Chapter 60: Time Changes

In the past few years, Zhu Xiongying's strength has grown rapidly.

If Zhu Xiongying was in Beijing, he could be handled by He Xi casually. Now when I was in Nanjing, it was different.

The world is peaceful. Zhu Xiongying established himself as the only orthodox foundation person of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang's afterglow naturally moved closer to Zhu Xiongying. There is no need for Zhu Xiongying to do anything at all. literature

He just had to do nothing wrong.

After all, Zhu Xiongying and King Yan are not the same. King Yan is not on the right throne, and after thousands of years, it is difficult to change a usurpation, but there is a lot to say about Zhu Yingying's affairs.

With Zhu Xiongying's efforts, many people have been convinced of one thing, that is, he, Zhu Xiongying, is Zhu Yuanzhang's preferred heir. He is similar to Fusu, but when he was a foreign general, he was exploited by Zhu Yunwen.

Don't underestimate it.

Zhu Yuanzhang said another thing about other places. But it's really good for Nanjing, as well as the nearby prefectures and counties of Nanjing. No taxes have been levied for decades.

Many people in Nanjing have forgotten how to pay taxes.

Even now in Nanjing, there is no need to pay land taxes. It can be regarded as Zhu Xiongying continuing Zhu Yuanzhang's grace, of course, this is also because the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty has been transferred from agriculture to industry.

Agricultural taxes are insignificant. Although Nanjing is rich. But agricultural taxes are not much.

Of course, this Nanjing is only the original Yingtianfu, Taiping, that is, the place where Zhu Yuanzhang first took root after crossing the river, and the rest of the south of the Yangtze River, even if it is incorporated into the new Nanjing, it is impossible to enjoy this treatment.

If you say, Beijing is surnamed He. Then Nanjing is surnamed Zhu.

Zhu Yuanzhang's influence is everywhere in the city. As long as Zhu Xiongying manages carefully, many people in Nanjing are willing to support the Zhu family.

Zhu Xiongying has a greater sense of security in Nanjing.

In a word, Zhu Xiongying was sure that He Xi was in the city of Nanjing and did not dare to launch a coup d'état easily.

The matter of launching a coup d'état is both difficult to say and easy to say.

Just a few thousand people, not much. Because there are too many people in the city, you can't put it in the city. Storm into the palace and control the main people and the center.

But the difficulty is how to act in secret.

Don't let anyone find out.

That's a big problem here.

Especially in the city, hiding thousands of people is a big problem, and convincing thousands of soldiers to defect is also a big problem.

In the atmosphere of Nanjing, which is full of people's hearts, it is easy to have some problems, whether it is a big problem or a small problem, once the news leaks out, it is a big problem.

It can even be said that many coups d'état were not leaked beforehand.

It's just a matter of hiding from the top.

It's not the same in Beijing.

Beijing is a city built exactly according to He Xi's vision. And the north entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty relatively late. The loyalty of the northerners to the Ming court is far inferior to that of Nanjing.

If He Xi launched a coup d'état in Beijing, it would be difficult for Zhu Xiongying to know in advance, or even prevent it, that was He Xi's home field.

Zhu Xiongying was naturally reluctant.

It's just that He Xi is not allowed to do this. Without him, there are actually many scholars in the south who were suppressed by He Xi, not dead.

And He Xi can't really kill these people.

It also takes time for society to develop and evolve. As long as the tenant system, this way of managing the land, existed, the landlord class would exist. The so-called cultivator heirloom will exist. Those who represent the interests of these people will also appear.

This is something that cannot be changed.

Unless he really kills Jiangnan in vain.

It's something he can't do.

Nanjing is too close to the traditional agricultural developed areas. Nanjing is easily affected. Although it is said that with Nanjing as the core, there are already many industrial factors.

Xie Jin is also a good one

Hand, during the tenure of Ying Tianfu Yin, he did a lot of things to dredge the good port of Songjiang Mansion and Suzhou Mansion. It has opened up the internal water system of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Vigorously develop the textile industry.

Because the roots of Jiangning District exist. There is a large amount of northern capital going south, and for a time the Tianfu cotton spinning industry is extremely prosperous, which can be compared with Liaodong in Shandong.

Even the reason why Liaodong in Shandong can barely overpower Songjiang Mansion is because there is a large amount of cotton cultivation in the north, such as Shandong, which is an important place for cotton planting.

They are relatively close to Liaodong.

Low production costs.

For this matter, Xie Jin promoted the planting of cotton in Jiangbei. Of course, this is not easy to do. After all, Jiangbei and Jiangnan are not the same province. Jiangbei is Jianghuai Province, and Jiangnan is Yingtianfu.

So Xie Jin even came up with a way, that is, to include Yangzhou in Yingtianfu.

Naturally, this will not work.

In this way, Ying Tianfu is too big. It's basically a Yangtze River Delta.

And the taxes of Tianfu are even more, one day is more than one day. Last year, it became a prefecture and county with a tax of more than 20 million, and there were only four provincial-level units with a tax of more than 20 million in the entire Ming Dynasty. Beijing Shuntianfu, Liaodong, Hebei, and then there is Yingtianfu.

It can only be said that the development of light industry is very fast.

However, He Xi also noticed that many people in the textile industry, although one foot has entered the ranks of capitalists, they themselves do not have this kind of consciousness.

They instinctively feel like they are subordinate to the bureaucracy.

With money, he did not think of expanding production at all, but bought land as a family foundation, just like the rich people in this land for thousands of years.

And these people and doctors have eaten the dividends of the new era, but the ideas are still in the old era. They still want to return to the rule of the old era, and feel that the Ming court has too many affairs.

It is better for these people to earn all their money. And the court doesn't care about anything, that's the best. Send someone to collect taxes, and just kill them.

Therefore, although the development of light industry has brought some industrial atmosphere to Nanjing, the old school is still quite large.

Da Ming is too big.

The power of the central government is also too great.

Whoever controls the central government can control the localities, suppress a corner of the world with the world, and there are too many means to do it.

He Xi and Zhu Xiongying won the Civil War, but He Xi understood one thing, this one is difficult to copy. Now the army has been completely reorganized.

Nanjing also has an industrial base.

If the North and the South go to war again, many things will not go as smoothly as they did at the beginning.

There must be no more military revolution in the north. Not to mention, with traditional Chinese bureaucracy, things generally don't get to this point.

You don't need a hard knife, you can kill with a soft knife.

He Xi wants to make sure that Beijing is the capital. It's about avoiding a lot of things. This is a matter that He Xi cannot back down.

It's just that both sides are unwilling to back down on this matter, and the situation is frozen for a while.

This is also the reason why He Xi does not want to have a direct conversation with Zhu Xiongying. If there is something, let people pass on the word and talk directly, it is easy to form the current situation, and if it is stiff, what should I do next?

No one wants to let it, really touch it?

And no one wants to see it.

He Xi said: "Your Majesty, in the ninth year of Longwu, the term of the minister has arrived. Has Your Majesty considered who the next chief assistant would be?"

Zhu Xiongying was stunned for a moment and said, "What does uncle mean?"

He Xi said: "Xie Jin has made a lot of progress over the years, but he has not experienced major events, and it is still uneasy, so let's do it, if it wasn't for King Yan to win a big battle, the minister's intention was to send Xie Jin to Yan Kingdom to comfort King Yan?"

Zhu Xiongying was stunned, he understood what He Xi meant.

Although he promised him to retreat, if he did not retreat, there would be variables every day. Not to mention, even if he retires, he has the right to decide who will be next.

Before, the dark tide was turbulent, but He Xi didn't want to care about it

。 Rather than not being able to care.

If you say, Zhu Xiongying really does not back down on this matter. He Xi would not force him, but he could only go further in other aspects. At that time, it was Zhu Xiongying who was uncomfortable.

He Xi has not particularly stumbled Zhu Xiongying over the years.

Without him, Zhu Xiongying can still understand He Xi's policy very well. He Xi was sure that Zhu Xiongying would not overturn his policy. Because he knows the future that has changed.

Zhu Xiongying agrees with the path brought by He Xi.

It's just that, for Zhu Xiongying, this is only secondary. He values his power more than anything else.

Zhu Xiongying's ability and wrist, in He Xi's opinion, it is also possible to be a scholar or a provincial governor. But this ability is coupled with the blessing of being an emperor. You can control the big picture.

Maintain a period of transition.

It is in line with He Xi's plan for the future of Daming. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang has a relationship with his wife, Princess Anqing. He Xi didn't have the idea of stumbling on Zhu Xiongying.

It's just that no, it's not that it can't.

He Xi's current situation, going further, is problematic. Not to mention how much resistance has been encountered, the subsequent impact and development are inappropriate for He Xi.

But taking a step back, he can do a lot of things, and he doesn't dare to say that Zhu Xiongying's life is better than death. At least it was a very simple thing to make him, the emperor, uncomfortable.

He Xi opened so many back doors for the imperial power, which can be regarded as thinking about the Zhu family.

Since people don't appreciate it, He Xi can naturally close them one by one. It is very difficult to make Zhu Xiongying a hypocrite all of a sudden. After all, Zhu Xiongying also has his own supporters. But there is no problem for Zhu Xiongying to fight for half his life in order to regain his power in the future.

Zhu Xiongying also understands. He sighed and said, "Uncle's kindness, I have thanked my uncle on behalf of him. The desert is lonely, the sun sets over the long river, and you can see it all if you want to come to Xie Qing. It's just that I have some thoughts about moving the capital to Beijing, but my uncle doesn't think that with the current territory of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing is a little too northern? Now that there is no great enemy in the north, it is no longer in line with the situation in which Beijing was set in the first place."