Bright Spring

But Zhu Gaoxu recalled Zhu Di's sincere eyes back then, and told his elder brother that he was in poor health and asked him to work harder; Zhu Gaoxu suddenly had a personal guess, thinking that Zhu Di might have promised the leader of Wuliangha Sanwei in this way, but later So I turned my face and refused to admit it. After all, after becoming the emperor, the thinking is different. Who would be willing to hand over the strategic military town?This kind of thing is very in line with the style of the father.

Ji'er's voice said, "Furthermore, Arutai, a Tatar, instigated it, and began to manage the relationship with the three guards many years ago. Some leaders of Duoyanwei and Tainingwei have settled down with the Arutai family. Marriage contract, the sons of the leaders in the future will marry the daughter of Alutai.

Alutai had a close relationship with the leaders of Wuliangha, so they set up a line through them, allowing the Horqin tribe, the Tatar tribe closest to the Sanwei area, to keep in touch with Sanwei.

In recent years, Adai, the leader of the Horqin tribe, has recruited many Wuliangha people. Among Adai's cavalry, many of them are Wuliangha people from Duoyanwei and Tainingwei.There is also one person from Horqin, who came to the place between Duoyanwei and Tainingwei to live in herds for a long time.

Because of this, the Tatar tribe was able to trade with Daming merchants through the Wuliangha people to obtain what was lacking on the grassland. "

He paused for a while and continued, "Only the commander of Fuyuwei, Haishanan Daxi, refused to unite with the Horqin people. Haishanan Daxi was worried that this would continue. Fuyuwei was the first tribe to be annexed by the Horqin people, and The land, people, cattle and sheep owned by the leaders of Fuyuwei will be taken away by the Horqin people.

Later, Adai from Horqin sent people to intimidate Hai Shanan many times, and Duoyan Wei, Tai Ningwei also treated us badly.If the Ming court doesn't help us, Haishanan Daxi doesn't know whether he will give in or be destroyed by the northern and southern Mongolian tribes due to the difficult situation. "

After Zhu Gaoxu listened, he pondered for a while, and said, "Of course the tribes loyal to Ming Dynasty will get help from the imperial court. I will definitely not sit idly by. General Ji'er and Chief Haishanan Daxi can rest assured."

General Ji'er immediately put his hands on his chest and bowed to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu asked calmly, "Wuliangha people do business with the Han people in exchange for things. Where did the Han people come from?"

General Ji'er immediately replied, "The people of Wuliangha mainly go to Daning City to trade. There are many Han people selling things to Wuliangha people. There are also some merchants

They cultivated fields nearby and sold grain and other goods to Wuliangha people. "

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, and he immediately understood that the interests of the frontier army must be involved.

Because since the fourth year of Jianwen and Zhu Di's ascension to the throne, the Ming court has formed a monarch-subject relationship with the Wuliangha Mongols. In order to ensure the source of supplies for this part of the Mongols, the court is located near Tieling, Kaiyuan), and Liaoyang, the capital of Liaodong in Guangning. West) The two places have opened a legal mutual market.If those Wuliangha people want to conduct legal transactions, they should not go to Daning City.

It's just that this kind of mutual market is a government-run bulk commodity transaction. Probably because the government's efficiency is low, the price is high, and it will track down the whereabouts of the goods, so Wuliangha people choose to conduct resale transactions in Daning City.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much, and stretched out his hand to pat the armrest, "I already know about Fuyuwei, you stay in Beiping and live in peace for a while. Before you go back, I will give you a formal answer."

General Ji'er stood up, bowed down, and then said, "I thank you and leave." When Mongolians salute, they usually don't speak.

As soon as General Ji'er went out, Zhu Gaoxu immediately called Cao Fu in and said, "Call Zhang Sheng to talk."

Cao Fu said, "The slaves obey the orders."

After a while, Zhang Sheng, the Commander of Jin Yiwei, walked in, cupped his fists and said, "I have an audience with you by order, long live the Holy One."

Zhu Gaoxu asked straight to the point, "The Liaodong frontier army is smuggling|smuggling... from Daning City to the people of Wuliangha, why have I never heard Jin Yiwei's report?"

Zhang Sheng's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately knelt down on the ground, "Your servant should die, I have never received such a report."

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at him, "You don't need to be too nervous, I don't mean to blame you too much. You were not from Jinyiwei before, and you have only been doing this job for a few years, and you haven't taken care of places too far away, so it's understandable."

Zhang Shengdao, "The minister should start to rectify immediately, and control the Jinyiwei school lieutenant who cleaned up the Liaodong seat record. The Holy Lord has learned that they lead the imperial salary, hereditary and no replacement, and they can't find any prodigal sons."

"Very good." Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "Get up."

Zhang Sheng said again, "However, I heard that the frontier army has collected money to allow merchants who enter and leave the pass to carry goods with them. This kind of thing is not unusual."

Zhu Gaoxu said, "As the emperor, I will not allow the frontier soldiers to do such things."

Zhang Sheng said, "Yes."

Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself, if someone in the frontier army had weapons, if they even had financial resources, why would they still listen to the imperial court in the future?So he didn't have to think too much, he must rectify such things, and absolutely not allow the frontier army to slowly gain the financial power to collect "tariffs".

He thought for a while, and said, "I will handle other things myself, you can't control it, just worry about the problem of Jin Yiwei. Let them understand their identity, who should they turn to, and replace those who can't do it."

Zhang Sheng said, "I would like to follow the instruction."

After Zhang Sheng left, eunuch Cao Fu walked in.However, Zhu Gaoxu did not order Cao Fu to do anything. He was still sitting in front of the grand master's chair, walking back and forth slowly, silently thinking about a series of problems.What Zhu Gaoxu is facing now is obviously more complicated than the war during the "Battle of Sin".Governance

The soil time is longer, and the courage and perseverance needed in the battle will be slowly worn away. Perhaps only by being calm and enduring can things be accomplished.

In the evening, before Zhu Gaoxu had dinner, he called the accompanying honorables and civil servant Hou Hai and others, and the monarch and his ministers had dinner together.During the meal, Zhu Gaoxu didn't talk about business, and everyone was talking about the past with great interest.

Although more than half of these civil and military descendants belonged to the old ministries of the Han Palace in Yunnan, they were Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates before Zhu Gaoxu took over Yunnan.And Zhu Gaoxu was the king of Gaoyang County before he became King of Han, and his place was in Beiping.Wei Da, Wang Bin, Hou Hai and others all used to live in Beiping, and they were talking about taking time to go back and see where they used to live.

And Qiu Fu is a hero of "Jing Nan", who originally belonged to the guard general of Yan Wangfu, and was also a person who once settled in Beiping.Revisiting the old place, everyone has a topic.

After the meal was over, the maids put away the table and served tea and dried fruit snacks. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu told everyone about the meeting with General Ji'er in the afternoon and the smuggling business by Liaodong Dusi through Daning City.

Qiu Fu said in an understated tone, "Don't worry, my lord, as long as there is an imperial decree to call the commander of the Liaodong capital to Beiping to confess his guilt, what else would he dare to do?"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded noncommittally.

Qiu Fu's words are of course feasible. At this time, the Beijing camp of the Ming court is very powerful and has an absolute advantage over the guards in various places, so only the central government has the right to speak in military matters.

Usually, when the imperial court wanted to carry out large-scale military operations, the conventional method was to appoint a general and several generals, then mobilize part of the Beijing camp to work in the local guards, and then transfer some guards to form battalions to mobilize the army.Among them, the Beijing camp is the main force and core elite of the camp, and the guard army is mainly to assist in combat and strengthen its momentum.Including He Fu's Northwest Army currently in Ningxia Mansion, the elite soldiers under his command are also the Beijing cavalry who followed from the capital.

Qiu Fu's suggestion can be done, but it doesn't seem to solve the problem properly.No matter what people say about loyalty and filial piety, once it involves real interests, it will be very troublesome. If it is not handled properly, it will at least cause everyone's dissatisfaction.

Hou Hai's voice said, "The officials in the capital of Liaodong and the generals of Daning City make a fortune by doing business. But the generals of the frontier army on the west side of Harawen Mountain Daxing'anling can only watch and watch. They should be very unhappy. The right way is not to worry. Weaknesses are not equal. The Holy Majesty only needs to say something, and the generals of the border army will definitely support the Holy Majesty and punish those generals who violated the court's laws."

Zhu Gaoxu looked around and found that Gao Xianning was missing.Gao Xianning is still in Shandong as the chief envoy.

He thought of Gao Xianning, and also of Gao Xianning's teacher Qi Tai.If Qi Tai came up with an idea here, he would definitely advise Zhu Gaoxu to make a long-term plan, plan for the long-term first, and don't force |too much from the beginning.Because this is Qi Tai's consistent position in handling affairs.

So Zhu Gaoxu said, "This matter should be discussed in the long run."

After everyone listened, they had no choice but to echo, "The Holy One is wise."

That night Zhu Gaoxu dug out a memorial, the list of side generals played by the chief envoy of Beiping a few days ago.He searched through the memorial, and saw that among the military generals who came to report on their duties this time, there was a man from Daning City named He Hao.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered the name, he hesitated for a moment, and finally gave up the idea of ​​summoning He Hao alone.

Chapter 942 As fierce as a tiger

There were many innate problems in the rules of the guard that the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty formulated back then.Even though it has only been less than 50 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the military system of the guards has not yet completely collapsed, but there are already signs of difficulty in maintaining it. The fact that military households have fled for a long time and would rather become refugees is a clear fact.

Zhu Gaoxu also understood such a thing.When Taizu established the Ming Dynasty, he had to re-regulate the order from all aspects, and there were so many things in it, it was inevitable that there were some unreasonable things.It's just that future generations have to continue to mend and perfect it, and it is obviously impossible to stick to the ancestral system.

At noon the next day, Zhu Gaoxu hosted a banquet for civil and military officials in the middle hall of the old courtyard, including honorable ministers accompanying the army, officials of the Third Division of Beiping, and generals of the frontier guards who went to Beiping to report on their duties.Then arrange for the generals to come to report the official affairs one by one in the next few days.

The banquet here is naturally different from the banquet given by the Imperial Palace.

The generals of the frontier army almost never participated in the well-mannered banquets in the palace. Some of them followed Zhu Gaoxu to the northern grasslands during the Northern Expedition at the beginning of Wude, and they were used to eating together in the tents of the Chinese army.After the prostration ceremony in the nave, there was a lot of noise.The generals were very loud, which made the atmosphere very lively.

When the wine and meat were brought up, everyone raised their glasses to wish Zhu Gaoxu, and said some good things like longevity and boundless indiscriminately.

After doing this three times, Zhu Gaoxu took the initiative to hold up the wine glass and watched the civil and military in the lobby.Everyone got up one after another, and the noise finally subsided a little bit.

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to speak, and said directly, "I would like to say a few words. The money collected from foreign trade is under the management of Shibo, and the generals and their families will not be able to take care of these things in the future. You should perform your duties. The soldiers only need to train soldiers. Keep the land. Then the imperial court will send people to promulgate decrees and set up yamen to take care of the border cross market. "

Just now there were people talking in a low voice, but at this time everyone was silent, and the middle hall became more and more quiet.

Zhu Gaoxu then slowed down his tone and said kindly, "However, I think we should improve the treatment of the guards and soldiers, and try to be as fair as possible. From now on, the salaries of the generals should be paid in full. The military pay. The military pay may be less, but I will reward it according to the annual income of the household department and whether the guards are diligent in training. And the court will rearrange the military supply method and guarantee the price of grain and salt in the border areas."