"On the second day of the fifth month of the thirty-first year of the leap year, the emperor collapsed in the West Palace, the emperor's grandson ascended the throne, and respected the holy god Wenwu Qinming Qiyun Junde successfully unified the emperor of the great filial piety of the heavens, the temple name Taizu, and the capital of the heavens was ......"

In mid-June, after a half-month long journey, the more than 200,000 troops of the Northern Tour were finally brought back to Quanningwei by Zhu Di.

Under his uneasy mood, the figure of the eunuch who passed the decree appeared here.

The other party waited here for a long time, and summoned the three kings and generals, and read out the news of Zhu Yuanzhang's collapse and the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen's accession to the throne in public.

For a while, everyone's eyes were dark, and they didn't have time to react, so they lowered their heads and looked at each other on the left and right.

Among the crowd, only Zhu Di, Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu, Qiu Fu, Yao Guangxiao and others were shocked.

They didn't expect that what Zhu Gaoxu said was true, and that Emperor Hongwu, who had been founding the country for 31 years, really collapsed in May.

"The first emperor collapsed, Your Majesty can you edict when the kings will enter Beijing......

Zhu Di took the holy decree and slowly got up in front of everyone to ask, but in his heart he thought of what Zhu Gaoxu said to him in Wuliang Ha Bald City.

"Emperor Daxing left an edict, saying that the kings will come to the country and not go to the capital."

The eunuch replied respectfully, but this answer made Zhu Quan, who couldn't hold his breath, unconvinced.

"How can there be a reason not to let my son go to Beijing to mourn!"

As soon as Zhu Quan spoke, the eunuch's face changed, but he still pretended to be respectful, and explained to Zhu Di, Zhu Quan, and Zhu Zhi:

"Emperor Daxing has been buried in Xiaoling in May, and His Majesty has also ascended the throne early, so the three highnesses should not disturb Emperor Daxing."

The words of the eunuch made everyone look at each other, obviously they didn't expect that an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, who had great achievements, would be buried in the filial piety tomb after only seven days.

In their opinion, even if the imperial grandson is in a hurry to ascend the throne, he should wait for twenty-seven days, and seven days is a bit ......

"I see."

With Zhu Gaoxu's reminder, Zhu Di was not too excited, just nodded in agreement, and asked at the same time: "Does Your Majesty have any will?" ”

The eunuch didn't expect Zhu Di to be so calm, but for Zhu Di's inquiry, he also took out another holy decree as Zhu Di expected.

"Your Majesty has a will, please ask King Yan to control the return of the troops to the garrison, and return the three guards of the King of Valley, and the three highnesses of King Yan, King Ning, and King Liao will each lead the escort army back to the fief."

"In addition, Marquis Wuding, please return to the capital to report on his work, and Yang Wen, the chief military officer, will take over as the chief military officer of Liaodong."

Speaking of this, the eunuch who passed the decree glanced at Zhu Di vaguely, and after making sure that his mood was still stable, he said with a smile: "In addition, please ask His Royal Highness King Yan to hand back the Sandu Division troop transfer card......

"Sure enough......" When Zhu Di heard the previous content of the holy decree, he thought of what Zhu Gaochu said about depriving the military power, and the fact was just as Zhu Gaoxu expected, his eldest nephew who ascended the throne really asked him for military power at the first time.

For a while, whether to hand over or not became a problem for Zhu Di to face.

Yao Guangxiao looked at Zhu Di silently, and thought of Zhu Gaoxu's words in his heart, so he wanted to step forward to relieve Zhu Di.

Just before he stepped forward, Zhu Di said: "After a while, I will let people send the troop transfer card to your residence, but most of the Kaiping Wuwei are new pawns, if the troop transfer card is handed back and no one is trained, then once Hu Bing goes south, there may be disaster." ”

"Hehe......" The eunuch chuckled: "At that time, you can adjust Your Highness's moderation." ”

Obviously, Zhu Yunwen was determined to take back all the military power in Zhu Di's hands except for the three guards, and this scene made everyone standing behind Zhu Di very nervous.

After all, since Zhu Di attacked Nai'er Buhua and forced him to land, Kaiping's soldiers and horses were basically controlled by him, which the first emperor also acquiesced.

Now that the imperial court not only has to take back the military power of the Sandu Division, but also an important place like Kaiping, it is difficult not to think about it.

"Okay." Zhu Di did not refute, but decisively handed over the military power of Kaipingwei.

His refreshment surprised the eunuch himself.

After all, before he went north, the emperor specially explained to him, if King Yan refused to hand over the military power, then he could figure it out slowly, and there was no need to rush for a while.

It's just that from the current point of view, King Yan is not as difficult to deal with as Qi Tai's group of people said.

"In this way, then our family will step back ......"

The eunuch returned the salute, and then left the yamen of Quan Ningwei's commanding envoy.

After he left, Zhu Di also turned to look at the generals, and barely squeezed out a smile on his face: "Do it according to your will." ”

After that, he left under the pretext of being unwell, and Yao Guangxiao and the others followed.

Among those who stayed, Guo Ying's expression was elusive, and the rest of them left the yamen one after another.

Clearly, the dynastic alternation of power had made many of them nervous.

After all, once a son of heaven and a courtier, no one knows whether he can be reused in the old dynasty in the new dynasty.

Among them, many people looked at Guo Ying, after all, Guo Ying is also the father-in-law of the King of Liao and the grandfather of the King of Bohai, and such an identity may be difficult to be reused in the new dynasty.

It's just that it's different from what they think, Guo Ying is not worried about power now, but is recalling the decades he has followed Zhu Yuanzhang.

Such a heroic character will inevitably part with life and death, and he seems to be old and should retreat......

Guo Ying turned around and left lonely, and after returning to the capital, he proposed to return home to support the elderly.

But when he turned around lonely, Zhu Di took Yao Guangxiao and others to find a guest room in the yamen to rest.

Sitting on the bed, Zhu Di was in a trance, he still couldn't believe that his father had collapsed, which was far more uncomfortable than Zhu Yunwen taking away his military power.

"Your Highness, you shouldn't have handed over all your military power."

"Yes, Your Highness, if it is really as the Second Highness said, then it will be much easier for the court to deal with us."

"Your Highness, should I write a letter to Your Second Highness?"

In the guest room, after arranging the outer guard work, Zhu Neng and the three of them frowned and talked about Zhu Di's handing over of military power.

At this moment, the three of them all understood Zhu Gaoxu's practice of trapping Zhu Di, and began to suspect that Zhu Yunwen might really want to attack Yanfu.

Even if the three of them were very politically dull, after understanding Zhu Gaoxu's approach, they could see that the situation in Yanfu was not optimistic.

The Yan Mansion, which only has three guards, is not qualified to negotiate terms with the imperial court at all, and it can be said that Zhu Di's handing over of military power is a bad move.

Compared with the three of them, Yao Guangxiao was sitting on a stool on the side, counting Buddhist beads in his hand, and he didn't seem to be worried about the outside world at all, but in fact he was waiting for Zhu Di's reply.

"I'm his uncle, he can't hurt me......"

Zhu Di's answer was very weak, obviously he still had expectations for Zhu Yunwen.

But at the critical moment, Yao Guangxiao took the lead in speaking: "Entrusting the lives of children and grandchildren to others is obviously not a good way. ”

"If Your Majesty is like this to His Highness, what about His Royal Highness?"

"Your Highness, don't forget, what His Royal Highness said at the beginning......"

Yao Guangxiao reminded Zhu Di, that is, Zhu Gaoxu made it clear that he would not sit still.

If Zhu Yunwen used today's method to seek to seize the military power of the Bohai Sea, then Zhu Gaoxu might really rebel.

At that time, even if Zhu Di wants to be an ostrich, Zhu Yunwen will start to deal with him on the grounds that Zhu Gaoxu raised troops.

"Gao Xu thinks too badly about Yun Wei, Yun Wei is my eldest brother's child, so he won't ...... to his uncle"

Zhu Di didn't say the next words, so he could only change his tone to excuse Zhu Yunwen: "He just took back the military power of the Sandu Division, and the palace guards are still in my hands, and I have a lot of old departments in the Sandu Division, so there will be no one to help." ”

"Then what if His Majesty does something to the old ministry?" Yao Guangxiao was more prescient than in history, because of Zhu Gaoxu's reminder, he had already thought about the worst situation for Zhu Di.

In history, he would definitely not believe that Zhu Yunwen would press forward step by step.

"Let's talk about it then, I'm so irritable now, you guys step back first."

Zhu Di waved his hand to drive Yao Guangxiao and them away, after all, there were too many things he encountered today, and he needed time to calm down.

"Yes......" Looking at Zhu Di's appearance, everyone had no choice but to retreat.

After they left, Zhu Di began to recall his past thirty-nine years.

He thought of his mother and father, his brother who treated him kindly, and Zhu Fan and Zhu Li, who were aimed at him......

In his thoughts, he thought of what Zhu Gaoxu said to him.

Thinking that he had been detained by Gao Xu in Wuliangha Bald City for a month, and that the fifth child would become his scapegoat, Zhu Di rubbed the painful acupuncture points with his hands uncomfortably.

"Probably not......"

He still had illusions about Zhu Yunwen, so after a simple sorting of thoughts, he summoned Zhang Yu and asked Zhang Yu to supply the army with baggage, and at the same time handed over the Sandu Division's troop transfer card to the eunuch who sent the decree to the eunuch and led the Yanfu guards back to Beiping tomorrow.

Zhang Yu wanted to persuade Zhu Di again, but seeing his stubborn appearance, he didn't continue to persuade him.

The next day, under Zhu Quan's farewell, Zhu Di took the Yanfu guards south to Beiping, while Guo Ying and others returned to Guangning in the east.

For seven consecutive days, Zhu Di returned to Beiping City on June 24, but when he returned to Beiping, he learned about the changes in Daming in the past two months from a "Di Bao".

First, his father collapsed, and Zhu Yunwen buried him on the seventh day, and buried the thirty-seven concubines who had nothing to do in the inner court.

Then Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne in Fengtianmen on the day of Zhu Yuanzhang's burial, and at the same time built a document for the next year.

In addition to these, the new policies also made Zhu Di's expression ugly.

When his father was alive, although Zhu Yunwen treated Confucian students politely, he still favored his father in policy, but in less than two months, so many things have happened in the world.

Especially after the time entered June, Zhu Yunwen ordered the Ministry to eliminate redundant personnel and merge provinces and counties.

In just 24 days, he eliminated the four people in the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and gave the matter left and right, cutting the yin and yang of the world, medicine, the Xujiang Delivery Office of Ge Jianchang Mansion, and the Lantian Inspection Department of Nancheng County.

After doing this, he dismissed the delivery offices belonging to Fengyang, Kaifeng, Huaiqing, Pingyang and other prefectures, a total of dozens of places, resulting in thousands of officials being removed.

Even the left and right political envoys in the thirteen political secretaries were reduced to one member by him.

The magistrates of the Governorate of the Five Prefectures were also reduced, many prefectures and counties were merged, and the prefecture and county officials and military attachés of the guard were greatly reduced.

Just looking at his policies, those who don't know think that the Hongwu period was already in the middle of Wang Chao.

You must know that even in the 30th year of Hongwu last year, there were only more than 6,000 civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there were slightly more military attachés, but there were only 30,000.

There are more than 1,600 prefectures, counties, and health centers in Daming, and the average number of civil and military officials with an establishment is only more than 20 people in each place, which is not much.

If only prefectures and counties and civil officials are counted, then basically there are only six officials in each prefecture and county, and in this case, even if you add more than 38,000 officials in the whole country, each county can only get more than 30 officials.

For a county with an average population of more than 50,000 people, the yamen, which has only about 30 officials, can only maintain its daily operations.

Therefore, when the cultivated land of the whole country was counted during the Hongwu period, there were often military attachés and officers and soldiers of the guards.

In this case, Zhu Yunwen is still reducing the number of officials, and Zhu Di doesn't know what he thinks.

"What is this kid doing? Hulai? ”

Looking at the copy of "Di Bao" in his hand, Zhu Di, who was sitting in the Chu Xin Hall of Yanwang Mansion, threw the "Di Bao" in his hand to the ground and scattered it all over the ground.

Yao Guangxiao, who was sitting next to him, looked at the contents of "Di Bao", and believed a little more in his heart what Zhu Gaoxu said.

"You are just a vassal king, this world is his, you don't need to be so angry."

The Xu family, who was sitting next to Zhu Di, comforted him, although she also knew that her nephew's new policy was unrealistic, but their family was just a vassal king in the final analysis, and they should not interfere too much in political affairs.

"Look at what he's done, my dad has to be angry when he knows!"

Zhu Di kicked the "Di Bao" on the ground, very annoyed.

He admitted that there were many shortcomings left over from the period of Hongwu's rule, and he also admitted that Zhu Yunwen's new policy had solved some problems, but Zhu Yunwen's new policy was somewhat overkill.

During the Hongwu period, the law was severe, and there was nothing wrong with him relaxing the criminal law, but he should not dismiss so many imperial historians and officials who supervised the hundred officials, which would only make the hundred officials feel lucky, and then exploit the people unscrupulously.

In addition, on the problem of heavy taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, haven't my father and my second child already come up with a way to "use money to offset taxes"?

Why is it now necessary to "use banknotes to offset taxes" and "exempt taxes?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Di picked up Zhu Yunwen's tax policy for the Jiangnan area again.

He looked at Zhu Yunwen's tax exemption for Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Susong, and felt very uncomfortable.

If you really follow Zhu Yunwen's route, then the money and grain collected by the imperial court will definitely decrease, and if you can't find new sources of money, there will be big problems in the local area.

"Don't look at it! It's also a hassle to watch! ”

Dropping the "Di Bao", Zhu Di walked out of the Cunxin Hall angrily, and Xu also followed when he saw this, wanting to appease his husband.

Only Yao Guangxiao picked up the pile of "Di Bao" on the ground and read it quietly.

After reading everything, he finally knew that Zhu Gaoxu would say that Zhu Yunwen had been suppressed for too long.

Zhu Yunwen's policy and Zhu Yuanzhang's policy are completely different paths.

Except for some similar contents, the rest of the content basically has no taste.

Among them, the most easily criticized is Zhu Yunwen's tolerance towards Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not only implementing "tax deduction with banknotes", but also exempting taxes.

In this way, it is completely transferring the burden of Jiangnan to Yunnan and Sichuan, which are currently mining gold, silver and copper mines.

"They've made it through......"

Looking at the content of Zhu Yunwen's new policy, Yao Guangxiao shook his head, and at the same time, Zhu Gaoxu, who was far away in Jilin City, finally obtained the "Di Bao" in the south through the command of 30,000 Wei to Zhou Ding.

He sat in the carrier hall of the Bohai Palace, reading the "Di Bao" alone, and gave a general overview of Zhu Yunwen's new policy of Jianwen.

In fact, roughly speaking, Zhu Yunwen's new policy still has a lot of merits, but the policy is biased towards ideals.

Lenient criminal law is the way to go, after all, the law during the Hongwu period was too strict.

As for exempting Su Song, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang's taxes and reducing the local tax rate, this can be regarded as a benevolent policy in Zhu Gaoxu's view.

In the final analysis, the taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are indeed heavy, which can be seen only from the fact that the second government of Susong bears one-tenth of the taxes of the Ming Dynasty.

The cultivated land of the two prefectures of Susong is less than 150,000 hectares, accounting for less than 4 percent of the country's total, while the grain tax of the two prefectures has reached 4 million stones, accounting for more than 12 percent of the country's more than 32 million stones.

When Zhu Gaoxu conceived the "Money Law", he carefully calculated the taxes and average mu taxes of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the national average tax per mu is five catties and three taels per mu, while Suzhou is as high as 42 catties, Songjiang is as high as 35 catties, and the average tax burden per mu is more than seven times that of the whole country.

Such a tax gap is mainly due to a transfer payment method adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang himself in the north and southwest during the Hongwu period.

However, as the agricultural economy of the northern provinces, Sichuan and Huguang began to improve, the taxes in Jiangnan should be lowered.

Not only Jiangnan, but also those provinces with good agricultural economy in the early years of Hongwu were basically heavily taxed, such as Shanxi.

At the beginning of Hongwu's founding of the country, only Shanxi and Shandong were the provinces in the north that had not been destroyed in agriculture, so the two provinces also bore heavy taxes when they assumed the responsibility of relocating the population to enrich the other northern provinces.

Shanxi, which has only 39 million mu of cultivated land, pays 2.8 million stone in taxes every year, which is heavier than Zhejiang's burden of 47 million mu of cultivated land but only 2.5 million stone.

It is precisely because of this that Lao Zhu will especially defend Shanxi scholars in the case of the North and South List.

Therefore, when he got the "Di Bao" and learned that Zhu Yunwen had reduced the taxes in Jiangnan, Zhu Gaoxu thought that Zhu Yunwen would reduce the taxes in Shanxi and Shandong, but he searched through the "Di Bao" and could not see any policies related to Shanxi and Shandong.

If before this, Zhu Yunwen's new policy could still be said to be sympathetic to the people, then when Zhu Gaoxu finished reading "Di Bao", he could be sure that Zhu Yunwen was completely trying to win over the literati in the Jiangnan area.

"It's okay, you do this, so that it will be convenient for me to liquidate the Jiangnan literati in the future."

Putting down "Di Bao", Zhu Gaoxu thought about his capital a little.

At present, there are about 40,000 people in the four cities of Bohai, ranging in age from nine to fifteen.

In addition, counting the reserves of Blackwater City and the three thousand households inserted by Zhu Yunwen, the total number of people is 25,000.

Among them, 4,000 people are not enough, and they must be trained well to subdue their military spirit.

"40,000 ......"

Zhu Gaoxu thought about the 40,000 Jurchens and Han people who received education in his hands, and if these 40,000 people were sent out, they could completely act as officials to collect taxes at the local level.

If they are lost in a province, then they can completely submit to the governance of a province.

Even if they are placed in the three populous provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, they can maintain the basic operation of the three provinces.

And unlike Lao Zhu's Guozijian, the 40,000 people in his hands can be said to be much cleaner.

Most of the students of Lao Zhu Guozijian are from Jiangnan, and they are basically related to each other, but most of the 40,000 people in his hands are Sinicized Jurchens, and only one-third are Han.

Their interests are all outside the customs, and they have no related interests with the customs inside.

By throwing them into the Guannai, we can at least maintain political clarity in the local area for six or seven years.

As long as the grassroots level is mastered, those who have a small number of rogue officials do not need to be taken care of at all.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked forward to taking Liaodong by himself.

If there were a large number of Liaodong people above the temple, Zhu Gaoxu did not believe that they would not make profits for his hometown.

Liaodong is just the beginning, supporting the northerners to fight the southerners, and then reaching a balance, this is what Zhu Gaoxu wants.

As long as the balance is reached, then you can invest in the north, especially the northeast.

The reason why the Republic of China was able to leave so many people in the eastern part of the country was because of the emergence of many handicraft industries in the Northeast, which ensured the foothold of the migration of the Northeast population in the early stage.

After gaining a foothold, a large number of people who broke into the eastern part of the country began to reclaim wasteland and take root in the northeast.

What I have to do is to continue to let the Northeast develop its industry.

Cement, steel, arable land......

As long as it continues to invest for decades, the development of the Northeast will be completed in its own hands, and with the Northeast as a granary, there will be no need to be controlled by Jiangnan Caoyun after moving the capital to Beijing.

Zhu Gaoxu thought so, and footsteps sounded outside the carrier hall.

Yishaha walked in with a not very good-looking face, and his expression was a little guilty.

"Your Highness, that Yang Bin declined your invitation, but he promised to dispose of the fur, and then take out some more money and grain, and make up 100,000 yuan and 100,000 stone of grain for the palace before the winter......

"Got it." Hearing Yishaha's words, Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting in the hall, was slightly disappointed, but it was normal to think about it carefully.

It's the end of June now, so Yang Bin should have received some news after returning to the south, otherwise he wouldn't have rejected himself so quickly.

It seems that Zhu Yunwen is ready to start cutting the domain, but I don't know if this time I will start with my fifth uncle.

Either way, you have to prepare yourself.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Yishuha: "What happened to the four thousand households that moved outside the city?" ”

"As your Highness expected, they have been inquiring about the fields and population of the palace." "In addition, they are trying to win over the people of the city. ”

"The slave maid has already told the people of the city before they came to Jilin City, asked them to pretend to agree, and then secretly told the slave maid the news."

"Now it seems that they probably think they have won over a lot of people."

Yishiha showed a slight sneer on his face, obviously he didn't look down on these people sent by Zhu Yunwen, but Zhu Gaoxu was very interested.

"Let them continue to act, as long as it doesn't involve Blackwater, other things can be revealed to them a little."

"I want to see what big drama my big brother can sing at the end......"

If you have something, you will ask for leave one day in advance, and if you have nothing to do, it is normal to have two shifts

(End of chapter)