"Puxing, Sixing, Runxing, Yue'e... tell me about it!"
In Songpan Acropolis and inside the Marshal's Mansion, Duogan Jiedushi Li Dingguo called his three sons and one daughter into his study, and then handed them the imperial edict they had just received from the Sichuan Jiedushi. Four looked at it.
There are two imperial edicts from Zhu Cixiang. One is to grant marriage to Zhu Cixiu and Li Yuee. It can be regarded as a replacement procedure... The Eight-faced Vajra King is on the bus. Can Zhu Cixiang, the elder brother, not give a replacement ticket? In addition to the supplementary votes, Zhu Cixi also announced in this imperial edict that he would be given 1 million taels of silver to Zhu Cixiu and Li Yuee's couple - the 1 million taels that Chongzhen only scraped together after selling Xipu to the chartered queen and taking out the coffin book. This money was given to Zhu Cixuan and Li Yuee. There is no need to withdraw cash from Yingtianyun and give the bank notes directly to Haishang Bank and Yanshang Bank. Now the banknotes, together with other reward items, were being escorted to Songpan Guard by Li Jinxue and several other officials from the sect's mansion.
This imperial edict is actually nothing, just read it. What made the family in the study very embarrassed was another imperial edict from Zhu Cixiang.
In this imperial edict, Zhu Cixi approved Duo Ganjiesi's request for collective relocation to the Western Regions, and also agreed to provide 8 million taels of silver for travel expenses - of course, this travel expenses will not be paid in cash, but will be given accordingly. The supplies are mainly cotton, silk, ironware, tea, etc. With these supplies, the Li Jiajun could exchange rations from the areas they passed along the way as they moved westward.
In this regard, Li Dingguo and others did not raise any objections. Although the number of 8 million (actually 9 million) did not reach the 10 million they requested, the gap was not large and was acceptable. What really made them feel embarrassed were the two requirements that Zhu Cixang put forward incidentally, "Measures for the distribution of military households in the Duogan Festival" and "Li Dingguo serves as the envoy of Dongchuan Festival".
Only when Li Dingguo agreed to the "distribution of military households" and "Li Dingguo's departure to Dongchuan" would the Ming court increase the funds and materials for Ganduo's relocation.
There was silence in the room. After a while, Li Yue'e broke the silence: "Ada, Emperor Zhu is so outrageous. You have such a strong body, how could he let you divide all the family property... How can this be like this in the world? What’s the reason? Go back and talk to the Nine Kings and ask him to write another memorial to the emperor.”
Li Dingguo sighed: "Other families don't have such rules, but his family does have this rule. Emperor Chongzhen is still alive today, isn't it already 25 years since Hongxing? What if Chongzhen's family fortune will continue to decline after his death? It's said that the world has already been dominated by Dashun!
The same is true for the current Emperor Hongxing. He is not dead yet and has already given a lot of territory and vassal states to his sons. It's just that he still clings to the throne of the Ming Emperor and refuses to let it go. "
It turns out that it is the tradition of Lao Zhu’s family to divide the family property while one is still alive!
Li Puxing snorted coldly: "Emperor Zhu obviously has no good intentions... The method he proposed to allocate military households is just to provoke us. If our families start fighting, he will succeed!"
Li Runxing nodded in agreement and said: "How can our own families fight? Emperor Zhu's conspiracy will not succeed. We cannot agree to separate the families!"
The second eldest brother, Li Sixing, was the most foresighted among the three brothers of the Li family. He frowned and said in a low voice: "It's a long way to go to the Western Regions. Without the travel expenses provided by Emperor Zhu and the cooperation of the towns along the way, what would happen to us? Are you able to go? There are so many old brothers, many of whom have been with Ada for more than thirty years...Are they all going to die?"
"Second brother!" Li Runxing looked at his second brother, seeming to be a little unwilling to do so, "Um, we are just forced to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, and we don't really mean it... Now that the emperor has made great progress in Yunnan and Myanmar, maybe soon We are about to counterattack Sichuan."
Li Sixing snorted: "Li Jicheng knew that he would go to Tianzhu to steal money, but what would happen if he got it? How could he compete with Emperor Zhu for money? Well, look, he is just an overlord of Burma."
Li Runxing was obviously still thinking about Dashun Chao, and he hummed a few times, and wanted to argue with his second brother, but was stopped by Li Puxing, the eldest of the three sons.
"What's there to argue about? As long as we brothers are of one mind, it doesn't matter whether we separate or not?"
Li Sixing and Li Runxing frowned at the same time, their eyes turned to Li Yuee - Zhu Cixiang wanted to give her 12,000 households!
In addition, Li Dingguo's adopted son Li Yuan can still get 5,000 households... The Li family has a total of 40,000 households, and only half of it can be divided.
Moreover, Li Yue'e received more shares than her four brothers, making her the heir to Li Dingguo.
Li Yue'e seemed to notice the look in the eyes of the two brothers, and immediately smiled and said to Li Dingguo: "Ada, my daughter is a female prostitute, and she doesn't know how to lead troops. What do you need so many military households? Oh no!"
"You don't want it," Li Dingguo looked at his daughter, "Can Emperor Zhu agree? This is what he wants to give to you and your wife.
Besides, now that you have a husband-in-law, does he want these 12,000 households? "
"He doesn't want it either," Li Yue'e said, "Ada, my husband doesn't love the country but loves the beauty... When Chongzhen wanted him to be the King of Luzon, because he didn't want to part with the beauty of the Qinhuai River, he took him as the King of Luzon. The king's opportunity has been given to his brother. How can such a person care about those military households?"
Of course what she said is correct, but the problem is that now Zhu Cixuan has married Li Yuee, so he has to get a share of the country first, and then he can have a mixed-race beauty from the Western Regions...
Li Yue'e looked at her father and said, "Ada, if you have 12,000 households under your name, it's the same as having it yourself... I am a filial daughter, and I will listen to Ada in everything."
When we arrive in the Western Region, Ada can find a way to join us, and then I will return all the men and horses to you, old man. "
This is really filial, and completely different from Zhu Cixiang!
Li Dingguo always felt that Li Yuee was very caring and better than his other children. So he nodded and said: "This is a way... We really can't hold on in Songpanwei. Why don't we set off after this autumn harvest and go to Hehuang Land to spend the winter first, and we can enter next spring or summer. Anxi."
The route he planned was to go from Songpanwei to the Duogan border area, then to Hehuang, then to Hexi, and then go all the way west to Anxi and the Western Regions... As long as he reached the Western Regions, the sky and the earth would be so big that he could fly at will.
"Ada, what should Uncle Liu and Uncle Ai do?" Li Yue'e asked Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi again about their way out.
Li Dingguo sighed again: "It's not easy. There was a letter sent from Qamdo a few days ago... Your Uncle Ai is also preparing for an expedition. He can't stay on the snowy plateau anymore! As soon as he leaves, Liu Can the second brother stay in Uzang? It’s only a matter of time before he leaves! I never thought that the four brothers would end up far apart!"
"Ada, keep the green hills and don't worry about running out of firewood." Li Yue'e comforted her father, "As long as dad retains his strength, there will always be opportunities for us in the future."
Li Dingguo nodded and said with a wry smile: "It seems that this is the only way... Let Li Yuan go to Chengdu Mansion and discuss with Emperor Zhu's Xichuan Festival Commander Hao Yongzhong how to leave Songpanwei, a bitter and cold place! "
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"What? 12,000 households... Madam, do you really want to hand them over after arriving in the Western Region?"
After Li Yue'e returned to her and Zhu Hexuan's residence, she told the Eight-faced Vajra King what she had discussed with Li Dingguo and the others today. The prince immediately became anxious.
He also hoped to rely on Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses to carve out a kingdom... Only with a kingdom can there be beauties!
"Ms. sir, don't worry!" Li Yue'e smiled, "How can I let old man Ada work hard all his life?"
"Yue'e, what do you mean..."
Li Yue'e blinked, "Don't you understand what I mean? I'm a filial daughter. I can't let Ada suffer for a lifetime. I have to let him go to Yingtian Mansion to take care of him... My husband, as long as the emperor also means this, it won't be difficult to implement it."
Zhu Cixuan breathed a sigh of relief and looked at his newlywed wife, "Madam, you are such a prosperous husband!"
