Zhu Qiyu personally demonstrated to Zhu Wenfang how to entrap the minister, the most important thing is to make the minister feel safe.

This is also a lesson that Zhu Qiyu got by pondering the history of the Ming Dynasty, a negative example, there were two hundred and five in the late Ming Dynasty, which added up to exactly five hundred: a Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was killed by the Donglin Party to the position of the Holy Lord of the Ming Dynasty, so that he went mad and had to kill Wei Zhongxian.

As a result, the eunuchs and brocade guards below did not dare to sell their lives to the emperor anymore.

The other is Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao, who is even more exaggerated, and gave Liu Jin to Ling Chi, and it is said that he cut 4,200 knives, which exceeded the 3,600 knives of Zheng Zheng, the boss of Donglin.

This operation is simply stunned and jaw-dropping.

is so willful, Zhu Houzhao fell into the water twice and died inexplicably, so he was not very wronged.

Therefore, Zhu Qiyu has always instilled in Zhu Wenfang the idea that his cronies must be protected to the death, no matter how great the pressure from the government and the opposition is, he must grit his teeth and resist it, and he must not take half a step back.

Once this happens, you will be staring at it from top to bottom, and if you can't withstand the pressure and retreat and compromise, it will be a big collapse and a complete finish.

The enemy will think that you are strong on the outside and weak on the outside. Neutral people will feel that the wind has changed; Your own people will think that you can't cover it.

As the boss, if you can't cover the younger brother, then the boss will do it, what a simple truth.

Zhu Houzhao slashed his head horse Liu Jin more than 4,000 times, which is really an amazing brain circuit. Zhu Houzhao is not killed by the harem and civil officials uniting together, and heaven will not tolerate it.

Zhu Qiyu was also afraid that Zhu Wenfang would be bypassed, and as the emperor, he must protect his cronies and the ministers who worked for him.

At present, Li Bing, although he is not a cronie, and he also passively sold his life to the royal family, but he still has to be properly placed, so that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty know that it will not be wrong to follow the emperor.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhu Qiyu smiled at Li Bing: "Shanxi is still unstable, you have to have Lao Aiqing to be the governor for another three or four years, and then I will arrange for you to be the secretary of the Criminal Department and a scholar of Dongge University, you have been an official outside for many years, and you should return to the capital." ”

Li Bing was overjoyed when he heard this, and the emperor personally gave the career arrangement, which was a very rare situation, and it was a very glorious thing for the minister.

Zhu Qiyu added: "By confiscating the fields of these gentry and powerful families in Shanxi, the imperial court obtained a large amount of land. I need you to merge these lands into a single piece of grange by way of exchange.

These farms were then given to Tunwei for cultivation. ”

Li Bing was a little confused when he heard it at first glance, why did he have to connect the land into a whole piece?

Zhu Qiyu didn't wait for Li Bingfa to ask, and took the initiative to explain: "This is a stupid method, if the cultivated land in the military tun is ten acres in the east and five acres in the west, it won't be many years before those gentry and heroes come to annex and occupy it."

So let's get tens of thousands of acres of land together and connect them into pieces, and then circle them up for Tunwei to cultivate.

It will not be so easy for the gentry to rob again, at least it is very eye-catching, and there is no way to eat it piecemeal and eat it step by step.

This is similar to Cao Cao's iron locks in the Battle of Chibi, a ship stopped on the river and rocked, and hundreds of ships were put together without shaking. ”

Li Bing sighed in his heart: Sure enough, the benefits were not taken in vain, this is another laborious and extremely tedious errand. And it's stupid and stupid, and it's not elegant at all.

Zhu Qiyu also knew that Li Bing was burying himself in his heart, but it didn't matter, at this point today, you have to do this errand, and you have to do it if you don't do it.

Zhu Qiyu added: "In the future, Xuanfu and Datong will each build a new transit warehouse for the household, and all the grain and grass collected by Shanxi every year will be included in the new warehouses of Xuanfu and Datong.

Then Datong transferred grain and grass to Dongsheng and other guards, and Xuanfu transferred grain and grass to Kaiping Wei.

We must establish a complete set of systems to thoroughly develop Dongsheng and Kaiping, so that future generations will not have the one who gave up Dongsheng and Kaiping. ”

As for what 'that what' means, Zhu Qiyu wanted to say that the emperors and auxiliary ministers who gave up Dongsheng and Kaiping were all two hundred and five, but thinking that Taizong had also done it, he was embarrassed to say it.

Li Bing didn't know what to say, Zhu Qiyu continued to paint cakes: "From Shaanxi to Gansu to Hami, a straight road is being built. Recently, I have been thinking about the strategic pattern of the Ming Dynasty at home every day, and I thought that I should build another straight road from Xuanfu to Kaiping, and then go north through the Hulunbuir grassland.

Cities, fortresses, and post stations were built along the way. In this way, the imperial army can quickly maneuver between Xuanfu, Kaiping and Hulunbuir grassland, and grain, grass and ordnance can also be quickly deployed.

In this way, Eastern Mongolia can be firmly controlled in their hands, and at the same time, it is also convenient for merchants to go to Kaiping to do business.

Use our Jingtai Dynasty's improved Kaizhong method to encourage merchants to transport grain to Kaiping, we give them salt introductions, and give them the qualifications to trade duty-free in Kaiping City.

Only by mobilizing the enthusiasm of the people can Kaiping maintain its prosperity for a long time and reduce the burden of the imperial court to subsidize Kaiping.

Avoid Kaiping becoming a burden to the imperial court, and the monarchs and ministers of later generations will no longer easily abandon it. ”

Zhu Qiyu's heart disease is that he is afraid that there will be another wise Shenwu Xuanmiao emperor like Zhu Zhanji in the future, whether he is distressed if he throws it away here, and it doesn't matter if he abandons it there; This is not a traditional Han land, there is no ruling value there, it costs life to think about it, this is the empire that the sun never sets that we have worked so hard to build.

During this meal, Li Bing listened to the emperor's rambling for a long time, and generally understood the emperor's intentions.

The errand sounds a bit difficult and it's not easy to do at all, but it's barely acceptable. Considering that the emperor's faith and righteousness are unparalleled, and his words are published, and three years later, he will have the position of Shangshu of the Criminal Department and the scholar of the East Pavilion, Li Bing believes that this transaction is not a loss.

After chatting about business, the banquet continued. Li Bing's personality is relatively boring, and he doesn't take the initiative to speak. The monarch and the minister were talking about political affairs, Lin Xiangyu and Ning Xiang did not interject, Zhu Qiyu could only dominate the topic by himself, so he smiled at Wang Shan again:

"Last year, the gang of heroes in Shanxi lost their minds and assassinated the governor's convoy. Thanks to the power of Mr. Wang, he was able to keep all the officials safe, which is a great achievement, and it must be rewarded.

I intend to set Kaiping up as a prefecture and subordinate it to the Xuanfu. Mr. Lao went to Zhizhou, Kaiping was an important town for trade with the Mongols, and I hope that Mr. will do a good job for the imperial court. ”

Wang Shan was overjoyed and was busy kneeling down to thank him.

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand again and again: "Today is a family banquet, Mr. is not polite." Come, when we're down to business, let's continue drinking. ”

Wang Shan's heart was overjoyed, Zhizhou was from the fifth grade, and it was also subordinate to Xuanfu. Because of entering the Jingtai Dynasty, Xuanfu was divided into the North Zhili by the emperor, so now Kaiping is also a Zhili.

The state of Beizhili, although it is outside the Cyprus, also has a higher status than ordinary states.

The most important thing is that Kaiping's business is very large. The Mongols trade with the interior mainly rely on Kaiping, Daning, and Quang Ninh.

If this is done well, it is easy to make political achievements.

After explaining the matter, Lin Xiangyu and Ning Xiang began to persuade them to drink diligently, and they drank for a long time before dispersing.

When leaving, it was Zhu Wenfang who personally sent Li Bing and Wang Shan out of the house. The two of them got into the car, both of them were already a little drunk. Li Bing's attitude towards Wang Shan was more polite than before, just now the prince was sent to the gate, obviously not to see his own face. A governor and squire, and he has no great achievements, and he is not worthy of being sent off by the prince of the prison country in person.

In Li Bing's mind, Wang Shan's image has become extremely tall: when he came, the two most favored imperial concubines personally picked him up; When leaving, the prince of the prison country personally sent it. During the banquet, the emperor toasted frequently, and gave Zhizhou, who jumped from the seven-rank county order to the five-grade county. The dragon of the saints is jaw-dropping.

said that Zhu Qiyu also drank beautifully, returned to the Hehuan Palace, got on the couch and leaned on the bedside, shaking his head and waiting to drink imported honey water.

Ning Xiang said angrily: "Why does the husband drink so much? ”

Zhu Qiyu spread his hands: "I'm not saving face for your sisters today, who knew they could drink so much."

Wang Shan used to be in business, and I don't blame him for being able to drink. You said that Li Bing was silent, looking like a Qing official, how could he drink like this. ”

Ning Xiang comforted: "They may be stiff, they should vomit when they go back." ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "That's okay, I'm feeling better." Next, when I feast on the honorables and our pro-army generals, I won't drink like this. Knowing that we obviously can't drink these generals, we will avoid fighting. ”

Ning Xiang teased: "Husband is really cunning, this is to watch people cook, bully the soft and afraid of the hard, be flexible and adaptable, be able to bend and stretch, but save yourself for fear that someone will really get you drunk." ”

"There's no way, how can you do it without playing dim sum with the ministers."

"Then you are honest, have you played tricks with the concubines?"

Zhu Qiyu nodded again: "It's played, it's played, I want to coax a woman, and I can't do it if I don't play tricks." But to be honest, I'm just going to play tricks with you and Feng'er, Xue'er, Xi'er, and Linglong are in a hurry and are willing to obey me.

The remaining ten, whether they play tricks or not, they don't get along with me. ”

Lin Xiangyu persuaded on the side: "Actually, if the husband puts more thought, the ten of them can also love the husband." ”

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "I never lick women, besides, three or five women are enough, and I don't need more." ”

Ning Xiang asked in surprise, "You never lick women?" How can you talk nonsense with your eyes wide open! ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled: "I'm talking about that kind of licking, not the kind of licking you think." The kind of lick you want is fine, but the kind of lick I say is not. ”

"It can be seen that today is a beautiful drink, why do you still have a tongue twister. Have you figured out what to do tomorrow? ”

"Think about it, call Ma Ang, Wang Yue, Yu Zijun, and Ma Wensheng tomorrow, and I'll talk to them."

Ning Xiang asked curiously, "What do you have to talk to them?" ”

"Maang is the governor of Gansu, and Wang Yue plans to let him governor of Eastern Mongolia. I called them here to talk to them about how to build a straight.

Yu Zijun, the Demon Man, is particularly obsessed with building fortifications on the border, and let him participate in the construction of straights, which is the real use of things. Ma Wensheng's hobbies are similar, but he is not as stunned as Yu Zijun.

Besides, Wang Yue, Yu Zijun, and Ma Wensheng are all my in-laws' protégés of the Son of Heaven, so I have to carry them.

You call me Li Bingyi again, this is also my protégé, just because of his ugly appearance, the officials did not send him an official back then.

Later, although I took care of him personally, I guess he received a lot of cold reception. So tomorrow invite him up, and I'll stand on the platform for him myself. ”

Ning Xiang praised: "The husband is really good, the slave family remembers, this matter is the delay of the officials to let Li Bingyi serve in the matter, and in the end, the officials and departments gave Zhang Rang in the matter really can't look at it, and report to the husband, and you will take care of it personally."

Zhang Rang mentioned this, it's been a few years, do you still remember it! ”

"Well, I actually have a lot of things in mind, or I'm always yelling and getting tired. Prepare some gifts for him tomorrow, preferably made by you novices, who can wear and wear, and who are also decent. ”

Ning Xiang asked curiously: "Is this okay, the imperial concubine can also make things to wear and reward them to the minister?" ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded, I don't know the precedent for this kind of thing, but I know the precedent. Liu Lishun, the champion of the Chongzhen Dynasty, received the palace flower supplement given by Chongzhen, which was exquisite and abnormal, and was embroidered by the imperial concubine Tian herself.

From this, it can be seen that the things embroidered by the imperial concubine herself can be given to the minister. Especially the complement on the minister's official uniform, it is most appropriate to embroider a piece and give it, which is also a great honor and dignity for the official.

Ning Xiang asked: "Is it okay to send a cloak, it just so happened that at the end of last year, our sisters embroidered five pieces for their husbands in one go, and it happens that one will be one for each person tomorrow, give it to them, it is also a heart." ”

"Uh-huh, good. Let Xi'er come over, I will take a sip of milk, drink a sip of bees, and then go to sleep. ”

Early the next morning, the five summoned ministers came to the mansion, and Zhu Qiyu first pulled them to talk about the straight road project in Qingyun Pavilion.

Regarding the construction method of the straight road, Zhu Qiyu re-instructed several people: "The straight roads in the Qin Dynasty are still a little narrow, let's build a little wider, it is best to be able to repair three or four zhang, but the terrain is not suitable, and we have to repair two zhang wide."

Not only do we have to walk on pedestrians, but we also have to allow chariots and heavy artillery to pass on it.

What I want is a war together, and the chariots, heavy artillery, grain, grass, armor, and ordnance energy will be continuously and unimpeded to Hami, Turpan, and even west, extending into the territory of the Timurid Empire.

Back then, the Timurid Empire killed our envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and I haven't avenged this revenge. Now that they have captured Hami again, it is really unbearable and unbearable. ”

The five ministers glanced at each other, everyone thought that the emperor had stopped recently, but they didn't expect that the feud with the Timurid Empire had been separated for a hundred years, and the emperor still remembered it.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Don't have such an expression, now those emperors and magnates of the Timurid Empire are just local chickens and dogs, and they are just people who sell their heads." Let's go straight, you dig up the soft soil first, and dig all the way to the hard layer.

Then large stones are placed on both sides of the road, and a layer of stones is placed on the pavement.

On top of the stones, a layer of gravel is laid.

After the stones and stones are paved, a layer of mortar is laid. Finally, it is repeatedly compacted and leveled.

It's best to plant trees on the side of the road. We have money in the Ming Dynasty, and we build more post stations, villages, and inns along the way. Repair more cities, fortresses, and beacon towers.

I want to send a steady stream of supplies to the Western Regions and the northern grasslands through the straight road, and completely control those places. ”

(End of chapter)

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