"Long live, this is the Annan bird's nest that Li Weiqi, the commander of the Annan Metropolitan Commander, went to pay tribute to, you can taste it."

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao stood in front of the window, looking at the Forbidden City with red walls and white snow, and Wei Zhongxian's voice sounded behind him.

He turned around to look, but saw Wei Zhongxian holding a Jingtai porcelain bowl, and the bird's nest in the bowl was very conspicuous.

Annam, an independent country in the late reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, because of the turmoil, entered the town of Nanguan during the Jiajing period to ask the Ming Dynasty officials to surrender, and the Ming Dynasty reduced the state of Annam to the Commander of the Annam.

The Ming Dynasty reduced the status of Annam to a subordinate country to a dependent territory, changed its thirteen provinces to thirteen Xuanfu Divisions, and set up Xuanfu, Tongzhi, deputy envoys, and servants, and listened to the dethronement of the capital.

Ordered the Mo family to be the commander of Annan from the second rank, hereditary, three years of tribute.

Nominally, Annan re-entered the Ming Dynasty, but Mo Dengyong didn't seem to mind it.

He was comfortable with the Ming Dynasty, claiming to be the commander of the Ming Dynasty, and continued to call himself the emperor Jianyuan internally.

This is Jiajing's foreign politics, a legacy left for the Ming Dynasty, if the dynasty is strong, it can be used this excuse to recover Annan again.

It's a pity that it was not until 1592 that the Li Dynasty was restored in the south, and the Ming Dynasty did not regain Annam.

However, even so, in the face of the request of the Later Li Dynasty Emperor Li Shizong for the Ming Dynasty to restore the canonization of the past "King of Annam", the Wanli Emperor still temporarily awarded the title of "Commander of Annam" on the grounds that the situation was undecided.

From then until the death of the Ming Dynasty, Vietnam always existed as an administrative autonomous unit within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After the Emperor of the Li Dynasty of Annam, he held the title of Commander of the Annam Dynasty until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not until the Southern Ming Emperors that the canonization of the Emperor of the Li Dynasty King Annam was restored.

Therefore, for the time being, Annam is a nominal Ming territory, but the Ming Dynasty cannot command Annam, except for receiving a tribute of several thousand taels of silver every year.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the bird's nest and was fascinated, Wei Zhongxian took it for a long time, but he didn't see him carry it away, so he whispered: "Long live?" Banzai? ”

"Well......" Zhu Youxiao came back to his senses, picked up the bird's nest, took a sip, and suddenly felt very fragrant and sweet.

It's just that I wasn't happy after tasting it, I just looked at the red wall and white snow outside the window, and said slowly:

"It's snowing so hard, and I don't know how my brother is doing in Changping."

"It's been nine days since he left for Changping, right? Look at this wind and snow, I'm afraid it won't stop for a few days. ”

"Changping is not as prosperous as the capital, and the heavy snow covers the mountains, so maybe it is not good to eat."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Zhongxian and said:

"Spread the edict to Luo Sigong, and asked him to send a general banner brocade guard, ten pairs of bear's paws, ten pairs of shark fins, ten bird's nests, ten catties of tribute tea, and one stone of tribute rice from Shangshan Supervisor, and send them to Changping Ling District."

"Slave and maid order ......" Listening to what Zhu Youxiao gave Zhu Youzhen, Wei Zhongxian secretly smacked his tongue.

I'm afraid these things are worth two or three thousand taels of silver, and it really hurts to send them out like this.

However, although Wei Zhongxian's flesh hurts, he is still ready to go down to do it.

But just when he turned around, Wang An walked in with a handwritten letter, and then saluted:

"Long live, the Fifth Highness sent someone to send a letter from Changping."

"Give it to me!" Hearing that it was Zhu Youzhen's letter, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly stepped forward to grab the handwritten book, and couldn't wait to open it:

[Parting for six days, several spring and autumn ......]

The first eight characters exhaust Zhu Youzhen's concept of parting time.

But seven days, for him, it was like several years had passed, and Zhu Youxiao, who watched it, laughed.

He then looked down, only to see that Zhu Youzhen in the letter told him about the process of leading people north, as well as the headache of arriving at the Yanshan camp.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the content of the handwriting, and couldn't help but substitute himself into Zhu Youzhen's identity.

He frowned slightly when he saw Andingmen Yulin Sanwei eating empty salary, but he could bear it.

When he saw that Yulin Sanwei had no offense with the people in Gonghua City, he felt a little comforted in his heart.

When he saw the mess in the Yanshan camp, Zhu Youzhen's headache appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help laughing.

But when he saw that on the second day, the imperial horse supervisor was paid 10,000 yuan, his brows were tightly locked, and he was angry.

When I saw Zhu Youzhen's selection of soldiers and finally reduced the 13,000 people to only more than 4,000, I couldn't help but worry about what such a few people could do.

But when he saw that Zhu Youzhen explained in the letter that the soldiers were fine but not for long, he was a little relieved.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen meeting with the Zhejiang soldiers under Qi Jin, he nodded secretly when he talked about Qi Shaobao's guarding Jiliao and the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

But when he saw the fate of Qi Shaobao and others, he couldn't help but sigh.

At this point, it's kind of into the theme.

In the letter, Zhu Youzhen told Zhu Youxiao his thoughts and calculated an account.

At present, there are 30,000 soldiers in southern Liaoning, 360,000 military salaries, and 200,000 for food and drink.

spent 560,000 yuan in silver, but he could only shrink into the city, which was really unbearable.

If you recruit 8,000 Zhejiang soldiers, it is as a guest army, 20 taels of silver per person, that is only 160,000 taels, counting 100,000 taels of baggage supplies, a maximum of 260,000 taels per year, which can save 300,000 taels for the imperial court.

This kind of saving made Zhu Youxiao nod secretly at the heavy Liao Xiang, but he was worried that there would not be enough soldiers and horses.

However, when he saw that Zhu Youzhen said that not all of them were abolished, but that the soldiers who dared to fight were selected to stay and defend the city, he breathed a sigh of relief.

At the end of the letter, Zhu Youzhen explained that due to the heavy wind and snow, I am afraid that I will not be able to go back to the ten-day appointment, please take good care of yourself and don't be too tired in handling government affairs.

Seeing these words, Zhu Youxiao showed a warm smile on his face, and then reluctantly closed the letter and ordered Wang An and Wei Zhongxian:

"Order the military department, transfer Qi Yuanfu of Qi Jin's headquarters to lead the troops to the south, and recruit troops in Zhejiang......"

Speaking of this, he paused, and felt that eight thousand people did not seem to be enough, so he waved his hand and said:

"Recruit 16,000 troops in Zhejiang, and allocate 500,000 taels of silver from Zhejiang and Nanzhili from the additional dispatch and deliver it to Qi Yuan's auxiliary department, and in September of the next year, Qi Yuanfu will lead the army to the north, and be responsible for escorting Caoyin, additional silver, summer tax, and autumn tax to the north."

"The slave and maid receive the order...... Hearing this, Wang An and Wei Zhongxian responded one after another.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zhu Youxiao is laying out.

This layout is not for Zhu Youzhen, but for Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

Nanzhili and Zhejiang, this year's additional silver has not yet been shipped north, and it is already the thirteenth day of October, and they are still like this.

Since they refused to pay taxes, they asked Qi Yuanfu to bring back the silver with the army after training the troops.

Liaoxiang's additional silver, the total number has come out, the two capitals and thirteen provinces, except for Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, the additional silver of the rest of the provinces is mainly in the field, a total of 5,200,000 and 60 taels.

This silver, Ganshan, Shanxi, Beizhili, Henan, and Shandong in the north have all been delivered to the household department and the military department, and only Sichuan, Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and other five provinces in Beijing have not yet been shipped.

This group of local officials in the south, in order to make money, can be said to have put the imperial court and his will as waste paper.

"Since you don't send it, then I'll take it myself!"

Zhu Youxiao squinted his eyes, and the anger in his heart became more and more vigorous, and his will soon reached the cabinet......