"Your Majesty, you are going to Beijing to rob, rob... this is not okay!"
"Your Majesty, the city of Beijing is no better than the grassland..."
There were still good officials in the Ming Dynasty!
There are two beside the earthen wall outside Beijing, one is named Sun Chuanting and the other is named Lu Xiangsheng.
They were all civil servants who had read the books of sages and passed the emperor's examination. Of course, they were no more ignorant than Li Zicheng and Shen Tingyang, the two officials who were recruited by the land and sea thieves (it seems they were unfairly accused?).
Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng didn't know that Zhu Youjian was going to rob a female profiteer at first. They thought the little emperor was going to Beijing to catch a traitorous businessman! So after getting the little emperor's order, he immediately summoned two regiments of cavalry and flew to Beijing with the little emperor.
When Zhu Youjian led more than 2,000 cavalry outside the earthen wall of Beijing City and began to rest and prepare for the robbery, the two loyal ministers realized that the little emperor was going to Beijing City to rob the female profiteer, and they immediately became anxious. .
Emperor Ming!
What a tall person? How could you grab it so easily? This year we have already robbed a Uliangha, and next year we plan to rob the Tatars from the Mameng Mountain farm! This is all outside the Great Wall, so forget it. But this time he is going to Beijing to rob, and he is going to rob during the Chinese New Year, and he also wants to rob a female profiteer... If this matter gets spread, the whole world will treat the little emperor as a coward!
The little emperor will be even more disgraced in future history books!
So the two loyal ministers knelt down in front of Zhu Youjian and began to remonstrate with him.
Zhu Youjian really didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he saw these two loyal ministers. These two loyal ministers were loyal, but they were a bit stupid in reading... They didn't know the secret of being an emperor at all!
Of course, this trick is not easy to find. Because it is not written in the books of sages, the emperor's masters generally don't know about it. Even if they know it, they won't tell the prince or the little emperor.
Anyway, Zhu Youjian has never heard a few lecturers say... Fortunately, he has studied with Nizi for more than fifty years, and he also has a group of sons and grandsons who have "opened thousands of miles" for reference. Finally learned a real skill!
To put it bluntly, this is simple: the emperor (king) is also a thief!
For those who are emperors and kings, their first skill is to "rob"; their second skill is to "cheat"!
Only by being able to cheat and rob can one be a good emperor (good king) who will go down in history.
Of course, the two skills of robbing and deceiving also have specific focuses when implemented.
If Zhu Youjian, like Nizi, moved his capital to Nanjing, he would establish himself in the fertile land of the southeast, the land of prosperity in the world. Then we should mainly deceive and rob as a supplement... Although the traitor also robbed after he went to Jiangnan, he was still mainly cheating!
But it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to move the capital, he has to be the emperor to guard the country!
And the country of the Ming Dynasty is located in a place with a relatively backward economy, and it will definitely not be able to develop any industry and commerce in the next few decades - starting from the Tianqi period, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has become increasingly colder and drier... ..Under such circumstances, what kind of industry and commerce can be developed? Where do industrial and commercial people eat?
Therefore, what is before Zhu Youjian is not to develop industry and commerce in Beizhili, but to go to industry and commerce in Beizhili... because the agriculture in Beizhili will not be able to supply supply at all in the next few decades. Huge urban population.
The supply of hundreds of thousands of troops (including family members and livestock) by sea transport is already very tight - if Zhu Youjian is going to bring the war to Houjin, he will have to consider the huge losses in the land logistics line.
Under such circumstances, it is simply impossible to maintain an industrial and commercial population of millions... It is possible for these industrial and commercial people, plus the livestock serving industry and commerce, to consume tens of millions of dan a year! Moreover, many of the raw materials required for the production of these one million industrial and commercial people have to be transported from the southeast by sea.
And the port in Tianjin Wei is not very good. It freezes for several months every year! The Wei River (Hai River) is often too shallow for navigation, and transportation costs are extremely high.
Therefore, even if Zhu Youjian has extraordinary means and forcibly develops industry and commerce in North Zhili, the products produced must be much more expensive than those in the southeast, and no one will buy them...
Therefore, Zhu Youjian, who regarded Beijing as the imperial capital and implemented the line of "the emperor guards the country's gates", could only rely on the armed forces of the landlord class.
As for the armed forces of the landlord class based in Beizhili, in the next 20 to 30 years, will they be able to survive without robbing?
"Mr. Sun, Mr. Lu!" Zhu Youjian smiled and said to the two loyal ministers (both of whom were in the name of being officials), "Are you two prepared to abandon Confucianism and engage in business, and manage Nuo Da's imperial estate for me? Are you there? Should I transfer you two to the Royal Horse Prison?"
What? Enter the Royal Horse Prison? The two loyal ministers thought to themselves: Become a horse driver? Or be a eunuch? None of them are suitable!
"Your Majesty, I am a Confucian scholar and cannot run a business..."
"I am also a scholar..."
Loyal ministers are not stupid either. The Imperial Estate is a hot potato, coveted by all parties, and it is difficult to manage well!
Zhu Youjian asked again: "What would our ancestors do if they encountered this kind of thing? We can't rush the ducks and force the King of Zhongshan and King Kaiping to do business, right?"
"this......"
"But Emperor Taizu will not rob..."
Zhu Youjian said seriously: "Emperor Taizu Gao was born as the leader of the Red Turban Rebel Army!" He clenched his fist and said, "Robbing... the country is all a matter of robbing! What does robbing a few people mean?"
As he spoke, Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "Both of you are scholars. If you feel it is not appropriate... I will take over the Rong Government, Shuntian Prefecture, Xicheng Military and Horse Department, etc. when I enter Beijing later." Deshengmen and Zhengyangmen. Later, Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei, He Tengjiao, Wei Zaode, and Lu Daqi led their troops into Beijing!
As for robbing people, I can just go with Li Zicheng and Shen Tingyang! "
What? Do you want to take over the Rong Government, the Xicheng Military and Horse Division, and the Shuntian Office? There are five more group training leaders coming?
Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng were not fools, and they immediately sensed that something was wrong - this time the little emperor wanted to "rob" not only a female profiteer, but also the entire city of Beijing!
The Beijing camp in Beijing has been vacated by Zhu Youjian, but it has not been formally demobilized. The commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp is still Zhu Chunchen, who leads the troops outside... And there are still a small number of Beijing camp soldiers left behind in Beijing. !
In addition, there are many industries in Jingying!
The barracks, school yards, warehouses, rice warehouses, pastures, horse stables, etc. of the three major camps are all very valuable assets!
These assets must be grabbed.
Then Zhu Youjian would also transfer five regiment training leaders, Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei, He Tengjiao, Wei Zaode, and Lu Daqi, to Beijing. They have tens of thousands of "training troops" on hand. The number is not large, but they are reliable and dare to fight! Two of these five regiment training leaders are new scholars, two are Juren, and one is a minor official who went home after serving as a county magistrate for a few days...
With them stationed in Beijing, Zhu Youjian can truly stabilize the situation in Beijing!
With Zhu Youjian's trump card revealed, the loyal ministers were relieved!
"I obey the decree!"
"I accept the decree..."
Zhu Youjian nodded and said to Li Zicheng and Shen Tingyang beside him: "Let's go to Beijing!"
"Got the order!"
"According to the order!"
...
Outer city of Beijing, Shanxi camp.
This area is where Shanxi merchants in Beijing gather. As early as when Yongle moved the capital to Beijing, a large number of merchants and craftsmen moved here from Shanxi. Bai Zhanyuan, the founder of Beijing Baijia Tian brand, is one of them... This Bai Zhanyuan was originally a "medical household". Bai Jiaah opened a drug store back then, and Bai Zhanyuan came to Beijing to be an imperial doctor and opened it first. There is a medicine shop named "Jishitang". Later, because he cured some of Zhu Di's difficult and complicated diseases, he was named "The No. 1 Miracle Doctor in the World" and the drugstore was renamed "Tianzihao".
Later, with the help of the contacts accumulated by this "Tianzihao", the Bai family's business grew bigger and bigger, and they even caught up with the trip to China and France and became a big salt merchant. However, the drug dealer's business is still going on - this is how the Bai family builds relationships with the upper class!
In addition to using the drug store to build relationships with the big shots in Beijing, the Bai family also married into some military and military command families in Shanxi and around Beijing, and through them, they became relatives and friends with nobles in Beijing.
Xu Ruolan, the current head of the Bai family, is from Zhenxiwei. Her ancestors have been commanders for generations, and they also have several generals and deputy generals. She can be regarded as a strong general.
Perhaps this tiger girl was too strong and ended up cheating on her husband. A few years after marrying into the Bai family, she took one of her sons and became a widow. However, this widower was also very content. First, he relied on the protection of his godmother, the Hakka family, to take over Tianzihao's dish. Later, he burned Xu Yingyuan's Lengzao, and got married to Eunuch Xu... Both of them had the surname Xu. Yes, of course I kissed you!
Therefore, the fall of Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family did not affect her and the Bai family's Tianzihao... With the protection of Xu Changgong, who else would dare to bully her in the whole city of Beijing?
The New Year is just around the corner these days, and the emperor is not in Beijing, so Widow Xu invited her godfather and godmother (Xu Yingyuan's counterpart) to the mansion in Shanxi Ying to pay her respects...
