The two old foxes officially agreed to Li Xiao's plan. In fact, this was also what Li Xiao had planned. Ming Dynasty's focus now is on national construction, not on conquering all directions.

The battles he has fought in the past ten years have laid a big game. It can be said that if there are no major changes, this pattern can ensure that the Ming Dynasty will have no worries for a hundred years.

As for a hundred years from now, that is not something Li Xiao can decide. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, and the destiny of the country is really unclear.

The fate of the country depends on people, but there seems to be a force that controls it. This kind of inexplicable thing is very mysterious, and Li Xiao can't understand it.

After only resting at home for a week, Li Xiao began to arrange his troops.

"Since the country wants to change its direction, the army must change according to the situation. Cadres can choose their majors and allocate work according to their level in the army.

The people assigned to the enterprise must be flexible-minded people who are engaged in production and management. Inflexible minds are not acceptable. However, they must be greeted in advance. The salary does not say anything about it, and they must not stretch their hands randomly.

I stretched my hand too long and took something I shouldn't have. Don't blame me, Li Xiao, for being ruthless. Let the Supervision Department know that this kind of thing requires arresting several children. Kill a few chickens and show them to the monkey. If the monkey reaches out randomly again, then

Don't blame me, Li Xiao, for being ruthless."

"promise!"

Li Xiao said something, and a young man below recorded it. This was a guy named Zeng Jing. Sun Xing stayed in Egypt as the governor of Egypt, responsible for the full management of the Suez Canal Zone.

This person was recommended by Li Hao, saying he was a very good secretary.

"Those who are dull and old-fashioned can be assigned to places like the Supervision Department and the Criminal Department. They can also be assigned to local Jinyiwei to be responsible for managing local security.

These people should be warned. Life and death depend on human kindness. If they take bribes and bend the law, it will not be an extra crime, but will bring disaster to the whole family. Judicial and criminal matters are no small matter! The Ming Dynasty's justice must not be blasphemed.

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"promise!"

"Those who are simple-minded and brave in fighting are only suitable for leading troops. They can continue to stay in the army and lead troops. Those who are transferred to positions can also be promoted."

"promise!"

"Everything should be done as I said. Let the Ministry of War draw up a list. Of course, this must be done after the meritorious personnel of this Western Expedition are rewarded."

"promise!"

Li Xiao said one thing, and Zeng Jing recorded one. After Li Xiao finished speaking, he took the notebook and read it to Li Xiao again. Although he was from Hunan, he spoke Mandarin very well. He spoke eloquently and clearly. Seeing that Li Xiao had nothing else to say,

Then I went out to draft the charter.

The Ming Empire was like a giant dragon with its claws closed.

The main combat forces began to withdraw from various countries. The main forces were picked up by ships one after another and returned to the Ming Dynasty. All heavy equipment was concentrated and placed in central cities in various regions.

After the troops celebrated their victory, various rewards began. Then veterans who should be retired and officers who are willing to be professional can go to work professionally.

The local political power in the Ming Dynasty has always been controlled by scholars from the Donglin Party. Although the officials at the central government have almost been replaced, they have not been able to do so at the local level.

There is nothing that can be done about this. Local officials who are capable and qualified are basically obtained by taking the Jinshi examination. Now that it is better, a large number of cadres can be drawn from the army and staffed in various local yamen.

Many Donglin Party officials were transferred to idle positions. Some staunch Donglin Party members were even dismissed directly. In the past, you couldn't find suitable candidates for the job, so it was a bit of a last resort.

After all, countries also need people to manage them!

Now that the war is over, there are a large number of officers loyal to Li Xiao who can be used. Gan Mao still uses you bastards. Those who can do practical things and work hard to implement central government affairs while in office will naturally be retained.

If you are perfunctory and prevaricating in everything when you are in office, and make inappropriate remarks from time to time, you might as well just go home and take care of your children. If the government gives you some subsidies and doesn't let you starve to death, it will be treated as if you are being treated well.

When the last batch of troops returned to the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court officially announced the official end of the guard system that had been implemented for more than 270 years in the Ming Dynasty. All guard soldiers were abolished, and the military households officially disappeared from the history of China.

vocabulary that can only be found in history books.

Countless military officers cried loudly, not because they were abolished, but because they were finally free.

The military household is hereditary, and so are the military officers. In other words, your father is a military household, and your family has been a military household for generations. Even if you have no heirs, you can't run away from him. There are still some relatives in your family.

If you become an officer, it will be different. Your father is an officer and your grandfather is an officer, so you will also become an officer. All the soldiers under your command will be under your control, and your family's fields will be farmed by them.

They do all the work at home.

Even the harvests of soldiers and officials can be greedy.

These military households are simply slaves of the officers. And not only are you a slave, your son is also a slave, and so are your grandchildren. As long as the Ming Dynasty Company does not close down, your descendants will all be military households.

There is nothing I can do, it's like a shackle around my neck.

Every year there are soldiers who flee, but after fleeing, you will only be worse off. Because without household registration, you and your descendants will always have to live with their tail between their legs. Because your black family is combined with outsiders, the locals can bully you unscrupulously.

One day, you are really pushed into a hurry and go to the Yamen to complain.

I'm sorry, but when the guards come to your house, they won't lock up the person who bullied you, but you.

Many deserters were completely reduced to the bottom of society, and even had to sell themselves into slavery at a low price. They would become slaves who are worse than even soldiers for eternity!

Well now, there was a thunderbolt from the blue, and Li Xiao came as the commander-in-chief.

The military household system that existed for more than 270 years has been completely abolished, and all military households now have civilian registration like everyone else.

The soldiers burst into tears of joy, and the whole world came together to celebrate and tell each other. To celebrate this great occasion, many soldiers' villages had all sold out of wine.

The statue of Li Xiao was respectfully invited home, and incense was offered in the morning and evening.

Of course, some are happy, and some are sad. Every one of the thousands of households in the guardhouse has a sad face. They have enjoyed cheap labor for so many years, and now they need to farm their own land. It is even worse than killing them.

Although the court subsidized some severance pay to repay them for their hard work over the years, the severance pay was only enough for a drink.

Someone wanted to cause trouble, but after a long time of instigation, only his brothers and officers like him responded. The soldiers who used to look up to them and were ordered around by them all day long looked at them coldly.

This is nonsense, let alone whether they can defeat the Liao army armed with new weapons. If you dare to shout the word rebellion, you may be turned away to the Yamen by the host who looks at you with hatred.

Whether he can come out in this life depends on whether the new county magistrate is in a good mood.

Countless teams were broken up into companies and garrisoned in places, and the weapons in hand were replaced by ordinary rifles from Aka rifles. From now on, the main task is to suppress local security, and there is no need to prepare those Aka rifles with heavy firepower and huge power.

A single shot regular rifle is just fine!

Bandits! This kind of thing has become a legendary thing. Even Liaodong, which is known as a country with tough folk customs, is now terrifyingly calm. The soldiers patrolling on tall horses every day are more like a guard of honor.

There is no way, every family has a house and land. In addition to the grain turned over to the state, there is still a lot of food left at home. If you can't eat it yourself, you can sell it to the court.

I have spare money in my hand, so I can play mahjong and drink some wine. I will buy some firecrackers for my son and new clothes for my daughter during the Chinese New Year. I will save some money and renovate the house at home.

After saving for a few more years, I could build several large tile-roofed houses for my family. Life would be prosperous, and only a fool would risk his life not to join the bandits.

Everyone in the city has a job, either working in this factory or that factory. Everyone gets a salary, and as long as they have a job, they can go to a bank to get a loan to buy a house.

A loan lasts for ten or twenty years. I live in a brand-new house and repay the money while working. Although it is so tight every month, when I see my spacious and bright big house and the rising housing prices, I feel happy.

It's great. Fortunately, I bought it early, otherwise I would have to spend more money now.

After finally paying off the loan, I suddenly realized that my house was a bit small. One time, my mother-in-law went to the market and met a salesman handing out flyers. She was taken to the sales office by a carriage and was fooled. This community is close to the best elementary school in our city.

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As long as you buy this house, you can go to the best key primary school.

This house is close to the hospital, so it is convenient for elderly people in the family to receive medical treatment.

This house is very close to the vegetable market, and you don’t have to walk for five minutes to buy groceries. This house is very close to your workplace, and you can walk to your workplace in ten minutes. You no longer have to get up early and squeeze into public carriages.

...!

The mother-in-law couldn't resist the temptation, so she went home and started planning her own real estate. She finally made the decision to sell the house to pay the full down payment and take out a loan to buy a larger house in a school district.

This time it was fine, the loan was repaid in vain, and I had to continue to repay the loan. The old man scolded the prodigal woman, but when he saw the more spacious and bright house in the community, it was clean and tidy, he felt that it was good to live here.

Families in the northern industrial zone generally live a good life. After all, the value of industrial products is relatively high, and there are enough people to feed them.

Life in Jiangnan is a different story!

The big landlords were all overthrown, and the tenant farmers who had rented fields for generations finally had their own land. The imperial tax was not very heavy, and was usually 10%.

Over the years, the imperial court also helped introduce high-yielding crops. After the food grown was handed over to the imperial court, there was still a lot left over for the family. After feeding chickens and raising a few pigs, the family's life gradually became prosperous.

Nowadays, except for sporadic bandit activities in Shiwandashan in Guangxi, bandits are basically gone in the country. Because we are getting richer and richer, local security is getting better and better.

Public security is getting better and better, which also promotes further economic prosperity.

It can be said that the Ming Empire has entered a virtuous cycle of upward passage.

The war is far away from the Ming Dynasty. Although there are still soldiers of the Ming Dynasty deep in the flames of war in distant places, the tribal armed forces in those places will try their best to avoid conflicts with the Ming Dynasty.

Because they knew that the Ming Dynasty was so powerful that it could not be contained. No one could defeat the Ming Dynasty. To those tribes, the Ming Dynasty was like a roc soaring in the nine heavens.

As long as they flap their wings gently, those tribes will be thrown into a state of eternal destruction.

In the past, there were some small tribes who did not know how powerful the Ming Dynasty was. They attacked the wealthy Ming Dynasty caravans and robbed them of dazzling treasures.

Then, a huge airship flew from the sky. The airship landed, and groups of soldiers walked down from it. The guns in their hands kept spraying bullets, and those brave Arab warriors fell into a pool of blood one by one.

Because of the crimes of hundreds of people, a large tribe of tens of thousands of people was wiped out. The scene was horrific. The corpses of men, women, old people, and children were lying on the ground, allowing vultures and crows to peck at them.

The revenge of the Ming Dynasty will never be directed at a specific person. They will only find the suspect and then draw a circle with the suspect as the radius.

Everything in this circle will be destroyed. There is nothing that cannot be solved by one massacre. If so, then do it a second time.

After several tragic massacres, everyone in the Suez Canal Zone knew that. You can be disrespectful to the true God, because the true God may forgive you because of your piety. But you must not be disrespectful to the Ming Dynasty, because those Marines

There is no such word as forgiveness in the dictionary.

The Ming Dynasty retracted its claws and gained a solid foothold in Central Asia by controlling the Ili River Valley. In fact, Central Asia has been shattered into a piece of chicken feathers.

In many places, if you gather one or two thousand people, you can claim the throne. If you have ten or two thousand people, you will definitely be the overlord.

The once huge India is now broken into more than a hundred city-states. There are sometimes victories among these city-states, but wars can occur, and enemy countries can be plundered during wars, but annexations cannot occur.

As long as you want to annex another city-state, the big brother of the Ming Dynasty will stand up and uphold justice. Then, upon the appointment of the Ming Dynasty, more than ten or twenty city-states will unite to deal a strong blow to those who intend to annex and expand their power.

So far, there has never been a warrior who can challenge twenty. If there were, it is estimated that the iron-blooded army of the Ming Dynasty would come over. Then, no matter how powerful the city-state was, it would be wiped out in an instant.

Li Xiao did not intend for India to have any possibility of integration. This kind of country is always better when it is broken into pieces, just like Jiaozhi. The snake-like long country was cut in half. Attacks continued all day long.

But I can't always beat the opponent down, I can only bleed! Bleeding! Bleeding!
Chapter completed!