"In April of the seventeenth year, I presented the emperor to hunt in the south in a panic, and before I knew it, three years had passed, and I pity the tens of millions of people in the north, looking south to the king, year after year, ......"

At the meeting of the two palaces in front of the emperor the next day, Emperor Hongxing of the Ming Dynasty sighed leisurely as soon as he came up.

Now the time has come to the March of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, and it seems that it is the third anniversary of Chongzhen's southward migration. It's not a good day! Although Zhu Cihong felt that he and Emperor Chongzhen were well mixed, one had become the Hongxing Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty in a corner of peace, and the other had become a merry and happy immortal emperor. However, in the eyes of people of insight in the world, Emperor Hongxing always has a high hat of "partial peace" on his head......

In the past, Emperor Chongzhen was responsible for carrying the black cauldron as a faint monarch, but now Chongzhen has retired to enjoy the blessings, and this "partial corner" cauldron has to be carried by Emperor Hongxing himself.

Zhu Cihong also knew that the conditions for the Northern Expedition were not too mature, but the taste of carrying the blame was not good, and the politics were incorrect! Moreover, there are still a lot of reforms to be promoted in the southeast half of the wall, such as clearing the fields and inspecting the land - this is a very troublesome matter, and there are no few holy decrees that can be done! So there needs to be a certain amount of external pressure to shut up the internal opposition!

Another example is the hukou reform - this matter is almost as difficult as the Qingtian land inspection, and it will also touch the interests of many people, because in the process of hukou reform, not only will the lowly and slave registrations be abolished, but the hukou system linked to occupation will also be abolished, and the number of privileged households (in feudal society, everyone is not equal) will also be greatly reduced, and on this basis, the government and the people will be implemented to pay grain and taxes in one ......

In addition, the in-depth reform of the imperial examination will also make a large group of people unhappy! Jinshike is gone, and lifting people actually doesn't exist anymore - Zhongju will be a sesame official, and he will start from the errand of Jiupin! If you don't want to be an official, then you still show off your talents. And Xiucai is still a private household, he has no privileges at all, and he is still an official household when he becomes a sesame official!

In short, Emperor Hongxing needs to do something now, so that all the characters in all aspects know how powerful he is!

And a few warlords in Shandong and Huaibei just don't want to have a peaceful birthday, so let's do something together!

"Emperor, Chen Gaojie has 20,000 tigers, all of them are long-term battles, and they also granted land in Xuzhou last year, everyone has a family business, and now they are all full of energy, just waiting for the Northern Expedition to make a lot of contributions!"

Ke Nanqu Shan Bo Gaojie was the first to stand up and make a statement, full of big words, as if it were true.

In fact, among the six Huaibei and Shandong warlords who entered the dynasty, he was the least willing to go on the Northern Expedition. Because he now occupies two rich territories in Xuzhou and Haizhou. What does the Northern Expedition mean? If you win, you can change a better piece of territory? Unlikely...... Maybe I will send it to Shaanxi to be accompanied by Wu Sangui.

"Chen Huang is willing to be a pioneer! Straight to the swallow capital! ”

When Huang Degong saw Gao Jie jumping out to perform, he was not to be outdone, and he also rushed to express his position and ask for battle. But unlike Gao Jie, he is sincere.

The territory of Huaibei is too poor! Moreover, his direct territory was also relatively small - for the feudal lord who was based on the land as the economic basis, the amount and fat of the land under his direct jurisdiction were directly related to his authority in his own power.

Gao Jie's direct jurisdiction includes the entire Haizhou (Zhili Prefecture), which is very wealthy, and the land endowment alone is more than one million stones every year!

Therefore, Gao Jie's ability to grasp the department has not weakened with the granting of Tian Jianwei. And Huang Degong suffered, Zhu Cihong first gave him the territory of Guide Mansion, which was later robbed by Haoge.

After the Battle of Bloody Creek, Zhu Cihong did not take advantage of the victory to pursue to recover the lost land in Henan, but gave Huang Degong a little land in Huaibei. And most of these lands were distributed to Huang Degong's subordinates - at that time, Zhu Cihong wanted to continue to divide the land and build guards to reorganize Huang Degong's army into the Zhuwei Army, so he did not leave him directly on the land.

But Huang Degong is not a vegetarian, and took advantage of the opportunity of Zhu Cihong to stumble over Huguang and sent troops to swallow Taoyuan and Suining counties belonging to Haizhou. These two counties are located on the west bank of the Yellow River, which flows southward, and the land is fertile and the population is relatively large (it did not affect there during the last Hauge invasion), so they have become the economic foundation on which Huang Degong depends.

However, the oil and water in the two counties are too little to eat!

"Okay," Zhu Cihong smiled and nodded again and again, "After the Northern Expedition is successful, there will be a seat for Huang Qing among the Nine Border Sejun." ”

In the last echo of Li Zicheng's half-hung Northern Expedition, Zhu Cihong said that he would change Beizhili to Beiping Province, and later set up the Jiangdu Wuhan Mansion, and once again confirmed that the three capitals of the south, the middle and the north were changed to the two capitals of Jiang (capital) and south (Beijing).

Therefore, after the success of the Northern Expedition, Zhu Cihong will not return to Beijing, but will set up a nine-sided Saijun as the screen of the Central Plains.

This thing sounds like a reversal of feudalism, but in fact it is strengthening the centralization of power - because the premise of setting up the nine-sided Saijun is to bring the large areas of land in the Central Plains, Shandong, and Beizhi under the direct jurisdiction of the central government.

That is, to drive the warlords to the northern border......

Zhu Cihong smiled generously, crossed his fingers and said: "Liaodong, Daning, Jizhou, Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, Yansui (Yan'an and Yulin), Ningxia, Gansu, a total of nine towns, all have vassal palaces or festival envoys!" The Wu family took two, one for the Dai Domain, one for the Tang Domain, one for the Lu Domain, and there were four left, so they gave it to the two Gao Qing, Huang Qing and Zuo Qing. As for Shi Qing...... Baoding, really choose any house! ”

Listening to Zhu Cihong talk about the method of dividing the territory, Gao Jie, Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, and Zhu Yihai all turned pale. Huang Degong and Shi Kefa were quite happy...... The two of them don't have any good territory, and of course they are happy to get the territory of a prefecture.

But Gao Jie, Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, and Zhu Yihai are a little bit of a loss, and Shandong and Xu Hai are so good that it will be hard to send them to guard the border......

Zhu Cihong's gaze swept over the elongated faces of the four great warlords, and he laughed: "The official fields and military fields on the ground in Shandong and Xuhai are all disposed of by the feudal domains themselves.

In addition, the six feudal clans can be given to the tributaries of each family in one county in Shandong, Xuhai, and Huaibei circles. ”

The stakes are great!

Shandong Province alone has more than 61 million mu of land in the Ming Dynasty's fish scale atlas, and after deducting the land of Penglai County and Denglai Qiwei under the control of Denglai Governor Yamen and Shandong General Army Yamen, there is at least 56,700 million mu left! Among them, how many official fields and military fields are there? How many are there in the hidden field?

If all these lands are "washed" into private land, how much is the benefit of it, you can figure it out with your heels......

In addition, Zhu Cihong also gave the six big warlords the privilege of setting up a small feudal domain in one county in each circle of Shandong, Xuhai, and Huaibei.

This is equivalent to turning six feudal domains into twelve...... The stakes in this are great!

Seeing that Gao Jie, Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, and Zhu Yihai showed loyal smiles on their faces again, Emperor Hongxing also laughed along, and then gave Li Yan, the commander of the left army, a look.

Li Yan immediately understood, and said with a smile: "The Generalissimo's Mansion has been planning the Northern Expedition these days, and I have also read the recital submitted by you. Now a five-way northern expedition has been drawn up, which will attack the city of Beijing. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Let's tell the big guy." ”

He beckoned to Huang Xiaobao, and the celebrant immediately took out the map that had been prepared a long time ago and spread it on a long table in the Dongnuan Pavilion.

Five big arrows have been drawn on the map!

The first arrow is to take Juehua Island as the starting point, first cross the sea to Ningyuan, and then knock along the Liaoxi Corridor to knock on the mountain customs and go straight to the city of Beijing.

The second arrow is to take Haisha Island as the starting point, first conquer the mouth of Dagu, and then go straight to Beijing along the Weihe River and the Grand Canal in Tianjin.

The third arrow is from Qufu and Xuzhou, along the canal all the way north, straight to Beijing!

The fourth arrow is sent by Lu Liangshan to attack Taiyuan, Yue Taixing, and go straight to Beijing.

The fifth arrow is from Ningxia Town, taking the Hetao, crossing the grassland, and going straight to Beijing from the direction of Xuanfu and Datong!