I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"What are the goods, open them and have a look!"

"The imperial court is arresting the prisoners of the Fan family, call out all your crew members, and I will let you go after seeing them one by one!"

The officers and soldiers at the port seem to have received the news from Zhangjiakou and are conducting intensive investigations. Both sides of the strait are full of officers and soldiers in armor.

In addition, there are even several warships of the Denglai Navy parked in the middle of the port.

These are not ordinary warships, but small Fuchuan equipped with guns copied from Dutch warships by the Ordnance Department.

The Denglai navy formed by Yuan Keli is currently the only navy in the Ming Dynasty that has completely eliminated the Cangshan ships and used small blessing ships as the main warships.

Regardless of size, firepower, or maneuverability in coastal waters, the small Fuchuan was far superior to the Cangshan Ship, which served as the main battleship in the Penghu naval battle.

Chapter 445 Intervening in the Situation in Shanshan and Shaanxi

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

A palace lady brought a cup of fragrant tea, walked into Xinuang Pavilion, put it on the imperial case with her bow, lifted the lid of the bowl, and then gently stepped back, as if she had never been here before.

"My lord, moisten your throat!"

Hearing Wang Chaofu's words, Zhu Youxiao put down the note in his hand, his eyes moved slightly, he glanced at the tea bowl, took a few sips of it.

Putting down the tea bowl, Zhu Youxiao picked up the memorial and read it word by word.

Gong'e's body smelled of powder, and half of her cheeks were still lit, but Zhu Youxiao didn't feel it at all, as if she didn't smell it or see it, and just continued to read the memorial.

Wang Chaofu signaled Gong'e to go down, and said softly:

"The emperor has been tired all day, it's already late at night, let's go in and rest."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao glanced at him, put down the memorial, stood up from the dragon chair, stretched, and just when Wang Chaofu thought he was going back to sleep, he sat down again.

"You can sleep well, I can't sleep..." Zhu Youxiao laughed at himself, picked up the Zhubi and wrote a few words before it was completed.

"Send these books to the military aircraft room, let the military aircraft ministers read them, and then bring them to the cabinet, and ask them to read them all. By the way, what do you think of the method of controlling the Liao Dynasty that Wei Guangwei mentioned last time?"

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he looked at Wang Chaofu on the side.

Just as a little eunuch came in to move the notebooks out, another little eunuch passed him and moved more notebooks into the Xinuang Pavilion.

Wang Chaofu looked at the mountain of memorials, sighed in his heart, and said in panic:

"The servant girl is just taking care of His Majesty's daily necessities in Qianqing Palace. How can I have any opinion on these matters? If I really have an opinion, I won't enter the palace."

Zhu Youxiao laughed and pointed him a few times with his fingers.

"You, I remember correctly that Wei Zhongxian recommended it to me, right? It's really clever, and I feel very comfortable using it."

"But even Wei Zhongxian makes mistakes sometimes!"

"For example, Gaodi from Shanhaiguan, and Wang Hai, the governor of water transportation, were all recommended by him."

"Gao Di's retreat made me lose a good general. Wang Hai joined forces with the Fan family to deliver food and grass to the slaves outside the customs. Do you know that they are Daming's sworn enemies!"

When Zhu Youxiao said this, he laughed narrowly and asked: "Since you don't understand Liao affairs, I can't just let you go like this. What do you think of Wei Zhongxian?"

After speaking, Zhu Youxiao picked up the teacup and continued drinking.

When asked this question, Zhu Youxiao's face was not abnormal at all, but this question is very unusual, let's talk about Wei Zhongxian.

What did the emperor want to do by asking this? Could it be that he no longer trusts the factory owner?

Wang Chaofu didn't dare to answer casually, thought for a while, and was about to speak, but Zhu Youxiao threw the notebook abruptly, got up and shouted:

"Come here, bring the water for washing your feet!"

After a while, two palace ladies came.

One person was holding a square shelf carved with red sandalwood, and the other person followed in and placed the gilded copper basin containing hot water at Zhu Youxiao's feet.

Gong'e put her hand into the copper basin for a test, and found that the temperature was right, so she knelt down with another Gong'e in front of her, and took off Zhu Youxiao's boots.

After taking off her boots, Gong'e took off the white cloth socks for Zhu Youxiao one by one.

Zhu Youxiao is an old man with sweaty feet, and he went out for a run again today, and the boots of this era really cover his feet, the moment he took off his socks, even he could smell the smell of his feet.

But these two palace maids didn't seem to be too dirty, they didn't even see any abnormalities on their faces, and each of them washed Zhu Youxiao's stinky feet in a copper basin.

Zhu Youxiao leaned comfortably on the couch, feeling the relaxation on his feet.

The two maids lowered their heads to wash their feet. Although the movements of their white and tender slender hands were light, they washed carefully, and even a little bit of black mud hidden between the toes was washed clean.

After the first cleaning, the maids quickly poured out the dirty water and brought clear hot water to soak Zhu Youxiao's feet, and her slender hands were constantly moving.

Zhu Youxiao was about to fall asleep, but he suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Gong'e, who was drooping her head and washing her feet, and then at Wang Chaofu, heaved a sigh of relief, and muttered to himself:

"At this time, the person delivering the decree should also be in Taiyuan."

……

At the same time, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi.

Zhu Xieyuan first made great contributions in pacifying the chieftain in the southwest, and then served as the governor to lead the army out of the pass to repel the barbarians. Now his prestige is extremely high.

In order to deal with the disarmament of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, Zhu Youxiao appointed Zhu Xieyuan as the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi a few months ago.

The governor of Shanshan and Shaanxi, like the supervisor, is a temporary addition, not a permanent official position.

The difference between the two is that as soon as the supervisor arrives at a certain place, he can take full control of the military and political power of a certain place, and even the governor and other official positions have the right to stop first.

To put it bluntly, the supervisor is equivalent to the "emperor" who goes down, under one person, over ten thousand, and in a place, he is directly the military and political chief who holds real power.

As for the governor, there is also a distinction.

For example, Zhu Xieyuan's current governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi belongs to the governor of the two provinces, and all the military and political power of Shanxi and Shaanxi are in his hands.

The power of the governor is not as important as that of the supervisor. Although the governor and the commander-in-chief are restrained, they do not have the right to dismiss them. They only have the right to dismiss some local officials first and then act later.

Even so, the authority of the governor of one or two provinces, or even multiple provinces, is much greater than that of the general feudal officials.

This kind of position came into being in response to the current situation. The armaments in Shanxi and Shaanxi have been dismantled for a long time, and the official situation is complicated, and the local powerful forces are intertwined.

For Zhu Youxiao, the best way is to directly appoint a governor, whose authority overrides all forces, and use the "God's perspective" to manage it for himself.

After many considerations, Zhu Xieyuan set the Governor's Mansion in Taiyuan.

It was Haishi at this time, except for the occasional voices from the soldiers and yamen servants who were watching the night, the whole city of Taiyuan was pitch black, and the whole town seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.

The Governor's Mansion was still brightly lit. Zhu Xieyuan had just sent away the imperial envoy who delivered the decree late at night, and turned to face the base map of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and sighed heavily.

Now, he finally knew why the emperor wanted to come here by himself.

The two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi are not only disarmed, but also can not be summed up in one word. The vassal kings, powerful, civil officials, generals, guards, horse bandits, bandits... all kinds of forces are intertwined.

Many people can see that the establishment of the governor of Shanshan by the imperial court this time is actually just unbearable and wants to control the situation in Shanshan.

Not surprisingly, since Zhu Xieyuan established the Governor's Mansion in Taiyuan, various situations soon followed.

There are many government affairs and military affairs are messy. Many of the big soldiers still refuse to obey the discipline. If they refuse to obey, they may provoke a mutiny.

The most important thing is the land of the guard. After preliminary investigation, Zhu Xieyuan soon discovered that almost [-]% of the land in Shanxi province was occupied by these royal children.

To reform the guard's armament, it is necessary to get back the original guard's land, but to get back these fields, it is bound to arouse the dissatisfaction of the royal family's children.

Zhu Xieyuan was already in a difficult situation. In addition to what he was about to do, Zhu Youxiao threw him another hot potato this time-Shanxi merchants.

What Zhu Xieyuan sighed was that almost everything he was going to accomplish in Shanshan was extremely difficult.

Judging from what the emperor has repeatedly expressed, what he needs is a complete reshuffle of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces from top to bottom, rather than small troubles.

4Chapter 16 Taiyuan Qianzong congratulates Renlong

In the middle of the night, Qi Jingwei, the magistrate of Taiyuan, didn't sleep. He rushed from the magistrate's yamen as soon as he saw off the imperial envoy.

"Governor, the granary has been built, take a look—"

Holding a document in his hand, Qi Jingwei said while walking, when he entered the hall, he found that Zhu Xieyuan was staring at the map in a daze, so he stopped talking for a while.

Not long after, Zhu Xieyuan turned around, sat back on the chair, stretched out his hand to signal him to sit beside him, and said, "Has the Taiyuan granary been built?"

Qi Jingwei sat down, handed the official document to Zhu Xieyuan, and said excitedly:

"Xiaguan ordered the chief officer of the yamen and the Zhang family to buy a large piece of wasteland outside Taiyuan City, and built a large granary there, which can be regarded as the largest granary in Shanxi today."

"The governor has just come to Shanxi, and he has accomplished such a great feat. It's really gratifying!"

Zhu Xieyuan actually guessed these things.

The Zhang family is a large landowner in Taiyuan, holding nearly [-]% of the wasteland resources in their hands. Even the governor of Shanshan and Shaanxi wants to build a granary in Taiyuan, but he has no way to go except to find them.

But fortunately, the Zhang family's patriarch, Yi Yi, is a person who is well-versed in reason, or a person with long-term plans.

Hearing that the imperial court wanted to build a granary, Zhang Yi sold a large piece of wasteland outside the city to the magistrate's yamen at a price of cabbage that was [-]% lower than the market price. This is how the Taiyuan granary was completed on time.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. This is the first step. Zhu Xieyuan naturally understands this truth.

This first step is to go out, but when we check the fields of the guard in the future, we will always encounter wasteland. What will we do with the Zhang family?

As soon as he took a step, he encountered such a problem, and Zhu Xieyuan hadn't figured out how to solve it yet.

To the surprise of prefect Qi Jingwei, the governor-general of Shanshan and Shaanxi in front of him was not very happy, but sighed.

"Why is the governor sighing?"

Qi Jingwei was only a magistrate, so naturally he couldn't consider Zhu Xieyuan's difficulties.

Zhu Xieyuan hesitated to speak, and said with a light smile:

"Suddenly remembered something at home. Tell me, have the sweet potatoes and grains brought by the imperial court from Jifu arrived?"

Qi Jingwei nodded and said: "It's all on the official document. The first batch of grain transported by the imperial court from Jifu was handed over by the supervisory department and transported to the granary."

"The lower officials estimate that the sweet potatoes are at least 50 shi, and the grain is also worth [-] shi!"

Qi Jingwei was very happy. He became the magistrate of Taiyuan in the 37th year of Wanli. In 14 years, he had never seen so much grain in Taiyuan.

It seems that this governor is not only famous, but also very capable!

As if remembering something, Qi Jingwei added: "There is also an official document from Shaanxi, saying that the granary over there is also actively selecting sites, and plans to buy wasteland from local wealthy households..."

Zhu Xieyuan's face looked a little better, and he frowned and said:

"Many people know about the granary. Inform Mr. Gao and send heavy troops to guard the grain storage area. There must be no accidents."

"All the grain stored in the granary in Taiyuan is managed by the supervising department. Without the order of the superintendent, no grain is allowed to move."

"Also, tomorrow morning I will go to inspect the granary with Ben Du..."

Qi Jingwei could see that Zhu Xieyuan attached great importance to this granary. Indeed, the more than [-] grains stored in the granary in Taiyuan were all transferred from the Jifu area for disaster relief in times of famine.

In order to build this granary, the imperial court did their best and spent a lot of money.

If something caused a fire or other major changes, the emperor would be furious. At that time, he, the governor of Taiyuan, and Gao Ye, the chief soldier of Taiyuan, could hardly shirk their responsibilities.

Qi Jingwei understood that Zhu Xieyuan could be so nervous.

After saying this, Zhu Xieyuan breathed a sigh of relief, the grain storage was in place, the first large granary was built, and with a little savings on hand, he could speak and act with more confidence.

In fact, what he is doing now is the same as what Zhu Youxiao asked.

In this area of ​​the Central Plains, there have been frequent minor disasters recently, and there are not many refugees, so they cannot cause any interference to the operation of the local government.

Jifu has been promoting sweet potatoes these years, and has built additional granaries. There will be no problem with food storage or local garrisons. The six prefectures of Shandong are close to Jifu, and Denglai and Tianjin Port are across the sea. Famine, otherwise there would be no problem.

The five provinces of the Central Plains, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, Henan, and Sichuan, each have difficult and poor roads, especially Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it is difficult to send disaster relief materials.

Shanxi is fine, but Sichuan is a land of abundance. Unless there is a catastrophe like Shandong, there will be no major problems.

Shaanxi is different. Shaanxi can be described as a thousand miles away. Once there is a catastrophe in the future and the road is difficult, it will be difficult for the imperial court to deliver disaster relief in time.

If there are any changes in other places at the same time, it will easily cause a catastrophe that will sweep the Central Plains!

What he has to do now is not to check the acres of land, nor directly express his intention to rectify the military equipment of the guards, but to store grain and grass, check the treasuries of all prefectures, prefectures and counties in Shanxi Province over the years, and do a good job in the aftermath.

Only when the hands are fully prepared, in other words, the food and wages are sufficient, can you free up your hands to do other things.

Zhu Xieyuan guessed that the emperor sent him down, and that was what he meant. Before rectifying Shanshan, the local people must be the most important.

As long as the people are not in chaos, there will be no chaos at all.

……

That night, sixteen miles south of the city, the granary in Taiyuan.