Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 198

"He wants to cut down the feudal clan, and he also wants to deal with me, so Gu has to welcome him?!"

On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, in Luoyang County's Prince Fu's Mansion, when the long history of Prince Fu's Mansion came to tell Zhu Changxun that he needed to go to the gate of the mansion to welcome Zhu Youjian, Zhu Changxun lost his temper almost immediately.

"Your Highness, form is better than people, if you are soft today, there will always be a chance to get it back in the future."

Fu Wangfu's chief Shi carefully persuaded, while Zhu Changxun gritted his teeth.

In his opinion, Zhu Changluo, the father of Zhu Youxiao's two brothers, had never played with him. If he hadn't relied on the support of civil servants, the throne should have been his.

Now that Feng Shui is turning, he actually has to go out to meet Zhu Changluo's son who he despises.

"Zhu Youjian..."

Zhu Changxun gritted his teeth, and thought of Zhu Youjian who was at the front of the feudal clan, followed by Zhu Changluo, and was carried by Zhu Youxiao on his back...

He never dreamed that ten years later, he would greet that cowardly kid who only knew how to hide behind Zhu Youxiao's back, and he had to listen to him!
Thinking of these, Zhu Changxun felt a fire burning in his chest...

"His Royal Highness, time..." Shi, the head of the palace, vaguely reminded the time, but Zhu Changxun glared at him:
"understood!"

After all, no matter how helpless Zhu Changxun was, he still called for his three sons, and then went with them to the gate of Prince Fu's residence.

The wind and snow in Luoyang at the end of the twelfth lunar month is not too heavy, but it is still a bit cold.

The older Zhu Yousong is okay, but the younger Zhu Youju (belonging to wood) and Zhu Youhua next to him are not.

The two shrank their necks, seeing Zhu Changxun's distress, so he couldn't help but feel a little angry.

"That kid Zhu Youjian hasn't come yet?" He asked the chief history of the palace, and the long history said:

"The county officials said that they just entered Luoyang City a quarter of an hour ago, so it should be almost here..."

As soon as he responded to these words, Zhu Changxun and the others heard the dense sound of horseshoes.

Zhu Yousong is older and knows that his family has a bad relationship with Zhu Youjian and others, but Zhu Youju and Zhu Youhua don't know it.

The two brothers looked at the end of the long road curiously, and then they saw Shang Baitiqi in scarlet robes and a young man in a blue round-collar robe who was guarded in the end.

"What kind of spectacle..."

Seeing Zhu Youjian's embarrassing look, Zhu Changxun gritted his teeth, and Zhu Yousong also pulled the two younger brothers who stretched their necks.

The army horses walked quickly, and behind the team were some children in coarse linen clothes with baskets on their backs.

They frantically followed behind the team, just to wait for the army horses to excrete, put the horse dung in the back basket, and sell it for money.

Zhu Youjian didn't ask anyone to drive them away, but when he brought them to the gate of Prince Fu's Mansion, he said to Lu Wenzhao:
"Reward some money and let them go home."

"Yes..." Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youjian got off his horse, and looked at Zhu Changxun, who had a bad face.

Zhu Changxun is only thirty-six years old now, and his figure is not very tall, but he looks about five feet four or five inches, and his weight is not as exaggerated as in his later years. He can only be said to be a little fat.

He has a fair face, and when Zhu Youjian saw him, he knew why his royal grandfather liked him so much.

Without him, Zhu Changxun looks more like Emperor Wanli than his own cheap Huangkao, even more so than Zhu Youxiao.

There is nothing wrong with people liking descendants who look like themselves, and Zhu Youjian can understand, but this does not prevent him from attacking Zhu Changxun.

"My nephew has met my third uncle..." Zhu Youjian bowed his hands, and although Zhu Changxun was unwilling in every possible way, he still said:

"No need to be too polite, I don't know what Nephew Qi is going to do when he comes to Luoyang this time."

The tone of Zhu Changxun's words was cold, but Zhu Youjian didn't care, but smiled heartily at Zhu Yousong and others:

"Presumably this is Brother Wang and the two younger brothers!"

"Brother Qi Wang (brother) is good..." Zhu Yousong returned with two younger brothers, and Zhu Youjian also nodded, and then said to Zhu Changxun:
"This time, there is naturally something to do."

After all, Zhu Youjian said unceremoniously:
"The reform of the clan, following His Majesty's will alone, abolished the salaries of the feudal clans and changed the salaries to cash."

"Nianfufan is of the blood of the emperor's grandfather, and is a brother of Huangkao. Therefore, the prince of Fufan's salary is [-] taels of silver, and the county king is [-] taels of silver."

Who wants your salary? !Zhu Changxun cursed in his heart.

You must know that although Fufan is a new fan, Zhu Changxun is favored by Wanli, and his salary is a full two million mu.

The two million mu of land was allocated from the three provinces of Henan, Huguang, and Shandong, and was handed over to the vassal after receiving the land tax of one of the [-] imperial courts.

In other words, Zhu Changxun can earn hundreds of thousands of shi every year with only his salary.

This is not counting the thirteen hundred Huai salt that Emperor Wanli granted him. The Huai salt does not need to pay taxes at all. The annual income seems to be only a few thousand taels of silver, but Zhu Changxun, like Zhu Youjian, used a small amount of salt to attract, A large number of private salt sales.

Calculated in this way, Fufan's annual income is more than [-] taels, and this is only the annual income.

In fact, starting from the dispute over the country, Emperor Wanli often gave Zhu Changxun the rare treasures collected by the mine supervisor.

Zhu Changxun spent [-] taels of silver when he got married, and another [-] taels of silver for the construction of the palace.

It is precisely because of the indulgence of Emperor Wanli that Zhu Changxun was able to sit on an equal footing with Zhou Fan as a new fan.

Zhu Youjian didn't know how much money his cheap imperial grandfather gave his good third uncle.

But what he knows is that as much as he eats, he has to spit out as much.

The "pig-killing plate" of overseas feudal vassals is aimed at this group of clans with money...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian twitched his lips, and then said to Zhu Changxun:
"Third Uncle, don't you invite your nephew to sit in the Chengyun Hall?"

"..." This question made Zhu Changxun frown, but he still made a gesture of please, and Zhu Youjian stepped over without any fear, and walked towards the palace.

Seeing this, Lu Wenzhao immediately lined up with Baitiqi in two rows to escort Zhu Youjian into Fuwang's mansion, while Zhu Changxun walked towards Chengyun Hall with his three children with jealous eyes.

It has to be said that the construction scale of Luoyang Prince Fu's Mansion is huge, even compared with that of Zhou Fan's Zhou Palace.

Surrounded by a ten-foot-high wall, there are inner palaces, outer palaces, and four mansion gate towers.

At the beginning, Zhu Changxun granted the feudal clan Luoyang "enjoying a great country and being the assistant of the feudal clan", and his status was very prominent.

However, the scenery at the beginning has become a hot potato now, and Zhu Youjian is also a headache for Fu Fan.

If Wen Chen can deal with his two brothers, then there is no doubt that he supports Zhu Changxun.

It is also simple to solve this problem, that is, Zhu Youjian directly draws his knife and kills himself, a good third uncle.

But the problem is that Zhu Youjian can tell that his royal brother doesn't want to be called a murderer of his relatives.

Even if Zhu Youjian made an accident himself and caused a group of people in Fufan to die in an accident, those civil servants would still make use of it.

Zhu Youjian has a deep understanding of how powerful a literati's pen is.

Therefore, since it is impossible to kill, it is a good way to drive the opponent far away, and you can get a lot of money.

After entering the Hall of Carrying Transport, without Zhu Youjian opening his mouth, Lu Wenzhao had someone lay out a ten-foot-wide world map in front of Zhu Changxun.

Zhu Changxun glanced at it, and finally said only one sentence: "This picture is very sophisticated, much better than "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu"."

"Hehe..." Zhu Youjian laughed when he heard this, and couldn't help saying:
"Third Uncle, why do you pretend you don't understand? I'm afraid you already know what my nephew said to Zhou Fan and other clans?"

"How about becoming a vassal overseas?"

Zhu Youjian got straight to the point, but Zhu Changxun's facial muscles twitched immediately when he heard it.

At this moment, he has already thought of hundreds of possibilities for Zhu Youjian to kill him.

Crossed the sea and fell into the water to die...

This thought flashed through Zhu Changxun's mind, and the next second he said: "I live alone in the Central Plains, and the overseas is barren, and I don't want to leave."

"Hey..." Zhu Youjian stood up with a smile and said:
"It's a national policy to be a vassal overseas. How can the third uncle be greedy for the gentle hometown of the Central Plains?"

"Not to mention the third uncle, even my nephew will need to settle overseas in the future."

After all, Zhu Youjian took his pear tree from Lu Wenzhao, then pointed to Nan Ya and said:
"At present, all the vassals are planning to take over here, because the land of Tianzhu has been developed for thousands of years, and after it is laid down, there will be good fields and mineral deposits."

"If the third uncle doesn't want to be here, he can also go to Levia (Africa). Although Levia has not been developed and is a barren land, the local products are rich and suitable for the vassal."

"Oh... If that's the case, let's leave it to nephew Wang." Zhu Changxun's expression and appearance of life and death made Zhu Youjian squint his eyes.

Seeing Zhu Youjian squinting his eyes, Zhu Changxun was inexplicably panicked, but quickly calmed down.

There are only a handful of clan members of Old Zhu's family who were killed. As long as he doesn't rebel, he won't be decapitated at all. Even if he rebels, he will be imprisoned on Fengyang High Wall at most with the status of less than three servants.

Thinking of this, Zhu Changxun cheered up again, and Zhu Youjian continued:
"Third uncle, why are you doing this? Staying in the Central Plains is not a good thing for you."

In front of Zhu Yousong and others, Zhu Youjian secretly threatened Zhu Changxun.

Perhaps for Zhu Youjian, the other feudal vassals still need to be kind and pleasant, but he is not so courteous to Fufan.

The other vassals, except Zhu Youjian's three imperial uncles in the capital, have no strength and name to threaten the rule of their imperial brothers.

But Zhu Changxun is different, relying on the dispute between Wanli and the ministers for the country, he has the name of being able to raise troops.

The ghost knows whether the civil servants will find out a copy of the edict left by Emperor Wanli, and the content is still the edict of Zhu Changxun, who passed on the throne.

Although Zhu Youjian is confident that he will lead the army to suppress the civil servants while they are making small moves, but if the matter can be put an end to it, then why let it develop to the worst?
"Third Uncle, what's the point of staying in Daming? You were imprisoned in Luoyang all day long, and you were not allowed to move around."

"It's better to go overseas and become a vassal, free and easy, isn't it?"

Zhu Youjian said, and got up and walked to Zhu Changxun's side, and said to Zhu Changxun:

"If the third uncle is worried, he can choose his own ship and people, and after three years, he will go overseas with the sailing fleet."

"At that time, you can first establish a domain overseas, build a shipyard, and then use your own shipyard's ships to send yourself overseas."

"Don't worry..." Zhu Changxun was nervous, but still pretended to be calm.

"Hehe..." Zhu Youjian didn't say anything, just smiled, and then said:

"This map is left here. If the third uncle has something to look at, he can choose."

"It's just that this pension will be abolished from today onwards. The land that third uncle bought himself can be sold to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, or it can be kept for land."

"One mu of land is exchanged for a hundred mu overseas. If you don't worry about soldiers and horses, you can also order the three king brothers to train after three years of resignation."

As he said, Zhu Youjian glanced at the three of Zhu Yousong, and the moment Zhu Yousong and Zhu Youjian looked at each other, he lowered his head inexplicably guilty.

"Think carefully, don't become a pawn of those rotten scholars..."

Zhu Youjian reminded vaguely, and Zhu Changxun is not a fool, he knows the meaning of the other party's words.

"That's the thing. Yanyin and the salary field will be abolished from today, and the third uncle can just receive the salary every year."

After leaving the last sentence, Zhu Youjian turned around and left with Lu Wenzhao and others.

Zhu Changxun looked at his back as he went away, and then at the map laid on the ground, his facial muscles twitched, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

He wanted to resist, but the problem was that according to the current news, the Waigongwei camp in Shanxi had entered the border of Henan, and the Gongwei camp in Beizhili had also gone south to Shandong.

Henan and Shandong already have soldiers and horses directly under Zhu Youjian, and it is impossible for him to recruit soldiers and horses now.

"Song'er, starting today, you and your two younger brothers will study military art together."

Zhu Changxun spoke to Zhu Yousong with a gloomy face, and Zhu Yousong opened his mouth, hesitant to speak, but finally obeyed: "My son takes orders..."

Zhu Youjian didn't know whether Zhu Changxun accepted his fate, but it was very easy for soldiers from Shanxi and Beizhili to enter Shandong and Henan to abolish the guards.

He moved his troops to Sishuiguan, quietly waiting for the dismantling of the guards in the two provinces.

Compared with the resistance of the local guards, in fact, the real obstacle to the abolition of the two provinces mainly comes from the court...

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"Clang... clang... clang..."

Time passed, and the world ushered in the first day of the first month of the third year of the apocalypse.

The rebels of the White Lotus Sect in various places were encircled and suppressed one after another, and the soldiers and horses of the Yumajian were abolished in Henan and Shandong.

Several vassal kings in Shaanxi were willing to give up their salaries in exchange for annual salaries.

Guizhou's [-] main and auxiliary troops withdrew more than [-] at once, which reduced the pressure on An Bangyan and others.

But in a mere land of thousands of miles, there are mostly mountains and forests, which simply cannot support the more than [-] soldiers and horses under his command.

In Zhu Xieyuan's continuous siege, I believe it will not take long to completely put down the rebellion.

Millions of refugees from Henan and Shandong, as well as lazy people from the nursing homes of the three provinces, began to move to Liaodong in a mighty way at the same time that the guards were abolished.

Zhu Youjian didn't panic, but he didn't know that the capital city had become a mess...

"Abolish the guards in Shandong, Henan and other places. May I ask your majesty, you do this! Why do you think the scholars from the guards of the world?!"

In the capital, unlike the previous two years, this time the Great Court Conference was not held in the Wenhua Hall, but in the Huangji Hall of the Three Great Halls of the Outer Court.

After receiving more than two million taels of silver from the Yumajian, Zhu Youxiao couldn't wait to have the three halls repaired.

After more than [-] years, the three halls of Huangji Hall, Zhongji Hall, and Jianji Hall have finally stood up again.

However, due to financial problems, the repair speed of Zhongji Hall and Jianji Hall was very slow, while Huangji Hall was completed before the Zhengdan Festival because of Zhu Youxiao's design and arrangement.

Therefore, the majestic Huangji Hall once again became the home court of the Grand Court Meeting, and Zhu Youxiao also prepared a lot for this Grand Court Meeting.

It's just that he didn't expect that as soon as the court meeting started, someone would start the impeachment.

It seems that since last year's Dachaohui high-profile, the Dachaohui has also lost its former peace, and the person impeached this time is not the mouthpiece of the Donglin Party, but the Qi Party...

At this moment, Qi Shijiao, the leader of the whole party, is questioning the emperor, and he has completely lost the appearance of muddling along in the past.

His questioning is also because most of the officials in the Qi Party are military officials from the Dusi Weisuo and Hebeiwos Weisuo.

This time the rebellion in Shandong and Henan was suppressed, and the Qi Party intended to spend the year with their tails between their legs. After all, the rebellion was organized on their territory.

But the problem is that they can't stand Zhu Youjian's tossing around, abolishing the guards in Shandong and Henan, this is undoubtedly to dig out the roots of the party...

Not only the Qi Party, but also some officials in the Donglin Party are officials from the Henan Weisuo. Therefore, after Qi Shijiao stepped forward, some civil servants in Donglin also wore imperial uniforms, held wat boards, and shouted sadly:
"Your Majesty, the guards are not your Majesty's subjects—"

"Your Majesty, please stop King Qi, and don't let the guards of the world feel chilled!"

All the officials sang, and Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting high on the dragon chair in the Huangji Hall, had his face blocked by Yu Yan, so the officials couldn't see his specific expression.

But it is not difficult to guess that the emperor should be very angry now...

"Zhen... didn't I distribute farmland to military households..."

A voice that was so calm that no trace of emotion could be heard resounded in the Huangji Hall, causing many civil servants to "thump" in their hearts.

"Your Majesty and ministers are not saying that there are no military households and scholars, but that..." Qi Shijiao wanted to explain, but Zhu Youxiao forcefully said:

"King Qi's innovation is based on my will. The military farms in the families of military households and scholars are all based on the number of the original official positions, and they will be kept after the abolition of the guards."

"Since the acres of land have been reserved, why are there still dissatisfaction? Could it be that the military households in Shandong and Henan provinces have seized the military farmland?"

"Of course not, please appease your majesty..." Qi Shijiao continued to respond and lowered his head.

"Since it won't, there is nothing to dispute!" Zhu Youxiao set the tone of the matter and said:

"Give the King of Qi Youjian as the general manager of the Liao Dynasty, and control the soldiers and horses of the five provinces of Shanxi, Beizhili, Liaodong, Shandong, and Henan. Before the end of the autumn harvest, the entire territory of Liaodong must be recovered this year!"

"Your Majesty, think twice—"

Zhu Youxiao's words blew everyone up.

Zhu Youjian's military ability has been recognized. With such military ability to command and recover the entire territory of Liaodong, it must be easy to restore Liaodong.

If Zhu Youjian easily restores the Liao Dynasty, the emperor's reputation will be pushed to an unbearable level.

After the recovery of the Liao Dynasty, I am afraid that all guards in the world will be abolished.

Such a move made Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, Donglin, Qin, Sichuan, Fujian and other eight parties join together, and it was rare to refute the emperor with a unified opinion.

On this Zhengdan Festival, in this Huangji Palace, and at this great court meeting, the imperial power and civil servants started a confrontation, and this kind of confrontation shocked everyone.

How many years has it been since the country-ben dispute, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty have not been so united for more than ten years.

But even if they are united this time, they are still very weak in the face of imperial power.

Nine sides have been abolished and five sides have been abolished. The remaining four sides have less than [-] soldiers and horses, and less than [-] can be drawn out to fight in the field.

As far as this little soldiers and horses are concerned, they may not all be driven by civilian officials.

How many soldiers and horses are there in the capital now?The three guards of the imperial city, the generals of the Han Dynasty, Wanping, Daxingying, Jingying, and the army and horses of the five cities...

There are nearly [-] soldiers and horses, but in fact, if there is any coup d'etat, the civil servants will not be able to enter the imperial city at all.

Of the [-] soldiers and horses, excluding the three guards and the second battalion directly under the emperor and the big Han generals, there are only [-] left.

But the Wucheng soldiers and horses can only bully the people, and the Beijing camp can only defend the city.

Expect these [-] people to break through the imperial city?Just kidding...

Before they could reach the imperial city, Lu Long, Shen Wu, Ying Yang and other guards stationed in the north sent their troops south to encircle and suppress the rebels.

Fighting head-on is not good...

Detours, no way...

For a while, the civil servants were caught in a dilemma, because they could not reject the emperor's move to abolish Weisuotian no matter from righteousness or other aspects.

If the emperor abolished Weisuotian and merged it into Huangzhuang, they would naturally have an excuse to reject it.

But the current abolition measures in the south are to distribute the land to the common people...

The common people are not fools. Looking at the fields that have already been allocated, they will not believe the lies of the so-called fellow villagers.

Unless the so-called fellow countrymen can donate more land to them, how can this kind of means, civil servants and local gentry be used?
If you can't show it, you can't refute it, then you can only honestly let Qi Wang Zhu Youjian be the general manager of the restoration of the Liao Dynasty, and after the restoration of the Liao Dynasty, the whole country will be abolished.

Does Zhu Youjian have this strength?Needless to say.

With more than [-] soldiers and horses under his command, he can completely abolish the troops and horses of the remaining provinces.

If it weren't for these [-] soldiers and horses still needing to defend the long Great Wall, I'm afraid Zhu Youjian would have freed up to deal with them long ago.

Zhu Youjian, that is more difficult to deal with than the emperor sitting on the dragon chair right now.

"Disperse!"

Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao stopped arguing with civil servants, or torn his face.

The matter of the southwest has been roughly finalized. Sun Chuanting and others led more than [-] soldiers and horses to go down the Yangtze River, and the Central Plains had [-] soldiers and horses led by Commander Zhu Youjian.

Shanxi, Beizhili, and Liaodong each have soldiers and horses stationed there.

It can be said that, as far as the current situation is concerned, there are soldiers and horses implicated in Zhu Youjian walking on two-thirds of the territory of Ming Dynasty.

The civil servant's political means are good, but no matter how good the political means are, they can't play with a knife made of steel.

With a knife on their necks, they know what to say and what not to say.

Zhu Youxiao just left in front of the officials, and the atmosphere of Tianqi's three-year court meeting was extremely stiff.

"The face is torn..."

These four words are in everyone's mind, and the only thing the officials can rely on now is the governance power of local officials.

I don't know that with this power, I can still wrestle with the imperial power for a few years...

　There's one more at eight o'clock in the evening

　　
　
(End of this chapter)