eldest son of Ming dynasty

In the end, Wang Shouren didn't remember how he left the palace. Anyway, when he woke up, he was in his own mansion. After walking around with his head on his head, he ran into a servant who served in the mansion. The servant told him that the master had already gone to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites. , waiting for him to come back at night.

During the Hongzhi period, Zhu Houzhao rectified the problem of late arrival and early departure of Beijing officials. Since then, although there are still some officials who are supposed to go to work or not, but the Minister of Rites like Wang Hua is really eye-catching. Will not give people handles.

His cheap son was different. He came back from the outside and didn't have an office, and he was supposed to rest for a few days, so he could probably move around freely.

Wang Shouren was still worried about the left and right guards of Shuofang he had brought back, so he went to the barracks first, and when everything was normal, he used the next time to visit Wang Jia and see some friends he had known before.

What he said to the emperor in the palace that day, he remembered intermittently, but he was deeply impressed by the emperor's pride.

For the sake of this pride, and for the sake of the relationship between the monarch and his ministers, he had to take care of Shanxi's affairs.

Five days later.

Wang Shouren led the left and right guards of Shuofang and the Yangwei and Zhenwei battalions of the [-]th regiment battalion to set off.

The commander of the Yangwei Camp is Lu Jin, and the commander of the Zhenwei Camp is Liang Zheng. They were all from the frontier army and then admitted to the military academy. With the renewal of the Second Regiment Battalion, this group of people also began to gradually take up important positions.

In short, the [-]-strong army has already set out in mighty strength, and those who didn't know it thought there was a war with the Tatars again, otherwise why would it be necessary to mobilize such a large number of troops?

And before the army was the emperor's decree, the decree was expedited and delivered directly to Shanxi governor Wang Jing from eight hundred miles.

There are two main points. The first is to transfer the commander of Shanxi Capital, Tian Ze, to Beijing to wait for his appointment.The second is that Wang Shouren's army is going to enter Shanxi to supervise the clean-up of the military settlements in Taiyuan Town and Datong Town, and he will be responsible for the supply of military supplies for the army.

However, Wang Shouren's soldiers and horses did not enter Taiyuan, but they had to get stuck in important passes such as Daoma Pass and Zijing Pass. In other words, Wang Jing had to transport food to the past.

Regarding the Shanxi matter, Zhu Houzhao believed in Wang Jing, and Wang Shouren also believed in this veteran minister who had been in power for decades, but the enemy was expected to be lenient, and he still refused to enter Taiyuan just in case.

Inside the governor's office.

After receiving the order, Wang Jing did not dare to neglect. On the one hand, he quickly informed Tian Ze, and on the other hand, he began to allocate grain, refined beans and other materials.

These are of course nothing to worry about, but Wang Jing doesn't quite understand why he must wait for Tian Ze to set off for Beijing before mobilizing several generals and schools in the guards in Shanxi?
Even his staff, although they were thinking hard one by one, could not figure it out.

In fact, their confusion is nothing to worry about. The one who is really troubled now is Tian Ze.

Suddenly encountering this matter, all the people who were reunited with him in his mansion, everyone found it difficult, even he himself was extremely entangled.

This capital, to go, or not to go? ?
"... Such a decree suddenly came at this time. It's really strange. It's very good. What needs to be done? How can I ask people to enter the capital?"

Tian sat at the main seat, and his subordinates on both sides were people he trusted, most of them were officers from various guards, and some were recruited by him.

Speaking of which, they are all guards in the interior and do not belong to border towns. Datong Town and Shanxi (Taiyuan) Town are among the nine border towns.If we apply the concept of the early Ming Dynasty, it can be understood that they belonged to Shanxi Dusi, and those two towns belonged to Shanxi Xingdusi.

In any case, the imperial court's cleanup of the nine-border military settlements does not involve them.

But everyone also knew that after the imperial court cleaned up the border town, it would be their turn next, and it was precisely because of this that they were so anxious.

Firstly, it is for myself, and secondly, it is because Zhengde is "perversely acting against the law", and the people of the world will definitely oppose it.

When troubled times come, it's time for heroes to appear.

Warriors don't have much brains and courage, so it's okay to follow Tian Ze anyway.

But most of the staff are Juren and Xiucai who can't win the Jinshi, and they are nothing more than a little famous.

A serious Jinshi will not pay attention to him if he has a smooth path in front of him. Secondly, he has read a lot of Confucius and Mencius, and there are a lot of such principles and ethics in his mind. Tian Ze wanted to find him, but no one wanted to.

In terms of mind, literati have more minds, and they will avoid him even if they are a little bit of a side ball, and in the end that's the only way to go.

Tian is the commander of the Shanxi capital. He was able to become this officer because he was originally an officer of the Beijing camp and made contributions in the war against the Tatars, so he has moved to this day.

It's a pity that I didn't see the emperor.

"Commander Tian, ​​do you want our people to inquire about it? What's going on in Beijing now?"

Tian Ze shook his head, "It's too late, the imperial decree has arrived, and the governor Wang Jing will send someone to urge him in three to five days at most. Our people haven't arrived in the capital at such a short time, so why ask?"

"Why don't you call me sick and wait for a few days?"

It is a solution, but it is also a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

"You can't really go!!" Someone shouted, "A room full of smart people, can't they see that this is a trap? Why don't they announce it sooner or later, but at this time? Besides, Zhengde is afraid that he will I can’t tell who the commander of the capital in Shanxi is, it’s too obvious!”

This is true, and it's not that people don't want to believe it, it's just that after they believe it, they have to believe something even scarier.

"Is there a traitor among us? We leaked the news, that's why we specially called Tian Commander to Beijing!"

Tian Ze yelled, "Don't make any noise!"

These people feel irritable, and he himself is still irritable.

"Commander Tian, ​​you have to make a decision early!"

"Ben will know! What I'm afraid of is not losing his life, but ruining the situation easily. If Zhengde has grasped the news in advance, then this capital can't go, otherwise, we will all be entrapped!"

One of the aides rubbed the hair growing on the mole on his chin and said: "For the present plan, we can only delay entering Beijing. But the governor of Shanxi, Wang Jing, is not so easy to deceive, and the only way... is to let Commander Tian eat some food." It’s really painful. Can you really suffer some accidental injuries? Show Wang Jing the wound clearly, then he will have nothing to say."

Tian is considered a tough guy, he nodded, "If it's useful, it's worth the pain."

This is indeed a solution, but it makes everyone else flustered.

The bearded man who opposed entering Beijing before said: "What is the critical time now? Commander Tian is asked to preside over the overall situation and inspire people, but he is injured and bedridden? Besides, lying on the bed is nothing more than procrastination. What will be the result of procrastination? Or If you can’t go on, you can only start a riot, or go to the capital and return safely, but you will still start a riot when you return. What’s the difference? We are all men with handles, how can we be so hesitant to do big things? Can we simply do it? Yes, if you want to go against it, you go against his mother!"

Hei Mo's staff immediately retorted, "It's easy to say! Wang Shouren brought the elite here. Haven't you heard of the battle in Jizhou? Zhengde is a bit violent, but he can scold him and everything. Have you seen it before?" Did anyone accuse him of being incompetent?"

"According to what you say, what a fart! Why don't you just go home and wait for Zhengde to come and take Tian Yi away, so you can live a miserable life in the future."

"Commander Tian." Black Mole's staff member Chong Tian cupped his hands, "No matter what, I will always give the governor's office an answer within two or three days."

"I know."

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Wang Shouren had been looking at Shanxi's materials during the march.

There is no digital means at the moment. In fact, few people know how many farmlands there are in the border town, and more people just give a general idea, but that is false.

Fortunately, during the reign of Hongzhi, Emperor Xiaozong ordered people to compile a book called "Daming Huidian". A series of books of hundreds of divisions such as "in charge of the division".

The Huidian Civilian Yamen has 226 volumes, and the Military Yamen only has 2 volumes. However, in these two volumes, some statistics under the official positions of the Fifth Army Governor's Office and Jinyiwei are listed, such as land, household registration, garrison, etc.

"Da Ming Huidian" records: Shanxi Town has 710 hectares, 88 acres and 590 cents of farmland, and Datong Town has 34 hectares, [-] acres and [-] cents of farmland.

This adds up to 6 hectares of land, or more than 620 million mu, excluding fractions.

This is more than Jizhou, and it is also more than Liaodong, where more than 2 hectares of farmland have been reclaimed. Similarly, it is more than Shanxi's 4 hectares.

The two towns of Datong and Shanxi are the bulk of the military settlements!

Even in inland areas, the yield per mu is lower, counting it as two shi, then these fields should be able to grow 200 million shi of grain a year, and 80 shi of grain should be paid.

80 shi, that's only so much tax and food in Fujian Province for a year!
And how many soldiers can be fed by the tens of millions of grains?
In fact, Shanxi itself is not a major grain-producing province.

However, the development of military settlements and the construction of towns and cities have a strong military and administrative color.

Datong is very important militarily, so at the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's occupation in the second year of Hongwu, a large-scale city building and farming movement was launched, and the 25th year of Hongwu was the second climax of farming.

To put it simply, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and later Zhu Zhanji all attached great importance to the construction of the frontier fortress of Datong, so they set up guards here, and if they set up guards, they had to cultivate land. There are more.

Perhaps it is because Shanxi is indeed not a production area like that in the south of the Yangtze River, so some of the large-scale expansion of farmland actually spilled over to neighboring provinces. Henan and Beizhili both have farmland affiliated to the Shanxi Weisuo, and the number is about [-] hectares. .

This kind of cross-administrative matter is really complicated, and it is useless to talk about it.

However, it should be true that Shanxi and Datong are the focus of cleaning up the military settlements.

Wang Shouren has been studying these books and materials for the past few days, and the more he studies, the more excited he is. If a more thorough farm clearing can be carried out here, it is not too much to say that it is another river loop.

"Come on."

After two clicks, soldiers from outside entered the camp, "Here!"

"The army stopped after entering Zijingguan, and sent two letters to Datong and Shanxi towns urgently, asking them to quickly report the slowness of Qingtun in the area under their jurisdiction!"

In name, he did not come for the Shanxi rebellion, but for the two towns of Qingtun.

In fact, Wang Shouren didn't pay much attention to the rebels. The counter-rebellion itself was still for the purpose of clearing the settlement.

So while watching the changes, he does not forget his responsibility. This is his purpose.

As for what kind of chaos the rebels could really cause... that's unlikely, the emperor's arrangement should have messed them up, even if it didn't, he still had [-] elite soldiers in hand.

So he even wanted to wait until the commanders-in-chief of the two towns opened their mouths, and then he would drive the army over and clear the village by force!