Regarding the conflict between Yang Feng and his brothers, King Jin and King Qi...
Including him beating his seventh brother stupidly.
Zhu Zhi didn't care at all.
Half-mother...
That's not a brother!
To be precise, they are all the sons of bad women!
In an imperial family like this, half-mothers can basically be enemies. Zhu Zhi's mother has long since disappeared, and he is the only one he really depends on for life.
little princess.
All the other so-called brothers and sisters are just the sons of bad women in his heart. For a concubine like him who is a low-level concubine, he would not look at the sons of legitimate concubines or beloved concubines.
To the eye, his feelings for these people are simply negative. In fact, even he is dissatisfied with Zhu Di, who was too kind to the Mongolian Jurchens, and because he already knew the future from the little princess, he has always had a deep affection for these tribes.
hostility.
It was under his threat that Aru Timur was arrested by his fourth brother.
Aru Timur did not defect.
He did have this thought, but it was just a thought.
At most, I'm a little bit dissatisfied.
Zhu Di also knew that the root cause was that he had been left in Huining for too long. Those who were originally loyal to him were uneasy, so he wanted to defend himself. Historically, he actually did not want to arrest him. It was his uncle who forced him to arrest him.
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In order to prevent him from rebelling, Xu Huizu created the Alu Timur case and forced him to cut off his wings.
But now that his elder brother-in-law is away, it is his fifteenth brother who is forcing him.
Zhu Zhi's Liao vassal guards were already preparing to raid Alu Timur. If Zhu Di did not arrest him, then he, the real guarding vassal king of Liaodong, would do it for his fourth brother. After all, it was under his jurisdiction, so Zhu Di had no choice but to
Arrest people, because Zhu Zhi is also dissatisfied with Zhu Di because of this incident. This is Zhu Di, who is the brother with whom he has the closest relationship.
Not to mention the others.
but……
He had to hold his nephew's thigh.
For a vassal king like him who has no ambitions and poses no threat to Zhu Yunxi, the most important thing is to show his loyalty to the future emperor.
This is the most important.
The easiest way to show loyalty is of course to let Zhu Yunxi see that he and his brothers, King Yan and King Jin, are not of the same mind. Yang Feng is the open enemy of King Jin and injured King Qi. In other words, these powerful
The enemy of the vassal king, and him remaining friendly with Yang Feng was tantamount to telling Zhu Yunxi that he was not in the same group as these brothers...
My dear nephew, you know me.
I am not the same group as those who want to steal your throne.
I obey you.
Look, I've become good friends with your eagle dog.
Well, Yang Feng has been regarded as Zhu Yunxi's eagle dog.
After all, he had already solved a vassal king that Zhu Yunxi needed to be wary of.
Who is happiest when King Qi becomes a fool?
princess……
Well, she ranks first.
But the second ranked one has to be Zhu Yunxi.
If Yang Feng could beat his uncles into fools in this way, then Zhu Yunxi would not need to worry about his uncles' resistance after he succeeded to the throne.
What a fool!
It is also reasonable for him to reduce the vassal status.
A fool is obviously unable to fulfill his duties as a vassal king. In this case, of course there is no need to let them continue to cheat in the fiefdom, and they are all taken back to the capital to work as an apartment, and he provides care for his uncles in their old age. Therefore, there are still some rumors among the people that Yang Feng beat Fool Qi.
The king was under the instruction of the emperor's grandson. After all, this was very beneficial to the emperor's grandson.
So Yang Feng naturally became the emperor's eagle dog.
There are many people who believe this statement.
It is not ruled out that Zhu Zhi also believes it.
He is far away from here, and the only things that can be transmitted are fragmentary rumors.
As for Yang Feng, he actually came to Guangning to see his adopted daughters...
There are many adopted daughters here.
The total number of people is as high as 2,500, but currently they are all at the level of young children. Even the oldest one is only thirteen. There are Jurchens, Goryeo, Japanese and even Mongolians among them. In short, it is a mess.
Some of them were bought by green slaves.
Even when the Ming army was raiding various ministries, it was inevitable that they would have a hard time and often exterminate families. The green slaves negotiated with the Ming army generals and sold the little girls they didn't want to her. Then these were also counted as Yang Feng.
Yang Feng's adopted daughters, so the total number of Yang Feng's adopted daughters has exceeded 5,000, but he has never touched any of the 5,000 adopted daughters.
And he gave it away for free.
Very exaggerated.
At least for the Ming army generals, this behavior was simply unbelievable.
Moreover, he also asked people to teach these adopted daughters how to read and write.
This is even more incredible.
"What's wrong with this?
My education doesn't allow me to do this.
In our time, for the first time, three wives and four concubines were not allowed. At least legally, only one husband and one wife were recognized. Adults were not considered adults until they were eighteen years old. People under the age of fourteen were treated with the same force as your children under the age of twelve.
Although our punishment is not as severe as yours, after all, you are hanged.
In fact, our laws are very different from yours at this time, and our moral values are also different.
Some of your things are completely unreasonable to us.
Such as burial."
Yang Feng said.
This issue really should be taken seriously.
At this time, it was already happening. After Zhu Biao died, his concubines were buried, and Zhu Yuanzhang was about to die, so he had to start to penetrate it ideologically.
Let this system be abandoned as soon as possible.
"Another example is a slave.
This is also unreasonable to us.
Of course, hiring is possible.
In the late Northern Song Dynasty, this point was almost completely employed. Although serfs began to appear again in the Southern Song Dynasty due to the expansion of Neo-Confucianism, the Ming Dynasty was still considered a step back in this regard. This cannot really be said to be the responsibility of His Majesty the Emperor. After all, with the
With his historical knowledge, it was probably impossible for him to know this when the system was first formulated.
Third, low status.
Although I support that some people should indeed be relegated to humble status, we did not have that at that time.
It’s not even more than two hundred years ago.
Fourth, the military household system.
This is good for now, but in fact it will soon become the main drawback.
It is necessary to maintain compulsory military service, but it does not select some people to be military households, but a universal compulsory military service system for the entire population, which means that everyone should be a military household.
Fifth, curfew.
If you want business to thrive, there should be no curfew.
At least the current curfew is unreasonable. The Northern Song Dynasty curfew can be used as a reference. Instead of abolishing this system, the curfew time is postponed to the third watch. If you are still outside after the third watch, it is indeed difficult to guarantee that you are not a thief. But the current situation is
It is really unreasonable to prohibit going out at 1:00am or 3:00pm. After all, people have work during the day, so they have time to go out at night."
Yang Feng said.
He had to systematically transform the thinking of the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty.
"But it's pitch black after three o'clock. What can people do when they go out?"
Guo Ying said.
He is still guarding Liaodong.
He is different from other nobles. Zhu Yuanzhang has absolute trust in him. In fact, the heroes killed by Zhu Yuanzhang never include people of Guo Ying's level, because they are true confidants, one of his own, and the others can only be regarded as partners to make the business bigger.
Kicking away partners is inevitable.
But confidants are different.
"As long as you let go, the people will solve this problem by themselves, and it is actually not difficult to solve. Set up a government-run night market. The government provides a trading place and lighting inside, but taxes the stalls.
In addition, the city gates should not be closed to allow outsiders to enter the city for trade.
Then the city gate collects the tax again.
Eventually you will find that the government's income has increased significantly.
This was the pattern of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Open for business at night and then collect taxes.
In the end, Kaifeng City’s annual commercial tax reached 400,000 yuan.”
Yang Feng said.
"What should we do if bandits break into the chaos?"
Guo Ying said.
"You gave up the opportunity to significantly increase taxes because you were afraid that bandits would join in and cause chaos? This idea is puzzling. Besides, why do bandits come into being? Isn't it poverty? If the income of being a small trader can exceed that of being a bandit, then who will do it?
Become a bandit? How many of the so-called bandits today are actually so-called bandits who are unable to do business normally because of your various restrictions, so they are both doing business and stealing?
When there is demand among the people, there will naturally be flows.
If your various restrictions are not allowed, then naturally some people will be forced to take risks.
Everyone has money and who would risk beheading?
Business should be open rather than closed, and trade should be circulated rather than restricted."
Yang Feng said.
He actually wanted to encourage these guys in Liaodong to take advantage of the sky and the emperor to start secretly.
There is this condition here.
After all, it is far away from the capital.
Moreover, as the conditions in the border area are difficult, Zhu Yuanzhang would turn a blind eye or close an eye to some of their efforts that can increase their income, even if they are just marginal. He also knows that throwing these military households here is indeed a bit sorry for them.
, now that they can find their own channels to make money, it will easily cause dissatisfaction if he interferes again.
Now these guys are already brushing aside, for example, the canned food in King Liao contains more and more salt.
It can be used directly as salt.
But this is not considered a private matter on his part.
Not considered salted fish either.
After all, the law is completely blank. Although this question is of no use to ordinary people, since he has two official names, he is a vassal king, and it is useless to have several official names.
At least before the imperial court revised the Salt Law and set the salt content for canned food, even if he made the canned food so that it could kill people, it would not violate the Salt Law.
Doesn’t Zhu Yuanzhang understand?
Of course he understands.
But he also knows that throwing his son into the ice and snow of Liaodong, where there is still no royal palace, the whole family lives in tents, and the output of land reclamation is only one-quarter and one-fifth of that of Jiangnan. In such an environment, you have to give him a way to make money.
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Similarly, the generals of Kaiyuan were already mining silver mines.
This is also marginal.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang did not approve the mining.
He knew that mining silver mines there meant that Liaodong needed to feed more off-the-job workers, or that more food needed to be transported from the south, which was obviously against his principles. But he still exploited the generals in Kaiyuan.
Turn a blind eye and adopt a tacit attitude. As for the reason, it is more miserable than Guangning. Moreover, most of these generals in Kaiyuan led their troops to fight with Zhu Di and Zhu Zhi in Huining. That kind of company
It's a hellish place where all the Mongols want to leave, so they can fight for a long time. Can't you give me some benefits?
So now that the Liaodong Group is being encouraged to secretly open up business in order to increase revenue, Zhu Yuanzhang will probably turn a blind eye.
After all, it's too bitter here.
These border guards must be given the motivation to stay here.
Of course, the main reason is that this is beneficial to Yang Feng.
If his Liaodong land reclamation project is to be sustained, of course he cannot rely solely on farming. In fact, farming is only the basic condition for sustaining it. But if he wants people to accept minus 30 degrees, they must be able to see minus 30 degrees.
Bright future.
Farming.
Industry and commerce.
Even ran out to grab it.
The most important of these is probably industry and commerce.
So he needs an open business environment in Liaodong.
After deceiving Guo Ying and others, Yang Feng and Zhu Zhi went north together. They took a boat directly on the Liao River, then took advantage of the southerly wind that had completely turned, and went upstream along the Liao River to Laomi Bay, where they disembarked and arrived at Kaiyuan.
Then Yang Feng saw the wooden rail transportation he was planning in Kaiyuan. This wooden rail, built in the name of transporting grain to Jilin, basically followed his requirements, but was more crude than he imagined. Each rail was built in the name of transporting grain to Jilin.
It's just that rough-finished wooden rails are laid on equally rough-finished sleepers, with a solid roadbed underneath and no stones or anything else. This is very difficult in this era.
Simply tamping the roadbed will suffice.
Anyway, the repair is simple.
In order to avoid missing trains, we simply repaired the line and made one northbound and one southbound.
Because the wood is abundant and the craftsmanship is simple, the construction speed is very fast. Now it is almost ready, including the matching carriage. It is also simple, it is just wrapped with iron wheels, but there is a blockage on the inside of the wheel.
The problem is that the wooden rails are worn, and the solution is that the wooden rails are also covered with iron.
However, this requires an increase in the output of the iron yard, and the current method is very simple.
Apply oil to the wooden rails liberally.
Then replace it when it wears out to a certain extent.
In the vast virgin forest, the wood is the least valuable.
Then Yang Feng and the King of Liao could ride the wooden rail carriage to experience the feeling of speed.
"This is still too slow!"
Yang Feng sat on the four-wheeled wooden carriage and said indifferently.
"Is this too slow?"
The King of Liao, who was obviously very excited next to him, looked at the small tree that kept retreating beside him.
Craftsmen in Liaodong have learned to plant trees to prevent soil erosion, so this wooden track road is lined with newly planted small trees. After all, for this kind of rammed earth roadbed, the biggest threat is actually water erosion, in addition to the terrain
It should be slightly higher than the two sides, and the rest is to plant trees to slow it down.
"How much faster can this be? Thirty per hour? It's faster than an electric three-wheeler."
Yang Feng sighed with emotion.
Of course, in this era, it can be said to be a miracle that a carriage loaded with more than two thousand kilograms of cargo can move forward at the speed of an electric three-wheeler.
In the past, it would have taken half a day to transport a thousand kilograms of grain from Kaiyuan to Changtu via a rammed-earth road. Even if it takes a horse-drawn carriage, it would take only an hour now. If it is built all the way to Jilin according to the plan, this trip can be a huge advantage to the current Ming army.
The transportation distance with the heaviest burden has been shortened to less than ten days. Moreover, the carrying capacity of a carriage can also be doubled, but this will require more soldiers to maintain the road, so the road guard should also appear.
I have to say that this is already the Ming Dynasty version of Northeast China Development.
Wherever the railway extends, there will be prosperity.