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Chapter 173 To deal with barbarians, use a method they can understand
Li Chengliang or the warriors of the Ming Dynasty have always been looking forward to an emperor who treats them as human beings. If they win a battle, they will be rewarded, and if they lose, their heads will be beheaded. Or wipe out.

When the imperial court settled the arrears of payment, Li Chengliang thought it was accidental. When the emperor bestowed the title of Earl Ningyuan, Li Chengliang thought it was His Majesty’s kindness. It is the imperial court to appease Wu Fu's heart.

When Li Chengliang got the second-class merit award card, Li Chengliang finally confirmed that the wind power of Ming Dynasty was changing, and the reason for this change was that a civil servant, Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of Ming Dynasty, kept nagging in the emperor's ear, A martial artist fought regardless of life and death and gained meritorious service, but was usurped by civil officials. The world will not get better, not because of the belief in rewards and punishments, but because of the loss of the court's majesty.

So Li Chengliang's first reaction was to beat Buyan, or take off one of Buyan's arms. If he is not obedient, he will beat him until he is obedient.

"Is Li Shuai a bit radical?" Zhu Yijun asked after thinking about it.

"Isn't that what Your Majesty meant? I'm dull." Li Chengliang asked with a puzzled expression.

Zhu Yijun thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's what I mean. Bu Yan is a bit impractical. We need to let him recognize the reality. A beating is indeed a good way to recognize the reality."

"To deal with barbarians, use a method they can understand."

The reason why Buyan still refuses to bow his head is because Tuman Khan believes that if he does not trade with the imperial court, he can also trade with Buyan. Li Chengliang's beating of Buyan is just a statement. Liaodong is still Liaodong of the court, and Liaodong will keep pace with the court. unanimous.

Li Chengliang smiled, and it was as sunny as His Majesty's smile. The little emperor spoke so straightforwardly, and everyone understood what he said, so there were not so many things to do.

"Your Majesty will go there in a while. I have brought some good things from the Northeast. Please take a look at them." Li Chengliang did not come to Beijing empty-handed. He brought a lot of gifts to express his obedience. Second, it also highlights the prosperity of Liaodong, asking for the tendency of the imperial court's policies, and thirdly, it is a policy test, asking the imperial court's specific thoughts on the matter of Liaodong, whether to continue to fight, or to make peace.

Li Chengliang stood aside, Ti Shuai Zhao Mengyou walked in carrying five leather shelves, and a total of five deerskins appeared on the hall.

"Red deer, reindeer, moose, sika deer and elk, five deer are auspicious, with one hundred antlers." Li Chengliang pointed to the furs of five deer. These five deer are all snow white, not dyed, but born in this way.

White swallows, white pigeons, and white deer are all auspicious. These five deer are actually accumulated over the years in Liaodong. Li Chengliang spent a lot of thought on obtaining each piece. , The barbarian northern captives gave it to Li Chengliang, and Li Chengliang tidied up the furs as a gift to His Majesty.

"Shuai Li has a heart." Zhu Yijun looked at those fur goods, and then at the woolen cloak on himself, and said with great satisfaction.He is the emperor, so he may not be able to use these things, but what Li Chengliang sent was his kindness.

Li Chengliang donated more than 30 pieces of fur in total. Among them, there is also a tiger skin and a bear skin that Li Chengliang hunted and killed himself. There is a legend about Jiannu that every time a slave becomes a man, he must be hunted alone A fierce tiger was used as a coming-of-age gift, and Li Chengliang knew it was a fake. If he wanted to hunt tigers and bears, he would need at least a dozen or twenty people to go out together.

An adult, alone, hunting tigers, does not take his own life seriously.

Wild tigers are masters of hunting.

"This is a box of soil." Li Chengliang asked someone to bring up a box of black soil. He was very helpless. He didn't know how to explain the value of these soils to the natural nobleman. Is it a treasure for the temple?
But Li Chengliang thought it was worth it. This was not disrespectful. He didn't use the soil to fool the emperor, but the soil was really worth it.Li Chengliang believes that Daming didn't know the value of the Northeast at all, so he didn't develop the Northeast.

Zhu Yijun really understands soil. He stood up and came to this box of soil, stretched out his hand, rubbed it in his hand, and said with a smile: "The black soil with excellent fertility, Li Shuai's visit to Beijing this time Come prepared."

"Your Majesty knows what this is?" Li Chengliang's eyes widened, and he said in shock. He thought he would be criticized, thinking that Li Chengliang used a box of soil to fool the emperor, and people who understand can understand the value of this box of soil. , will only feel that Li Chengliang humiliated the emperor.

After Zhu Yijun washed his hands, he said with a smile: "Li Shuai, I farm the land. Has Li Shuai composted it? It's just a layer of manure and straw, sprinkled in, and then plugged in. After composting, it takes more than ten days to compost. , the temperature can rise to more than 70 degrees at the highest, and if it is higher, you need to add water, compost is the same as what Li Shuai presented, Xu Zhenming Xu Xueshi told me that this is called humic retting."

If an apple is buried in the soil, it is called organic matter. After a period of decay and humification, the soil has a large amount of stable humus, which is compost. This process is called manure.

"Your Majesty really farms the land." Li Chengliang said in admiration. He never thought that a natural nobleman would farm the land. This is a very outrageous thing. It is rumored that the emperor will farm the land. Li Chengliang did not believe it, but now he believes it, Your Majesty Seems to be really knowledgeable.

Zhu Yijun really understood, and he said in a familiar way: "Baoqisi is specially used for farming. Xu Zhenming found that the land will have obvious faults, and the color, texture, and structure of each layer are different. The top layer is floating soil. Below is the black-red humus, and further down is the inner soil layer, near some rivers, there are interlayers of sediment and soil, and further down are stones."

"Based on the color, we divide the land into red, yellow, brown, gray, white, purple, etc. For example, in Guangdong and Guangxi, red soil is mainly used, while in the Jianghuai area, yellow soil is mainly used, and in Sichuan, purple soil is mainly used. The grassland is dominated by brown soil."

"Usually, the more humus in the soil, the stronger the ability to store water. Most crops can be planted when the water content of the soil exceeds 12%. If the water content of the soil is less than 8%, it needs to be fertilized many times. Humus builds up in the soil, it's hard, it's actually hard to do."

Zhu Yijun talked eloquently, explaining what he knew about the land in a calm and unhurried manner. This is the result of practical experiments. Crops will not grow if the water content is lower than 8%.

Li Chengliang was silent for a moment before saying: "Your Majesty, after leaving the customs, go north for more than a hundred miles to the vicinity of Jilin, there is a large amount of black soil, stretching as far as the eye can see, let alone a million hectares of fertile land, the black soil is about three feet thick."

Jilin, a place name that is both familiar and unfamiliar to the Ming Dynasty, appeared frequently in the early Ming Dynasty. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was no record at all. Li Chengliang was not sure whether the little emperor knew where Jilin was.

"How much?" Zhu Yijun looked at Li Chengliang and asked, "How many hectares of this kind of black soil, this kind of black soil with one liang of soil and two liang of oil?"

"Millions of hectares." Li Chengliang said with certainty.

Daming currently has only 450 million hectares on the register, but in Hongwu 26 years it was more than 800 million hectares. Li Chengliang's mouth is a million hectares.

Land is still the most important means of production at the moment, and this million hectares of fertile land suitable for cultivation, even if it is harvested once a year, is enough to alleviate the general food shortage problem in the north.

"I understand what Li Shuai said." Zhu Yijun nodded solemnly.

The atmosphere in the side hall of the Wenhua Hall was almost solidified. Zhang Ju was contemplating, while Wang Guoguang was short of breath. His eyes were staring at Li Chengliang like a hungry wolf. That kind of gaze was called greed, and Tan Lun, Minister of the Ministry of War, was eager to try. Wang Chonggu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, was thinking about how much money it was.

These one million hectares of land are [-] million mu of land suitable for cultivation.

Li Chengliang's thinking is correct. Daming is not very clear about the value of Liaodong and the north of Liaodong. A war machine.

The enthusiasm of the Ming Dynasty or the Central Plains Dynasty for arable land was extremely fanatical.

Once this kind of obsession is opened, wars will follow one after another, and the entire Ming Dynasty will become the most fanatical warmonger, because the land is the living space, and the land is everything.

In fact, Ming has already conquered all the places that can be cultivated, and even the places that are not suitable for farming have been transformed into farmable places.

The history of the Central Plains Dynasty, if it is said to be complicated, is really complicated. To put it simply, it can be summed up in one sentence, which is the history of the expansion of arable land.

The core driver of expansion is farming land.

It is generally believed that after leaving the customs, due to the cold weather, it is impossible to cultivate. The severe cold weather will shorten the frost-free period, and the frost-free period is too short to harvest even a season. For Daming, such land is completely negative equity. He is not interested in asking for it.

But the formation of the humus layer represents the frost-free period in the north of Liaodong, and it can be cultivated. As long as the frost-free period is more than [-] days, it is worth occupying.

If the dark land is not cultivated, it is not a crime or something!
Li Chengliang sensed that something was wrong, something was very wrong, Minister of Rites Wan Shi and the biggest dove faction all became hideous.

"Your Majesty, when I was in Da Ningwei, I heard from Qi Shuai that there is such a piece of black land in Quanningwei, at the pass of Da Xianbei Mountain. If you can take Quanningwei, you can try to cultivate it. "Tan Lun mentioned what he had seen and heard in Daningwei. When he came out of Qinglong Fort, approached Quanningwei, and asked the five Khalkha troops to withdraw, Li Rusong saw the black land where the grass grew and the warblers flew, and he regarded it as an anecdote. , and told Tan Lun.

The blackness of the land is mainly due to humus.

Tu Man Khan, there is another reason to die.

"The third gift is Tiehunjia, made of ginseng iron!" Li Chengliang's third gift was a Tiehunjia.

Tan Lun walked up to Tiehunjia and knocked on it. He was quite sure that it was made of ginseng iron. The impurities in the iron material would change the properties of the iron. Removing impurities is a long and difficult process that requires repeated practice. In fact, it is the impurities that are smashed.

The one with less impurities is called ginseng iron, which is extremely rare. Tan Lun is sure that this thing is ginseng iron.

Li Chengliang bowed his head and said: "This is Dongningwei's ginseng iron. It can be mined in the open pit in Nanfen Mountain. It is next to Jianzhouwei. There has been a long period of war and turmoil, with constant attacks."

Li Chengliang also has his purpose in presenting treasures. The first fur goods were to show animal resources, while the black soil showed land resources, and now ginseng and iron are mineral resources. All the shows are the natural endowments of Liaodong. Li Chengliang's purpose is to promote war .

The leather goods are in the Daxianbei Mountains, and the only way is occupied by Tuman Khan, and the black land is in Jilin.

During the Hongwu period, the Ming army went to Jilin, and in the Yongle period, the Jilin shipyard was built in Jilin, and the Nuergandusi was established. However, as time passed, and the general trend of Xingwenwuwu, Nuergandusi was finally abandoned.

The place name of Jilin itself is called Jilin. It was named after Zhuang De, the commander of Hongwu, who passed by here and saw a lot of golden pheasants in the woods. Later, he changed his name to Jilin.

During the reign of Yongle, Jilin Shipyard built ships and began transporting grain. Emperor Chengzu died, and Renzong dismissed Jilin Shipyard. During the reign of Xuande, thousands of craftsmen set up Jilin Shipyard. After the collapse of Emperor Xuanzong, the Jilin Shipyard was completely abandoned during the Zhengtong Period, and no one mentioned it.

Even this Dongningwei ginseng iron belonging to Ming Dynasty is not safe, because the opposite is the harassment of Jianzhou gang of slaves. This is an open-air ginseng iron mine. If you occupy the iron mine, you will have armaments. What about Jiannu? May not harass loot.

Li Chengliang was clamoring for war. If the emperor wanted to get these, he needed to launch continuous attacks to get them.

Zhu Yijun understood what Li Chengliang was talking about, and said with a smile: "Li Shuai has a heart of obedience, and sooner or later he will belong to Daming. Today is the big banquet, and Li Shuai will return after the new year in the capital."

"I obey the order." Li Chengliang was sure that the emperor understood his questions and temptations. After he entered Beijing, his biggest feeling was that he was really not easy to fool this little emperor.

After Li Chengliang left, Zhu Yijun did not let Zhang Juzheng leave, but communicated with Zhang Juzheng about the prohibition of gathering disciples to give lectures and Nanya's recovery of debts.

"After the news of Qi Shuai's great victory in Liaodong spread to Nanya, the matter of recovering debts has made great progress. According to the amount of land held, luxury households with fields of more than [-] hectares will share the debt equally. owe."

Seven hundred hectares, equal to [-] mu of land, this is the most powerful man among the powerful.

The cost of tax collection is extremely high. If you ask the people harshly, you can’t collect a few cents of tax at all. The manpower and material resources for paying the bills need money, and Nanya, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places owe a total of The tax of 234 million taels of silver, excluding the cost of tax collection, will arrive at the capital of 193 million taels.

With this money, there will be 78 taels of silver to dredge and consolidate the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

As Wan Shihe said, grain is no longer transported by river, but by sea. This does not mean that the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the main artery of Ming Dynasty, has stopped beating. On the contrary, it will become more prosperous.

The transportation of grain grains to Beijing will greatly delay the transport capacity of the river transport, and the passage of grain grains and merchant ships will be avoided twice a year. This has seriously affected the production and life on both sides of the Daming Canal.

Shipping by sea was an attempt of the Ming Dynasty. This time, Zhang Juzheng was in the country. Even if the ship was completely capsized, it must continue to improve the ship and continue.

As for the matter of gathering disciples to give lectures, Zhang Juzheng believes that in the name of the so-called smooth flow of speech and great order in the world, those slanderers and treacherous people are allowed to slander the court wantonly without restraint, and they will eventually eat their own way Evil consequences.

The sages use the scriptures to teach, and the country uses the scriptures to make people.

There is no need to give lectures in the official style of the imperial court, to gather gangsters, and to recruit other people who have nothing to do, to waste their careers, and they will definitely open the way to ask for help. The abuse of appeasement will inevitably become a common practice. The Metropolitan Procuratorate inspected and dismissed; the inspectors and censors of various places also impeached; tourists and scholars, etc., gathered disciples to give lectures, and Xu Fu and the Yamen visited and explained.

This is already a very strict policy. Zhang Ju is very serious about rectifying education and administration.

"Gold and silver coins, my husband said that they should be made before the end of the year, and it seems that the end of the year is coming, has it been made yet?" Zhu Yijun asked about the production of gold and silver coins.

With the blessing of the imperial gold and silver craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial silver coins of the Baoyuan Bureau are in full swing to improve the craftsmanship.

The imperial craft of the Ming Dynasty can draw gold wire to an accuracy of one centimeter (0.314mm), and it is exactly the same. The gold silk wing crown worn by Zhu Yijun is this kind of craft. The craftsmanship is casting, and the silver coins that are cast have too many holes, which cannot meet the coin needs of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Chengliang went down to court, and the next day he appeared in Huitongguan Post, and began to negotiate with Buyan on behalf of Liaodong.

Tuman Khan still has an illusion that the Li Chengliang tribe in Liaodong has the same attributes as their Tuman Khan. They are both kings of the mountain and can communicate. They can be the same as the northwest direction of Ming Dynasty. They are all in a fight, and Liaodong and the barbarian snakes are in the same nest, so everyone can talk and discuss, and cheat the court's money together.

This is also the view of the imperial court. The imperial court is very cautious when dealing with the situation in Liaodong.

Both the barbarians and the imperial court believed that Li Chengliang had the foundation to become a vassal town, but they never asked Li Chengliang what he thought, or what the Liaodong army and people thought. However, Li Chengliang is just a Ming general recognized by everyone as being able to lead the Liaodong army to win battles and protect the people's cultivated land in Liaodong.

Li Chengliang is a general of the Ming Dynasty, but if there is a way, Li Chengliang will never rebel, or even raise his own self-esteem. In the Ming Dynasty, rebellion by generals is too abstract and unrealistic.

Bu Yan saw Li Chengliang who came to negotiate with a smile on his face. Li Chengliang swung his right elbow back and rushed forward without even saying hello. His body center of gravity moved down a little, his elbows, shoulders and waist moved together, and he punched a cannon. It hit Buyan directly in the face.

"Oh!"

This punch was powerful and heavy. If Li Chengliang hadn't been 50 years old now, Bu Yan could have been killed with just this punch. He is a big and round general.

The smile on Buyan's face didn't disappear, he became astonished, and then fell straight on the ground. He was lying on the ground, his head was buzzing and screaming, and the darkness in front of him immediately turned into a kind of illusory white and gold. At the intersection, Buyan, who was lying on the ground, never thought that he would be hit by this punch anyway. What is the reason?
Two soldiers picked up a long bench, and the legs of the stool caught Buyan's neck and one leg, and the two soldiers held down the only movable foot, and said loudly, "Please sit down, Commander. "

Li Chengliang sat down on the bench with great determination, and stepped on Bu Yan's hand.

Buyan's cowardly guard pulled out the scimitar in his hand and looked at Li Chengliang lacking confidence, while Li Chengliang's personal soldiers pulled out their waist knives. The atmosphere between the two sides suddenly became tense, and they would fight if they disagreed.

Li Chengliang resolutely carried out His Majesty's order, and His Majesty said he would beat him up as soon as he said he wanted to.

"I heard that your father is going to make an appointment with Daming as the kingdom of uncle and nephew?" Li Chengliang looked at Bu Yan with a particularly gloomy tone. He took out a dagger, swiped it at Bu Yan's face, and placed it on Bu Yan. on his neck said, "Speak."

Buyan didn't dare to move at all!
When his vision regained clarity, he saw a beast on his body. The coldness of the knife gave him goosebumps all over his body. Bu Yan knew that as long as he answered incorrectly, Li Chengliang would definitely kill him.

Li Chengliang has the guts.

"No, Daningwei lost the battle, don't say that, Subahai should have been killed in the golden tent, so I can only say that, absolutely not." Bu Yan looked at Li Chengliang's face, terrified replied.

Buyan is telling the truth. Tuman Khan said this for the sake of internal stability and to return the country of his uncles and nephews. In the country of China, Tuman Khan doesn't know how many soldiers and horses he has?

As Tan Lun guessed, the conflicts among the Tuman Khan's tribes were much more intense than the conflicts between the Ming court and the localities. Tuman Khan didn't say that, and it was only a matter of time before the various parts of the Tuman Khan fell apart.

"Remember one sentence, if you humiliate the emperor, you are humiliating the entire Ming Dynasty. If you speak harshly and then talk about your majesty, I will personally lead the army and destroy your lair." I understand, but if you talk about the emperor again, Li Chengliang will never end it with a beating.

It has been more than 50 years in Ming Dynasty that there has not been an emperor who respects martial arts. The last one who respected martial arts was Emperor Wu Zong.

Although it has a lot to do with Zhang Juzheng's education, His Majesty's respect for martial arts is not necessarily Zhang Juzheng's education. For example, Tishuai Zhu Xixiao and Qi Shuai taught the emperor martial arts. A hard cake; Yongding woolen factory's wool is given priority to military use, etc. This kind of respect makes Li Chengliang a little confused.

Li Chengliang felt that he had never seen the world when the emperor ate all the cakes. He really had never seen this scene.

Therefore, if you put harsh words on the emperor, then you can't blame Li Chengliang for being rude.

"Got it, got it!" Bu Yan nodded hurriedly and replied, Li Chengliang was not like this before, although he was not very polite to Tuman Khan's envoy, he was still polite.

But now when they met, they didn't even say a word, they just started fighting.

Li Chengliang just stood up and said disdainfully: "Tell you, without His Majesty's order, Liaodong will not sell goods to Tumanhan, and not a single hair can leave the Great Wall, I Li Chengliang said!"

"If you want to talk about it, talk to the imperial court. If you don't talk about it, you've fought on the battlefield, and you can't beat it again and again. You have a very hard mouth, and you talk like a civil servant in Ming Dynasty."

Buyan lay on the ground, suspicious of life, he is a prairie man, not a literati, spouting nonsense.

Li Chengliang really beat up Buyan. This is a political statement. He gave the emperor so many gifts, mainly to ask, the emperor, our old Li fought with the barbarians and slaves in Liaodong Do you want to live or die, or pretend to be a snake, hello, my family?Your emperor will give you a quasi-word.

The emperor made it very clear that the land court wanted it, the iron mine court wanted it, the fur court wanted it, all of them.

"Can Daming withdraw from the Great Ningwei?" Buyan asked tentatively.

Li Chengliang raised his fist again, and said with a sneer: "If I were Tuman Khan, I would rather fight I Da Khan than Qi Jiguang, and I would rather see who that is. "

"There is no reason to spit out what you eat in your stomach."

"I figured it out. The local barbarians don't want to talk about it at all. It's okay, just keep fighting."

Li Chengliang looked around, turned around and left, he didn't come to negotiate peace, he came to beat someone, and beating someone was to express his position, he left after beating, without any nostalgia.

That night, Li Chengliang received an invitation card from Zhang Juzheng, but Zhang Juzheng invited Li Chengliang not to the Quanchu Guild Hall, but to Yanxing Building, a banquet building next to the Quanchu Guild Hall. Yanxing Building is a business in Huangzhuang. Take care of it.

Li Chengliang checked 1000 taels of gold, but it was not silver. When he came to Yanxing Building, the 1000 taels of gold were divided into two boxes.

"Mr. Yuanfu, who is this?" Li Chengliang looked at the clean-faced and beardless man with some doubts, he looked like someone from the palace.

Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "Feng Bao's adoptive son Xu Jue, he took care of Yanxing Building."

Li Chengliang breathed a sigh of relief. The 1000 taels of gold he prepared had to be divided into two boxes, otherwise it would not be enough.

"Bring it up, Yuan Fu and Feng Daban, each with a mouthful of boxes, to thank Yuan Fu for helping the warrior open his eyes." Li Chengliang was full of sincerity, and every shot would be gold. If Xu Jue was not present, the 1000 taels would all belong to Zhang Juzheng.

Li Chengliang believes that Uncle Ning Yuan and the World Voucher are both Zhang Juzheng's decision, because His Majesty has never personally governed, so it must be Yuanfu who makes the decision. Since he gave the title to the World Voucher, he can't do nothing without expressing it. Who will talk to Wu Fu in the future?
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "I can't take it. Your lord won fame with hundreds of battles. I accept the money, which is to offend Emperor Gao."

What Zhang Juzheng said was to offend Emperor Gao, not His Majesty today. Martial arts connoisseurship was a rule set by Emperor Gao, the great ancestor. If he accepted Li Chengliang's gold and silver as Yuanfu, then he would be humiliating the Wu Xun enshrined by Emperor Gao The rules of the reward.

"Our family can't have it either." Xu Jue shook his head and said: "If you take this box, you will have to be sank by the old ancestor when you return to the palace, and the old ancestor and the second ancestor will tear you apart."

Li Chengliang was confused, and no one wanted the golden gold?How did this world become like this?
　Your lord has gained fame through hundreds of battles, and I have offended Emperor Gao by accepting the money.From "The Chronicle of Ming History Addendum".These are the original words of Zhang Juzheng's refusal of Li Chengliang's bribe, and Zhang Juzheng doesn't accept all kinds of money.Ask for a monthly ticket, woohoo! ! ! ! ! ! !
　　
　
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