I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Zhu Youxiao got up, put his hands behind his back, stared out of the tent, glanced at Chen Ce who was still kneeling by the roadside, and said:

"Look, I told these people to break out of camp and enter Nanjing City, but they were in such a hurry that they even dropped their weapons on the ground. If there was no restraint, what kind of chaos would it be?"

Liu Yuanbin seemed to understand but didn't understand, his expression changed, but Wang Chaofu beside him immediately heard the emperor's insinuation, and then laughed:

"The Holy Master is still there, how dare you mess up."

Zhu Youxiao smiled, put down the curtain, and walked slowly back into the tent.

"The rebellion of the Xiaoling Guard, in the final analysis, was the intention of Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, to plot against and kill me. Yu Ren, the commander of the Xiaoling Guard, has suffered from the emperor's favor for generations. gold."

Zhu Youxiao sat upright, his eyes drifted to one side, and he ordered lightly:

"You, make a plan for me."

"Zhu Xiaoling Guard Commander Yu Ren of the Nine Clans. The guards at Jianyang, Xijiangkou and other places listened to the decree and repented in time. They did not cause military disasters or hurt the people. They were dealt with lightly and dismissed as civilians. They will never be used. .”

Wang Chaofu nodded, turned around and just took two steps, but he heard Emperor Tianqi Yuyu's voice and said:

"Wait a minute."

Wang Chaofu's heart stopped for a beat, and he looked back.

Zhu Youxiao tapped two fingers on the imperial case, looking down at the uniform hair tip, his eyes faintly revealed helplessness, and his voice was tired:

"Mountains and rivers are the top, and rivers are the drink."

"This country is prepared for my grandson, who is doomed to be unable to swim in the mountains or play in the water."

Having said that, Zhu Youxiao raised his head with hope in his eyes.

"I know about the Xiaolingwei camp. When you went to declare the decree, you also told Tian Ergeng that you don't need to give away the old tea, and you will receive some new tea."

Wang Chaofu's eyes lit up, and he immediately bowed his head and looked naive again.

"The servant girl understands that when the person who is looking for the supervisor of ceremonies draws up an order, she will go to the supervisor's yamen and Tian Dudu to talk about it."

Liu Yuanbin was at a loss when he heard it, and he didn't understand why Emperor Tianqi talked about it, so he talked about this Duyun Maojian.

He is still waiting for Emperor Tianqi to show mercy and forgive the relatives of the Xiaoling Guards in Zijin Mountain.

But Zhu Youxiao got up suddenly, straightened the red hair behind him, took the whip, and led all the guards out.

Wang Chaofu smiled and followed him outside the tent, watching Emperor Tianqi get on his horse and leave in the dust before returning to the imperial tent.

At this time, the military barracks of the Yongwei Battalion were almost demolished by the officers and soldiers, but it was not continued because the emperor was still in the imperial tent.

As soon as the emperor left, the top of the imperial tent was lifted, packed into a big box, carried by the eunuchs who came out of the palace, and rushed to the city of Nanjing together.

"Oh my ancestor, why are you here?"

Seeing that Chen Ce was still kneeling there, Wang Chaofu hurried over to help him up.

The latter's legs were numb, and he stood up with difficulty, sitting on a big wooden box, and the first sentence was to ask: "Eunuch, what does your majesty say?"

After Emperor Tianqi left, Wang Chaofu gradually relaxed his tense nerves, then clicked his tongue in amazement, looked at Liu Yuanbin who was walking towards him with a blank face, and praised:

"This boy is really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. Even our family admires him for what happened today."

"Your Majesty... yes?!"

Chen Ce didn't expect it either, and his eyes widened.

"That's not it."

Wang Chaofu repeated Zhu Youxiao's last sentence, and even Chen Ce understood it in seconds. He immediately laughed, and when he looked at Liu Yuanbin, his eyes were full of surprise.

He really didn't expect that the emperor would value this guy so much.

If someone asked this question, the corpse would have been cold. Liu Yuanbin didn't know what he said, but he actually saved those Xiaoling guards and relatives.

When Ye Xianggao's family was killed, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were persuading him, but the emperor was different.

"What do you mean? I don't understand what kind of tea His Majesty is talking about at the end." Seeing the two people smiling, Liu Yuanbin frowned and almost got angry.

"Eunuch, please explain to him."

Chen Ce patted his butt and told Liu Yuanbin not to act impulsively in the future, then he stood up and said:

"Your Majesty is afraid that there will be a big move in the Nanzhili area, and I have to dispatch troops and horses, so let's go first."

"Military affairs are important, so Chen Shuai will go first."

Wang Chaofu cupped his hands, and also watched Chen Ce leave, before saying to Liu Yuanbin:

"Boy, do you know what His Majesty's last sentence means?"

"I don't want old tea, but I want new tea. Could it be..."

After such a long time, Liu Yuanbin finally came to his senses, and opened his mouth wide: "Your Majesty is saying that you don't need to kill those Xiaoling guards, but you need to find someone to die instead, and put all the charges on it?"

"Extremely—!"

Wang Chaofu said triumphantly: "Who is your majesty? He is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. How can he take back the decree? But if you don't want to kill him, there are traces to follow."

"Your Majesty can't say the word "kill" directly, but you can say it from Tian Ergeng or our family."

Liu Yuanbin nodded, for the first time in his heart he knew the power of the emperor's mind. If he hadn't been instructed by an expert, he might not have known that he had received the favor of the Holy Grace.

Immediately, the smile on his face stagnated, and he opened his mouth and asked:

"Then who is this scapegoat?"

"Who else is there, the commander of the Xiaoling Guard who is pleading guilty—Wu Ye!"

Wang Chaofu didn't care about the change in Liu Yuanbin's expression when he heard the name, he just dragged him to a remote place, and said solemnly: "General, you must remember the commander's instructions just now. If you can succeed this time, it is God's blessing, Your Majesty."

"It's enough once, don't do it again in the future."

"You are the leader of the war, and our family is slandering around His Majesty, so you have to do your own thing well."

"The general is in the court hall. Apart from reporting victory, even if His Majesty asks you about other things, don't easily reveal your true thoughts."

"People's words are terrifying, and rumors can kill..."

"You can't even talk about the strategy?"

Liu Yuanbin was dumbfounded. It was the first time he came into contact with these things, as if he had opened the door to a new world, and found it incredible.

"General, what did you say to Chen Shuai and Qi Shuai in court?"

Wang Chaofu's eyes drifted to the mountains and rivers on one side, and said lightly:

"Leading the troops out, how to fight the two armies before the battle is your business, but in the court, the battle strategy is decided by His Majesty and those ministers."

"Civil and martial arts...!"

Liu Yuanbin thought, this is true. When Chen Ce was in the Southwest War, the two armies were in front of the battle. He talked endlessly about the battle strategy and dispatched the army in an orderly manner.

But in the court hall, he was a dignified general of the Yongwei Battalion, but he didn't speak a few times.

There is also the British public Zhang Weixian, who also followed the orders of Emperor Tianqi, and never offered any strategy other than acting stupid.

This is all cunning and cunning...

Thinking of this, he hurried back, snatched the Duyun Maojian that he hadn't had time to take away, came back and respectfully served Wang Chaofu, and said:

"Yuan Bin memorized every word of my father-in-law's teachings."

Even though the tea had already cooled down, Wang Chaofu still laughed out loud. Being respected by this military general, he felt a lot better in his heart, so he took it from his hand and drank it all down, then picked him up, and said bitterly:

"When outsiders are around, the general must not stick to etiquette with me. If some people see it, I am afraid they will reprimand the general as a eunuch. Some ignorant people will always yell and scold me after hearing this."

"If it is passed on to relatives, it will have a bad reputation."

After finishing speaking, he left.

Holding the teacup, Liu Yuanbin stared blankly at him leaving, and when he couldn't bear it, he also secretly made up his mind that in this life, he must stand out from the crowd, be enshrined as a general, and honor his ancestors!

You want to tell the Western captives from Mongolia to starve to death and dare not commit crimes in the south, and you want to tell the Jianyi outside the Great Wall to be terrified when they see the flag of Ming Dynasty, shouting, Grandpa, don’t kill!

Chapter 291 The Right to Take a Drink

After the Yongwei Battalion was pulled out, it marched into Nanjing City in mighty force, occupied the three south barracks, and drove out all the garrison troops in the four barracks.

In the south of the city, not only the garrison was there, it was very chaotic. The Ming army in the city could be divided into two types, one was the patrol army stationed in the north of the city, and the other was the standing army stationed in the south of the city.

To put it simply, those currently stationed in the south of Nanjing can be roughly divided into two categories.

One is the barracks.

For example, the Bianying, Nanying, and Dongying beside the South Gate were occupied by the Yongwei Battalion after entering the city. They were set up for the Yongle Dynasty and were stationed here permanently. They were one of Nanjing's standing troops.

These three battalions of standing troops were not responsible for the daily patrol and rotation of Nanjing City, as well as arresting thieves. Unless there were rebels in the city or the thieves attacked the city, they would not move a single step.

Today, the forces of the Bianying, Nanying, and Dongying are all under the control of those nobles in Nanjing. In the first year of Taichang, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji reported that the number of people registered in the three battalions was 15 each, for a total of [-].

Zhu Youxiao had never been there, and I heard that there were not many people left, and most of them were occupied by nobles and descendants of aristocratic families.

The standing army of these three battalions needs to be restructured to take back the military power from the nobles.

In addition to this kind of standing army and peace patrol army, the other type is the remains of the craftsman camp from the early Ming Dynasty to the present. Because the craftsmen lived together in a centralized way and managed them in a unified way, they are similar to garrisons.

Continuing to this day, the disadvantages are full.

The standing army of the third battalion was only stationed in the south of the city. This time the Yongwei Battalion entered the city and occupied their garrison, so they all moved to several empty battalions of the patrol army in the north of the city.

As for the artisan households, they spread throughout Nanjing and even outside the city.

For example, the carpenter camp in Dongmen is full of descendants of carpenters who were transferred here during the Yongle period. They are distributed in a wide range of places, and they have to go north to Beijing every year to work as shift carpenters.

The shift craftsmanship system, as well as the craftsman registration system that has been practiced in China for nearly four centuries, are all one of the old systems that Zhu Youxue came to Nanjing to abolish.

Of course, the abolition of the old system requires the constraints and replacement of the new system in order to have a positive and positive impact on the present.

These, Zhu Youxiao thought very clearly.

The purpose of coming to Nanjing is to make drastic reforms. Even if Nanjing cannot be turned into a safe and stable rear, this Jiangnan must be allowed to generate some income for the imperial court.

Then go back and start a fight with Ta Qing.

The characteristic of the artisan registration system is that all artisan households who have entered the artisan registration are called military artisans, and they cannot leave their residences for generations.

One person leaves, and the whole family sits together.

As long as they were registered as craftsmen, unless the current emperor ordered otherwise to vigorously improve the craftsman household system, they would live in the craftsman camp until the end of the Ming Dynasty and were not allowed to enter or leave.

There is a small stream outside Nanjing City, which Zhu Youxiao saw when he entered the city.

There are many craftsman camps stationed on the west bank of the creek. Among them is the Mianjia Camp, which was established in the Yongle Year and has continued to this day. The workshops that make cotton clothes, armor, and cotton shoes for the army are also distributed on both sides of the Mianjia Camp.

Every year, the Mianjia Battalion transports the newly made cotton armor and mandarin duck cotton clothes to Jiubian and Liaodong by water to replace the armor and armor for the frontier troops.

Since the first year of Tianqi, the Military Weapons Department has set up many workshops in Tianjin Wei and Denglai Port. Although they burn money, they have become more and more effective.

By the end of October in the second year of Tianqi, the Ministry of War reported that the armor and standard swords and guns of the nine-side garrison had all been replaced with old and new ones, and Xiong Tingbi had also received three batches of new-made shotguns and artillery.

In the Ordnance Department workshop in Tianjin Port, they are conducting research on the Dutch warships and artillery captured in the Penghu Battle. Soon they will be able to imitate other people's advanced weapons and install them on their own navy.

Although these old craftsmen camps in Nanjing seem useless now, they are all based on a good "military factory". With a little restructuring, they can be turned into factories under the Imperial Armaments Department, giving full play to their strengths. It should work.

It will burn more money, but Zhu Youxiao already has a way to deal with it.

The increase of tariffs along the river three years ago brought an annual income of several 10 taels to the imperial court.

There is also mining tax, which must also be spread from North Zhili to South Zhili.

The tea-horse trade at the border has always been banned, and Zhu Youxiao plans to reopen it, but this time, it will be led by the court to do business with Lin Danhan, and exchange tea, silk, and porcelain for their cattle, sheep and horses.

The Mongols felt that they had made a lot of money in this transaction, and Daming also felt that they had made a lot of money, so why not get what they need.

There is also the private salt business in Lianghuai, Shandong, which has nourished countless wealthy households in Jining City. This time Zhu Youxiao is also planning to intervene.

Abolish the salt inspection censor and the inspection department, and the supervision department must grasp the inspection of salt, the establishment of salt farms, and salt fields. The more money you make, the more Zhu Youxiao can't let it go.

The rebellion of Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, was a wake-up call for Zhu Youxiao.

It is not always a good thing for a nobleman to be in charge of the army. As an emperor, it is still the most comfortable to hold the military power of the whole country in his own hands. Zhu Guobi's military power in Jianyang, Xijiangkou, and Xiaolingwei has been taken back this time.

However, the Standing Army of the Nanjing Third Battalion, with a strength of 15 troops on the military register, is still in the hands of the nobles in Nanjing.

If it is not fully recovered, how dare Zhu Youxiao make the next reform.

Offending the interests of the civil servants, they can at most talk about you, but if you touch the big cake that the nobles have accumulated for hundreds of years, maybe their partnership will be reversed.

The 15 standing army in Nanjing City, as well as the tens of thousands of patrol troops, and the garrisons of the guards in Nanzhili are all in charge of honorable officials.