Chapter 0290 Don't give blood to the clan, the clan has to go to the court, the vassal kings screaming in pain!
Frankly speaking, when he saw Zhu Youfan's miserable appearance, Zhou Wang Zhu Gongzhen almost laughed out loud after receiving the news.
Although, everyone suffered a big loss.
However, I would lose at most 50,000 to 60,000 acres of land.
However, you, Zhu Youqi, are different. You lost half of your performance right from the start.
As long as someone's loss is greater than mine, then I win.
It’s not just a matter of winning, it’s also a matter of winning.
Zhu Gongzhen smiled, and immediately felt that the tens of thousands of acres of land he had lost was not a lot, and his whole spirit seemed to have improved a lot.
Then, Zhu Youxiao gave Zhu Gongzhu another imperial edict and praised Zhu Gongqi. Look, this is my good uncle. He wholeheartedly considers the court and distributes his land to his clan members. I have an uncle like you.
, Why worry about not being prosperous in the Ming Dynasty? Why worry about not being developed?
Praising Zhu Gongzhen so high also allowed Zhu Gongzhen to successfully attract the firepower of other vassal kings.
This creates a win-win situation.
Zhu Gongzhen divided the land, and Zhu Gongzhen was attacked by other vassal kings.
Zhu Youxiao won twice.
Zhu Gongzhen is definitely being sprayed by vassal kings from all over the country until his mother explodes. Look at you, the majestic King of Zhou. He is a prince who has existed since Emperor Taizu Gao.
Why don't you dare to fight with the emperor?
Look at Chong Wang, he still struggled a bit.
As for you, you have a raging army and a raging king.
If you join forces with King Chong, maybe you can make the emperor change his mind. What if we are not allowed to divide the land?
Even if half of your land was confiscated by the Dog Emperor, King Zhou, we can still say that King Zhou is a true warrior.
Now, everyone will start to allocate land to their clan members.
Every feudal king is in pain to death.
I blame you Zhu Gongzhen.
There are bad people among the feudal lords.
They don't dare to blame Zhu Youxiao, nor do they dare to offend Zhang Haogu, but they still have the confidence to curse you, the damned King of Zhou.
Zhu Youxiao's attitude was very obvious.
Now every clan member in the Ming Dynasty must allocate land. I, the dog emperor, will definitely not divide this land, so I will let the feudal kings who have land under me do it.
If you don't differentiate, you are abusing your clan members.
If you don't differentiate, you are killing your relatives.
Regardless, you just don’t take the Ming Dynasty’s country and country seriously.
What you said about me before, I will say what you say now.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao still used the reason that the Ming Dynasty was in dire straits to surrender to all the vassal kings, and all the money, gold and silver were wasted for you.
A group of vassal kings were stunned, and then they were so angry that they wanted to kill people with knives.
The country is in a difficult situation. Damn it, at the beginning of this year, that idiot wanted to show off the results of the Ming Dynasty's New Deal and announced that the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue this year was a full 50 million taels of fiscal revenue?
He also said that food prices in Shandong and the capital plummeted.
Isn't this what you, Zhu Youxiao, said?
Now you are starting to say that the country's situation is difficult. Why didn't you say that when you were pretending to be cool?
However, these vassal kings really didn't dare to act recklessly.
Because Zhu Youxiao's butcher's knife will actually fall on your head.
In particular, King Lu rebelled, and you have all seen the consequences.
Then Zhu Youxiao began to increase the power of the clan. First, he arranged a clan Zongzheng in each prince's mansion. The task of these Zongzhengs was to communicate with the clans of the Ming Dynasty. What was wrong with the vassal king?
If you are satisfied, you can report directly to Zong Zheng if you have any views and opinions on the court's policies.
Zong Zheng would write the secret directly to the emperor, and then the dog emperor Zhu Youxiao would come back to make a decision.
Of course, this is not Zongzheng's main responsibility. Their main task is to see whether these feudal kings have any disobedience, whether these feudal kings have honestly distributed land to these clansmen according to the instructions of the court, and then
See if you usually bully men and dominate women.
In addition, after the land is divided, this group of clansmen still have to find a way to help these clansmen learn to farm and earn their own living.
In short, the power of Zongzheng is still very large, mainly for the feudal king.
Limit the feudal king's consumption, prevent the feudal king from committing crimes, supervise the feudal king's implementation of national policies, and finally count the feudal king's assets.
Many of these clan members look like humans, but are actually pigs.
This group of sects had the authority to report secrets to Colonel Zhu You.
These Zongzheng's wages are not low, and they are all paid for by the princes.
In addition, it is replaced every three years.
What is prevented is that these princes come to bribe Zong Zheng.
In addition, if the new Zongzheng discovers that the previous Zongzheng of these princes has colluded.
Well, the prince is finished, so be prepared to be cut off from your vassal.
As for the predecessor Zong Zheng, he is also accused of colluding with the prince to plot evil, so prepare to be punished!
Rewarding King Zhou was a purely verbal reward, giving King Zhou all the praise except rewards.
The punished King Chong actually cut off the flesh, confiscated half of the land in King Chong's hands, and directly merged it into the imperial village.
Because there are not enough government officials now, for the time being, we are just dividing the land. When the time comes and the conditions are ripe, we will make arrangements to build farms.
The two handling opinions were sent directly to the feudal kings in various places, so that the feudal kings in various places could weigh it carefully.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Haogu directly formulated a detailed strategy for dividing the land.
In addition to the Zongzhengfa arrangement, probably every vassal king established an Anti-Corruption Department, a Taxation Department, a Jinyiwei Department, and a Statistics Department, with about two hundred people.
The wages of these two hundred people, weapons maintenance costs, food expenses, official uniforms for daily work, Jin Yiyi uniforms, tax department Yamen military uniforms, Jin Yiwei flying fish, as well as medical expenses and funeral expenses arising from the Jin Yiwei's crackdown on crime and evil.
In addition, there is a small arsenal that specializes in producing bullets for the Yamen of the Tax Department Yamen and the Jinyiweimen of the Jinyiwei Yamen.
Over the course of a year, these two hundred people would need about one hundred thousand taels of silver.
This money is required to be handed over to the tax department by the feudal king.
The tax department handed it over to the court, and then the court paid them wages.
It's not okay not to give it. They are responsible for protecting your safety. How dare you not give it?
As soon as this rule came out, the feudal princes were so angry that they almost vomited blood.
Good guy, you, the emperor, don’t pay any money to support us now. Now you are asking for one hundred thousand taels of silver a year. Are you waving a knife at us?
Two hundred people cost one hundred thousand taels of silver. How could these two hundred people feel more comfortable than the vassal king himself?
The vassal princes also put forward their opinions to Zong Zheng in the palace very tactfully.
One hundred thousand taels of silver, isn't that too much?
For some princes, this is almost half of their annual income.
Then, Zongzheng continued to report to the court.
Zhu Youxiao was happy on the spot.
What? There’s still half left to loot?
Then, Zhu Youxiao began to formulate more detailed rules.
The more land the prince has under his name, the more he can harvest, ranging from 200,000 taels to 50,000 taels. If he has no money, he will honestly give out the grain.
Oh, this suggestion was not put forward by me, but by the wise king King Zhou.
Speaking of which, Zhou Wang Zhu Gongzhen also suffered from bad luck for eight lifetimes.
Zhu Youxiao, this little bastard, is really targeting him.
It was obviously the idea that this immoral thing came up with. It must be said that it was his own opinions and opinions. This was obviously the strategy that Zhu Youxiao formulated after his Zongzheng reported it to him.
Zong Zheng in his own mansion, can he control them?
I can't control it. You don't have the ability, you know?
Anyway, now Zhu Youxiao has also discovered that this group of vassal clan members is actually the same thing. After more than two hundred years, they are all fat and oily. With this knife, they are at least four fingers wide of fat.
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It's not very satisfying to take a knife from these vassal kings.
The censors would criticize as much as they wanted.
The Ming Dynasty's financial prosperity is the kingly way, and the Ming Dynasty's country and the country are the kingly way.
It’s better to be a bullshit wise king than to be a coward.
Zhu Youxiao thought so in his heart.
He calculated in his mind that there are now thirty-two princes in the Ming Dynasty, and the princes who have been entrusted by the royal palaces in the past dynasties. By the Tianqi Dynasty, there were 924 princes, as well as countless generals and lieutenants.
As long as the taxes on this group of people are raised, the court will at least increase the amount of 10 million taels of silver this year.
It’s simply not flattering!
Thinking about how embarrassed the imperial court was when he first ascended the throne, but looking back now, his little life is simply not a happy one.
It is not that there are no feudal kings who want to resist. King Lu is not the first, and he is definitely not the last. There are always people who think that they may be Zhu Di, and they can also be the emperor.
But now to deal with them, new troops are no longer even needed.
Just three or five Jin Yiwei, holding short blunderbuss, can easily deal with them.
The most outrageous thing is this group of clan members who are already crazy about poverty. Everyone’s surname is Zhu. Why do you have to be your slave when you are enjoying the good things and drinking spicy food?
As long as you show the slightest sign of resistance, I will report it to Zong Zheng immediately.
Then, get it directly for you.
Fortunately, Zong Zheng is still reasonable. He really needs to check whether you really have any thoughts of rebellion. Otherwise, if you directly accuse him falsely, all the princes and princes will be deposed by you.
However, if all were abolished, this tax would be really difficult to deal with.
It would be better to let these vassal kings stay in front of them and take money and silver from their hands, which is better than being scattered.
Zhu Youxiao changed the two-hundred-year-old rule of the country. In the past, the imperial court was asked to give blood transfusions to the clan members of the feudal princes. But now it was the other way around, and the clan members of the feudal princes were directly asked to transfuse blood to the imperial court.
During this period, there was no objection from the court.
Except for a few censors who like to argue and criticize people, even the Donglin Party has not made any big moves. Now the Dog King is dealing with the feudal princes and clan members, and he is not targeting the Donglin Party.
Han Xu and Huang Liji wanted to take the opportunity to bring down Zhang Haogu.
However, they all underestimated the dog emperor's determination, and were even willing to bear the crime of killing a clan member in order to completely solve the chronic disease of the Ming Dynasty.
The Dog Emperor stood firmly on Zhang Haogu's side, and they really had no way to deal with Zhang Haogu.
After such a hard time, the efficiency of the entire Ming Dynasty actually increased, and the finances actually got better and better. Naturally, Zhang Haogu's confidence also became stronger and stronger.
Not long ago, Zhang Haogu spent another sum of money on the arsenal to increase production and in addition to increase the transformation of the steelmaking plant.
In addition, Zhang Haogu still increased his research on cement.
In fact, Zhang Haogu really made this cement, or to be more precise, the production method of Portland cement is quite simple.
It mainly uses limestone and clay as the main raw materials, and then crushes, batches, and grinds them into raw materials, which are then fed into the cement kiln to calcine clinker, and then the clinker is ground with an appropriate amount of gypsum.
The technology involved is actually not that difficult.
First of all, the first step is to break it, just smash it directly.
The calcined mature material and the slag left after ironmaking are then ground together to produce cement.
The only thing to consider is proportions.
This is a troublesome thing. The cement produced with different proportions has completely different effects.
This requires constant research and trial and error, and in the process, money will be burned.
After the cement was produced, Zhang Haogu had the idea to build a road directly.
To get rich, build roads first
This is absolutely reasonable. It is best to repair the capital, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan areas. There is cement, but don't even think about reinforced concrete roads. However, Zhang Haogu is not in a hurry.
In those days, there were no cars, let alone large trucks, so I decided to use bamboo instead for the time being.
Now that the roads are built and transportation is convenient, these new armies can take action quickly.
This costs money.
In addition, it is necessary to conduct repeated experiments, build a path and see the effect. If the problem is not serious, it can be put into use.
At present, cement has begun to be put into use.
City walls have been built around Yongding County, but the height of the walls is not very high, less than ten meters.
Mainly because Zhang Haogu personally felt it was unnecessary.
In the future, the capital city will expand sooner or later. At that time, Yongding County will basically be integrated with the capital city.
After building the city wall, it will still take a lot of effort to tear it down in the future.
If you have this money, you might as well consider how to invest it in research and development and road design.
Zhang Haogu's plan is to build a road from here to Yongding County first.
In the future, if this road is repaired, then you will start tolling. It will be a national infrastructure. It will be more convenient for you to do business. This is the national road and the national infrastructure.
Now, Zhang Haogu feels that he is burning money.
However, it is absolutely impossible not to burn this money. The current problems of the Ming Dynasty are not all about land annexation, but also a large number of people. This requires some effort to absorb all these people.
Wherever the Ming Dynasty's roads are built, Ming Dynasty's military fronts will also point there.
“This road is really good!”
Zhu Youxiao took Queen Zhang to walk on the road together, and couldn't help showing an expression of great surprise on his face: "If this road is repaired, it will be very strong!"
"exactly!"
Zhang Haogu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, when this road is built, the trade routes will be connected. At that time, local specialties can be sold to the capital, and prices in the capital can continue to drop a lot.
Also, we can build a toll station, and at that time, the court will still have some income!"
"Besides, what the emperor is stepping on is not a road, but a playground. We can get some fitness facilities here so that people can come here to exercise!"
"Master Zhang is really a genius. No wonder His Majesty thinks so highly of Master Zhang!"
Now, Zhang Yan's attitude towards Zhang Haogu has changed a lot, mainly because she visited Yongding County and found that the people here admire the Dog Emperor from the bottom of their hearts.
He speaks like a county magistrate, and he also shows special respect for himself.
Putting aside her prejudices, Zhang Yan soon discovered that Zhang Haogu was really good at things. He could make money for the court and train new troops for the court.
Although Zhang Yan still disagreed with some of the methods, she had to admit that Zhang Haogu's actions really reversed the decadent trend of the Ming Dynasty.
vomit!
At this moment, Zhang Yan suddenly started to vomit.
This startled Zhu Youxiao on the side, and he hurriedly said loudly: "Doctor, doctor!"
Zhang Yan couldn't stop vomiting, and Zhang Haogu couldn't help being slightly startled: "This Queen Zhang, isn't she pregnant?"
This is also a big event, but Zhang Yan's pregnancy should have happened in the third year of Tianqi, and it is already the fifth year of Tianqi.
It has to be said that in the past two years, Zhang Haogu really tormented Zhu Youxiao a lot, giving him much less time to have a child. Naturally, this child was not born.
According to official history, Empress Zhang was pregnant and suddenly suffered from low back pain. She wanted to find a palace maid who could massage her. The Hakka family was afraid that the empress would give birth to a prince, so she came up with an idea and asked Wei Zhongxian to arrange for one of his own people to pretend to be doing massage for the empress.
During the marriage, she deliberately beat her with heavy hands, causing Empress Zhang to give birth to a stillborn fetus, Prince Huaichong Zhu Ciran. Empress Zhang never gave birth to another child.
This incident later became the tenth count of Yang Lian's impeachment against Wei Zhongxian.
Therefore, Zhang Haogu was dumbfounded every time he saw this period of history. Even if you lent Eunuch Wei a hundred, no, ten thousand, he would not dare to do so.
However, Zhang Haogu suspected that Ke Yinyue might do this. After all, what can't a stupid woman do? However, after getting in touch with him, he felt that Ke Yinyue was not such a person.
Although the Dog Emperor is a bit outrageous, he is definitely not stupid.
Also, how come you, Yang Lian, know so clearly about the palace?
Zhang Haogu glanced at Zhang Yan, who was still suffering from morning sickness, but made up his mind to hold the child in Zhang Yan's belly no matter what.
This is related to my own future and also to Eunuch Wei's future.
Soon, a barefoot doctor came to Zhang Yan and gave Queen Zhang a detailed examination.
Then, he said with a smile: "Congratulations to the county magistrate, congratulations to the county magistrate, the county magistrate's wife is happy!"
"Are you happy?"
Zhu Youxiao suddenly jumped up and said in great surprise: "Are you really happy? I, I have a child, I have a child!"
At this moment, Zhu Youxiao was as happy as a child, dancing and dancing.
