Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 96

"May I ask what the former emperor said about the instability..."

Gui Wang Zhu Changying spoke cautiously, and Zhu Youxiao was also curious about what his brother said about the unstable situation.

As for Zhu Youjian, it is impossible for him to tell about the rebellion of She Chongming, so he can only say to Zhu Changying:

"Right now, Liaodong Jianlu is pressing harder and harder. If there are no accidents, a war against Liaodong will be launched next year."

"This..." Hui Wang Zhu Changrun just wanted to say that it had nothing to do with them, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't say it.

But in the next second, Zhu Youjian said again: "After the pacification of Liaodong, the imperial court had Yu Yin to build the palace for the three uncles, and then they became the vassals."

Zhu Youjian's words made the three of them overjoyed.

Generally speaking, the prince's palace is in charge of the local government with fiefdoms, but the situation in Liao is difficult now, and the extra payment is on the people and the local government. Officials are very disgusted with building palaces for the princes.

If Zhu Youjian said so, it means that they don't have to worry about the affairs of the palace.

As for the so-called Jianlu, in their view, they are nothing more than Yang Yinglong and his ilk, and they can be calmed down in only seven or eight years.

Their ideas actually represented the views of the scholar-bureaucrats and common people of all classes in the Ming Dynasty.

Although they experienced the Battle of Sarhu, except for the Liao people in Liaodong, the people in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty did not take Jianlu seriously.

The three kings bowed to Zhu Youxiao and said: "In this case, then the ministers and others will thank you in advance for long live."

"Hehe, you three uncles are welcome. Before you become a feudal clan, you can continue to rest and recuperate in the capital. The annual salary of [-] shi will be converted into silver and distributed normally."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and Wang Chengen, who was standing at the door, also sent them out of Xuqin Palace after the three kings walked out.

"Why didn't my brother let the three kings take over early?"

When the three kings were sent out of the palace, Zhu Youxiao suddenly looked at Zhu Youjian next to him.

"Did brother just want to?" Zhu Youjian asked back, and then the two brothers looked at each other and smiled.

Zhu Youxiao said frankly: "My Daming is now a suzerain vassal has become a problem."

"Huang Kao probably also saw this problem, that's why he didn't arrange for the three uncles to become feudal lords after he ascended the throne."

"But even if I stop sending vassal kings abroad, the [-] vassal kings in the world will continue."

"Although the imperial court has set a fixed salary of [-] million taels, the descendants of the vassal princes will reproduce endlessly."

Zhu Youxiao's words are considered to be at the forefront of this era. Not only him, but also Wanli and Taichang have also paid attention to the issue of suzerain and vassal.

Therefore, from the initial quota of [-] million taels, to the subsequent release of the imperial examinations for the children of the Zhu family, the Ming Dynasty has been changing.

However, such a change is useless, and the most important thing is that the thirty vassals are irreversible.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di did not establish a system of hereditary decrement of titles, which led to the fact that unless the vassal king had no sons and no foreign vassal hereditary, the vassal title would always exist.

Similar to Qin Wang and Jin Wang, many princes actually experienced the vassal king's childlessness, but inherited the vassal king's throne from the collateral line.

The Ming Dynasty has developed to the present, and the clan has close to [-] children. Based on the minimum salary of [-] shi for a lieutenant in Fengguo, at least [-] million shi of grain must be distributed every year to feed them.

But Wanli sold a good one, that is, the direct quota of [-] million taels, no matter how many more sons of the vassal clan will be added in the future, anyway, it will only be [-] million taels per year, and how to divide it is entirely up to the vassal prince and the sons of the vassal clan to discuss.

In this way, the children of Zhu's family will be out of luck.

Thus began the tragic period when the children of the vassal clan in the Ming Dynasty had no salary, and even lived worse than beggars.

This period has continued to the present, and it has been nearly thirty years.

Because they were the children of the vassal clan, the nursing home did not accept them, so they could only become tenants of the vassal king, and what's more, they directly became the only forced beggars in the Ming Dynasty.

You can't do business, you can only take part in the exam.

Zhu Youjian is very clear about all this, and he knows that the princes and county kings from all over the country are living a very nourishing life, and the generals who go down to Zhenguo, Fuguo, and Fengguo can still have something to eat.

Lieutenant Zhenguo, Lieutenant Fuguo, and Lieutenant Fengguo who are further down can be said to be waiting to die.

However, this group has the largest number of people. Right now, there are [-] clan descendants, and at least [-] descendants of these three titles.

Therefore, if a system of hereditary decline can be established, then the problem of the clan can be easily solved.

But the only problem is that if you want to implement the hereditary decline system, you must offend the vassal.

In order to prevent the vassals from rebelling, only by maintaining a strong military can the hereditary decline system be formalized.

But the problem is that at present, the Ming Dynasty can't even solve the Houjin of more than [-] people, let alone solve the suzerainty issue.

If the suzerainty problem can be solved, taxes can be easily collected.

Everything stems from the lack of centralization ability, and if you want to strengthen centralization, you must let the world see the strength of the central government.

So Zhu Youjian said to Zhu Youxiao after Zhu Youxiao finished speaking:
"Brother, the Seven Guards and the First Battalion of the Yanshan Day Camp are expected to be fully recruited in ten days. In this way, my brother has more than [-] elite troops."

"I came to the capital this time, in addition to helping my brother stabilize the situation after the poisonous woman's death, the second thing I want to do is to talk to my brother about it."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian told Brother Haohuang in detail about his desire to abolish the guards and battalions in Miyun, Huairou, Changping, and Tongzhou, and change the seven guards and one battalion to garrison them.

In particular, they reported the food data of the guards stationed in Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's time, and said the money that could be saved after the abolition of the [-] guards, [-] guards, and [-] battalions.

Save at least [-] taels of military pay, increase the income of [-] million mu of cultivated land, harvest [-]% of grain per mu, and increase the grain of about [-] shi a year.

However, such a move is actually tantamount to abolishing two-thirds of Ji Town, one of the nine sides, in disguise, leaving only Jizhou and Zunhua in Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion.

But after the abolition, not only did not lose Ji Liao's strength, but it strengthened Ji Liao's strength.

"Are you sure?"

Zhu Youxiao's eyes were cloudy and uncertain. After weighing it for a long time, he suddenly asked Zhu Youjian this question.

Facing this question, Zhu Youjian nodded:

"After two months at most, seven guards and one battalion are enough to switch sides!"

"Okay!" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao also nodded and said:

"Since this is the case, you don't have to worry about the next thing, as long as you get the Zhongzhi, you can directly send troops to take over!"

Zhu Youxiao knew very well that the cabinet would definitely not agree to replace Jizhen soldiers and horses with the four guards and one battalion of Yumajian and the three guards of Habayashi.

So what he has to do is very simple, that is to directly bypass the cabinet and use Zhongzhi to kill first and then play.

As long as the soldiers and horses are replaced safely, there will be no soldiers and horses in Ji Town, and the cabinet will have nothing to say.

This method was similar to that used by Zhu Houzhao, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, but he directly ordered the Beijing camp and the frontier army to switch defenses, while Zhu Youxiao wanted to directly abolish the soldiers and horses in Jizhen.

Not only that, among the abolished soldiers and horses, the Tongzhou Guard, Daxing Guard, and Yanshan Guard were also included.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao added:

"My younger brother's idea is good, but he missed one point."

"As my younger brother said before, the twenty-six guards of Shangzhi are my emperor's support."

"Since this is the case, the three guards of Tongzhou, Daxing, and Yanshan cannot be abolished, and even Shixiaying, Zhenluying, and Jianchangying cannot be abolished."

Zhu Youxiao thought further than Zhu Youjian. Although he didn't understand military affairs, he understood the political methods taught to him by Emperor Wanli.

It's easy to tear down an organization, but hard to rebuild it.

Retaining the establishment of Yanshan Sanwei, Tongzhouwei, and Daxingwei means that Zhu Youjian has more soldiers and horses of five guards and three battalions.

Including the seven guards and one battalion, there are four battalions of twelve guards in total, and there are [-] soldiers at full strength.

Zhu Youjian heard Brother Haohuang's suggestion, and he realized it later:

"Brother is right. If this is the case, then the soldiers and horses of Yongping and Jizhen should also hurry up."

"Why don't we just send someone to be the governor of Jiliao, and then use thunderous means to take over the Yanbian Pass of the Great Wall, and fill Jizhen with soldiers from the Seven Guards and One Battalion?"

"Okay!" As soon as Zhu Youjian's words came out, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up.

In this way, except for the abolished guard post, Ji Town can maintain [-] soldiers and horses, and the Seven Guards and One Battalion can maintain [-].

As long as the establishment of [-] soldiers is full, it will be easy to abolish the Beijing camp and the twenty-six guards of Shangzhi.

At that time, it can be carried out directly according to Zhu Youjian's plan to abolish the Beizhili Guards, and the entire Beizhili will be under the firm control of Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao didn't worry that Zhu Youjian was emptying himself, let alone suspected that he wanted to usurp the throne.

He still thought the same as before. His younger brother came up with these ideas because he wanted to help him.

As for Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao are not worried, he is even less worried.

There is history in front of him, and as long as he does not rebel, he is basically impossible to die.

Even if it is a rebellion, within the third server, at most, Fengyang High Wall will be imprisoned.

The high wall in Fengyang is the younger brother of the current emperor and the only uncle of the future emperor, so the eunuchs in Fengyang dare not make things difficult for him.

Looking at it this way, isn't this much better than his self-hanging southeast branch in history?

For Zhu Youjian, hanging on to Southeast Branch anyway is his worst ending, and he can accept everything else.

That's why he dared to ask someone to take the position of governor of Ji Liao after Brother Hao pointed out that the establishment could not be abolished.

"It's up to you to select the governor of Jiliao..." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"it is good"

Zhu Youjian was still in a daze, no matter what Zhu Youxiao said, he said "yes" the next moment, and he said awkwardly after he reacted:

"Brother, I've already taken charge of the Seven Guards and One Battalion, and if I bring Governor Ji Liao in, then I..."

He wanted to say that his military power was too great, but he was caught by Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao looked at him very gently with a smile on his lips:

"My younger brother was brought up by me. If others want to harm me, I will believe it."

"But my brother wants to kill me, I don't believe it..."

Seeing Brother Huang's appearance, Zhu Youjian swallowed.

"That's right!" Zhu Youxiao said suddenly:
"The ministers of the cabinet, Shangshu, will draft girls early next year."

"No matter how busy you are at that time, you have to come to the capital to help."

"Me? How can I help?" Zhu Youjian was stunned. Could it be that he wanted to choose his sister-in-law by himself?
But what if I don't know who Zhang Yan is and miss my sister-in-law?
"You just come." Zhu Youxiao patted his hand to make him feel relieved, but Zhu Youjian couldn't be relieved anyway.

However, taking advantage of Brother Hao's request to him, he also took the opportunity to say:
"You can come, but I have one thing to ask you to agree to, brother."

"Let's talk and listen." Zhu Youxiao responded with a smile.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian told him about the Yanshan Institute, and by the way, said that he was going to the Imperial College to be selected and taught.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't hesitate at all, and shouted directly to the door:

"Come on!"

"Long live..." Hearing someone calling, the accompanying eunuch, the supervisor of ceremonies, came to the door, and Zhu Youxiao also issued an order:

"Order someone to send a message to Guozijian, and promise all the manpower needed by the fifth brother of the emperor."

"The servant obeys the order." The little eunuch replied honestly, and Zhu Youxiao also turned his head and smiled at Zhu Youjian when he saw this:

"In addition, one hundred thousand taels of silver will be allocated from internal funds to the fifth brother of the emperor."

"This won't work, it's too..." Zhu Youjian immediately refused when he heard this.

Although he is short of money right now, it's impossible for him to get a good brother's wool, after all, a good brother is still short of money than he is.

And now that he has found a way to get rich, he can use briquettes to harvest the Mongols, and there is no need to let the good emperor brother pay the money.

But he didn't say anything, and was blocked by Zhu Youxiao's frowning serious face.

"Isn't it normal for an older brother to give some pocket money to his younger brother?" Zhu Youxiao educated Zhu Youjian seriously.

"Then there's no such thing as taking one hundred thousand taels as pocket money." Zhu Youjian couldn't laugh or cry, but Zhu Youxiao shut him up with the next sentence.

"Why not? The imperial grandfather was even more exaggerated to Lu Wang than I was to my younger brother."

Zhu Youxiao's words directly made Zhu Youjian speechless.

Emperor Wanli allocated [-] taels of gold, more than [-] blue rubies, [-] taels of silver, and more than [-] coral pearls to his younger brother, King Lu. .

Afterwards, the Luwang Mansion was built with a super high scale of more than [-] taels.

The settling fee for King Lu was only [-] taels, which is even more shocking.

In comparison, the money that Zhu Youxiao gave to Zhu Youjian is relatively small.

But looking at Zhu Youjian's helpless appearance, Zhu Youxiao still smiled and comforted:
"The money is not for my younger brother to spend all of it, but to ask my younger brother to recruit more troops. In case the troops are dispatched to the towns of Jiliao later, some people from the Yanshan camp can also be dispatched."

His gentle appearance made the little eunuch, the supervisor of ceremonies at the door, murmur.

I haven't seen it in these years, and it's okay to comfort others when giving money.

As for Zhu Youjian, he felt much better after hearing this, but the adult soul still made him stubbornly say:
"Don't worry, brother, I will definitely pay back a lot of money in the coming year."

He didn't say a specific amount, because he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to do it after he said it. After all, he didn't know whether the sales of briquettes would work or not.

This weak appearance was clearly seen by Zhu Youxiao, but he didn't expose him, but just patted his hand like coaxing a child and said:
"Okay, my brother will definitely do it, I believe in you."

"..." Zhu Youjian was suspicious of life for a while, and Zhu Youxiao's next sentence made him break his defense directly.

Zhu Youxiao said seriously:

"If a queen is appointed next year, when my younger brother is thirteen years old, I will also choose a group of beautiful girls for my younger brother to be his concubine."

"Um... I'm not in a hurry." Zhu Youjian really couldn't accept it.

If he remembered correctly, the concubines selected by the Ming Dynasty were generally not older than the emperor and feudal princes, which meant that he was likely to have an eleven or twelve-year-old concubine.

To him, this thing is no different from crime...

"Brother looks like this, could it be that he is shy?" Seeing him like this, Zhu Youxiao thought it was shy, and teased him:

"If it is possible at that time, I can choose both the first concubine and the second concubine for my younger brother at once!"

"Forgive me!!!" Zhu Youjian could only yell aggrievedly, which made Zhu Youxiao laugh out loud.

The laughter came out of Xuqin Palace and spread out, making people very curious about what the two brothers were talking about and why they laughed so happily.

　Tomorrow should be two chapters of [-] words
　　
　
(End of this chapter)