"There are rebels in the southwest! There are corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Huaixi! There are Jianyu in the Northeast! ”

"What is this!? What is this?! ”

On October 12, in the palace of Shuntianfu, in the Yangxin Palace, Zhu Youxiao smashed the dragon eucalyptus with a clenched fist, which frightened all the eunuchs in the palace to kneel, even Wei Zhongxian.

Under Long Eucalyptus, it was Cui Yingyuan, who commanded Tongzhi in the Nanzhen Fu Division, and Lu Jianxing in the Supervision Division.

Seeing that the emperor stopped talking, Cui Yingyuan immediately spoke:

"Long live, the minister checked the file and found that this section of the embankment was built by the former Suzhou County Commander Shi Hui and Lingbi County Commander Zhou Dynasty."

"The minister thinks that he should send Ti Cai, and ask General Sun to send troops to assist and arrest all the officials and officials in the two counties!"

"What else......" Zhu Youxiao had a gloomy face, obviously dissatisfied with this proposal.

Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by the disaster, and it is a big expense to let them survive until the autumn harvest next year.

At present, the three towns in Shanxi are still being retrenched, and the southwest is using troops again, and Liaodong also needs to stabilize the situation, and money and grain are needed everywhere.

The needs of these hundreds of thousands of people far exceeded Sun Yingyuan's estimate, and even needed to spend millions of taels of silver in materials for disaster relief.

"And ......" Cui Yingyuan's forehead oozed cold sweat, and at this time, the eunuch of the Pure Army at the gate of the Qianqing Palace walked into the hall and said to Zhu Youxiao of the Yangxin Palace:

"Long live, after Ye Ge heard the reason for the Yellow River breaking, he came to ask to see him."

"Xuan!" Zhu Youxiao took two deep breaths, and then picked up a notebook.

This is Zhu Xieyuan's request for reinforcements from Guangzhou, and Zhu Youxiao approved the red without thinking about it, and remarked below:

[Quickly put down the rebellion, don't let the rebels disturb my people]

After the remarks ended, he put the song aside, and at this time, Ye Xianggao also walked in with a wat board in his hand.

As soon as he came in, Zhu Youxiao spoke:

"In the case of Suzhou and Lingbi, I am ready to let Nanzhen Fusi start, and the corrupt officials and officials have beheaded their homes, and the fields and acres will be handed over to the southern field of the Imperial Horse Prison."

Boy......

As soon as he entered the door and didn't sit down, Ye Xianggao, who heard Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, tightened his heart, and then said:

"It's okay to be so natural, but the immediate need for delay is disaster relief."

"The old minister thinks that when the official grain of Fengyang Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Yingtianfu and other places is transferred to the disaster relief."

"Lao Chen has seen it, in these four prefectures, there are 1.26 million stones of grain in Changping, which is enough for the victims to survive the winter."

"As for the beginning of spring, we should ask the southern field of the Imperial Horse Prison to transfer seeds and farm tools to the victims, and then transfer 2 million stone of grain from Zhejiang and Jiangxi."

"In this way, more than 300,000 people in the two counties can spend their next year safely."

"But ......" Zhu Youxiao replied with a word, and Ye Xianggao saw the emperor's appearance, and said:

"In addition, the minister thinks that this matter should be stopped, only the culprit will be punished, and the rest of the people can be exiled to Liaodong, Ganshan, or exiled to Daning Sanwei."

"......" Zhu Youxiao was silent, he knew that it must be Tang Binyin of the Xuan Party who came to find Ye Xianggao.

Otherwise, with Ye Xianggao's temper, he would not show mercy to officials without party affiliation.

Weighing the pros and cons, Zhu Youxiao said:

"The officials of the two counties were beheaded, the officials and the officials of the three clans, all of them flowed into the three guards of Daning, after the house, the acres of land were filled into the south field of the Imperial Horse Prison, the money and grain were sent to Taicang, and the antique calligraphy and paintings were included in the internal line."

"Long live Shengming......" Ye Xiang shouted Shengming, indicating that this proposal was acceptable, and Zhu Youxiao was not sad or happy when he saw this, but just pushed out the thick song on his left side:

"These are all ...... about the rebellion in the southwest," he said, and he pushed out a thicker and more dense note on the right side, and said with a calm gaze:

"These are all impeachments of King Qi and the dismissal of the three towns in Shanxi......"

"The imperial history doesn't know the soldiers, it's just a vain discussion of the government." Ye Xianggao struck a sloppy look, and then said:

"In the future, if you don't like it, you can stay in the cabinet."

When he said this, Zhu Youxiao bowed slightly, which means that Ye Xianggao is willing to resist pressure for him, which is what Zhu Youxiao wants to see.

He withdrew his hand and continued: "Mu Changzuo, the Duke of Qianguo, and Mu Qiyuan, the chief military officer of the Governor's Affairs, the two of them have stopped moving, what does the Pavilion Elder think?" ”

"This ......" Ye Xianggao groaned for a while, feeling a little embarrassed in his heart, he didn't want to get involved in Xungui's affairs, so he said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Hooray, may you ask the British ......"

"Hmm......" Zhu Youxiao's eyes showed a hint of disappointment, and then waved his hand and said:

"If it's okay, the elder will step down."

"The old minister retires......" Ye Xiang Gao returned the salute, and then withdrew a few steps before turning around and leaving.

Zhu Youxiao sighed in his heart, because of the matter of the Qianguo Mansion, he naturally asked Zhang Weixian.

But what Zhang Weixian meant was that he couldn't manage the Qianguo Mansion, so Zhu Youxiao could only hope for Ye Xianggao.

However, at the moment, Ye Xianggao is also afraid of being responsible, and he will be charged with a harsh minister, so he is unwilling to take responsibility.

"Sure enough, in the end, I was left with only my younger brother ......"

Zhu Youxiao felt uncomfortable in his heart, and thought of his younger brother who dared to bear no matter what responsibilities and consequences.

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"Your Highness, it's all here."

In the military camp outside Yangqu County, when Lu Wenzhao handed over the summary of military registrations sent from all places, Zhu Youzhen directly turned to the last page.

Sitting in the tent, he leaned back in his chair and read the page with a frown.

The strength of the three towns should be 1,072 forts of the 25th battalion of the 36th Guard, 38th Guard, 1,072 forts, and it stands to reason that there are 239,600 guards, 89,711 sentries in the battalion, 44,300 war horses, and 57,202 horses and horses.

But right now, the number of soldiers and horses reported in the military register makes people want to laugh.

There are 27,000 battalion sentries to aid Liao, and there should be more than 62,700 people, but in the military register, there are only 35,207 battalion sentries.

Subtracting the battalions stationed in the 1,072 forts of the Great Wall, and subtracting the soldiers and horses of the 150 castles and passes, there are less than three battalions and more than 8,000 troops in the three towns.

There are also a lot of vacancies in war horses, horses, and horses, and although a lot of aid has been transferred to Liao, there are only more than 12,000 war horses and more than 8,000 horses left.

"Nearly 240,000 guards, what's the use?"

Zhu Youzhen threw the general registration book on the table, and then muttered for a long time before closing his eyes and saying to Lu Wenzhao:

"Did Wei Suotian start to measure? The battalion is included in the ......"

"Back to Your Highness......" Lu Wenzhao said: "More than 35,000 battalions, recruit some more, and you can form twelve battalions." ”

"If you count the current 16 Guards and the Shangzhi and Waigong Guard Battalions, the number of the whole army will reach the Shangzhi 16 Guards, the Shangzhi 12 Arch Guard Battalion, and the Outer 28 Gong Guard Battalion, totaling 210,840 people."

"According to the military salary of fifteen taels, this expenditure is ......"

Lu Wenzhao looked at Zhu Youzhen, and saw that Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, so he dared to continue:

"The military salary needs nearly 3.2 million taels of military salaries, the military salaries of the Shangzhi people and horses are nearly 1.9 million yuan, the outer guards need nearly 1.3 million taels, and counting the food, the whole army needs nearly 4.6 million taels per year......

"Coupled with the Imperial Horse Supervisor and other things, I'm afraid that next year will spend more than seven million taels ......."

Seven million taels, which is nearly forty percent of the income of the Ming treasury, Lu Wenzhao is vaguely reminding Zhu Youzhen to pay attention to the finances of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

However, for Zhu Youzhen, the salt field has become a scale, plus the military tuntian of the remaining guards in Shanxi and Beizhili, so it will not be difficult to get through the next year.

What he is more concerned about is where the men and horses trained after the formation of the Shanxi battalion should be invested.

Twelve battalions, more than 36,000 people, if they really want to invest, or even say that they want to complete the reclamation of the Hetao to reduce the military salaries of the four towns in the northwest, then they should be invested in Ningxia and Gansu!

It's just that it's not time yet, although the four towns in the northwest are much weaker than the three towns in Shanxi, but the speed is not enough.

In one year, he has already eliminated four important towns on the nine sides, and continuing to do so may cause turmoil.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen opened his eyes and said:

"Disrupt the 12th battalion and the 16th battalion of soldiers and horses, and continue to garrison Shanxi."

The fate of nearly 85,000 soldiers and horses in the 28th Battalion was arranged by Zhu Youzhen, and what he wanted to continue to do was to abolish the guards.

"The soldiers and horses of the 28th battalion of the Ming Dynasty and the Sixth Guards together have abolished the guards in Shanxi and the south of Beizhili, and the number of military households after the reduction is summed up, and I need a new yellow book and fish scale atlas in a month."

"At that time, we will begin to measure the acres of land and prepare for the development of the field."

"Humble command!" Lu Wenzhao withdrew from the military tent after making a move, while Zhu Youzhen looked at the military registration book in front of him and frowned.

The North Zhili Southern Guard, plus the Shanxi Guard, nearly 20 million acres of military tuntian will be obtained by him, but he is not happy.

Yellow River, Southwest, Liaodong......

These things in front of him made him uneasy, and now he seemed to have the ability to calm the Jianyu.

But with more than 200,000 elites to fight the Jianyu in the deep mountains and old forests, what can he get?

At most, some open-pit iron ore and patches of forests and swamps.

What does he want that?

After the war, even if Jiannu is destroyed, I am afraid that nearly half of the elite will be lost.

Instead of going deep into the mountains to deal with Jiannu, it is better to clean up the world first.

Destroying Nurhachi will not let Daming live, only by solving Daming's internal problems.

Corrupt officials can be killed, but they need to wait for Yanshan.

Rather than doing this, it is better to get the matter of the army tuning the land and the land repatriation.

There are 90 million troops in the world, and he alone accounts for nearly half of them at present.

If all the 90 million army tuntian is distributed to the people of the world, according to the model of the imperial horse supervisor, then the Ming Dynasty can get more than 6 million stone fields from the imperial horse supervisor every year, and the imperial horse supervisor can get more than 30 million stone field endowments.

If the household department adds the imperial horse supervisor, you can get more than 40 million stone field endowments, and even if the grain in the north is reduced to 300 wen per stone, this is also more than 13 million taels of silver.

If it is used for disaster relief and boiling gruel, it will allow more than 30 million people to live for at least two more months.

Handed over to the state treasury, this more than 13 million taels of silver can feed more than 500,000 professional soldiers, which is a martial art that can only be achieved in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty.

But that's too far away, and what Zhu Youzhen should be thinking about at the moment is how to expand the scope of imperial power.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Shanxi and Beizhili are already the places where the imperial power is most tightly controlled, and even the rebellion of civil officials can be suppressed at the first time.

Next, it is necessary to open up to Ganshan, Henan, Shandong, and Liaodong, and Liaodong is the first to bear the brunt.

"This matter is over, it's time to clean up Liaozhen and let them be honest."

Zhu Youzhen squinted, muttered, and then asked someone to send a military report from the southwest.

If he wants to clean up Liaodong, Ganshan, Henan, and Shandong, he needs a capable minister to guard the border for himself.

Sun Chuanting's family is also a hereditary guard, but Zhu Youzhen explained to Lu Wenzhao that Zhenwuwei's Sun family will be divided according to their official positions, and they don't need to move to the capital like other guards officers.

After solving this problem, there will be no conflict between him and Sun Chuanting.

In this way, Sun Chuanting may be able to serve as the trilateral governor of the Ming Dynasty in Gansu and Shaanxi, cooperate with his own targeted attacks on Hetao and Tumut, and then organize a large-scale migration of the people in northern Shaanxi.

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As for the people sent to the three southwestern provinces, Wu Aheng should also be able to win over, and as a native of Henan, I am afraid that he can play a big role in the dismantling of the Henan Guard and the division of land.

As for Yang Wenyue and Hong Chengchou......

Zhu Youzhen suddenly changed his mind.

[On the seventh day of October, Chongqing Bingbei Dao Hong Chengchou broke the rebel general Fan Hu in Erlangba and beheaded 1,232 people......]

"Such a guy who kills for fame and fortune is placed in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou to change the land and return to the stream, I don't know what the result will be......"

The corners of Zhu Youzhen's mouth twitched slightly, and he continued to look through the intelligence of the southwest military situation.

When he saw Sun Chuanting and Wu Aheng stubbornly defending, he frowned slightly, but he didn't say anything.

When he saw that the wood reinforcements were about to arrive, he bowed his head slightly, expressing his satisfaction.

However, when he finally saw Mu Changzuo and Mu Qiyuan of the Qianguo Mansion leading the troops to stop, and they had not set foot in the Qujing Mansion so far, his fingers clenched the letter.

It is undeniable that the contribution of Mu Tianbo, the last Duke of Qianguo, to the Ming Dynasty, and the contribution of Mu Changzuo to defend Yunnan.

But now, when the news that they were stagnant was seen by Zhu Youzhen, he couldn't help but feel a wave of anger in his heart.

He fought back his anger and continued to watch.

Weiningwei and Pingbawei fell, and Zhenning, Yongning, Anshun and other southwestern prefectures were attacked by Tusi from the inside out.

Longliwei and Xintianwei were breached, Guiyang was surrounded by rebels, Duyun Mansion was surrounded, Ligu Prefecture fell, and Liping Mansion was besieged.

Pingyuewei and Xinglongwei were trapped, Sizhou Mansion fell, Shiqian Mansion fell, Sinan Mansion and Tongren Mansion were relieved by Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming.

Sanduguan and Sangpingguan were guarded by Qin Liangyu and Zhang Fengyi, and repelled the Tusi of Shiqian Mansion.

Sizhou Tusi attempted to invade Chenzhou and was repelled by Ma Xianglin at Yuanjiang.

Most of Guangxi's Sicheng Prefecture and Guangyuan Prefecture were lost......

For a time, Guizhou fell, six guards and four prefectures and two prefectures were breached, three prefectures were besieged, and most of Guangxi's one prefecture and one prefecture were lost.

The rebel army, which has more than 100,000 troops, is really difficult to stop, but it is the so-called one drum, then decline, and three exhaustions.

The offensive in the northwest and northeast was reduced, and the breakthrough of the rebels was limited to Guangxi in the south, which was not rich at the moment, and there were many Tusi.

Even if these Tusi responded to Hao, An, and Song, they would only add 30,000 or 40,000 troops.

Zhu Youzhen hoped that these toasts would rebel, so that he could change the land in the southwest in one go.

He is not afraid of a tug-of-war in the southwest, and if it falls into a tug-of-war here, it will be a place where generals can be honed.

And for the fall of the six guards, Zhu Youzhen was not sad, on the contrary, he was very happy.

The southwest is not as good as the north Zhili, his hands are not so long, and he can't control the capital.

Now that these six guards have been destroyed, millions of acres of military tuntian have become borderless land, which saves him a lot of effort.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen set his sights on Sun Chuanting's military report.

To the north of Bijiewei are Chishuiwei and Pushi, which have no strength to stop the rebels at the moment, but rely on Sun Chuanting to help defend them.

In that case, this is a good time to abolish this one of the guards.

As soon as he thought of it, Zhu Youzhen immediately studied ink and wrote a handwritten letter to his imperial brother, the content of which was to abolish Chishuiwei and Pushi.

The Chishuiwei and Pushi offices were merged into Chishui Prefecture, and Sun Chuanting was appointed as the governor of Chishui and Bijie.

After writing the handwriting, Zhu Youzhen shouted to the door: "Someone! ”

A brocade-clothed guard walked into the tent and gave a return gift.

"Send the letter to the royal brother." After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Qianhu also took the handwritten book with both hands, and withdrew from the tent after returning the gift.

Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything when he saw this, and after sitting down, he continued to look at some military and public conditions.

Among them, he also saw the follow-up news that the Yellow River burst its embankment and Sun Yingyuan led people to block the breach.

Looking at the investigation of the corrupt officials in the letter, Zhu Youzhen sneered lightly and did not say anything.

After a while, Lu Wenzhao opened the curtain of the military tent and took a handwritten letter into the tent and said:

"Your Highness, this is a handwritten letter sent by Banzai to deal with the breach of the embankment."

"Well......" Zhu Youzhen took the handbook and read it at a glance.

When he saw the acres of land that could take over the corrupt officials in Suzhou and Lingbi counties, he closed the handbook with a smile and said to Lu Wenzhao:

"Tell Wang An that the acres of land he got are still distributed to the landless people who are homeless due to the flood according to the rules of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the Imperial Horse Supervisor will take 30% of the land and pay taxes for them."

"Yes!" When Lu Wenzhao heard this, he immediately sat on the table on the left side of the tent, wrote down Zhu Youzhen's original words after studying the ink, and after drying the ink, he ordered someone to send it to Wang An in the south of the Imperial Horse Prison.

After doing all this, Zhu Youzhen got up and walked out of the tent, looked at the time, and went to the big kitchen with Lu Wenzhao to eat.

The soldiers around were not surprised by the presence of His Royal Highness, but they were just whispering when they said some meat jokes.

Zhu Youxiao carried a wooden bowl of fragrant coarse rice and fried meat dishes, as well as scrambled eggs, fried chicken and a bowl of chicken soup.

This kind of food, in this era, I am afraid that it will take two days' wages for a normal laborer to eat.

However, for the Sixteenth Guard, this is already a very ordinary meal.

What they are looking forward to the most is the mutton once every three days, although there are only one, two or two meats, but they can also eat a mouthful of oil.

"If His Highness's establishment of twelve more battalions is known by the king's palm print, it is estimated that he will cry poor again."

Lu Wenzhao didn't have a shelf than Zhu Youzhen, sitting cross-legged on the ground, eating with a rice bowl.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he also smiled and said, "How sad is he?" After rectifying Shanxi, Taihang Mountain and all mountain ranges, if he used them to open officialdom, I am afraid that he would be able to open thousands of houses, raise hundreds of thousands of pigs, and raise tens of millions of poultry. ”

There is a reason why he would say this, and now he has opened up nearly 20 million mu of military tun fields, and if the wheat husks that can be harvested are used to process them into chaff, two or three hundred million catties will be easily used.

In addition, once the sweet potatoes of the next year are planted in nearly 40 million acres of tuntian fields in the north and south fields, and the autumn harvest will be made, then there will be supplementary food for raising large livestock.

In disguise, Zhu Youzhen used sweet potatoes to improve some productivity, so that the limited land can produce more grain.

Raising livestock with sweet potatoes reduces the loss of bran, and raising chickens with bran reduces the loss of staple foods, which is a virtuous circle in disguise.

It is estimated that it is not particularly far away from the officialdom in Zhu Youzhen's heart.

If it can reach that scale, the people's stomachs will begin to have oil and water, the consumption of staple foods will also be reduced, and the certainty of surviving the drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty will naturally be greater.

The people are very good, as long as they can eat enough, they will not think of rebellion.

To solve this kind of thing of the gentry and landlords in the world, I am afraid that Zhu Youzhen will not be able to do it in his lifetime, but it will take the efforts of several generations.

What he can do is to open up outward while solving the problem, so that the people of Daming can live.

When Zhu Youzhen was thinking and smiling while eating, Lu Wenzhao also buried his head in hard work.

The matter in Shanxi is solved, and the distance between him and the prosperous world in his heart is getting closer and closer.

Everything is getting better, and that's the most gratifying thing to behold.

"Appeal ......"

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the people who were eating with the army's kitchen all looked towards the door, and sure enough, they saw a group of people dressed in brocade clothes and guards coming.

The leader was a brocade guard with a long knife in his hand, and when Lu Wenzhao saw him, he smiled at Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Highness, this is Lu Xian, the nephew of the lowly teacher, who is responsible for supervising Lu Jianxing's sinking to Liaodong to sell grain."

"Now it seems、I'm afraid that there has been progress in grain trafficking.,Humble post to go over and take a look." Lu Wenzhao got up as he spoke.

"Well......" Zhu Youzhen ate almost, the things in the bowl were very clean, he put the bowl aside, and a soldier with a quick eye hurriedly picked it up, ready to help Zhu Youzhen wash the dishes.

Zhu Youzhen wiped his mouth, and then saw Lu Wenzhao and Ding Xian chatting freely, and walked towards Zhu Youzhen.

A few steps ahead, Lu Xian put away his appearance and said:

"His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

"Calm down, show me the news." Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand, and Lu Xian also took out the military information in his arms and handed it to Zhu Youzhen with both hands.

After Zhu Youzhen took it, he opened the letter and walked back to the camp tent to see that Lu Wenzhao and the route followed him behind him.

When he walked to the camp, Zhu Youzhen also read the contents of the letter.

The first is the handover of grain from the north and south fields to Huangdian, after Huangdian handed over such a huge amount of grain, the price of grain in Liaodong was directly adjusted from ten wen a catty to eight wen a catty.

Such a move immediately aroused the vigilance of other Liao businessmen, and also caused the people of Liaodong to rush to buy.

Since the grain that was delivered to the shelves seven days ago, more than 1,786,000 stone has been sold, and more than 2,223,000 taels of silver have been exchanged for it.

I have to say that the Ming Dynasty threw more than 15 million taels of silver into Liaodong in four years, although some of these silver poured into the hands of the generals who ate empty quotas, but there were also a lot of soldiers in their hands.

The soldiers and horses of Liaozhen, which are dominated by the Liao people, naturally have to support their family in Hukou, and the military salary of twelve taels of silver can only buy eight stones in the past, barely supporting one person.

But the price reduction of the imperial store allowed them to buy nearly ten stone of grain, and it can be said that they can feed one person very richly.

Therefore, although it was only seven days, the relatives of the soldiers and soldiers in various parts of Liaodong can be said to have become the main purchasing power of Huangdian's grain.

It's just that, compared with the grain shipped to Liaodong, the grain sold at present is only a drop in the bucket.

Zhu Youzhen threw the letter into the furnace and said to Lu Xian: "Continue to monitor, and let someone tell the prime minister and eunuch of Liaodong Huangdian that once it can't be sold, it will continue to drop until it drops to the price of five wen a catty." ”

"Humble command!" Lu Xianzuo shook his head, and Zhu Youzhen also said to Lu Wenzhao:

"Let people monitor these prime ministers and eunuchs, and if someone is corrupt, they will be killed on the spot!"

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao returned the salute.

"Stand down, I'll be quiet." Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, and Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xian also withdrew from the tent.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Every year, tens of millions of stone grain are invested in Liaodong, which can not only maintain the grain price of five or six wen a pound of grain in Liaodong for a long time to appease the people, but also increase the harvest for the imperial horse supervisor, which is a good people's livelihood business.

Use food to appease people's hearts, and then the next step is to send fields and increase the confidence of the people of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes slightly......