Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 342 340 - Why Are Your Hands Itching?
In April, the capital city is sunny and everything is competing.

Zhen Wu thought about things all the way and came to the palace. The servants in the palace were no strangers to Zhen Wu. Hearing that Zhen Wu asked to see Zhu Di, he went to report to Zhu Di in a regular manner.

After a while, the servant came out to inform Zhen Wu that Zhu Di let him in.

And when Zhen Wu saw Zhu Di, Zhu Di was discussing matters with the cabinet ministers. Zhu Di glanced at Zhen Wu, motioned Zhen Wu to stay aside later, and then discussed with the cabinet ministers again.

These cabinet ministers Zhen Wu are no strangers, they are Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi and others.

When their reputation was not obvious, they had to help Zhen Wu to meet Zhu Di early, which made Zhu Di value them, so they all had a good impression of Zhen Wu. Now when they saw Zhen Wu coming in, they instinctively wanted to say hello to Zhen Wu , but when they saw that Zhu Di hadn't chatted with Zhen Wuduo, their desire to say hello had to stop.

Among them, Yang Shiqi also showed a hint of apology to Zhen Wu.

Zhen Wu silently indicated that it was okay, and then stood aside and listened to their discussion generously. Since Zhu Di was willing to let Zhen Wu in, it proved that Zhen Wu could listen to what Zhu Di and the others were discussing, so Zhen Wu did not need to shy away from it. Nothing, but there must be a need to keep quiet.

After he listened twice, he understood that Zhu Di and the others were discussing immigration.

Speaking of this matter, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other northern regions are also really miserable. First, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, natural disasters raged on the Central Plains. Droughts, floods, locust plagues, and plagues took turns. Corruption was at its extreme, corruption prevailed, and corrupt officials at all levels emerged in endlessly. Ordinary people had no way out, which led to the complete outbreak of class conflicts and ethnic conflicts. Countless people rose up to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty.

However, the Yuan Dynasty faced the land full of wars and smoldering wars, and the northern regions such as Hebei, Henan, and Shandong were the first to be strongly suppressed. The Mongols have never regarded the Han people as human beings. ' strategy.

Therefore, under the double attack of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the population in the northern region can be said to be emptied visible to the naked eye.

It is not an exaggeration at all to say that there are ten rooms and nine empty rooms and no human habitation.

This kind of natural and man-made disasters continued until Zhu Yuanzhang won the Northern Expedition, and it was not over. The northern region that was handed over to Zhu Yuanzhang at this time can be said to be a rotten mess.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was not discouraged when facing such a desolate area. He first adopted the method of population migration. On the one hand, it can control the population ratio in other areas, and on the other hand, it can also quickly restore agricultural production in the northern area.

After that, Zhu Yuanzhang took care of the northern region meticulously in many aspects, which restored the whole north to a little bit of vitality.

However, under such circumstances, Zhu Yuanzhang passed away.

A civil war ensued.

However, this civil war still revolves around Hebei, Shandong and other places with great injustices.

This all of a sudden caused the North to suffer a heavy blow.

Faced with this situation, Zhu Di immediately thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's old method, that is, immigration. However, how to move people, where to move them from, and the policy after moving here need to be carefully discussed.

This can be said to be a major event related to the people's livelihood of the country, and there should be no negligence.

Following their lively discussions, they finally decided on a general direction, still immigrating from Shanxi, and then adjusted according to Zhu Yuanzhang's immigration policy.

Speaking of it, Shanxi's foundation is really strong, Hongwu Yongle even gathered wool from Shanxi, and Shanxi still carried it abruptly.

At this time, Zhen Wu inexplicably remembered a rumor about the word "relieving hands" in later generations.

It is said that it was born among immigrants. At that time, the people were not happy with the immigration policy, but the imperial court forced them to emigrate, and they had no choice. During the emigration process, the imperial court was afraid that they would escape back to their hometowns halfway, so they used ropes to wear all the immigrants and brought them to the village. new place of residence.

When someone wanted to go to the toilet on the road, he asked the officers and soldiers to untie their hands for convenience, and then they relieved their hands, and this word has been handed down.

So in later generations, some people still say that if the village went to the bathroom to relieve itself, the ancestors immigrated here.

Just when Zhen Wu was thinking about this, Zhu Di finally had a general discussion. He waved Xie Jin and others down to discuss the detailed rules, and then asked him to finalize the detailed rules. Then Zhu Di looked at Zhen Wu.

But before Zhu Di had time to ask Zhen Wu why he was looking for him, someone came to ask about shipping grain and dredging the canal, and Zhu Di became busy again.

The grain and grass transported by sea is to supplement the consumption of Liaodong and Beijing in the past few years. After all, the strong labor force has been drawn out to serve as soldiers, and the grain and grass must be replenished, otherwise how to prepare the border.

And dredging the canal is related to the convenience of north-south communication, and it is not a trivial matter.

So after Zhu Di finished these two things, another hour had passed.

At this time, Zhen Wu had already gone to the side hall to wait for Zhu Di.

He couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly.

It's not easy to be an emperor.

Especially for an emperor who wants to make a career, it is still difficult to be an emperor.

Everything in the world requires the emperor to take care of everything. It can be said that as long as the emperor does not want to rest, the things that need him to deal with will not stop for a moment.

Seeing Zhu Di's busy appearance, Zhen Wu wondered whether he should go back first, leave the memorial, and ask Zhu Di to pick a time to summon him after Zhu Di finished reading it. He put his hands on his waist and turned his head, trying to relieve the fatigue of sitting for a long time.

"Wait a long time." Zhu Di said.

Zhen Wu got up quickly.

Zhu Di motioned and said, "Sit down, I have to stand for a while."

How dare this Zhen Wu.

He came to Zhu Di's side, reaching out his hand to help Zhu Di.

Zhu Di slapped Zhen Wu's outstretched hand away, glared at Zhen Wu and said, "If you don't want to live anymore, just tell me that you are absolutely satisfied, and give me the fuck to help me, I use you help?"

Zhen Wu was speechless for a moment.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?" Zhu Di asked.

Zhen Wu glanced at Zhu Di's expression, seeing that Zhu Di's face was very tired, he tentatively said: "It's not a particularly urgent matter, why don't I come back another day?"

"If you tell me what to say, just say what you want."

After saying this, Zhu Di explained with a little irritability: "I have been dealing with those trivial and complicated political affairs all day long, and I have long been bored, just to change my mind, and I kept you waiting because I still have something to ask you Woolen cloth."

"Then I said it."

Zhu Di nodded.

Zhen Wu smiled and said: "I want to ask His Majesty how he plans to deal with Annan, if His Majesty plans to clean up the situation in Annan..."

Speaking of this, Zhen Wu puffed his chest and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think of me? I'm not boasting, and I'm definitely worthy of your Majesty's use."

"you?"

Zhu Di snorted and said, "You're thinking about farts." After finishing speaking, he rolled his eyes, looked at Zhen Wu with a half-smile, and said, "I said why you can't hold back today, it's that Du Xing who begged you up?"

Zhen Wu nodded and said, "Give me two boxes of treasures."

Zhu Di snorted twice, and said, "You can keep the treasure, but Annan, don't give me any advice."

Zhen Wu was in a hurry: "Your Majesty, I have been paying attention to Annan's affairs. I feel so uncomfortable if you don't let me go. No, you have to tell me who you plan to let go? At least you have to let me know Who didn't want to eat farts, he even went ahead of me, could it be that guy Zhu Neng?"

Zhu Di shook his head and said, "No one let go, I plan to let go of the Annan matter first."

"Let go?"

Zhen Wu didn't understand and said: "Your Majesty, I have found out everything that happened in Annan. Don't say you don't know. Li Jishou launched a coup in Annan and usurped the king of the Chen family who was enshrined by our Ming Dynasty without a word. Now the Chen family His supporters are still arguing with Li Jishu, and it is the best opportunity for us to intervene in their internal affairs while Li Jishu's Hu regime is not stable."

"Don't I know!"

Zhu Di reprimanded irritably, and then he sighed a long time: "You think I don't want to, but why don't you think about it, how long we have only been in Nanjing, and we will use swords at this time, what will you let the people of the world think?" We, and you also saw it just now, the north is empty, emigrating, dredging the river, it doesn’t take time.”

Zhen Wu opened his mouth, just about to say something more.

Zhu Di said again: "I know what you want to say. Do you want to say that you can solve the Annan matter by leading a partial division? But this is not the case. If we use troops for the first time during the Yongle period, we must guarantee victory." , even if there is even the slightest possibility of defeat, I will not allow this to happen, so let's wait for two years. When the country is completely stable, I will set up the king's division to defeat Annan, and I have other thoughts about this matter , the time to send troops is not yet ripe."

Zhen Wu was a little reconciled, but he also knew in his heart that what Zhu Di said was reasonable, so he finally sighed and said, "Then let's let this good opportunity go and let Annan develop freely?"

Zhu Di thought for a while and said, "Do you have any good ideas? I've been thinking about this issue recently, but I haven't found a good solution."

Zhen Wu remembered.

First of all, Zhu Di can't find out about this matter, he can only pretend that he doesn't know about it, otherwise Zhu Di will be indifferent when he knows about it, which will damage Daming's prestige in the vassal state, but Zhu Di can't delay the canonization for a long time, it seems that Zhu Di is right The vassal state doesn't care at all, so is there any way to canonize the Hu family without making him feel so uncomfortable? "

The surname of Li Jiyao's ancestor was Hu. After usurping the power, he recovered his nature and established the Hu family regime. However, his regime was not stable. The supporters of the Chen family in China had always opposed him. Yak had no choice but to give way to his son in name, and he controlled the regime behind his back. His son was born to the princess of the Chen family and also had the blood of the Chen family. He tried to use this method to ease the situation. He and the Chen family supported relationship with the person.

At the same time, he also wanted to ask for the canonization of Ming Dynasty and obtain a reasonable and legal status, so he asked the envoys to come to ask Zhu Di for the canonization. To inherit the kingship.

His calculations are very loud, but there are no fools in this world who have reached their position.

Zhen Wu thought about it, his eyes lit up and said: "Why don't we just pretend that we don't know about Annan's coup, and give him the canonization generously, but at the same time commend the contributions made by the Chen family and his son, so that when Li Jishou gets the canonization, we also want to give it to him. Let the people of Annan feel the attitude of our Daming, tell the people of Annan that we still support the Chen family, so presumably the supporters of the Chen family will not be willing to be loyal to Li Jisha, and may find ways to come to my Ming Dynasty for help, and Li Jisha is worried Knowing this, I, Ming, must do everything possible to stop it, so that the conflict between Li Jishu and the supporters of the Chen family will definitely be intensified, and within a year or two, Annan will definitely not live in peace, and we can take this opportunity to cultivate and recuperate."

After Zhu Di listened, he nodded involuntarily, with a smile on his face.

"Yes, this is a good idea."

A smile also appeared on Zhen Wu's face, but he still felt a little pity in his heart. If he wanted to beat Annan, he would have to hold back for two years.

Zhu Di probably guessed what Zhen Wu was thinking, and suddenly said with a smile: "Do you feel like you're too busy? Don't worry, I happen to have one thing I want you to do, and it's a good thing."

"What's the matter?" Zhen Wu looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di asked, "Do you still remember Aha's release?"

Who?
After thinking for a while, Zhen Wu said uncertainly, "The chief of the Huli Gai Department?"

Zhu Di nodded and said: "That's right, it's him. Hongwu was still there in 28 years. When we cleaned up the barbarian Jurchens in the East China Sea, we had some contacts with him. This time he came all the way to the capital to pay tribute. He just wanted to take refuge in our Daming. I have promised him that I will set up a guard in his tribe and do business with the various Jurchen ministries over there."

Speaking of which, Zhu Di asked someone to find a map of the Northeast, and waved to Zhen Wu: "Come and see, they are in this place now, you think about it, what does it mean for us to set up a guard here."

Zhen Wu looked over. This location is west of the Hunchun River and north of the Tumen River. It can be said that the geographical conditions are very convenient. More importantly, if a guard is set up here, they can use this guard to radiate the surrounding areas, and even wait for them. After subduing all the nearby Jurchen tribes, they can also develop near the Heilongjiang River Basin.

Thinking of this, Zhen Wu's mind twitched, isn't this fucking slave Gandusi?

Zhu Di smiled and said, "How about it? I plan to call this guard the Jianzhou Guard. There are currently three branches of Jurchen, Jianzhou as one, Haixi Jurchen as one, and East China Sea Savage Jurchen as one. These three branches are zero. There are countless tribes scattered in this area. Further north, Mongolia, Jilimi, Daur, Xianghar, Wuliehe, these tribes can all try to appease them. Once these places are appeased, if we Then use troops on the grasslands, firstly they can block the enemy's retreat for us, secondly, they can convey information to us, and thirdly, they can join the army and follow the conquest, and it will no longer be difficult for us to break through the grassland."

Speaking of this topic, Zhu Di was beaming with delight. He was in a completely different state from the discussion of immigration and other political affairs just now, as if Zhu Di's dream was hidden in the grassland.

Zhu Di went on to say: "So I want you to go there. I don't worry about other people. And when you get there, you can do whatever you want. If you can, you can do whatever you want. If you can't, at least build a relationship. I don't care what method you use. I have already asked Meng Shan to supervise the town of Liaodong. He has always been your lieutenant general. You can use him smoothly. Even if there is any big commotion, you can directly mobilize Meng Shan. As long as you wipe your ass clean, I will do whatever you want. How about it?"

Zhen Wu smiled. Behind him was Meng Shan from Liaodong, and to the west was Wu Liangha whom he was familiar with. He dared to walk all the way to Heilongjiang.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will never disgrace your orders." Zhen Wu knelt down on one knee and accepted the orders.

Zhu Di waved Zhen Wu to stand up and said, "No need, you can take your time, I'll wait for you to come back, and Annan will leave it to you at that time, as long as we clean up the northeast and south, we will go to the grassland together. "

Kill to the grassland.

These four words immediately excited Zhen Wu, he just felt that it was a refreshing thing to follow such a boss who loves to fight.

"Don't get excited yet."

Zhu Di comforted Zhen Wudao: "Let me simply remind you that in the Jurchen branch of Jianzhou, the tribe from Aha has a tribe that has been related by marriage for generations. Their two tribes are the two largest tribes in the Jurchen branch of Jianzhou. , after you go there, get rid of these two tribes first. As long as you have the support of these two tribes, the next step will be relatively easy, and the leader of the tribe whose in-laws were born by Aha just happened to be the in-laws of Aha called Mengge Timur , you can make some friends in the past."

Zhen Wu nodded and wrote it down.

After Zhu Di thought for a while, he said, "By the way, this fierce brother Timur might not use this name in the tribe. You should remember his Jurchen name too. It seems to be called Aixinjueluo Mengtemu."

What?
Zhen Wu was stunned for a moment, his name is not important, but his surname...

Aixinjueluo?

What is a word called?

Build slaves?

Damn, why are your hands itchy?

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(End of this chapter)