"My brother really didn't do anything wrong by putting Hong Chengchou in Annan......

On July 15, when Zhu Youxiao's voice sounded in the dense forest, he and Zhu Youzhen were riding a war horse side by side in the mountain road.

The soldiers and horses of the Han general and the Xiao cavalry guards guarded them, and behind them there was a long convoy of troops.

Time has entered autumn, but the power of the autumn tiger has made the already drought of Beizhili dry and hot.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao proposed the idea of going to Yanshan for a safari and stepping on autumn at the same time.

When the ministers shut up in unison, and the imperial power was extremely powerful, the emperor's idea of stepping into the autumn almost reached the ears of the civil and military officials who needed to prepare in just three days.

In the convoy of the autumn season, there were not only many generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but also the eunuchs of the ceremonial supervisor, as well as the officials of the six ministries.

Of course, the more important thing is Zhang Yan and the concubines in the inner court.

It is not strange to bring concubines in the autumn, not to mention Zhu Youxiao, many officials have brought wives and heirs, and Zhu Youzhen himself also brought Li Dingguo, Yang Rus, and Yang Yuanai.

Compared with the hundred officials, the number of people brought by Zhu You is already few.

Such an autumn procession has never been in the Ming Dynasty since the Xuande period, and the location of the autumn has not been visited since the Yongle period.

It was only under the situation that Zhu Youzhen cleared the south of the desert that Zhu Youxiao and the hundred officials dared to come to the Yanshan Mountains outside the Great Wall to step in the autumn, and the place they chose was Chengde, which was known as a summer resort by later generations.

However, in Daming, the place of Chengde is Yanshan County, which belongs to Duoyan Prefecture.

At present, Yanshan County has just been built, and the people are only a few thousand, while Zhu Youxiao's autumn team has tens of thousands of people, which can be described as spectacular.

This spectacular team is worthy of Zhu Youxiao's current identity.

In the people, some people have long boasted that he is a Ming Jun, and he is not satisfied with this.

What he wanted was to lay down a large territory, comparable to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, so the battle to recover Annam was particularly important.

Zhu Youxiao has a characteristic, like the ancient kings, although he knows the vastness of the old port, he is not concerned about the development of the territory of the old port, because he knows that it is an overseas territory.

He is more concerned about the recovery of the territory that connects the Ming Dynasty, and Annan is perfectly in line with this.

Hong Chengchou's arrangement in Annan made him very satisfied, and Zhu Youzhen, who traveled side by side with him, did not feel that there was anything to praise.

Everything in Hong Chengchou was carried out according to the plan, and it did not give him any surprises.

On the contrary, it was the surrender of the three forces of Mo, Wu and Lao Cai, so that the Ming army could not purge the three forces, and he was a little disappointed.

But now that everyone has surrendered, it is naturally impossible for him to go back and fight again.

It's just that although they surrendered, Zhu Youzhen would not let them stay in the northern part of Annan, so he said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Mo Jinggong can be named Gao Pingbo, Wu Degong can be Xuanguang Bo, and the thirty-two Tusi of Laojie will be awarded the rank of Xiao Cavalry Lieutenant."

"After the Battle of Annam, they were transferred to Luzon, Zhongshan, and Nanhai respectively, and their families were moved to Kunming, Yunnan."

"Well......" Zhu Youxiao also knew that if this group of people remained in the local area, then a gentry family would be formed that had been entrenched in the local area for hundreds of years, and if they moved to Nanjing and Beijing, they would be discriminated against.

Only by moving them to Kunming can not only contain their family, but also appease them, after all, Kunming is very close to Annan.

"What happened to Sichuan, Shanxi, and Zhili?"

Zhu Youxiao rarely asked about the drought, and Zhu Youzhen also responded:

"Sichuan, mainly Chongqing, Tongchuan, Shunqing, and Baoning have been affected, and it is estimated that more than 1.6 million people will suffer from severe drought, and more than 7 million mu of land will be harvested......

"Shanxi Datong, Pingyang, and Taiyuan have lost about 9 million mu, and the remaining five provinces in Shaanxi, except for Xi'an, Fengxiang, Hanzhong, Shuofang, and Ningxia, have lost about 18 million mu......

"Beizhili is mainly in the Xuanfu area, and the number is about 300

More than 10,000 mu, Henan is more than 3 million mu in Henan Province, and the provinces have a total of about 40 million mu, affecting tens of millions of people......

After clarifying the number of harvests, Zhu Youzhen explained:

"The imperial court is already trying its best to solve the problem of the great drought, and wherever it can drill wells, the household department will directly dig wells with money."

"Where wells cannot be drilled, the people have basically moved to Annam, including the people of Sichuan, and the number of people who must be relocated is about 420,000, and the number of people in Sichuan has not yet been counted."

"The household department allocated 2 million taels of silver and 4 million stone to migrate grain, and adopted the method of cash-for-work for the people who stayed behind but the harvest was lost, and hired millions of people to comb the Yellow River."

"Do you still have money and food for the household department and the imperial horse supervisor?" Zhu Youxiao asked worriedly, and Zhu Youzhen asked Zhu Youxiao to rest assured:

"There are still more than 7 million taels of silver, and nearly 24 million stones of Changping grain have been piled up in the northern part of the prefectures."

"The price of grain in the provinces should be kept below 700 wen, and try not to exceed 700 wen."

"Hmm......" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded, obviously when Zhu Youzhen was there, he didn't have to put too much effort into government and military affairs, he only needed to maintain the balance of the court.

"It's hard work, brother." Zhu Youxiao felt a little guilty, after all, the current Zhu Youzhen is nominally the king of Qi, but in fact he is almost comparable to the prime minister.

"The state affairs are difficult, it is good for my brother to rest for a while, and if the affairs in the south are calm down next year, my younger brother will lead troops to sweep the north, and then my brother will need to work hard."

Zhu Youzhen doesn't think there is anything difficult, he came to this world and has this identity, so he has to bear this burden on his shoulders.

Although he can send the burden down now, he doesn't have someone who can help him carry the burden.

The problem of the late Ming Dynasty is actually a problem of lack of political ability, if you want to choose a few people to enter the cabinet, then Yuan Keli and Hong Chengchou are the only two people that Zhu Youzhen can choose.

Sun Chengzong's strategy is good, but when it comes to tactics, he pulls it across, and he has too little understanding of politics and economics.

The personalities of Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Xiong Tingbi doomed them to offend many civil and military officials if they entered Beijing as officials, and letting them on the frontier was to protect them.

There are only two people, Yuan Keli and Hong Chengchou, no matter where they are, it is enough for them to be placed in the cabinet.

As far as the purely economic problem is concerned, Hong Chengchou in history also saw clearly how much damage the peasant rebel army had to the Ming Dynasty, so when many people in the Ming Dynasty were still looking forward to appeasement, he chose to kill them all.

The economic problem cannot be solved, and it is useless for the peasant rebel army to appease them, and they will rebel again in the future.

In the battle of Songjin, Zhu Youzhen's hole cards to Hong Chengchou were not the best hole cards that could be taken out at that time, but Hong Chengchou still played a few small victories.

If it weren't for Wang Pu's behavior of betraying his teammates, it would not be difficult for Hong Chengchou to lead the army to withdraw to Ningyuan, and even if there was no check and balance of the military department, Hong Chengchou would be able to continue to suppress Huang Taiji.

The key is that Hong Chengchou has a strong ability to be thick-faced and black-hearted, and he can play well in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and even if he is thrown into the long river of 5,000 years of history.

"After the Battle of Annan, Hong Chengchou may be able to crown the crown prince Shaobao."

Zhu Youzhen is looking for a position for Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou is a person, he will use three more battles at most, and he will have to transfer him back to the capital.

"Well, but my brother said before that he wanted to level the southern palm, so wouldn't Hong Chengchou be unsealable after leveling the southern palm?" Zhu Youxiao said suspiciously.

"Not so ......much," Zhu Youzhen said, "Uncle, Hou, Gong...... He can fight three more battles, and he has to solve them in ten years, and then he can be transferred back to the capital, or he can be transferred to the northwest."

"Ten years ......" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, he felt that his younger brother was a little vigilant, ten years later, Hong Chengchou would only be forty-four years old, in the prime of life, and it would be a bit of a waste to transfer back to the capital.

Zhu Youxiao felt that it was a bit wasteful, but Zhu Youzhen knew very well that it was not a good thing to put Hong Chengchou in the southwest for too long, and ten years later, Daming would also need Hong Chengchou.

Gu Bingqian's age will be able in ten years

It is still a problem that it cannot be used, and ten years later it will be the last seven years of the worst drought in the Ming Dynasty.

transferred Hong Chengchou back to the capital, starting from the six Shangshu, and then entered the cabinet, judging from the fact that he was scolded every day in history and could live to seventy-two, this guy can run the cabinet for at least twenty years.

Yuan Keli is already sixty-five years old, three years older than Gu Bingqian, and he is not as good as Gu Bingqian.

It is much better to let him be a foreign minister and leave his name in history than to stay in the capital to intrigue and fight......

"Alas......" thought that he had no famous ministers available, mainly because of the rotten civil and military officials in Wanli in those years, Zhu Youzhen was angry.

However, Zhu Youxiao's words made Zhu Youzhen entangled in whether to send troops to Nanzhang.

In terms of resources, Nanzhang's resources are not good, and it is a plateau jungle country, and the amount of minerals is not so attractive.

Moreover, the population of Nanzhang is only a few hundred thousand, and the cultivated land is only one or two million mu, which makes people feel a little chicken.

If Nanzhang continued to serve the Ming Dynasty as orthodoxy and accepted the economy, garrison and culture of the Ming Dynasty, then Zhu Youzhen did not want to take this place, because the investment was not proportional to the income.

Taking Donghu and Annam, Daming can obtain thousands of kilometers of coastline, as well as two large plains, and tens of millions of acres of arable land.

But after taking Nanzhang, Daming could only get hundreds of thousands of people who couldn't even eat enough, as well as a territory full of epidemics.

"Nanzhang's matter, let's see if it's worth attacking." Zhu Youzhen still wanted to solve the problem by peaceful means, because he really had no interest in places like Nanzhang.

Mineral deposits and forest resources can be obtained through trade, which is much more cost-effective than fighting war.

"If Nanzhang can recover it, it would be better to recover it." On the issue of territory, Zhu Youxiao put forward different views.

It's just that he hopes to expand the territory as much as possible, unlike Zhu Youzhen, who thinks about whether he can balance the income and expenditure after the local land is laid.

If it can't break even, then Daming will have to give it a blood transfusion all year round.

"Let's take a look first......" Zhu Youzhen did not directly refuse his brother, after all, it was a little unsightly to refuse in person.

The two did not continue to talk about this, but changed the subject:

"In recent days, the British Duke and many lords have been asking about his brother's marriage, and it seems that they are preparing to participate in his brother's marriage."

"Heh......" Xungui's actions made Zhu Youzhen chuckle.

Obviously, the nobles were really cornered, or they themselves narrowed the way.

Since Zhu Youzhen completely deprived the nobles of their power in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the nobles seem to have become the mascots of the royal sacrifice every year.

It's just that such a situation was not forced by Zhu Youzhen, but they chose it themselves.

The military academy is open to them all year round, but there are few children who enroll every year.

Take the fifth year of the Apocalypse as an example, when the Bingjia Academy and the Yanshan Academy were mainly aimed at the children of the clans and nobles who signed up independently, there were 209 sect students who took the initiative to sign up for the Yanshan Academy.

Although this is due to the huge number of low-level sects, the number of Xungui's children is counted, and there are nearly 70,000 people, and the number of students who signed up for these 70,000 people that year was only seventy-seven.

Among them, the British government contributed twenty-four people, and it is not difficult to see how muddy the nobles are that they can't support the wall.

Zhu Youzhen was desperate for most of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, and he was even more scornful of their means of using women to marry him.

In the face of power, women are often just the playthings of rulers, and Zhu Youzhen will not do anything to affect his plans for the sake of women.

When Zhu Youzhen was thinking this, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and two generals rode horses in front, and the person who took the lead was the young general who Zhu Youzhen gave everyone expectations.

"Long live, Your Highness, the former army has arrived in Yanshan County, and the minister has come to ask for instructions, whether to go to the unfinished Dading Palace or to Yanshan County."

When the young general spoke, it was Cao who was exposed under the phoenix-winged helmet

Change Jiao's slightly immature face, and next to him was Cao Dingjiao.

"Chung-hyun!"

Zhu Youxiao shouted suddenly, and among the cavalry in the back row of Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian, who was dressed in a bullfighting suit, immediately stepped forward and flattered: "Long live......

"How's the Dading Palace being built?"

"Back to Long live, although the construction of Dading Palace has just started, the surrounding scenery is beautiful, and staying in Dading Palace is suitable for you and His Royal Highness to hunt." Wei Zhongxian responded.

Dading Palace, this is the palace built by Zhu Youxiao Wei Zhongxian, but after careful calculation, this palace has been built since the decree to the present, but it takes less than half a month, and it naturally cannot be repaired.

It's just that the people who are responsible for building the palace have at least barely rushed to the field, and these fields are good for camping, and the hunting ground behind it is also very suitable for Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen to hunt this time.

"Since you can be stationed, let's go to Dading Palace, just let me see how I should build a palace here."

Zhu Youxiao said, and Wei Zhongxian also flattered: "Long live if you go, you will definitely be satisfied with the place that the slave and maid are looking for."

He was flattering, and Zhu Youzhen was just watching this guy from the side.

Maybe it's his personality problem, or maybe he's too young, in short, Zhu Youzhen doesn't like to listen to this kind of flattery.

However, these words seemed to be very useful to Zhu Youxiao, and he was enthusiastic to let Zhu Youzhen change his goal, and the army rushed towards Dading Palace.

It was not until dusk that the army managed to reach the location of the Dading Palace, which was built next door to the Chengde Summer Resort in the Qing Dynasty.

Although Zhu Youxiao said that there was no need to build too big, Wei Zhongxian was still prepared and chose a large enough place to facilitate future expansion.

Mountain views, lakes, rivers, hunting grounds......

Wei Zhongxian thought of all these things, and he didn't make a big scene.

The size of the farm is about 2,000 acres, and the slightly soft soil and the roots of the trees can be seen from time to time, which can make people perceive that this place was still primitive not so long ago.

Wei Zhongxian mobilized the entire Yanshan County, and thousands of people cleaned up for ten days before finally driving out a field large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of troops to camp.

Not surprisingly, high walls, palaces and pavilions will be built here.

For the establishment of this palace, Zhu Youzhen did not have any other ideas, and his personal frugality could not require everyone to be thrifty.

His brother spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to build a palace, and he couldn't control this matter.

"Long live, look at it, this Wulie River is winding and rugged, and the mountains and lakes are vast, enough to raft here in the future."

"Other......

Wei Zhongxian was introducing to Zhu Youxiao how good the location of Dading Palace was, and Zhu Youzhen glanced at it and explained to Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao behind him:

"The Tang cavalry released fifty miles to ensure the baggage in the rear, and another 1,000 troops were stationed in Yanshan County."

"The last general commands!" The two of them responded, then turned and left.

It's just that not long after they left, Lu Wenzhao rode a white horse, came with hundreds of horses, turned over and dismounted in front of Zhu Youzhen, handed over a military report and said:

"Your Highness, Beizhen Fusi said that there are remnants of the White Lotus Sect in Shandong, please transfer the Gong Guard Camp to exterminate them."

"How's the quantity?" Zhu Youzhen glanced at Song Shu absentmindedly, not because he was arrogant, but because of the figure of the White Lotus Sect, which he could see several times a year.

Their number was numbered by dozens, some hundreds, and some thousands, and after they were basically discovered, Zhu Youzhen would send a local guard battalion to exterminate them, and the captives would be distributed to the old port.

"About 800 people, not a lot of people." Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed his head and said:

"Everything is the same, but in the future, I will encircle and capture any bandits, robbers, and grass bandits, and send them to the local cement yard to work for ten years."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and at this time, Zhu Youxiao also noticed Zhu Youzhen's side, he walked over and said curiously:

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, Shandong has found eight hundred White Lotus Sect Yu

Iniquity, if you want to come, you will be calmed in an instant." Zhu Youzhen generously handed the song to Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao didn't bother to take it, and waved his hand directly:

"Brother look at it, I'm not interested in these things, but how about my brother take a look at this place?"

Zhu Youxiao happily pointed around, and Zhu Youzhen glanced at it, nodded slightly, and said, "It's a good choice."

"I think so too, so I plan to increase the scale of this construction, 100,000 taels of silver to enclose this place first, and then my brother and I will come here every year to escape the summer and autumn."

Zhu Youxiao happily opened his mouth with his hands behind his back, and Zhu Youzhen also felt quite good.

Just before he could say anything, Hakka's voice rang out:

"Long live, Her Royal Highness the Queen, please go and dine with Her Royal Highness the King of Qi."

"yes, got it."

The Hakka came over step by step, although it was close to forty, but it was well maintained, and it was also a half-old.

Zhu Youzhen didn't have a heart for this kind of woman who had been played by eunuchs, but some Han generals couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian flattered and said, "Long live, Your Highness, let's eat first......

"Well, let's go, brother." Zhu Youxiao grabbed Zhu Youzhen's wrist, and then pulled Zhu Youzhen towards the temporary palace.

said that it was the palace because Zhu Youxiao spent a few days concocting a tent that could be spliced by himself.

It's like a yurt, but it's more elaborate and delicate than a yurt.

Once the thing is unfolded, the diameter is nine zhang and nine feet, covering an area of one acre, up to five zhang, and the door frame is used as the gate.

Zhu Youxiao took Zhu Youzhen to the temporary palace, and after entering the palace, he proudly pointed everywhere, talking about his whimsical ideas.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the structure inside, not to mention anything else, its area alone is enough to accommodate thousands of people.

At the moment, it is carpeted, and there are also seats, beds, screens, mirror tables, tables, chairs, cabinets and other furniture......

Ancient furniture has experienced thousands of years of development, until the Ming Dynasty was the great sheng, among which hardwood furniture is the most respected and appreciated by the world.

Ming-style furniture is exquisite, simple and elegant, using hard wood with firm and delicate, high strength, beautiful color and texture, and wax decoration to express natural texture and color, infiltrating the Ming Dynasty literati's pursuit of simple and elegant aesthetic taste.

As the top carpenter of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, plus the silver of the inner hand, so in the craftsmanship of the exquisite furniture, there is also the rich and prosperous left by the top lacquer workers of the Ming Dynasty.

All the furniture in this palace, not to mention anything else, the wood of the chair alone can be sold for a high price of a hundred taels of silver.

The victims of the disaster cannot affect the enjoyment of the powerful, and such a side is fully revealed in front of Zhu Youzhen.

It's just that he also knows that as long as there are people who have classes, there will be rich and poor.

The slogan of equal wealth can only be achieved relatively, but cannot be achieved absolutely.

At least at present, there are still more than 30 stone of rice and wheat in the homes of the victims in various provinces, and there are also jobs that the imperial court has found for them.

Even if there is a great drought, they can still live and live a nourishing life.

"Why is my brother stunned? Why is it not envious? Don't be envious, I have already prepared a palace of the same size for my brother, and you can see it when you go back when your meal is over, brother."

Zhu Youxiao didn't know what his younger brother was thinking, he thought that Zhu Youzhen was envious, so he patted him on the back, smiled and comforted him, and then took his hand and walked towards the dining area.

"Five Uncles......

After Zhu Youzhen sat down and heard more than a dozen sisters-in-law greeting him, he was pulled back to reality.

In front of him was a huge table that was spliced together and large enough to accommodate more than thirty people, and Zhu Youxiao sat next to him, and Zhang Yan sat next to Zhu Youxiao.

On the other side of Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Ciran was sitting on the table, staring at him with big black and white eyes.

His eyes seemed to be thinking about why he was arranged to sit next to his uncle, and Zhu Youxiao also grabbed a chopstick Zhu Youzhen's favorite goose meat at this time, and clamped the meat

arrived in Zhu Youzhen's bowl.

Zhu Youzhen took the opportunity to look up at his brother, and Zhu Youxiao smiled warmly:

"What do you like to eat......?"

After that, he turned his head to look at the concubines, and said with a smile:

"This is a family banquet, don't be too polite, it's too raw to talk about etiquette, let's move chopsticks......

"Yes......" A dozen concubines responded, and then began to chatter about some topics between them.

It's funny, such a scene should have made Zhu Youzhen feel the warmth of home, but he only felt rusty.

Only when he turned his head and saw Zhu Youxiao smiling and talking to him about all kinds of jokes and conversations he encountered while doing carpentry, Zhu Youzhen felt warm in his heart.

"You don't know, I almost got my hands on it at the time, and then Chunghyun crawled over with a roll, and it made me laugh so much that my stomach hurts, and now I think about it......

Zhu Youxiao explained with a colorful voice, while Zhu Youzhen laughed while eating.

At the end of the meal, Zhu Youxiao asked for wine, and the two brothers pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and gradually the wine was charming.

Until the end, Zhu Youzhen didn't remember how he returned to the palace......

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