Three hundred thousand taels of gold were obtained.

For Zhu Youxiao, it can more or less alleviate the financial pressure.

Nowadays, although the imperial court has money, it has more places to spend money. In particular, if the imperial court wants to implement policies, it needs to spend more money. Among them, military training requires more money.

This year we expanded the army to 20,000 new troops in one fell swoop.

Then, the arsenal in Yongding County also needs to be expanded and more craftsmen need to be recruited.

In addition, there is the expansion of Jinyiwei institutions and the establishment of Jinyiwei professional schools.

The original Jinyiwei personnel will be trained and they will also be able to produce short muskets.

and Yamen

It used to be 3,000 people, but now it needs to be expanded.

The number of people must be at least the same as that of Jinyiwei.

These people also need to improve their welfare benefits. Otherwise, they will still bully merchants and people. The tax department needs to start collecting taxes from these northern businessmen.

Weapons and equipment must keep up.

Without weapons and equipment, you can't intimidate people.

As for how Shanxi merchants sold this batch of problematic cannons to Nurhachi, Zhang Haogu was not in a hurry. It would take time to get them from Shanxi to Nurhaci's hands.

The most important thing now is to strengthen the training of soldiers. Even if Nurhaci is killed and Jiannu is still there, the problem will not be fundamentally solved.

However, at this time, something still happened.

A vicious land embezzlement case occurred in Shandong.

The news was conveyed by the local government officials through secret messages.

The gentry in Shandong sold the land to Prince Fu who was far away in Luoyang. Originally, the land was handed over to the court because the gentry failed to pay taxes on time.

However, during the specific implementation process, these gentry were not very willing and sold the land to King Fu.

Subsequently, political officials and local farmers clashed with King Fu's men.

King Fu's subordinate Ling Yunche started killing people.

As a result, large-scale bloody conflicts broke out in Shandong in the early days.

A total of 237 people were killed in Shandong and more than 500 were injured.

The farm was demolished by Ling Yunche, and the land was occupied by King Fu.

The news reached the imperial court, and the whole court was in an uproar.

This kind of thing, if it were in the past, was really not a big deal. You know, this kind of thing can be said to happen often. In addition to owning a large amount of land in Luoyang, Zhu Changluo also purchased a large amount of land from Hubei.

land.

It's just a clan prince occupying some land, it's not a big deal.

Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, these clan princes had more and more land, and early class was nothing new.

What's more, this is Fu Wang.

At first, there were two factions supporting the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo and Prince Fu Zhu Changxun to compete for the crown prince's position.

In accordance with the Ming Dynasty's principle of appointing the eldest son as the prince, most of the court ministers supported the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Changluo. However, Ming Shenzong did not like the eldest son of the emperor born to Concubine Wang Gong, but doted on Concubine Zheng. He also intended to make his son Zhu Changxun, the third son of the emperor, the crown prince, but

He was strongly opposed by the ministers and the Empress Dowager Cisheng.

Ming Shenzong argued with his officials for 15 years.

It was not until the 29th year of Wanli that Zhu Changluo was named the prince, and Zhu Changxun was named Prince Fu. However, Prince Fu never left the capital to take up the post of vassal king. It was not until the 42nd year of Wanli that Empress Dowager Li died of illness, and public opinion was unfavorable to Concubine Zheng.

After leaving the capital and joining the vassal state, Prince Zhu Changluo's position was thus stabilized.

Even so, Wanli still looked down upon Zhu Changluo. The market mistreated Zhu Changluo, but he easily gave Zhu Changxun a large amount of land. Even if he became a prince, he would still give him the best treatment.

Prince Fu Zhu Changxun was also very happy to be a wealthy prince.

Then, he was captured by the rebels and worked hard to survive. Li Zicheng was so disgusted with him that he took him to a banquet, cut off a large piece of meat alive, minced it, and mixed it with venison for the banquet.

It is said that Li Zicheng still laughed and let Zhu Changxun watch him finish eating, and maybe even forced him to eat some. Zhang Haogu chopped up people, chopped them up and fed them to dogs, and also made him watch how he was eaten by dogs.

, this dish later became famous and was called Fulu Feast.

King Fu Zhu Changxun was later executed, and two eunuchs went to mourn him. Li Zicheng allowed them to carry out King Fu's funeral, so King Fu had a burial place.

Zhang Haogu didn't expect that thousands of miles away, Prince Fu's hand would stretch so far and go so far as to usurp the land of Shandong.

Don’t you know that you even dare to divide the land in Confucius’ home?

at this moment

The entire censorship began to riot. Under the leadership of Zuo Guangdou, countless public censors wrote letters to slander their father Zhu Changxun. In the past, most of them had slandered the New Deal.

And now everyone has become a defender of the New Deal.

The problem now is this. King Fu Zhu Changxun embezzled land, and he swallowed so much land in one go. King Fu's guard Ling Yunche even killed people in public. What are you, Zhu Youxiao, going to do?

Cleaning up the clans, okay, there are so many vassals in the Ming Dynasty, do they have to clean up each one of them? Look, what will these clans in the Ming Dynasty think? Once they start making trouble, can you, Zhu Youxiao, be able to deal with it?

If you don't clean up the clan, that would be better. How can you continue to implement your new policy? The courtiers are watching, the local officials are watching, if King Fu can swallow it, can other people swallow it? So, can I give these princes a sum of money?

Money, this land is still mine. I can do with it whatever I want. If you want to investigate, the court should investigate these princes first!

Xiyuan

"King Fu?"

An extremely strange expression suddenly appeared on Zhu Youxiao's face: "He embezzled land in Shandong? How did he get across such a long distance?"

"Your Majesty, I think this matter must have been premeditated!"

Zhang Haogu took a deep breath and said quickly: "Nowadays, these gentry and courtiers are still focusing on the clan. They just want to see if the emperor will take action against the clan!

"

Having said this, Zhang Haogu paused and continued: "If the emperor takes action, he can naturally maintain the New Deal. However, in this case, the emperor will also be charged with insulting the clan. Now, there are so many clans in the Ming Dynasty.

I’m afraid there will still be a lot of fuss!”

Zhu Youxiao's eyes narrowed slightly, but there was a bit of contempt and ridicule in his eyes: "Are they pulling the clan out to check and balance me?"

Zhang Haogu nodded: "That's right!"

Zhu Youxiao laughed: "Okay, okay, they are really interesting. Do they really think that I will not implement the New Deal? The people are my flesh and blood, and I will never let them suffer the slightest humiliation!"

"Yeah!"
Chapter completed!