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Chapter 1258 Shu Fan

Chengdu, Shu Palace.

"Yes, the 6 taels of gold were all sent to the emperor. It is good to have a bank system now. They will take out so much money from the household department as soon as they are mentioned."

Zhu Xuanqi, king of Shu, has been the king of Shu for more than twenty years. He has a standard face of the old Zhu family. He is a fat middle-aged man. No matter what your Majesty wants to do, these great kings and generals of Fan will firmly support it!"

The Shu Palace is not a mansion, but a palace city.

The front gate of the palace city is the Duanli Gate. Inside the gate, the triple palace is arranged on the central axis of the north-south direction. Behind the main hall are layers of palaces. The palace walls of the Forbidden City are three feet and six feet high, and the palace walls of the Shu Palace are three feet and five feet high. Much higher than the two feet nine feet five inches stipulated by the regulations.

However, this palace was built under the order of Zhu Yuanzhang. It was the 15th year of Hongwu. Chengdu began to build the Shu Palace according to the edict. Fang Xiuwan's Shu Palace occupies a particularly large area and has a particularly high palace wall.

At that time, this was the western frontier of Ming Dynasty, and the vassal king was still able to lead troops out of the town fortress.

Zhu Xuanqi, the King of Shu, would not have thought that the Shu Fan would be burdened with a big pot of offering 6 taels of gold to the emperor. In a vassal state, in the entire Chengdu, [-]% of the land is the king's estate of the Shu vassal.

The 6 taels of gold was not paid by Zhu Xuanqi alone, it was the entire Shu Fan, the Tiren Gate and the Guangzhi Gate outside the gate of the Shu Palace in Chengdu, where many county princes' mansions lined up, and the 6 taels of gold was the entire Shu clan. The credit of the Shu Fan.

Relatively speaking, the Shu Fan is relatively closed, and although its connection with the Central Plains is better than that of the previous generations, it is also limited. The only thing is that the emperor's order is very thorough.

A few years ago, Henan Fuyong Meng Zhong and others suggested to the imperial court to adjust and enrich the Zongxue, which was approved, and then the news spread to central Sichuan, and Zhu Xuanqi, the king of Shu, started to build the Zongxue, and the Zongxue had not yet been established in the future. Later, the emperor ordered the implementation of the new Wanli Primary School in various places.

Immediately afterwards, an event that could affect the whole of Sichuan happened-the external seal of the Xuanwei Department of Bozhou.

It was at that time that Zhu Xuanqi and other clans of the Shu clan finally knew that the Ming Dynasty still had a place called Xinming overseas.

Also in the same year, Sichuan began to build a telegraph network. It was built from Shaanxi in the north, Huguang in the east, and Yunnan from Songping Pass in the south.

Compared with such an expensive project as building a palace, just laying a telegraph network along the original station road is hardly a huge project, but it is a test of grassroots mobilization ability.

But this kind of thing is very difficult for the long-lost chief secretary of Sichuan. It is precisely because of the existence of the Shu Fan that Prince Zhu Xuanqi led the Shu Fan's side branch princes to mobilize tenant farmers, making Chengdu the first one completed by other governments. Then he helped Long'an Mansion and Chongqing Mansion to carry out corvee, so that the mission was completed quickly and well.

For Zhu Xuanqi, his trick is to promulgate a policy that allows Wangzhuang tenant farmers who participate in telegraph corvee to pay one cent less per mu for two years, and one-third of the tax will be exempted for one labor.

The telegram is too important to them. The wealth of the Shu Fan is the "Shu Mansion Zhengzi" caravan on the ancient tea-horse road. This is a special transaction assigned by the imperial court to Sichuan, and the Shu Fan has put in a lot of effort; Those are the fields. The fields are not taken by force, but rewarded by the emperor for meritorious service, loyalty, and virtuous generations.

A large part of the reason for meritorious service rewards is that the traffic is not smooth and the news is not delivered in time.

The imperial court has a time limit for the information notification of the vassal states. The time limit for Shanxi Shandong to receive the news and reply to the capital is six months; Henan Zhou Fan six and a half months; Shaanxi Qin Fan seven months; Jiangxi Yi Fan and Huguang Chu Fan eight months ; Guangxi Jingjiang Palace ten months, Sichuan Shu Fan - eleven months.

The news was not delivered in a timely manner. In the early years, the Shu Fan was also the screen of the Western Frontier Fan of the imperial court. When things happened, they had to act according to the camera and make decisive decisions.

For example, when there was a war in the early years when there was still military power, the imperial court asked the Shu Fan to appoint [-] troops to go out and report to the imperial court; Adding [-] more troops to the front line without the order of the imperial court, they will naturally be rewarded and rewarded after the task is completed.

And when the imperial court's policy changed, the Shu Fan took the lead in reporting to the imperial court, voluntarily handing over most of the military power in the guards to the imperial court, and showing their loyalty to the imperial court with practical actions, and they were naturally rewarded.

Militarily, they provided soldiers and logistical support for the empire’s defense of the western frontier for many times. Economically, they used their power to fight for tax-free opportunities for the people by paying tribute to Shu brocade and Sichuan fans. Celebrity ancestral halls, funding for doctoral students, and granting land to celebrities.

Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu, Song Lian Temple, the century-old pear garden outside the palace, the new capital Deyang Wangqiao outside the city, and the cemetery for the poor in the dead suburbs of Fucheng are all the focus of restoration by successive princes of Shu.

As a result, a tradition has been formed in central Shu. Whenever it involves public works such as building public temples, temples, and bridges, or when people are hungry and need porridge, or are captured by natives and need ransom, local officials and village elders will ask for help from Shu Fan. Shu Fan responded to every request.

Naturally, there is also Dujiangyan where the Shu Fan is guarding. Their fiefs are all on the front line of Dujiangyan, so this major water conservancy project has also been paid attention to by the Shu Fan for a long time. After the repairs are over, the Shu Fan will ask Changshi to distribute coins and bring sheep wine to reward the people who have completed the corvee; in addition, tens of thousands of green bamboos are transported every year, and the officials of the palace are appointed to supervise the weaving of bamboo baskets and loading stones to fund the repair work.

Shu Fan is good, it is really good. Generations of emperors, scholars, and common people have all praised them for their virtuousness.

But in the Land of Abundance, there are no self-cultivators.

The better they do, the more the royal family will reward them. If there are too many rewards, there is no other way to reward them, only to increase the farmland.

[-]% of the land here belongs to Wangzhuang, [-]% belongs to military land, and the remaining [-]% belongs to the land. I am afraid that it is difficult to say that the people who own the land are self-cultivated farmers, because most of their land is bestowed by the Shu Fan.

You are a famous doctor with countless living people. Shu Fan gave your old mother [-] acres of land and recommended you to the imperial court to let you go to Beijing.

You are a good boy who is filial to your elders. Shu Fan invited people to compose poems for you, set up monuments for you, and gave you [-] acres of land.

The more virtuous the Shu Fan is, the more royal land the Shu Fan has, so that even the surrounding states and counties of Chengdu Prefecture can no longer be described by the word land annexation.

A more precise word to describe this state should be called land nationalization.

People don’t worry about scarcity but inequality. Anyway, everyone has no chance to become a landlord. Those who can cultivate more should rent more farmland; Under the culture and education of Shu Fan, the situation of Chengdu Mansion is much better than other places in the merger process.

Generations of Shu kings wanted to make their vassals a moral model, at least this was much better than other vassals who often produced some bastard clans who murdered and robbed women.

　Good morning!

　　
　
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