"Waiting with the children of military households? I'm afraid this must be reported to the emperor. The adults don't know that the military households can only make a living in their jurisdiction and leave their jurisdiction to treat deserters. This is the rule set by Emperor Taizu, who dares to change it without any changes." Fang Zhenghua was nervous again. Why did he chat with Lord Zhou? He would encounter such content that violated the taboo in just a few words?

"If you want to find the emperor to solve the problem, the letters will take one or two months, and then the daylily will be left untold." Zhou Shixiong understood that ancient monarchs were very afraid of population mobility and attached great importance to restricting population mobility. The first purpose of the emergence of various household registration systems was to restrict population mobility.

"The young man thinks that adults might as well find ways to find ways among the three Guangxi guards, Nandan guards and Fengyi guards." Fang Zhenghua came to Xianggu to be the eunuch who was polite and did his homework very well. Zhou Shixiong didn't know that there were three wards in Guangxi, but Fang Zhenghua understood clearly.

"Why are the three guards in Guangxi not Zhennan Pass?"

"Sir, the defenders of Zhennan Pass are border troops. Except for a few thousand households, their soldiers are not military households but recruiting soldiers. The three that the young man just mentioned are guards, and the soldiers in them are military households." Through Fangzhenghua's explanation, Zhou Shixiong understood that the Ming army system was divided into imperial guards and border troops. The imperial guards belong to permanent garrisons, and both officers and soldiers were military households. The border troops were also guards at the beginning, but due to various reasons, the combat power was low. In order to ensure border security, the court allowed border guards to recruit civilians. Over time, the border troops changed from some recruitment to now purely recruiting soldiers. The initiator of this phenomenon was the great General Qi Jiguang.

"Then I, Pingxiang Guard, are I, a guard or a border army?" Zhou Shixiong understood the military system and was a little confused again.

"It's really hard to say about the Pingxiang Guard, sir." Fang Zhenghua smiled bitterly and patiently analyzed to Zhou Shixiong. "Zhennan Pass and Jinyiwei are of different natures. One border army and one guard. The emperor issued an order to place the Zhennan Pass border army into the Pingxiang Guard, headed by the Jinyiwei of the Lord. According to convention, the Zhennan Pass border army belongs to the guard army. But the emperor gave the adult a place for the Pingxiang Guard and allowed the adult to recruit soldiers and appoint generals on his own. These are powers that only the border army has. Even the small ones cannot understand. Whether the Pingxiang Guard belongs to the border army or the guard army."

After chatting all the way back to Zhoujiazhuang, Zhou Shixiong put aside the ownership of the border guards and summoned several managers responsible for daily affairs, and asked Li Zhenhe to send each of them a Tiger Village rectification report. "Go back and take a closer look, what are the good improvement methods or techniques, and write me an experience."

Of course, this set comes from modern memory. The unit leaders have carried out such activities at least several times a year. As the oppressed, how could Zhou Shixiong forget it?

After driving the supervisors away, Zhou Shixiong left Shang Yueqing to ask questions. Since Shang Yueqing served as the supervisor of the Jinyiwei, Zhou Shixiong rarely had the opportunity to see her. There was no way, Shang Yueqing insisted on following the Jinyiwei. Zhou Shixiong wanted her to return to Zhoujiazhuang, but was rejected by Shang Yueqing. "Young master, as the supervisor of the Jinyiwei, how can I perform the duties of the supervisor of the Jinyiwei after leaving the Jinyiwei?"

Zhou Shixiong could not convince this girl with a firm mind, so he could only tell Zhou to protect her as much as possible. After several battles, Shang Yueqing took off the delicate side of the girl, wearing a Jinyiwei robe and standing in front of Zhou Shixiong. Zhou Shixiong could only describe her as heroic and heroic.

"Why don't you disobey when you come back this time?" Zhou Shixiong signaled Shang Yueqing to sit down, and couldn't help but tease her.

Shang Yueqing walked to Zhou Shixiong, reached out and grabbed his sleeve, and shook it a few times. "Young master, I just didn't want to neglect my duties last time, so I didn't disobey my orders." Shang Yueqing was now acting like a little daughter. If the soldiers of the Jinyi Guard saw them, they would be able to make these guys' chins fall to the ground. Shang Yueqing was selfless in implementing military laws. Not to mention that ordinary soldiers were afraid of her, Zhou Er and Zhu Ying were afraid of her.

"Okay, don't disobey, don't shake it anymore and then it will be dispersed." When he met the spoiled little beauty, Zhou Shixiong immediately surrendered and never mentioned the previous incident again.

"Young Master, what are your instructions for asking me to come back?" Zhou Shixiong appointed Zhou Hou as the supervisor of the Jinyiwei. Shang Yueqing thought that the young master would leave him idle, so of course he was very anxious to know how Zhou Shixiong arranged for him.

"Young master, I am very busy now and I don't have time to take care of the auxiliary barracks. Zhu Baoer just so happened that he wanted to help the young master share his worries and took the initiative to take over the training of the auxiliary barracks. I wonder if Yue Qing is interested in serving as the auxiliary barracks supervising army?" Zhu Ying accompanied Zhou Shixiong to Hushan Village. When she came back, she complained about being bored and depressed, and wanted to lead the troops again openly and secretly. The Jinyiwei didn't dare to think about it, but the auxiliary barracks training in Zhoujiazhuang were very attractive to Zhu Ying.

Zhou Shixiong thought that anyway, the auxiliary barracks are equal to modern recruit training camps, and it would be nothing to hand them over to Zhu Ying. At the same time, he thought of the way to recall Shang Yueqing and let her partner with Zhu Ying to manage the auxiliary barracks was a good way to have the best of both worlds.

"Thank you for your concern, I promise to do it well." Shang Yueqing was used to the work of the military supervisor, and the feeling of everyone's awe made her addicted. Since she was still a military supervisor, Shang Yueqing was not unhappy. She knew that the young master loved her and did not want her to be in a dangerous situation.

"Okay, go find your chief training officer, and call Zhen and that girl, she will be your deputy in the future." Zhou Shixiong arranged several girls to replace the secretary around him with Haitang, Magnolia and Zijing. There is no way. It is the nature of every leader to like to use female secretary. Especially the female secretary who can be used as a very capable female secretary, who is also a kind person to the leader.

Among the major important resources in Xiangzhou, Yanjing has been to Yanjing, and the next step is the iron mine area. This time, the inspection was still a leisure tour group composed of Zhou Shixiong and Founder Carrier, three female secretaries and ten guards. The destination is Shangshizhai in the eastern part of Pingxiangzhou.

Shangshizhai was originally the territory of the great witch Zhu Huangbo of Xiangzhou, and it is also the largest village in Xiangzhou except Baiyun City, the prefecture of Zhou. Shangshizhai is located in the middle of the valley where Ma'anshan and Guanyin Mountain intersect. The area of ​​arable land is not large, and the grain cannot meet the needs of more than 7,000 villagers. However, the villagers of Shangshizhai are the richest villagers in Xiangzhou, because there are fifteen iron ore veins on Ma'anshan and Guanyin Mountain, and the iron ore produced more than 4,000 kilograms of iron ore every day. It not only meets the needs of purchasing grain, but also has a surplus to improve the lives of villagers.

This is not the first time Zhou Shixiong has come to Shangshizhai, but Shangshizhai has changed a lot now. Huang Bo and his tribe all moved to Siling Prefecture, and the prospectors were taken away. There were only less than 3,000 mining slaves left in Shangshizhai. These slaves were picked out by Zhou Shixiong and threw them to the new camp to reclaim wasteland. The old and weak stayed in Baiyun City to work. Now there are only a few hundred people in Shangshizhai who are responsible for guarding the mine.

Iron ore is one of the very important sources of wealth in Xiangzhou, but Zhou Shixiong can't do anything without anyone. This time, he came here in addition to taking a look and writing a renovation plan by the way.

Zhou Shixiong did not understand mineralogy, nor did he understand mining. He just compared the relevant knowledge in his memory to the existing mines for verification. He still knew the basic knowledge of lifts, rail transport mine trucks, mine pit support, etc. After seeing the mine on the spot, the corresponding improvement plan was introduced.

Since Jiangzuo Camp still stayed in the new camp to serve the land reclamation, Zhou Shixiong stayed in Shangshizhai for three days, took out a paper plan to talk about the war and left. He found that improvements must be postponed, and the first task was to increase the population of Pingxiangzhou.

There seem to be many sources of population. Buying slaves with money is the first option, and you can do it with money. The problem is that Zhou Shixiong has no money, and Zhou Shixiong has tens of thousands of taels of silver, but compared with a state of hundreds of square kilometers, tens of thousands of taels of silver is equivalent to a drop in the bucket.

There is a second option when you don’t have money to buy a population, that is, recruit people. The method of recruiting people is not complicated. Just take advantage of preferential policies to attract others to settle in Xiangzhou. Wrong, this method is fine in modern times, but it was very problematic in ancient times. All prefectures in Guangxi were in the chieftain system. Except for the tribesmen of the chieftains who have part of their freedom, ordinary people are slaves of chieftains, and they have no right to choose.

The second option was quickly rejected, and Zhou Shixiong thought of a third method: recruiting refugees. The formation of refugees was very complicated. In the Ming Dynasty, most refugees were bankrupt and natural disasters. If we count the total number of refugees in the Ming Dynasty, let alone Xiangzhou cannot accommodate them, Guangxi may not be able to accommodate them. The large number of refugees is good news (how bad the heart is, you will think this is good news?!) But for Zhou Shixiong, refugees are just an out-of-reach phantom.

Because these abominable refugees actually exist in other provinces, they are rarely seen in Guangxi. Zhou Shixiong knew the reason after a little inquiry. The abominable slavery prevented the refugees from entering Guangxi. Once the refugees entered the country, the chieftains would unceremoniously arrest these refugees and throw them into the woods, fields, and mines to work, turning them from free refugees into slaves.

Finally, Zhou Shixiong found the only way to increase the population that could be achieved in Guangxi, which was war. Guangxi native Dongman attacked each other, and a very small number of them aimed at occupying each other's territory, and most of them were to compete for the population. The behavior that seemed very idiotic had its inevitable rules. In addition to having strong force, occupying other people's territory also required huge power.

Because, except for a very small number of new chieftains in Guangxi, most of them are branches of a large family, such as Huangdong Man, Wei Dong Man, Didong Man, Mo Dong Man, Cen Dong Man, etc. They are either ancient families inheriting the 36 Dong Man, or new forces supported by the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. Some of them form forces due to blood ties, some of them combine factions, and some of them get married and alliance. The relationship is complicated and cannot be described.

Due to the above reasons, when any chieftain attacks another chieftain, it is generally unattended to seize property and population. However, forcibly occupying the other party's territory, one must be prepared to face the attacks of a clan. Using the power of one state and one prefecture to compete with the power of several states and several prefectures, winning is basically equivalent to dreaming, and losing is the law of nature. Therefore, Guangxi chieftains continue to attack, but not many chieftains are truly destroyed.

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