Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 254 Planning Shanxi Town

Soon, the first month of the 23rd year of Wanli passed, and Huang Laifu also returned to Ningwuguan.

Ningwuguan was still calm, but something happened in the court during the first month.From the early days of the founding of the country to the present, the clan of the Ming Dynasty had many children. Due to some system problems, many clan children had no way out. Zhu Zaiyu, the son of Zhu Houtan, the king of Zheng Gong, asked Emperor Wanli: "Please allow the clan to take the exam to become an official. Chinese and foreign staff, depending on talent."

After the meeting of courtiers, Emperor Wanli agreed to Zhu Zaiyu's request, but stipulated that the sons and daughters of the clan should not be appointed officials of the Beijing court.

A few days later, the Li Ke asked Emperor Wanli to restore the Jianwen year name to Yang Tianmin: "The Jianwen year name should not be abolished. When it is time to compile the national history, the 32nd to 35th year of Hongwu should be corrected to restore Wenyuan. , Two, three, four or four years old."

The Ministry of Rites followed its proposal, and Emperor Wanli also agreed. Soon after, the Jianwen Dynasty was attached to the national history "Taizu Benji", and its year name was restored.

The biggest movement in Beijing during the first month was the talk about tomorrow’s peace talks. As early as October 23 last year, Shi Xing, the minister of the Ministry of War who advocated a peace deal with Japan, sent a letter to ask for a tribute to Japan as soon as possible: “When Japan captured Korea, , is to take advantage of its prestige. And return the king capital, send back the prince and his entourage, it is about eating. The emperor generously promised to seal it, so it should be sealed as soon as possible. The Japanese invaders will retreat, North Korea will be protected, foreign troubles will rest, and internal Prepare for repairs. Today, the army has lived in Busan for a long time. I have broken my promise if I want to seal it or not. If he asks you to seal it, he will be suspicious again. Therefore, it is all right to order it to return after sealing it. It seems difficult to do so. It is advisable to order the Japanese envoy Xiao Xifei to enter Beijing to confirm the letter to be sealed, and at the same time order the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invaders to retreat immediately and wait for the envoy to go. Even if the president dare not return quickly, the envoy It is all right to go back. Sealing means that North Korea will be safe for a while, and you will be able to defend yourself. If you re-establish an unreachable agreement, it will be a disaster for North Korea. The minister is willing to come here on his own, and if the matter fails, he will be punished."

Emperor Wanli agreed to Shi Xing's appointment, and ordered Xiao Xifei (Xiao Xi Ru'an) to enter Beijing on the day, and promised him the seal.

As early as October last year, Konishi Ru'an and others from the Japanese National Assembly and Mission went outside Beijing, and have been anxiously waiting for tomorrow's peace talks.Before coming to Daming, Xiaoxi Ru'an and President Xiaoxi formed an offensive and defensive alliance to deceive the top and the bottom.After waiting for several months, until the first month of this year, the Emperor Ming finally agreed to peace talks between the two countries. After Xiao Xiruan entered Beijing excitedly, he negotiated with Shi Xing, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, and agreed to Shi Xing's proposal without hesitation. The four clauses:

1. The Japanese army quickly withdrew from Korea and Tsushima after being sealed.

2. Only canonization is not allowed to ask for tribute.

3. The rapprochement with North Korea shall not be violated.

4. Compensation of 3000 million taels of silver for Daming military expenses.

Finally, Emperor Wanli remembered Huang Laifu's words, and inserted a request for Japanese compensation for huge military expenditures.Therefore, there is one more item in the terms of tomorrow's peace negotiation than in the original history.

Regarding the first three clauses proposed by Daming, none of the officials of the Ming Dynasty had any objection. Only regarding the fourth clause, all the officials were arguing and saying anything.But the strange thing is that Xiaoxi Ru'an agreed to these terms without hesitation.

In fact, Xiaoxi Ru'an was here to fool you, and he didn't have a trace of sincerity at all. He deceived the Ming people who didn't understand Japanese and just agreed.And Shen Weijing also cooperated with the Japanese mission to submit Xiao Xiruan's forged Japanese surrender form, which greatly satisfied the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

It was decided that Emperor Wanli canonized Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of Japan, and appointed the ministers of Japan according to the list provided by Konishi Ruan.At the end of the first month of the 23rd year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli issued an edict to Japan according to the terms of the negotiation, appointing Li Zongcheng, the governor of the Linhuai Hou Xunwei Department, as the envoy, and Yang Fangheng, the governor of the right deputy general of the Fifth Army Battalion, as the deputy envoy. , Each military officer was given a first-class uniform, via Busan, North Korea, to Japan to announce the decree.

Shen Weijing had no choice but to go to Japan with Li Zongcheng, Yang Fangheng and others.However, when he arrived in Busan, North Korea, Li Zongcheng was shocked when he learned the inside story of the negotiation from a certain population.Only later did I know that this old man fled back to Daming capital.
But the principal envoys all fled, and the deputy envoy Yang Fangheng and others had to stay in Busan, North Korea, and waited until June of the following year before they came down.

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All related matters were learned by Huang Laifu after reading the later Dibao, which is no different from the history.Huang Laifu can't take care of these things for the time being. After he returned to Ningwu Pass, he was planning to manage the entire Shanxi Town.

Planning and governance of a place is inseparable from local resources, land, and personnel. Among the dozens of military fort counties in Shanxi Town, only Wuzhai Fort, Laoying Fort, and Ningwuguan are controlled by Huang Laifu.Shenchi Fort, Bajiao Fort, Pianguan Fort, and Kelanzhou were deeply influenced.In the rest of Hequ County, Baode Prefecture, and even the more fertile Taiyuan Prefecture, Daizhou, Xinzhou, and Fenzhou, Huang Laifu had little or almost zero influence.

Among the several places controlled and influenced by Huang Laifu, Needless to say, Wuzhai Fort is the most fundamental place.The old camp Baowei Town outside the Great Wall is related to Huang Laifu's future business layout, and this place controls the mutual market tax of Shanxi Town, so it is naturally important.Needless to say, Ningwuguan is also important.

In Shenchi Fort, there are minerals such as limestone, coal and iron, and it is close to Wuzhai Fort, which is an important business area for Huang Laifu.The current person in charge of Shenchi Castle is Tian Dafu, husband of Huang Laifu's third sister.Huang Laifu is going to cooperate well with the third brother-in-law to manage Shenchibao as a major industrial and mineral land, mainly developing coal, cement, bricks, ironware and other industries.The future Wuzhaibao Cement Plant will also be relocated here.

However, due to the increase in the amount of iron needed for Wuzhai Fort, the iron mines in Shenchi Fort may not be able to meet the demand in the future. Huang Laifu set his sights on Pianguan Fort and Baode Prefecture.Pianguanbao is close to Laoyingbao, and there are many limestone, iron ore and other resources in the territory.Later generations have a cement plant with an annual output of 10 tons, and an iron plant with an annual production capacity of 5 tons. If the local iron mine is developed, it can meet Huang Laifu's future needs.

As for Baode Prefecture, the local mineral resources are also very rich, with a large amount of coal and iron mines, sulfur mines, limestone, kaolin and so on.In particular, the local coal has good coal quality, shallow burial, less impurities, and abundant reserves that are easy to mine. The total proven reserves of later generations reached 127 billion tons.There are also many types of iron ore, widely distributed, with a total reserve of 37.8 billion tons.Limestone and sulfur ore reserves also amount to billions of tons.

However, due to ravines and ravines in Baode, inconvenient transportation, and strong local tyrants, few minerals have been transported to Wuzhai Fort in the past few years, only oil dates from Baode are often transported to Wuzhai Fort for sale.However, because Baode Prefecture is rich in resources, which is what Huang Laifu will need in the future, he calculated that even if the land route is not easy, there is still a waterway between Baode Prefecture and Wuzhaibao, Zhujiachuan River, so that the local minerals will still be used Up.Right now, Huang Laifu's second brother-in-law, Li Yingchun, is defending in Baode Prefecture, and he himself has an advantage.Huang Laifu put the mineral resources of Baode State in his backup plan.

In the past few years, Kelan Prefecture has become more and more closely connected with Wuzhaibao. The high-quality cashmere goats in the local pastures have provided a large amount of raw materials for Wuzhaibao Woolen Mill, and the local area has also become rich because of this.Over the past few years, the local military, civilian, government and businessmen have become inseparable from the interests of Wuzhaibao.There is no need for Huang Laifu to make a special management layout.

However, the places under Huang Laifu's control and influence need to develop, and the rest of the places also need to develop, right?Under the planning of Huang Laifu's private shogunate, that is, the Bureau of Wuzhaibao, Huang Laifu has a detailed plan for the management of Shanxi Town.

On the first day of February in the 23rd year of Wanli, March 1595, 3 AD.

On this day, Huang Lai Fu entered the governor's yamen to discuss with Governor Yang about the planning and management of Shanxi Town. The reason why he had to discuss with Governor Yang and others was because in the current towns of Daming, civil servants command the troops, and each governor's military equipment has great power.The governor is in charge of the military affairs of all the roads in a town, and also manages the food and payment.The military preparation officers of the first road dealt with the general camp, soldiers and horses, money and grain, warehouses, post delivery, grain storage, farming, water conservancy and other affairs of the forts in the road.

In addition to the governor and military preparations, there are also magistrates and general judges from various prefectures under the military preparations, who are responsible for the military and political affairs of a prefecture, forming a complete military command system of civil servants.It can be said that generals from all over the country have very little power except for training and fighting.Huang Laifu wanted to plan the civil affairs of various parts of the town, without the support of the governor, military equipment and others, it would be difficult for him to move forward.

To the south of the screen wall of the governor's yamen in Ningwuguan is the third department hall where the governor and military preparation meetings are usually held. , Offering a house, all are discussed here.

Speaking of it, there are four military officials in Shanxi Town, among which: Shanxi Town Jining Dao Bingbei has jurisdiction over Yongning Prefecture, Ningxiang, Linxian and other prefectures, and Jingle, Taiyuan, Qingyuan, Jiaocheng, Wenshui , Five counties.Yanping Taoist soldiers in Shanxi Town were stationed in Daizhou to manage the generals of Guangwu, Beilou, Pingxingguan, etc., and also governed Daizhou, Fanzhi, Wutai, and Nao counties, and also served as Daoist farmland.Shanxi Kelan Dao Bingbei has jurisdiction over Piantouguan, Laoyingcheng, Lougoubao, Kelanzhou, Hequ County, Baodezhou City, Lanxian County, Xing County and other places.

There are also Shanxi Zhenning Wudao military equipment under the jurisdiction of Ningwu Pass, Yangfang Fort, Ninghua City, Pandaoliang Fort, Shenchi Fort, Limin Fort, Bajiao Fort, Changlin Fort and other places.The current military equipment is Liu Tangsheng military equipment officer in Ningwu City.

Originally, Huang Laifu wanted to discuss the affairs of the entire Shanxi Town. Without all the military officers from all walks of life gathered together, it was nothing to discuss. Take road construction as an example, from Kelan Prefecture to Wuzhai Fort, from Wuzhai Fort Building roads to Ningwu Pass, and from Pianguan to Wuzhai Fort, requires the joint efforts of several armies to negotiate.

However, apart from Kelan Bingbei and Ningwu Liu Bingbei, Huang Laifu has no friendship with other Bingbei, and Kelan Road is a little further away.He decided to have a breather with Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei first to see how things are going. It would be best if the whole town can carry out affairs. If not, start with Ning Wudao first.

At this time, Huang Laifu was discussing matters with Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei in the third division hall.After listening to Huang Laifu's impassioned words, he looked at some of the methods of handling affairs formulated in Huang Laifu's document.Governor Yang looked displeased, and he said: "The Huang Army Sect only needs to train soldiers and kill thieves for the country. Master Liu and I will take care of the civil affairs in the town."

As soon as he spoke, he saw Huang Laifu's expression was ugly, and although he was a civil servant, but because he had cooperated with Huang Laifu to make money in the past two years, he had to rely on him for many things, and there was a kind smile on his face, and said: "Huang Junmen The old man can understand the heart of the country, but as the saying goes, if you are not in the position, you will not seek the government, Huang Junmen's actions are beyond your scope of authority!"

Liu Bingbei also said in a strange way: "As soon as the Huangjunmen came, it was necessary to develop agriculture, industry, commerce and mines at the same time. There are so many items in various documents that people can't help but sigh. It's so courageous. I'm afraid that Jin Town's current financial resources and manpower can be used. There is nothing you can do about it. Road construction alone requires a lot of money and food, right?"
In Huang Laifu's plan, the development of Shanxi Town includes four aspects: agriculture, industry, commerce, and mining.Agriculture, mainly to increase field production in various places, vigorously build water conservancy, and promote Wuzhaibao waterwheel, seed farm tools and other things.Industry, opening various workshops and factories in various places.Business, promoting trade and developing the financial industry around the world.Mining, mines in various places, develop land treasures, and utilize investment.

All kinds of items are indeed numerous and require a lot of financial resources, but most importantly, if these affairs are carried out, Huang Laifu's influence will be even deeper.Governor Yang, Liu Bingbei and the others are afraid that they will rob them of their power.The vigilance of military generals in all parts of Ming Dynasty is deeply rooted in the bone marrow. Even if they have cooperated with him in the past two years and made a lot of money, compared to the power struggle between civil servants and military generals, these are at the bottom.

Thinking of this, Huang Laifu smiled slightly, of course he had his own words to persuade Governor Yang and others.

(End of this chapter)