The New Year's Eve of the third year of Chongzhen's reign has arrived in a blink of an eye. This is the second time Zhu Youjian has celebrated the Spring Festival in Beijing after he ascended the throne. The last time he celebrated the New Year in Beijing was in the seventh year of Tianqi. At that time, he was still living in the Wenhua Palace pretending to be his grandson with his tail between his legs! Except for a few thousand Royal Horse Supervisor soldiers, there is no strength at all!
In just three years, Zhu Youjian already had more than 100,000 troops and firmly controlled the city of Beijing and the eight prefectures of North Zhili, as well as the four major military towns of Xuanfu, Datong, Yanshan, and Daning. He also had There are five ten thousand households in Orduo including Wuliangha, Duoluo, Taining, Duoyan and Fuyu.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian also directly occupied nearly 9 million acres of imperial land in Beizhili, Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Huguang (excluding the job fields granted to knights), and also owned a large amount of gold, silver, debts, shops, and A bunch of other miscellaneous property...
It is no exaggeration to say that today Zhu Youjian is not only the most powerful soldier in the world, but also the richest in the world!
In the past three years, I should have handed in a good answer, right?
But there are still many difficulties to face next... This little capital is not enough!
When Zhu Youji, who had moved into Yuxi Palace, thought of this, he picked up his brush and started writing furiously on a piece of white paper.
When he put down his brush, soft footsteps and children's laughter sounded behind him. Zhu Youjian knew that Queen Zhou was leading the rebellious son. Nizi was born in the beginning of the second year of Chongzhen. He is now three years old. He is very strong and never gets sick. He is also quite... quite cunning and often says "meaningful" things!
In addition to a rebellious son, Zhu Cixiang, Empress Zhou also gave birth to a daughter for Chongzhen, named Ainao, and was given the title of Princess Kunxing.
Princess Kunxing is over one year old this year (one year old) and can already walk crookedly, but she is very lazy and always needs someone to hold her.
Zhu Youjian looked back and saw that Queen Zhou was indeed holding her daughter in one hand and holding her son in the other, appearing behind him with a smile.
"Long live my lord, what are you writing?" Queen Zhou didn't salute Zhu Youjian because she was holding one and holding the other. She saw Zhu Youjian on the desk and asked casually.
Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "It's a matter of policy for the imperial examination."
"The Imperial Examination?" Queen Zhou said with a smile, "The general examination has not even started yet, and you have already come up with the questions for the Imperial Examination? Long live my lord, you have high expectations for this subject, right?"
Zhu Youjian nodded. There are the rebellious Prime Minister Wei Zaode and the rebellious Prime Minister Niu Jinxing in this department, which is certainly worth looking forward to.
However, Wei Zaode and Niu Jinxing may not be able to solve the questions he is asking now!
"Boss, come here!" Zhu Youjian waved to Nizi, called Zhu Cixiang, who was only three years old, and then picked up the page with the test questions and handed it over.
"Boss, come and see!" Zhu Youjian said to the little kid.
"Long live my lord..." Queen Zhou couldn't laugh or cry, "How could Brother Chun (Zhu Cixiang's nickname) do this?"
"Of course he can!" Zhu Youjian said, "This kid will definitely do it in the future..."
Yes, didn't all the difficult problems that Zhu Youjian didn't know how to solve were solved by Nizi?
Queen Zhou shook her head, "That will be in the future, but now he is still illiterate!"
"Still illiterate?" Zhu Youjian frowned and glanced. The little kid has just taken the page and is pretending to read it, nodding frequently while reading... Does this look like he is illiterate?
"He is imitating you!" Queen Zhou also saw it and said to Zhu Youjian angrily, "What does a three-year-old child know?"
"Okay, I'll read it to him!" Zhu Youjian didn't give up, and didn't take back the page. He started to memorize it, "Those who rule the world together are scholar-bureaucrats. Today's scholar-officials are not in good habits, and they want to be seen quickly. Xiao. If you want a righteous man to learn to restore the Tao, what method can be used?
The Donglu were originally barbarians, with a narrow territory and few people. Once the troops invaded Shunbing and the three Koreas failed to defend them, what's the reason?
At present, Sanxie, Dengjin and other places have heavy troops to defend the east. The enemy cannot be destroyed, the troops cannot be withdrawn, and the pay cannot be reduced. Now that we want to destroy the enemy and restore our territory, what strategy will work?
Brother Chun, please answer these three questions first! "
The three questions that Zhu Youjian picked out were actually the first three of the Nine Paths Hall test questions during the Seven Years Competition of Chongzhen in his previous life.
In fact, Zhu Youjian didn't just wake up in a coma. He had been the emperor for more than seven years and a few months, and he already knew what the problems of the Ming Dynasty were?
The first of the nine questions he raised in the Spring Festival Competition of the Seventh Year of Chongzhen was about the shamelessness of scholar-bureaucrats - although Chongzhen at that time could identify problems, he had no way to solve them, and he also missed the opportunity to alleviate the problems. , and the tributes who succeeded in the examination were even more desperate.
They themselves are shameless scholar-bureaucrats. What should you ask them to do?
The second question is about the rise of the Jurchens and the Korean crisis. Mao Wenlong had been dead for many years at that time. Although Dongjiang Town was still there, it could no longer play its role of "preserving Korea". Therefore, Chongzhen had realized that the three Han Dynasties were about to lose their defense. If the three Han Dynasty did not defend it, Pidao would not survive. Dongjiang Town's The collapse is just around the corner! Once Dongjiang Town is completely lost, Houjin will completely lose control...
Of course, Zhu Youjian is not worried about Dongjiang Town (now called Pingliao Town) at all, because the Jinzhou Nanguan Canal has been dug, and a ten-mile side wall and two protective wings have been built based on the canal. Coastal fortresses that block the sea - even if the sea freezes in winter, relying on the Hongyi cannons installed on the two forts, the Pingliao army can still block the ice and prevent the Hou Jin army from passing through.
Therefore, south of Jinzhou Nanguan Canal is the stable base of Pingliao Army!
The value of this base area is not small! After several years of careful management by Mao Wenlong, the cultivated land within the Nanguan Border Wall alone amounted to 500,000 acres. Moreover, the climate of the Jinzhou Peninsula is relatively humid and the land is relatively fertile. The harvest of these 500,000 acres of land is very good. In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, he collected as much as 60,000 shi of grain, and the total harvest was estimated to be around 600,000 shi. It is enough to supply all the soldiers and civilians under the jurisdiction of the Pingliao Army!
As long as Mao Wenlong's 30,000-level Liao army can be as stable as Mount Tai, Zhu Youjian will not worry about North Korea being captured by Hou Jin... He even hopes that Hou Jin will take over North Korea.
Because North Korea has a long coastline, once Hou Jin takes over, the West Sea coast of North Korea will be full of beaches where Mao Wenlong's army landed. To secure such a long coastline, Huang Taiji still had to mobilize industrial troops to march westward?
As for the third question Zhu Youjian wrote today, it asked how to pacify the captives and restore Liao Dynasty... This matter is actually no longer a major issue for Zhu Youjian now. Tens of millions of people without food are a big problem! As long as we can survive the drought from the 10th to the 17th year of Chongzhen, it will not be a problem to pacify the Liao Dynasty and restore the Liao Dynasty. The worst is to let the rebels support the army and conquer the Liao Dynasty!
But Liaodong is so peaceful, but the famine is so unbearable!
"Brother Chun," Zhu Youjian was still very confident in his son, so he said to the little kid, "The first problem of being a father is to be a scholar-bureaucrat. Even those rich and powerful people outside the palace are bad. How to deal with it?”
The little kid glanced at Zhu Youjian with disdain, and then snorted: "They are bad, and my father is also bad..."
"Brother Chun!" Queen Zhou was startled by her son's words - what does a little brat know? It’s not like he listens to what the adults say? He said that Chongzhen was evil, he must have heard it from Queen Zhou...
Zhu Youjianque laughed. He thought his son's words meant this: Since the scholar-bureaucrats are shameless, then you, the Long Live Lord, must be even more shameless than them!
The treasonous son...he is indeed the treasonous son!
"The second question," Zhu Youjian asked again, "The Donglu are bad and want to attack the North Korea next door. What should we do?"
The little kid pouted, looking very dissatisfied with his father, "Don't give them food!"
yes!
Zhu Youjian thought about it: From the 10th to the 17th year of Chongzhen, there was a disaster in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and there was also a disaster in the Donglu area... Everyone had no food to eat!
So the Ming Dynasty wanted to destroy the Donglu's food production while enduring famine... and starve them to death!
"Hahaha..." Zhu Youjian laughed, "The third question is, the bad guys are starving to death, and your father doesn't have much food to feed many soldiers. What should you do?"
This is a difficult question!
But it's not the current problem, because Zhu Youjian has already solved the problem of deficit in the household department. But from the tenth to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the military pay and food supply for hundreds of thousands of Ming troops was a problem! Among them, military pay is easy to handle, but the worst is to rob Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats.
But what about military rations? Hundreds of thousands of Ming troops plus their families would have at least two million mouths! Moreover, most of them are placed in areas with drought and food shortage, so they cannot all rely on Jiangnan supply. Many places are far away from waterways, and there is no way to transport them - transporting food by land involves a lot of losses!
In addition, the tribesmen of the five Mongolian households outside the Great Wall, Orduo, also need to eat. Ten years after Chongzhen, these five Ordos with 10,000 households together will have at least hundreds of thousands of people!
These two million and a half million people cannot withdraw from the front line. If they withdraw now, it will be difficult to go back in the future!
Of course, the little kid couldn't answer such a difficult question. He burst into tears with a treacherous face. He turned to Queen Zhou and said, "Mother, Brother Chun is hungry. Brother Chun wants to eat roasted sweet potatoes..." ..”
When Zhu Youjian heard this, he was immediately startled, looked at Nizi blankly, and asked with a trembling voice: "Brother Chun, what do you want to eat?"
