In recent days, the docks of the Jingshi have been very busy, and there are many fleets of sailors coming and going.

The new emperor is mobilizing his troops and horses.

Zhu Gaoxu brought nearly 500,000 troops into the Beijing Division, as well as the subsequent surrender of troops from all walks of life, and the Beijing Division and Shandong were already overcrowded.

Zhu Gaoxu is preparing for the use of troops in Beiping, but he does not plan to use so many troops and horses, because judging from the current situation, there will only be more and more surrenders in the future.

On the third day of October, Zhu Gaoxu decided to send troops in mid-October to wipe out the rebels by the end of October.

In recent days, he has been busy sending troops, first selecting 200,000 elite soldiers and horses and sailors, and the other soldiers and horses returned to their respective stations, guarded the place, and continued to defend Tuntian for the time being.

On the fourth day of October, Zhou Hu took 50,000 pioneers from Beijing and went straight to Jinan.

On the eighth day of the first month, Yang Yun set off with 50,000 troops on the left route and drove directly to Texas.

At this time, in Shandong, there were basically all officers and soldiers, all of whom surrendered, including the soldiers and horses of Liu Sheng and other generals, who were also near Jinan.

On the fifth day of the first month of October, Zhu Gaoxu summoned the Hubu Shangshu Xia Yuanji, who was about to leave after the Huagai Hall (behind the Fengtian Palace).

This was the first time he saw Xia Yuanji alone, after Xia Yuanji came in, he saw Zhu Gaoxu looking at him with a smile, and couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, is the emperor going to use money again? He subconsciously thought, I don't have any money now.

For Xia Yuanji, you can say anything to him, just don't talk about money, it will hurt your feelings if you talk about money.

"Xia Budo, sit." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand politely.

"Your Majesty, I really don't have any money." Xia Yuanji immediately cried poorly.

"Haha." Zhu Gaoxu was happy: "I don't want you money, but I want to give you money." ”

"Your Majesty, you have no jokes." Xia Yuanji's eyes suddenly lit up.

"You sit first, sit." Zhu Gaoxu said again.

Xia Yuanji was helpless, looked left and right, and found a place to sit down, but he was obviously a little unaccustomed.

When Emperor Jianwen was there, only Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng were qualified to sit, and when Zhu Di was there, no one was qualified to sit.

This was the first time he had been able to sit in front of the emperor.

Zhu Gaoxu waited for him to sit down, and said slowly: "Governing the country is actually not much different from managing a family. ”

"From Xia Butang's point of view, if I want to govern the country well and be a Ming monarch, what do I need most?"

Xia Yuanji didn't think about it, and blurted out: "Money." ”

“。。” Zhu Gaoxu.

"As long as you have money, you can do anything." Xia Yuanji said loudly, and then said, "There are still people." ”

"People are labor, the more people, the easier things to do, but more people mean more people to eat, and they still need money and food."

"When you recuperate, you should stabilize the country."

Xia Yuanji's meaning is obvious, he can't fight anymore, and Daming is going to recuperate.

"Natsube is right." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "I have just ascended the throne in the past few days, and I actually have a lot of things to do in my heart, but after thinking about it, it is the same as what Xia Butang thinks. ”

"Whatever you want to do, you need money and people."

"I can't wait to recuperate, I also hope to end the war as soon as possible and restore peace to the people."

"Your Majesty." Xia Yuan Ji said, but when he said this, he didn't have any expression at all, not as flattering as other sycophants, and he was inconsistent at first glance.

"So I think very clearly, when the rebels are wiped out, the first thing is to make money and stock up on food, accumulate national strength, and then do other things I want to do."

"Your Majesty." Xia Yuanji said again, but this time his tone was obviously a little more emotional.

"Xia Butang, do you often use treasure money?" Zhu Gaoxu asked suddenly.

Xia Yuanji was stunned: "Back to Your Majesty, the ministers often use it, but this thing is becoming less and less valuable on the market." ”

Because the Ming court is a combination of rice and money, can we not use it?

"If I want to abolish the treasure money without harming the interests of the people, what should I do?"

Xia Yuanji was shocked, he hesitated, and said: "I can only let the imperial court replace it with copper coins or gold and silver." ”

"How can the imperial court have so many copper coins and gold and silver now." Zhu Gaoxu sighed.

That's it, even if there are so many, you can't replace them all, and if you don't use them back, isn't it another pile of waste paper? Natsuhara thought to himself.

But the emperor said that the interests of the people could not be harmed, this was the only way.

"I want to collect taxes on all the people's fields, military fields, official fields, and imperial fields in the world, Xia Butang, how much time do you need to give me an accurate actual number of grain fields in the whole Ming Dynasty?"

"What?" Xia Yuanji was shocked this time, he had already heard of what the emperor was doing in Yunnan, but now it sounded even more shocked.

"Your Majesty is really here?" Of course, Xia Yuanji supported and said excitedly.

"You don't joke." Zhu Gaoxu said again.

"Three to half a year at most." Xia Yuanji originally wanted to say it for three months, but as soon as he gritted his teeth, he changed it to half a year.

"I'll give you half a year, your household department, you have to count all the grain fields in the whole Ming Dynasty." Zhu Gaoxu said: "I plan to start collecting taxes in the second year of Hongxi. ”

"In the past few years, it was allowed to use treasure money to offset taxes, and at the same time, from tomorrow, the imperial court was not allowed to issue new treasure money, and all the treasure money collected in the future was handed over to the internal carrier warehouse for destruction and no longer circulated."

"Ahh Xia Yuanji's face was incredulous.

It turned out that the emperor planned to use this method to recycle the treasure money on the market.

In that case, wouldn't the imperial court be a big loss? If you don't use it in the future, it's all invalid?

"Will there be enough food for next year?" Xia Yuanji was a little incredulous.

"As long as the people can live." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile.

Xia Yuanji thought about it for a moment and understood.

The people's treasure money is not much, if you can pay money to offset taxes, you don't have to pay grain, the people will have more food, enough to live, and there will be no trouble.

As long as the people don't make trouble, it doesn't matter if the court has less food and more food.

Zhu Gaoxu can guarantee the expenditure of the army and officials.

If there is no overseas source, a few years ago, the imperial court tightened the belt of the trousers, lived a frugal life, and spent a few years to recycle all the treasure money.

But Zhu Gaoxu has overseas support, and maybe he will not be so embarrassed.

After Xia Yuanji listened, his originally disapproving expression also became a little moved.

The emperor lost his own interests and the country's finances and taxes to ensure the interests of the people.

No matter how shameless he ascended to the throne, this practice alone deserves respect.

"Your Majesty." Xia Yuanji stood up at this time, straightened his official robe, plopped up, and knelt heavily in front of the emperor: "The ministers are for all the people of the world, thank Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live, long live." ”

In mid-October, after feeling that he had completely controlled and stabilized the Beijing Division, Zhu Gaoxu ordered Song Meng, Qu Tao, Sheng Jian and others to stay in the Beijing Division.

He personally led an army of 100,000 to the north, and he specially brought Li Jinglong with him.

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Beiping City.

"Boom" Zhu Di, who had not opened the imperial case for a long time, overturned the table in front of him.

"This rebel, this unfilial son, this animal--" Zhu Di's eyes were red, looking like crazy.

Halfway through the scolding, Meng's face turned red, and his eyes were round: "Wow, pounce-"

"Your Majesty." Many people surrounded him.

Flutter, Zhu Di was forced to breathe out a mouthful of blood by Zhu Gaoxu's new words.

The crowd was moved, and the crown prince Zhu Gaochi was about to cry again.

Zhu Gaoxu's new article said that Zhu Di was a concubine, not the son of Queen Ma at all, and Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, was, and King Zhou also issued a statement to support Zhu Gaoxu's statement.

Then he also said that he was actually the son of Zhu Biao, and was raised by Zhu Di, so he made great contributions in the Jingjing, and Zhu Di did not pass on the position of the prince to him, but fortunately he was lucky, he met Emperor Jianwen in Yunnan, knew everything, and immediately turned back to the shore and set things right.

Zhu Di can also be regarded as able to make it up, but he didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to be so able to make it up, and he was beaten into a concubine and a thief, not to mention it, and he didn't even want his father and mother.

What he couldn't stand the most was that Zhu Gaoxu said that he was a maid on his face, but in fact, he insinuated what happened to Queen Xu and the crown prince Zhu Biao.

Zhu Di was really angry and vomited blood by this big green hat that fell from the sky.

But he is still strong, he knows that he can't be angry to death, the rebel son is so lawless and contrary to the principles of heaven, and he must be made to pay a heavy price.

"I'm fine." Zhu Di steadied his body, reached out and wiped the blood from his mouth, his expression was extremely hideous.

"The rebel wants to use this method to defeat me, it's just wishful thinking, if I can appease once, I can appease twice."

The crowd was noncommittal.

At this time, looking at these people in front of him, his face was extremely gray, and he no longer had the brilliance of the martyrdom.

Zhu Di looked at them one by one, in a rather bad mood, and suddenly he asked, "What about Xue Lu and them?" ”

"Before we arrived, the rebels said that they were exchanging before the battle, and they didn't trust us." Yuan Heng said stiffly.

Zhu Di squeaked his teeth and didn't say anything.

But soon, he was hit again.

After escorting the prince back to Tianjin, Meng Shan ran back to Qingzhou to garrison, but as soon as the rebel son ascended the throne, Meng Shan surrendered, but Meng Shan was also benevolent, and he didn't hand over the prince before, so he sent him back to Tianjin first, and then went back to surrender.

Coupled with Chen Xuan, Liu Sheng, and Chen Mao, who had already surrendered, almost overnight, Zhu Di lost the whole of Shandong.

Zhu Di, who originally wanted to use Shandong, Shanxi, and Beiping provinces as a corner to resist, the situation became even worse.

This will make Shandong's taxes not low, and if he occupies half of Shandong, Zhu Di's pressure in all aspects can be eased.

A few days later, news came from Shanxi that Qu Neng and Sheng Yong combined an army of 300,000 and stormed Taiyuan.

So far, almost the entire territory of Shanxi has been lost, and only one Taiyuan remains.

If Taiyuan is lost, the west wing of Beiping is completely like no one's land.

In view of the serious situation in the northern plane and almost returned to the beginning of the Jingnan, Zhu Di ordered the troops to retreat to the line of Baoding and Yongping, and returned to the three prefectures he occupied in the Jingnan, namely Beiping Mansion, Baoding Mansion, and Yongping Mansion.

He fought in the Jingjing for a few years, and the only thing he could really control before and after was the land of the three prefectures.

He relied on the grain tax of these three places to support him for several years.

Zhu Di still wants to repeat the old trick, because he has a very strong foundation in these three places, and no matter the officials and people in various places, they all look towards him more.

But he didn't want to think about it, his opponent was Zhu Gaoxu, not Zhu Yunwen.

In late October, Zhu Gaoxu's troops entered Cangzhou, and the original rebels had already retreated, and Zhu Gaoxu led the official army representing the righteousness of the imperial court to officially enter the Beiping area.

(End of chapter)