Chapter 141: The Tile Thorn Tribute Horse

Zhu Qizhen finally decided to let Liu Dingzhi serve as the Tongzhi of the Fujian Salt Transportation Division. Five-rank officer.

Zhu Qizhen's short retreat was over.

After all, Zhu Qizhen didn't dare to be too relaxed about the government.

Therefore, as soon as you get serious, all kinds of troublesome things will come up.

Hebei Water Conservancy is in charge of Yu Qian, and the central government is coordinated by Cao Nai, although there are many things. But there are not many things that need Zhu Qizhen to make a decision, and the following plans are prepared.

Zhu Qizhen can approve it.

As for the salt method, Hebei Changlu has Wang Zuo, Lianghuai He Wenyuan, and Fujian has Liu Dingzhi. The central government is presided over by Zhou Chen, and Yang Pu is supporting. Nothing unexpected happened.

Yang Pu is also an old minister.

The government affairs of various localities do not need Zhu Qizhen to worry about at all.

However, there are some things that Zhu Qizhen still pays special attention to.

The first thing was reported by Wang Ji.

This autumn, he is preparing to go out of Luchuan to the west, bringing together all kinds of Tusi led by Burma, preparing to attack Mengyang, and King Xiang's three guards are also among the conquests. Prepare to exterminate the remnants of the Sijia in one fell swoop.

The reason why it stopped for so long was that the imperial court had limited support for Yunnan.

Yunnan must wait for the autumn harvest before the money and grain can be mobilized.

Anyway, Zhu Qizhen didn't expect hundreds of thousands of stone grains and tens of thousands of taels of taxes in Yunnan. After all, the mountains and rivers are far away, and if the grain tax from Yunnan is transported to Beijing, I don't know how many are left.

Zhu Qizhen also stayed in Yunnan for his own use.

Of course, it's also because Wang Ji is here. In the future, after Wang Ji steps down, this abnormal situation will naturally change.

For this war thousands of miles away in Beijing. The news that Zhu Qizhen has now gotten is that there is a news gap of more than ten days, and Zhu Qizhen cannot control it remotely.

Just waiting for news.

However, there is another thing that is going to make Zhu Qizhen feel uncomfortable.

It's a thing, it's not a thing.

It's that this matter has deteriorated to the point that Zhu Qizhen can't tolerate it.

That is, the size of the Tile Thorn Mission is growing more and more often.

The tributary system was a very important system for the Ming Dynasty. If it is specific to the northern region, then the tributary system can be reduced to tribute horses.

There was also a brief introduction before Ma Zheng of the Ming Dynasty.

can be summarized overall, that is, the Ming court is not short of horses, but there is a shortage of war horses. Especially after the horse grazing outside the Great Wall lost control.

But with millions of Ming troops, there is still a demand for high-quality war horses.

However, the northern Watts, Tatars, and Uliangha tribes had a complicated relationship with the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, they recognized the leadership of the Ming Dynasty and wanted the Ming Emperor to canonize them. But on the one hand, on the other hand, he did not spare his hand.

This complex situation,

In fact, the tribute horse system is the economic reins of the Ming Dynasty to the foreign ministries.

In addition to the military, the foreign ministries may still be feared by the Ming Dynasty. But economically, it is simply not enough to compare with the Ming Dynasty.

Even if they knew that the good horses they contributed would become the weapons of the Ming Dynasty, they would have to trade a large amount of things needed for the grassland from the Ming Dynasty.

Even the Ming court, in such a situation. Restrictions are also made. Even steel and food are restricted.

Even if it is the principle of the Ming Dynasty, it is mostly rewarded with silver and cloth.

As for the detailed list, I won't talk about it here. In general, the price of horses outside the Saiwai in the Ming Dynasty is more than seven taels for high-class horses, and three taels for low-class horses.

As for better horses. It is accounted for separately.

This policy is beneficial to each other.

Even the tile thorn wiped out the Gendo Mongol tribe, took the trade of the Mongol tribes, and traded with the imperial court, from this transaction, he got great benefits and controlled the channel for the Central Plains materials to enter the grassland.

And the Ming Dynasty maintained its influence on the grassland at the same time. Also get a batch of war horses.

Therefore, even though Zhu Qizhen has been worried about the tile spur for a long time, this kind of trade on the surface has not been cut off. There was even a division.

Since the beginning of this year, Tokhtobu has paid tribute alone.

Even Zhu Qizhen, the representative of Jinyiwei, has already been connected with Takeoff Buhua.

Although he didn't take off the flowers, he didn't respond much to the brocade guard. But this kind of acceptance itself represents an attitude of detachment.

Zhu Qizhen secretly figured out in his heart, and he was afraid that he would also have a sense of gain and loss in the war between the tile thorn and the Ming Dynasty.

To get rid of it is to know the national strength of the Ming Dynasty. He lived in Daming for a while. On the one hand, he knew that his biggest enemy was not the Great Ming, but the Tile Thorn Taishi Yexian. Of course, the tile spur is at war with the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely support the detachment.

When the time comes, the old things in the Yongle period will repeat themselves.

Daming may support the upper position of detachment.

On the other hand, because of this, I don't dare to express my position easily.

Because the tile spur is very powerful, he also stares at Totobuhua, although after Tohuan's death, Totobuhua has some subordinates. However, these tribes are too far from the forces of the Tile Thorn Headquarters.

Therefore, it is necessary to be cautious and maintain their independence while trying not to irritate the tile spurs, although the prestige of the golden family in the grassland for hundreds of years makes it difficult to move without spending easily.

But the problem is that this is the prestige of the Golden Family, not the detached one. With the power of Yexian, in exchange for a Great Khan, as long as another one is a golden family, the Mongolian tribes will not and dare not react much.

The problem facing the imperial court today is that the number of Tile Spur Gong Horses is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of them is increasing.

The Ming court had restrictions on the tributaries of various ministries, such as tiles

Thorn is a tribute a year. But the tile spurs did not comply, and sometimes paid tribute three or four times a year.

And with the strength of the tile spur on the grassland, it is very important to concentrate the previous departments and the Ming Dynasty tribute separately, all under the management of the tile spur, and the tile spur can also share the profits.

Of course, the principle of thick and thin, although Daming has a lot of profits in it, but not much. The expansion of the scale of trade is not too beneficial to Daming.

What made Zhu Qizhen even more uncomfortable was that the number of people in the Tile Spur Mission was increasing.

To tell the truth, the scale of the tile spur tribute has expanded, and Zhu Qizhen has no choice, although he knows that this is increasing the strength of the tile spur, and he is investing in the enemy.

But what's the solution?

Now the tile spur doesn't want to easily turn his face with Da Ming, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't want to turn his face with the tile spur. Before the war, the dignity that should be there must also be given to the tile thorns.

However, the expansion of the number of the Tile Spur Mission made Zhu Qizhen feel unbearable.

During the Xuande period, the Tile Spur Mission consisted of a few hundred people at most.

However, after entering the Orthodox period, under the pretext that there were many thieves on the road, the number of people was increased. And when it adds up, it's almost endless.

From five hundred, a thousand, fifteen hundred, now it is almost over the 2,000 mark.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen complained, outside the Great Wall, tens of thousands of tile spurs rode on, who looked at the things that robbed the tile spurs, as for the Great Wall, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were stationed, and the mission would send troops to escort them.

This area is the most densely populated place of the Ming army, even if there are bandits, who dares to fight the idea of the army.

Don't say that the imperial court didn't pay attention to it before, and Zhu Qizhen didn't pay attention either. But when the Tile Thorn Envoy was about to exceed two thousand people, Zhu Qizhen had no choice but to make up his mind.

The Tile Legation came in on horseback, and there were usually several thousand. Plus these people, and immediately it's a cavalry.

At the foot of the Great Emperor, in the land of Gyeonggi, there are thousands of spur cavalry, and the imperial court is naturally very reluctant. Zhu Qizhen was also uncomfortable.

After all, on the ancient battlefield, a few thousand cavalry could decide the outcome of a major battle. In the capital, even if there are many garrisons, sometimes a few thousand people can decide a coup d'état.

Every time, the imperial court would send people from the Beijing camp to take care of the Tile Mission, and as the number of Tile Missions increased, so did the number of people sent.

Moreover, before the Tile Spur Mission left the Great Wall, the next Tile Spur Mission had already entered.

The Ministry of Rites was overwhelmed.

Hu Hu has reprimanded the Tile Spur envoy several times, and asked the Tile Spur Mission to follow the rules and come once a year. But the envoy of the tile spur was in front of Hu Hui, and he was submissive. Seems to be very obedient.

But it has not changed, quite a scoundrel. As long as you have money, what face do you want. This question was handed over layer by layer and went to Zhu Qizhen's hands.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen has a good way? It can only be said that the judgment between the tile spur and the Ming is too accurate.