"Bad words!"
In the wooden house, after hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, Zhu Di stood up suddenly and looked down at Zhu Gaoxu with a solemn expression.
Obviously, Zhu Gaoxu's words frightened him, but Zhu Gaoxu did not stop.
"Grandpa is seriously ill, what does father think his old man will do?"
"Gaoxu!" Zhu Di called him by his first name, which was enough to show how afraid he was of what Zhu Gaoxu said.
But in the face of his worries and fears, Zhu Gaoxu looked at him calmly and kept saying things that made Zhu Di nervous.
"I guess grandpa will definitely let his great-grandson ascend the throne, and will tell him that his uncles and nephews are in harmony, that brothers, friends, and brothers are respectful, and that he will cut down the vassalage according to my "Treatise on Cutting Down the Domain," and preserve the wealth of the uncles, nephews, and brothers."
"But father, do you think my great-grandson will really follow what grandpa told me to do? Will he cut down the vassalage according to my "Treatise on Cutting down the vassalage"?"
Zhu Gaoxu's tone was calm, but step by step he made Zhu Di break out in cold sweat and look ugly.
"Second brother, what do you want to say?"
Zhu Di squeezed out this sentence through his teeth. Now he believed what Yao Guangxiao said.
Gao Xu has really changed, and he no longer dares to recognize him.
In the past, even if he committed evil again, he would not dare to openly talk about such things, but now he seems to be telling a normal thing.
Zhu Di could be sure that if their conversation was known to his father, both his father and son would inevitably be reprimanded, and they would even be removed from the royal palace and Zhuang Tian.
"I just want to give you a heads up when I say this..."
Seeing Zhu Di's reaction so violently, Zhu Gaoxu knew that Zhu Di really had no intention of starting a rebellion at the moment.
Without Zhu Yunwen's pressing step by step, there would be no Yongle Emperor.
Now Zhu Di is just a King of Yan who is content with the status quo...
After finding out Zhu Di's situation, Zhu Gaoxu is now thinking about how to alleviate Zhu Di's problems on the road to peace, so as not to cause the embarrassing situation of 800 troops raised later.
Eight hundred troops were raised to calm down the situation. The error tolerance was too small. If Zhu Di was not careful, he might be killed by Zhu Yunwen.
Zhu Di could do it in history, but that doesn't mean he can do it in this time and space.
The best opportunity is when Zhu Yunwen deposes the King of Zhou as a commoner, and Zhu Di can still control nearly 20,000 troops in Beiping City and the three guards of Yan Mansion.
Even worse, it could be when he was under surveillance in the palace and the three guards of Yan Palace were transferred to Tongzhou.
If it comes to what happened in history, and the three guards of the Yan Mansion are transferred to the Kaiping Guard 700 to 800 miles away, leaving only Zhu Di with 800 guards, and when Zhang Bing and others completely control the city of Beiping, it will be too difficult. .
"You're drunk, go and rest early!"
With a dark face, Zhu Di raised his legs and left the wooden house, as if the figure was running away.
Looking at his back, Zhu Gaoxu slowly stood up and walked out of the wooden house. During this period, he saw Zhu Di's retreating figure, but he also saw several figures trotting towards him.
"Your Highness!"
A familiar voice came. Zhu Gaoxu looked and saw Lin Su and several very familiar faces.
"Your Highness!"
When the man approached, a smile appeared on Zhu Gaoxu's face, dispelling the previous solemnity: "Good boy, I thought I had to go south to see you!"
When Yang Zhan's face appeared, Zhu Gaoxu could not express his displeasure.
In addition to him, Zhu Gaoxu also met many brothers who were transferred to Daning, Kaiping and Liaodong.
Some of them were officials of hundreds of households, some of them were officials of thousands of households, and some were guards and commanders. In short, they all lived well, which was enough to make Zhu Gaoxu happy.
"Your Highness, we miss you so much!"
Lin Su said disgustingly, and Zhu Gaoxu also joked after hearing this: "Aren't you worried that I will swallow up your fields and crops?"
"What's the harm if all that output is given to His Highness?"
"Yes! Your Highness, just take it!"
"Your Highness, you have lost some weight, so you should pay more attention to your health."
What came to his ears were familiar voices and words of concern, which wiped away many things worth worrying about in Zhu Gaoxu's mind.
At the moment, he just wants to be with his brothers for a long time, so he takes Lin Su and Yang Zhan with his left and right hands: "Let's go! Go to my wooden house, sit down, drink wine and eat meat, let's talk slowly..."
Taking Yang Zhan, Lin Su and others, he returned to his residence and asked Wang Yi to get some wild animals that Tang Qi shot while patrolling the perimeter today.
Some wild ducks and wild birds were cleaned and then made into six or seven plates of meat.
Sitting in the wooden house, Zhu Gaoxu was eating while listening to Yang Zhan, Lin Su and others telling their experiences after leaving him.
Since they left for such a short time, Lin Su and the others didn't have much new news. After all, the Kaiping Guards in winter were only training in the guard house.
Compared with them, Yang Zhan has a lot of experience.
He started from going to Yang Wen's army to fight against the Japanese, then fighting at sea, surrounding the island, and annihilating the Japanese pirates. From Zhejiang to Fujian, he surrounded and suppressed the Japanese pirates in Penghu and Guangdong and Guangxi.
As far as he went, he went to the Sansha area, which was probably in later generations, and saw azure blue water and many fish that can only be seen at sea.
Sitting in his seat and listening to Yang Zhan's experience, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly thought of something.
"Yang Zhan, when you went to those overseas islands, you saw mountains of bird droppings on some islands?"
"Guano?" Yang Zhan was stunned when he heard Zhu Gaoxu's question, but he quickly thought of some of the islands he saw when he traveled from Fujian to Guangdong, so he smiled and said: "Of course there are."
“Some households along the coast, because they cannot go ashore to work in the fields, go to the sea to dig up guano on these islands and sell it to farmers along the coast.”
"But their boats were too small. Sometimes when they encountered storms, the boats would be destroyed and people would die. When I was chasing the Japanese pirates, I also rescued a few households and asked the local government to register them."
Yang Zhan talked about what he saw and heard, and Zhu Gaoxu also heard the familiar word Danhu.
But Danhu's matters can be put aside for now, he is more concerned about the bird droppings.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how to make fertilizer, but he had seen a lot of news about island countries getting rich from island guano in his previous life, so he went to search for it.
As a type of oviparous animal, birds have many natural enemies on land. In order to survive better, birds have to stay away from the mainland and fly to remote islands to live. After hundreds of millions of years of migration, these islands have almost become bird islands, with the surface covered with layers of guano.
Due to the island's environment, these guano are difficult to decompose, so they can be retained for many years.
In addition to being rich in phosphorus, these guano are also rich in nitrogen. They can be said to be natural nitrogen fertilizers and can be applied directly without retting.
Since the Song Dynasty, coastal fishermen have mined some guano on the islands to fertilize crops. Later, more and more people discovered it, and it became difficult to find high-quality guano offshore.
However, although it is not possible in the near sea, there is still a lot of bird droppings in the far sea.
Among the guano islands known to Zhu Gaoxu himself, there are Dongsha, Xisha, Nansha and other islands.
Although not as abundant as island guano in the Pacific and South Atlantic, it is still sufficient for mining.
Take the Xisha East Island among the Xisha Islands as an example. During World War II, Japan plundered more than 200,000 tons of natural fertilizer in just a few years and transported it back to the mainland, filling part of Japan's fertilizer gap.
In the 1950s, relying on manpower, a company in Guangdong also relied on more than 500 people to mine fertilizer on the island. At its peak, the annual output reached tens of thousands of tons, and it was completely open-pit manual mining.
Zhu Gaoxu remembered that the natural fertilizers on these islands had not been exhausted until later generations. Every decade, more than five centimeters of natural fertilizers could be accumulated on one island.
If these fertilizers can form an industrial chain, they can be used in Ming Dynasty's agriculture.
Judging from the output of hundreds of thousands of tons of various natural fertilizers extracted from the South China Sea through manual mining in the 1950s, as long as it is done properly, Zhu Gaoxu can also obtain no less than the output from the South China Sea in the 1950s, and because no one has developed it However, maybe he can get more.
With an investment of less than a hundred kilograms per mu, hundreds of thousands of tons are enough to cover hundreds or even tens of millions of acres of cultivated land.
According to the prices of agricultural fertilizers that Zhu Gaoxu learned from Nanjing, this industry alone can make Daming a profit of no less than 300,000 yuan per year.
This may not sound like much, but as long as an industry is formed, this money will be continuously collected into the national treasury without harming the interests of any party.
In the words of Zhu Gaoxu's meeting with leaders in his previous life, this is to make the cake bigger.
"Three hundred thousand yuan, only a few thousand people need to be invested..."
When Zhu Gaoxu thought that the guano in the South China Sea could bring such huge profits, he couldn't help but feel a bit toothache in his heart.
It's a pity that the place where he is vassal is in Jilin City, and the South China Sea is not yet accessible. Otherwise, this income alone can solve his current urgent needs.
"Your Highness, if you want, I can ask my father to record these islands."
Yang Zhan saw Zhu Gaoxu's strange expression and took the initiative to make this request.
After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu also put his thoughts back to reality, smiled and nodded: "Okay, you ask your father to patrol more islands like this, I will be useful in the future."
After he finished talking about this, he thought about what Yang Zhan said about Danhu.
He knew a little about Danhu in his previous life.
These people live on boats all year round and are located in the Yangtze River, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian areas. They make a living by fishing, shipping and pearl diving.
Records about them have been recorded since the Jin Dynasty, but rulers of all dynasties have basically classified them as untouchables, so they were discriminated against by the people along the coast.
They could not live ashore, could not take imperial examinations, could not marry Han people, and were often heavily taxed.
Since they could only live on the water, they were impoverished and had no means to compete with the rulers.
If the Danhu wanted to escape their tragic fate, they could only hope that the ruling class would be merciful. However, their fate has not changed in the past dynasties.
During the Qing Dynasty, when Yongzheng came to power, he openly announced the abolition of the low status of Dan households, but there was no actual policy plan. It was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China that for the first time large-scale organizations of Dan households were organized to live ashore and houses and schools were built for them. , the existence of Danhu was gradually eliminated.
Although Zhu Gaoxu has been in the Ming Dynasty for four years, he still does not understand these discriminations.
In his opinion, the tens of thousands of households along the coast are indispensable human resources. Whether they are immigrants or immigrants, they can contribute a lot.
"What if we put the villagers together and let them sail boats to collect guano at sea?"
For a moment, such thoughts flashed through Zhu Gaoxu's mind.
In his opinion, this is feasible, the only thing that needs to be cared about is where to arrange them.
You have to remember this matter, and if the peace is successful in the future, you will have to put it into practice.
Zhu Gaoxu pondered in his heart, and then told Yang Zhan about other things he saw and heard in the south.
However, except for Danhu and Guano Island, most of the other things Yang Zhan said were not much different from what Zhu Gaoxu knew.
Regarding the reform of the Southwest, in the final analysis there are not many ethnic issues, but only issues of class interests.
Although there are many chieftains in the southwest, Zhu Gaoxu has already produced matchlock guns and cannons in Heishui City. As long as Jingnan can succeed, he can choose a few generals and sweep them all the way.
How to change the situation? Naturally, we will use the method of later generations.
With a slight modification, it can be directly changed to 'beating the chieftains and dividing the fields', and then the policy can be implemented in detail to complete the transformation of the land and return it to the locals.
Of course, summarizing it in one sentence is still a bit too simplistic. In fact, many measures are needed.
Lao Zhu's attempt to conquer the wealthy households in the world caused a backlash, and killing the chieftains in the world was not easy either.
The difficulty here does not mean how difficult the chieftain is to deal with, but that we should worry about the group of wealthy gentry households within the Ming Dynasty.
If the Southwest Chieftains are solved, then what this group of wealthy gentry households may be thinking about is how to divide the Southwest Chieftains’ wealth.
As for the liberated people under the chieftain's rule, even the Han people were not within their scope of consideration.
Therefore, in the case of effective expansion of territory, the biggest opponent the emperor faced was not the chieftains and enemy countries, but his own country gentry and wealthy households.
Zhu Gaoxu understood this from Zhu Yuanzhang's continuous migration of wealthy households to Yingtian and Fengyang.
Concentrating the world's rich households in the capital will certainly allow them to get in touch with the powerful and gain more political support, but if the wealthy households move around frequently enough, the wealth they can amass will be very limited.
Like Lao Zhu, wealthy households migrated to the capital every few years. Although these wealthy households owned hundreds of acres of land, once they sold their land and entered the capital, they had to face various high expenses in the capital.
Whether it is repurchasing fields or buying real estate and houses, these all cost money and consume their financial resources.
After doing all these things, how much food do they still have to win over officials?
He gathered the world's rich households, temple officials, and capital officials, and then used Jin Yiwei to infiltrate them. In this way, most of the country's wealthy squires were under his surveillance, and the emperor himself knew what they were going to do.
As long as we can understand clearly, we can use tricks to solve problems one by one.
The wealthy households who were moved to the capital over the years were all politically purged by Lao Zhu while building relationships with the powerful.
The rich families who had joined the capital in western Zhejiang and Huaixi had already changed their identities and were sent to the wild frontier lands as criminals.
All the farmhouses and houses they bought after entering Nanjing were collected by Lao Zhu, waiting for the next batch of wealthy households to move in.
It's just a pity that Zhu Gaoxu met Lao Zhu in his twilight years and failed to see how Lao Zhu rectified these people.
The wealthy families who moved to Nanjing last year may have a lucky escape.
The better he got to know Lao Zhu, the more Zhu Gaoxu was afraid of him. The presence of such a person was a good thing for the order of the Ming Dynasty, but it was not good for himself.
He has done too many things, especially those involving forging artillery and guns, recruiting troops privately and secretly, etc.
It would be good for Lao Zhu to live a long time, but living too long would be a bad thing for him now...
"how?"
"Just as you expected..."
While Zhu Gaoxu was still reminiscing with Yang Zhan and the others and recalling Zhu Yuanzhang's own terror, Zhu Di, who was frightened by him, also returned to the wooden house where he rested.
Here, Yao Guangxiao, who was dressed in black robe, had been waiting for a long time, and he also saw from Zhu Di's expression that they might have said something secret between their father and son.
Zhu Di, who returned to the wooden house, sat on the stool next to Yao Guangxiao. He looked around, but still felt unsafe, so he stood up and said to Yao Guangxiao: "Come with me for a walk on the city wall."
The city wall has a wide view, and there is no such thing as a wall. It is a good place to talk.
In this regard, Yao Guangxiao didn't ask anything. He just walked out of the wooden house with Zhu Di and walked onto the wall of Wulianghatu City after an hour.
"You don't need to follow me. I have something to discuss with Dao Yan."
Walking onto the horse path, Zhu Di told the more than ten guards following him that except for Dao Yan and Zhu Neng, he didn't believe anyone else.
Through his actions, Yao Guangxiao confirmed one thing, that is, Zhu Gaoxu might have really said something extraordinary to Zhu Di.
"Old monk, let's go..."
Zhu Di said hello and solemnly led Yao Guangxiao to a deserted horse track, and then tactfully told Yao Guangxiao what Zhu Gaoxu said in the wooden hall.
For a moment, Yao Guangxiao stopped calculating the beads in his hand. Apparently, he did not expect Zhu Gaoxu to be so bold.
He and Zhu Di looked at each other, worry hidden in their eyes.
Both of them are human beings, so they can naturally hear the hidden meaning in Zhu Gaoxu's words.
To put it lightly, Zhu Gaoxu wanted Zhu Di to protect himself with troops.
But to talk about the important point, Zhu Gaoxu is more likely to want Zhu Di to rebel.
Yao Guangxiao always felt that he could predict the enemy's opportunities, and he also guessed that Zhu Gaoxu hid many secrets, but he never thought that Zhu Gaoxu would actually encourage Zhu Di to take advantage of his own troops, or even start an army to rebel.
"Your Highness..."
Yao Guangxiao hesitated, not knowing what to say.
Even he had never thought of plotting rebellion during the Hongwu Dynasty.
The Hongwu Reign has not yet passed, and the real dragon is still lying in Nanjing. Even if it is old, it is still enough to intimidate everyone.
Yao Guangxiao could probably guess what Zhu Gaoxu was thinking. He was simply taking advantage of this opportunity to control Guo Ying, Yang Wen, Wu Gao, Liu Zhen, Bu Wan, and Pingan, and then contact Fu Rang and Chen Heng to completely control them. Just Sandusi.
What if we just take down these few people and Sandusi?
In the northwest, there was Song Sheng who was not inferior to Feng Sheng, Deng Yu and others. In Yunnan there were Mu Chun and He Fu who were powerful in the southwest, and Qu Neng and his son were killing everyone in western Sichuan.
Even if we don’t count Southwest, there are still Li Jinglong, Ning Zhong, Chen Xuan and others in Yingtian.
In addition, many veterans from the Hongwu period are still alive, such as Yu Tongyuan who went on an expedition to Quchilianhe, and Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing who was training in Shaanxi...
When thinking of this group of people, Yao Guangxiao didn't think his side had a chance of winning.
He didn't know what stimulated Zhu Gaoxu to think of doing such a thing while Zhu Yuanzhang was still alive.
Of course, he knew better about Zhu Di.
He knew very well that Zhu Di had no second thoughts. His biggest dream was to guard Peiping, lead an expedition to Mobei, and leave a mark in the history books.
To persuade Zhu Di to rebel, I have to say that Zhu Gaoxu didn't understand Zhu Di at all...
"How are you going to deal with it, Your Highness?"
Yao Guangxiao looked at Zhu Di, but Zhu Di hesitated.
If it were anyone else, if it was Zhu Jixi who made Zhu Fan rebel, or Zhu Shangbing made Zhu Ping rebel, then regardless of whether these two people wanted to ascend to the throne, they would tie up their sons as soon as possible and then go to Shu to plead guilty.
It's just that it's difficult for this kind of thing to happen to Zhu Di.
"As for the second child... Actually, my conversation with him is quite secret. I don't think anyone will find out. It should be fine..."
He said this with a guilty conscience, because he didn't know whether the conversation between the two just now was safe, but he didn't want Zhu Gaoxu to ruin his future. After all, he was his son.
"So, the poor monk knows."
Yao Guangxiao nodded, inexplicably curious about Zhu Gaoxu.
He originally thought that Zhu Gaoxu did not understand Zhu Di, but now it seems that Zhu Gaoxu was sure that Zhu Di would not deal with him, so he boldly persuaded Zhu Di to support his troops and respect himself.
But if he knew Zhu Di, why would he let Zhu Di support his own troops? He should know that Zhu Di would not do this.
What is he so anxious about?
Is it possible that the one in the south is really dying?
Is that great grandson from the south really not planning to use the all-in-one "Treatise on Cutting Down the Domains"?
For a time, Yao Guangxiao had a lot of thoughts. There were too many questions in his mind, but he could not explain them reasonably.
"Now that I think about it, the second brother may not have planned to continue going north, otherwise he wouldn't have come here with just three thousand riders."
Zhu Di sighed, but Yao Guangxiao frowned after hearing this. He looked around and saw that on the archery towers around the city, all those standing on the archery towers were Zhu Gaoxu's Bohai Navy, and the fluttering flags were also based on the Bohai Vermillion Bird Flag. Mostly.
"Old monk, what's wrong with you?"
Zhu Di looked at Yao Guangxiao, whose face was getting ugly, in confusion, but Yao Guangxiao grabbed Zhu Di's hand: "Your Highness, you cannot live in this Wulianghatu City."
"Why?" Zhu Di was puzzled. Living in this city is quite comfortable. Although he likes to live in a tent, he has lived there for more than half a month and has improved a lot.
"Look around..."
When Yao Guangxiao spoke, Zhu Di looked around, and gradually his mood became heavy.
"Let's go!" Without a moment's hesitation, Zhu Di pulled Yao Guangxiao and walked down the horse path.
Not long after, he took Yao Guangxiao and his guards to the south gate of Wulianghatu City, but when they were about to leave, a Baihu official stopped them.
"Your Highness, please show me your departure token!"
The little official of Baihu, now knowing Zhu Di's identity, openly asked him for a pass to leave the camp. This was the first time Zhu Di had encountered such a thing since the death of his father-in-law Xu Da.
"I am King Yan, your Highness's father!"
"The general will know, please show your highness the token to leave the camp..."
Zhu Di spoke with a dark face, but the official of the hundred households said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Your Highness has already made an explanation. After Youshi, everyone who leaves the city needs a leaving camp token, including His Highness himself. Please do not embarrass the general, Your Highness King Yan."
"Okay!" After hearing what this person said, Zhu Di also lost his temper and asked with a cold face: "What's your name?"
"The officials of hundreds of households are riding on Zhaozhou's city wall, Gan Yue!"
"Bohai Chronicles": "On Bingchen in May, Taizong failed to leave the city privately and was unhappy."
"Records of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty": "In Bingchen, Emperor Taizong visited Wulianghatu City and said that Shangsu trained his troops and his soldiers were sharp soldiers. He praised him."
(End of chapter)
