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Chapter 530 Recruiting 20 Soldiers

Above the port, a group of people is slowly heading towards the fleet moored in the port. The leader is none other than the current King Jin.

Behind Prince Jin was a group of people from Prince Jin's mansion, including Princess Jin, Prince Jin's son and others, plus scholars who were recruited by King Jin and were willing to follow King Jin to the Nanyang fief for a fight.

It has to be said that this time the imperial court entrusted the kings in Nanyang and allowed them to feudalize the state and build a country. For many frustrated scholars, it was a great opportunity that fell from the sky.

Although the imperial court has opened Enke repeatedly and recruited a large number of scholars in recent years, even if Enke is opened, it does not mean that everyone who takes the test can pass the test and enter the officialdom.

After all, there are too many scholars in the world, but very few have passed the scientific examination and entered the officialdom. In this way, a large number of scholars who failed the ranking naturally turned their attention to these vassal kings.

Any fool can guess that after these vassal kings arrive in the fiefdom, if they want to govern the place, they will definitely need a large number of officials.

Although most of the fiefs of these vassal kings are only the size of a county, even if they are only the size of a county, they are still a feudal country.

If you want to build a state, you must improve the system. In this way, the vassal kings must recruit some scholars to govern the state.

A state in one county may not need many officials, but at least hundreds or thousands of officials are needed to truly build a complete state.

This is a great opportunity to enter the officialdom, even if it is just to be an official in the vassal state of these vassals, it can satisfy their desire to be an official, right?

Therefore, not only the King of Jin, but also the rest of the vassal kings, as well as the family members of the vassal kings who issued the notice, there will inevitably be a large number of scholars in front of the gate of the palace to recommend themselves.

In this way, a group of vassal kings selected among these scholars. It can be said that no vassal king has selected at least a thousand scholars to take to the fief to assist him in governing the fief.

A group of scholars behind King Jin also took their families with them at this time, looking at the big ships in the distant port with a bit of anticipation.

King Jin led a group of people behind him striding towards the treasure ship in the harbor in high spirits. He was the first to leave the Central Plains for Nanyang, which made King Jin extremely proud.

All of a sudden, the official of the palace who was following King Jin whispered to King Jin: "Look, my lord, that's the Duke of Qin! "

King Jin couldn't help looking forward when he heard the words, and saw a group of people standing in front of him, whoever it was if it wasn't Li Huan.

When he recognized Li Huan, Jin Wang's eyes flashed a bit of displeasure. Li Huan had tried his best to oppose the emperor's entrustment of these vassal kings to Nanyang.

Later, the emperor allowed the distribution of titles, and they got the titles one by one. They were all focused on raising manpower and supplies, and they didn't have time to trouble Li Huan at all.

Now he was about to leave the Central Plains, but he didn't expect to meet Li Huan here, and seeing Li Huan's posture, it seemed that he came here for him.

Thinking of this, the King of Jin strode up to Li Huan, saw Li Huan from a distance, and said, "Who should this king be? It turns out to be the Duke of Qin. I don't know what advice the Duke of Qin has!"

Ming people don't speak dark words, everyone can see that Li Huan is here for the king of Jin, so the king of Jin is not polite when he speaks.

Li Huan looked at King Jin with a calm expression, glanced at the people behind King Jin, and said indifferently: "Your Majesty speaks!"

The king of Jin couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, he looked at Li Huan, and then at the emperor's close servant Qiu Ju who was beside Li Huan, and immediately understood that Li Huan really came here with the emperor's will. After all, in front of so many people, even if Li Huan had the courage, he would never dare to falsely preach the imperial decree.

Seeing that the King of Jin immediately bowed down to Li Huan, and all the people around him also bowed down, only to hear the King of Jin respectfully say: "I respectfully listen to the holy edict!"

Li Huan said indifferently: "The king of Jin moved the vassal, and I don't want to give up. I specially bestow a hundred taels of gold, a hundred pieces of silk, and a hundred altars of fine wine. I hope that the king of Jin can guard one side of the Ming Dynasty for me..."

When Li Huan read the emperor's oral edict, the little eunuch on the side hurriedly stepped forward to present the emperor's reward.

Although the things offered by the emperor are nothing compared to the wealth of the Prince Jin Mansion, but this is a reward from the Emperor, so everyone in the Prince Jin Mansion respectfully thanked them.

The king of Jin bowed in the direction of the capital, and then slowly got up. When he looked at Li Huan, he said with a bit of sarcasm: "This king is going to Nanyang to feud a state and build a country, but let the Duke of Qin Disappointed."

Li Huan just glanced at King Jin indifferently, and stepped out of the way, but when King Jin saw this scene, he thought that Li Huan was afraid of him, and immediately showed complacency, and waved his big hand: "Your lords, follow me board."

King Jin's mighty men began to board the ship, and not long after the sound of horns sounded, ships began to leave the port one by one. Hundreds of ships of all sizes were sailing on the sea, densely packed with power.

In the port, Li Huan couldn't help but smile a little as he watched the King Jin fleet going away.

King Jin was the first to go to sea, and soon King Qin, King Zhou, King Chu and other vassal kings went to sea one after another. Suddenly, the sea area of ​​Daming became extremely lively.

Autumn of the tenth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty

Jingshi Imperial Study Room

In the royal study, the emperor sat upright, while Li Huan, Wang Yangming and other important court officials gathered here.

At this moment, the Son of Heaven looked at the crowd and said with a smile on his face: "My dear family, until King Jing went to sea the day before yesterday, there is no vassal king in our Daming territory. After this, the imperial court will also reduce a lot of burden. The Qing family has worked hard."

Although it is said that the organization of troops and fleets to go to sea is more organized by the mansions of various vassal princes, but the support of the imperial court is indispensable behind it.

After all, many people in the mansions of feudal princes simply don't have that organizational ability. After all, many feudal princes are completely reduced to waste-like existences.

If it hadn't been for the imperial court to replace the officials in the palace for these vassal kings, so that the palace had the ability to organize, at least [-]% of the palaces would not be able to complete the relocation at all.

So this time the imperial court also contributed a lot, and the important cabinet ministers were personally responsible for this matter, so here, the emperor praised all the people present.

Wang Yangming and others hurriedly bowed down to the emperor.

After the monarchs and ministers discussed in the imperial study room about the handling of the recovered properties of the palace, this time the small court meeting also dissipated.

Li Huan, who walked out of the palace gate, did not return to the mansion immediately, but walked towards the mansion of the governor of the five armies.

Now Li Huan is still holding a title in the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies, and he is in charge of the Du Du Mansion of the Central Army. In addition to the support of the emperor, the military governor's mansion has become a force that can compete with the cabinet.

In the five-armed governor's mansion, whether it is Zhang Lun or Zhu Fu, it can be said that they are all on Li Huan's side under the bondage of huge interests. Therefore, in the five-armed governor's mansion, Li Huan is absolutely It can be regarded as the existence of keeping promises.

In the governor's mansion, several governors were all present, when seeing Li Huan, Zhu Fu looked at Li Huan while sipping tea and said, "My son-in-law, I wonder if you called us here for something?"

Li Huan sat down, glanced at a few people and said: "The former court rectified the local guards and moved a large number of guards to Nanyang. It has been several years now. I don't know how this matter is going?"

When they heard this, their eyes turned to Zhang Lun, the British prince who was sitting there.

Among the few, British Duke Zhang Lun is considered the youngest. He seems to be stimulated and influenced by Li Huan, and now he is full of energy in the five-army governor's mansion.

Therefore, Zhang Lun is also responsible for the rectification of the local guards.

Zhang Lun looked at Li Huan and introduced: "Thanks to the strong support of the cabinet, after several years of hard work, many guards in the world have been abolished. A total of more than 230 million soldiers have been abolished in the guards. In addition to the land, more than 120 million people moved to Nanyang and resettled in Surabaya, Java, Malacca and other major islands."

When he said this, Zhang Lun couldn't help showing a bit of complacency on his face. You must know that this is a big project. Although it is said that there are a large number of officials sent by the cabinet to assist, this matter is supervised by him alone. However, Zhang Lun should be proud of being able to handle such a thing well.

Li Huan actually knew something about this matter. After all, it was not a trivial matter to guess the matter of the local guard, and various things would definitely happen during the process.

Apart from other things, the interests of the officials of the local guards are intertwined. You must know that many officials of the local guards rely on the blood of soldiers and use the soldiers of the guards as slaves to maintain their rich life.

The imperial court's sudden decree to abolish the local guards and resettle these military households is naturally a great thing for Daming, but for these vested interests it is a disaster.

Therefore, during this process, there were countless cases of so-called mutiny incidents. It is a pity that Zhang Lun had been prepared for the reactions of the officials of these local guards. The abolition continues, but anyone who dares to jump out and fight will be taken down immediately, and then the family will be ransacked and the family will be wiped out.

After successively confiscating the homes of more than a dozen guard commanders and destroying all their families, the officials of the local guards calmed down one by one, and were so frightened that they obediently cooperated with the imperial court to abolish the guards.

Li Huan chuckled at the few people and said, "Now that the vassal kings have moved overseas and the local guards have been completely abolished, it can be said that the imperial court has lightened a lot of financial burdens, and with the addition of tax revenue, the imperial court can be said to be unprecedented. rich."

Needless to say, Li Huan, everyone also knows that the current government finances can be said to be unprecedentedly good. It can be said that looking at the past dynasties, it is absolutely unique that can match the current financial revenue of Daming.

You must know that last year alone, Daming put aside the grain tax, that is, all kinds of commercial taxes added up to more than 1000 million taels. If the tariffs of the nine major shipping companies were added to tens of millions of taels, it would be more than 2000 million taels. tax silver.

The food tax revenue has increased by more than two times compared to before the tax reform, but the imperial court's expenditure has been greatly reduced.

This caused a large surplus in the imperial court's finances.

Zhang Lun looked at Li Huan, and based on his understanding of Li Huan, he was afraid that Li Huan had something important to tell them this time.

Zhu Fu also said at this moment: "My son-in-law, is there anything you want to discuss with us?"

Li Huan smiled and said: "I know that I can't hide it from my father-in-law. Now that the local guards have been abolished, the court's finances are unprecedentedly sufficient, but the court's military strength is seriously insufficient, so I am going to invite the emperor to raise 20 strong troops... "

"puff!"

Dingguo Duke Xu Guangzha, who was drinking tea, sprayed out a sip of tea, and looked at Li Huan with a look of horror on his face.

Even if he knew that Li Huan was always talking nonsense, there was nothing Li Huan didn't dare to do, but this opening was to raise 20 strong troops, which still shocked the nobles of the state.

With a light cough, Zhu Fu opened his eyes wide and said with a bit of surprise and doubt: "Nowadays, there are more than 15 soldiers and horses in the nine important towns around the imperial court, and 40 troops in the Beijing camp. There are 20 soldiers and horses, and after being eliminated, all of these soldiers and horses can now be said to be elite, much stronger than the fighting power of the previous imperial court's army of one million. Now that there is no war in the imperial court, why did they suddenly recruit [-] troops? Strong army..."

You must know that under Li Huan's insistence, the imperial court now implements a military recruitment system. The imperial court invests millions of taels in the army alone every year, which is already a considerable amount of expenditure for the imperial court.

If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court has been financially ample these years, the military expenditure of four to five million yuan alone would have given the imperial court a headache.

Now Li Huan wants to raise another 20 troops. Not to mention anything else, but to equip the 20 troops with neat armor, horses, weapons, etc., and everything should be in order. The court will invest at least 500 million taels.

Anyway, the dukes and nobles don't think that the cabinet will agree so easily, and the most important thing is that they don't think that the imperial court needs to raise so many troops.

Li Huan looked at the puzzled expressions on the faces of the dukes and nobles, took a deep breath and said slowly, "Since Li wants to recruit an army, he has a reason."

Several people looked at Li Huan. Obviously they also wanted to know why Li Huan insisted on recruiting so many soldiers. If they couldn't convince them, let alone the court. The military is extremely fearful. If it recruits more troops, it's no wonder the cabinet doesn't blow the pot.

[PS: I recommend a book, Yue Buqun, the Master of Myriad Worlds, as the most famous head of Novice Village in the heavens, Lao Yue will turn his back on his disciples this time. 】

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