The word "Enzhang", in Zhu Di's dictionary, is used to refer to a specific person, that is, Zhang Xin, the current Marquis of Longping and the governor of Caoyun.

The reason why Zhang Xin wants to move is not because Zhu Di doesn't miss the old feelings, in fact, although Zhu Di is a little cautious, he usually only thinks of the "enemy" he identifies, and for the "own people" he identifies as his own, Zhu Di is very caring, as long as you don't do anything rebellious, then the worst result is to be idle.

In fact, Zhu Di only mentioned this matter at this time, and he was already quite taking care of Zhang Xin's face.

Last year's salt tax case of the two Huai Salt Envoys was so fierce that the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyi Wei were on it, and Xie Jin, as a messenger, was also cut twice, but in the end, he also got rid of the deputy of Huang Huaibu's political envoy and the Huai'an Mansion, so behind this, Huang Huaibu's political envoy and the governor of Caoyun were not implicated?

It's definitely impossible.

The reason why it was not pursued is that on the one hand, it is difficult to expand the salt tax, and if it is expanded, it will involve too much, which will make the entire salt tax system unable to operate, so it is limited to Huanghuai; On the other hand, because Zhu Di remembered the old relationship and Zhang Xin's contributions, he didn't want to embarrass Zhang Xin too much.

Zhang Xin himself is a native of Fengyang, a descendant of the founding military ministers of Hongwu, after inheriting his father's Yongningwei command, Zhang Xin followed Gu Cheng to fight in Guizhou, and his combat performance was quite brave, in addition to these factors, the most important thing is that if there is no whistleblowing from Zhang Xin, the entire history of the Battle of Jingyan, and even Zhu Di's life trajectory, will be completely rewritten.

With this kind of credit on his back, as long as Zhang Xin does not die, he is destined to rest with the country.

But the matter is so big, although Zhu Di did not openly move Zhang Xin and drop his thoughts, he always had it.

It just so happened that since Jiang Xinghuo planned to clean up the illegal land of the noble and powerful, Zhu Di planned to take this opportunity to remove Zhang Xin from the position of the governor of Caoyun, so that to outsiders, it seemed to be two things, and it was reasonable.

The most important thing is that Zhu Di himself is going to the north, and he is not in Nanjing, so he can get rid of this face.

And the reason why Jiang Xinghuo was asked to do this important thing is because whether it is Yao Guangxiao or Zhu Gaochi, it is not good to treat Zhang Xin, Zhang Xin's kindness is almost for all of them, except Jiang Xinghuo, who has no friendship with Zhang Xin and has never confessed affection, is not affected.

"To what extent can we clean up the illegal land property of the noble and powerful?"

Jiang Xinghuo's communication with Zhu Di has always been relatively straightforward, Jiang Xinghuo asked directly.

"All, including the Imperial Estate."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, in this way, if the task of clearing out illegal land property and strengthening all aspects of taxation can be completed this year, then the tax guards will go to the countryside, even if it is basically completed.

There is no doubt that this matter is the top priority in the second half of the second year of Yongle, and once the control of the countryside is strengthened and the tax can be effectively collected, the reform will go down to the lower levels, because this will not only mean that it can be effectively taxed, but also that any decree from the imperial court will be able to be pronounced.

In this way, the change will be completely opened from top to middle to bottom.

In the future, it is only necessary to slowly cultivate new groups, which is enough to continue the change.

"Still."

Zhu Di still instructed: "I don't want to stop you, I just feel that you can't be in a hurry, the more anxious you are, the more self-defeating it will be, but it will be a big thing to discuss more, but you can't stop, as long as you keep squeezing, you can force Xungui to forcibly clear the illegally occupied land, and force those officials and servants not to embezzle taxes, and the illegally occupied land in Xungui's hands, as long as they are willing to hand it over, they can also avoid greater losses. I will find an opportunity to talk about these things clearly. ”

Jiang Xinghuo bowed slightly.

Zhu Di said again: "By the way, how are our steel mills and concrete factories newly built?" ”

These two things are what Zhu Di is most concerned about, what other perfumes are messy, how to get them, and how much money they sell, Zhu Di just listens to the number, and the output of steel and concrete is directly related to the overall military strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Steel can be used to forge weapons, armor, and cannons, and concrete can be used to forge strong fortresses, which are now urgently needed by the Ming Dynasty.

Jiang Xinghuo said unhurriedly: "Two days ago, I just sent new drawings, in the suburbs, I feel very satisfied after reading it, the plant is currently under construction, and it is expected to be mass-produced by the end of this year." ”

"That's great."

Zhu Di raised his feet and walked towards the door of the hall, and continued as he walked: "The money from the dismantling of the household department should be collected quickly, first used for this year's expenditure, and then find a way. ”

After communicating these things, Zhu Di has nothing to worry about.

"How many drinks?"

Jiang Xinghuo was stunned, and he didn't let me get off work after talking, right?

However, Zhu Di obviously has something on his mind today, and Jiang Xinghuo doesn't have anything too important, so naturally there is no reason to refuse.

The two entered the main hall, Zhu Di took off his armor with the help of the eunuchs, and his own palace maid served wine and food.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhu Di suddenly put down the wine cup, sighed, and said: "These days, I always dream of Emperor Taizu Gao. ”

Jiang Xinghuo was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you miss Emperor Taizu Gao too much!" ”

It's true that dreaming, in the history of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, there are indeed many wild history notes from the Yongle period that mention Zhu Di has dreamed like this many times, but I don't know why Zhu Di suddenly mentioned Zhu Yuanzhang again.

Moreover, whether it is longing or fear, or both, is also a matter of confusion.

Zhu Di was silent for a moment before he said: "In my dream, in this position, I always felt that Emperor Taizu Gao seemed to have something to say to me, but I could never hear it clearly, but sometimes I suddenly realized that Emperor Taizu Gao had been dead for six years...... At that time, I felt that the figure in the dream was not very real, and as soon as I got closer, the dream dissipated like a mirror. ”

"But I really want to hear what Emperor Taizu Gao said."

Jiang Xinghuo's hand holding the wine cup hung in the air, carefully studying Zhu Di's expression.

In this environment, the two sit and drink together, and there are a lot less tangible and invisible constraints.

Zhu Di's words did not reveal any sadness, but this sadness was clearly revealed between the corners of his eyebrows and eyes.

At the end of the day, big bloodsuckers are also human.

Maybe he is not afraid of what Confucian scholars say about him, and even he is not so afraid of Shi Bi Rutie, but Zhu Di has an unusual stubbornness about what Zhu Yuanzhang will think of him.

He cares a lot about his father's evaluation, so he wants to hear what his father, who no longer exists in this world, will say to him.

Do you reprimand him as a rebel, or are you relieved to say that he is doing a good job?

But Zhu Di wanted to hear it, but he didn't dare to listen to it.

He was afraid that he would be disappointed, and he was afraid that his father would pull out his belt and roll him on the ground as he had done when he was alive.

In front of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di will always be a child.

Therefore, Zhu Di subconsciously wants to know the answer, but also resists the answer he doesn't want.

Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly when he heard this, of course he knew how to comfort Zhu Di at this time, but what was the use of feeding chicken soup? It's just a temporary pause.

So Jiang Xinghuo drank all the wine in the cup, thought about it, and then said: "Since Emperor Taizu Gao has been dead for so many years, Your Majesty's heart knot, thinking about it is not a name or righteousness, but a responsibility on your shoulders, Your Majesty wants to know the result, is whether your ambition can be realized, if Your Majesty can make achievements that surpass Emperor Taizu Gao, then this problem will be solved." ”

But to Jiang Xinghuo's surprise, Zhu Di first nodded, and then shook his head.

"Actually, I heard that before the death of Emperor Taizu Gao, there was a true edict, not the one that was announced."

Jiang Xinghuo was stunned for a moment, Zhu Di wouldn't say next, the edict is to let King Yan succeed to the throne, right? Just talk about this to the outside world, but don't believe it yourself.

After all, according to the patriarchal system, although Zhu Di was the oldest prince alive at that time, even if the Zhu Yunwen brothers were excluded, it should be the turn of the second generation of Qin King Zhu Shangbing, according to the order, it was the King of Qin, the King of Jin, and then the King of Yan.

But Zhu Di was obviously not so stunned, he just said: "The edict is long gone, and all the palace people I saw at the beginning were all killed by Jianwen, and the only thing that can be found is that Emperor Taizu Gao asked Jianwen not to cut the domain no matter what." ”

The expression in Jiang Xinghuo's eyes changed suddenly: "What does Your Majesty mean?" ”

Zhu Di obviously doesn't care about the people who cut the domain, the difference between him and Zhu Yunwen is that Zhu Di will not kill the vassal kings, but raise these vassal kings, but for the matter of cutting the vassal to maintain his own throne, Zhu Di is much more ruthless than Zhu Yunwen.

"The matter of the third child has inspired me."

Zhu Di sighed: "No matter who becomes the crown prince three years later, and the other person, I plan to let him go overseas to seal the domain, if he has nothing to do in the future, don't come back, and be an independent king is better than ending up like the king of Xiang in the future." ”

"The rest became princes, and when they became emperors in the future, they would have less troubles like me, and they didn't have to worry about me looking for him for an explanation."

"Is Your Majesty willing?"

Zhu Di snorted and said, "National Teacher, do you think I am an old and confused person like Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?" I know too well the allure of the throne, and if one day I do die, my sons will be dissatisfied, and not only that, but it is also common for my roommates to fight bloody and drifting. At the beginning, I thought that Emperor Taizu Gao was thinking too much, but now I also understand, not only is his old man not confused, but he has calculated all this, but I have the mandate of heaven, and Jianwen has not the mandate of heaven. ”

The theory of destiny, this is naturally not really God's arrangement, after watching the twisting scale experiment, Zhu Di, who didn't believe in these statements, even less convinced.

The destiny that Zhu Di is talking about here is his luck, and it is the most correct choice he has made in several key choices.

Yan Fan's family background is too thin, and he can overturn a million southern troops in a corner of the country and then counterattack and claim the emperor, there is indeed a very key luck component in this, for Zhu Di, sometimes, one wrong step, it is not necessary to say that every step is wrong, but there is no next step.

Because of this, Zhu Di was deeply touched, it is not easy for the country to come, if you can take advantage of the fact that everything is still controllable, and set up the rules, then not to mention that there will be no room-fighting in the future, even if it is, the vassal king will be sealed overseas, and it will be impossible to have another battle of appeasement.

Zhu Di stood up, drank too much wine, and stumbled slightly for a while.

He stroked the utensils in the palace, a little nostalgic and a little relieved: "In a little while, I won't have to have these dreams." ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Di showed a complicated expression on his face.

From the bottom of his heart, although Zhu Di spent his entire youth in Nanjing, he didn't like it here, he preferred his fiefdom.

The wind from the north was bitter enough to heal the scars in his heart.

And in the three years he spent in Nanjing, Zhu Di was not happy.

Zhu Di is the embodiment of imperial power and a big bloodsucker, but he is also a person with emotions.

Zhu Di likes to gallop on the battlefield with perseverance, rather than wearing a dragon robe every day to be trapped in the huge palace and play trade-offs with the ministers.

In addition to these, in this place where his father Zhu Yuanzhang once ruled the Ming Empire for more than 30 years, Zhu Di always had a feeling that he could not be completely controlled, as if Zhu Yuanzhang's figure was always shrouded in the sky over Nanjing, watching his every move.

Therefore, Zhu Di wanted to leave here.

He wants to be who he really is.

The famous general Zhu Di, not the emperor Zhu Di.

"After I leave Nanjing, these things, including the change of the law, will be handed over to the national teacher, and when the time comes, Cao Guogong will almost come back, and let him temporarily take over the duties of Cheng Guogong in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Cheng Guogong will follow me to the north, and Qi Guogong will still stay in the military academy."

Zhu Di picked up the wine jug, took another sip, and actually hummed and sang to himself.

"If you fight with him~ You put on a few more pairs of armor and a few layers of robes, and there will be a million troops, but you can't stop him from chasing the wind for thousands of miles; There are thousands of generals, but they can't stop the knife on the third day of the glaive.

There must be no Lintong will be Qin Mugong, and there will be no Hongmen will be the overlord of Chu, and he will be full of people with vanguard generals, and he can be as small as a million troops stabbing Yan Liangshi. A shout! ”

This is a small part of the Yuan song "King Guan Dawang Goes to the Single Sword Meeting Alone", Li Jinglong also hummed it in Japan back then, but it was "Zhuma Listening" in it.

As one of Guan Hanqing's masterpieces, this Yuan song was widely praised in the early Ming Dynasty military generals because of its concise and heroic rhetoric, and many military generals could sing their favorite paragraphs, and Zhu Di was naturally no exception.

Jiang Xinghuo was also infected by Zhu Di's emotions, and he also stood up with a wine glass.

Although Zhu Di usually doesn't hide his emotions too much, as an emperor, maintaining majesty and mystery is also a compulsory course.

Therefore, Zhu Di is usually moody, but he only shows his attitude through emotions, and he will not lose his temper.

Today's situation, to use an inappropriate analogy, that is, the candidates who were forced to squat in the examination room of the Confucius Temple for ten days are finally leaving that small room, and happiness is inevitable.

"The mortal world destroys people's bodies and minds, Mr. Jiang."

Zhu Di held the wine jug and clinked glasses with Jiang Xinghuo.

Hearing this long-lost title, Jiang Xinghuo touched his cheek and smiled bitterly.

Not really.

"Immortals are high above and do not have to endure the sufferings of the world, but the world also has earthly benefits."

"For example?"

"For example, going through mountains and rivers, such as seeing the various states of living beings, such as doing something that you feel is meaningful and can change the world."

"Then Mr. Jiang thinks that what he is doing now is really meaningful?" Zhu Di suddenly asked.

Jiang Xinghuo replied in the affirmative.

"There is meaning, and doing one thing has the meaning of one thing."

I don't know if I was drunk, Zhu Di's question became more and more acute: "What if the change that has invested so much effort is overturned in one day?" ”

"My little apprentice has a poem."

Jiang Xinghuo laughed and said, "It's called "Lime Yin". ”

"It's like lime, it will always leave traces, that is, it is really broken bones and blown away by the wind, and it can always remain in people's hearts."

Without waiting for Zhu Di to ask, Jiang Xinghuo said to himself.

"Thousands of hammers are carved out of the mountains, and the fire burns as if it were idle. Don't be afraid of broken bones, you want to leave your innocence in the world! ”

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, and Yu Qian's small figure appeared in his mind.

This poem, like he can make it.

"You have a good apprentice."

"That's it."

Seeing that Jiang Xinghuo was quite proud, Zhu Di not only smiled dumbly, but only said: "I have completely entered the WTO." ”

"The world is bitter, and the wind, frost, and sword are all right."

Zhu Di leaned on the pillar, looked at Jiang Xinghuo, and suddenly said, "Do you know?" That's when you're like a human being. ”

Zhu Di's words, of course, are not scolding Jiang Xinghuo, but because of his feelings, he has known Jiang Xinghuo for the past three years, maybe Jiang Xinghuo himself did not realize it, but Zhu Di saw Jiang Xinghuo's changes with his own eyes.

This change is not good or bad, but there is no doubt that Jiang Xinghuo now has a lot more earthly fireworks than in the past.

"Didn't you look like a human before?"

Zhu Di nodded.

In fact, sometimes, Zhu Di feels that Jiang Xinghuo is too perfect.

If there is really a so-called "Wenqu Xing", it must be Jiang Xinghuo's appearance.

And this excessive perfection is not real enough.

Jiang Xinghuo smiled and didn't say anything, just stretched out the empty wine glass, and Zhu Di poured him full of wine.

"Cheers."

"Cheers."

Zhu Di drank the wine, smacked the taste, with a bit of smoke, and said to Jiang Xinghuo sincerely: "I hope you and I can finish the whole thing." ”

"Guan Yiwu is raised in Shi, Uncle Sun Ao is raised in the sea, and Baili Xi is raised in the city. I, Jiang Xinghuo, am in prison, and it should be a good story. ”

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at Zhu Di deeply.

For this emperor with a complex personality, sometimes frightening many people, and sometimes making people feel a little interesting, Jiang Xinghuo's feelings are also complicated.

Zhu Di is of course using him, but the two have been together for several years, and there is no friendship mixed in with it.

And the imperial power represented by Zhu Di is also Jiang Xinghuo's last test.

But thankfully, now Jiang Xinghuo doesn't need to think about these issues, he just needs to drink.

It was night, the moon and stars were scarce, and the two were drunk.

(End of chapter)