Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 392 Opening soon

"I am the one hundred and eighth emperor of Yamato, how could I fall into the hands of the enemy?!"

On the 27th of the winter month of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, while Zhou Yanru was delaying the trial, the castle tower in Edo, Japan, was piled up with kerosene and firewood following the order of Tokugawa Hidetada.

Accompanied by a big fire, the Tokugawa family was buried in the sea of ​​flames together with the emperor's lineage that had been passed down for [-] generations.

Afterwards, Yang Wenyue found the charred corpses of hundreds of people from the ruins, and ordered people to throw the corpses into the sea. So far, the emperor and the Tokugawa shogunate died together.

When the news was sent back to Daming, it was already the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and in the news that was also sent back to Daming, there was also news that the Xiaoxiyang Expeditionary Army had destroyed the forces in the north and south of the Deccan Plateau.

The Hindu Vijayanagar Empire and the five sultanates of Bidar, Bijapur, Ahmednagar, Bilal, and Golgund on the Deccan Plateau were all destroyed.

Of course, this was Huang Long's report to Zhu Youjian, but Jin Yiwei's report to Zhu Youjian was not that simple.

[The main city-states of the five major sultanates were occupied, all the armies were mopped up, and a rebellion broke out in the south, the army was unable to go north, and the northern barbarian army suppressed the border, and the border was in a hurry...]

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, when Zhu Youjian got the news from Xiaoxiyang Supervisor Si Jinyiwei, he was in Fangshan County, Shuntian Prefecture with Zhu Youxiao.

However, the two of them were not hunting or playing, but came to escape the winter.

There are many coal mines in Fangshan, so at the beginning of the year, Zhu Youxiao allocated 27 taels of silver from internal funds to build a "Midsummer Palace" covering an area of ​​[-] mu in the north of Fangshan.

The entire palace uses centralized heating. The design adopts large-scale, large-scale, glazed tiles, golden and colorful paintings and other royal crafts. Its main building types include 72 types of halls, halls, pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, and pavilions. architectural design.

Just heating needs to hire 30 peasants, adding coal day and night, needing to burn [-] catties of coal every day, and the wages of peasants are [-] yuan per person per day.

Calculated, fuel plus wages, from winter month to February, the four-month expenditure will be close to 4 taels of silver.

The money came from Zhu Youxiao's internal funds, and although Zhu Youjian was heartbroken, he had nothing to say.

Zhu Youxiao built him a palace of the king of Qi and a pavilion of the king of Qi. The palace occupies an acre, and the pavilion occupies half an acre and is sixteen feet high.

Zhu Youjian drove to work, basically on the top floor of the Qiwang Pavilion. Standing here, you can overlook the snowy scenery of Fangshan Mountain and a man-made artificial lake with flowing water.

When Lu Wenzhao left, Cui Yingyuan and Li Ruolian had to accompany him.

At this moment, Zhu Youjian was holding the military report sent by Xiaoxiyang Jinyiwei Qianhu and was sitting on the top floor of the fourth floor of Qiwang Pavilion. In front of him were the open doors and windows, and he could see the snow scenery of Fangshan Mountain and the artificial lake.

Li Ruolian, Cui Yingyuan, Wang Chengen, and Cao Huachun all worked with him on the top floor, while Zhu Youxiao took Zhang Yan and the others to work in the inner court of Zhongxia Palace.

In general, this Zhongxia Palace is no different from other palaces except that Zhu Youjian will not feel "frozen hands" when dealing with memorials.

But compared to freezing his hands, he felt a little hot when he looked at the memorabilia of the Navy Commander's Mansion and the military newspaper of the Jinyiwei in his hands.

"According to what the military newspaper said, Huanglong only occupied the main city-states, and there are still many guerrilla groups in the area?"

Sitting in the main seat, Zhu Youjian asked Li Ruolian, and Li Ruolian also sat on the seat and nodded in response:
"According to Xiaoxiyang Jinyiwei's report, this is indeed the case, and I guess it is also the case. After all, no matter how poor the military equipment of the five sultans and Vijayanagar is, it is impossible to be wiped out within a year."

Li Ruolian's words are speaking from a practical point of view, and Zhu Youjian personally thinks so.

Including Tanjore and other states that were destroyed before, according to Huanglong's memorabilia, they have conquered a territory of at least 200 million square kilometers in one year, which is almost a territory of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In one year, more than 200 million square kilometers, this is impossible even for the brave Ming army.

Instinctively, Zhu Youjian still believes in the report of the local Jinyiwei, that is, Huanglong has conquered major cities, but some small cities and small states have not been cleaned up yet.

At this time, rebellion broke out again among the people of Tanjore and other five countries in the south. Huanglong had no choice but to send troops back to suppress it, while the Mughals in the north saw that the troops in the south were empty, so they assembled a large army to prepare to act first and annexed the entire Germany. dry plateau.

This is more in line with the real situation, but it also shows that the current situation of the Ming army in South Asia is not good.

There are eight guards at sea and 32 battalions of four guards on land, with a total strength of 16 troops.

This kind of people wants to control a territory of more than 200 million square kilometers, control 4000 to 6000 million people, and also need to face a northern country that controls 40 to [-] million people and [-] troops. This situation has no advantage at all.

Therefore, even though the memorandum is well written, what Huang Long expresses at the end is still a message that he hopes that the imperial court will increase its troops.

Of course, Huang Long did not let the court send troops in vain, because Huang Long attached a seized document before requesting additional troops.

More than 170 million taels of gold, 5206 million taels of silver, and [-] boxes of rare treasures. These are the trophies that Huanglong handed in.

In Jin Yiwei's military newspaper, Huang Long personally withheld 750 million taels of silver to reward the army, and personally hid more than 3 taels of gold.

But even so, the total value of the gold, silver and jewelry he handed over still exceeded 500 million taels of silver.

This amount of money can undoubtedly solve Daming's urgent needs, but at the same time, this amount of money is not so easy to get.

The major countries and states in the southern part of Tianzhu have been destroyed, and they are now fighting guerrilla warfare with the expeditionary army. It is obviously unreasonable for the imperial court not to increase its troops.

Moreover, since June, the imperial court has newly trained 9 battalions of soldiers, and added more than 70 soldiers and horses.

The battle in Yingzhou will end soon. At that time, only about six battalions will need to be retained, and the sixteen battalions that were damaged can be completely withdrawn. Although the sixteen battalions have lost a lot, they still have more than 4 troops. people.

In this way, the strength of Ming's native troops will reach 74.

Right now, the imperial court needs to increase income and reduce expenditure. It is not in line with the imperial court's national policy to raise 74 troops in the country, and it is not impossible to send some people out.

In addition, in the military newspaper, the 16 sea and land expeditionary force has lost more than 6000 people, and it is normal to make up for it.

However, to transfer troops, Zhu Youjian cannot act arbitrarily on this matter, and still needs to discuss it with Zhu Youxiao.

Thinking of this, he took the memorial of Jin Yiwei and Huanglong and got up:

"I'm going to discuss the matter of Xiaoxiyang with Brother Huang. As for the matter of Yingzhou, tell Yang Wenyue that the [-]th Battalion will be withdrawn to Liaodong for rest before the end of the year, and other matters will follow the previous arrangements."

"Yes..." The four of them stood up and bowed in response, and Zhu Youjian also walked down the Qiwang Pavilion.

A team of Jinyi guards stood around him and put on big fur for him.

It was snowing outside the pavilion, and the entire Midsummer Palace was covered in heavy snow. Although the red walls and white snow looked festive, the maids and eunuchs who cleaned the palace roads worked very hard.

Although it is said that the daily salary ranges from 150 Wen to [-] Wen in the palace, which is two to ten times that of the common people, but it is basically difficult for people who enter the palace to have the opportunity to leave the palace again.

It's okay for the maid to talk, but unless the eunuch gets into a high position, he would rather die than leave the palace.

"Your Highness Chitose..."

"Your Highness Chitose..."

Seeing the court ladies and eunuchs saluting with frostbite on their hands, Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and then walked towards the Nuanchun Pavilion of Zhongxia Palace.

Here, he really saw Zhu Youxiao who was handling the memorials, and when he arrived, Zhu Youxiao was holding a bowl of hot bird's nest, and was processing the memorials while eating.

"Brother is here?"

Seeing Zhu Youjian coming, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said to Wei Zhongxian next to him:

"Have someone fill another bowl for my younger brother."

"Yes..." Wei Zhongxian answered with his head down, not daring to raise his head to meet Zhu Youjian's eyes.

After the collapse of the eunuch party, Wei Zhongxian's influence has shrunk in a large scale, and he is deeply afraid that Zhu Youjian will settle accounts after autumn.

Although he didn't offend Zhu Youjian, the people under him offended Gu Dang and Yanshan faction a lot.

Zhu Youjian was not so narrow-minded, he regarded Wei Zhongxian as a black glove from the beginning, but he failed to achieve his goal.

Now that his elder brother is reluctant to part with the other party, he will not force his elder brother to get rid of Wei Zhongxian.

He stepped forward and sat down next to Zhu Youxiao without any scruples, feeling the warmth of the seat, and then took out a memorial and a military report from his sleeve.

"This is Xiao Xiyang's memorial and military report. There is one good news and some bad news. Brother, you should read it first."

"Okay." Hearing what Zhu Youjian said, Zhu Youxiao also put down the bird's nest, and quickly read through the memorials and military newspapers.

While watching Huanglong's memorial, he couldn't help but praise: "Huanglong did a good job, and my brother appointed him as Xiao Xiyang's general."

"Wrong is right..." Zhu Youjian echoed, and then explained Xiao Xiyang's situation and Huanglong's careful thinking.

Zhu Youjian chose to conceal Huanglong's embezzlement of 3 taels of gold. After all, Huanglong's actions are relatively dark, and it is not an exaggeration to use 3 taels of gold as compensation.

He mainly told Zhu Youxiao the real situation of Xiaoxiyang and the difficulties he was facing, as well as the local army of Ming Dynasty and the matter of adding troops to Xiaoxiyang.

"In your opinion, how much more troops will be added?"

After Zhu Youxiao listened to the matter, he also realized how difficult the situation in South Asia was, so he asked Zhu Youjian attentively, but Zhu Youjian pondered for a moment and said:
"Currently, there are nearly 70 soldiers and horses in the local five-army governor's mansion. When the soldiers and horses from Yingzhou are transferred back, there will be 75."

"The annual expenditure of the 75 troops is about 200 million taels of silver, and the Guochao will not take any action on the border next year."

"What I mean is that the [-] battalions of soldiers and horses transferred back from Yingzhou were made up and transferred to the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion, and then the [-] battalions of the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion in Jiaozhi, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Jiugang were transferred to Xiaogang. Western."

There are twenty battalions of soldiers and horses, with more than 600 regular soldiers. Such an increase in troops is not a lot, but it is definitely not a lot.

However, Zhu Youjian did not simply deploy troops, but...

"Before these 36 battalions are transferred to Xiaoxiyang, we need to use them as a model to recruit [-] ​​battalions from the vassal kings who are willing to move to Xiaoxiyang for training."

"That is to say, the total deployment of troops is 56 battalions, but the 36 battalions are paid by the vassal king and are under the jurisdiction of the imperial court in the current war."

Zhu Youjian made his thoughts clear. It is impossible for him to use the Ming army alone to pacify South Asia. In that case, in addition to supporting war with war at the beginning, he will need a blood transfusion from the court later.

The current situation is to quickly deploy troops to support Huanglong, and then cooperate with land and sea to counterattack the Mughals, and after taking down the major cities along the coast, support the feudal clans.

After the various vassals became vassals, their own children of the various vassals led the 36 battalions, but the overall command was in Huanglong's hands.

That is to use these 36 battalions and nearly 20 soldiers from the imperial court to fight back against the Mughals.

As long as you help the vassal king gain a firm foothold next year, the Ming army can retreat in the next year, and the vassal king can train his troops again, and Zhu Youjian can also prepare for the Northern Expedition three years later according to the situation.

It is estimated that after the start of the Northern Expedition, most of the Ming army will withdraw, except that the Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commission will retain a certain number of garrisons.

At that time, it is only necessary to ensure that the various domains have nearly [-] battalions of troops, and the Mughals will fall into a protracted war.

There are Xiaoxiyang Supervisors to stabilize the situation among the feudal vassals, and there is the great enemy of the Mughals outside, so basically nothing will happen.

But the Mughals can't do it, there is Persia in the west, and the ambition of the Bukhara Khanate in the northwest.

With the addition of Nepal and the Ahom Dynasty, they can actually only dispatch 10,000+ troops to confront the feudal vassals.

As long as the situation remains stalemate, Hong Chengchou will take down Toungoo three years later and regain Ahongmu, and then the Ming army will prepare for another two years before sending troops to take the northern plain of the Henghe River.

Take over the northern plains of the Henghe River, station more than a dozen battalions, cooperate with more than a dozen battalions of soldiers and horses from the Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Division in the south, control the feudal clans from the north and the south, use the feudal clans to stabilize the South Asian market with a large population, and finally dump commodities and close the economic circle.

In this way, Daming controlled two-thirds of the world's population and two-thirds of the world's economic market.

Even if the Qi State conquers the Americas in the future and expands the world market, Ming can at least occupy two-fifths of the market.

Affected by ocean currents, it is very easy for Europe to attack America, but it is more difficult for America to attack Asia or Europe.

Therefore, as long as Europe exists, Qi needs to be on guard and focus on Europe.

This pattern will not change in a short period of time. At least within the three generations of the Ming Dynasty, there will be basically no vicious diplomatic incidents.

After three generations, Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao can't control it anymore. How to fight is their business. Anyway, the basic market is so big, no matter how they fight, it won't shrink much.

"The 36th Battalion, isn't that too much..."

Just as Zhu Youjian was thinking about the future, Zhu Youxiao hesitated now.

The 36th Battalion has nearly 11 soldiers and horses. Although they are trained in Daming, they are also under the control of Daming. But after they go to Xiaoxiyang, can Daming still control the feudal clans?Are you sure that the feudal vassals will not cause chaos because they have military power?
Zhu Youxiao has his concerns, but Zhu Youjian thinks that Zhu Youxiao is a little unfounded.

"Brother, Tianzhu is destined to be unable to be ruled by our court, at least not at present."

"Even if the fourth version of the steam engine, steam engine ship, and steam locomotive are developed, the distance from the capital to the Ganges Plain is at least seven thousand miles."

"Tianzhu is no different than other places. There are nearly tens of millions of people in the entire region. With the power of the country, it cannot be swallowed in the short term, and it has to consume power to rule it."

"Jiaozhi, Yingzhou, and Toungoo, Old Port, Nanzhou..."

"These places have not been eaten by the country. Instead of thinking about ruling by garrisoning and relocating garrison points, it is better to understand these places first, and then think about South Asia."

Zhu Youjian has always believed that some expansion methods of the Sui and Tang Dynasties were ineffective expansion, but the expansion of the Qin Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and later generations were effective expansion.

The key point here is that immigration is real. Without people, there is duckweed, which will float away sooner or later.

For example, Central Asia, the Western Regions, Northeast China, and Mobei in the Tang Dynasty, Hehuang in the Sui Dynasty, and the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty all have this principle.

When the nation cannot form a large proportion of the local area, it is doomed that the dynasty can only rule the local area at its peak, and once it weakens, this place will be lost.

Qin moved 50 soldiers and civilians, allowing the Huaxia people to gain a firm foothold in the vast area south of the Yangtze River.

The migration of millions of people to Yunnan and Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty also allowed the Han people to gain a firm foothold in Yunnan, Guizhou and Liaodong. This is also the reason for the migration of Han people to Xinjiang in later generations.

Right now, Ming Dynasty's rule seems to be at its peak, but regional problems are also serious.

Cochin, Old Port, Yingzhou, Duogan...

In these four places, Han people accounted for no more than 25% of the local population. On the whole, there are nearly 400 million indigenous peoples in these four places, while the total number of local Han people is less than 600 million.

With this ratio, it is still a question of whether Ming can fully understand the local area within 30 years, let alone rule South Asia.

Not to mention, there is also a Myanmar with a population of 700 million, and the Ahom area is waiting for Ming.

With the population of Ming Dynasty, half of the Indochina Peninsula, one of Central Asia, one of the Western Regions, one of Qinghai-Tibet, one of Northeast China, one of Mobei, and the vast Nanyang region are already the limit.

As for the current Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commission and the South Kunlun Supervisory Commission that will be established next year, these places will also be separated from management in the future.

Rather than being taken over by the local natives, it is better to enshrine the feudal king and occupy the place first.

As long as the Ming Dynasty vassals and courtiers had the mentality of "catch up seedlings and expand their careers", coupled with the technology and economic blood transfusion of Ming Dynasty, they would not be overthrown by outsiders, and basically died of civil strife.

Zhu Youxiao regards himself as the master of the world. This mentality is fine, and Daming also needs this mentality, but the premise of this mentality is that he must know what places Daming must guard.

The northern plain of the Henghe River, this is already the farthest point that Zhu Youjian thinks that Daming connects to the southwest from the mainland.

Although this place is not big, it is much easier than stationing troops on the plateau.

"I'm considering this matter..."

Zhu Youxiao was still a little worried that the vassals were too powerful to escape the control of the court, and Zhu Youjian did not force him. He sorted out his mentality and continued:

"As for the soldiers and horses of the vassal kings, no matter what, even if there is no 36th Battalion, they can be recruited from immigrants first, and the few major vassal kings in the northern part of South Asia cannot be allowed to go empty-handed."

"In addition, more than 160 people were lost in the expeditionary army and horses. According to the pension standard, more than [-] million taels of pension silver needs to be paid."

"The gold, silver and jewels ordered by Huanglong will most likely arrive in Tianjin in April next year, and they will be paid together at that time."

Zhu Youjian said what he needed to solve, and Zhu Youxiao also nodded:
"For the eight northern feudal lords, including Fu Fan, Chu Fan, Shu Fan, and Qin Fan, you can recruit two battalions first depending on the locality. As for the southern feudal vassals, I will think about it for a month."

"There is no need to wait for the pension for the soldiers who died in battle. There is still 1903 million taels of silver in the internal funds. I, Wang An, transfer 1605 million taels to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion."

"Brother, your New Deal in Sichuan..." Zhu Youxiao paused at this point, glanced at Zhu Youjian, and then said hesitantly:
"Reduce and exempt all miscellaneous items, and set up a new policy of ten endowments and one endowment based on household registration statistics. Recently, many people have criticized..."

It is normal for some people to criticize the New Deal, Zhu Youjian has long been prepared to suppress them.

Those who dare to criticize are nothing more than the court spokespersons elected by the big gentry, but if the big gentry cannot unite with the small and medium gentry landlords, then their opposition will be weak to Zhu Youjian.

"I learned about the criticism, and they can't do anything."

Zhu Youjian made a decisive judgment, because he had already extinguished several flames that the gentry could directly threaten the court.

Zhu Youjian remembered very clearly how the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty threatened the Qing Dynasty, which also had its capital in the capital.

The first point is to cut off water transportation and make the north lack of food, the second point is to unite with local regiments to actually separate the regime, and the third point is to block food.

For these three points, he has been digging his roots since the first year of Taichang.

Right now, Daming does not use water transportation, but uses sea transportation, and the local soldiers, horses and government servants are weak, and the Gongwei battalion changes its station every three years, so the gentry have no way to start.

Although food in the north is more likely to be stuck due to the severe drought, the rise of Liaodong and the capture of Yingzhou doomed the food to be stuck in the north.

Liaodong and Yingzhou have a total of more than 4000 million mu of arable land. While protecting the local area, it is not difficult to provide millions of rice and wheat to North Zhili, not to mention that Zhu Youjian still has Ryukyu in his hands.

The severe drought destroyed the Northwest and Shanxi, but Zhu Youjian still has overseas food security for the North.

The current gentry, apart from doing something for Daming in terms of tax collection, they can't do anything else.

Although the Ming Dynasty was essentially a situation where gentry were officials, the implementation of basic education would allow a large number of poor, poor peasants, and rich peasants to enter the officialdom.

Slowly replace the gentry with the proletariat, and use overseas to support the local.

If this policy remains unchanged, then rationally monitor the capital generated by the industrial revolution, formulate trade unions and promulgate labor laws to protect the interests of workers and farmers.

After finishing these things, most of Zhu Youjian's historical tasks will be completed.

He knows what he wants to do. Maintaining the rule of Ming Dynasty does not conflict with the wealthy people, just change the object of exploitation.

Therefore, he has the confidence that in this era when aristocratic families are dying, as long as the people do not rebel, the gentry will not be able to accomplish anything.

At present, Zhu Youjian only needs to promote basic education, and then use proletarian officials to balance the officialdom. This method is the same as in the past, but this time he needs to master the frequency of cleaning, otherwise no amount of proletariat will be able to stop the corruption of the gentry .

"By the way, brother..." Zhu Youjian remembered a serious matter, he got up and bowed:

"This time, the Department of Law and Education has recruited tens of thousands of officials to teach. All the officials and schools in Beizhili will be open on the first day of March. The government will allocate money to run the schools. Students only need to pay a total of [-] Wen per year for books."

"What I mean is that Ran'er and the others should go to a government school to study, so that they can know what the people need."

"Let Ran'er and the others go to the government school to study?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't sit still after hearing this.

He frowned, rubbed his hands uncomfortably, and then said with a frown: "I need to discuss this matter with Baozhu."

Zhu Youxiao was afraid that Zhu Ciran and the others would get into some bad habits, but Zhu Youjian didn't force Zhu Youxiao, but just bowed and said:
"Dingguo will also go to study. The deadline for official school registration is the first day of February. Brother and His Highness can discuss it carefully."

"Hmm..." Zhu Youxiao wasn't thinking about Zhu Youjian's words, obviously he was thinking about Zhu Ciran's study in a government school.

"The younger brother will leave..."

Zhu Youjian didn't wait for the bird's nest to come up, so he bowed and prepared to leave. Zhu Youxiao, who was all thinking about Zhu Ciran, nodded subconsciously, but Zhu Youjian bowed and exited the Nuanchun Pavilion when he saw this, leaving only the thoughtful Zhu Ciran behind. by the school...

　The evening update is estimated to be around 09:30.

　　
　
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