"Xia Qing said this, the matter of Daming's national debt can be started now?"

In the carriage back to the palace, Zhu Di leaned on the hard cushion and asked with his hand on his forehead.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this matter does not require any money from the imperial court, nor does it require many manpower, the key is to make things clear, besides, if the Ming treasury bonds are really sold, there is still a little benefit." Xia Yuanji squatted on the brocade pier on the side of the carriage.

Xia Yuanji was wearing a crimson official robe, a black gauze hat, and a jade pendant hanging from his waist, and the whole person looked very powerful as a high-ranking bureaucrat. At this moment, there was a bit of seriousness and seriousness on his face, which was completely similar to what he had seen in the edict just now.

"Oh? Xia Qing might as well talk about the benefits? Zhu Di raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Nowadays, the people's reputation for the Daming treasure banknote is very bad, but all those who hold the Daming treasure banknote in their hands are well aware of the depreciation of the treasure banknote. And if the Ming treasury bonds are as Jiang Shi imagined, once issued, it will inevitably cause an uproar among the people, regardless of how much and how much interest is issued, it is always a 'South Gate Standing Tree' thing, as long as the court does what it says, when the time comes, it will be able to win the trust of the people. After all, the most important thing now is the domestic situation in the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xia Yuanji told his thoughts: "Your Majesty, what do you think, the forces of all parties in the Ming Dynasty are complicated, although they are now stable, but who dares to guarantee that when these things are rushed together and several things break out together, what kind of effect will it have?" ”

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes, savoring the meaning of Xia Yuanji's words.

After a while, Zhu Di said slowly: "Xia Qing means to let me use this Ming treasury bond as a thing to stabilize the hearts of the people in the world, and tell all forces in the world - even if I first ascended to the throne for only a few months, and now the Ming Dynasty is not stable, but I still firmly control the world, and I want to continue to clean up the world, and the issuance of Ming treasury bonds to curb the depreciation of the treasure banknote is a measure to reassure the people's hearts, and I want to use this to create an unprecedented prosperous world, so that they can all settle down?" ”

"Exactly, Your Majesty is wise."

Xia Yuanji said with a smile: "Now all forces are waiting, no one is willing to break this situation first, even if it is the plum horse in Jiangbei, with more than 100,000 troops, isn't it a wait-and-see posture without fighting, surrendering or moving?" ”

Here Xia Yuanji is talking about the auxiliary minister left by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, to Emperor Jianwen-Mei Yin.

From this point, it can also be reflected that Zhu Di, who is basically in the land of Youyan and relies on iron horses to smash Nanjing and ascend to the great treasure, is invincible on the surface, but the Ming Dynasty in the mainland is an undercurrent of forces from all sides.

Jianwen Yu, who went to various places to recruit troops and planned to "King Qin", Hongwu Xungui, who was sent by Jianwen to train soldiers and horses, and some vassal kings Zhu Di, who still controlled the three guards, had to carefully sweep the past one by one in order to truly sit on his throne.

Any force that comes out alone will be easily crushed by Zhu Di, but what Zhu Di is afraid of is that as soon as there is a turmoil, it will be clouds in all directions.

At that time, even if it is suppressed, it will be a situation of great vitality.

Therefore, Emperor Yongle needs to defeat these opponents who pose a threat to his throne one by one.

In fact, Zhu Di attaches great importance to the root of Jiang Xinghuo, which lies in this.

Whether it is cutting the feudal domain, going to the West, or suppressing the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, these things were also done by Zhu Di in Jiang Xinghuo's original history, and countless major events in the Yongle Dynasty were actually laid before the first year of Yongle.

And Jiang Xinghuo has now opened countless doors to a new world for Zhu Di, which can be called a treasure.

Jiang Xinghuo's every strategy, except for the "three lifelines", Zhu Di decided to move the capital back to the north based on his own interests, and got rid of the influence of the Jiangnan gentry, which was not adopted.

The others are very angry with Zhu Di.

Now, the action of cutting the feudal domain has been steadily advancing, and the feudal kings do not seem to have made any waves.

When the reduction of the feudal domain is generally over, and the vassal king no longer poses a threat to Zhu Di's throne, then the next step is to first deter the Jiangnan gentry, then unite the nobles, and finally win the hearts of the people.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty, which has completed the internal reintegration, has the ability to strike hard again at the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty who remain on the grassland and still miss the Central Plains!

Zhu Di's thoughts are naturally not enough for outsiders, he said to Xia Yuanji.

"Tomorrow, I will personally lead the troops to Susongjiahu Prefecture with several governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, leaving the eldest prince to sit in Nanjing, it will take a few days to come back, and if you have anything to do, go to find him."

Xia Yuanji's heart froze, and he wanted to open his mouth to say something, but finally closed his mouth quietly.

The emperor's determination to carry out the "apportionment into the acre" was even greater than he imagined.

In other words, this is Zhu Di's style!

If you don't move, you can do it in person, and if you move, you will be thunderous.

When Zhu Di was not Xia Yuanji's "Majesty", but "Yan Rebellion", Xia Yuanji realized the terrible thing about Zhu Di's style of acting countless times from the lamentations of the ministers and the black faces of the nobles of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Whether it is to put the base camp in Beiping and not accept it, he personally leads the troops thousands of miles out of the plug to coerce King Ning; still pay attention to the confidant general Zhang Yuzhu in every battle, but he leads the partial division to ride around the back; Or directly abandon the horse Mei Yin stationed in Huaidian, and bypass the Huainan defense line and go straight to Nanjing.

Zhu Di likes to lead the team himself, and the sword takes a side move to win.

Therefore, when Xia Yuanji heard Zhu Di say that he would personally lead the troops to protect the Susongjiahu Prefectures with absolute force, and smoothly implement the "apportionment into the mu" during the autumn harvest this year, he was really not the slightest surprised.

Instead, he mourned for the Jiangnan gentry.

Now it's okay, whether it's asking someone to protest or hiding as an old man, it's invalid.

Emperor Yongle directly carried a big knife to the door and physically executed.

"Your Majesty." Xia Yuanji said something else, "What does Your Majesty plan to do with Master Jiang?" With all due respect, looking at the Ming Dynasty now, I am afraid that no one else can understand the operation system of this Ming treasure banknote better than Jiang Shi As for the national debt, Jiang Shi just simply mentioned a few words, which is enough to improve the depreciation of the Ming treasure banknote, and the so-called interest rate inversion is a wonderful hand that the minister never dreamed of. ”

"Does Xia Qing think that Jiang Xinghuo has more things to say about the way of economy?" Zhu Di asked with a smile.

"That's true, if Master Jiang is willing to come out to do things, the minister will give up the position of the head of the household, and there will be no complaints. After all, Yu Shangshu had just retired, and this burden was still too heavy for the minister. Xia Yuanji said softly.

"Thinking about it?" Zhu Dicage smiled with his hands, "My Hubu Shangshu, if you want to unload this burden, you have to have twenty years." ”

"As for Jiang Xinghuo's matter, I mean to let Qin Tianjian casually make a list of the latest astrological signs, and postpone the autumn beheading in the name of not being easy to kill."

Zhu Di sifted out a fold from the box in the carriage and threw it to Xia Yuanji.

Xia Yuanji got up to catch it, and sat back again, just looking silently, but didn't say anything anymore.

"——There are stars next to the stars, pale in color, five inches of raw mangs, westward into the purple microwall, committing a heavenly prison, such as a star is not a star, such as a cloud is not a cloud, and the cover is also an evil star."

Nanjing City, the residence of the king of the valley.

After lunch.

Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, and the princess Zhou, sat in the garden pavilion drinking and chatting.

The two sat opposite each other, drinking across the table.

Gu Wang Zhu raised his glass and said, "Lonely and love the concubine with a cup." ”

Princess Zhou was dressed in a lilac embroidered peony pattern palace dress, her eyebrows were like ink paintings, her skin was better than snow, her face was delicate and beautiful, her eyes looked at Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, with a smile, and she answered softly "yes".

Then he also raised the white jade cup in his hand, pursed his lips and smiled, and drank all the contents of the cup.

Seeing this, Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, was in a happy mood, couldn't help laughing, and also wanted to drink it all.

He picked up the wine cup, took a small sip to his mouth, and suddenly sighed: "Alas~~"

After Gu Wang Zhu Lu put down the wine cup, he suddenly sighed and said: "Gu has not been able to sleep well in the past few days, and I always feel uneasy, I don't know why. ”

Although the princess Zhou is only a woman, but she was born in the general, her father Zhou Duo is a Hongwu general, once rode on the Black Elk Peak to persuade the rebels to surrender, was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang for his courage, and now the official is the governor of the military capital.

Therefore, the princess Zhou, who was canonized as a concubine in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, did not have the cowardice of an ordinary woman, but asked directly.

"Your Highness has troubles?"

"There are some." Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, said with emotion, "Over the years, all the things in the imperial court have been complicated, and although Gu has tried his best to maintain the overall situation, it is inevitable that he will encounter some obstacles. Lone also once thought that he had a clear conscience about the country, and he could always end up with the whole thing."

He paused, shook his head and smiled: "But looking at Li Jinglong's ending today, I also know what Liu Changshi said before his death, 'His Royal Highness King Yan will not escape a usurpation word after a hundred generations', what is the meaning of what it means." ”

"Your Highness is cautious!"

"Liu Changshi was forced to death by His Majesty, does His Highness still want to take revenge?"

There is a saying in this, Liu Changshi said by the king of the valley, is the second son of Liu Bowen Liu Jing, Liu Jing has been studious since he was a child, likes to talk about military affairs, and was awarded the title of envoy by Zhu Yuanzhang, and gave the iron slip of 'eliminating the traitorous enemy' to correct the lawlessness of hundreds of officials, and he is a proper iron-masked man.

Liu Jing later promoted the left long history of the Gu Palace, and the imperial power promoted the affairs of the six princes of Su, Liao, Yan, Zhao, Qing and Ning. After the Jingnan soldiers rose, Liu Jing galloped back to Beijing and offered the sixteen strategies of Pingyan to Emperor Jianwen, but it was not surprising that they were not adopted.

Emperor Jianwen ordered Liu Jing to participate in the northern discussion presided over by Li Jinglong, and Li Jinglong boasted that he was the best in the world in terms of talking about troops on paper, and of course he couldn't tolerate another person who could also talk about soldiers, so he rushed back to Nanjing.

In the second year of Jianwen, Liu Jing went to Beijing with illness, and entered the "Wenjianlu" to state the military affairs in tens of thousands of words, but it was not accepted again, so he returned to his hometown.

Later, the Yan army crossed the river, Li Jinglong and Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, joined forces to offer the Jinchuan Gate, and Zhu Di surrendered Liu Jing after ascending the throne.

Of course, when Gu Wang Zhu Lu said this at this time, he didn't really miss his teacher Liu Jing and didn't see him listen to him when he was in charge of him, but he was just a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

And the princess Zhou first hurriedly looked left and right, and saw that there was indeed no one in the garden, so she asked.

"Your Highness's message is accurate? Is Cao Guogong really locked up in prison? ”

Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, borrowed wine to dispel his sorrows, and after drinking the wine in the cup again, he put the wine glass heavily on the stone table, and then said.

"It's true!"

"But that day, the court meeting, Cao Guogong was not there? The concubine also heard that Cao Guogong protected the hundred officials in court, so that the hundred officials were not beaten by the second prince. Princess Zhou asked suspiciously.

"He is Cao Guogong! He is the head of a hundred officials! How can it not appear? ”

The king of the valley, Zhu Lu, suddenly became irritable and walked around in the pavilion.

"Li Jinglong was indeed locked up, do you remember Huang Wei?"

"The concubine remembers." Princess Zhou nodded and said, "That's the deputy Qianhu of His Royal Highness's left guard, His Highness's confidant, and he has followed His Highness since Xuanfu." ”

"When the fourth brother entered Nanjing City, he dismantled the three thousand soldiers and horses brought by Gu, and only left seven hundred people."

Speaking of this, Gu King Zhu Lu became more and more restless, and he lowered his voice and said: "Huang Wei was dismissed and assigned to the rebuilt Jinyi Guard, and now he is serving as a thousand households in the Imperial Prison, and he is the one who secretly reported to him!" ”

Princess Zhou's face was pale: "Your Royal Highness means that Cao Guogong has been placed under house arrest by His Majesty, and that day's Great Court Meeting was just released to be a puppet, and his Majesty was at the mercy of his speech?" ”

"Yes, that's right."

"The fourth brother will not leave a way to live." Gu Wang Zhu Lu almost gritted his teeth and said: "Liu Changshi is Lone's teacher, and he was forced to die in prison; Li Jinglong surrendered to the city of Jinchuan Gate, which was opened by Lone Together, and now it is only a few months before the fourth brother attacks Li Jinglong. ”

The king of the valley, Zhu Lu, stared at the princess Zhou: "Next, it's Lonely's turn!" ”

In fact, if Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, knew that Li Jinglong was in prison, it was just to praise Jiang Xinghuo and let Zhu Di eavesdrop on the lecture more smoothly. Then he shouldn't have made this kind of rebellious decision so much earlier than Jiang Xinghuo's history.

But what makes people miserable is that the king of the valley doesn't know!

The storm brought by Jiang Xinghuo's butterfly's instigated wings has been getting bigger and bigger.

History, has shifted.

The policy of returning the three guards to cut the feudal domain made Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, who was already nervous and wary of Zhu Di, even more dissatisfied, and intensified his distrust of Zhu Di.

And Li Jinglong's imprisonment and suspicion of being manipulated by Zhu Di as a puppet, the stimulation of Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, is simply sad at the level of rabbit dead dog cooking.

is also the opening of Jinchuan Gate to surrender, Li Jinglong was secretly controlled by Zhu Di, isn't it his turn to be next?

"Your Highness. Your Majesty will not be like this. Princess Zhou said reluctantly, but her voice became smaller and smaller.

"How not? The cutting of the feudal domain is obvious, let the kings return the three guards, there are soldiers in their hands, and their hearts are still steady, and if there are no soldiers, isn't it just to be slaughtered? ”

The king of the valley, Zhu Lu, flicked his sleeves.

"If the fourth brother was willing to return the three guards, what would he do if he still had to raise troops?"

Looking at her husband who was pacing back and forth in the pavilion, muttering "The next one will be lonely", "The fourth brother is ruthless", and "Our whole family is going to go underground to see Taizu", Princess Zhou was impatient for a while, and blurted out: "Do you want to find the father of the concubine to discuss?" ”

Gu Wang Zhu Lu was waiting for this sentence, and hurriedly grabbed Zhou's sleeve and said in a loud voice: "Good love concubine, good love concubine!" ”

Zhou felt speechless, but he was pushed to this position in a hurry, and when he thought about it, the fourth brother was really a murderous master, and now he was going to cut the feudal domain and take down Li Jinglong, and his husband was indeed likely to become the next target, and he shed tears in an instant.

"Crying for what?"

Zhou faced the low roar of the valley king Zhu Xi, wiped his tears, and said with teary eyes.

"Your Highness, rest assured, the concubine is going to find her father, there is a way, there is a way."

(End of chapter)