"The first one is a domain, Bengal ......"

"This place is located in the delta of the Jianjia River in the east of Tianzhu, with a large area of wetlands, this place is not suitable for farming, and it is necessary to send troops to the northwest more than 60 miles away to have a large urban population and arable land."

"Although the geographical conditions of this place may not seem good, the choice of this site as a vassal was carefully chosen."

"There is the Hooghly River in the west, the bay in the north, and the salt lake nine miles to the east, so it is convenient to dry salt to obtain a large amount of salt."

"Moreover, the Hooghly River flows through Calcutta and is wide and deep, making it suitable for a port."

"The only drawback is that there are depressions and swamps in this area, which are harmful to health and require huge manpower and material resources to be cultivated for farming."

"There are three villages here, with a population of about 30,000, and if you take here, you can basically raise thousands of troops and use it as a domain to attack the towns in the north."

"The nearest city in the north, Budhwan, has a population of more than 80,000, and these people pay about 3,000 taels of silver to the Mughals every year."

"Seventeen towns in Bangladesh, according to the estimation of Beizhen Fusi, after stable rule, this place close to the land of Zhejiang Province can produce 800,000 stone fields and more than 70,000 taels of taxes according to the tax rate of 30 to 1."

"It will now be auctioned, with a starting price of 10,000 taels ......"

In front of the Taimiao, after Bi Ziyan finished speaking, he struck the bronze bell the size of a human head in front of him with a wooden mallet the size of a finger.

As the bronze bell was ringed, Bi Ziyan stopped talking, and among the many vassal kings under the Taimiao, the first to raise the sign was an unexpected young county king.

"Zhu Qiwei, the king of Miyang, bid 30,000 taels!"

"Zhu Qiwei?"

When a county king opened his mouth for 30,000 taels of silver, everyone was stunned, and they were all wondering who Zhu Qiwei was.

Wang An, who was standing behind Zhu Youxiao, whispered:

"Long live, this is the concubine of the old Tang Wang's concubine, I heard that the old Tang King loves him the most, this time the vassal king is in the domain, and the old Tang King gave him a large sum of money from the Tang Domain."

"What about the prince of Tang?" Zhu Youxiao frowned, he didn't like Zhu Shuoxi's behavior of spoiling his young son and ignoring his eldest son.

"The old Tang King has a bad relationship with the prince of Tang, and it is rumored that he has imprisoned the prince of Tang and his grandson for several years, if it is not for the king of Qi to speak, I am afraid that he will continue to be imprisoned."

Wang An explained, and Zhu Youxiao also bowed slightly to indicate that he knew.

"Shu Wangfu, fifty thousand taels!"

As soon as Zhu Zhishu, the wealthy king of Shu, opened his mouth, he took out many of the family properties of the county king's life, while Zhu Changxun and Zhu Suqin did not move at all.

Obviously, these two people want to compete for other domains, and they don't want to go toe-to-toe with Zhu Zhishu.

"Seventy thousand taels!" The newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and Zhu Qiwei, the king of Miyang, gritted his teeth and spoke, and Zhu Shuoxi, the king of Tang among the feudal clans, also had a bad expression.

He wanted to fight for the largest domain and vassal kingdom for his youngest son, but although the Tang domain was strong, it was not as strong as the Shu domain.

"One hundred thousand taels!" Zhu Zhishu sneered and spoke, and the appearance of raising the price by 30,000 taels in one breath instantly made Zhu Qiwei, the king of Miyang, unwilling to sit down.

"The king of Shu bid 100,000 taels, can he ask for a price increase?"

Bi Ziyan's breathing burned a lot, he didn't expect that just one place could sell 100,000 taels of silver.

If this kind of behavior happens a few more times, won't the household department immediately become rich?

It's just a pity that all the vassal kings were frightened by the wealthy Shu Domain, and no one raised the price.

In the end, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, won the qualification of Bengal at a price of 100,000 taels.

The success of this first sale also made Bi Ziyan begin to introduce the second and third plots of land with affection.

The second and third domains were princely states that moved south from Bengal to the south, nominally subject to the Mughals, but in fact autonomous princely states, and were less difficult to attack than the Mughal states of Bengal.

The second piece of land was a domain, and the Zhou domain made a move, and Zhu Suqin, the king of Zhou, used 60,000 taels of silver to take down the land of a province.

If this land is laid, the number of natives will be no less than one million, and the annual tax will not be less than more than 300,000 taels of silver.

The fate of the Zhou Domain, naturally no one competed with him, mainly the Jin Domain, the Dai Domain, the Zhao Domain and other strong domains.

Zhu Changxun has been sitting very steadily, he is waiting for the third piece of domain, and when the third piece of land is shouted, he immediately raised a sign and said:

"Fifty thousand taels!"

From 10,000 taels to 50,000 taels, Zhu Changxun knew very well that the upper limit of this place was like this, so he directly pulled the price to the highest to avoid ripping.

It's only 50,000 taels of silver, which is insignificant compared to the follow-up investment.

"Deal!" Seeing that no one was competing with Zhu Changxun, Bi Ziyan immediately smashed the gavel, and the bell rang.

Zhu Youxiao saw that his younger brother was using a quota, so he took out more than 100,000 taels from the hands of the three vassal kings, and he was immediately a little fluttering.

In this way, he is looking forward to the competition in the future.

After the transaction of the three most suitable domains for doing business with the Ming Dynasty was completed, the remaining ones were the plains on both sides of the central and southern coasts of Tianzhu, which were divided into more than 90 places by Zhu Youzhen.

However, these places are small with only one town and large with only one county.

Zhu Youzhen's original intention was to let the county king occupy the central and southern parts of the country, which would be more convenient for the supervision of the small Western supervision envoys.

However, to his and Bi Ziyan's expectations, in the face of these small domains, only seven princes and more than 30 county kings were killed, and more than 90 pieces of land were snatched into their hands.

In this way, the youngest of them also has several counties and hundreds of thousands of people, and the eldest has three prefectures and hundreds of thousands of people.

When they settled down, many princes such as the Jin Domain, the Zhao Domain, the Dai Domain, and the Qin Domain also began to attack the coastal plain on the west side of Tianzhu.

The excitement of the vassal kings for the domain far exceeded the estimation of Zhu Youzhen and Bi Ziyan, and in the end, when all the feudal lands were sold, only 27 princes and 71 county kings were qualified.

Naturally, the money collected in the end was also huge, and the net income of the treasury was 523,500 taels of silver by auction qualifications alone.

However, the end of the auction of the feudal land was only the beginning, and after Bi Ziyan sorted out the price list quoted by the feudal kings and sent them to the Qi Palace, he continued to turn around and say to the feudal lords:

"I know that there are still five princes and fifty-two princes who are not qualified to be vassals, but you don't need to be angry and anxious."

"The fleet to Levia will return in May, and they will bring with them maps and intel suitable for Levia."

"As for the next issue of the feudal domains, the second point will be on the allocation of soldiers and horses."

"For this question, the feudal lords can write down the number of soldiers and horses requested to be transferred on a slip of paper, leave their names and the number of the royal domain, and then you can leave."

"As for the relocation of the people, it is still in accordance with the regulations of His Royal Highness King Qi, 20 mu per person, 100 mu per household, and 10 taels per person."

After that, Bi Ziyan struck the bell, and the Han generals also presented pen and paper.

Seeing this, although there were still many questions in their hearts, the feudal lords took a pen and wrote down the number of troops they needed to have as many soldiers and horses.

When everything was over, the feudal clans also began to get up, methodically climbed to the elephant wheel of their palace, and evacuated the Taimiao.

When the last person also withdrew, Bi Ziyan dispersed many Han generals, and personally spread out the note in front of the table next to Zhu Youxiao to record the situation.

Zhu Youxiao, who had finished reading the audience without saying a word, looked sideways and watched Bi Ziyan finish writing the needs of the princes' mansions.

At the end, after Bi Ziyan finished writing, he was just about to present the book with both hands, but Zhu Youxiao got up and said:

"Show it to King Qi, I've already seen it."

"The minister led the ......" Bi Ziyan responded, and then watched Zhu Youxiao leave the temple in a big chariot.

As for himself, he walked out of Donghua Gate with this recorded booklet, and then rushed to the Qi Palace.

By the time Zhu Youzhen got this booklet, it was already dusk, and the silver taels recorded in the book also made Zhu Youzhen squint happily.

In this regard, Bi Ziyan, who was arranged to sit down and served a meal, sat upright and said:

"This time, the feudal lords were charged 2,523,500 in silver just for the number of vassals, and the only problem was that the feudal clans were a little too ...... to mobilize the number of soldiers and horses."

While Bi Ziyan was talking, Zhu Youzhen also saw the application of the feudal domains for the transfer of soldiers and horses.

In the application, Zhu Youzhen was not surprised, and the largest number of soldiers and horses applied for it was indeed Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu in Mughal Bangladesh.

He hired seven battalions of Gong Guards, totaling more than 21,000 people.

This was followed by the five camps of the King of Zhou, and the four camps of the King of Fu, the King of Jin, the King of Dai, the King of Qin, the King of Chu, and the King of Zhao.

Most princes choose to hire three or two battalions, while many county kings apply for two or three posts, which is estimated to be their limit.

"Twenty-seven princes, seventy-one princes...... One hundred and thirteen battalions and two outposts, it seems that they have a lot of silver! ”

Looking at the final data, Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth with a smile, without any scruples about what would be the consequences if the Ming Dynasty transferred one hundred and thirteen battalions.

Regarding such data, Bi Ziyan also said:

"Twenty-seven princes hire seventy-four battalions, and they need to pay fourteen,800,000 taels of silver, which should be no problem."

"The problem now is that among the seventy-one county kings, only the twelve county kings who hired a battalion can come up with silver, and the remaining fifty-nine county kings are all mortgaged by assets and loaned five times the silver to forcibly open up the domain."

"If this development fails, I'm afraid that the imperial court will not only not make money this time, but will also lose money......

"Have you calculated, after the two outposts of the one hundred and thirteen battalions are transferred, how much silver can the imperial court enter?" Zhu Youzhen interrupted Bi Ziyan's words and asked.

"Roughly...... Seventeen million taels of silver was no problem, and the other fifty-nine county kings still owed the court five million or four hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver. ”

Bi Ziyan's words made Zhu Youzhen chuckle, and he put down the paperwork in his hand and said:

"Seventeen million taels of silver...... It was nothing to their property. ”

"It should be about ......," Bi Ziyan said thoughtfully:

"The money of the vassal king, most of it is on the land that has been bought and sold for so many years, such as one million acres of land in the Shu King's mansion, and it is worth seven million taels of silver at the current price of seven taels of silver per mu in Chengdu."

"Other vassal kings such as the King of Chu and the King of Zhou also occupy a lot of acres, but if they sell a part, they can get millions of taels of silver."

"Therefore, when the vassal king succeeds in the vassal and sells all the family property, he should be able to raise a lot of silver."

"It's not that much, the Shu Wangfu has millions of fields, but the palace is divided into many county kings, and the Shu Wangfu can control hundreds of thousands of acres, and the rest of the vassal kings are the same." Zhu Youzhen explained, and then said pointedly:

"But even so, the family property of many vassal kings is actually not as good as the money involved in the officials of the three ladies, but it is interesting......"

Since the outbreak of the three ladies and the eruption, it has involved from the Imperial Horse Supervisor to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and then to the civil officials.

Although nearly seventy percent of them were fields, and the fields were exiled to the market by Zhu Youzhen in the form of land division.

However, just the mansion shops and cash silver, the Ming Dynasty has earned more than 30 million taels of silver.

Although a lot has been spent, the current treasury has never been so full.

Besides, this big eucalyptus is not completely over, not to mention anything else, the merchants alone have not been cleaned up.

Jin merchants, Qin merchants, Qi merchants, Zhejiang merchants, Sukun and other merchants, as well as a large number of Fujian merchants......

This group of guys Zhu Youzhen has not yet cleaned them up, if it weren't for the fact that the power of the imperial court is not enough to cover the entire Ming Dynasty, and the number of scribes and officials in his hands is too small, Zhu Youzhen would have served them a long time ago.

Don't care if there is this person's name in the Three Niangzi Eucalyptus, as long as Zhu Youzhen says that there is, then this person's name is on it.

Zhu Youzhen's pointer also made Bi Ziyan chuckle and say:

"After all, the vassal kings only have the income of the domain, so naturally they can't compare to those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and many vassal kings are extravagant, so naturally they can't save any family property."

Bi Ziyan didn't finish speaking, in fact, he still wanted to say that after all, the feudal lords often offered silver to the imperial court, and during the Wanli period, they also owed a lot of money to the vassal kings, so the vassal kings naturally did not have civil officials quickly.

"The cultivated land of the vassal king was purchased by the household department at the local price, but no silver was given, and the white slip was given to relocate the people and buy armaments."

"When they have conquered the domain, they want to move the people there, and they need to train their soldiers and horses, and they need to buy armor and stomach firearms, these white stripes will be useful."

Zhu Youzhen said, while Bi Ziyan was worried: "Will it cause resistance from the vassals?" ”

"How can they resist?" Zhu Youzhen chuckled lightly and walked to his place and sat down.

"How much silver and grain do you have in the treasury right now?"

After asking, he picked up the food on his table and moved it, and motioned to Bi Ziyan to talk while eating.

It's just that Bi Ziyan is still a civil official in his bones after all, and he doesn't want to talk while eating, so he just poured himself a glass of wine, took a sip and said:

"After the military salaries and the clans' salaries were paid, there are still 19,674,300 taels of silver at present, and Taicang still has more than 3 million stone of grain after the south-to-north grain transfer in February."

"The drought in the four provinces and the floods in the south of the Yangtze River, how is the disaster relief?" Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and ate something and asked.

"After killing many criminals, the flood in the south of the Yangtze River used more than 2 million taels of silver from the raid to relieve the disaster." Bi Ziyan responded:

"It's just that in the north, after the last disaster relief money and grain arrived in the provinces, the grain prices did stabilize, but the drought is still going on, and no one knows when it will be a head, and the millions of taels of grain will last until October at most."

Bi Ziyan frowned and spoke, while Zhu Youzhen also took a sip of wine and said:

"The silver of the household department was ordered to be transferred to nine million taels and sent to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the Imperial Horse Supervisor's Huangzhuang collected grain from the people of the military Tuntian and transported it to the three major warehouses of Taicang and Yanshan."

"By the way, the yamen of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong were notified to rebuild and expand the local granaries, and each province should have ten large warehouses that were enough to store five million stones of grain and grass."

"This ......" Bi Ziyan's face became a little hesitant, and he asked cautiously tentatively:

"Do you need so much? As long as we survive this drought, we should be fine this year......"

"Let's build it......" Zhu Youzhen did not explain, if this drought really ended easily, he would not need to arrange it for so many years.

"Yes......" Bi Ziyan responded, but he still didn't move fast, until Zhu Youzhen raised his head and looked at him with puzzled eyes, he hesitated:

"After these feudal domains become vassals, even according to the regulations of His Royal Highness, I am afraid that they will be able to have thousands of acres of land......

"If the vassals were to be relocated at that time, wouldn't they be able to relocate millions of people?"

"It won't be that easy, don't forget that there are restrictions on ploughing cattle." Zhu Youzhen took a bite of the dish and said:

"Besides, even if millions of people are actually relocated, there is nothing to be sorry about."

"Millions of people are just a catastrophe."

"Don't forget Shandong's experience in the past seven years, the seven-year disaster, nearly 10 million people in Shandong before the disaster, how many are there now? Less than half, right? ”

"If such a disaster lasts for several years, lasts for several provinces, and the imperial court can't provide disaster relief, then should we watch the people starve to death, or send them out?"

"What's more, sending them out is also for the sake of the stability of the rule of my Ming Dynasty's overseas vassals, and it is inevitable that these millions of people will not grow to tens of millions in a few decades."

"The more people, the more demand, the greater the volume of trade, and the more customs revenue the imperial court has."

"This is also ......" Bi Ziyan bowed his head slightly when he heard this, but Zhu Youzhen did not say anything else.

He wants to send out so many people and make the Kannai empty, the essential reason is to let the people have money, and then emancipate their minds and carry out the industrial revolution.

Why didn't the Qing Dynasty break out the Industrial Revolution like the West?

There are many reasons for this, but the fundamental reason is that the conditions for the Industrial Revolution are not available.

First of all, there is a lack of ideological foundation. At that time, Europe had just experienced the Renaissance and the Reformation, and the ideas of the Enlightenment were gradually popularized, which laid the foundation for the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty was at the peak of feudal society, and Jianyu frantically strengthened feudal autocratic rule and destroyed the official and private schools left over from the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty.

The number of official schools in the Ming Dynasty was less than one-tenth in the Qing Dynasty, the common people were firmly tied to the land, the officials were reading the Four Books and the Five Classics in a pedantic manner, and the whole country was lifeless.

Under such circumstances, the Chinese people do not even dare to speak, they will only nod their heads and make promises, and it is impossible to achieve political reform.

Chinese people do not know what mathematics and physics are, and without an ideological foundation, it is natural that the industrial revolution at the institutional and technological levels will not break out.

This is also the reason why even if such a barbarian as the Yuan Dynasty came into power, the Han people worked for them, but the Qing Dynasty only had the landlord class and gentry class of the Han people.

The official and private schools have been destroyed, and relying only on the scarce number of ethnic studies is not enough for the people to understand what the national righteousness, national shame and national humiliation are.

So much so that in the face of the invaders, most of the ignorant people still applauded and watched the fire from the other side.

They neither overthrew the Qing Dynasty, nor did they help the Qing Dynasty resist the Han Chinese, they only knew that they blindly watched the Qing Dynasty being bullied, but they did not know that the Qing Dynasty was bullied, and they would turn their heads to bully the people from taxes.

Of course, ideology is only a point, and there are many problems besides ideology, such as the lack of material conditions for the outbreak of the industrial revolution in the Central Plains at that time.

The Industrial Revolution requires three conditions. The first is labor demand, the second is coal supply, and the third is the market.

During the Qing Dynasty, China's economic center of gravity was in the south, and the main fuel was timber, while China's coal was mainly produced in the north, and it was not cost-effective to ship it to the south.

Second, the Qing Dynasty had a large population, less labor shortage, and less demand for industrialization.

Third, the Qing Dynasty was a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, and the country's long-term emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce led to a lack of impetus for industrial development, so the possibility of an industrial revolution in the Qing Dynasty was very small.

Finally, the Qing Dynasty was a regime dominated by ethnic minorities in the Central Plains, and it belonged to the advanced ethnic groups ruled by backward ethnic groups.

In order to maintain its own rule and prevent the imperial power from falling, the Qing Dynasty frantically strengthened its autocratic rule, engaged in literary prison, and inventions and creations were regarded as miraculous and ingenious, and there was no technological innovation at all.

Of these three main issues and five minor issues, Zhu Youzhen does not need to consider the last one, because the Ming Dynasty is a Han dynasty and can stimulate the national buff.

The first ideological issue is destined to collide with absolute monarchy, and Zhu Youzhen believes that he has no means to deal with this problem well.

It's just that compared with the dynasty of the Zhu family, he would rather the Han people stand up.

Therefore, the method he thought of was very simple, the overseas vassal kings became vassals, not only to expand the basic territory of China, but also to protect the descendants of the Zhu family.

A very simple thing, as long as the Ming economic circle is there, then either side of the vassal state and the Ming Dynasty was overthrown by the peasant uprising, and the overthrow of his regime needs to consider a problem.

If the Ming emperor and the descendants of the Zhu family were executed, would the new dynasty be targeted by many overseas vassal kings? Finally an economic blockade and war?

You know, the Han and the Mongols are different, Genghis Khan canonized so many descendants, and no one can keep his descendants because of cultural and ideological problems.

But the Han dynasty, if the Ming dynasty is overthrown and the descendants of the Zhu family are slaughtered, then the other descendants of the Zhu family will use this as an excuse to break out a war with the new dynasty.

They are not for revenge, but to enter the Central Plains and compete for the world.

As for whether the vassal power will not be enough to threaten the new dynasty? Don't worry about that either.

A very simple method, even if the vassal state is not strong enough and will not provoke the new dynasty, but the new dynasty will give preferential treatment to the descendants of the Zhu family in order to show favor for the concept of the Ming economic circle and the increasing tariffs.

One of the natural advantages of the Zhu family is that Zhu Yuanzhang won the world from Meng Yuan, and for the Han people, even if they despise the later Zhu emperors, the system of three kings and two kes still has to be picked up.

Just as in history, Li Zicheng did not really want Chongzhen to die, nor did he kill Zhu Cihong, but gave Chongzhen's three children the title of king.

The lives of the descendants of the Zhu family will be saved with the emancipation of the mind, if nothing else, just rely on Zhu Yuanzhang's exploits in expelling the Tartars, and Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao to liberate the people's wisdom.

Of course, it is also possible that the descendants of the Zhu family will encounter a person with low political ability to break through the capital and slaughter them all.

However, that possibility can only show that the descendants of the Zhu family can't even deal with this kind of person who has no political ability, so they deserve to die.

Under the existing system, this is one of the few means that Zhu Youzhen can think of to protect the vassal king and the Ming Emperor politically and militarily.

It's just that there are still many loopholes in this method.

Maybe some people in the future will be able to think of it, but in the current situation, Zhu Youzhen can only choose this way.

After the opening of the people's wisdom, the great wave of ideas will eventually clash with the absolute monarchy.

In history, the Central Plains Dynasty did not have such a precedent for Zhu Youzhen to refer to, the absolute monarchy had reached its peak, and the new system could only see if Zhu Youzhen could come up with it in his lifetime.

If he wants to start the industrial revolution and save the lives of the descendants of the Zhu family, he has to do this......