my days with tyrants

Chapter 124

As for the conflict between Yang Feng, King Jin, and King Qi...

Including him beating his own seventh brother foolishly.

Zhu Zhi didn't care at all.

half-brother...

That's not brother!

To be precise, they are all sons of bad women!
In this kind of imperial family, half-brothers can basically be enemies. Zhu Zhi's mother has long since disappeared, and he is the only one who really depends on each other.

little princess.

The other so-called brothers and sisters count as one, but in his heart they are just the bastards of bad women. A concubine like him who is a low-level concubine, originally looked at the sons of those concubines who were concubines or favorite concubines. Pleasing to the eye, his feelings for these people are simply negative.In fact, even he is dissatisfied with Zhu Di, who treats the Mongolian Jurchen too well, and because he has already known the future from the little princess, he has always harbored deep hostility towards these tribes.

It was under his threat that Alu Timur was arrested by his fourth brother.

Alu Timur did not defect.

He did have the idea, but it was just an idea.

A little grouchy at best.

Zhu Di also knew that the root cause was that he had been left in Huining for too long. Those who were originally loyal to him were uneasy, so he wanted to defend it. In fact, he didn't want to be arrested in history. His uncle forced him to arrest him. .

In order to prevent him from rebelling, Xu Huizu created the Alu Timur case and forced him to cut off his wings.

But now his elder brother is not here, and his fifteenth brother is forcing him instead.

Zhu Zhi's guards from the Liao clan were already preparing to raid Alu Timur. If Zhu Di didn't catch him, then he, the real guardian of Liaodong, would do it for his fourth brother. After all, it was under his jurisdiction, so Zhu Di had no choice but to Arrest people, because Zhu Zhi is also dissatisfied with Zhu Di about this matter, this is still Zhu Di, he can be regarded as his closest brother.

Not to mention the others.

but……

He had to hug his nephew's thigh.

For a vassal like him who has no ambitions and no threat to Zhu Yunxi, the most important thing is to show his loyalty to the future emperor.

This is the most important.

The easiest way to show loyalty is of course to let Zhu Yunxi see that he and his brothers, King Yan and King Jin, are not of one mind. Yang Feng is an open enemy of King Jin, and he injured King Qi. The enemy of the vassal king, and keeping friendly with Yang Feng is tantamount to telling Zhu Yunxi that he is not with these brothers...

Good nephew, you know me.

I'm not with those guys who want to take your throne.

I obey you.

You see, I've made good friends with your hawk dog.

Well, Yang Feng has already been regarded as Zhu Yunxie's eagle dog.

After all, he has already solved a vassal king who had to be vigilant for Zhu Yunxi.

Who is the happiest when King Qi becomes a fool?
princess……

Well, she's number one.

But the second place has to be Zhu Yunxie.

If Yang Feng can beat his uncles into fools in this way, then Zhu Yunxi doesn't need to worry about the resistance of his uncles after succeeding to the throne.

What a fool!
It is also reasonable for him to cut the feudal clan.

A fool is obviously unable to fulfill his duties as a vassal king. Since this is the case, of course there is no need for them to continue to fill up their fiefdoms, and they will all be taken back to the capital to work as a public servant. He will provide for his uncles.Therefore, there are still some rumors among the people that Yang Feng beat the foolish King Qi at the behest of the emperor's grandson, after all, it is too beneficial to the emperor's grandson.

So Yang Feng naturally became the eagle dog of the emperor's grandson.

There are quite a few people who believe this statement.

It is not ruled out that Zhu Zhi also believes it.

He is far away from here, and there must be only fragmented rumors that can be transmitted.

As for the fact that Yang Feng came to Guangning to see his adoptive daughters...

There are many righteous women here.

The total number is as high as 500, but at present, they are all at the young child level, and even the oldest is only thirteen. There are Jurchen, Goryeo, Wa, and even Mongolia, all in a mess.

Some of them were bought by green slaves.

Even when the Ming army was mopping up various ministries, it was inevitable that there would be stiff necks, and it was common for people to destroy their families. The green slave negotiated with the generals of the Ming army, and those little girls they didn't want would be sold to her.Then these are also counted as Yang Feng's adopted daughters, so the total number of Yang Feng's adopted daughters has exceeded [-], but he has never touched any of the [-] adopted daughters.

And give it away for nothing.

Exaggerated.

At least for the generals of the Ming army, this kind of behavior is simply incredible.

And he also asked people to teach these righteous girls to read and write.

This is even more incredible.

"What's wrong with that?

My education doesn't allow me to do that.

In our era, three wives and four concubines were first not allowed. At least legally, only one husband and one wife were recognized before they were adults. Under 14 years old is the same as yours under 12 years old. You are severe, after all you are hanged.

In fact, our laws are very different from yours at this time, and our moral values ​​are also different.

Some of your things are completely unreasonable to us.

Such as sacrificial burial. "

Yang Feng said.

This issue should indeed be taken seriously.

At this time, there is already a concubine Ji after Zhu Biao's death, and Zhu Yuanzhang is coming soon, so he has to start to infiltrate from the ideological point of view.

Let this system be quickly abandoned.

"Like slaves.

This is also unreasonable in our time.

Of course, hiring is fine.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, this point basically became a complete employment. Although the Southern Song Dynasty began to appear serfs because of the expansion of Neo Confucianism, the Ming Dynasty was still regressing on this point.This really cannot be said to be the responsibility of His Majesty the Emperor. After all, with his historical knowledge, it would be impossible for him to know this when the system was first formulated.

Third, low status.

Although I support that some people should indeed be registered as cheap, but we did not have it at that time.

Not even 200+ years.

Fourth, the military household system.

This is good for now, but in fact it will soon become the main disadvantage.

It is necessary to maintain compulsory military service, but it is not to single out some people to be military households, but a universal compulsory military service system for all populations, which means that everyone should be military households.

Fifth, curfew.

There should be no curfew if business is to prosper.

At least the current curfew is unreasonable, and the curfew in the Northern Song Dynasty can be used as a reference. Instead of abolishing this system, the curfew time is postponed to the third watch. It is indeed difficult to guarantee that it is not a thief if it is still outside after the third watch.But at present, it is really unreasonable to prohibit going out at [-]:[-] or [-]:[-]. After all, ordinary people have jobs during the day, which means they can have time to go out at night. "

Yang Feng said.

He had to systematically transform the ruling class thinking of the Ming Dynasty.

"But it's pitch black after three o'clock in the morning. What can people do when they go out?"

Guo Ying said.

He is still guarding Liaodong.

He is different from other nobles. Zhu Yuanzhang has absolute trust in him. In fact, those heroes Zhu Yuanzhang killed never include Guo Ying's level, because these are true confidants, his own people, and others are at most partners, and the business is bigger. Kicking off partners is inevitable.

But cronies are different.

"As long as you let go, the common people will solve this problem by themselves, and it is actually not difficult to solve. A government-run night market will be set up specially, and the government will provide trading places, and then provide lighting inside, but tax the stalls.

In addition, the gates of the city should not be closed to allow outsiders to enter the city for trade.

Then the city gate collects the tax again.

In the end, you will find that the income of the government has increased significantly.

This is the model of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Open night business, then collect taxes.

In the end, the annual commercial tax of Kaifeng City was as high as 40 Guan. "

Yang Feng said.

"What should bandits do if they get in and make trouble?"

Guo Ying said.

"Are you giving up the opportunity to increase tax revenues because you are afraid of bandits getting involved? This idea is puzzling. Besides, why do bandits live? Isn't it poor? If the income of being a small trader can exceed that of being a bandit, then who would Do you want to be a bandit? How many of the so-called bandits nowadays are actually businessmen and bandits who can’t do business normally because of your various restrictions?
There will naturally be a flow of demand from the people.

If your various restrictions are not allowed, then naturally some people will be forced to take risks.

Everyone has money to make, who would risk getting killed?
Commerce should be open rather than closed, and trade should be circulated rather than imprisoned. "

Yang Feng said.

He actually wanted to encourage these guys in Liaodong to take advantage of the sky and the emperor's distance, and secretly start it first.

Here is the condition.

After all, it is far away from the capital.

Moreover, as the conditions in the border area are difficult, Zhu Yuanzhang will turn a blind eye to their efforts to increase income, even if they are marginal.He also knew that he was sorry for throwing these military households here. Now that they can find their own way to make money, his interference would easily cause dissatisfaction.

Now these guys are already brushing aside, for example, Liao Wang's canned food is getting more and more salty.

It can be used directly as salt.

But he is not selfish.

Not even salted fish.

After all, the law is completely blank. Although this question is useless to ordinary people, he has two official words, but he is a vassal king, and a few official words are useless.

At least before the imperial court revised the salt law and set the salt content for canned food, even if he made the canned food so that people could die, it would not violate the salt law.

Does Zhu Yuanzhang understand?

Of course he understands.

But he also knows that he threw his son into the icy and snowy land of Liaodong. So far, he doesn’t even have a palace. The whole family lives in tents, and the output is only one-fourth and one-fifth of Jiangnan’s. In such an environment, you have to give him a way to make money. !
The same Kaiyuan generals were already mining silver mines.

This is also marginal.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang did not approve mining.

He understands that mining silver mines there means that Liaodong needs to feed more off-duty people, or that more grain needs to be transported from the south, which obviously violates his principles.However, he still turned a blind eye to the mining of those generals in Kaiyuan and adopted an acquiescing attitude. As for the reasons, it is similar, after all, it is more bitter than Guangning.Moreover, a large part of these generals in Kaiyuan led troops to fight in Huining with Zhu Di and Zhu Zhi. That kind of ghostly place where even the Mongols want to leave allows them to fight for a long time. Can you not give some benefits?

So now to encourage the Liaodong Group to secretly open up business in order to increase income, it is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang will turn a blind eye.

After all, it is too bitter here.

These border guards must have the motivation to stay here.

Of course, it was mainly because it was beneficial to Yang Feng.

If his Liaodong reclamation wants to survive, of course it is impossible to rely on farming alone. In fact, farming is only the basic condition for sustaining, but if people want to accept minus [-] degrees, they must be able to see minus [-] degrees. Bright future.

farming.

industry and commerce.

Even ran out to grab it.

The most important of these should be industry and commerce.

So he needs an open Liaodong business environment.

After fooling Guo Ying and the others, Yang Feng and Zhu Zhi went north together. They took a boat directly on the Liaohe River, and then took the south wind that had completely turned, went up the Liaohe River upstream to Laomi Bay, and disembarked here to Kaiyuan.Then Yang Feng saw the wooden rail transportation he designed in Kaiyuan. This wooden rail was built in the name of transporting grain in Jilin, basically according to his requirements, but it was simpler than he imagined.Roughly machined wooden rails are laid on the same roughly machined sleepers, with a solid roadbed underneath and no stones, which is very difficult in this era.

Just a solid foundation will do.

Anyway, easy maintenance.

In order to avoid the wrong car, simply repair the line, one goes north and the other goes south.

Because the wood is sufficient, the craft is simple, and the construction speed is very fast, it is almost laid in Changtu now, including the supporting carriages, which have also been used on it.This is equally simple, just the iron-clad wheels, but there is a block on the inside of the wheels. The only problem is the wear and tear on the wooden rails. The solution is that the wooden rails are also covered with iron.

However, after the production of iron yards needs to be increased, the current method is very simple.

Grease the wooden rails generously.

Then replace it when worn out.

Guarding the vast virgin forest, the wood is the least valuable.

Then Yang Feng and Liao Wang can experience the feeling of speed in a wooden carriage.

"It's still too slow!"

Yang Feng sat on the four-wheeled wooden carriage and said indifferently.

"Is this slow?"

King Liao, who was visibly excited beside him, looked at the little tree that kept retreating beside him.

The craftsmen in Liaodong have learned to plant trees to prevent soil erosion, so this wooden track road is lined with newly planted small trees. After all, for this kind of rammed earth roadbed, the biggest threat is actually the erosion of water. In addition to the terrain It should be slightly higher than the sides, and the rest is to slow down the tree planting.

"How much can this be? Thirty per hour? It's limited to be faster than an electric three-wheeler."

Yang Feng sighed with emotion.

Of course, in this era, a carriage loaded with more than 2000 kilograms of goods can move forward at the speed of electric tricycles, which can already be said to be a miracle.

In the past, it took a rammed earth road to transport a thousand catties of grain from Kaiyuan to Changtu. Even a horse-drawn cart would take half a day. Now it takes an hour. The most burdensome transportation distance is shortened to less than ten days.Moreover, the load capacity of a carriage can also be doubled, but in this case, more soldiers are needed to maintain the road, so the road guard army should also appear.

It has to be said that this is already the Ming version of the Northeast Development.

Wherever the railway extends, there will be prosperity.

(End of this chapter)