Relying on the initial purge in the court and the tens of thousands of troops in hand, Bailang can be said to be able to at least control the capital and Hebei and Shandong. After that, Henan and Shanxi can at least obey orders, and further south they are mostly disobedient, and the further they go. South Vietnam is great, but going to the west is better. Those poor people have to rely on the central government to survive, so they are more obedient.
"This world is full of evils, so we have to fight the world again." Bailang calculated. First, stabilize the Central Plains, which means that Shanxi and Henan have to clean up first - there are many vassal kings in these two places, and Bailang I think it is enough to leave at most one vassal king in each place, and all of them have to go back to the capital to be idlers - anyway, they bully men and dominate women in the local area, but they cannot interfere with local administration, so they are still idlers.
The ancestral precepts of the Emperor Ming Dynasty are said not to be changed even a word, but Master Wanli obviously regarded this thing as a piece of paper, "Fuck the laws of our ancestors, I am the Ming Dynasty! I am the law!" So no one dared to do it anymore. What kind of ancestral laws are used to persuade Wanli? This tyrant is not someone who is willing to accept advice. It is better to say that he is an emperor who was educated in the articles of a young saint. It is better to say that this emperor is more like the Jiedushi of the Five Dynasties.
"He who has strong soldiers and horses is the emperor!" Bai Lang has always believed in this, and he has indeed done so. The policy of the Qingzhang and the tenants in Shandong and Hebei have been vigorously implemented and are about to collect the first The autumn grain of the year. The hereditary military attaches in these two places are still there, but there are no military households under their command. All military households have been cleared and converted into civilian households. The hereditary military attaches just have a relatively good starting point when they become officials. That's all.
This starting point is still not high, because only after passing the martial arts examination can you take up a position as a soldier. Otherwise, you will have a reduced rank and only a title, and you will not be able to avoid paying taxes or being an errand. Now in the Ming Dynasty, The only way to reduce or exempt part of the land tax and exempt from military service is to join the army. If you join the army, you can be exempted from ten acres of land.
There is no such preferential treatment after retirement. However, the retired soldier himself can be exempted from military service and military service money for life. "You can't give more." This is Bai Lang's idea. After all, he was given a lot of pension money for his disability and death. We have never defaulted on payment of salary - now the payment of salary has nothing to do with the various chief officers in the army. It is directly distributed to the soldiers and officers by the Logistics and Military Pay Bureau directly under the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War.
Bailang planned to wait until the autumn grains were harvested, and would first go out to the capital to inspect Henan and Shanxi. In the future, the Tatars would be able to visit Jiangnan several times, so what would be the problem if he inspected his own world? "Born in a deep palace, raised as a woman I can't leave the capital for the rest of my life. Is this like becoming an emperor or going to jail? It's hard to say."
Bailang's travel posture does not need to be large. Thousands of soldiers are enough to protect him. This way he can move faster. As for the serving maids and eunuchs, he will not bring them with him. At most, he will bring a team of secretaries. The autumn tax received this time is quite large. Yes, especially in Hebei and Shandong, after killing Yan Shenggong's line, randomly finding a Confucian son to take this position, and depriving them of all their fields, Shandong's tax revenue rose to a higher level.
The autumn harvest in these two places raised a large amount of grain and grass, and there was also a lot of grain and grass transported by water. Although the southeast must resist taxes, some autumn grain was delivered. Bailang announced that he would inspect Xuanda, Shanxi and Henan, and it is expected that there will be
It took four months. No one in the court objected. The prince could do whatever he wanted, and don't try to persuade him.
Some people praise the emperor's virtues, while others think the emperor is cruel - mainly depends on whether their relatives or family members were beheaded by Bailang to build the Jingguan.
The queen was still in the capital, and Bai Lang took the two concubines on the trip - the prerequisite was that they could ride a horse and were relatively strong. He would leave it to King Lu to appease the queen mother, and let the queen go to supervise the country. Anyway, major matters were handled by the cabinet.
, and it has to be sent to him urgently for review. Speaking of King Lu, the Queen Mother chased Wanli and asked him to write a document saying that she would never pursue King Lu against him, and she also used a seal.
The middle-aged Queen Mother and the chubby King Lu were both crying. To be honest, they couldn't stop those rebellious officials and traitors like tigers and wolves. King Lu originally said that she was unwilling to be dragged out to become the emperor, but it turned out that the father-in-law in the inner court jumped off the building.
He personally pulled him out. No matter how King Lu said he was unwilling, those ministers put a yellow robe on him.
As for the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother refused to write the edict, but does anyone care if she, a woman, can write a portrait? Why is it difficult for the Queen Mother to write an edict for him? As for the Queen Mother's treasure? This thing is not kept by the Queen Mother herself, and besides, it is not safe to keep it by herself.
How? Can you still prevent others from stealing or robbing?
So Bailang didn't hold King Lu accountable at all. If it were any other prince, he would have been imprisoned until death, so now both the Queen Mother and King Lu are very grateful to this eldest son/brother for his tolerance. King Lu is not only
Not only was it okay, Bai Lang even directly ordered him to live next door to the Queen Mother's Cining Palace - not counting the palace outside the Forbidden City, he was also officially given a residence in the Forbidden City. Even if he went to Xiyuan, he was given a residence near the Queen Mother's residence.
The palace was also given to King Lu.
This King Lu was legitimate and did not need to leave the capital to become a vassal. Bailang did not give him a fiefdom. Instead, he asked the housekeeper's ceremonial supervisor to give King Lu gold, silver, various silks and daily necessities every year according to the law.
According to the prince, it is almost one hundred thousand taels a year. This is already an exaggeration, but the Queen Mother still wants to give a subsidy to her youngest son. Queen Mother Li really dotes on her youngest son.
Shanxi and Henan, regardless of Henan, Shanxi is an important place for trading with the Mongols, and Shanxi merchants are the people who Wanli will skin and debone for them this time. Trading with the grasslands does not matter, but you have to pay taxes. As for the imported wool Bailang
It is intended to develop the wool industry - to attack the upper-class Mongolian princes and allow the lower-class Mongolian herdsmen to have income. This is the economic way to conquer the grassland.
As for the military method, it is simple - if we can get barbed wire and flintlock guns, and even a horse-drawn railway, then the Mongols will naturally become a nation that can sing and dance well, and if they have machine guns, they will become even faster.
"All nomads became good at singing and dancing under barbed wire and machine guns." Bai Lang thought, but the current world situation can only be solved by attacking the upper-class princes.
During the Wanli period, the Mongols still had some fighting strength, so Bailang decided to fight a few battles on the nine sides according to the opportunity after dealing with the Shanxi merchants, and strive to defeat the various Mongolian tribes. It would be better to capture their princes, and at the same time, the border troops should be trained to clean up regularly.
The grassland has the habit of not letting any tribe grow up.
This chapter has been completed!