"Hey!"

"Hooray... Banzai... Hooray......"

"Flat—"

On July 15, the 33rd year of Hongwu, after a month of renovation, the atmosphere on the temple was much better.

It's just that the eyes of the officials have always stayed on Jin Cha, the director of the tax department of Zhengliupin.

Their eyes revealed coldness, and they were naturally seen by Zhu Di of the Golden Platform of Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Di looked sideways at Zhu Gaoxu, who was standing beside him, and his gaze seemed to say, "Your fire burned them not lightly." ”

It's just that Zhu Gaoxu didn't bother to pay attention to the gaze of Zhu Di and the ministers.

Since Zhu Di ascended the throne, he did not have an anti-human like Zhu Yuanzhang, who had to open a dynasty three times a day, but at Zhu Gaoxu's suggestion, he changed the time of the early dynasty to Chenshi, one dynasty a day.

No one thinks this is bad, after all, the policies of Zhu Yuanzhang's period are really too anti-human.

Not everyone can be like Zhu Yuanzhang, who works more than eight hours a day for three hundred and sixty-five days, and can live to seventy-one in one breath.

Not to mention the ministers, even Zhu Gaoxu didn't think that he could maintain the high-intensity work of Lao Zhu and live to his age.

"Today's court discussion is for the sake of hundreds of officials."

Zhu Di sat on the golden platform, and after the voice came out, the ministers withdrew their gaze and listened carefully to the holy sound.

"In the previous dynasty, there were many banknote folding, although I ......"

"Ahem!" Hearing Zhu Di's words, Zhu Gaoxu coughed softly to remind him that this was a court meeting.

"Ahem, although I have announced that I will return to the old Hongwu system, I still give up this banknote discount."

"Your Majesty Shengming!!" Hearing that the salary could be paid down, the ministers immediately shouted long live.

Seeing this, Zhu Di also continued to speak: "Recently, Gongsheng Ye Zongxing has dredged the Huangpu River and flooded, causing the coastal paddy fields to be repeatedly invaded by the river. ”

"When I heard about this, I felt uneasy, and today I sent Huang Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, to Susong to control the water, and the money and food needed should be supplied by the Ministry of Households."

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Hearing that Zhu Di was going to make a move on the Huangpu River, the officials of the six prefectures in Jiangdong also sang Shengming one after another.

In ancient times, there were three rivers in the lower reaches of Taihu Lake that drained into the sea, and the Middle East River was cut off due to the Hanhaitang weir built at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Nowadays, Suzhou and Songjiang Prefecture are often flooded due to the congestion of the waterways of the Huangpu River and Wusong River.

A few days ago, a scholar named Ye Zongxing went to the imperial court and suggested that in the upper reaches of the Wusong River, he would open Xia and drive into Liujiagang to divide the water potential and abandon the old road downstream.

Then open Fanjiabang in the northeast of Jun County, connect to Huangpu, and merge with Wusong River. to enhance the water potential and rush into the sea.

This suggestion was adopted by Zhu Di, and now it has been moved to the temple, which can not only ease the relationship between Zhu Gaoxu and the officials of the six prefectures in Jiangdong, but also take the opportunity to publicize a wave of his achievements as an emperor, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

As for his thoughts, after he blurted out these words, the ministers all understood.

During this time, the Wenchen of the six prefectures of Jiangdong was tortured by the East Palace, as Zhu Gaoxu said, few of them had clean butts.

In the Hongwu period, they didn't dare to do too much, but in the Jianwen period, they did too much.

Taking advantage of Zhu Di's steps, they just took it to avoid continuing to make trouble.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also set his eyes on Jin Cha, and vaguely touched the wrist of the other hand with one hand.

"Your Majesty, Jin Cha, the director of the Taxation Department of the Ministry of Households, has something to do!"

Jin Cha watched Zhu Gaoxu's actions every day, and seeing Zhu Gaoxu's signal, he also walked out with a wat board.

This move made the hearts of the ministers immediately hang, and Zhu Di also bowed his head when he saw this: "Come forward!" ”

Hearing this, Jincha stepped forward and said at the same time:

"It has been two and a half months since the tax department inspected the tax, and now the tax investigation of the acres of land in Yingtian, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang and other six prefectures has been completed, of which 394 officials are involved, 1,427 people are involved in the case, and 4,627 households have deceived the imperial court and accumulated tax arrears."

Zhu Gaoxu was never prepared to offend the officials of the six prefectures in Jiangdong to death in one go, so what Jincha did when he returned to the tax department every day was to count the number of people found by the tax department every day.

The reason for this was to wait for Zhu Gaoxu's signal to be ready to end the investigation of the six prefectures in Jiangdong at any time.

The reason why Zhu Gaoxu was not ready to eat the six mansions of Jiangdong in one go was that the number of officials in his hands was insufficient.

Now he has more than 7,600 grassroots officials in his hands, but they are all recommended by him using the 'recommendation system' during the Jianwen period.

Because of this, these 7,600 people are all officials from Jiupin, and can only serve in Shandong, Liaodong, Bohai, Daning and other places and the tax department.

Relying on the 3,000 officials of the Taxation Department, he had already dealt a blow to the six prefectures in Jiangdong, but with only 3,000 officials and 30,000 Bohai soldiers and horses, he could not measure the acres of land in the six prefectures at all, so he would use the means of "reporting".

Now that the people of the six provinces of Jiangdong are soft, he has also got the cultivated land, criminals and official vacancies of the six provinces of Jiangdong that he wants, and this is enough.

"How much does this group owe taxes? How many acres of land are covered? ”

Zhu Di watched Jin Cha speak, and immediately asked his curiosity.

In this regard, Jin Cha responded without thinking: "The arrears of taxes are 765,427 stones, 3 buckets and 4 catties, and the hidden report is 471,979 mu and 3 cents. ”

"The people involved in this case, a total of 6,648 people, according to the "Da Ming Law", should implicate 53,627 people in this sect such as parents, wives and so on, please Your Majesty decide......"

Concealing the acres of land and abusing power, this will definitely be exiled in the "Da Ming Law", there is no doubt about it.

Faced with such a punishment, Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Gaoxu: "Prince, what do you think?" ”

With his words, the officials of the six prefectures in Jiangdong above the temple looked at Zhu Gaoxu vaguely.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the new dynasty has just been established and should not make a big move. ”

"Therefore, for these more than 50,000 people, they can be relocated to the Sichuan Xingdu Division, and Changwei can be rebuilt into Sichuan Jianchang Mansion, so that they can educate the naturalized Hello and Xifan people who go down the mountain locally."

Zhu Gaoxu did not send these 50,000 people to Yunnan and Guangxi again, but he still sent them to Sichuan.

At present, Sichuan includes Guizhou and Chongqing in later generations, but its population is less than 1.5 million.

The migration of more than 50,000 people this time is also a big help for Sichuan, not to mention that the place where these 50,000 people migrated is still a place like Jianchang.

Thanks to the influence of Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunwen have been working in Jianchang for five or six years, otherwise with the reputation of this place, it may not be as good as Yunnan.

It is precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunwen have been here for five or six years, plus there are gold, silver and copper mines in the local area, and Qu Neng is in charge, so its current public security is not bad, although the officials of the six prefectures in Jiangdong are still pale, but they are relieved in their hearts.

They were most worried that Donggong would send this group of people to the side with the idea of killing them, so that this group of people would really be finished.

Now that it is assigned to Jianchang, it is a big deal to support it more after settling down, and to promote culture and education in the local area to come to the imperial examination, once the imperial examination is successful, you can find a way to get rid of your relatives.

Their ideas were exactly what Zhu Gaoxu needed.

"Criminal Department, how about the relatives of Jianwen Yuchen?"

Zhu Di thought of the more than 300,000 Jianwen ministers, and couldn't help asking.

Hearing this, the secretary of the Criminal Department walked out and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the 360,000 Jianwen ministers and their relatives have been handed over to the Governor's Mansion of the Six Armies. ”

"Back to Your Majesty!" As the former military governor, Wang Yi, the governor of the palace and the prince of Shen Guo, heard the words and walked out.

"The 360,000 Jianwen ministers have been escorted to Yunnan by 5,000 elite cavalry from Bohai and Beiping and 30,000 officers and troops from Shangzhi who are listening to the exercises in Beijing, and have now arrived in Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi."

It took more than a month and walked more than 600 miles, which is already relatively slow for the flow team, but this is also what Zhu Gaoxu explained.

For these more than 367,000 people, Zhu Gaoxu is a treasure, and he can't wait to send them all to Yunnan safely.

With their joining, the progress of sinicization in Yunnan can be advanced for hundreds of years at once.

"Your Majesty, Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has something to play."

Just after discussing Jianwen and the ministers, Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, walked out, and his voice echoed on the high platform of the Fengtian Palace.

Seeing this, Zhu Di, who was on the golden platform, immediately bowed his head: "Play!" ”

"At the beginning of this year, the prince of North Korea was in civil strife, and Li Fangguo, the governor of the country, was dismissed afterwards, so please give the throne ......"

Li Zhigang said that the reason for his exit was nothing more than the civil strife in North Korea in the east.

Zhu Gaoxu did not know the details of the princely civil strife in Korea, but he knew one thing, that is, there is no king in North Korea now.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang did not like to see Li Chenggui very much, he called Li Chenggui "the governor of the state affairs of the Korean power", not the "king of the Joseon".

In the original history, it should be that at the end of this year, in order to seek diplomatic stability, Zhu Yunwen officially gave the title of "king" of North Korea, and the rank is the king of the county, but he can use the crown of the prince arrogantly.

However, because Zhu Yunwen was forced to finish early, the current North Korea still bears the unjustified title of 'Kwon Governor of State Affairs'.

They are eager for Daming to admit that it is not a day or two, if it is Zhu Yunwen, maybe they will admit it now, but the current people are Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu.

"Father." Zhu Gaoxu turned sideways and waved at Zhu Di on the golden platform:

"The minister thinks that there is no etiquette in North Korea, and there is no more civil strife, and fathers, sons, uncles and nephews are vying for the throne, which is a mess of ethics, and the throne should not be canonized."

"......" Listening to Zhu Gaoxu's words, Zhu Di didn't know and thought he was ridiculing himself.

Fortunately, Zhu Di didn't have a good face for North Korea, so after Zhu Gaoxu expressed his position, Zhu Di also refused: "North Korea has no ethics, how dare you ask for the throne, this matter is dismissed, and there is no need to discuss it." ”

"The minister's edict ......" Li Zhigang responded, his face was very flat, obviously not surprised by Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu's attitude.

After all, it is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, not the late Ming Dynasty, and the relationship between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty is not a simple father-son relationship, but a relationship between the master and the wolf.

Tieling in the Yuan Dynasty is still under the control of North Korea, and the Ming Dynasty has always claimed this place as its own territory.

Lao Zhu didn't give up anything, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu naturally won't give up.

But it is not so easy to want North Korea to spit out this place obediently, so the father and son have their own ideas about how to rectify North Korea.

"Recently, some eunuchs have escaped from the inner court, and the Ministry of Rites has sent someone to send news to North Korea, asking them to send five hundred eunuchs to the inner court."

As soon as Zhu Di spoke, the ministers looked at him one after another, and even Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Di in surprise.

Whether it is Goryeo or North Korea, their specialties are mainly show girls and eunuchs, during the Hongwu period, the Ming Dynasty often asked Goryeo and North Korea for eunuchs, and now there are indeed a lot of people in the inner court, and it is not too many to have five hundred eunuchs.

"The Minister's Decree ......"

Li Zhigang respectfully returned the salute and took the errand, Zhu Gaoxu waited quietly after hearing this, and saw that no one among the ministers was negligent, so he set his eyes on Zhu Di.

Seeing this, Zhu Di also looked at Honglu Siqing, and Honglu Siqing immediately sang when he saw this: "Scatter-"

With the sound of the scattered dynasty, the ministers also pushed the golden mountain and the jade pillar to send Zhu Di away, and Zhu Gaoxu returned to his East Palace when he saw this.

After the end of the normal early dynasty, he will definitely go to Wuying Hall with Zhu Di to manage the government.

Although the Governor's Mansion of the Six Armies, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry are all under his control, Zhu Di is not the kind of emperor who will be set aside.

For these state affairs, after Zhu Gaoxu dealt with them, he would read them again, and then personally approve them.

However, Zhu Gaoxu can't go to the Wuying Palace normally today, because his East Palace will welcome a group of guests.

Just like now, when he stopped at the gate of the Chunhe Hall in the car, there were already many figures waiting in the hall.

"His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

The sound of singing came, and Zhu Gaoxu got out of the car and walked to the hall.

In the singing of the ministers, familiar faces appeared in front of his eyes.

Fu Rang, Yang Wen, Lin Su, Zhang Chun, as well as Wang Yi, Meng Zhang, Cui Jun, Xu Sheng, Ta Lost, Nimatsa, Ta Rachi, Dol and Qi, Chen Chang, Chen Xuan, Yang Li, Yang Zhan and others who were also summoned and had already obtained the title of Duke and Earl......

It can be said that the people in the Chunhe Hall at this moment basically have more than forty percent of the military power of the Ming Dynasty.

If you count Li Jinglong, Wu Gao, Ping'an, Yu Tongyuan and others who were transferred to the southwest by Zhu Gaoxu, then seventy percent of the Ming Dynasty's troops are actually in Zhu Gaoxu's hands.

He had to hold on to his military power, and he couldn't relax for a moment.

"I haven't seen my old friends, so let's all take a seat."

Zhu Gaoxu chuckled and ordered everyone to sit down, and then watched the generals take their seats.

His eyes stayed on Fu Rang, and the experience in the southwest enriched Fu Rang and made him appear more mature and calm.

Not only him, but also Zhang Chun and Lin Su are the same, but it is a pity that they did not have credit in the martyrdom, and it is difficult to be knighted.

"Have you all gone to report and take over?"

"Already in office."

Zhu Gaoxu looked directly at Fu Rang, Yang Wen, Lin Su and others, among which Fu Rang and Lin Su answered without thinking, while Yang Wen paused for a moment.

The succession they are talking about is to take over the vacancy of Yang Zhan and others who withdrew from the Houjun Governor's Mansion.

Yang Wen served as the right governor of the military governor's mansion, and Yang Zhan became the right governor of the naval governor's mansion.

At present, among the governor's mansions of the six armies, the rear army, the left army, the right army, and the navy undoubtedly belong to the Donggong faction, the front army is completely controlled by the Yan Mansion, and the middle army is managed by the Yan Mansion and the East Palace.

The more places to master, the more things to pay attention to.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu summoned Yang Wen, Fu Rang and others to Beijing to report on their work, also to investigate which of them was suitable for guarding the frontier and who was suitable for staying in the center.

In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, but he still wanted to investigate it specifically.

"In my opinion, more than half of the three hundred and forty-two Tusi have been changed and returned to the flow by you, which is a good thing, that is, the local population structure has not changed, and there is still a risk of rebellion."

"Back to Your Highness, it is true."

Zhu Gaoxu said his thoughts, and he was very helpless about the lack of people in the world.

There is a great shortage of people in the world, and compared with the situation of the three southwestern provinces, even the north is considered densely populated.

Among the three southwestern provinces, the number of people who can be controlled in Yunnan is about 1.2 million, of which more than 400,000 are Han Chinese.

There are less than 1.5 million people in Sichuan, of which more than 300,000 are naturalized Hello and Fan people living in the Xichuan area.

Guangxi's situation is to control more than 1.6 million people, but the Han Chinese have less than 600,000.

On paper, the population of the three southwestern provinces that the imperial court was able to control reached more than 4.4 million, and if you count the 360,000 of Jianwen and the ministers, it is close to 4.8 million.

However, in reality, there are still no less than 3 million young people in the southwest who are in the jurisdiction of Tusi, and the Han people only account for less than 30% of the actual total population of the southwest.

With the exception of Shaanxi Xingdusi, there are few provinces whose demographic structure is worse than that of the southwest.

If the resources are sufficient, Zhu Gaoxu wants to divide the 30 million people in the south of the Yangtze River and move 20 million to the southwest and northwest respectively.

It is enough to think about this kind of thing, and the resources expended on the migration of the population and the distribution of prisoners are not a small amount.

The 360,000 Jianwen ministers migrated for more than a month, and they consumed nearly 300,000 stone of grain along the way, and when they arrived in Yunnan, it would take at least six months, and the entire migration process would cost more than 2 million grains.

In addition, after they arrived in Yunnan, they also needed to consume grain to cultivate and cultivate, and in total, the distribution of these 360,000 people would cost no less than 5 million stone of grain in the Ming Dynasty.

If Lao Zhu didn't save his family, it would be very difficult to maintain the migration of 300,000 people every year with the normal national strength of the Ming Dynasty, let alone more.

So what Zhu Gaoxu has to do now is to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and this is also the reason why he invited everyone to come.

He scanned the crowd, his thoughts jumping.

"I summoned you this time to ask you, according to the situation in various places, how many soldiers and horses do you think are needed in various places?"

Zhu Gaoxu spoke slowly, but everyone looked at each other when they heard this.

At Zhu Gaoxu's suggestion, they quickly discussed.

Among them, Meng Zhang, who mastered cannons and arquebuses, had much lower demand for soldiers and horses in the world than others.

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that the border pass is an important place, and 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses can be set up according to the situation, while only 10,000 is enough in the interior."

As soon as Meng Zhang spoke, everyone talked about it, Yang Wencai joined the East Palace and didn't make any speeches, but Fu Rang was the old leader of the generals here after all, so he opened his mouth and retorted:

"If that's the case, there won't be more than 500,000 soldiers and horses in the world, which is a bit too little."

Fu Rang traveled from the north to the south, from the northeast to the southwest, and although he did not know how powerful the firearms in the Bohai Sea were, he still gave his own opinion based on his experience.

"The eight capitals of Bohai, Liaodong, Daning, Beiping, and northern Shanxi must maintain at least about 400,000 troops, and the three regions of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangxi in the south must have at least about 200,000 troops."

"As for the interior, 20,000 troops are placed in each province, and 40,000 are directly subordinated, a total of 200,000 is just right."

"Therefore, the number of soldiers and horses in the world can be kept at about 800,000."

Fu Rang's answer was based on what he knew, and it was not a problem.

However, in the face of his answer, Meng Zhang and the others spoke: "Fu Dudu doesn't know, our army's arquebuses, field artillery, and siege artillery are extremely powerful, and they can often fight against 10,000 against 20,000 people, let alone against Hu Bing. ”

"If you can equip the whole army with arquebuses and field artillery, then 400,000 people in the north are too many."

"Indeed." Xu Sheng, Chen Chang and others also chimed in, which made Fu Rang frown.

He really didn't know how far the power of Bohai's firearms had developed, but according to the words of Meng Zhang and others, he still made an estimate of combat power.

"Even so, the north cannot be less than 300,000, the southwest must maintain 200,000, and the interior can be reduced as appropriate, but it needs to be maintained at about 150,000."

Fu Rang took a step back and only asked the entire Ming army to maintain 650,000 people.

This number is already quite a lot, you must know that when there were 70 million people in the Tang Dynasty, the number of soldiers in the country was only 570,000.

The population of the Ming Dynasty is less than that of the Tang Dynasty, but there are more soldiers and horses than the Tang Dynasty, which is already an incredible proportion.

You must know that the number of Ming military households is nearly two million, and the number of soldiers is normally maintained at about one million, but this quality is difficult to say.

Judging from the reaction of the armies in the Battle of Jingjing, except for the 90,000 elites in the south of the Yangtze River, the rest of the combat strength is very worrying.

Rather than maintain such a large but unusable number of troops, Zhu Gaoxu preferred to reduce them and let them engage in agricultural production honestly.

"There are 60,000 troops in Zhili, 30,000 in Beiping, Daning, Bohai, Liaodong, and Shanxi, 50,000 in Shaanxi and Xingdu, 50,000 in Sichuan, 100,000 in Yunnan, and 40,000 in Guangxi."

"The rest of the inland provinces will each have 15,000, and the navy is currently temporarily placed at 25,000, for a total of 610,000 troops."

After listening to the advice of the generals, Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth and set the number of soldiers in the world at 610,000, but he also added:

"This number of soldiers and horses is achieved by coming little by little, with a little equipment, and by dismantling the inland guard posts little by little."

"For now, it will be implemented from Bohai, Daning, Liaodong, and Shandong."

"The soldiers and horses in the four provinces shall not exceed 105,000, and the extra 45,000 shall be screened well, and the unqualified ones shall be put back as farmers, but the recruitment of the Jurchens in Bohai should not stop, and the recruited soldiers and horses shall be sent to the capital and charged into the upper ranks."

Zhu Gaoxu said, and Yi Shuha, who was sitting in the hall, also said: "According to the situation in Liaodong and Bohai, it is enough to change these 105,000 people in one year at most, and it will take almost six years to change the 610,000 troops in the world. ”

"Why doesn't Your Highness set up an Ordnance Bureau in the mainland?" Zheng He opened his mouth when he heard this, but Zhu Gaoxu frowned.

He also plans to use handicrafts and smelting to elevate the economy and status of the Northeast, and at this time it is not purely uncomfortable to move the Ordnance Bureau into the interior.

What's more, the Northeast is his basic plate, and he is not afraid of chaos in the Northeast.

"I'll talk about this matter in the future, at present, with the strength outside the customs, it is enough to slowly replace the equipment of the whole army, and the firearms equipment rate of the whole army must be carried out in strict accordance with the old Bohai system, and the firearms equipment needs to reach 60 percent, and the remaining 40 percent of the spears and cavalry shooting skills cannot be discarded."

After Zhu Gaoxu said this, he continued to discuss with everyone some unreasonable places in the health center, such as the annexation of tuntian in the hinterland, Jiangnan and other places, as well as the situation of not using enough tuntian.

Zhu Gaoxu did not plan to abolish these guards, but planned to relocate them to the southwest and north in the future.

If the military households of the guard post are unwilling, then restore the civil registration and divide the tuntian of the guard post to them equally.

Guards need to be retained, but in densely populated areas, they seem to encroach on local resources, so they must be abolished.

Zhu Gaoxu was happy about what he had done, but many generals standing in the hall felt that he was a little strange at the moment......

(End of chapter)