Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 859: The feudal king snatches people to form a bodyguard, updates the yellow book, and reduces taxes
One of the ways Zhu Qiyu thought of to limit Zhu Wenfang's desire to reduce the vassal was to let Zhu Wenfang also serve as the vassal king.

The theory that the butt determines the head is always correct.

So Zhu Qiyu told us: "Shandong is our basic base, and we must win over the military and people's morale in Shandong.

The position of King Qi must always be in the hands of the emperor or the prince. In the name of the prince, we can do many things that are inconvenient for the emperor and prince to do. "

Zhu Wenfang smiled and said: "The most important thing is that my father wants to use the name of King Qi to control three elite guards."

"Yes, three guards, totaling 15,000 people. When the emergency comes, arm the rest of the army. Three guards can organize an army of at least 30,000 people.

In the last years, when the power of the imperial court declined and there was domestic unrest, if there were changes in the south, we would have to rely on Shandong to stop the rebels or peasant armies.

Let Lu Fan block us first, and then use Qi Fan's three guards to cooperate with the Beijing army to defend against the enemy.

If there are changes in the north, our Qi Fan controls eastern Shandong and the sea channel, which can be regarded as a retreat.

Even if Taizong launched the Jingnan Campaign, Shandong would be the key battlefield to determine victory or defeat. "

Taizong was better. He gave birth to three children, and one of them was killed by Xuan Miao in the end.

In the past dynasties, the two most important directions for using troops were the northwest and the northeast.

In short, your older brothers should work together to form a guard. You brothers should discuss how to allocate manpower.

In a normal harem, the struggle is fierce and life-and-death. Like Xuanmiao, it is normal to have two sons in a lifetime.

Zhu Wenfang frowned when he heard this. Not everyone can give birth to more than twenty princes.

Zhu Wenfang didn't want endless palace fights in his harem, and he thought that he couldn't let several women live in harmony and be as close as sisters, so he could only go to extremes. The fewer women, the better. If there were less, there would be no fighting.

Oh, by the way, I will pick another guard for Mu Cong, plus the one I have formed for him before. In three or four years, I will let him return to Yunnan to guard.

With the king of Han, the king of Xia, and the king of Su guarding the northwest together, it would be much more reliable.

"Yes, not only our Ming Dynasty soldiers, but also Mongolian soldiers and generals, you can also absorb them as appropriate.

Zhu Wenfang nodded: "Then I took advantage of the opportunity of many soldiers to emerge in this war and started to form the Qingzhou Three Guards?"

Even Zhu Qiyu personally wrote to Cao Guogong, requesting to draw elites from the Shaanxi-Gansu border army and give priority to the formation of the three Lingwu guards of the King of Xia, and then the three guards of the Han King.

You can also practice calligraphy, which can cultivate your sentiments.

Back home, Zhu Qiyu rejected the intimate requests from his concubines. There is no way, if you do something you love, you will be caught.

In both the government and the public, there were fierce battles for people everywhere.

The Ming Dynasty was relatively miserable. It suffered a lot in both directions.

Zhu Qiyu didn't care about this, and went home after arranging things.

My sons are not enough. If you have more princes in the future, you can create a few more princes in remote southern provinces such as Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Myanmar, and Siam, so that you can be more secure. "

The vassal kings competed for the elites in the army to enrich their bodyguards. Everyone is like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing his magical powers.

If a person is not good himself, he doesn't want others to be happy. He wishes that everyone was a eunuch. So what can he do? Just practice calligraphy.

In the following days, Zhu Qiyu stayed at home, practicing various ways of writing a certain character.

Zhu Wenfang selected many elites from the original Japanese soldiers. All of a sudden, the Ganquan Palace was crowded, and the military generals were all looking for connections, hoping to send their children to the prince's command.

Civil servants are also robbing people, because in the tenth year of Jingtai, the land and population will be re-calculated, the yellow book will be updated, and the household registration will be reorganized.

This is accompanied by the re-division and adjustment of various prefectures, states and counties. According to the national policy formulated by Taizu when he founded the country, the land tax of the Ming Dynasty was a budget quota system. The amount of grain that each province needed to pay each year was determined in advance, and each province paid grain according to the prescribed amount.

The court won't charge too much, but you can't pay less either.

No more, no less, just right, that is the most suitable.

After careful consideration, Zhu Qiyu finally decided not to completely overthrow Taizu's system for the time being.

However, the original tax amount in the two capitals and thirteen provinces generally fell by about 10%. Among them, the special ones are: the quotas for Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Huguang dropped by 15%; among them, the quotas for the five prefectures of Suzhou and Song Dynasty dropped by 20%.

The taxes imposed by Su Song's Five Prefectures were too heavy, and Zhu Qiyu couldn't stand it anymore.

We have been exploiting and oppressing others for a hundred years, and it’s time to relax.

Based on the principle that the butt determines the head, Zhu Qiyu understands the people in the south when it comes to paying taxes: If I were born in the late Ming Dynasty, if I were a member of the Donglin Party, I wouldn't pay any fucking taxes.

The imperial court collects Liao pay at one time, suppression pay at another, and training pay at another, all of which are from Jiangnan. Why don't you, Beizhili, pay Liao pay? Why don't those vassal princes and relatives who are full of fat and fat, the nobles who share the same fate with the country, and the eunuchs who share the fate of the emperor not pay the Liao salary, do they owe you Jiangnan Tiansheng?
The most important thing is that those stupid dogs in Liaodong take money and do nothing. They spend six to seven million taels a year on the court. If they can't defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they just don't care. They keep flirting with the upper management of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

So much money is wasted every year, and it sinks directly to the bottom without even a splash or a sound.

Oh, no, you can also hear the noise. In the seventeen years of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties entered the pass five times to plunder. It was quite lively.

One of the most shameless things in the world is to take money and do nothing.

If I were the Donglin Party, I would also throw the emperor into the water.

Of course, since Zhu Qiyu is the emperor now, he has to consider issues according to the emperor's thinking.

Reduce taxes appropriately to relieve the pressure on the people.

The reduced taxes were shared between Korea, Japan, Annan and other places newly occupied by the Jingtai Dynasty.

As a result, the land tax collected by the court every year generally increased.

Coupled with the gold, silver, and copper mines controlled by the imperial court, the imperial court's financial resources are still very abundant as long as it no longer engages in war and instead recuperates.

March comes in a blink of an eye.

On the sixth day of March, the spring is warm, the flowers are blooming, the wind is gentle and the sun is beautiful.

After Zhu Qiyu had breakfast, he came to Qingyun Pavilion to manage politics.

Although power has been gradually handed over, Zhu Qiyu is not doing nothing anymore.

The first batch of ministers received were the three chief officials of Jing Zhaoyin and Shuntian Prefecture.

This time, Jingzhao Yin Huangpu was the most tired of the re-determination of land and population. In the land of Gyeonggi, the population is not only large, but its composition is also extremely complex.

Nobles, relatives, eunuchs, no one is easy to mess with.

Zhu Qiyu smiled at Huang Pu and said: "There were originally eight prefectures in Northern Zhili. After I ascended the throne, I added Xuanfu and Huailai from Shanxi to Zhili, increasing the number to ten prefectures.

Now the area between Xuanfu and Kaiping has been established as Zhangbei County, which is included in the Gyeonggi Province and under the direct control of Jing Zhaoyin.

The land in Zhangbei County, whether for horse grazing or farming, was divided among three families: Jingzhaoyin, Yumajian, and Taipusi.

You all have no objection to this allocation. "

(End of this chapter)