Jiajing Chengming

Chapter 393: After the imperial power is strengthened, more resources in the world will flow to the emperor!

In the swaying houseboat, Ye Guizhang fanned the folding fan in his hand vigorously after hearing this.

Then he took another swig of tea.

My mood was extremely bad.

"It seems that destroying the military household register will not stop Your Majesty from reforming the military household."

After Ye Guizhang put down the folding fan in his hand, he said something to Liu Pu with a frustrated look on his face.

Liu Pu also walked up to him with his hands behind his back, and answered with a dejected look, smiling:

"Not only can we not stop it, but we may actually end up in war!"

"If we really want to solve the problem of military households, we have to declare war on all the officers and powerful people who are sucking blood from them!"

"Many of our southern garrison officers have secretly expressed that as long as this matter still cannot stop Your Majesty, then they can only rebel! Support Prince Yi and follow the example of Emperor Taizong in the past, letting the uncle teach the nephew and repeat the old story of Jingnan!"

Liu Pu sighed at this point: "You know, if a general who leads troops to fight is disloyal and is pushed into a corner, we scholars cannot tolerate it! This dynasty has had stories of arrogant generals mutinying!"

Ye Guizhang nodded after hearing this, and could not help but pull up his sweaty collar. Then he picked up the tea, but found it was empty, so he threw the tea on the ground and shouted:
"Where are the people? Are they all dead?!"

"You don't even add tea, how do you do business in your pleasure boat?!"

The owner of the painting boat, Qin Yu'e, came in with a teapot in hand and hurriedly apologized, "Master, calm down. Didn't you forbid us from serving you?"

Snapped!
Ye Guizhang, who was in an extremely bad mood, slapped Qin Yu'e in the face.

"what!"

Qin Yu'e, who had just finished refilling tea for Ye Guizhang, cried out softly, then covered her face and knelt down in tears: "Master, please calm down. I won't dare to do it again!"

"roll!"

Ye Guizhang just shouted.

"Yes!"

Qin Yu'e retreated obediently.

Ye Guizhang was not in the mood to drink tea anymore. He just said to Liu Pu: "In fact, if there is another war in the south, it will not be a good thing for the gentry and wealthy families! On the contrary, it will be a good thing for Your Majesty!"

"You are right. No matter how many people die, they are just a number to the court."

"The court could take this opportunity to confiscate a lot of unowned property, distribute it to the people, and increase taxes."

Liu Pu nodded.

then.

Liu Pu added: "But this is not something we can stop, nor is it something we need to worry about right now. What we need to worry about now is what if the court finds out that the military household register was destroyed and it has something to do with us?"

Liu Pu said as he handed a copy of the "Di Bao" to Ye Guizhang:

"Look for yourself. The cabinet has issued an edict, changing the imperial envoy who was originally responsible for investigating the military household register to investigate the case of the destruction of the military household register! His Majesty is a vindictive person. Although this incident did not affect his reform of the military household, he will not let us off the hook."

Ye Guizhang, who was drinking tea, took the newspaper and read it. He felt uneasy and said thoughtfully:
"We cannot be sure when the military officers and powerful families in the south will support Prince Yi and start a rebellion. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility that the imperial envoy will find us before they start the rebellion! If that happens, I am afraid we will not even have the chance to surrender to Prince Yi and hope for our lives!"

"That's the truth."

"So we have to think of a way to prevent the imperial envoy from finding us."

Liu Pu nodded and said.

Ye Guizhang looked like he was thinking seriously. "You can't just kill him. The previous examples have shown that the more intense the situation, the more your Majesty will not give up."

then.

Ye Guizhang said one more sentence.

Then, Ye Guizhang actually laughed: "Come to think of it, the imperial envoy Zhang Lanxi is from the same department as me, and we have some dealings with each other."

Speaking of it.

Ye Guizhang looked at Liu Pu and said, "In my opinion, I should first let him come to Nandu and get along with him as an old friend to see if he wants to investigate seriously and find out anything. As long as he doesn't want to investigate seriously and doesn't find anything, we don't have to worry too much. If he does find out something, we can respond in time."

Liu Pu thought about it and agreed, "This is a good idea. We don't have to say that we are looking for him about the destruction of the military household register. We can just say that we are old friends and chat about old times, exchange poems and essays with him, and talk about what we have seen in the officialdom. By the way, we can also see his attitude. The military household reform will not only hurt the interests of all the gentry and wealthy families in the world. If we don't meet him, we will really be willing to do this for Your Majesty."

Ye Guizhang frowned and said, "As the saying goes, there is no deal without a banquet, and no friendship without a meeting. I can go meet him and entertain him, but I can't bear the expenses alone, right?"

"It's natural."

Liu Pu nodded and continued, "That's perfect! The Xue family returned the 30,000 mu of land to my pawnshop. I'll have someone sell it and convert it into silver dollars for you to use as a gift to entertain him. It would be best if you could send him a reliable beautiful maid to keep an eye on him."

"Forget about the beautiful maid."

"This man is henpecked and won't accept it."

"Although I don't know if he is truly henpecked, he is still using this as an excuse."

Ye Guizhang sighed at this point, "Speaking of sending beautiful maids, I think of the imperial concubine Xue of the time. Her beauty was well-known in the garrison, and I once wanted to marry her. But who knew that the two wealthy families of Jin and Wang would join forces with the eunuchs in the palace to make the emperor indulge in beauty and make her a noble lady overnight!"

"It is true that once the imperial power can suppress the officials and gentry, even the most beautiful women from the common people will flow into the palace! So that the world will not be able to see them or even possess them!"

"If a talented man does not have a beautiful woman, is it still a life of talent?"

"Yes!"

"I still hate Yang Xindu for claiming illness and giving up because of a group of refugees, and not daring to restrain the emperor. As a result, the emperor, with the help of treacherous ministers like Liang Shunde and Yuan Shishou, has gradually grown stronger and more powerful. The money and beauty in the world have flowed from the hands of the gentry to the hands of the emperor, so that I still don't have the blessing of taking in ten beautiful concubines like my father did!"

Liu Pu couldn't help but sigh when he said this: "It's really a pity!"

……

……

After Zhu Houcong's imperial power was strengthened, he was indeed able to access more high-quality social resources.

This naturally includes beauty.

It is different from the time when the power of scholars could resist the imperial power.

But Zhu Houcong was not satisfied with this. In order to make the imperial power stronger and more consolidated, he had to insist on implementing military household reforms and solving the problems of military households.

"Your Majesty, after the court discussion, the court officials all have no objection to the nine regulations on military households that Your Majesty wants to amend."

"The court officials just hope that since the military households have received more favor from the emperor than other households and are above other households, they should be treated as members of your majesty's family in the legal system, and if they violate the law, your majesty can directly punish them without going through the court!"

"This is to prevent the military households from relying on their own nobility and causing the situation before the Song Dynasty where the nobles were too arrogant and fearless of the emperor!"

Royal study room.

After Zhu Houcong and the ministers of the Imperial Study put the military household reform regulations proposed for revision to the court for discussion, Yang Yiqing reported the results of the court discussion on military reform to Zhu Houcong.

(End of this chapter)