Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 342 Tang Shisun's Worries
Yang Menglong is very low-key, but his status means that no matter where he goes, he can't keep a low profile. No, as soon as the firecrackers go off, a large number of Nanyang people come to see the demeanor of this powerful general. There were more and more gatherings, and Yang Menglong almost couldn't get out because of the traffic jam.Yang Menglong couldn't laugh or cry, I'm not an alien, so am I worthy of such a strong onlooker?While worrying, those gossip-spirited guys suddenly yelled: "Jin Yiwei is here!" With a huff, the birds and beasts dispersed, which was more effective than letting wolves and dogs chase them.This shows how terrible Jin Yiwei is in the eyes of these ordinary people!
Jin Yiwei did come, and everyone was beaming, hugging Mr. Wu Yong, the supervisor of Heluo Town.Instigated by Sun Chengzong after the Dalinghe Battle last year, the dead eunuch hurried back to Beijing to sue Xiong Mingyu for his injustice. However, he was caught by the wind and cold, and Xiong Mingyu fell ill. It took two months to recover, and came to Nanyang again after celebrating the New Year in Beijing.The dead eunuch bowed his hands to Yang Menglong with a smile, and said, "Master Yang, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are still alive and well!"

Yang Menglong shrugged and said, "You're not bad either, you're very energetic!"

Wu Yong said: "Where is it? I'm old, and I can't bear the hardships of long-distance travel! This time I didn't get to drink the wedding wine with you and Miss Xiao. Our family feels regretful!"

Yang Menglong said: "I'll make it up for you later!"

The royal guards shouted one after another: "We want too!"

Yang Menglong said: "No problem, make up everything!"

Jin Yiwei and Wu Yong both smiled happily.Yang Menglong is actually a very easy person to get along with. As long as you don't step on his tail, he will not touch you. He is also generous with his actions. It is really lucky to be able to serve as a supervisor in such a military town.

Yang Menglong said: "Let me tell you, stop thinking about beautiful things, and clean up the room yourself! You can choose whichever room you like, but there are no servants here, you have to clean it yourself!"

Wu Yong said: "No servants? It's easy. Now there are not a few families in Nanyang City who have no rice to cook. Just hang a sign outside and you can easily recruit a large group of handsome servants."

Yang Menglong said: "Forget it, I think they are troublesome!" He was really annoying those servants, as if they were born with schizophrenia, and they were expensive at every turn. It can scare him (her) to turn pale, so he still doesn't plan to hire those young and beautiful servants. It's almost enough to find a few old people in their 50s and [-]s to help clean the floor and cook.

Only then did the Jin Yiwei think of his weird character, and couldn't help laughing wryly, living with this guy is asking for trouble, he doesn't even have a servant!But there's no other way. They're all here, so they can't move out again, can they?They had to clean up the room by themselves.Of course Yang Menglong didn't need to do it himself, his bedroom and study had already been tidied up. When those poor soldiers and Jin Yiwei were so busy, this guy walked around the backyard to see if he found anything new.

Of course there are new discoveries.Thanks to the blessing of his predecessor, Liu Jintang, the backyard of the General’s Mansion was extremely beautifully built. The rockery is more than ten meters high, with undulating peaks and mountains, surrounded by green water, and the four fountains spouting high and splashing.The crescent-shaped small artificial lake is one acre wide, the lake water is clear, and the watery lotus leaves show sharp corners on the water surface.The promenade around the artificial lake twists and turns, the pavilions are exquisite and exquisite, and the winding path twists and turns, disappearing among the clumps of flowers and trees... I have to say, that guy really enjoys it, making it like a fairyland.Yang Menglong looked at the artificial lake, nodded repeatedly, and made a blood-vomiting evaluation: "This lake is used to raise fish. It's a trivial matter to harvest ten thousand catties a year!"

Qi Polu burst into tears. Faced with such an exquisite film view, what this bastard thinks about is how to use it to grow something and raise something to make some money! ?Boss, can you pursue something else?He took a deep breath and planned to teach this two-hundred-and-five a lesson and cultivate his temperament, but Jiang just ran over and said, "Sir, Tang Shisun wants to see you!"

Yang Menglong was startled: "Tang Shisun?"

Jiang Zheng said: "It is the one who gave us four hundred hectares of fertile land!"

Yang Menglong suddenly realized, and said: "Take me there!" Qi Polu, who was about to give him extra lessons, left behind the big truths that had been brewing in his stomach, and followed Jiang Zheng to the inner hall quickly.

Zhu Yujian, who was wearing navy blue clothes, had been waiting for a long time.

Yang Menglong smiled, cupped his hands, and said: "I didn't know that the great grandson would come, so I welcome you from a distance. Forgive me, forgive me!"

An extremely strong guard beside Zhu Yujian shouted: "Bold, how dare you not kneel down when you see your grandson!?"

Yang Menglong glanced at that guy: "Who are you?"

The guard said, "I am..."

Zhu Yujian raised his hand, signaling the idiot to shut up, cupped his hands to Yang Menglong, and said, "This is my personal guard, Wang Zhao, he is quite brave, but he doesn't know etiquette very much, and he has a quick temper, and he might offend him." I hope General Yang will forgive me!"

Yang Menglong took a look at Wang Zhao, nodded his head reluctantly, and said, "It's not bad, it can be used against my Wuyang Guard's two swordsmen on the battlefield."

When Wang Zhao heard this, his lungs almost exploded.He came from a family of martial arts. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He has practiced hard for more than [-] years. His fists, feet and sticks are so good that dozens of people can't get close to him. This guy actually said that he can only stand up to two soldiers?What a deception!But Zhu Yujian said with a smile, "Wang Zhao, General Yang is praising you. All the new troops he has trained are elite soldiers who can stand up to ten. They defeated Yue Tuo at the Daling River with less than [-] troops, smashed the red flag, and even stabbed The horses of slave chieftain Hong Tai died, how many such powerful troops have there in the past and present? It is already a great honor to say that you can stand up to two soldiers!"

Wang Zhao said stiffly, "Thank you, General Yang, for your compliment!"

Yang Menglong sat down beside Zhu Yujian, and said slowly: "I know you are not convinced, but it is useless if you are not convinced. If you fight one-on-one, none of my soldiers is your opponent, but if you bring A team of soldiers fights with my soldiers, you can survive half a cup of tea, count your skills." After finishing speaking, he ignored Wang Zhao who was half dead with anger, and turned his head to smile at Zhu Yujian: "Last year you gave me four hundred The hectares of fertile land can help me solve a big problem. Without these [-] hectares of fertile land, I will have a headache this year as to how to resettle more and more military households. The progress of transforming military farmland cannot keep up with the growth of military households speed!"

Zhu Yujian said: "The general gathered the refugees and organized reclamation and production, so that tens of thousands of refugees had land to plant and food to eat. This was a great merit. Compared with what the general did, the donation of land was a trivial matter. It's simply not worth mentioning." At this point, he sighed and said: "Actually, I am also redeeming... The ancestors and others have done too many evils in Nanyang and owe the people of Nanyang too much. I don't want to make some compensation. , I have a bad conscience."

The relationship between the Tang King of Nanyang and the local people of Nanyang has always been a very interesting topic.The first king of the Tang Dynasty was Zhu Tong, the son of Zhu Yuanzhang. He had a violent temper, was arrogant, and was even more greedy. He built a lot of construction projects in Nanyang and built more than 20 mansions in one go. He also transported a large number of strange stones from Taihu Lake to build rockeries and selected beauties among the people. , extravagant and lustful, enjoying themselves as much as they can, and the people are helpless.At that time, when people in Nanyang wanted to get married, they usually got married at night. It is said that if the king of the Tang Dynasty happened to see someone marrying a wife, he would immediately send someone to snatch the bride back to the house. I don’t know if this statement is reliable. Anyway, it has been passed down from generation to generation. It has been passed down and has planted hatred in the hearts of Nanyang people.After Zhu Tong, his descendants became more and more unscrupulous, bullying men and women, seizing the people's fertile land, and monopolizing the trade of medicinal materials, furs, timber, minerals, and aquatic products in Nanyang. Basically, all the bad things a Ming Dynasty vassal king could do. They all did it, which made the Tang Dynasty's reputation very bad in Nanyang, and the people hated him with gnashing of teeth.Of course, those phoenix sons and grandsons know that the common people hate them, but they don't care. This is the Zhu family's kingdom. The whole meaning of the existence of you commoners, who are as humble as ants, is to provide us with blood to support us. I just want to be extravagant and lustful. What can you do to me?

Zhu Yujian was not quite the same as his bastard ancestors. He was imprisoned with his father since he was a child, and he survived starvation thanks to some kind servants who secretly sent some leftovers. He had been starved before and knew how painful it was.He is still a relatively self-motivated person, and he did not give up studying when he was imprisoned with his father. He spent 20 years in prison, and he also read books for 20 years.Long-term isolation, suffering, and reading a lot of sage books since childhood, this special experience turned him into a resolute and idealistic person, and because of this, he became the king of the Tang Dynasty. After that, he repeatedly wrote to Chongzhen, denounced corruption, and advised Chongzhen. Even nine years after Chongzhen, when Jin entered the imperial capital, he resolutely led 300 soldiers to serve the king regardless of the dissuasion of local officials.As a result, he was imprisoned again and almost died.Now he has not been officially sealed, but he has clearly felt the hostility from the people.The Ming Dynasty was in decline, and the millions of phoenix sons and grandchildren all over the Ming Dynasty were still as extravagant and carefree as ever. He was full of worries, because he vaguely saw that the Zhu family's descendants had maintained a battle of nearly 200 years. The feast of the year is not free, and the rush of refugees means that the deadline for settlement is getting closer and closer. Their generation is likely to have to pay for the carnival of the vassal royal family for more than 40 years. If you spit it out, you have to pay your own life!According to Fang Zhifu, just in the Jingxiang area, which is very close to Nanyang, there are more than one million landless refugees, which makes him shudder.Over a million!The population of Nanyang is less than [-]!
He wished he could do something, a little remedy.Even if it can't be remedied, at least don't make Nanyang people hate him.His chances are running out.

Yang Menglong was a little surprised: "So you gave me good land, so you still have such a heavy consideration?"

Zhu Yujian smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I also have selfish intentions. The same field, in the hands of ordinary farmers, would be a problem for him to even have enough to eat, but in the hands of General Yang, it can support ten times the population. , I'd love to know why."

Yang Menglong said: "Actually, it's nothing. Just find a way to increase the yield. Yield determines everything. If the yield of an acre of land is a stone of wheat, even if you only charge a bucket of rent, the common people will hate you to the bone and call you an idiot. Vampire, but if the yield per mu can be increased to three shi, even if you take away one shi, the common people will still be grateful to you, because he still has two shi left."

Zhu Yujian smiled wryly: "Increasing the yield? It's not easy! The yield per mu of the farmland under the name of the Tang Palace is less than a stone. Even if I cut the rent by half, the tenant farmers will still gnash their teeth and scold."

Yang Menglong frowned: "The yield per mu is less than a stone? What did you do? All you have is fertile land, and it's not even a stone. Isn't that a waste of land?"

Zhu Yujian said: "I can't figure it out, so I want to ask the general to help me find out what the problem is."

Yang Menglong stood up: "Go, go and have a look!"

Zhu Yujian was overjoyed and said "please" repeatedly. The two of them didn't even bother to bring their entourage. They mounted their horses and galloped all the way out of Nanyang City and went straight to the village of the Tang Dynasty.Originally, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, even if the vassal king went out to visit the tomb in the suburbs, he had to report to the court first and get approval before leaving the city. However, now that the Ming Dynasty's finances have collapsed, many things have begun to be changed, such as allowing the vassal king to The clan started a business and supported itself to reduce the burden on the court. Fortunately, Zhu Yujian was able to enter and leave Nanyang City freely. If he had been placed before Wanli, he would have definitely been in jail!
In other words, the vassal kings originally lived in prisons, but the prisons where they were locked up were just cities...

(End of this chapter)