eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 161 The Joy of Father and Son
Since the 12th year of Hongzhi, the crown prince presided over the official system of the horse administration, and also reorganized the official horse farms across the country.

In the capital, he supported Taipusi Minister Liang Chu to reform the administrative organization. Taipusi was in charge of the national official horse farms, including horse breeding, dispatching, sending troops and other processes. 'To carry out line management.At the local level, Xingtaipu Temple is set up, which is directly responsible to the central Taipu Temple.

At the local level, he supported Yang Yiqing to comprehensively rectify the official horse farms in various places in Shaanxi.

The grass grows in the spring moon, and the horse is in the garden.If winter grass withers, it will be collected and fed.To the 17th year of Hongzhi,
Under Yang Yiqing's governance, Shaanxi Mazheng has taken on a completely new look. He himself went to the Shu: the ministers traversed the land and determined the third class. At the age of [-] horses; Qingping and Heishui are Xiayuan, and the age can be [-] horses.

Zhu Houzhao still remembers that in the 12th year of Hongzhi, there were only more than 2000 horses in the Shaanxi racecourse...

In addition, the number of horse farms is also increasing. This year, a new Anding Garden was built in Pingliang Prefecture, which is also a Shangyuan that can accommodate [-] year-old horses.

The numbers are indeed a bit nicer.
In fact, in history, Yang Yiqing was very effective in acting for the horse administration in Shaanxi. During the Yongle period, there were 96 official horse farms in the country, and only 9 gardens remained at the end of the Ming Dynasty... From the perspective of Shaanxi, there were 24 official horse farms in Yongle. There are only 6 gardens left, plus this year's new addition, 7 gardens...

Behind such tragic data, from the later period of Hongzhi to the early period of Zhengde, when Yang Yiqing was acting as Mazheng, the situation of Mazheng improved greatly.

However, after Yang Yiqing left office, only ten years later, during the Jiajing period, the situation of Shaanxi Mazheng returned to its original state.

Of course, although the situation of the official horse farm has improved greatly, the general characteristic of the shortage of horses has not changed.

Yang Shangyi's cavalry troops wanted the kind of strong horses that could fight.

More than that, in fact, what the cavalry troops saw was a horse. Once they fought, they had to be followed by three horses as protection.

First of all, the horse casualties in the war were very large,
Secondly, the food needed by horses is also a lot, and it is very fine, which needs to be transported... Basically, the food of a good war horse can feed 25 people.

Therefore, it is not a necessary condition to have a powerful cavalry unit if the horses are bred.

It is really difficult to feed hundreds of thousands of troops when people eat horse chews.

So far, Yang Shangyi's cavalry is no more than four guards, totaling 2.

The 20 or 30 cavalry imagined by later generations was not at the peak of national power, and they simply could not afford it.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao is only 14 years old, so he still has time.

This is not about politics, but about practical results.

at the political level,
Yang Yiqing made Zhu Houzhao very entangled, because Yang Yiqing had a good relationship with Liu Daxia.

In fact, in the history of Zhenger Bajing, the reason why Yang Yiqing was able to suddenly change from an idle job in Nanjing to a feudal border like the governor of Shanxi was that he was recommended by Liu Daxia.

Yang Yiqing was later promoted to the head of the trilateral system, which was also recommended by Liu Daxia.

We can even speculate, why Yang Yiqing was able to do Ma Zheng so well in Shaanxi?The Taipu Temple is under the Ministry of War. Without the support of the Minister of War, how can he do good things?

So the relationship between the two is mutual appreciation.

Regarding the Zhejiang matter, Liu Daxia had already started to do it. At this time, he suddenly recommended Yang Yiqing, which made Zhu Houzhao very alert.

In the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace,
The emperor saw that his face was not happy, so he asked: "But Yang Yiqing's performance is not good? Shaanxi Mazheng has been sorted out by him, and it has already improved a lot. Why does the prince still look distressed?"

Zhu Houzhao first suppressed his doubts about his relationship with Liu Daxia, and said in response: "I am worried about whether there are such capable officials after Yang Yiqing."

Qin Hong, the current chief of the trilateral system, is too old to be used, so Liu Daxia began to recommend Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi, to be promoted to the chief of the trilateral system.

This is not the first time he has mentioned this, and Yang Yiqing has always done a very good job. Logically speaking, promotion is of course no problem.But it hasn't been touched for five years, and the prince is actually holding this person down.

The excuse is that Ma Zheng needs him.

In fact, after the reform of the Taipu Temple, the efficiency has been greatly improved, and it is not impossible to leave Yang Yiqing.
"Yang Yiqing said he was coming to Beijing, has he arrived yet?" Emperor Hongzhi asked.

Xiao Jing replied from the side, "It's time to arrive in two days."

This is Zhu Houzhao who wants to meet Yang Yiqing.

It was actually not very good for the prince to meet important officials with military colors at the border.But Emperor Hongzhi agreed.

Even the emperor no longer cares about many of the prince's current behaviors, and he has nothing to do. Zhu Houzhao will not deliberately reduce his wits to embroider himself a dragon robe and wear it.

On the contrary, he has always paid attention to maintaining the emperor's imperial power.

"When the time comes when I let him go to the East Palace, the prince can also ask him if he has an operator recommendation."

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while, and now this is probably the only way to go, so he raised his hand and covered the memorial with the word "read" with a red brush, and this memorial is over.

After 16 years since Hongzhi, the father and son spend a long time together every day, and the object of work is memorials.

If the emperor is not in good health, he will not come, and Zhu Houzhao will be here alone.

Even if the two were together, what they were discussing were all major events picked out by Zhu Houzhao, such as the appointment of the trilateral chief officer.

put down a book
pick up another one,
This is played by Hubu Shangshu in Korean.
In the 14th year of Hongzhi, the prince ordered the Ministry of Households to check the seven granaries built near the capital. To his prince's relief, the grain storage in the middle of the Ming Dynasty remained in a good state.

Because of the lack of grain in the north, 400 million shi of grain is needed to be transported by water from the south to the north every year. The royal family and dignitaries in the capital rely on this. Therefore, unless it is the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government still attaches great importance to the Jingcang at other times.

Because of this, this incident did not cause any waves like Ma Zheng.

But Zhu Houzhao did not stop there. He began to order the household department to check the grain storage situation in two provinces every year.

From the 15th year of Hongzhi, Shandong and Nanzhili first, and Shaanxi and Sichuan in the 16th year,

In the 17th year of Hongzhi, Shanxi and Huguang were played in Korean.

This is a common practice, and there was no need for Zhu Houzhao and the emperor to discuss it, but Han Wen also mentioned in the memorial that two granaries would be built in Datong Prefecture, Shanxi.

It's not a big deal either.

But suddenly starting to store food in Datong actually means that the prince has started to prepare for the war at the border.

Emperor Hongzhi glanced at him, stood up, and wandered around in the warm pavilion, "...I don't worry about it, I still say the old saying, the prince has always done things safely. But you can't plan to go to the front line yourself."

You can't talk nonsense about this. As a father, if you say this, your son will have to resist your will, otherwise he will never be in the army for the rest of his life.

"Father." Zhu Houzhao knelt down and asked for the edict seriously, "My father's will has always been obeyed. But I want to ask my father to take it back. The emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies. If there is such a day, my son will also go to the front line."

The emperor was anxious, "How can that be done? I agree with everything else, including the matter of raising and storing grain in Datong. But you must not go to the battlefield!"

"Is it because you can't go this time?"

The emperor gave him a 'tsk' sound, and rolled his eyes at him, "You, a son, play tricks with me, you are the only one who is clever, right?"

"Father," Zhu Houzhao stepped forward and began to soften the offensive, "The son promises you that he will never plan a personal conquest before he marries a wife and has children."

The emperor thought for a while, with a bit of arrogance, "No, you have to raise him until he is 16 years old."

"In June, the emperor still wanted to take the imperial conquest." Zhu Houzhao murmured in the second half of the sentence, "My son is only 14 years old..."

"Hey, you little bastard." The emperor patted his head lightly, "Did you deliberately tear down my platform?"

Xiao Jing was on the side, watching this scene with a smirk, but the emperor feigned anger and reprimanded him, "How dare you laugh at me?"

"I don't dare, I don't dare." Xiao Jing took two steps back.

Emperor Hongzhi sat back on the dragon chair angrily, "Get up, doesn't your knee hurt when you kneel?"

"Father promised my son, and son will naturally get up. Otherwise, with father's will, the country is really at a critical moment, and son wants to go to the front to motivate the soldiers."

"At that time, you can also be flexible!" The emperor was a little helpless, and his voice was drawn out.But he is not unhappy, in fact he is very satisfied,
Zhu Houzhao's gesture implies a kind of meaning, that is, what your emperor said, even if you are gone, as long as you leave the words, I will still listen to them when I become emperor in the future.

This is a healthy interaction.

The emperor trusted the prince very much, but the prince never disobeyed him.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao heard what he said, he immediately stood up, "The son will do what his father said, and make some changes at that time."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded first, and then immediately felt that something was wrong. What is flexibility, can be flexible at any time, so what he said earlier was in vain.

"Okay, the wings are hard, dare to take your father's words."

The emperor made a gesture to copy out the soles of his shoes.

Zhu Houzhao was startled, "Father is Chrysostom, and Chrysostom will be opened immediately, and there is no repentance!"

"You can't go back on what you said. You told me to go back on it just now!"

Seeing that he really dragged his shoes off, Zhu Houzhao was still standing there stupidly, and turned his head and slipped out.

"Oh, be careful, Your Highness the Crown Prince." Seeing him running, Xiao Jing who was on the side was also afraid that he would fall.

But the prince has grown up, and he has learned a little boxing in the past few years, his legs and feet are very brisk, and he disappeared in a flash.

Looking at it like this, it is obviously not the first time.

Emperor Hongzhi also doted on him to the limit.But he actually enjoyed it himself.

Still laughing now, "Forget him running fast."

When I looked down at the memorials of the book case, I didn't forget to add another sentence, "Slip away before the work is done."

There was no other way, he had no choice but to write with the ink pen himself.

But when I think about it, the prince has been running like this for several years. At that time, he was still a child, running and running, and he had grown so tall.

Two days later, Yang Yiqing entered Beijing smoothly.

His link is related to the most important war horse in military operations, so it is not unimportant.

However, all these preparations made by the prince are clear in the court. It is impossible for Liu Daxia and other officials not to make any representations. He is the kind of person who will stick to his own right to the end.

(End of this chapter)