The spectacular scene of more than a thousand people playing slate together announced Lao Zhu's final verdict.
It also triggered the anger of the southern gentry.
Of course, they are angry as long as they are angry. They have been angry with Zhu Yuanzhang for thirty years. Lao Zhu does not care about their anger. Lao Zhu just wants to let them understand that even if he is old...
Your grandpa is still your grandpa.
As for Liu Sanwu, he actually died in prison the next day.
"Song Zhong really didn't use torture. He was already over eighty. If you use a little torture at this age, he will probably die immediately. Song Zhong is not stupid. It would be troublesome to torture him to death. After all, he is also a famous minister.
They just let him sit by and watch Zhang Xin and others being tortured. No one expected that he was fine at first, but died the next day. Song Zhong suspected that he had taken some medicine in advance, after all, people like him
At your age, even if you eat the wrong things, let alone taking any medicine, you will easily die.
But this is difficult to check.
As long as it's not something highly poisonous, even an autopsy would be hard-pressed to find anything.
Anyway, it is now said that he was tortured to death by Jin Yiwei.
And it was said that it was Yunxi who ordered it.
He said that Yunxi had always wanted to kill him because he was Teacher Yunwen. This time he just took advantage of this opportunity to join forces with you. He was wrongly accused of supporting Nanfang Juzi and was imprisoned to be killed by Song Zhong.
It's so vivid and vivid, even how you two conspired, it's comparable to Qin Hui and his wife."
said the little princess.
"He is trying to kill me and the emperor's grandson by spraying blood all over us!"
Yang Feng said.
"But the same problem remains. As long as my father doesn't replace the emperor's grandson, then their efforts will be in vain. No matter how much they try, it will be useless. Even if all the Jiangnan gentry supports Yun Wen, it will be useless. What they say will not count, and this will only
My father is even more reluctant to change."
"What if they confirm that it's impossible for your father to replace him, so they jump to the wall in a hurry?"
"rebel?"
The little princess smiled.
"Behind Yunxi are Lan Yu and others. What can they do as a group of literati?
If they dare to rebel, Lan Yu will laugh to death.
Finally, I can rob money and rob women like before."
she said.
Yang Feng touched her head and smiled without saying a word...
This is not the past. The confrontation in Shanxi has proved that if the local government fights against the imperial court, it is fully capable of doing so with concerted efforts. The popularization of new firearms has skyrocketed the value of civilian force. In the past, fierce generals like Lan Yu could run rampant on the battlefield, but now as long as there is someone on the opposite side,
He had to hide away from the rapid-fire cannon. But what the southern gentry could do was not just a rapid-fire cannon. Shanxi folk could master new artillery casting and matchlock manufacturing in a very short period of time. So the southern gentry needed to spend a lot of time.
for how long?
The best steel industry in Ming Dynasty was in Suzhou and Fujian, not Shanxi.
Suzhou Iron and Steel Construction Railway.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Su Gang moved to Wuhu.
However, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, iron construction was the most expensive type of iron.
The largest iron smelting base is in Jiangxi. There are 13 government-run iron smelting stations in the country, and Jiangxi has three of them. More than one-fifth of the government-run output is there.
The largest private sector is in Guangdong.
Not to mention the southern population density, developed economy and abundant food. It can be said that as long as the southern gentry can form an alliance to support Zhu Yunwen, he really has hope. In addition, the main reason is that he has no choice. As long as his grandfather dies, the best outcome for him is
Go to Fengyang and be imprisoned under the high wall until death.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will give it a try.
But Liu Sanwu and others may not be simply trying to protect the interests of Confucian scholars. It is likely that the confrontation in Shanxi has allowed them to see the possibility of local confrontation with the imperial court. They tried to use the contradiction between the north and the south to mobilize the common hatred of the southern gentry and then actually fight against the imperial court when necessary. They also
They also used Zhu Yunwen. After all, this kind of thing requires a banner, so they have spared no effort to gild Zhu Yunwen over the years and create his image as a model of Confucian morality.
The purpose is to use him when necessary.
Benefits!
Shanxi, by resisting the imperial court, secured the opening of industry and commerce for itself.
Why can't the southern provinces do this?
Don't they want to?
Zhu Yuanzhang is still unwilling to completely liberalize overseas trade. Don't they want to make a fortune? Tea franchises in various places are still firmly maintained. Don't they want to let the gentry get rich like Shanxi?
And the banking industry.
Don't they want to liberalize banking?
They are not stupid. Yang Feng has played so happily these years. Why can't they play? Isn't it because Zhu Yuanzhang can restrict them but not Yang Feng? If there are no restrictions on them, wouldn't they be able to open a bank?
Factory, won't mine? So they are waiting, waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to die, and then support the emperor under their control.
Zhu Yunxi can't do it.
Although he also encouraged industry and commerce, the problem was that there was a group of military commanders behind him.
He will be a strong emperor.
If nothing else, he will definitely not let go of the banking industry.
When it comes to overseas trade, he is most likely to be government-run. Even if it is not government-run, he is a partner with Yang Feng, playing a banking model. Yang Feng has a monopoly, but most of the profits go to the court.
Therefore, we need a weak emperor and a grandson who can be manipulated by the gentry.
These guys have big plans!
Liu Sanwu is not important, he is just pushed out to die. Anyway, if he is over 80 years old, he doesn’t care about dying, as long as his death is valuable, but if this is the case, Zhu Yunwen should already have a team around him...
"Is there any relationship between Qi Tai, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Zhu Yunwen?"
Yang Feng said suddenly.
He almost forgot that Qi Tai was already the Minister of War at this time.
"Qi Tai, I didn't pay attention to him."
said the little princess.
"Keep an eye on him. There must be another group of people making suggestions around Zhu Yunwen. Huang Zicheng and Fang Xiaoru can be sure, but neither of them has real power. They must find someone with real power, and Qi Tai is just right. And among the current main ministers of the imperial court,
The two northerners can be excluded. Zheng Yi and Yan Zhenzhi did not come from the imperial examination. Confucian scholars may not think highly of them, and the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry are useless. The remaining three are Ru Ru, who is the head of the civil servants.
, but he is an old cunning guy, and he was not born in the imperial examination. It is impossible for Zhu Yunwen to dare to trust him. As for Yu Xin, who is from Fengyang, he is not included in their group. The only one left is Qi Tai, who was not born in the imperial examination and was the Minister of the Ministry of War.
Take real power."
The more Yang Fengyue said, the more suspicious Qi Tai became, not because of the original history, but because if Zhu Yunwen really wanted to seize the throne by force after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he had to have someone he could rely on.
He was the king of Jin before.
Now let alone the King of Jin, even the King of Zhou has no chance.
Among the other vassal kings, at least for now, no one clearly supports him. Although if he seizes the throne by force, these vassal kings will definitely not object, but it is hard to say that they will support him at the moment. This time it is obvious that what he wants is
To rely on the support of the Jiangnan gentry, he must find someone with this background among the ministers of the DPRK, and Qitai is the most suitable among the current main ministers.
A native of Lishui, from the imperial examination, Minister of the Ministry of War...
"The three giants of Jianwen are about to complete their combination!"
Yang Feng said with great interest.
"Will they really start fighting once my father dies?"
The little princess said somewhat melancholy.
"There is no other choice in this kind of thing. If he doesn't fight, he will die. There has been no retreat since his last assassination."
Yang Feng said.
"Wouldn't it be okay if my father sealed him somewhere far away in advance?"
said the little princess.
"Then you don't think your other nephew will worry about him developing power outside and coming back one day? Even if your father seals him outside, when the grandson of the emperor finally succeeds to the throne, it will still be an imperial edict, and he will be transferred to the throne first.
A good place to show his mercy, and then when he leaves the fief, someone will accuse him of various crimes he committed in the fief.
And the evidence is conclusive.
So it was logical that it would be abolished and sent directly to Fengyang High Wall for self-reflection."
Yang Feng said.
This is the inevitable result.
There is no family affection at all in this kind of thing.
They are already at odds with each other, and in the end it will be either you or me who dies. Even if Zhu Yunxi cares about family affection, Lan Yu and others will have to urge him to kill Zhu Yunwen.
"No wonder the ancients said, I wish I would never be born into an emperor's family!"
The little princess said sadly.
"Pull him down, that's when you are unlucky. When you are domineering, you are probably glad that you were born in an emperor's family. When a poor person is about to starve to death, you also say that you don't want to be born in a poor family. This kind of thing is normal for everyone.
When I see it, I pay attention to the special ones.”
Yang Feng said.
"Well!"
The little princess smiled awkwardly.
At this time Haruhime walked in with the green slave...
"This slave has met the master and the princess."
She saluted.
"We are all our own people, don't be so polite!"
The little princess waved her hand generously and said.
It seems that she is already Mrs. Yang. As for the green slave, she is here to report to work. Although she is Yang Feng's concubine, she is actually mainly in Liaodong. Last year, she was basically in Huining. After all, she still has to manage the reclamation team. Last year, Yang Feng's
Huining's land reclamation business officially started. Zhang Dingbian personally led the old rebels, together with the employees hired by Yang Feng, to build channels in the land reclamation area, reclaim farmland, and then plant soybeans.
As for the required food, in addition to transportation, we also hunt and fish ourselves, and we also exchange it with the surrounding Udiha tribe.
Thousands of people were not hungry.
However, the maintenance cost is very high, and it is still in a state of serious losses so far.
After all, the food they need is transported by sea to Longquan Prefecture, and then transported by land transport to the upper reaches of the Songhua River for shipment. Moreover, these ships are also disposable, so there must be shipbuilders, so that there is virgin forest everywhere.
, but the cost is not high.
The current soybean yield per unit area is indeed not low, with an average yield per mu of more than two hundred kilograms...
Well, it's actually quite pitiful.
The yield per mu on black soil is two hundred catties.
But the current varieties can only achieve this yield. In fact, the yield per mu of soybeans in the mainland is only about 100. Even if the best land is used, it is actually less than 150, and on average, it is actually only 100 kilograms.
, they can reach an average of two hundred, which is an amazing output. The green slaves are escorting a batch of soybeans this time. Because the distance is too far, they have been going here since the Chinese New Year and have not reached it until now. If it is
It would be much faster to take the water route, but the problem is that the soybeans are harvested in late autumn, and it will be early winter before the soybeans are completed, and the snow is probably starting to fall.
In this season, walking from Huining to Longquan Prefecture, and having to transport supplies, is obviously not an easy task, so we simply choose to go south by land. After all, the land route has Ming army post stations and military stores along the way, and there are wooden tracks to Xinzhou.
carriage.
"It's from Huining to Longquanfu. It's easy to go with the current, but it's troublesome to go against the current."
The green slave pointed at the map and said.
"It will be easier once the wooden tracks from Liaodong are laid. Even if the court refuses to lay them, we will pay our own money to lay them all the way to the reclamation area."
Yang Feng said.
Chaotingpu goes to Jilin City, and there is water transportation further down, but their reclamation area is in Wuchang, so this section does need wooden rails.
"Do you still have to pay?"
The little princess lamented.
Indeed, the soybeans that the Green Slave brought back could not even be sold for one-tenth of the land reclamation team's annual salary. The biggest gain was the 50,000 guan that her father happily rewarded. Lao Zhu was really happy, Yang said.
Feng used the soybeans harvested in these distant lands to prove to him that Huining could really cultivate land on a large scale.
Although this is not the first batch, because military households in Huiningwei also grew wheat there.
And the output is not low either.
but……
That's what he spent money on.
He just delivers food, farm tools, seeds, even winter clothes and other needs to the military households in Huining Zhongqianhu Station. Calculating, it is worth ten times the value of the wheat they harvest, and currently speaking, it will only be in Ning.
The Wei and Longquan Guards grew grain. The entire Huining commanded the envoys to have six direct guards, that is, one Han Qianhu Station plus four Wudiha, Kuwu and other chaotic Qianhu Stations, and the other four relied entirely on transportation.
On the contrary, the Whale and Sea Guard's fishery is well developed, and it can also deliver some canned sea fish to other guards.
But no matter what, Huining's command and envoys were becoming a heavy burden on the court.
So Yang Feng was particularly happy because he didn't have to spend money on these things.
As for the money Yang Feng spent...
That belongs to Yang Fenghua and is none of his business.
"Not only do I have to pay for it, I also have to find your father to contract the military supplies for the Huining Commandery Department."
Yang Feng said.
He had to force Lao Zhu to continue to maintain the command of Huining City.
Otherwise, they really don't want this kind of place, especially now that all those tribes have surrendered and Beiyuan has long since disappeared. In fact, Beiyuan is now in chaos. Because they are poor and have no place to grab, they are fighting among themselves.
Although there was still the Great Khan Elbek, the Oara tribe actually held the most power. He was a descendant of Alibuge. After the Battle of Yuerhai, the second son of Emperor Yuan Shun, King Yi, Togu Si Timur, fled westward and was killed.
Alibu, who was supported by Wala, was killed...
Brother Ali can rest in peace now.
His descendants finally took back his Khan.
The sky has eyes!
But the problem is that there are four tribes in Oara, who will assist the Great Khan?
So now the four tribes of Wala and the old members of Kublai Khan's family are all fighting.
In this case, Beiyuan was actually completely out of sight of the Ming army, and was basically in the western part of the Mongolian Plateau. Therefore, Huining really lost its greatest strategic value, and the name Jurchen simply disappeared, or was incorporated into the Six Guards of the Ming army.
Or just the guards and chieftains one by one.
So Yang Feng had to pull Lao Zhu to prevent him from moving Liuwei inland because he was worried about money.
It's best if he takes over.
(I recommend a book called "The League of Travelers", written by a website with the same name, UP, and a man who popularizes time travel farming technology. I wonder if he can become a new generation of five-hundred-year-olds.)