Silver winter melon weighs three to four hundred kilograms each. Four soldiers tied them with ropes and wooden frames and carried them to the carriage. They piled a few and transported them away. And here there were officials and craftsmen recruited from the Ministry of Household Affairs to put these
Unfortunately, the silver winter melon was melted and recast into official silver ingots one by one and sent to the treasury. Bailang had someone make a memorial ceremony for the heads he obtained in Datong, saying, "The quantity is a bit small. Please bear with me."
The Shanxi merchants copied almost 20 million taels of silver. The national treasury has never been so full. Of course, such a full treasury is a big project. The Yellow River water conservancy and canal water conservancy must be done, and the water storage tanks in various parts of North China must be cleaned.
After clearing and digging, the artificially irrigated canal will be well established. It will also be good to harvest more grain in the following weather.
There are a lot of vassal kings in Shanxi and Henan, and Bailang is planning to clear out all the vassal kings he can. By removing their princes, at least many collateral clans have been saved. From Taizu to the present, population growth has caused many collateral clans to repopulate.
I have regained Taizu's ability to look after the house and beg for food. This will abolish each of the royal lineage, and then the descendants below can really go to work, study, and do business, and can be ordinary people, not to mention Bailang's relatives, of course
It is to give priority to the land in the Wang Jue's family to all the poor and unemployed descendants.
"Be an errand and pay for the food. Whether I can hold on to this family property or not, that's none of my business." Bailang muttered. He was sitting here now, and things were almost done. He was inspecting the party to make arrangements.
On the one hand, they used huge violence to quickly clean up - such as calling for the payment of arrears, replacing officials, and reaffirming the payment of all shares per mu. The most important thing was to clear up the divided ownership of the land and distribute the amounts to each county and township.
Are there any who resist? There are no violent ones, and there are some who are uncooperative - almost all of them are from official families. Secretly concealing the land is the most common. Bailang is also simple, directly selling off the fame and honors left by the previous emperor.
All favors and all were withdrawn and dealt with in the same way as the previous Shanxi merchants. The family was completely dispersed and dispersed to the north and south of the world. Bailang didn't kill many people, but his reputation for cruelty and cruelty spread widely.
At least those "people" in the south believe that the current emperor is the first-class faint king in the history of the Ming Dynasty. As for the cruelty, he is no different from Taizu. Should we raise an army to clear the emperor's side or simply rebel? Jingnan is also okay? The question is
Although the princes in the south are also from the Zhu family, none of them look like they can be emperors. And they really want to raise an army? There will be a lot of money and food in it. Besides, who will take the lead if they succeed?
How to shirk responsibility for failure?
All of this is like a mess, with entangled interests. In the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the literary style in the south was extremely prosperous. Scholars and local aristocratic families were all intertwined and related by marriage. Isn't this what the so-called celebrities are like? Bailang is here
There were only a few vassal kings left in Henan and Shanxi, and the fields they occupied were confiscated. Even the royal palace dismantled a lot of materials and prepared to transport them back to BJ City to build gardens for their families.
It is impossible for those vassal princes and their families to stay in the local area. They will all be sent back to the capital to serve as residence halls. A palace will be built in BJ City and they will be allowed to stay in BJ City and become princes. Moreover, these princes have also become downgraded nobles.
, after a few generations of not serving as an official, they will become ordinary people. If you want to become an official to realize your self-worth, that's fine - just go to the capital and expressly give up the title of king and become a commoner. Bailang is willing to give them a chance.
Bailang wants to take over all the vassal kings in the world and let them all stay in the capital. Most of them must be eliminated. The current idea is to keep only a dozen kings and no more than twenty. The capital is large enough to build these palaces. Bailang thought
It is not only the West Garden, but also gardens can be built all the way to the west. Later, the Tatars built several large gardens in this direction. In comparison, they spent less time living in the Forbidden City.
It has been six months since Bailang came out of the capital, and there has been no disturbance in the court. Anyway, there are eight hundred miles a day to rush to Bailang's side, and Bailang also has more than ten cavalry to rush back to Bailang every day. Some of them are not sent.
When he got back, he sent them to various places directly. Bailang also brought a team of secretaries with him to the emperor, including both the inner and outer courts. "Okay! Now Shanxi and Henan are also under general control!" As for the real complete control? Bailang will not go at all.
think.
He is already an emperor who can completely control the capital and hundreds of miles of suburbs. In an era without radios and telephones, talking about control ability is a joke. Now, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and Shanxi are already under the control of Bailang's imperial power.
With the current manpower and material resources in these four places, Bailang is confident that he can once again suppress the world. With 50,000 well-fed and well-paid elite soldiers under his command, there is no place in the world that he cannot go.
The 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty are just barely passable in Bai Lang's opinion. In terms of fighting elites, they are obviously not as good as the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the elite Northern Army of the Han Dynasty. But it is no problem to use it to deal with the Mongols he saw before. Come to think of it
The same goes for those soldiers from the mainland. The only elite soldiers in the world are the Zhejiang soldiers under Qi Jiguang - he has never seen Li Chengliang's soldiers in Liaodong, so it's hard to say that the Zhejiang soldiers are already very good at fighting.
It's just that Qi Jiguang is now a marquis and has been sidelined. Even if Bai Lang has no intention of punishing him, he was criticized by the civil servants who followed Bai Lang as a third party in the previous rebellion, but Bai Lang suppressed the punishment. Now he only
As a short-term governor, Bai Lang was prepared to let him go out to lead the army if there was a war - this guy had at least three or four years to live. Bai Lang decided to nurse him back to Beijing and try to get another ten years.
Now Qi Jiguang can still say that he is young and powerful because he is in his fifties - of course this will be said in later generations, he is an old man at this age. "Go back to Beijing!" After handling everything, Wanli led his army back to Beijing, and by this time he had left.
It has been eight months in the capital, and Concubine Zheng is also pregnant - this is Wanli's first child, so this concubine was sent back to the capital first. I heard that Queen Mother Li was smiling from ear to ear, they had been there before
Worrying about Wanli's descendants.
Since one can get pregnant, there is no problem with the others. The only problem is that this emperor is careless and fights and kills all day long and does not do business. The Queen Mother and the civil servants think that business is hiding in the harem and having women. This is the emperor.
Of course, you can't say this on the surface as you should do the business. This emperor's martial arts is quite prosperous. He is still not sure about his martial arts, but a decree came first, "Kai Enke?"
Bailang decided to hire Enke. It was not the cabinet's turn to talk to the Ministry of Rites. It was a good thing for the country to open Enke to recruit talented people. In fact, Bailang wanted to recruit people who can do things, so this time Enke must be towards the four people he controls.
Each province prefers quota quotas. "This term will exhaust the Jiangnan scholars, and I will take the responsibility for their infamy!"
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