The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 256
What's the point of being an emperor!
Emperor Hongxi finished today's routine homework and sat on the ground panting from exhaustion.

If it's just being forced to exercise by the old man, then that's fine, but now that the old man is free, he has nothing to do to find fault with himself all day long!

Take care of your own private affairs, and you have to say a few words about anything that is not pleasing to the eye.

Let's deal with the government affairs, he is still watching from the sidelines, just watching, he is still pointing fingers.

Some things, such as the complete pardon of Jing Nan's orphans, allowing them to return to their hometown to settle down, etc., were obviously things that were decided by Yongle, but he was just following the old man's wishes, and he was also picking faults.

Anyway, the left and right were not pleasing to the eye, Zhu Gaochi took a breath, and looked back at the old man indignantly.

This old man is too stingy!Isn't it just stealing your throne!This is your grandson's instigation!You don't go to him, but blame it on me?

Next month, a group of beautiful women who will pay tribute to North Korea will arrive, and it is foreseeable that I will not be able to meet any of them!
well!Zhu Gaochi looked at his eldest son again, he was afraid that the beautiful girl would take advantage of the prince!
This emperor is really unhappy!Might as well...

Zhu Gaochi suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and after thinking about it for a while, the idea became more and more determined.

But, good luck with this year!

In June of the first year of Hongxi, when the monsoon started, the emperor decreed to mobilize [-] soldiers from the coastal guards in the south of the Yangtze River and sail across the sea again to march eastward.At the same time, the King of Joseon was also called to recruit [-] young and strong militiamen who had undergone short training, as servants, and accompanied the central court to conquer the country of Wa.

The king of Joseon, Li Tun, was very considerate of sending troops to serve as servants of the Ming army, because he saw real benefits!
The Ming army needed the North Korean army to do some bad things that are inconvenient to be recorded in history books!
The silver mines naturally belonged to Daming, and those precious jewelry naturally belonged to Daming, including the young and beautiful Japanese women, and they had to be captured and sent to Daming.

But even so, what was left of the Wa country was enough for the North Korean servants to eat!
Those samurai and peasant households can harm them at will!

Moreover, the Ming dynasty despised the ugliness of Japanese women and only chose the beautiful ones, but the servants did not dislike them!
It's not the same with the lights off!
The Ming army had strict military discipline, and such things as camping prostitutes were strictly prohibited, but the servant army was different.

In order to encourage their animal nature, Zhang Fu completely released the restriction on them.

The result is like locusts crossing the border!

In July of the first year of Hongxi, after Li Yu's sway, Zhu Gaochi discussed with the old man, and decreed to move the Han king's fiefdom, from Daning to the Wa Kingdom. Except for a few minerals and a few ports, the Wa Kingdom was all given to Zhu Gaoxu!He also allowed him to recruit domestic courtiers on his own, granted him the right to establish a government and build a country, and allowed him to recruit 200,000 households from the territory of Ming Dynasty to immigrate and reclaim wasteland.

This is no longer a vassal king, this is a vassal state!And that's a whole Wa country!Although it has not been defeated yet, it is only a matter of time!

Emperor Hongxi gave his brothers more rights than those princes and kings in the early Han Dynasty!
In addition to paying [-]% of the vassal state's annual revenue to the central court on a regular basis every year, the vassal state's affairs are all up to the vassal king himself!

At this edict, all the kings were excited, and those who were self-motivated waited enviously for the emperor's next move.

Sure enough, in August, Emperor Hongxi summoned all the kings to Beijing, and after offering sacrifices to their ancestors in the Fengxian Hall, they dragged out a complete map of Kunyu Wanguo.

Li Yu personally introduced the situation and national strength of the countries marked on the map to the uncles, brothers, and grandfathers of the kings, including his own younger brothers who have already been crowned kings, and promised the kings that they would choose which piece of land they liked. Which piece of land is sealed!
However, the kings have to bring their own three guards to send troops to fight down!The central court can provide food, wages and weapons, but this is only loaned to the kings, and it will be repaid after the feudal state is established, and the interest is not low.

According to the Hongwu ancestor system, the vassal king had three guards and horses to protect himself, and the full number was less than 7000 people.

But most of the guards of the kings are not satisfied with the number now, and it would be good to have two or 3000 people.

Emperor Yongle was born as a rebel king, what do you want to do with so many soldiers?

That is, the remaining eight of the original nine great Sai kings, because of their background, they have more soldiers and horses in their hands, about 6000 people.

But with this few people, thousands of muskets on credit from the Bingzhan Bureau are enough to sweep the countries.

Of course, Li Yu is not stupid, the firearms given to the kings are all reduced in power.

However, there are also so many people who don't want to go out, like staying in Daming to eat, drink and have fun, and be an idle prince. Li Yu can let them do it, and wait for the new policy to be introduced in the future.

You can't let him have a lot of children and grandchildren, and the court has to give them salaries one by one, right?The Ze of a Gentleman, will be beheaded for five lifetimes!Daming didn't want to go down the old road, so the problem of feudal princes must be resolved.

Moreover, Li Yu can only do these things when the old man and the old man are alive, and the resistance is small.

In the Fengxian Hall, in front of the ancestors, the enterprising kings pointed to the map and selected their favorite feudal kingdoms according to their abilities.

The living servants who accompanied Emperor Hongxi recorded this scene, and a hundred years later they called it: the kings divide the world!
In September, Zhu Gaochi issued an edict to open the sea ban on the grounds that the Japanese pirates were basically wiped out, and encouraged the people to go to sea for maritime trade, and added five city shipping departments in Tianjin, Dengzhou, Songjiang, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou, and recruited two from the Daming Navy Fleet. Hundred sea ships, set up a fleet dedicated to combating pirates and maintaining maritime safety.

In October, Emperor Hongxi issued a call to implement a new policy. The first item was to reform taxation, abolish the privilege of tax exemption for scholars, abolish the original policy of [-]% of commercial tax and re-determine the commercial tax rate, and adopt different tax rates according to different industries.

Secondly, the gentry pays food as a whole, except for military households.

This is considered to have stabbed a hornet's nest. For a while, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition, and the readers all over the world were excited.

Zhu Gaochi is as good as he is, and humbly accepts the advice of civil servants, but he is determined not to change it!
Because the weather has been good and the weather has been good for the past few years, the common people have enough to eat, and it is difficult for the people to rebel in anger, and they are wiped out one by one by the local guards.

However, the opinions of scholars still had to be listened to. After listening to the remonstrances for a month, Zhu Gaochi "suddenly repented" and felt that this new policy had shaken the world. He said that he was so virtuous and filial, that he was guilty of heaven, that he was ashamed of his ancestors, and that he had no face to steal the throne, and decided to pass it on to the crown prince before the first day!

But the new policy that has already started to be implemented will not change a single word!Changing orders from day to day will damage the majesty of the emperor!What's more, I abdicated with regret, what do you guys want?
The scholars were dumbfounded, especially the officials in the court. Everyone knew that Emperor Hongxi's new policy was instigated by the crown prince, but the crown prince hid behind the scenes and his reputation was flawless.

Moreover, the emperor was forced to abdicate, no matter how serious the crime was, he was forgiven!

Apart from scolding the emperor behind his back for being stinky and shameless, they could only pinch their noses and accept the few new policies.

As for rebellion?Hehe, although Emperor Yongle lived a life of idle clouds and wild cranes, he is still alive!Although the heroes of Jing Nan are dead and old, but Zhang Fu is here, and the King of Han is also there. These years, the Ming army has not been relaxed, and the Ming army has become stronger and stronger!To rebel is to die!
What's more, scholars are not monolithic. At least half of the civil officials in the court, such as San Yang in the cabinet and Xia Yuanji in the household department, support the New Deal.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month again, Li Yu returned from offering sacrifices to his ancestors, and formally took over the Jade Seal of Chuanguo in Fengtian Hall, adding twelve coats of arms to his body, and heir to the throne.

Respect the grandfather Zhu Di as the Supreme Emperor, respect the biological father Hongxi Emperor Zhu Gaochi as the Supreme Emperor, and the birth mother Zhang Yan as the Supreme Empress; make Hu Shanxiang the queen, and confer the eldest son Zhu Qiyu as the crown prince; change the Yuan Dynasty to Xuande, and become Xuande after the Spring Festival first year.

Due to Li Yu's deliberate control, Sun Ruowei has not been pregnant so far, and Hu Shanxiang's son Zhu Qiyu was born in the Yongle period. Although he has the same name, he is definitely not the Jingtai Emperor who was born in the Xuande period in history.

Even if it is, it is better than God of War!In addition to changing the crown prince and doing some tricks, Emperor Jingtai is really a wise king!
But Zhu Qiyu, who is still breastfeeding, may not know that waiting for him, I am afraid that he will be the prince for 70 years!

As for the reign title of Xuande, it was agreed upon by the courtiers.Li Yu suspects that this is because the scholar was tricked by his father, so the Ministry of Rites secretly ridiculed that Lao Zhu's family has no virtue, but there is no evidence.

Li Yu didn't object either, Xuande then Xuande, promoting virtue, is what he has always been good at, martial arts, is also virtue!

This is Li Yu's second time as emperor in the plot world, and he is familiar with everything.

And this time it's not a rebellion to seize the throne, but an upright succession to the throne. The first two emperors are still alive, and the foundation of the new deal has been laid when the father was in power.

The train of Daming has been on a different track from history. What I can do is to continue to implement the New Deal step by step, and expand abroad to obtain a new living space for the people of the Han family.

As for internal affairs!When Li Yu was the prince, he had already thought about it. He didn't bother the two masters. The father thought that if he quit the stall, he would be able to get rid of vulgar things and be happy?nonsense!
The old man is still here!

Keep on exercising your body, this government affairs, please trouble the emperor to take care of it, right?
However, in order to prevent his father from being exhausted, Li Yu issued an edict to expand the cabinet to nine people, who have the right to draft votes, in charge of six departments and nine ministers, and become the actual group minister; The handling of government affairs has the right of one vote veto.

This decree made the civil servants ecstatic and called His Majesty the Holy Spirit.Unfortunately, before the civil servants were happy for too long, Li Yu's second reform came.

Abolish the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and set up the Huangming Military Staff Headquarters, with the princes and nobles and generals from the young army serving as the officers of the staff department. The emperor himself serves as the chief of staff. Expeditions are only responsible to the emperor and do not have to go through the court;
The establishment of the young army was abolished, and the young army was changed to the Daming Royal Military Academy. Li Yu personally served as a sacrificial wine, and recruited veterans who had commanded the army for many years to serve as instructors in the military academy.

Abolish the rights of the Ministry of War for training, recruitment, garrison, frontier defense, ceremonial guards, and guards, and only retain the rights of post, stables, ordnance, talisman survey, and military registration. Since then, the Ministry of War has become the logistics office of the General Staff Department. It has also become the last bit of power for civil officials to check and balance generals.

In the first year of Xuande, despite the opposition from the government and the public, Li Yu brazenly ordered the General Staff to launch the Western Expedition with the guards guarding Jiaozhi, with the intention of opening up the road to the South Asian subcontinent and laying a solid foundation for future marches into South Asia.

In the fifth year of Xuande, the six vassal kings headed by King Zhao Zhu Gaosui who delineated the vassal states in South Asia mobilized well-trained royal guards, along the road opened by the Jiaozhi Guards, joined forces to form an army of [-], and started the road to nation building.

In the sixth year of Xuande, the Qin Fan moved to the Western Regions and invaded Yili with the three guards of the Wangfu. The last glories of the Mongol Empire left in the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties were completely scattered by the Qin Fan.

Yili divided Li into several lands of different sizes, and the king of Qin and several county kings of the Qin family established the country respectively.

After this battle, Qin Fan presented 200 people with carefully selected dancers from the Western Regions. Li Yu issued an edict to reprimand Qin Fan for playing with things and losing his ambition.

Afterwards, there were rumors in the palace that the Supreme Emperor had a big quarrel with His Majesty. The Supreme Emperor accused His Majesty of eating too much and claiming too much, saying that he didn't have any. In the end, the Supreme Emperor was dragged away by the Supreme Queen's ear.

In the tenth year of Xuande, the second naval fleet of Ming Dynasty was built. Li Yu forced Zhu Zhan, the king of Xiang, who did not want to move overseas, to command the fleet. He took the so-called world map drawn by Li Yu and set off in Quanzhou along the sea route that had been explored. Go south all the way, after arriving at Xuanweisi in the old port for supplies, continue south to search for the New World.

In the same year, a huge gold mine was discovered in the northern wilderness of Nuergandusi, where Ming Dynasty called it the settlement of the Shigou tribe.The following year, King Xiang arrived in Australia marked on the map, and clashed with the local natives because of the language barrier. After defeating the natives, he found a large amount of dog head gold in their gathering place. Looking for clues, he found a huge gold mine.

The news of the discovery of the two gold mines was sent back to the country, and the court and the field were boiling.However, due to the restrictions of the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the mines belonged to the royal family, and the common people just listened to it for fun.

However, after Li Yu thought it over, he issued an edict to open the two gold mines, and allowed the common people to sign up and go to the two gold mines to pan for gold under the protection of the guards. However, [-]% of the gold panning income was taxed.

As soon as this order came out, ordinary people still watched the excitement, but the businessmen went crazy!Especially those businessmen backed by officials!
This is a gold mine!Dig it out and smelt it to get money!
Although you have to pay [-]% of the tax, the rest is enough to make people crazy!

People don't have the money to travel thousands of miles away to pan for gold, but businessmen do!Xu made a lot of money, recruited people, dragged his family to immigrate, or went north along the concrete road, or went south by boat, and in a short while, a wave of immigration was set off.

This effect is what Li Yu wants, and he doesn't care about the profits that are distributed, anyway, it will eventually be returned to the court through taxes.

In the 12 years of Xuande, King Ning united with the Jin Fan, and used the Qin Fan countries to conquer Central Asia, marched into the Timurid Empire in civil strife, surrounded Samarkand, divided the land and ruled it, and tore it from the declining Timur Empire. A large piece of fat was bitten off, and at the same time, the military power of the Ming army spread to Europe through the Timurids.

The reason why King Ning fought so smoothly was because the central court also sent [-] Shenji Battalion to join the battle.

Emperor Yongle, who was already getting old, remembered that he had cheated King Ning in the early years. He was ashamed of himself when he was old, and he personally spoke for the seventeenth brother. What else can Li Yu do, just follow the old man!
On the third day of June in the 20th year of Xuande, the Supreme Emperor Yongle died without any illness. The Supreme Emperor died in grief on the same day. The Ming Dynasty lost two emperors in one day, and the whole country mourned.

Han Wang, Zhao Wang, Zheng Wang, Xiang Wang and others rushed to the funeral.

Li Yu once again saw the two Uncle Wangs, who were in the age of ears and full of hair, and recalled the fighting skills with the second uncle when he was young, and all kinds of interesting things, he sighed for a while.

The old officials of Jing Nan who are still alive can be counted on one hand!Even Li Yu is approaching the year of knowing his destiny.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has spread all over the world, all the barbarians are subject to them. The Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty and its cognate Zhu vassal state reach the North Sea in the north, Australia in the south, Wa Island in the east, and Western Dacia in the east. No one dares to touch the power of the Ming Dynasty.Li Yu felt that, perhaps, it was time to retire!
(End of this chapter)