

The thresholds of government offices in various places are almost trampled on, and almost everyone who can register has been registered.

Unfortunately, this time the expansion of military households is mainly selected from farmers, and it is difficult for craftsmen to choose from. As for the music households and crimes, as well as business households under the Ministry of Commerce, there is no chance at all.

This actually improves the income level of farmers in disguise, because the total amount of cultivated land under the name of farmers was originally fixed, but now after nearly 30% of farmers have been taken away, the remaining farmers' cultivated land is equivalent to 30% more.

This 30% does not mean gross income. Originally, most of the farmland of farmers supplies their own food, so it would be good to have a 30% left. The extra 30% is actually net income.

In this way, the net income of farmers has actually doubled, not 30%!

This made Sun Yuanhua very busy again. The Tunwei was not just signing up and screening it, and reviewing it. He had to arrange officers at all levels for them, assembled them, equipped them with basic weapons and equipment, etc.

The management of more than two million households and garrisons is so large that you can imagine how much work is!
Chapter completed!