First Prince of Ming Dynasty Chapter 515

  Chapter 515 Proper Arrangements

It can be predicted that after Wang Yu came to power, the aristocratic family who successfully defeated Xin Tun will further regain the land and farm slaves lost due to Xin Tun's policy. The good people who go down will hate the nobles of Korea and many ministers of the two classes.

  At that time, Jiang Side and the Goryeo officials under Yao Guangxiao should have at least some actual power. If all goes well, Zhu Biao will use Li Chenggui to control the 20,000 elite cavalry in Goryeo.

  If all the plans go well, the aristocratic family will find in the end that they have lost the command of all the troops, and only the political power, countless gold and silver treasures, and illusory land and farms are in their hands.

  The aristocratic adults who have mastered the wealth and power in the country will find that they are unable to suppress any rebellion against the untouchables. They have no command except their own servants.

By that time, it would be too late for the aristocratic family to regret it. Zhu Biao fueled the flames by releasing evidence that Wang Yu was the son of Xin Tun, and then asked Tang Ding to send a wave of Japanese pirates to fuel their fire. Under internal and external troubles, the country fell. And it was their people who destroyed it themselves.

What Zhu Biao wanted was not only the throne of Goryeo, it was actually not that difficult. Wang Yu's status was problematic, and even Wang Zhuan, King of Gongmin, was not justified. Compromise, he and Wang Rui's son will be fully qualified to inherit the throne of Goryeo in the future, who will be of Zhu Ming blood and Wang Gao blood.

But if you do that, you will just send a puppet. The authority of the noble family of Korea has crossed the line. From the fact that Wang Xuan can take over the position this time, it can be seen that even when the Empress Dowager Mingde and other Korean clans are opposed For King Goryeo.

   It can be seen how outdated the royal power is, it's a joke. Although his and Wang Rui's children are not his legitimate sons, Zhu Biao doesn't want him to be someone else's marionette.

What's more, since he spent so much energy to occupy Goryeo, Zhu Biao naturally hopes that he can develop and feed back to Ming Dynasty in the future, so it is necessary to ease the social conflicts, return the fields and manors occupied by the aristocratic families to the people of Goryeo, and encourage them Carry out commercial handicrafts and other matters.

  Zhu Biao leaned on the back of the chair and talked with his father for a long time. Old Zhu couldn't deny it. He obviously didn't have much interest in Goryeo. The reason he kept listening was just to see his son's overall situation.

  For people with traditional concepts like Zhu Yuanzhang, Daming is the center of the world, and the rest of the land is barbarian land, and it is useless to spend energy to fight it down. Just like the Mongolian Yuan, it is big and cannot be governed.

  It was late at night, and they had finished talking. Zhu Biao bid farewell to his father and returned to the East Palace, while Lao Zhu was too lazy to move, and went to sleep directly in Jinshen Hall.

  In the next month or so, apart from discussing the military situation in the north, Zhu Biao also welcomed Li Yan from the Li family and Chen Yunqing from the Chen family.

  As for Wang Rui, she was even quieter. Apart from greeting the princess every day, she read, wrote, and admired paintings in the house.

  Chang Luohua now has a son and everything is fulfilled, and he doesn't bother to take care of these three talented people at all. He is quite generous to the three of them.

  As for the two children, although they are born under the moon, it is winter after all, and the sky is freezing and the wind is howling. Although Lao Zhu and Empress Ma both miss their grandchildren, they are reluctant to toss their children back and forth in this winter, so they don't see them much.

Especially Lao Zhu, Empress Ma can visit the East Palace in person every now and then, teasing with each other for a while, but Lao Zhu is not easy to visit, just like Zhu Biao will not easily enter the harem now, entering the harem will also allow Liu Jin to clear the way in advance , to let his father's concubines back away, it is not easy for Lao Zhu to let his daughter-in-law back away.

  So if Lao Zhu wanted to enjoy family happiness, he would probably have to wait until the beginning of spring before he could often take his two grandchildren to play with him. At that time, the children would be as delicate as they are now.

  Recently, there have been many major and minor matters in the imperial court. For example, the imperial envoy who inspected the Beijing camp said in a statement that "some of the officers and men living in the capital guards spend their leisure time drinking heavily, and some of the guards on duty even drank until they were in a trance and neglected their duties."

As soon as this remark came out, the faces of the generals who had watched the excitement for a long time turned black. After glaring at the censor for a few times, they knelt down to plead guilty. What the soldiers bought must have been brewed privately.

  Old Zhu himself actually likes to drink very much, but in this era wine making needs to consume a lot of pure grain. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the common people could not even afford rations, but merchants were still making wine wantonly.

  So Zhu Yuanzhang issued a ban on alcohol as early as when he was conquering the world. First, it was because of food consumption, and second, he was afraid that the generals would make mistakes by drinking.

  At the beginning, no one dared to violate Lao Zhu's military order, and the same was true for the state capital under his rule. The merchant family was afraid of ruining their families, but after a long time, some people became tempted. As the saying goes, rare things are precious.

  The stricter the prohibition on alcohol, the higher the price of alcohol. Once brewing, the benefits can be imagined, so the merchants hooked up with Hu Sanshe, the son of Hu Dahai, and in the end, the boy was also greedy for profit.

The business is getting more and more prosperous, so it is impossible to escape Lao Zhu's eyes. At that time, Hu Dahai was the marshal of the right-wing army, and he was only a head lower than Xu Da in the army. The heart of a general.

  Actually, it is true that Hu Dahai was commanding troops to guard Ningyue's important land at that time, and if he mutinied or took refuge in Chen Youliang and other forces, there would be great troubles, but Lao Zhu still insisted on using military law to kill Hu Sanshe and those merchants who collude with him.

   In this way, no one dared to violate the prohibition order, and it was not relaxed until the world was about to settle down, but at least on the surface, only the imperial court and government-run restaurants could brew some alcohol as appropriate.

  Since the second year of Hongwu, after the people in the south gradually settled down, the trend of private wine brewing has risen again. Zhu Biao has heard the reputation of Qiulubai, Sanbaijiu, Shenqujiu, Panzijiu, and Baiyangpijiu.

It doesn't matter how this kind of thing is in secret, but once it is brought to the bright side, it's hard to turn a blind eye and close one eye. Lao Zhu first reprimanded those noble generals in the Beijing camp for being upright and down. The stick reprimanded a few, and then ordered the officials of the Ministry of War to thoroughly investigate the Beijing camp.

After understanding the meaning of the emperor, the Ministry of Education ordered all the prefectures and counties to crack down on the workshops of private brewing water, and then reiterated that diligence and thrift are the foundation of life, and luxury is the source of mourning. As local officials, you are addicted to addiction I don't know how much it costs to get drunk, but with limited funds to pay for insatiable expenses, how can there be no shortage of years?

   But beating is all about beating. As the people in the south gradually become richer in food production, such things as private wine brewing will inevitably become more and more. Now the imperial court is not easy to take care of it, and it is estimated that it will be unsealed next year.

In addition to this matter, Zhu Biao agreed with the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of War on the preferential payment of officers and soldiers. For those who have no children to inherit military positions, and those who have parents or wives, the full salary will be halved after three years. Younger children will also be given their basic salary as soon as they take up their posts...

  Daming still gave preferential treatment to the families of sergeants. After all, in troubled times, this is especially important for gathering people's hearts and stabilizing morale, but there are no clear regulations, Zhu Biao deliberately implemented them.

  Frequent reports of battles in the north, although they were guarding the city, Ye Sudieer's offensive was quite crazy, and he didn't care about the casualties at all. As a result, those herdsmen also caused quite a lot of casualties to Daming.

   These casualties will enjoy the policy, the imperial court will order the local government to put it in place, and Zhu Biao will make arrangements. It is said that the imperial power will not go to the countryside. This time is also an opportunity for experimentation.

Moreover, Zhu Biao intends to arrange the wounded soldiers to serve in other places, not necessarily in the guards, nor does he have to have any authority, just to see how much the gentry resist the imperial policy, so that Zhu Biao can take the next step arrange.

In fact, Zhu Biao still has a lot of plans, but now the military system is not easy to move, there are hidden dangers in the east, west, north and south of the Ming Dynasty, and the military system affects the whole body. Once the military power is damaged, the subsequent problems will be too serious. So Zhu Biao can only continue to seek stability.

  (end of this chapter)

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