Since the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the crown prince presided over it, personally sorted out the official system of Ma Zheng, and also reorganized the official horse farms across the country.

In Beijing, he supported the reform of the administrative organization of the Taifu Temple, and the Taifu Temple was in charge of the national official horse farms, including horse breeding, scheduling, army transportation and other processes, and no longer set up each prison, but to 'division' for line management. In the local area, there is a Taifu Temple, which is directly responsible to the central Taifu Temple.

At the local level, he supported Yang Yiqing in comprehensively rectifying the official horse farms in Shaanxi.

The spring moon grass grows, and the horses are in the garden. If the grass withers in winter, it will be fed. To the seventeenth year of Hongzhi,

Shaanxi Ma Zheng has been rejuvenated under the governance of Yang Yiqing, and he himself has gone up and down: the ministers have traveled through their places, and the third class has been determined, and Kaicheng and Anning are the upper gardens, and there are 20,000 horses at the age of 20,000; Guangning and Wan'an are the middle gardens, with 8,000 horses per year; Qingping and Heishui are the lower gardens, and the age can be 4,000 horses.

Zhu Houzhao still remembers that in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, there were only more than 2,000 horses in Shaanxi Horse Farm......

In addition, the garden horse farm is also increasing, and this year a new Anding Garden was built in Pingliang Mansion, which is also an upper garden that can have 20,000 horses.

The numbers are indeed a little pretty,

In fact, in history, Yang Yiqing is the acting Shaanxi horse administration is very effective, Yongle years in the country there are 96 official horse farms, to the end of the Ming Dynasty only 9 gardens...... From the perspective of Shaanxi, there are 24 official horse farms in Yongle, only 6 gardens remain in Hongzhi, plus 7 gardens newly established this year......

Behind such tragic data, from the late Hongzhi period to the early Zhengde period, when Yang Yiqing was acting as Ma Zheng, Ma Zheng's situation actually improved greatly.

However, after Yang Yiqing left office, only ten years later, during the Jiajing period, the situation of Ma Zheng in Shaanxi returned to the original state.

Of course, although the situation of the official horse farms has improved considerably, the general characteristics of the shortage of horses have not changed.

Yang Shangyi's cavalry troops even wanted the kind of sturdy horses that could fight.

Not only that, but in fact, the cavalry unit saw one horse, and once the battle was fought, three horses had to follow as a guarantee.

The first is that there were a lot of casualties among horses in the war,

Secondly, the grain required by the horse is also very large and very fine, and needs to be transported...... Basically, the grain of a well-made war horse can feed 25 people.

Therefore, it is not necessary to raise horses and have a powerful cavalry force, it is just a necessary condition.

It is really difficult for people to eat horses and feed hundreds of thousands of troops.

So far, Yang Shangyi's cavalry is only four guards, a total of 22,000 people.

The 200,000 or 300,000 cavalry imagined by later generations was not at the peak of national strength, and they simply could not afford to raise it.

But fortunately, Zhu Houzhao is only fourteen years old, and he still has time.

This is a level that does not pay attention to politics and pays attention to practical results.

At the political level,

Yang Yiqing made Zhu Houzhao very entangled, because Yang Yiqing had a good relationship with Liu Daxia.

In fact, in the history of the Eight Classics, the reason why Yang Yiqing was able to suddenly change from an idle post in Nanjing to a feudal territory like the governor of Shanxi was because of Liu Daxia's recommendation.

Yang Yiqing was later promoted to the trilateral general system, which was also recommended by Liu Daxia.

We can even speculate why Yang Yiqing was able to do Ma Zheng so well in Shaanxi? Taifu Temple is under the command of the Ministry of War, without the support of the Ministry of War, can he do good things?

So the relationship between these two people is one of mutual appreciation.

In Zhejiang, Liu Daxia has already started to do it, and at this time, he suddenly recommended Yang Yiqing, which made Zhu Houzhao very vigilant.

In the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace,

The emperor saw that his face was not cheerful, so he asked, "But Yang Yiqing didn't play well?" Shaanxi Ma Zheng has his combing, and it has made great improvements, why is the prince still distressed? ”

Zhu Houzhao first pressed down the doubts in his heart about the relationship between him and Liu Daxia, and said: "Erchen is worrying, after Yang Yiqing, is there such a powerful official." ”

The current trilateral chief officer Qin Hong was too old to be used, so Liu Daxia began to recommend that Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi, be promoted to the trilateral chief officer.

It's not the first time he's mentioned this, Yang Yiqing has always done a very good job, and it stands to reason that promotion is of course no problem. But he hasn't moved for five years, and in fact, the prince is pressing this person.

The excuse is that Ma Zheng needs him.

In fact, after the reform of Taifu Temple, the efficiency has been greatly improved, but it will not be possible to leave Yang Yiqing.

"Yang Yiqing said that he came to Beijing before, have you arrived?" Emperor Hongji asked.

Xiao Jing replied beside him, "We should arrive in two days." ”

This is Zhu Houzhao who wants to see Yang Yiqing.

It was not very good for the prince to meet with important officials with military colors at the border gates. But Emperor Hongji agreed.

Even many of the prince's behaviors now, the emperor no longer cares, and he has nothing to manage, Zhu Houzhao will not deliberately reduce his wisdom to embroider a dragon robe for himself to wear.

On the contrary, he has always taken care to preserve the imperial power of the emperor.

"When the time comes, I will let him go to the East Palace, and the prince can also ask him if he has any cadre recommendations."

Zhu Houzhao thought about it, and now it can only be like this, so he raised his hand and put the words 'read' on the note with a red pen, and this letter ended here.

Since the sixteenth year of Hongji, the father and son have to spend a long time together every day, and the object of their work is Soshu.

If the emperor is not in good health, he will not come, and Zhu Houzhao will be here alone.

Even if the two are together, what they discuss is all major events picked out by Zhu Houzhao, just like the appointment of the trilateral chief officials.

Put down a copy,

Pick up another one,

This is played by the Hangul of the Household Shoshu,

In the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, the prince ordered the household department to check the seven granaries built near the Jingshi, and what made him, the prince, more relieved, was that the grain storage in the middle of the Ming Dynasty was still in a good state.

Because of the shortage of grain in the north, there are 4 million stone of grain to be transported from the south to the north every year, and the stomachs of the royal family and magnates in Jingshi depend on this, so unless it is the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government still attaches great importance to Jingcang at other times.

Because of this, this incident did not make any waves like Ma Zheng.

But Zhu Houzhao did not stop there, and he began to order the household department to inspect the grain storage situation in two provinces every year.

From the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, first Shandong and Nanzhili, and sixteen years of Shaanxi and Sichuan,

In the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, the Korean language was played in Shanxi and Huguang.

This is a common practice, and there was no need for Zhu Houzhao and the emperor to discuss it, but Han Wen also mentioned in the recital that two new granaries should be built in Datong Mansion, Shanxi.

It's not a big deal either.

But suddenly starting to store grain in Datong actually means that the prince began to prepare for the war at the border pass.

Emperor Hongzhi glanced at him, stood up, and walked around the warm pavilion, "...... I'm not worried, I'm still the old saying, the prince has always done things safely. But thou shalt not plot to march to the front. ”

You can't talk nonsense, as a father, if you say this, your son will have to resist your will, otherwise he will not be in front of the army for the rest of his life.

"Father." Zhu Houzhao knelt down and asked for the order, "The will of the father, the son has always obeyed it." But the minister wanted to ask his father to take it back. The Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies, if there is such a day, the sons and daughters will also go to the front. ”

The emperor was anxious, "How can that work?" I will allow you to do everything on the side, including the matter of raising grain in Datong. But you must not go to the battlefield! ”

"Is it because you can't go this time?"

The emperor snorted and gave him a roll of his eyes, "You, who are a son, play with Lao Tzu with this careful eye, you are clever, right?" ”

"Father," Zhu Houzhao stepped forward and began to soften the offensive, "the son promised you that he would never plan to conquer his own affairs until the son marries a wife and has children." ”

The emperor thought for a moment, with a bit of arrogance, "No, you have to raise him until he is sixteen years old." ”

"In June, my father still wants to go on a personal expedition." In the second half of the sentence, Zhu Houzhao muttered, "My son is only fourteen years old......

"Hey. You little bunny. The emperor patted him lightly on the head, "Didn't you deliberately dismantle my platform?" ”

Xiao Jing was on the side, watching this scene and smirking, but he was reprimanded by the emperor angrily, "You dare to laugh at me?" ”

"The old slave doesn't dare, the old slave doesn't dare." Xiao Jing took two steps back.

Emperor Hongzhi sat down on the dragon chair again in a huff, "You get up, it doesn't hurt to kneel your knees?" ”

"The father agreed to the son-in-law, and the son-in-law naturally got up. Otherwise, with this will of the emperor, the country will really reach a critical moment, and it will not be possible for the sons and daughters to go to the front line to inspire the soldiers. ”

"When that time comes, you can be flexible!" The emperor was a little helpless and lengthened his voice. But he's not unhappy, he's actually very satisfied.

Zhu Houzhao's gesture implies a meaning, that is, the words of your emperor Lao Tzu, that is, you are gone, as long as you put down your words, I will still listen to it when I become the emperor in the future.

That's what a good interaction is.

The emperor trusted the crown prince very much, and the prince never disobeyed him.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao heard him say this, he immediately stood up, "Then the son will follow what his father said, and make some changes when the time comes." ”

Emperor Hongzhi nodded first, and then immediately felt that it was wrong, what is flexible, it can be flexible at any time, so his previous words belonged to vain.

"Okay, the wings are stiff, dare to take your words."

The emperor made a gesture to copy out the soles of his shoes and dry people.

Zhu Houzhao was taken aback, "My father is Chrysostom, Chrysostom is open, and I can't go back!" ”

"If you can't go back, you will be told to go. You just told me to regret it! ”

Seeing that he really dragged his shoes off, Zhu Houzhao was still standing stupidly, and turned his head outward.

"Alas, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be careful." Xiao Jing, who was on the side, saw him running, and he was also afraid that he would fall.

But the prince has grown up, and he has learned a little bit of fists and feet in recent years, and his legs and feet are very brisk, and he disappears when he smokes.

It's obviously not the first time I've seen it like this.

Emperor Hongzhi also spoiled him, and he was spoiled endlessly. But he actually enjoyed it himself.

He was still laughing at this time, "Count him as a fast runner." ”

When I looked down at the recital of the book, I didn't forget to say again, "The work is not done yet." ”

There was no way, he could only write it by himself.

But when I think about it, the prince has been running like this for a few years, and he was still a child at that time, running and running, and he grew so tall.

Two days later, Yang Yiqing successfully entered Beijing.

His link is related to the most important war horse in military operations, and it cannot be said that it is not unimportant.

However, these preparations made by the crown prince are obvious in the court, and it is impossible for Liu Daxia and other officials not to make any statement, he is the kind of person who persists to the end for his own rightness.