Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 200 Chapter 190 Seven Begins Northwest Hegemony

Because the court did not formally convict the King of Qin and his family, Wang Daoqiu could not sell the land owned by the King of Qin and his family in Guanzhong now.However, in order to win over people's hearts and win the support of the common people, Wang Daoqiu still spread the word and sent scribes to the grassroots to start re-measurement of the land.

Wang Daoqiu's plan to divide the land among local tycoons in Shandong can be said to be the headline of the Ming Dynasty this year. Now everyone with normal IQ of the Ming Dynasty knows about this.Therefore, as soon as Wang Daoqiu spread the news, he sent his clerks to go down and re-measure the land. The entire Guanzhong Plain was boiling, and the people rushed to tell each other.Those who had money quickly prepared money, and those who had no money quickly borrowed money. No matter what, they had to put together the [-]% down payment first, and then eagerly waited for Wang Daoqiu to start selling the land.

The situation is very good, not a small good, but a big good.As the situation developed, even though the court had not issued a formal edict on this, Wang Daoqiu took advantage of the situation and first transferred the many "black fields" in remote areas of the Qin Prince's residence to the local area. in the name of the tenant farmer.

Of course, before the imperial court issued a formal decree, Wang Daoqiu took this matter on the sidelines. The prerequisite for granting land was that those tenant farmers must produce young men to serve as soldiers in the Ming army.In this way, even if Emperor Jiajing asked him about it afterwards, Wang Daoqiu would be able to lie, saying that he was taking precautions before it was too late, and that he was afraid of a mutiny in the Shaanxi Guards and recruited children from good families in advance to organize and train the new army in order to suppress the possible Shaanxi rebellion. The old army mutiny.

Wang Daoqiu let some tenant farmers take the land first, firstly, to give the people of the entire Guanzhong Plain a reassurance and let them know that the land was really going to be divided.On the other hand, it is also true that Liang Jiazi is recruited to form a new army, so that when the decaying guards are attacked in the future, the northwest will not be without enough military strength to deal with internal and external troubles.

The people of the country believed that seeing is believing, so when Wang Daoqiu let some tenant farmers get the land first, the remaining people in Guanzhong looked at Wang Daoqiu eagerly, fearing that Emperor Jiajing would issue an order to transfer Wang Daoqiu. gone.

Even Yinchuan and Lanzhou, not far from the Guanzhong Plain, were the fiefdoms of Prince Qing and Prince Su of the Ming Dynasty. The people there looked at Prince Qing’s and Prince Su’s mansions with resentment. Why were these two kings still alive? Why didn’t the king shave his head? come?How about we organize a group to go to Xi'an and invite you?

A few days passed in a hurry, when all kinds of criminal evidence and the impeachment papers of hundreds of civil and military officials in Shaanxi were rushed to Beijing through the imperial courier for [-] miles.Emperor Jiajing knew that there was an underground Jinluan Palace in the Prince of Qin's palace, and that all the kings and concubines of Qin had proclaimed themselves emperors. Emperor Jiajing was furious and immediately sent Zongzheng to go to Xi'an in person with people from Zongzheng's mansion.

At the same time, in order to stop the mouths of the kings, Emperor Jiajing also sent a decree to Jin Wang of Shanxi, King Qing of Yinchuan, King Su of Lanzhou, King Zhou of Kaifeng, and King Xiang of Xiangyang, a total of five vassals, to go to Xi'an to interrogate King Qin together. One family.

The evidence was irrefutable and the father and son of Qin King Zhu Huaizhen were irrefutable. In the end, Mr. Zongzheng personally presided over it. Under the witness of the five Ming vassal kings, including the King of Jin and the King of Zhou, all the relatives of the King of Qin in the Ming Dynasty, a total of more than a thousand people, were given poisonous wine. .

After getting rid of the King of Qin's lineage, he watched the bodies of the Dragon Son and the Dragon Girl of the King of Qin's lineage slowly turn into ashes in the firewood.Lord Zongzheng approached Wang Daoqiu, and asked in a low voice: "There is something wrong here. I will return to Beijing tomorrow. I don't know how your preparations are going, Lord Taifu?"

"Reporting to Mr. Zongzheng, there are a total of 390 large wooden boxes in the Prince Qin's mansion. They were sent to Tongguan in secret a few days ago in Jinyiwei. They are only waiting for Mr. Zongzheng to receive them and take them to the capital. In addition, in these 390 large wooden boxes, Twenty of them are not registered, which can be regarded as the hard work of Master Zongzheng during this trip."

"Hard work fee, isn't that bad?" Wang Daoqiu told him to give him twenty large wooden boxes of gold and silver as hard work fee.Lord Zongzheng felt very happy, but he still had to pretend on the surface.

Knowing the need for these performances in the officialdom, Wang Daoqiu hurriedly continued in a low voice: "Master Zongzheng is in charge of the royal affairs of the Zongren Mansion. He is a retainer of the emperor and has a high position. I believe you have heard of the emperor's rules. Our emperor is kind and knows The emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers. Therefore, our emperor never orders people in vain, and always leaves [-]% to his ministers as labor expenses. It is the same in Shandong, and it is the same in Shaanxi this time. This time I am here in Shaanxi, and I am with the Supervisor of Ceremonies. , Jinyiwei, Zongzheng Mansion is divided into [-]%, those twenty big boxes are what Zongzheng Mansion deserves."

Wang Daoqiu spoke directly, without the tortuousness of official circles.When Wang Daoqiu spoke like this, Master Zongzheng lamented that Wang Daoqiu was too thick-skinned and could tell the difference so clearly.But since Wang Daoqiu said everything directly and clearly, Master Zongzheng also knew that this time it was Emperor Jiajing who got [-]% of the big share, and he, Wang Daoqiu, Jin Yiwei, and the Chief of Ceremonies shared [-]%. Everyone has a share, then this Even though he was dirty, he felt relieved.

So after understanding that there was no risk in this dirty score, Master Zongzheng smiled and skipped the topic, and said to Wang Daoqiu: "Before coming, the emperor asked me to bring a message to Master Taifu, Shaanxi is different from Shandong, Shaanxi is located on the border, The land is relatively poor, and the border troops are involved. Therefore, the emperor asked the Taifu to handle the affairs in Shaanxi, and he could give an appropriate profit. As for the Taifu's proposal to reform the military guard station in Shaanxi, the emperor asked the Taifu to do it easily. , but don’t do it too hastily, lest you make those people jump over the wall and lure the Tatars into the border.”

"Yes, thank you Lord Zongzheng for reminding me! I also ask Lord Zongzheng to report to the emperor that I will handle this matter in Shaanxi with caution and try not to cause major turmoil."

"Okay, okay, if you want to be the Grand Tutor, I will definitely report it to the Emperor after I return to Beijing. Although the Grand Tutor is young, he does things in a safe way. Both me and the Emperor can rest assured. Then this matter will be too hard." Master Fu."

"It's not hard, it's not hard, it's a matter of loyalty to the emperor, and the duty of a courtier."...

Early the next morning, Wang Daoqiu saw off Zongzheng and the five Ming vassal kings at the gate of Xi'an City.As soon as he turned around, he summoned Zhou Shangwen and Li Guodong for a small meeting.At the beginning of the meeting, Wang Daoqiu asked about military preparations.

Seeing Wang Daoqiu's question, Li Guodong, who was in charge of recruiting the new army, hurriedly replied: "If you repay your favor, I will serve as a soldier for four years. In addition to the normal military salary, you will also receive four acres of land. Those good guys in Guanzhong." , all flocked to the military camp enthusiastically. Now we have selected more than 25 young men from Guanzhong aged 7000 to [-] and sent them to the army to train together with our original Shandong soldiers, Liaodong soldiers, and Huaixi soldiers. The Shaanxi New Army under our control now has nearly [-] people, occupying all the major counties in the Guanzhong Plain, as well as the Tongguan natural barrier."

He already had [-] direct troops in his hands, which gave Wang Daoqiu confidence.But with a mere [-] troops, there is still a big gap in realizing the ideals in one's heart.

So as soon as Li Guodong finished speaking, Wang Daoqiu said: "Now the sons and grandsons of Prince Qin's palace have all turned into ashes. The nearly 2000 million acres of land owned by Prince Qin's family on the Guanzhong Plain will be put up for sale someday. At that time, we will have gold and silver, and we will not be short of money. In this way, I will allocate [-] acres of good land, continue to implement our original policy, and recruit another [-] capable soldiers in Guanzhong."

"Of these newly recruited soldiers, [-] will stay in Guanzhong for training, and [-] will be sent to Yansui to support Qi Jiguang there. In addition, the former Shandong veterans who followed me into Shaanxi will not be treated badly this time. The minimum reward is twenty silver coins. , the higher the official rank, the higher the reward will be ten silver coins. And the soldiers of General Zhou will be rewarded with fifty silver coins each. Of course, General Li and General Zhou, you two will each be rewarded with thirty thousand silver coins this time."

"Thank you sir"

"Thank you for your kindness"

Wang Daoqiu's reward was so generous, Li Guodong and Zhou Shangwen were also overjoyed. Now they and their subordinates had their own, and everyone was happy.

Especially Zhou Shangwen, he had already heard that Ma Fang and his gang that he sent to Wang Daoqiu went to Shandong with Wang Daoqiu that day, and all of them were killed.

Before this group of people went to Liaodong, they returned to Datong to resettle their families, and the money they spent was calculated as a hundred taels or a thousand taels.This made the Datong soldiers envious. They all resented Zhou Shangwen. Why didn't they send themselves to follow Wang Daoqiu to Shandong in the first place?Even Zhou Shangwen's own son complained that Zhou Shangwen had such a good thing, why didn't he take care of his own family, and instead took advantage of Ma Fang, that dog slave?

Wang Daoqiu was rich and generous to the sergeants who followed him. Zhou Shangwen knew this, but he really didn't expect it.He, Zhou Shangwen, was neither a direct descendant of Wang Daoqiu nor did he do any great service for Wang Daoqiu, but Wang Daoqiu actually rewarded him with 16 oceans at a time.You must know that Zhou Shangwen has been a hereditary commander since he was 50 years old. He has been in the military for more than [-] years, but he has not saved [-] oceans!

A scholar will die for the sake of knowing himself, so he and his eldest brother must choose someone who is both capable and generous.And Wang Daoqiu undoubtedly meets the standards of this good big brother.

So when Wang Daoqiu gave away the 70 yuan, Zhou Shangwen said with a shameless face: "Master Taifu, I, Zhou Shangwen, am over 50 this year. I have been in the army for more than [-] years. I have never seen someone as capable as Master Taifu." What a generous Shangguan. Master Taifu, when you get old, you have nothing to ask for yourself. All your concerns lie with your children and grandchildren. So I wonder if my children and grandchildren of Zhou Shangwen are lucky enough to follow you, Master Taifu?"

What does Zhou Shangwen mean by this?Are you taking his entire Zhou family to recognize the master?Thinking about Zhou Shangwen still fighting on the front line of the country's border defense in his 70s, thinking about all of Zhou Shangwen's sons who later died on the front line of Xuanda University.This Zhou family is full of loyal people, and Wang Daoqiu really can't bear to refuse now.

However, considering that Emperor Jiajing could not allow himself to control the military for a long time, it would be bad for both sides if the border generals had close contacts with the ministers.So Wang Daoqiu could only be cruel and tell Zhou Shangwen the cruel facts.

But in the end, Wang Daoqiu also promised Zhou Shangwen that he would definitely uphold justice for the Zhou family in the court, and would never let Zhou Shangwen's children and grandchildren suffer the same injustices that Zhou Shangwen had, and were falsely accused and imprisoned several times.

(End of this chapter)