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  Chapter 390 388 [Sichuan Situation]

  The process for the emperor to marry the queen is very cumbersome.

  But if it's a concubine, it's very simple. In the Ming Dynasty, a great **** could preside over it, and the status is obvious.

   Fei Rumei sat in the sedan chair, secretly opened a corner of the curtain, but saw many people watching, so she was so ashamed that she hurriedly closed the curtain of the sedan chair.

  The maid who grew up with her also came, and she will be a palace maid in the future. Of course, as long as the employment contract expires, the maid can apply to leave at any time.

  Now there are not many people in Zhao Han's harem even including the maids, and the annual expenses of one hundred thousand taels of silver are more than enough.

  It is different if you move into the palace, there will be more and more female officials and court ladies, and the annual expenditure may be hundreds of thousands of taels. How much money to take from the national treasury depends on the situation. Zhao Han decided to use ten years of experiments to finally determine an amount.

  Roughly imagined, if the royal family spends 1 million a year, it will take 1.5 million from the treasury every year.

  Many institutions of the inner court have been cut off their powers. Since the power is transferred to the outer court, the outer court will have to bear corresponding obligations. For example, for the construction of palaces and mausoleums, the Ming Dynasty paid the money together with the inner and outer courts. In the future, all the money will be taken from the treasury, and the royal family will not give out a tael of silver.

  Of course, if you encounter a strong monarch, it is very likely to break the rules.

  For example, in the late Ming Dynasty, the emperor’s internal funds were private money, and the national treasury also became the emperor’s internal treasury.

  Zhao Han tried his best to set the rules according to his own wishes. As for what kind of ghosts were changed by his descendants, he was too lazy to care, and he didn't care.

  Fei Rumei was taken to a courtyard, and a maid accompanied her to sit in the room.

   Until the second watch, when the door was finally pushed open, Fei Rumei's heart beat wildly.

  The maid bowed and retreated, leaving only two people in the room.

  Zhao Han lifted the red hijab, and the red candle reflected his smile, which was really attractive.

  To be honest, Fei Rumei is prettier than her elder sister, but Zhao Han can't help thinking of how she changed her teeth when she was a child. With a grin, the dog's sinus opened wide.

   "Sister... Husband." Fei Rumei bowed her head and greeted with a voice as thin as a mosquito.

  Zhao Han smiled and said, "You can also call me brother-in-law."

   "Brother-in-law!"

  Fei Rumei also laughed.

   It's autumn tiger again, the weather is quite hot.

  Wearing a red hijab, Fei Rumei had a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, and Zhao Han picked up the hijab to help her wipe it off. The movements were gentle, and Fei Rumei was so sweet in her heart that she looked up and stared at Zhao Han in a daze.

  Brother-in-law is still so handsome and mighty!

  Fei Rumei became more and more shy: "Brother-in-law, I'm sweating too, do you want to wash it first?"

   "No need." Zhao Han helped her remove the wedding dress, and sure enough, even the vest was wet with sweat.

  He simply took off the undershirt, revealing his bright red apron.

  Fei Rumei blushed and did not dare to open her eyes, her cheek was pressed against Zhao Han's arms, her body was trembling slightly.

   "Sister said you have always refused to marry?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.

  Fei Rumei has long been bullied by Zhao Zhenfang, and has a lively and generous personality. Although shy at the moment, he boldly said: "Those men can't compare with brother-in-law. I wanted to marry brother-in-law very early on. Don't worry brother-in-law, I promise to be very obedient, and I will not compete with my sister in the future."

  Zhao Han hugged her and lay down, kissed her forehead and said, "How are your father-in-law and mother-in-law?"

  Fei Rumei smiled and said: "They are very leisurely and comfortable. Two days before I got married, the whole family went to visit the West Lake, saying that they would enjoy all the famous places in Hangzhou."

   "It's good to be free." Zhao Han's mouth moved all the way down, from the forehead to the tip of the nose, and finally landed on her red lips.

  The red candle flickers, lingering.

  The next morning, Zhao Han went to work, and Fei Rumei went to see the Queen.

  Although he has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Zhao Han has not opened the court meeting for the time being, so the monarch and his ministers don't have to go to court every day.

  The court meeting of the Ming Dynasty was only useful in the early days of the founding of the country. With the improvement of the cabinet system, the court meeting became purely a ceremony. Every court meeting, there are only three or five things discussed, and they are all government affairs that have been handled by the cabinet.

  If there will be fierce disputes in the court, it means that there has been a huge conflict between the monarch and his ministers, or between his ministers.

  Although it is just a formality, the court meeting must be preserved.

  Zhao Han decided that after the palace was repaired, a court meeting would be held on the sixth day of each month, that is, the court would go up on the sixth, sixteenth, and twenty-sixth day of the month.

  Now Zhao Han communicates with Ten Caos every day. Ten Caos are equivalent to the six subjects of Ming Dynasty. The chief officers of each Cao are called Zuo Shizhong and Right Shizhong.

  The left and right servants are handling government affairs, and the ordinary servants take turns to report to Zhao Han every day.

  Cabinet, Ten Caos, Ten Ministries, the government affairs with the unified opinions of the three major agencies, Zhao Han only randomly read a few copies. Quickly browse through all the others, and then sign and agree, and let the servants take it to the various ministries for execution.

  Of course, for extremely important military and political affairs, even if the three major institutions have the same opinion, they must be listed separately and handed over to the emperor for review.

  Such as starting a war and mobilizing troops, promoting senior officials, building water conservancy projects, etc.

  A brochure sent by Bing Cao made Zhao Han smile and feel very happy.

  Jiading (Leshan) hereditary military general Yang Zhan brought one prefecture (Syria Prefecture) and two prefectures (Jiading Prefecture, Luzhou) to request surrender to Zhao Han, and asked Zhao Han to send troops to Chongqing quickly.

  The cabinet is not far from Shicao, Zhao Han immediately called the three cabinet ministers.

   "It's not very clear in the brochure, what happened to Yang Zhan?" Zhao Han asked.

  Pang Chunlai explained: "The officers and soldiers of the former dynasty in Sichuan were ordered by Chongzhen to go out to encircle and suppress the bandits. After many defeats, the entire army was wiped out. Because of the excessive government levies, coupled with natural disasters and droughts, Sichuan has long been a warlord."

  Li Banghua spread out a map of Sichuan.

  Pang Chunlai picked up the magnifying glass and put his head close to the map. He wanted to point to the map to explain, but found that he blocked the map, so he said: "Mr. Li will tell you."

Li Banghua pointed to the map and said: "Wu Shangxian and Long Zhengguo of Zunyi Mansion rebelled, defeated the officers and soldiers of the former Ming Dynasty, killed the prefect and made themselves kings. They not only occupied the entire Zunyi Mansion, but also sent troops to defeat the Yongning Division (Xuyong County) of the Xuzhou Mansion. , has been fighting with Yang Zhan who asked to surrender for more than a year."

  After the Banzhou Rebellion was settled, the Banzhou Xuanwei Division was divided into two.

  Among them, Zunyi Military and Civil Mansion is under the jurisdiction of Sichuan, and Pingyue Military and Civil Mansion is under the jurisdiction of Guizhou.

  Zunyi Prefecture was thriving in the early days of land reform.

  The land of the Yang family in Banzhou is all allocated to the military and civilians. Each soldier in the guard can divide 30 mu, of which the income of 24 mu belongs to himself, and the income of the other 6 mu is used as military expenses.

  A large number of immigrants were carried out again. The Han people can be divided up to 50 mu of land, and the officers above the command can be divided up to 100 mu of land.

  Since the second year of Chongzhen, taxes have been increased crazily.

  The imperial court did not increase taxes much, but the magistrates took advantage of the opportunity, making it difficult for even the gentry to live on.

  So, Wu Shangxian and Long Zhengguo rebelled. The former is a Han landlord, and the latter is a minority. The people of Zunyi responded, killing officials and rebelling one after another, occupying the entire Zunyi Mansion in only half a year.

  Pang Chunlai said: "After Wu Shangxian occupied Yongning Division, he was attacking Luzhou at this time. The purpose was to seize Yang Zhan's Fushun saltworks after occupying Luzhou."

  Li Banghua said: "Fushun is the richest place in southern Sichuan. In order to compete for the salt field, the two have long been fighting to the death."

Pang Chunlai also said: "In order to exterminate the bandits, the prefect of Chongqing ordered the recruitment of brave men. Now that the bandits have been eliminated, the prefect has also been killed, and the gentry regiments are attacking each other. A gentry named Wang Xiang has gradually grown and controlled the entire western part of Chongqing. .Wang Xiang from Chongqing and Wu Shangxian from Zunyi joined forces to attack Yang Zhan, wanting to carve up the profits of Fushun's saltworks."

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "Yang Zhan couldn't bear the attack from both sides, so he sent someone to ask to surrender to me."

  If it wasn't for Zhao Han's rebellion, Yang Zhan would have been admitted to Wu Jinshi by this time.

  Historically, he defended Chengdu and was captured alive by Zhang Xianzhong.

  In the execution ground, Yang Zhan snatched the executioner's knife, slashed each of them to the riverside, jumped into the river and swam away.

  Meet the water bandit "Two Thousand Years Old" on the way, and single-handedly kill the gang of water bandits.

  Next, Yang Zhan recruited Xiangyong, expelled Zhang Hualong, the governor appointed by Zhang Xianzhong, and successively occupied Renshou, Jianyang, Meizhou, Qingshen and other places, and was named Jinjianghou by the small court of Nanming.

  Zhang Xianzhong Jiangzhong Chen Yin was left behind when Yang Zhan defeated many with less and killed the whole army.

  After Zhang Xianzhong became emperor, he was once beaten by Yang Zhan so that he could only work in northern Sichuan.

  Yang Zhan is not only brave in battle, but also good at governing the people. The people in his territory are rich, and the military rations are completely self-sufficient. It's a pity that he was murdered by the brothers who worshiped him at a banquet, and both the tribe and the territory were annexed by the two brothers.

  Zhao Han asked: "How is Madam Qin now?"

  Pang Chunlai smiled and said, "The entire Kuizhou Mansion has been conquered."

  Li Banghua said: "Four of the counties were photographed in Mrs. Qin's prestige, and they took the initiative to come to Xiancheng to seek refuge."

  Qin Liangyu was still fierce, and occupied Kuizhou Mansion in more than half a year.

Zhao Han said: "Transfer Huang Yao's mountain division to attack Chongqing with Mrs. Qin, and wipe out that troublesome son Wang Xiang. As for Yang Zhan, give him the establishment of an independent regiment, and we will pay for the independent regiment. He paid for the military expenses of the rest of the soldiers himself. After Chongqing was captured, Huang Yao, Mrs. Qin, and Yang Zhan worked together to conquer Sichuan."

  Sichuan's Chengdu prefecture is fertile and thousands of miles away, and the salt field in Fushun is also making a lot of money. These two sites must be won as soon as possible.

  In Sichuan today, there are several major warlords and more than 20 small warlords. The further the delay, the worse the economic and people's livelihood in Sichuan will be. The warlords must frantically exploit the people in order to expand their territories.

  Setting up a cabinet to share government affairs, Zhao Han really felt a lot easier.

  I work eight hours a day, and I still have time to paddle in the middle, so I can read books, write articles and so on.

  Backing back to the harem at night, one empress and two concubines gathered for dinner, and several sons and daughters of Chongzhen were also called, and the life was lively and comfortable.

   It will be different when you move into the palace in the future, and everyone will definitely be a lot stranger.

  The maid brought the food, and Fei Rulan asked, "Is the day for Concubine Zhuang to enter the palace fixed?"

   "It's fixed, next month." Zhao Han said.

   Fei Rulan is the empress, Pan Qimei is the virtuous concubine, Fei Rumei is the Shu concubine, and Liu Rushi is the Zhuang concubine, according to the rankings of Xian, Shu, Zhuang, Jing, Hui, Shun, Kang, and Ning.

  The harem at this time is indeed too deserted, with three concubines and only three princes and daughters.

  Pan Qimei raised her left hand, and asked with a smile, "Husband, this is the jade bracelet that Sister Concubine Shu gave me. Does it look good?"

   "It looks good." Zhao Han nodded.

  Fei Rumei just laughed, newlyweds, her excitement is not over yet.

  Zhao Zhenfang pouted at the table, Fei Rumei, who grew up with her, was married, why hasn't that damned Zheng Sen come back yet?

  (end of this chapter)