The thirteenth year of Yongle, the first month.

Before the festivities of the New Year had passed, the imperial court promulgated a new policy.

This new policy is about the new establishment of the Wenqu Academy.

In order to reward the Ming soldiers last year for their dedication to the fight for the country, all children of military families can send their children to study for free in new schools around the country with their vouchers.

Those who graduate from school can cancel their military household status and become civilian.

If people in various places want to send their children to school, they only need to let their children take a simple oral test, and those who are smart and intelligent can also enter the school for free.

Those who have completed their studies only need to teach the students for three years.

When this policy was issued, military households everywhere were boiling.

With the implementation of the military household strategy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang for so many years, the drawbacks in it have gradually become apparent.

The children of military families not only had to cultivate the huge military fields, but also had to bear heavy taxes and the obligation to go to the battlefield to fight.

Coupled with the oppression of officers in various places, military households have already complained about this.

Many people are trying to find ways to let their children and grandchildren change their household registration.

But in the Ming Dynasty, if the military household wants to change its nationality, unless it becomes the head of the military department, it will be a military household in this life, and future generations will not be able to change this fate.

Many military households who were oppressed by local officers and could not survive, and many directly chose to flee.

The flight of military households has caused a serious shortage of guards in various localities, and in some places even half of the manpower is not enough.

Now that the imperial court has changed its policy and given the military households a new way out, this made the military households burst into tears of excitement.

Although the older generation can no longer enjoy this benefit, the children still have unlimited possibilities in the future.

On the day this policy was announced, the registration offices of new schools everywhere were almost crowded with children of military families.

According to statistics, on the day of the opening of the school year, there were no less than 100,000 children of military families enrolled in new schools in various places.

When this number was reported to the old man, the old man was taken aback.

In the initial idea of the imperial court, the first batch of training 20,000 or 30,000 people was enough.

Then each subsequent year will take over in turn, and slowly cultivate these talents.

But the old man ignored the appeal of changing the household registration to military households.

In order to allow the children to leave the military household registration, almost all the children who meet the age are sent in.

The reason for this was that they feared that the imperial court would change its policy.

So in order to prevent accidents, the new school just started recruiting students, and they sent all the children over.

"Your Majesty, if you don't lay off a group of people, we really can't afford to raise them!"

Looking at the old man with a shocked expression, Xie Jin hesitated for a moment and put forward a proposal to cut off a batch.

The old man glared at him and threw the piece in his hand onto the table.

"Cut, cut whom!"

"Believe it or not, if you cut a batch here, the military households over there can make a fuss."

Xie Jin's face was bitter and could drip juice.

"But the problem is that there are so many people, our budget is not enough, this is not counting the children of private households selected from all over the country, if we add them, we will have to support nearly 150,000 people in this first batch!"

"As the saying goes, half the size eats the old man."

"There are so many little tigers who are just replenishing their bodies, and just eating them can empty the Wenqu Academy."

"It's not a year or two, it's 10 years, and more importantly, a new batch will be recruited next year, not to mention 30,000 or 40,000 people, and then the third year, the fourth year..."

Xie Jin snapped his fingers, saying and calculating, and in the end he felt like his head was going to explode.

"According to the minister's conservative estimates, before the first batch of students graduate, the imperial court will have to raise at least nearly 300,000 children!"

Hearing this terrifying number, the old man couldn't help but poke his teeth.

As Xie Jin said just now.

Half the size of the child eats Lao Tzu to death.

There are more than 300,000 little tigers, and the food expenses alone can collapse the Wenqu Academy.

In addition, there are miscellaneous things such as writing fees and students' clothes.

Calculated before and after, a child's annual consumption is conservatively estimated to be about five taels.

Simply calculated, the first batch of 150,000 children alone will spend nearly one million in the first year.

Although the old man put all the money he got from the Kong family into the new school.

But last year, it cost as much as 80 percent to build schools in various places.

According to Xie Jin's report, the remaining money in Wenqu Yuan is less than 2 million taels of silver.

2 million taels of silver seems like a lot, enough for so many students to eat for two years.

But the problem is that it costs something else.

The salary of the new scholars in various places, as well as the daily renovation of the academy, and the expenditure of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the nutritional supply of military training in the afternoon.

Whether the 2 million taels of silver is enough to spend this year is unknown.

Thinking about the money spent like a flowing water, the old man felt a pain in his flesh.

But the hundred-year plan is the foundation of the country, and it must not be cut off, the old man gritted his teeth and said to Xie Jindao.

"You don't have to worry about the money, you just need to take care of the matter for me, if you don't have any money, go to the shop to withdraw it first, the grandson has already said hello to that side, as long as you have a loan certificate, they will give you the money directly."

Xie Jin, who had a bitter melon-colored face, immediately accepted his expression when he heard that money was not a problem.

"Minister, Commander!"

As soon as Xie Jin's front foot left, the old man hadn't taken a sip of tea yet, and Xia Yuanji walked in with his back foot.

"Your Majesty, the household department has no money!"

The first thing Xia Yuanji said when he came in, he habitually talked about money.

The old man scratched his head irritably.

"Didn't I just allocate a batch to you last year, and last year's autumn harvest, this year is not over yet, are you going to spend it."

Natsuhara was speechless.

What does it mean that I have run out of money?

You really don't know how expensive firewood and rice are.

This one stretched out his hand to ask me for money, and the other one reached out to ask me for money, I am the God of Wealth, and I almost let you empty out.

One by one, they always want to ask for money.

I don't want to think that there are so many taxes in the imperial court, is it enough for you losers?

"Your Majesty, you have wronged the minister, what do you mean that the minister has spent all the money."

Saying that, Xia Yuanji began to settle the score.

"The construction of the Forbidden City in the north, the annual expenditure is fixed, and the minister's side has just received the money, and before it is warm, a batch of them has been swept away."

"There is also the naval base plan proposed by Taisun, there are 10 places, and the budget of each place is more than 100,000 taels, and now more than 1 million taels are gone."

"There are also the Navy's shipyards, the Shenji Battalion and the Marine Corps expansion plan, last year's reissuance of Yulu, as well as the cost of this year's imperial examination, as well as the cost of resuming spring plowing in Shandong."

"Calculate this everything, take a little in the east and a little in the west, even if the household is a cornucopia, it can't bear such a speed of spending money, minister..."

"Stop, stop..."

The more the old man listened, the more his head grew, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Xia Yuanji's reckoning.

Rubbing his eyebrows tiredly, the old man hesitated for a long time, and said to Xia Yuanji: "Go to the reserve and take out 5 million taels first, and then fill it back when the household is full." ”

Xia Yuanji pursed his lips secretly.

As far as the speed at which you losers spend money, the household is still full, I never dreamed of it.

"Minister, Commander!"

drove away Xia Yuanji, who came to ask for money, and the old man walked around the house a few times with his hands behind his back, and finally slapped the table.

"Can't let this kid stay at home, hurry up and drive him away to earn money."

"If we delay for a while, the little money I have saved will be hollowed out."

In his dormitory, Zhu Zhangui, who was crawling in a pile of recitals and burying his head in correcting the recitals, suddenly shivered inexplicably.

Scratching his head suspiciously, Zhu Zhangui looked left and right, and when he saw that there was no problem, he lowered his head and picked up a book of notes and corrected it.

"Come and be good grandson, grandpa will read to you."

Evening East Palace.

Zhu Fatpang, who finally snatched the child back from the old man today, happily put his grandson on a Yao chair, and began to read a thousand-character text in his hand.

"You're crazy, how old is the child, you let him read!"

Zhang, who was teasing his grandson with a small toy on the side, glanced at Zhu Chubby.

"What I'm crazy, this is called preschool education, I have read it from books, and I often read some sage books in front of children, so that children can be contaminated with the spirit of saints, and they can become a benevolent and righteous king who reads poetry and books in the future!"

"Zhan Gui is completely abolished, I have to teach my grandson well, and I can't do it all day long like his father!"

Hearing this, Zhang glanced at Zhu Chubby angrily.

"What's wrong with my son, I think it's better than you as a father, before my son came back, you look at what life we lived in the East Palace, and now after I come back, did you dare to think about it before."

Seeing that his wife was nagging again, Zhu Chupang hurriedly waved his hand with a headache.

"Gotta get it, I won't tell you, I'll continue to study, you continue to play with your grandson, neither of us can affect anyone."

"Humph!"

Zhang snorted lightly, picked up the little guy who was tilting his head and looking curiously at the daily bickering between the two.

Pushing the little guy's head, Zhang said dotingly.

"My good grandson, you have to fight for grandma, you can't be like your grandfather for a lifetime, you have to be like your father, become a man who stands up to the sky, grandma will count on you in the future."

After speaking, Zhang looked at the cute face of the little guy and suddenly sighed again.

Zhu Fatpang, who was flipping through a large number of books and planning to read a new book of the words of the sage to his grandson, heard Zhang's sudden sigh and asked curiously.

"Okay, why are you sighing again!"

Zhang's little grandson hugged his little grandson, looked at a house in the East Palace, and said: "Zhan Ji has been out for more than a year, and he hasn't written a letter to his family, do you think he is still complaining about us!" ”

Zhu Chubby, who was flipping through the book, paused with his hand, "It's fake to say that you don't blame us, originally all this belonged to him, and then we..."

Halfway through his words, Zhu Fatpang shook his head and said no more.

Since he met Liu Rumeng the year before the fight, Zhu Zhanji left Beijing and took the girl to play around.

It's been nearly a year, and I haven't even written a letter, if it weren't for the fact that Jinyiwei often reported that he had seen Zhu Zhanji in some places, the East Palace would have thought that Zhu Zhanji was missing.

"By the way, I heard my daughter-in-law say that Zhan Gui will leave again in two days, and it may take two or three years to leave."

Not wanting to talk about that incident anymore, Zhang remembered what his daughter-in-law had talked to him about in the morning.

Zhu Chupang nodded.

"He and the old man have a plan, they need to go out for two or three years, and it is estimated that they will be gone in the next few days."

What is the plan, Zhu Panpang didn't say, and Zhang didn't ask.

The harem can't interfere in politics, this is the iron law set by Zhu Yuanzhang, there is a monument at the gate of the harem there, the women in the backyard of the old Zhu family, none of them dare to touch this red line.

"It's good that my little grandson is with me, otherwise they will leave, and the East Palace will be deserted again."

Thinking of the lively scene when the two sons were at home the year before last, Zhang suddenly felt a little sad.

Thinking about her husband's body and the relationship with her two sons, she suddenly felt a little inexplicably uncomfortable in her heart.

If one day her husband goes before her, and the children are busy every day, how lonely and lonely her life will be.

At the beginning of February of the thirteenth year of Yongle.

Due to the problem of water thieves in Fujian and Zhejiang, the emperor ordered his grandson Zhu Zhangui to go south to take over all military affairs in Fujian and Zhejiang, and eliminate local Japanese thieves.

The garrison soldiers and horses of the local guard stations must obey the order unconditionally, and if there is a violation, the grandson does not need to report it and can be dealt with on the spot.

On the same day, it was ordered to expand the 50,000 Shenji Battalion, and it will also follow the grandson to the south, and it will be controlled by the grandson Zhu Zhangui.

As soon as these two wills came out, many people in the court were shocked.

All the troops in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangxi add up to more than 20 thousand, and the emperor's holy decree can be said to indirectly assign these troops to the name of Taisun.

These armies fell into the hands of Taisun, and they also fell into the hands of Donggong in disguise.

Fujian and Zhejiang Liangguang 200,000 troops, plus 50,000 Shenji battalion, and the Ming Navy sent to Fujian last year.

The number of troops in Taisun's hands has increased before and after, and it is already close to 300,000.

This is almost 1/3 of the military strength of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han who was originally the strongest military among the three princes, suddenly fell to the lower level.

The old man's series of actions made many people understand that the position of the East Palace was completely stable.

In the future, even if King Han jumps high, it will be difficult to shake the position of the crown prince in the East Palace.

"Bastard! What is the old man trying to do, isn't he afraid that the bastard will come back with the army to rebel? ”

In the palace of the king of Han.

Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, who got the news, angrily smashed everything he could see in front of him.

Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, who was sitting on the side, silently watched all this without saying a word.

He was very happy.

Fortunately, I took the first step to place the chips, otherwise if I went over to take refuge at this time, I am afraid that the eldest nephew would not be able to look down on him.

After venting for a while, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, gasped, his eyes were full of anger and resentment.

"Hehe, go south, since you went, then you don't want to come back."

Zhu Gaosui's eyelids jumped, looked at Zhu Gaoxu and asked in a low voice.

"Er, what do you think!"

Zhu Gaosui turned his head to look at Zhu Gaosui, stepped forward in a few steps and grabbed Zhu Gaosui's collar.

"Do you want to tell the truth again, don't think that I don't know that you have taken refuge in the boss, what I plan to do in the Northern Expedition is what you told that little bastard."

Zhu Gaosui's heart tightened, but his face looked aggrieved and said, "Second brother, you still don't believe me!" ”

"How the do I believe you!"

Zhu Gaoxu pushed him to the ground and let out an angry roar like a wild beast.

"On the day of the victory, that little bastard told me in my ear that he knew that I was going to do it to him during the Northern Expedition, and told me that the next time I would do it earlier, I wouldn't have a chance."

"Only you and I know about this matter, it's not your secret, is it me?"

The more Zhu Gaoxu spoke, the more angry he became, and he stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhu Gaosui tremblingly.

"Third child, you are hiding deep enough!"

Zhu Gaosui got up from the ground, and also pretended to be angry and shouted: "Second brother, you are crazy, if I am really the boss, will I still help you every day." ”

"Then tell me, how does that little bastard know!"

"Second brother, did you drink and paint your brains, what kind of people are under that little bastard, don't you count it in your heart?"

"Ji Gang of Jinyiwei, and an old man who I haven't figured out what he's doing yet."

"He has so many people under him, this kind of thing that is related to the life and safety of the little bastard, do you think they will not receive the news."

"That's right, it was really only the two of us who knew about it at first."

"But do you dare to guarantee that when you sent someone to do this, you didn't reveal it?"

"If I had told that little bastard, with the vicious heart of that little bastard, I would have been asked to be a witness, go to the old man to sue you, and then shake out all the things you did."

"With the old man's temper, do you think you can still talk to me here now."

Zhu Gaoxu fell silent.

Zhu Gaosui's words make sense.

What the two have been doing together for so many years, if the old man knows, with the old man's temper, he will definitely beat himself up and then demote him to a concubine.

That day, the little bastard was just threatening himself at the time, and there was no further action in the follow-up.

This means that he only received the news, but there is no absolute evidence to prove that he will assassinate him.

So he could only provoke himself verbally, and he didn't tell the old man about it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu patted Zhu Gaosui apologetically on the shoulder.

"I'm sorry for the third brother, just now the second brother said something that shouldn't be said in anger, don't take it to heart."

"If you don't feel happy, you can punch me a few times and scold me a few times!"

Seeing that he had successfully fooled the second child again, Zhu Gaosui exhaled secretly, smiled and waved his hand.

"What are we talking about between brothers, second brother, I can understand your mood just now, I will also doubt this kind of thing."

"By the way, second brother, what do you mean when you just said that you won't let that little bastard go south and not come back, do you plan to do it in the south."

Zhu Gaoxu sneered when he heard this.

"The Japanese in the south are so easy to fight, these Japanese are from the Japanese country on the surface, but in fact, most of them are from our Ming Dynasty."

"Most of them are private armed men raised by smugglers."

"This little bastard went to clean up the pirates, this is cutting off the roots of those smuggling families."

"As the saying goes, cutting off people's money is like killing parents."

"Once those people are driven crazy, it's very possible to do something crazy."

"When the time comes, I'll send someone to stir things up and then give them some information."

"The strength of their two families may not be very good, but once they are united, our eldest nephew may capsize in the gutter."

"Once he fails to eliminate the Japanese and makes the south in turmoil, do you think the old man will be disappointed in him, and even deprive him of the position of grandson."

Zhu Gaoxu had a grim expression on his face.

"We can even send some good hands to give him while the chaos is going on..."

As he spoke, Zhu Gaoxu slammed everything down with his hand and gave him a look that you know.

Zhu Gaosui gave a thumbs up.

"Let this little bastard lose the trust of the old man first, and then take advantage of the chaos to get rid of it, the boss's body is like that, he will definitely not be able to withstand the blow of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man, maybe the old man will also..."

"Once they all have an accident, that position, second brother, you are simply at your fingertips."

"High... It's really high, and the little brother admires it almost like he has to throw himself to the ground. ”

"Second brother, if you succeed in the future, don't forget my younger brother!"

ps: Sorry, suddenly a little bit cardinal, I need to sort out my thoughts, send 5000 words first, more than 5000 words later, before 8 o'clock in the evening.