"The Black Flame Maker really helped him capture Hami City according to the agreement with Shang Bing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At this moment, the situation in the Western Regions has opened. ”

"Although the road from Hami to the middle of the Junggar basin is still not enough to afford the entry and exit of a large army, 350,000 people can always do it. Although the Junggar Basin is now the territory of Warat, the most important thing in both Warat and Yili is the war against the Timurid Empire in a few years, and some small means of the Ming Dynasty will be tolerated; The Junggar Basin is also at the junction of Yili Jiangli and Warat, and the Junggar tribe has not yet risen, and if it operates well, Shang Bing may not be able to get the Junggar Basin. ”

"Then it is recommended that Shang Bing take advantage of this good time to continue to expand westward, increase his influence in the Junggar Basin, and seize this place in the name of a future war against Timur."

Yun Xi finished thinking about it, wrote down his suggestions on Shang Bing's recital, and ordered the people to send it to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and pass it on to Shang Bing through the military post.

Yun Xi then continued to review the fold, and finally finished the reply, stretched his waist, looked at the leakage, and planned to go back to Kunning Palace to accompany Xi Yao to eat, Huang Huai, who had previously retribution for Tianfu's affairs, suddenly said: "Your Majesty, it will be the summer harvest season soon, and this year's summer tax in Shangyuan County and Jiangning County, which should be attached to Guo, should be attached to Tianfu, how to collect this year's summer tax?" ”

Yun Xi said strangely: "According to the practice of previous years, why bother to ask me?" ”

"Your Majesty, in previous years, it was the officials who collected the national tax on the imperial grain, but this year there are no more officials, Your Majesty said this, is it to let the tax police go to the countryside to collect taxes?" Huang Huai said.

Yes! Yun Xi patted his head and forgot about it, there are no more officials this year, only the tax police, and they can't collect agricultural taxes like in previous years.

However, is it really necessary to use the tax police to collect taxes? The tax collection system of the tax police, which is quite modern and distinctive, is not used to collect agricultural taxes in ancient times.

Yun Xi thought about it again and again, but still couldn't think of who should collect this tax, and was about to agree to let the tax police go to the countryside to collect taxes, when he suddenly remembered something and asked: "I remember, when the emperor's grandfather was still there, he set up a grain chief?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. In that year, Emperor Taizu set up grain chiefs in Yijiang, southern Zhili, Jianjian, Huguang and other provinces to assist in collecting summer and autumn taxes. Huang Huai replied.

"In this case, this year, the agricultural taxes of Shangyuan and Jiangning attached to Guo County will be collected by the grain chief." Yun Xi said.

"Only the grain chief?" Huang Huai said suspiciously.

"Let the chief assist again. In the future, it was enacted that all agricultural taxes were collected by the grain chief and the lieutenant chief, and the grain chief collected them and handed them over to the tax police, who then served to transport them to the granary. Yun Xi finally decided.

Although words such as 'the imperial power does not fall below the county' began to circulate since the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not completely let the countryside be autonomous.

In the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a lieutenant chief with 100 households as a li, who was responsible for the handling of daily neighborhood disputes and the reception of errand servants when they went to the countryside. However, the mayor in the ancient city is not enough, and the mayor in the countryside is basically useless. The countryside is generally full of clans, basically every village has a clan that includes more than fifty or sixty percent of the population of the village, and whatever happens in the village is regulated by the elders of the clan, and there is no need for the chief.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a grain chief with a tax payable of every thousands of stones to 10,000 stones, and supplemented the local large households to assist the errand in collecting taxes. If there is really no tax to collect, let the grain chief make up the shortfall.

The grain chief naturally does not want to be such a wronged leader, so even if he was kind before becoming the grain chief, after becoming the grain chief, he will become fierce and vicious, otherwise his family business will not be able to be saved.

At the same time, the grain chief and the officials colluded with each other to make the villagers pay more agricultural taxes and embezzlement was also heard of. In particular, the grain chiefs are from their own villages, and they are familiar with the people's conditions, and they can be greedy for money and grain without forcing the people to get away with no way out.

It was Huang Huai who said: "Your Majesty, if you ask the grain chief to collect taxes, I am afraid that there will be greed for ink." ”

"Then even if you don't need to grow food, won't there be any greed for ink? In the past, Xu officials collected taxes, so there was no greed for ink? Yun Xi asked rhetorically.

Corruption is impossible to prohibit at all, except in a communist society, or in a small country and widowed people as conceived by Lao Tzu. Therefore, although Yunxi will crack down on corruption, it will not be listed as an absolute priority like Zhu Yuanzhang.

Huang Huai had nothing to say, so he could only take the order to retreat.

Yunxi also instructed Wang Gen: "Send a decree to Yijiang, and let Hangzhou also collect taxes with grain." ”

After that, Yunxi returned to Kunning Palace and accompanied Xiyao to dinner.

Yun Xi took a nap there after lunch, and then returned to the Qianqing Palace.

At the beginning of the afternoon, Yun Xi received another letter about the feudal state.

"Yoon-hee asks for permission to mediate the war between Fuso and the Ainu? He had just established himself in Vladivostok, and he was thinking about mediating the war between Fuso and the Ainu? Some of them are ambitious. Besides, he didn't have a sailor to mediate. Dismiss it. Yun Xi said to himself.

Yun Xi wrote a few words, tossed the fold aside, and continued to comment on the other folds.

Fortunately, today's folds are not much, Yun Xi finished the answer after a while, and asked the Sheren to send the folds to the General Administration Department and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies respectively.

Yun Xi was about to think about some other things next, when suddenly a eunuch reported: "Your Majesty, Yang Ben, the main guest of the Ministry of Rites, asks to see you." ”

"Let him in." Yun Xi was slightly puzzled and said.

Not long after, Yang Ben walked into the Qianqing Palace and saluted Yun Xi and said, "Minister Yang Ben has seen Your Majesty. ”

"Excuse me." Yun Xi waited for him to get up and then asked, "But another country came to pay tribute?" "That's all there is to the host and guest.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Fuso Kingdom has come to pay tribute." Yang Ben said.

"Huh? Back then, when Fusang was still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's grandfather stipulated that Fusang was a tribute a year, and they had already paid tribute in the New Year, so why did they come again? Tell them, no, let them go back. If you want any goods from the Ming Dynasty, you can buy them from the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Yun Xi said.

However, Yang Ben did not retreat, but said again: "Your Majesty, the envoys of Fuso did not come to pay tribute completely, and they also said about lending Yokohama. ”

"Lease Yokohama? Fuso agreed? Yun Xi said in surprise.

"Your Majesty, Fuso put forward some conditions, and Daming met these conditions before they were willing to lend Yokohama."

"Let's talk about what the conditions are."

"Your Majesty," Yang Ben said, "First, Fusang asked the Ming Dynasty to allow them two tributes a year. ”

"This one can be promised." Yun Xi said. Compared to the benefits after taking control of Yokohama, it is nothing to make Fuso a little cheaper.

"Second, Fusang requests that His Majesty not allow any merchant other than those permitted by the central court of his country to do business in the city of Daming."

Yun Xi frowned. He had also learned about the current situation of Fuso before, and the territory that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu could control was less than half of the total area of Fuso, and the direct control was even smaller, and there were many hostile forces. Now he asked Daming to allow only merchants with his consent to do business in Daming, which was clearly to restrict the development of hostile forces.

But Yoon-hee still felt that it was more important to control Yokohama, so he said, "Yes." What else could they ask for? ”

"Your Majesty, they also asked the sailors of the Ming Dynasty not to be stationed in Yokohama for a long time, and the scale could only be less than one thousand households."

"Yes."

"Your Majesty, there is one last one." Yang Ben's voice trembled a little, and his face was a little frightened: "Your Majesty, the envoy of Fusang said that Fusang has never borrowed anything from other countries, so in order to avoid domestic opposition, he came up with a roundabout way. ”

"King Ashikaga Yoshiji of Fuso is willing to marry a younger sister to my Prince of the Ming Dynasty as his wife, and Yokohama as a dowry, so that there will be nothing to say in his country."

"What?" Yun Xi said in surprise. Then he stood up and stomped his feet.

According to the opinion of later generations, this is definitely a good thing, Fuso is willing to marry a daughter, and Yokohama is a dowry, killing two birds with one stone.

But that's not what it says at this time. Da Ming does not engage in harmony, before Shang Bing was in the northwest and Yili put the black son of the fire about marriage, he has already been divided out, you can decide for yourself.

In order to lease Yokohama, you can't make a king; Even if he is willing to seal it, what about the fief? Just this little part of Yokohama? Make people laugh.

But Yun Xi was reluctant to lease the benefits of Yokohama, and said to Yang Ben: "If there is no last one, are they willing?" ”

"Your Majesty, the envoy of Fuso said that if there is no last article, Yokohama cannot be lent." Yang Ben said.

"This," Yun Xi thought about it repeatedly, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and said, "They rent out Yokohama, but who is in charge of the local people?" ”

"Your Majesty, the local people are naturally under the jurisdiction of the Fusang people, but if there are Fusang people who work for the Ming Dynasty to build a port, etc., the work can be managed by the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty to Yokohama."

"That's good, there's still some power. It is proposed that after the Ming Dynasty officially leased Yokohama, the town of Yokohama was established, and Zhu Mengjiong, the king of Yong'an, was appointed as the chief soldier of Yokohama to guard it. ”

"Proposed purpose, Xu Zhu Mengjiong's marriage is self-matched."

Zhu Mengjiong is the second son of Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, who is nineteen years old this year and has not yet married. Of course, he was engaged to be married before, but his fiancée died of illness before he could get married. After that, it was Zhu Yuanzhang's funeral, and their grandsons always had to serve a year of mourning. After that, Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, began to find a wife for him again, and it has not yet been decided.

Not only did he choose him because he had never been married to Yun Xi, there are still many Ming clans with such conditions, but more importantly, he is a cousin. Zhu Zhen's sister-in-law is the third son, and his position as a cousin is awkward, even if Yunxi seals the king of Chu in the future, he may not follow. It's like Yun Xi crowned Zhu Gaochu as the vassal king, and Zhu Gaochi didn't go.

And Zhu Mengjiong is powerful and powerful, and he is a rare person with strong martial arts in the clan, and he will not let the Fusang people look down on him; He is also the king of the county, and the title is also appropriate. So after thinking about it, the candidate was decided.

Although Yun Xi's words were not explicitly stated, the meaning was already very clear, and Yang Ben was going to retire after he prepared his will.

Yun Xi said to him again: "You announce that Zhu Mengjiong entered the palace to see the driver, and I have something to say to him." ”

Yang had promised to step back.

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