Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 159 Stabilize Liaodong
"There are rebels in the southwest! There are corrupt officials in Huaixi! There are Jian captives in the northeast!"

"What is this!? What is this?!"

On October [-]th, in Shuntianfu Imperial Palace, in Yangxin Hall, Zhu Youxiao slammed his clenched fist on the dragon table, frightening all the eunuchs in the hall to kneel down, even Wei Zhongxian did the same.

Under the Long case, it was Cui Yingyuan, the commander of the Nanzhen Fusi Commander Tongzhi, and Lu Jianxing of the Supervision Department.

Seeing that the emperor stopped talking, Cui Yingyuan immediately said:

"Long live, I checked the files and found that this dam was built by Shi Hui, the former magistrate of Suzhou County, and Zhou Chao, the magistrate of Lingbi County."

"I think that I should send Tiqi, and ask Zongbing Sun to send troops to assist and arrest all the officials and subordinates in the two counties!"

"What else..." Zhu Youxiao's face was gloomy, obviously dissatisfied with this proposal.

Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by the disaster, and it will cost a lot to keep them alive for the next autumn harvest.

At present, the three towns in Shanxi are still being abolished, and the southwest is using troops again. Liaodong also needs to stabilize the situation, and money and food are needed everywhere.

The needs of these hundreds of thousands of people far exceeded Sun Yingyuan's estimate, and even millions of taels of silver were needed for disaster relief.

"And..." Cui Yingyuan's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and at this moment the Jingjun eunuch at the gate of Qianqing Palace quickly entered the palace, bowing to Zhu Youxiao of the Palace of Mental Cultivation:
"Long live, Ye Ge, after hearing about the reason for the breach of the Yellow River, I came here to see you."

"Xuan!" Zhu Youxiao took two deep breaths, and then picked up a memorial.

This is Zhu Xieyuan's memorial to invite reinforcements from Guangdong and Guangxi. Zhu Youxiao approved it without thinking about it, and commented below:
[Speed ​​down the rebellion quickly, don't let the rebels disturb my people]

After the remark was over, he put the memorabilia aside, and at this time Ye Xianggao also walked in with a wat board in his hand.

As soon as he came in, Zhu Youxiao said:

"In the case of Suzhou and Lingbi, I'm going to let the Fusi of Nanzhen take care of it. Corrupt officials and subordinates ransacked their homes and beheaded one after another, and the fields were handed over to Nanchang, the imperial horse supervisor."

good guy...

Ye Xianggao's heart tightened when he heard Zhu Youxiao's thoughts before he sat down as soon as he entered the door, and then he bowed and said:
"It's natural for Long Live to be like this, but the immediate priority is disaster relief."

"The old minister thought that the Changping official rations in Fengyang Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Yingtian Mansion and other places should be transferred to the disaster relief."

"The old minister has seen that there are [-] million shi of Changping grain in the four prefectures, which is enough for the victims to survive the winter."

"As for the beginning of spring, please ask the Yumajian Nanchang to transfer seeds and agricultural tools to the victims, and then transfer [-] million shi of grain from Changping warehouses from Zhejiang and Jiangxi."

"In this way, more than [-] people in the two counties can spend the next year safely."

"But..." Zhu Youxiao replied, and Ye Xianggao bowed again when he saw the emperor's appearance:

"In addition, I believe that this matter should be brought to an end, and only the culprit should be punished, and the rest can be exiled to Liaodong, Ganshan, or the Sanwei of Daning."

"..." Zhu Youxiao was silent, he knew that Tang Binyin from the Xuan Party must have come to look for Ye Xianggao.

Otherwise, with Ye Xianggao's temper, he would not show mercy to officials without party affiliation.

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhu Youxiao said:

"Officials from the two counties were beheaded, and the subordinate officials and the three clans of officials were all exiled to the Sanwei of Daning. After the house was confiscated, the fields were sent to the south field of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the money and food were sent to Taicang, and the antique calligraphy and paintings were included in the internal treasury."

"Long live Shengming..." Ye Xianggao shouted Shengming, explaining that this proposal is acceptable, but Zhu Youxiao was neither sad nor happy when he saw this, but just pushed out his thick memorial on the left:
"These are all memorials about the Southwest Rebellion..." After finishing speaking, he released the thicker and more memorials on the right, and said calmly:
"These are all memorials to impeach King Qi and abolish the three towns in Shanxi..."

"The censor doesn't know about soldiers, but he is talking about government affairs indiscriminately." Ye Xianggao cast a sloppy eye, and then said:
"If Long Live doesn't like these memorials in the future, you can stay in the cabinet."

When he said this, Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly, which meant that Ye Xianggao was willing to resist the pressure for him, which was what Zhu Youxiao wanted to see.

He withdrew his hand and continued: "Mu Changzuo, Lord of Qian State, and Mu Qiyuan, Commander-in-Chief of the Governor's Office, the two of them stopped moving forward. What do you think of the boss?"

"This..." Ye Xianggao pondered for a moment, a little embarrassed in his heart, he didn't want to involve Xungui, so he said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Long live, you might as well ask the British Duke..."

"Hmm..." Zhu Youxiao showed a trace of disappointment in his eyes, then waved his hand and said:
"If there is nothing wrong, elder Ge will step back."

"Resignation, veteran..." Ye Xianggao bowed in return, and then retreated a few steps before turning around and leaving.

Zhu Youxiao sighed in his heart, because of the affairs of the Duke of Qian, he naturally asked Zhang Weixian.

But what Zhang Weixian meant was that he couldn't control the Duke of Qian, so Zhu Youxiao could only pin his hopes on Ye Xianggao.

But at the moment, Ye Xianggao is also afraid of taking responsibility and being accused of being a harsh minister, so he is unwilling to take responsibility.

"Sure enough, in the end, there is only my younger brother behind me..."

Zhu Youxiao felt uncomfortable, thinking of his younger brother who dared to bear no matter what responsibilities and consequences.

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"Your Highness, it's all here."

In the military camp outside Yangqu County, after Lu Wenzhao handed in the summary of military registrations sent from various places, Zhu Youjian directly turned to the last page.

Sitting in the tent, he leaned on the chair and read the page with a frown.

The strength of the three towns should be thirty-six guards, thirty-eight camps, twenty-five battalions, and one thousand seventy-two forts. Logically speaking, there are 23 guards, 9600 battalion sentries, and 8 soldiers. 9711 war horses, 4 horses and horses.

But right now, the number of soldiers and horses reported in the military register makes people want to laugh.

The battalion sentries aided [-] people in Liao, and there should be more than [-] people, but according to the military register, there are only [-] battalion sentries.

Subtracting the battalions stationed at the [-] Forts on the Great Wall, and subtracting the soldiers and horses at the [-] castles and passes, within the three towns, there are less than three battalions with more than [-] troops.

There are also a lot of vacancies for war horses, draft horses, and poor horses. Although a lot of aid to Liao has been transferred, there are only more than [-] war horses and more than [-] draft horses left.

"What's the use of nearly [-] guard soldiers?"

Zhu Youjian threw the general booklet on the table, and after pondering for a long time, he closed his eyes and said to Lu Wenzhao:

"Has Weisuotian started to measure? Has the battalion been included..."

"Return to Your Highness..." Lu Wenzhao said: "There are more than [-] battalions, and if we recruit more, we can form twelve battalions."

"If you count the current Sixteen Guards and the Shangzhi and Waigong Guards, the number of the entire army will reach the Shangzhi Sixteen Guards, the Shangzhi Twelve Arch Guards, and the Outer Twenty-eight Arch Guards, a total of [-]. One hundred and forty people."

"According to the military salary of fifteen taels, this expenditure is..."

Lu Wenzhao looked at Zhu Youjian, and saw that Zhu Youjian didn't say anything, so he dared to continue:
"The military pay needs nearly [-] million taels of military pay, the military pay of the Shangzhi troops is nearly [-] million, and the outer arch guards need nearly [-] million taels. Counting food, the entire army needs to spend nearly [-] million per year. One hundred thousand taels..."

"Including the other items of the Yumajian, I am afraid that the expenditure will exceed seven million taels next year..."

Seven million taels, which is nearly [-]% of the revenue of the Ming treasury, and Lu Wenzhao was secretly reminding Zhu Youjian to pay attention to the finances of the Yumajian.

However, for Zhu Youjian, the salt field has already become a scale, and with the addition of the military settlements of the remaining guards in Shanxi and Northern Zhili, it will not be difficult to survive next year.

What he was more concerned about was where the troops trained after the Shanxi battalion should be put into.

Twelve battalions, more than [-] people, if they really want to invest, or even complete the reclamation of the Hetao they want to reduce the military pay of the four towns in the northwest, then they should invest in Ningxia and Gansu!

It's just that it's not the time yet. Although the four towns in the northwest are much weaker than the three towns in Shanxi, haste makes waste.

In one year, he has abolished four important towns on the nine borders, and further abolition may cause turmoil.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian opened his eyes and said:
"Disrupt the [-]th and [-]th battalions of soldiers and horses, and continue to station in Shanxi."

The fate of nearly [-] soldiers and horses in the [-]th Battalion was arranged by Zhu Youjian, and what he wanted to continue to do was to abolish the guards.

"The [-]th Battalion of the Ming Dynasty and the Sixth Guards Army abolished the Shanxi and Northern Zhili Southern Guards one after another. After the abolition, the total number of military households will be counted. I will need a new yellow book and fish scale album in a month."

"At that time, we will start to measure the acres of the field and prepare to start the field."

"The humble post takes orders!" Lu Wenzhao bowed and exited the military tent, while Zhu Youjian frowned looking at the military registration book in front of him.

He will get nearly [-] million mu of military farmland from the southern Weisuo of Beizhili and the Shanxi Weisuo, but he is not happy.

Yellow River, Southwest, Liaodong...

These things right in front of him made him uneasy, and now he seemed to have the ability to wipe out Jianlu.

But what can he get for using more than [-] elites to fight Jianlu who are deep in the mountains and old forests?
At most, there are some open-pit iron mines and stretches of forests and swamps.

Why does he want those?

After the war, even if Jiannu were wiped out, nearly half of the elite would probably be lost.

Instead of going deep into the mountains to deal with Jiannu, it is better to rule the world first.

Destroying Nurhachi will not allow Daming to survive, only to solve the internal problems of Daming.

Corrupt officials can be killed, but they need to wait for Yanshan.

Instead of this, it would be better to settle the matter of the army's farming and land reform.

There are [-] million troops in the world, and now he alone occupies nearly half of them.

If all the [-] million troops stationed in the land were distributed to the people all over the world, following the model of the Yumajian, then Daming could get more than [-] million shi from the Yumajian every year, and the Yumajian could get more than [-] million shi.

If the Ministry of Households adds the Yumajian, it will be able to obtain more than [-] million stone fields. Even if the grain in the north is reduced to [-] cash per stone, this is more than [-] million taels of silver.

If it is used for disaster relief and boiled gruel, at least [-] million people can live for two months longer.

Handed over to the national treasury, the more than [-] million taels of silver can support more than [-] professional soldiers. This is a martial art that can only be achieved during the prosperous Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty.

But that's too far away, what Zhu Youjian should think about now is how to expand the scope of imperial power.

For now, Shanxi and Beizhili are already the places where the imperial power is most tightly controlled, and even civil rebellions can be suppressed immediately.

Next, we need to develop into Ganshan, Henan, Shandong, and Liaodong, and Liaodong is the first to bear the brunt.

"This matter is over, it's time to clean up Liao Town and let them be honest."

Zhu Youjian narrowed his eyes, murmured, and then asked someone to deliver the Southwest Military News.

If he wants to clean up Liaodong, Ganshan, Henan, and Shandong, he needs a capable minister to guard the border for him.

Sun Chuanting's family is also a hereditary guard, but Zhu Youjian explained to Lu Wenzhao that the Sun family in Zhenwuwei will be divided according to their official positions, and they don't have to move to the capital like other guard officers.

After solving this problem, there will be no conflict between him and Sun Chuanting.

In this way, Sun Chuanting might be able to serve as the trilateral governor of Gansu and Shanxi in Ming Dynasty, cooperate with his targeted attack on Hetao and Tumote, and then organize a large-scale migration of people in northern Shaanxi.

As for the people who were dispatched to the three southwestern provinces, Wu Aheng should also be able to win over. As a native of Henan, he may be able to play a big role in the abolition of the Henan Guards and the division of land.

As for Yang Wenyue and Hong Chengchou...

Zhu Youjian suddenly changed his mind.

[On the seventh day of October, Hong Chengchou, a soldier in Chongqing, defeated the rebel general Fan Hu in Erlangba and beheaded [-] people...]

"If such a guy who was killed for the sake of fame and fortune is placed in Yungui, Guizhou and reformed, I don't know what the result will be..."

Zhu Youjian twitched his lips slightly, and continued to look at the information on the Southwest military situation.

When he saw Sun Chuanting and Wu Aheng standing guard, he frowned slightly, but didn't say anything.

When he saw that the wooden reinforcements were about to arrive, he nodded slightly, expressing his satisfaction.

However, when he finally saw Mu Changzuo and Mu Qiyuan of the Duke of Qian's Mansion leading the troops to stop, and had not yet entered the Qujing Mansion, his fingers clenched the letter tightly.

It is undeniable that Mu Tianbo, the last Duke of Guizhou, contributed to Daming, and Mu Changzuo's contribution to guarding Yunnan is also undeniable.

But now, when Zhu Youjian saw the news of their stagnation, he still couldn't help feeling angry.

He suppressed his anger and continued to read.

Weiningwei and Pingbawei fell, and the three southwestern states of Zhenning, Yongning, and Anshun were attacked from the inside out by the chieftain.

Longliwei and Xintianwei were breached, Guiyang was surrounded by rebels, Duyun Mansion was besieged, Ligu Prefecture fell, and Liping Mansion was besieged.

Pingyuewei and Xinglongwei fell, Sizhou Mansion fell, Shiqian Mansion fell, Sinan Mansion and Tongren Mansion were rescued by Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming.

Qin Liangyu and Zhang Fengyi defended Sanduguan and Sangpingguan to repel the intrusion of the chieftain of Shiqian Mansion.

The chieftain of Sizhou attempted to invade Chenzhou, but was repelled by Ma Xianglin in Yuanjiang.

Most of Sicheng Prefecture and Guangyuan Prefecture in Guangxi fell...

For a time, Guizhou fell, six guards, four prefectures, two prefectures were breached, three prefectures were besieged, and most of Guangxi's one prefecture and one prefecture were lost.

The rebel army with more than [-] soldiers is indeed difficult to stop, but as the saying goes, it will be exhausted in one blow, then decline again, and be exhausted three times.

The offensives in the northwest and northeast were diminished, and the breakthrough of the rebels was limited to Guangxi in the south, but Guangxi is not rich at the moment, and there are many chieftains.

Even if these chieftains respond to She, An, and Song, they will only add [-] to [-] troops.

Zhu Youjian hoped that all these chieftains would rebel, so that he could reform the land in the southwest in one go.

He is not afraid that the Southwest will fall into a tug of war. If it falls into a tug of war, it will be a place where generals can be trained.

And for the fall of the six guards, Zhu Youjian was not sad, on the contrary very happy.

Southwest is no better than North Zhili, his hands are not that long, and he can't achieve the level of control in the capital.

Now that the six guards have been wiped out, millions of acres of army fields have become unclaimed land, which saves him a lot of effort.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian set his sights on Sun Chuanting's military newspaper.

To the north of Bijiewei are Chishuiwei and Pushisuo. At the moment, these two places have no strength to stop the rebels, but they have to rely on Sun Chuanting to help them defend to the death.

In this case, this is a good time to abolish this guard.

As soon as he thought of it, Zhu Youjian studied ink immediately and wrote a handwritten letter to his imperial brother, the content of which was to abolish Chishuiwei and Pushi.

Chishuiwei and Pushi were merged into Chishui Prefecture, and Sun Chuanting was appointed as the governor of Chishui and Bijie.

After finishing writing the handwriting, Zhu Youjian shouted to the door: "Come here!"

A Jinyi guard Qianhu walked into the tent and bowed in return.

"Send the letter to Brother Huang." After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Qianhu also took the handwritten letter with both hands, returned the gift and exited the tent.

Zhu Youjian didn't say anything when he saw this. After sitting down, he continued to look at some military and people's sentiments.

Among them, he also saw the follow-up news that the Yellow River broke its embankment and Sun Yingyuan took people to block the breach.

Looking at the contents of the investigation of corrupt officials in the letter, Zhu Youjian snorted lightly and didn't say anything.

After a while, Lu Wenzhao lifted the curtain of the military tent, entered the tent with a handwritten letter and bowed:

"Your Highness, this is the handwritten letter sent by Wanzai to deal with the breach of the embankment."

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian took the handwriting and read it at a glance.

When he saw Tian Mu who could take over the corrupt officials in Suzhou and Lingbi counties, he closed the handwriting with a smile, and said to Lu Wenzhao:
"Tell Wang An that the obtained acres will still be distributed to the landless people who are homeless due to the flood according to the rules of the Yumajian. The Yumajian will take [-]% and pay taxes for them."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao immediately sat on the table on the left side of the tent. After studying the ink, he wrote down Zhu Youjian's original words. install.

After finishing all this, Zhu Youjian got up and walked out of the camp. After checking the time, he and Lu Wenzhao went to the big chef for dinner.

The soldiers around were not surprised at the presence of His Royal Highness, they just whispered some dirty jokes.

Zhu Youjian was holding a wooden bowl, which contained fragrant thick rice and fried meat dishes, as well as scrambled eggs, fried chicken and a bowl of chicken soup.

This kind of food, in this era, probably requires two days' wages of a normal laborer to eat.

But for the Sixteenth Guards, this is already a very common meal.

What they look forward to most is the mutton once every three days. Although there is only one or two taels of meat, it can still be eaten full of oil.

"If His Royal Highness has set up another twelve battalions, if the king's palm finds out, he will probably cry poorly again."

Lu Wenzhao was even more airless than Zhu Youjian, sitting cross-legged on the ground, chomping on his rice bowl.

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian also smiled and said, "How sad is he? If he has rectified Shanxi, Taihang Mountain and all the mountain ranges, if he uses them all to set up officialdoms, he may be able to open thousands of offices, raise hundreds of thousands of pigs, and thousands of pigs. Thousands of poultry."

There is also a reason for him to say this. Right now, nearly [-] million mu of military farmland has been developed. If the wheat husks that can be harvested are used to process into bran, two to three hundred million catties will be easily enough.

In addition, once the sweet potatoes are planted in the nearly [-] million mu of farmland in the north and south farms next year and harvested in autumn, then there will be supplementary food for breeding large livestock.

In a disguised form, Zhu Youjian used sweet potatoes to increase some productivity, allowing limited land to produce more food.

Raising livestock with sweet potatoes reduces the loss of bran, and raising chickens with bran reduces the loss of staple food. It is a virtuous circle in disguise.

It is estimated that it is not too far away from the officialdom in Zhu Youjian's heart.

If it can reach that scale, the common people will start to have fat and water in their stomachs, and the consumption of staple food will also be reduced. Naturally, the confidence to survive the severe drought in the late Ming Dynasty will be greater.

The people are very good, as long as they can eat enough to eat, they will not think about rebellion.

To solve the problem of the gentry and landlords in the world, I am afraid that the poor Zhu Youjian will not be able to do it in his lifetime, but it will take the efforts of several generations.

What he can do is to open up outside while solving the problem, so that the people of Ming Dynasty can survive.

When Zhu Youjian was thinking and eating with a smile, Lu Wenzhao also ate hard.

With the Shanxi matter resolved, the distance between him and the prosperity in his heart is getting closer and closer.

Everything is getting better, and that's the happiest thing about it.

"Call..."

Suddenly, the sound of horseshoes sounded, and the people who accompanied the army chef and chef to eat looked towards the door, and they saw a group of people dressed in brocade clothes and guards coming.

The leader was a brocade guard with a long knife in his hand, and when Lu Wenzhao saw him, he smiled at Zhu Youjian:

"Your Highness, this is Lu Xian, the junior nephew who is in charge of supervising Lu Jianxing's subordinate Shen Lian going to Liaodong to sell food."

"Looking at it now, I'm afraid the grain sales have made some progress. Let me go and have a look." Lu Wenzhao said and got up.

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian had almost eaten, and the food in the bowl was very clean. He put the bowl aside, and a soldier with quick eyes and quick hands quickly picked it up, ready to help Zhu Youjian wash the bowl.

Zhu Youjian wiped his mouth, then saw Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xian chatting, and walked towards Zhu Youjian.

When he was a few steps ahead, Lu Xian put away his foolish look, bowed and said:

"Your Highness Chitose..."

"Calm down, show me the news." Zhu Youjian stretched out his hand, and Lu Xian also took out the military intelligence in his arms, and handed it to Zhu Youjian with both hands.

After Zhu Youjian took it, he opened the letter and read it while walking back to the camp. Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xian followed him.

When he got to the tent, Zhu Youjian also read the contents of the letter.

The first is the transfer of grain from the North and South Fields to Huangdian. After Huangdian handed over such a huge amount of grain, the price of grain in Liaodong was immediately adjusted from ten cents per catty to eight cents per catty.

Such a move immediately aroused the vigilance of other Liao merchants, and also caused panic buying by the people of Liaodong.

Since the delivery of the grain on the shelves seven days ago, more than [-] shi have been sold, and more than [-] taels of silver have been exchanged.

It has to be said that Daming spent more than [-] million taels of silver in Liaodong in four years. Although some of this silver poured into the hands of generals who were short of money, there were also a lot of soldiers.

Liao Town soldiers and horses dominated by Liao people naturally had to support their families, and the military salary of twelve taels of silver could only buy eight shi in the past, barely supporting one person.

But the price reduction in the Huangdian allowed them to buy nearly ten shi of grain, which can be said to be very rich to feed a person.

Therefore, although it was only seven days, the relatives of soldiers from all over Liaodong can be said to have become the main purchasing power of grain in Huangdian.

However, compared with the grain shipped to Liaodong, the grain sold so far is just a drop in the bucket.

Zhu Youjian threw the letter into the stove, and said to Lu Xian, "Continue to monitor, and let someone tell the prime minister's eunuch at the Liaodong Huangdian that if it can't be sold, the price will continue to drop until it drops to five cents a catty."

"A lowly post takes orders!" Lu Xian bowed his head and nodded, and Zhu Youjian also said to Lu Wenzhao:

"Let people monitor these prime minister eunuchs, and if anyone becomes corrupt, they will be killed on the spot!"

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao bowed in return.

"Get back, let me be quiet." Zhu Youjian waved his hand, and Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xian also withdrew from the tent.

As for Zhu Youjian, he was relieved.

Tens of millions of shi grains are put into Liaodong every year. Not only can Liaodong maintain the grain price of five or six cents a catty for a long time to appease the people, but it can also increase the income of the Yumajian. This is a good deal for people's livelihood.

Use food to appease people's hearts, and the next step is to develop fields to increase the confidence of the Liaodong people in Daming.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian narrowed his eyes slightly...

　There's another update at four in the afternoon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)