Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 65 The emperor is not angry

"Long live, this is the Annan bird's nest that Li Weiqi, the governor of Annan, paid tribute to last year. Try it."

In Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao stood in front of the window, overlooking the Forbidden City with red walls and white snow, and Wei Zhongxian's voice sounded behind him.

He turned around to look, but saw Wei Zhongxian holding a Jingtai porcelain bowl, and the bird's nest in the bowl was very conspicuous.

Annan, an independent country in the later period of Ming Xuanzong's reign, entered the town of Nanguan during the Jiajing period to ask for land from Ming Dynasty officials due to turmoil. The Ming Dynasty reduced Annan to the Annan Metropolitan Commander.

The Ming Dynasty reduced Annan's status from a subordinate state to a territory, and changed its thirteen departments into thirteen Xuanfu divisions, each with Xuanfu, Tongzhi, deputy envoy, and Qianshi, and listened to them all to depose.

The Mo family was ordered to be the commander of the Annan capital, ranking from the second rank, hereditary, and a tribute every three years.

Nominally speaking, Annan re-entered the territory of Ming Dynasty, but Mordenyong didn't seem to mind it.

With peace of mind towards Daming, he called himself the Commander-in-Chief of the Ming Dynasty, and continued to call himself Emperor Jianyuan internally.

This is Jiajing's foreign politics and a legacy left for Ming Dynasty. If the dynasty is strong, it can be used as an excuse to regain Annan again.

It's a pity that until 1592 when the Houli Dynasty in the south was restored, Ming did not regain Annan.

But even so, in the face of Emperor Li Shizong of the Later Li Dynasty requesting the Ming Dynasty to restore the previous canonization of "Annan King", Emperor Wanli temporarily granted the title of "Annan Metropolis Commander" on the grounds that the situation was still uncertain.

From then until the end of the Ming Dynasty, Vietnam has always existed as an administrative autonomous unit within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After the Annan Kingdom, the emperor of the Li Dynasty carried on the title of Annan Metropolitan Envoy until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not until the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty that the canonization of the Li Dynasty Emperor Annan King was restored.

Therefore, from the current point of view, Annan can be regarded as the land of the Ming Dynasty in name, but the Ming Dynasty can not command Annan except for the tribute of several thousand taels of silver every year.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the bird's nest in a daze. Wei Zhongxian carried it for a long time, but he didn't see him carrying it away, so he whispered: "Long live? Long live?"

"Hmm..." Zhu Youxiao came back to his senses, picked up the bird's nest, took a sip, and felt very fragrant and sweet.

It’s just that I was not happy after tasting it. I just looked out the window at the Forbidden City with red walls and white snow, and said slowly:

"With such heavy snow, I don't know how my brother is doing in Changping."

"It's been nine days since he went to Changping, right? Look at the snowstorm, I'm afraid it won't stop for a few days."

"Changping is not as prosperous as the capital city, and the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, so maybe it's not good to eat."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Zhongxian and said:

"Decree Luo Sigong asked him to send a Jinyi Guard of the General Banner to take ten pairs of bear's paws, ten pairs of shark's fins, ten cups of bird's nests, ten catties of tribute tea, and one stone of tribute rice from Shangshan Supervisor, and send them to Changping Mausoleum."

"The maidservant leads the decree..." Wei Zhongxian clicked his tongue secretly when he heard what Zhu Youxiao gave Zhu Youjian.

These things are probably worth two or three thousand taels of silver, so it really hurts to send them out like this.

However, although Wei Zhongxian had a heartache, he was still going to make arrangements.

But when he just turned around, Wang An walked in with a handwritten letter, and then saluted:
"Long live, His Highness Fifth sent someone to deliver a letter from Changping."

"Give it to me!" Hearing that it was Zhu Youjian's letter, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up, and he hurried forward to grab the handwritten letter, and couldn't wait to open it:

[Six days of farewell, several spring and autumn...]

The eight characters at the beginning fully express Zhu Youjian's concept of time for parting.

But seven days, to him, it seemed like several years had passed, and Zhu Youxiao laughed when he saw it.

He then looked down, only to see that in the letter Zhu Youjian described the process of leading people all the way north, and the headache of arriving at Yanshan Daying.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the content of the handwriting, and couldn't help substituting himself into Zhu Youjian's identity.

He frowned slightly when he saw the three guards of Andingmen Habayashi eating nothing, but he could bear it.

Seeing that the three guards of Yubayashi had nothing to do with the common people in Gonghua City, he felt a little comforted in his heart.

Seeing the mess in the Yanshan camp, Zhu Youjian's headache appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help laughing.

But when he saw the [-] free salary of the Yuma Prison on the second day, he frowned and felt angry.

When I saw Zhu Youjian's selection of soldiers and finally abolished [-] people to just over [-], I couldn't help worrying about what such a small number of people could do.

But when Zhu Youjian explained in the letter that the soldiers were fine but not long, he felt a little relieved.

Seeing Zhu Youjian receiving Qi Jin's Zhejiang soldiers, and talking about Qi Shaobao's guarding Jiliao and the Ming Dynasty's prestige spreading far and wide, he nodded secretly.

But when he saw the end of Qi Shaobao and others, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Arriving here, it is considered to have entered the theme.

In the letter, Zhu Youjian told Zhu Youxiao his thoughts and settled an account.

At present, there are [-] soldiers in southern Liaoning, which cost [-] in military pay, and another [-] in food and drink.

It's really unbearable to spend [-] yuan in salary, but can only hide in the city.

If [-] Zhejiang soldiers were to be recruited, they would be as guest soldiers, with [-] taels of silver per person, which would be only [-] taels. One hundred thousand taels.

This kind of saving made Zhu Youxiao secretly nod to the heavy Liaoxiang, but he was worried that there would not be enough soldiers and horses.

However, when he saw that Zhu Youjian said that not all of them were abolished, but that soldiers who dared to fight were selected to stay in the city, he was slightly relieved.

At the end of the letter, Zhu Youjian explained that due to the heavy snowstorm, he might not be able to go back for the ten-day appointment, and asked Zhu Youxiao to take good care of himself and not to be too tired to deal with government affairs.

Seeing these words, Zhu Youxiao showed a warm smile on his face, and then he reluctantly closed the letter, and ordered Wang An and Wei Zhongxian:

"Order the Ministry of War, transfer Qi Yuanfu from the Qijin Headquarters to lead the troops to the south, and recruit troops in Zhejiang..."

Having said that, he paused, feeling that [-] people seemed not enough, so he waved his hand and said:

"Recruit [-] soldiers in Zhejiang, and Zhejiang and Nanzhili will allocate [-] taels of silver from the additional dispatch, and deliver them to Qi Yuanfu's Ministry. In September next year, Qi Yuanfu will lead the army to the north and be responsible for escorting Caoyin, additional dispatch of silver, and Xia tax. , Autumn tax goes north."

"The maidservant takes orders..." Upon hearing this, Wang An and Wei Zhongxian responded one after another.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zhu Youxiao is making arrangements.

This layout is not for Zhu Youjian, but for Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

In Nanzhili and Zhejiang, this year's Jiapaiyin has not yet been transported to the north. Seeing that it is already the thirteenth day of October, they are still the same.

Since they refused to pay taxes, they asked Qi Yuanfu to bring the money back with the army after training.

The total amount of Liaoxiang's additional money has been released. In the two capitals and thirteen provinces, except for Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, which have not received any additional money, the other provinces' extra money is mainly in land tax, totaling [-] taels.

This sum of money has already been delivered to the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War in Ganshan, Shanxi, Northern Zhili, Henan, and Shandong in the north. Only Sichuan, Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, Nanzhili, and Zhejiang have yet to be shipped.

These local officials in the south, in order to make money, can be said to set the court and his will as waste paper.

"Since you don't give it away, then I will take it myself!"

Zhu Youxiao squinted his eyes, and the anger in his heart became more and more vigorous, and his will soon spread to the cabinet...

(End of this chapter)