The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 232 Daming's Serious Problem

Regarding the arrangement of the vassal king, in Zhu Ying's heart, she had already made up her mind.

The speed of information dissemination determines the territory that the Ming court can directly control.

For example, the Western Regions are already under the rule of Daming in name, but in fact, it is difficult for Daming to achieve direct control.

Just talking about the back and forth dissemination of information, even if it is fast-tracked, it will take nearly a month to go back and forth.

This time difference caused many policies of Ming Dynasty to be unable to be actually implemented in the Western Regions.

Zhu Ying didn't want to launch a large-scale war. Fighting with the power of the whole country would easily shake the foundation of Ming Dynasty.

In this regard, it is only the common people who suffer.

Although at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, more than [-]% of the area in the Ming Dynasty was still in good weather, but once the war started, it would consume the reserves accumulated over the years.

From this point of view, only small-scale local wars are the most in line with the current interests of Ming Dynasty.

This is also the biggest purpose of Zhu Ying's invention of the matchlock gun, a professional soldier.

Add the two together, and for some small areas, the effect will be noticeable.

And the vassal king is the best vanguard.

Regardless of whether it is the vassal kings who are already in the vassal state or the vassal kings who have not, Zhu Ying intends to move their vassal lands outside Daming.

If you want feudal land, yes, I will give you matchlock guns, professional soldiers, and fight by yourself.

Of course, even the conquered feudal lands, economy, culture, and local government affairs must be controlled by Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Ying currently has 26 emperor uncles, two died young, and several died early.

It seems that there are many princes, perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang is a little worried about these vassal princes.

But in Zhu Ying's view, it's not enough.

A few times more, there is no problem.

Not to mention other places, just one Goryeo is enough to canonize dozens of princes.

That's right.

What Zhu Ying wants to do is similar to the enfeoffment of princes in the Zhou Dynasty.

For example, Koryo was divided into more than a dozen regions and sealed to the vassal kings.

Under the influence of Han culture, it is only a matter of time before the entire Goryeo is completely sinicized.

Moreover, there are so many tributary states, all of which are nominally the suzerain state of Ming Dynasty, developed into vassal state, and then became the vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Ying thinks it's not a big problem.

Anyway, there is no other meaning. If the vassal state is poor, it will be poorer. First spread the Han culture, and all the local people will be Sinicized first.

In the Huagai Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang was listening to Liu He's report on the conversation between the eldest grandson and the princes.

After listening, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't express much, but sighed a little.

"This eldest grandson, eh, but this is not bad. Our eldest grandson is right, we are all a family, and we should help. Our sons can't just look forward to their eldest nephew."

"It's worthwhile to put in some effort for our Daming. Just make it harder. There's nothing wrong with the outside world. It's all developing slowly."

"Furthermore, the sweet potatoes and other crops sent by my grandson can be planted along with them at that time, and they will all be able to fill their stomachs, so there will be no hardship."

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately understood Zhu Ying's thoughts.

He is very clear that it seems that Dasun even has to hand over the military power to these vassal kings, just to let them lead the troops to fight.

Just thinking of such a sharp weapon as a matchlock gun, Zhu Yuanzhang personally thinks it is good.

And this can also greatly reduce the conflict between the emperor and the vassal.

The princes were young and couldn't hide things in their hearts. Soon the news that Zhu Ying supported the vassal king and intended to let the vassal king take charge of the military power spread in the palace.

"Mother, why do you think big brother did this? If the vassal kings control the military power, wouldn't it cause a situation of separatism?"

In the back hall of the Spring Harmony Palace, Zhu Yunwen told Lu Shi about this matter.

Then asked suspiciously.

Although he has only been a grandson for a period of time, and he has not passed the canonization, but he has thought about it in the way of the emperor after all.

After listening to Mrs. Lu, she was silent for a long time, her eyebrows slightly frowned.

For a while, she didn't want to understand the key to this.

Although Mrs. Lu is smart, the information he can get is limited. Without enough information to analyze and guess, it is difficult to make an accurate judgment.

After thinking for a while, Mrs. Lu said: "This matter is not as simple as it seems. Although my mother has not figured it out yet."

"But your elder brother is by no means such a simple character. Even if your elder brother doesn't know, His Majesty will intervene."

"From the current situation, His Majesty obviously supports your eldest brother's approach, which shows that there must be something we know about it."

"Not only do we not know, but perhaps no one else knows your eldest brother's purpose except His Majesty."

Lu analyzed and said.

Although she didn't know why His Royal Highness Changsun did this, there is no doubt that Mrs. Lu is very good at guessing people's hearts.

Putting this matter aside, I went to see His Highness Changsun and Your Majesty, and found something was wrong.

Zhu Yunwen nodded, expressing his approval of his mother's words.

Huang Zicheng is the husband assigned to him by the emperor's grandfather.

Above Huang Zicheng, there are more learned gentlemen, and those are all for the emperor's grandfather.

It is impossible for Grandpa Huang not to know.

It shows that what my mother said is very reasonable.

"It's just mother, no matter what the elder brother and the grandpa think, but this is military power. It's completely different if the feudal king has military power."

Zhu Yunqi said a little excitedly.

With military power but without military power, in today's early Ming Dynasty, there is a complete distinction.

For example, the vassal kings guarding the frontier and the vassal kings inside the Ming Dynasty are not at the same level.

From this point of view, when he becomes a vassal, he can also control the military power.

At this time, Zhu Yunqi suddenly thought of those soldiers who were practicing in the martial arts field of the palace.

The neat military appearance in that scene was a powerful deterrent.

My heart is a little hot.

"Don't think too much about it for the time being, and don't get too involved with this matter. Maybe it's not a very good thing to control the military power. My mother always feels that there is something very strange about it."

"It's not that easy, and it won't be that simple."

Lu said with a warning.

She came from a low background, although she is not from the bottom class, she also has other understandings.

Some things seem to be easy to get, but at the same time, you may lose even more.

Before she became the crown prince and second concubine, her family also ran a business, and Lu helped manage it behind the scenes, and learned a lot from it.

Although the status of Daming women is low, it is not obvious in the palace, and the Lu family usually reads every day.

Hearing his mother's words, Zhu Yunqi said a little unhappy: "Mother, you told me two days ago that you should get married as soon as possible, why do you have to wait now?"

"Recently, I've been trying to think of a way to see if I can ask Grandpa Huang to be crowned king first. Maybe it's the best time to confer the title of eldest brother."

"I think at that time when my canonization was revealed, how could Grandpa Huang give me a good feudal land?"

When Mrs. Lu heard this, she didn't mean to blame her, she followed the instructions and said, "If it's other kind of favors, naturally my mother wouldn't say much."

"But you are also very clear about what military power means. In Wei Niang's view, there are only two situations in which military power is opened."

"One is to replace the generals in the army and control most of the military power in the hands of the royal family."

"Secondly, there can only be wars. Now Da Ming is stable as a whole. Although there are some areas that do not accept Wang Hua, it is not to the extent that the princes go to war."

"From this point of view, it is your elder brother who intends to conquer the outside world."

Speaking of this, Lu's eyes suddenly brightened.

She suddenly thought of the possibility of Zhu Ying doing this.

Especially let the princes and grandchildren directly participate in the training of soldiers, and even let go of the restrictions on military power, which naturally means expanding to the outside world.

Thinking about some of Zhu Ying's past, Lu felt that her guess was very accurate.

Taking a complicated look at Zhu Yunqi, Lu said in a gentle voice: "This matter is my mother's fault, don't go to your majesty or your eldest brother to talk about the feudal affairs."

"Let's put it aside for now. According to the rules, your feudal land will only be arranged after your eldest brother ascends the throne."

There is no doubt that Zhu Yunqi is Lu's most beloved son.

When guessing that Zhu Ying might expand the territory and let members of the royal family lead troops to fight, how could the Lu family, as a mother, be willing to let her son go through such a hard life.

In Lu's thinking, Yun Yu's domain must be a wealthy place, and being a wealthy prince and being safe and secure is the best thing.

It's just that Zhu Yunqi obviously didn't understand Lu's good intentions.

Somewhat irritatedly said: "Mother, I don't want to stay in the palace anymore, Uncle Seventeen is about the same age as me, only a few months older."

"Like the Eighteenth Emperor's Uncles, they are younger than me, and I'm already old enough to be a feudal clan. Why should I wait until my eldest brother ascends the throne?"

"The emperor's grandpa is so majestic. I don't know how many years will be until the eldest brother ascends the throne. Is it possible that I have been waiting in the palace all this time?"

"Furthermore, this September is my chance. If I miss this time, I will have to wait for too many years."

"Besides, after eldest brother ascends the throne, he will be the grandson of the Eastern Palace. If your grandpa lets eldest brother live in the Eastern Palace, then the place where I live will only be given to eldest brother."

"Mom, I don't want to, I want that. I want to be Fan."

After Zhu Yunwen said that, his voice became sharper.

Thinking about the possibility that the place he lives now might have to be vacated for them, this made him very irritable.

All of this should belong to him.

The more he thought about it, Zhu Yunxuan's eyes began to reveal a hint of cruelty.

It's the hatred for the elder brother who took away everything he has now.

"Yun Wen!"

Lu sternly shouted.

Zhu Yunwen, who was immersed in resentment, was woken up by Mrs. Lu.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

At this moment Zhu Yunqi asked in confusion.

"Do you know that the reason why your eldest brother gave up the military power is to let the princes lead troops to fight, and fight to the death with those barbarians who drink hair and blood."

"If my mother's guess is correct, it may even happen that your feudal lands will need to lead their own troops to fight. Only after fighting those barbarians to the death can you control your own feudal lands."

"And those vassal lands are all poor and bad places, and everything has to be managed from scratch."

"This is what you want."

Lu said in a deep voice.

Originally, she didn't want to tell her son too clearly about the above guesses. First of all, these were her own guesses, and there was no evidence to prove them.

The second is that he is afraid that his son will speak too loudly, so he will expose this speculation, which will cause a gap between the princes and His Highness the eldest grandson.

At that time, all of this may be undertaken by Yun Wen.

"This, this is impossible, how is this possible."

Zhu Yunwen said tremblingly.

Although this month has been practiced, the current Zhu Yunqi is three points less frail and three points more heroic.

But for things like fighting, he was educated in Confucianism since he was a child, and he was guided by civil servants, so he was still a little afraid.

Because he is the grandson of the emperor, he is not like other princes who have been trained by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Fighting a war is no child's play. Zhu Yunqi, who has been in contact with government affairs, knows that it will really kill people.

Besides, not everyone can bear the pain of marching.

"Otherwise, your eldest brother, why do you want the princes to be in charge of the military and know about military affairs. There are not so many feudal lands to seal in the frontiers of the Ming Dynasty."

"But now, your eldest brother is not holding the land for one or two princes, but showing the land of all the princes, and he has relaxed the restrictions on military power."

Lu explained.

Zhu Yunwen hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Mother, but the emperor's grandfather has already sealed up all the feudal lands."

Lu said: "So what, where is the feudal land? It's just a matter of His Majesty's words. Now His Majesty must support your elder brother."

"At that time, all the vassal lands of the vassal kings may have to be adjusted."

Mrs. Lu resolutely said that at present, this is the only possibility.

"Then, let me listen to my mother."

Zhu Yunwen's lips twitched, and finally said helplessly.

He really didn't want to go to war.

The news from the palace quickly reached Li Jinglong's ears.

After all, his popularity in the palace, especially among the princes and grandchildren is quite good.

In addition, he is also a member of the royal family, so he is relatively free to enter and leave some parts of the palace.

After getting the news, the first thing he thought of was Zhu Di, who he grew up with.

So he immediately sent someone to pass on the matter.

"Cousin should be very happy to hear the news."

In Kunning Palace, Zhu Ying frowned deeply as she looked at the accounts reported by Ye Yueqing.

He didn't expect that the profit that his Qunying Chamber of Commerce had obtained in Daming this month would be so low.

Compared with the profits of the frontier, even [-]% have not been reached.

"Is there something wrong with the statistics in some places? This number obviously does not match the current situation."

Zhu Ying asked Ye Yueqing.

Although the profit of smuggling in the frontier is indeed much higher, but now that the Qunying Chamber of Commerce is in Daming, it can be said to be unimpeded.

In terms of nature, it already belongs to the imperial merchants, and no matter what business they do, they can easily get the support of the government.

Daming's territory is so vast, where can it be compared to the Western Regions, grasslands and other places.

But no matter in terms of trade volume or profit, it is very pessimistic.

The Qunying Chamber of Commerce has already shifted its focus to Daming, but the actual situation has shrunk significantly compared to before.

There are more people and the industrial chain has expanded, but the money is less than half.

Ye Yueqing replied: "Your Highness, there is no error in the accounts, and this has been checked ten times before it is counted."

When Ye Yueqing saw the accounts, he also thought that there was something wrong. After counting for several days, he didn't find any mistakes, so he showed it to Zhu Ying.

Zhu Ying frowned deeply.

Through this account, he seems to have discovered a very serious problem.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Ying called Guo Zhong who was waiting outside the door, and ordered: "Go to the Imperial Academy, and get all the classics related to the household department of the Song Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)