Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 44 Orderly
Chapter 44 Methodical

"put"

Following Liu Jin's order, a group of archers suddenly appeared around them, with their bows and arrows set, shooting at the five hundred sunflower sword guards.

swish swish

The arrow rain fell, and five hundred sunflower sword guards drew their swords at the same time. The sword light flickered and blocked all the incoming arrows. Afterwards, the figure was like a ghost, and the sword edge was already resting on the archer's neck. On the ground, as long as a light force is applied, a team of archers will immediately return to Jiuquan.

"All right."

Zhu Houzhao told Sunflower Sword Guard to stop.

Scanning the five hundred sunflower sword guards who had practiced the evil sword technique, he already had a certain judgment in his heart.

The Sunflower Sword Guard has a very high advantage in assassination, but it is not suitable for large-scale battles. Just like just now, it only needs another round of volleys from the archers, and the Sunflower Sword Guard will be tired of coping, and cannot survive three rounds of arrow rain. If you shoot, you will be taken down with all your strength.

In short, Sunflower Sword Guards have strong individual combat capabilities, but they are not suitable for large-scale army operations, and it is difficult to cooperate in coordinated operations.

It is basically impossible for three thousand eunuchs to conquer the world, but it is still good to use as a finale hole card.

"very good!"

Generally speaking, Zhu Houzhao is quite satisfied with the Sunflower Sword Guard. He has not been practicing evil swordsmanship for a long time, and he can easily block the arrow rain of a team of archers, which shows that martial arts are really powerful. It can also keep up, enough to sweep the world.

Now firearms are not too developed, relying on the strong military advantage brought by martial arts, it is not impossible to dominate the world.

"Looks like we're going to speed up the process!"

With a secret smile in his heart, he told Liu Jin: "Each person will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver. From now on, their biggest task is to practice evil sword skills and train them to become the sharpest knives in my hands."

Zhu Houzhao doesn't like swords, because the sword has two edges, hurting others and hurting himself, but he only likes knives, only I can cut other people's share, there is no reason for others to hurt me.

"The slaves obey."

Liu Jin was also happy in his heart. With the protection of these powerful sunflower sword guards, his life safety, the world-renowned eunuch, could be greatly improved.

Next, Zhu Houzhao took Liu Jin to Fusi, North Town of Jinyiwei, and wanted to see how powerful Jinyiwei Tiqi, who practiced Hunyuan Kungfu, was.

Jinyiwei Tiqi, who practiced Hunyuan Kungfu, was far slower than the sunflower eunuch, but they were physically strong and powerful, and they knew how to attack in battle formations. Their strength on the battlefield far surpassed that of the sunflower sword guard. It is definitely called a battlefield meat grinder.

One is good at assassination and has strong individual combat ability, and the other is good at fighting on the battlefield. It can be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and each is good at winning.

After seeing the power of his two big hole cards, Zhu Houzhao didn't wander around outside, and returned directly to the palace. He didn't have much time, and there were a lot of memorials that he needed to review.

Especially at this juncture, there are so many memorials. Although most of them are about the impeachment of Wang Yangming, I don’t even bother to read them, but some of them are about serious business. The cabinet can’t make up its mind, so they submit them to him. It takes a lot of work for him to personally approve it.

Zhu Houzhao was busy reviewing the memorial in the Leopard Room, and Wang Yangming was not idle either. Under the guidance of Cheng Guogong Zhu Fu, he cleaned up all the moths in the three camps, and those noble children who only pretended to do nothing were also driven away. , The soldiers of the three major battalions began to recruit again.

The three major battalion issues that had been troubling Zhu Houzhao had been resolved. Hu Dakui and British Duke Zhang Mao took office, and Li Cheng, who was recommended by Wang Yangming to be in charge of the Shenji Battalion, was waiting for Zhu Houzhao to summon him.

After the three major battalions, there are formal reforms, military reforms, land reforms, and tax reforms.

In the military reform, the guards in various places were abolished and recruited by themselves. At the same time, the fixed household registration system established by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was abolished. The descendants of military households can also participate in the imperial examination or do other livelihoods.

The land reform is the same as the Southwest. All land is nationalized and redistributed. The people have the right to use it, but it is forbidden to buy and sell land.

Tax reform, cancel the so-called head tax, tax according to the number of acres, pay as much tax as you have, and increase business tax, and tax heavily, the previous situation of doing business with less tax, or even not paying tax at all is gone forever up.

At the same time, Wang Yangming also re-established the salary system of officials in the Ming Dynasty. Instead of distributing rice and grain, he directly distributed money. The salary was increased by five times on the original basis.

The three reforms aimed at power groups such as vassal kings, nobles, civil servants, wealthy families, and gentry. Naturally, there were countless opponents. Memorials to impeach Wang Yangming kept pouring into Zhu Houzhao's leopard room like snowflakes.

No one can accept their own land being confiscated, let alone paying a large amount of taxes. For the various power groups, paying taxes is sending money to the court, and it is cutting their flesh and bleeding, which is absolutely unacceptable to them.

All factions are making trouble, and the Jiangnan gentry group headed by Wei Guogong Xu's family is even more advocating that Wang Yangming is a scourge, a traitor who violated the will of the Taizu, because Wang Yangming's reform fundamentally shakes the politics established by Zhu Yuanzhang. system.

They didn't dare to grin at Zhu Houzhao, so they could only bombard Wang Yangming crazily. As long as Wang Yangming was overthrown, Zhu Houzhao would be a polished commander.

Zhu Houzhao just smiled coldly at this, and let the Jiangnan gentry group clamor, and then asked Liu Jin to send out [-] sunflower sword guards.

Not long after, all [-] wealthy families in Jiangnan were wiped out overnight, and the entire Jiangnan lost their voices. Wei Guogong Xu's family didn't dare to make trouble anymore, and honestly pretended to be a grandson!

Zhu Houzhao used blood lessons to tell all those who opposed him that he didn't know how to kill, but he was just too lazy to kill.

In the past, not killing people was because Liaodong needed people, but now it is different, and soon he will have no shortage of people, even if it is filled with human life, Liaodong can be developed and utilized, and it will be able to kill without restraint!

Jiangnan lost his voice, and the power groups of all parties did not dare to make trouble anymore, but they still used their own methods to obstruct the reform, and refused to hand over the land no matter what, which made officials from all over the country extremely helpless.

But the general situation has been grasped by Zhu Houzhao, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Restore the title of King Ning, and order King Ning to call on all the kings in the world to cooperate with the reform and turn over all the land; officials from all over the country continue to actively respond to the imperial order; the Confucius family in Shandong has been reluctant to speak out for some reason
His trump cards are slowly showing up, constantly attacking all forces, obeying his will, and honestly supporting the reform, then there will be no trouble, no bloodshed, ignorance, he has plenty of ways to deal with those People, Jin Yiwei's emphasis on developing intelligence these years is not for nothing.

"Your Majesty, do you really want to be an enemy of the world?"

Li Dongyang looked at Zhu Houzhao helplessly. Now that the world is in turmoil and all forces are ready to move, if this continues, there is no guarantee that Daming will not repeat the old Jianwen incident.

The vassal king group, the honorable group, the civil servant group, the scholar group, the gentry from the south of the Yangtze River, the wealthy coastal families, the wealthy businessmen, and the major power groups that can most affect the current situation of the Ming Dynasty are all against Zhu Houzhao. Is Zhu Houzhao's ability to overwhelm everyone?

(End of this chapter)