"The people are rich, but they are not happy......

Looking at the snow in the distance, Zhu Ciran, who had observed the people's feelings, was already sitting in the carriage back to the capital.

He is not as experienced as Zhu Youzhen, and he only probed some fur, but Li Dingguo got a lot of information.

More than a year has passed since the drought in the north, and this year's people in Beizhili have ushered in a good harvest.

The people of Shanxi got tractors, and the abandoned land was re-diverted and reclaimed, and the arrears owed to the bank in previous years were paid off in just one year.

At present, hundreds of millions of people are already healthy and prosperous, and Zhu Ciran knows that what they want is that after King Qi leaves, the court will not change the current policy.

This is also one thing that Zhu Youzhen has always hoped for, and it is also something that Zhu Ciran is ready to maintain.

"What the people want is very simple......"

Zhu Ciran took a deep breath and sighed slightly.

"Along the way, I did not hear the people discussing how much livestock, cattle and horses to buy, only that they wanted to maintain the tax of one ti in order to have enough to eat."

"I remember my uncle once said that if the industry is strong, the agricultural tax can be lowered as appropriate."

"At present, the Chinese dynasty alone has an annual income of more than 40 million taels for the Huangdian and the Five Divisions, and more than 50 million taels per year for 1.1 billion mu of cultivated land."

"If you don't fight for three years, it is enough to support the imperial court for four years."

"I heard that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the people had a record of cultivating the land for three years and fallow for one year."

"If my father and son are in power, they should pay taxes for three years and suspend agricultural taxes for one year, and the people will be healthy and prosperous."

Zhu Ciran said what he thought in his heart, and Li Dingguo couldn't help but sigh after hearing it: "If this word reaches His Highness's ears, His Highness will be happy for a long time." ”

As soon as Li Dingguo finished speaking, Zhu Ciran looked at him and said:

"I don't want to use the sword soldiers, but the Quartet Tiger Kou is not willing to stop the soldiers."

"If you want long-term peace and stability in the mainland, I also need your help to keep the tiger out of the country!"

Zhu Ciran used the people to try to persuade Li Dingguo to be an official in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and Li Dingguo also knew that in fact, there were not many available people around Zhu Ciran.

Although the East Palace is fine, there are not many people, and to govern a country with a huge territory like the Ming Dynasty, what is needed is a large number of soldiers and a large number of talents.

In the army, although Li Dingguo is young, he is one of the first heroes of the Western Expedition, and he is also the only one left among these heroes.

The Apocalypse has been sparse since the twelfth year, so his exploits can be regarded as a few Optimus Prime in the north under the current situation where many generals have left the Qi country.

Although Zhu Youxiao trusts Zhu Ciran in every way at the moment, the most untrustworthy thing about the emperor's family is feelings.

Who would have predicted that Zhu Youxiao would be old and confused in the future, thinking about abolishing Zhu Ciran's crown prince?

Li Dingguo, Qi Wulong, Du Yinxi, and Sun Kewang are actually the four leaders of the East Palace team.

Without them, Zhu Ciran would easily be set aside.

This truth is not only understood by Zhu Ciran, but also by Li Dingguo himself.

However, after being accustomed to seeing Zhu Youzhen's life since he was a child, and knowing that he still needed to maintain stability in the end in order to keep his feet on the ground, he was also extremely uncomfortable.

Everyone expects Zhu Youzhen to take that step and become an emperor who truly dominates the Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Youzhen was unwilling, he fought against the hundred officials, and finally resolutely embarked on the road of becoming a vassal.

Zhu Youzhen was very tired, and even Li Dingguo could feel his exhaustion.

Because he could feel it, Li Dingguo didn't want to stay in Daming.

He also wants to go to the Qi country, even if he is a small soldier in the Qi country, he can stay away from these intrigues of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that when he faced Zhu Ciran's invitation, he still couldn't say what he thought in his heart.

At this moment, he could be regarded as having a little bit of Zhu Youzhen's feelings when facing Zhu Youxiao.

If he could, Zhu Youzhen could have left early, but in the face of natural and man-made disasters, he chose to stay.

If he is like this, how much better can Li Dingguo be......

"I'll try my best to ......" Li Dingguo didn't say absolutely, but said as much as possible.

Although "Hu ......" was just a try, it made Zhu Ciran breathe a sigh of relief.

The conversation between the two was seen by Zhu Cihong next to him, and he gradually understood that everyone has everyone's difficulties.

He thought in his heart that he didn't come back to his senses until the carriage returned to Baiwangfang, and until they got out of the carriage.

It wasn't until Li Dingguo walked into the Qi Wangfu with him and met Xia Wanchun at the door that he came back to his senses.

"Brother Li, Brother Hong, it's time to eat."

Xia Wanchun was sitting at the gate of the palace with a small pony, and when he saw the two getting out of the car, he hurriedly waved his hand.

"Eat it, I don't have an appetite......"

Li Dingguo was still struggling with whether to leave Daming, or when to leave Daming, so he naturally had no interest in eating.

He crossed Xia Wanchun and walked towards his small courtyard with a worried face.

"What's wrong with Brother Li?"

Xia Wanchun frowned and turned around, asking Zhu Cihong, who went out together.

"Brother Li......" Zhu Cihong said the matter when he saw this, after all, he knew very well that Xia Wanchun was also a person in his father's plan, but Xia Wanchun's role was in the Qi State, not the Ming Dynasty.

"Now it seems that I have only been studying in Daming for five or six years, compared to Brother Li, eldest brother and father, it can be regarded as very easy."

Zhu Cihong looked at his own situation, he has been precocious and old since he was a child, and he is the most calm among his sons, and now he is naturally going further.

He knew that it was not easy for his father, and at the same age, when he was still studying, his father had already begun to reorganize his troops and horses, and he wanted to go on the Northern Expedition.

"Don't have too much pressure, your task is to learn good things, and at the same time write down the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty, so that these things will not appear in the Qi Kingdom in the future."

Xia Wanchun saw Zhu Cihong's self-examining appearance, and couldn't help but open his mouth to appease him.

In his opinion, the life of the Qi Wangfu family is too tired, and the reason is because he is too responsible.

Compared with King Qi, Zhu Cihong's sense of responsibility is applied to Qi and makes Qi develop better.

"If you succeed in your studies, when you return to Qi in the future, you can also share a lot of government affairs for His Royal Highness the King of Qi, so that the old man can rest and rest."

Xia Wanchun persuaded him step by step, but he didn't want Zhu Cihong to suddenly say: "What about you, Brother Xia?" ”

"Me?" Xia Wanchun was stunned for a moment, but laughed and said: "I am a native of the Ming Dynasty, so I naturally want to contribute to the Qi country." ”

"Then I'll be relieved." Zhu Cihong smiled, and then turned around and walked towards his palace.

Looking at his back, Xia Wanchun's mind also flashed Zhu Cihong's appearance just now.

"This guy...... You're setting me up......"

Xia Wanchun realized it later, but he was not annoyed by the pit, but was very happy:

"It seems that the people of my Qi country are blessed......"

"Ahem!"

When Xia Wanchun was secretly happy, there was a coughing sound in a small courtyard in the inner city.

Shortly after the coughing sound, a woman dressed in a life-threatening costume walked into the study, from which the coughing sound came from.

She put the ginger soup she had boiled on the table and looked at the person sitting in the chair distressedly.

"Rest, things are not in a hurry, the royal envoy said, your illness can only be cured."

"If you continue to stay up like this, I'm afraid that the next pulse diagnosis will make the royal envoy angry again."

She persuaded the man in his position, but instead of looking up, he shook his head:

"Your Highness is leaving, there are a lot of changes in the northern army and the northwest, I want to write a letter to appease."

"Over there, I also have to arrange it to avoid mistakes there."

"As for the royal envoy, just scold, after all, he is more than thirty years older than me, hehe......"

When Sun Chuanting's voice sounded, he did not stop the brush after losing a lot of weight, but continued to write letters to appease local officials and generals.

He coughed as he wrote, and coughing was not good news in this season, apparently contracted a cold.

Sun Zhang's eyes were distressed when he looked at him like this, but he also knew the character of his husband, so he didn't persuade anything, but just reminded:

"Drink the ginger soup while it's hot, and the medicinal properties will change when it's cold."

"Good ......" Sun Chuanting still wrote a letter with one hand, picked up the ginger soup bowl without looking at it with the other, and drank it all with a frown.

Seeing this, Sun Zhang sighed in his heart, cleaned up the ginger soup that had been drunk, turned around and left the study, and closed the door, for fear that Sun Chuanting would blow the wind again.

It's just that her hard work was in vain, because only a quarter of an hour later, the study was pushed open, and Zhou Zhao, who was Sun Chuanting's staff, walked in.

The cold wind blew into the study, which made Sun Chuanting, who had just warmed up a lot, slap his pen.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhao turned around and closed the door, which made him feel a lot more comfortable.

"Minister, there is news from the south, tens of thousands of people have surrounded the Longjiang Shipyard, it seems that the people are not ready to let His Highness leave."

Zhou Zhao was very happy when he said this, because he knew the character of his minister.

If you are facing an enlightened person like King Qi, your own ministers will definitely become famous ministers who will be listed in history and listed separately.

Moreover, Zhou Zhao could also feel that his own ministers did not necessarily seem to be the opponents of Shoufu Hong Chengchou, so it was best for King Qi to stay.

However, in the face of this news, Sun Chuanting was very indifferent, he continued to write without raising his head:

"His Highness will arrange it himself, and what he wants to do, others can't stop him."

"It's just this thing, are you sure it's just the people spontaneously?"

"Sure!" Zhou Zhao nodded firmly:

"Jinyiwei has caught the person in charge of instigating the people, but that person has no background, and his purpose is very simple, and he only instigated the people around the capital."

"If someone else acts, the scale of the incitement will definitely be more than that, and there is no need to ......"

Zhou Zhao said that there was no need, because he knew that now in the entire Ming Dynasty, except for the people and their small group of people, everyone else hoped that Zhu Youzhen would leave early.

There are 500,000 officials who have died at Zhu Youzhen's hands over the years, if not one million.

Keeping such a person continues to stay in Daming, for others, it is no less than a sword hanging over their heads that may fall at any time.

What is this official that Zhu Ciran killed? Compared with the scale of Zhu Youzhen's killing of tens of thousands of people in a major case, it is just pediatrics.

What's more, Zhu Ciran is just a fox and a fake tiger, and as soon as Zhu Youzhen leaves, the father and son will know what it is like to suffer.

"Keep an eye on the rest of the cabinet, and if something tells me right away, there can't be an accident at this juncture."

Sun Chuanting is still like that, supporting all of Zhu Youzhen's actions, even if Zhu Youzhen wants to become a vassal, even if he becomes a vassal, Sun Chuanting himself will become the target of public criticism, but he still does not keep a private interest.

"This ...... Minister, we don't have to worry about this, right? ”

Zhou Zhao frowned tightly and spoke, he had not forgotten how many corrupt officials and corrupt officials his own ministers had killed in the case of the Northern Shaanxi Civil Rebellion.

There are still many friends, colleagues, and officials in the same camp of these corrupt officials, if the situation does not allow it, Zhou Zhao is ready to persuade Sun Chuanting and Zhu Youzhen to leave together.

Zhu Youzhen stayed, and Sun Chuanting had one more talisman, but now, Sun Chuanting not only did not keep Zhu Youzhen, but also helped him to become a vassal, which ......

Zhou Zhao was a little difficult to accept, but Sun Chuanting said lightly:

"Go for it......"

"Yes......" Zhou Zhao struggled, then turned around and left the study.

After he left, Sun Chuanting's coughing sound came from the study again.

Soon, Zhou Zhao placed manpower around the mansions of many ministers, and such a move could not hide from opponents of his level.

Those who didn't want to do it didn't bother to pay attention, just like Hong Chengchou's actions when he learned the news.

"Pavilion Elder, as you expected, the Sun Mansion has sent people outside the mansions of the cabinet ministers."

The head of the Hong Mansion walked into the study and replied to the news to Hong Chengchou, who was holding the pen.

is also writing, Sun Chuanting is writing a letter to appease the northwest, but Hong Chengchou is painting.

It's not that he didn't do anything, but at the beginning of the year, he wrote a handwritten letter to the Mu family and the Mu family, as well as Long Zaitian and Wu Bikui.

It can be said that his grandson Chuanting and others calmed down the situation in more than half a year, and even wrote the news of the change of the court to the Qin and Qi families in September as the first assistant.

Therefore, when Sun Chuanting was busy, he already had leisure to paint.

"Elder Ge, over there at Longjiang Wharf, do you want to hint at the people below to ......?"

"Don't do anything extraneous!"

Hong Chengchou glanced up at the head of the Hong Mansion, and said indifferently:

"Although King Qi handed over the power, it doesn't mean that he lost his teeth."

"Every move of you and me, his heart is like a mirror."

"I've endured it for decades, can't I still bear this month?"

"Tell the people below to be honest, it's just tens of thousands of people, and none of them can stop it, let alone King Qi."

As he spoke, Hong Chengchou stopped his pen and shook his head as he looked at his paintings.

When he was in Yunnan, he visited Yang Lian, and naturally he also saw the painting that Yang Lian snatched from Zhu Youjian from Yang Lian's home.

Zhu Youzhen is good at painting landscapes and landscapes, but he is also very expressive in painting animals.

Hong Chengchou has seen the "Tanuki Picture" painted by Zhu Youzhen, which can be said to be vivid, and it presents the fun of the tanuki playing.

"Compared to King Qi, I am still a lot behind......"

Hong Chengchou looked at the painting and muttered to himself, not knowing whether he was talking about painting or something else.

"Recently, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been patrolling, and many officials have asked for rescue after they fell off the horse, and these people ......"

The head of the Hong Mansion spoke cautiously, but Hong Chengchou sneered lightly:

"Let them wait, they don't wait, in order to collect some forbidden miscellaneous items and put on their own future, what is such a fool to do?"

Hong Chengchou framed the painting, and the head of the Hong Mansion also nodded and said:

"That's true, but if you don't leave them alone, will they be involved in the house?"

"Involved?" Hong Chengchou said disdainfully:

"You have to know that it's not that I want to win them over, but that King Qi wants me to win them over."

"They think they'll be able to do anything wrong with me? As everyone knows, King Qi just gathered them together to make it easier for Sun Chuanting and them to target. ”

Hong Chengchou explained the fact that Zhu Youzhen didn't clean up the corrupt officials under him.

Zhu Youzhen knew from the very beginning that corrupt officials and corrupt officials could not be beaten endlessly, and they could not be swept away.

What's more, Chongzhen in history caused party chaos during the Chongzhen period because of the indiscriminate raising of knives, and it was impossible to distinguish who was and what party.

Zhu Youzhen raised the knife in the early stage because it should be done, because the number of corrupt officials has seriously affected the normal operation of the imperial court.

After this batch of corrupt officials and corrupt officials falls, he has to gather the remaining corrupt officials together and set up a clear target for Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran to be attacked, so that he will not know who to deal with.

Supporting a small number of clean officials, corrupt officials who are corrupt but do things to crack down on corrupt officials who do not do things but are ruthlessly corrupt, this is what we have to do in the Chengping era.

Hong Chengchou understands that he is the flag, as long as the flagpole does not fall, many people can be gathered, and the composition of many people can be clarified.

Unless there are no corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, he Hong Chengchou will have to stand all the time.

But it's okay he's alive, if he's dead, then ......

Hong Chengchou narrowed his eyes, and finally said to the head of the Hong Mansion:

"Let the three sons go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and when they come back, I will tell them what they should do."

"Yes!"

The head of the Hong Mansion responded without thinking, and thought that his own cabinet was always preparing to install people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

He turned around and exited the study, Hong Chengchou also stroked his beard when he saw this, and couldn't help but praise:

"Your Highness, you are really calculating......"

"Indeed."

When Hong Chengchou praised him, the same voice sounded in the small courtyard of the official's square.

Kim Hyun and Yan Yinshao sat together, and Kim Mu was busy in the kitchen.

At this moment, the two also discussed the matter of the corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the party under Hong Chengchou.

They know very well that Hong Chengchou is a wall to block the wind, and they are brooms.

If the wall doesn't fall, the wind-blown garbage will gather underneath.

Therefore, all the Metropolitan Procuratorate has to do is to continue to sweep the floor.

For Hong Chengchou, they don't have to worry about it, otherwise without the wall of Hong Chengchou, garbage will have to be blown everywhere.

"Throughout the ages, no emperor has left a spotless court for his successor, and His Royal Highness is no exception."

"It's just that I'm wondering if Banzai is willing to hand over power to the crown prince."

Yan Yinshao frowned, but Jin Xuan said firmly: "Long live doesn't have many choices, he only has three heirs, even if he gives birth to an heir in the future, I'm afraid it will be difficult to compete with these three for power." ”

"King Yong and King Ding are looking forward to the crown prince's horse, so the crown prince's position is as stable as Mount Tai, don't worry."

"In the temple, it is enough to have Sun Chuanting to check and balance Hong Chengchou, and what you and I have to do is to monitor the situation in the domains at home and abroad, Europe and West Asia."

"The Mongol prince Ezhe has returned to Mongolia with arms and men, and it is not surprising that he will arrive in Xinhala and Lin in March of the following year."

"Five months is enough time for the Mongols to become proficient in the use of rifles and artillery, and they are expected to launch a westward expedition before the autumn harvest to seize the territory of the Western Capture (Crimean Khanate)."

"The northern army must be ready, and while they seize the territory, they will immediately recover all the land mortgaged by Lin Dan Khan."

"Neither tractors nor trains should appear west of the Volga River or near the Western Sea (Caspian Sea), lest the barbarians follow suit."

"Therefore, it is now necessary to migrate to Shibian as early as possible, move the people to Taixi Province and station, distribute tractors to build production in the local area, and ensure the supply of the garrison west of Helinshui."

Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao have accumulated a lot of experience in Qi and Southern Kunlun, and they can be said to be familiar with how to quickly build a vibrant town on uninhabited land.

"The war in Europe is not optimistic, Jinyiwei has news that Fran's attack on Fran has been frustrated, Wallenstein has also died of illness on the battlefield, and the king of Rodoli (Sweden) Gusta has no opponent, I am afraid that he will soon be able to clean up Franco's allies."

Yan Yinshao frowned, his expression was not very good:

"I'm afraid we have to pay the materials for the fourth indemnity to Furlong in advance, otherwise it won't last for twenty-five years of the Apocalypse."

"I'll discuss the matter of supplies with the cabinet." Jin Hyun nodded in response, and at the same time had a headache and said:

"The Qi country has to transport a batch of grain to the Franc machine, otherwise the news of the setback in the frontline will reach the rear, and the price of the Franc machine that has just stabilized will probably rise again soon."

Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao glanced at each other, and in the face of the situation without King Qi in charge, both of them showed a wry smile, and unconsciously sighed in their hearts:

"It's hard......"

(End of chapter)