Chengdu is home to Phoenix Mountain.
Ten kings gathered together, and the generals were like clouds!
On the second day after Zhu Youjian arrived at Phoenix Mountain in Chengdu, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu (soon to be the king of Qin), who had readily agreed to move to Xi'an and take over the responsibility of "the first feudal vassal of the Ming Dynasty", now led the people in Chengdu Nine county princes, as well as hundreds of generals and lieutenants, came together again.
Yesterday's meeting was informal, but today's meeting is a formal visit. According to Zhu Youjian's decree, those who came here today are all Zhu family members, officials and gentry with other surnames, and they will meet again tomorrow.
The hundreds of generals and lieutenants were quite happy. Although they were not vassal kings, they still had to abide by the vassal restrictions. They were confined within Chengdu City and rarely had the opportunity to go out of the city. Now you can come to Phoenix Mountain for a walk, which can be regarded as an "autumn outing".
And they are not worried about being sent to Xi'an by Zhu You - there are hundreds of them! A family of ten people is worth several thousand, plus the number of servants to serve it, it can't be tens of thousands? Just dividing the houses would be a headache.
And the ten princes, including the King of Shu and the nine princes, were all very frightened. The King of Shu really didn't want to go to Xi'an, and the nine princes also didn't want to leave the comfortable hometown of Chengdu.
When they kowtowed to Zhu Youjian, everyone was crying.
"Pingshen, Pingshen..." Zhu Youjian smiled and waved his hand, asking the ten princes who were about to cry to stand up, "You guys who are county princes, don't act like your dead parents, I don't I plan to let you all go to Shaanxi, but even if you go there, you won’t be able to live there!
There are other princes in the city of Xi'an, and there is no place to arrange for you. All the princes will stay in Chengdu, and the King of Shu and his family will go to Xi'an to take charge! "
Although the county prince is also a prince, compared with the prince, he is really a world away. In terms of salary alone, the prince is four times more than the prince! One is ten thousand stones, and the other is two thousand stones. Moreover, the county princes are all subordinate to the prince, so the property owned by the county prince's palace cannot be compared with that of the prince's palace. For example, the Prince of Shu, who was granted the title of Emperor of Shu during the Hongwu period, owned more than 300 farms during the Hongwu and Yongle years alone (there were not many people in Sichuan at that time, and it was easy to enclose land). It was said that one farm provided the palace with food and drinks for one day, and it rotated throughout the year. Not finished!
The Prince's Palace is far behind. It would be nice to have one or two Zhuangzi.
Later, the transfer system came into being (that is, the trick transfer system), and large private landowners were also willing to transfer their land under the name of the prince's palace (the prince could protect it!), so the royal fields around Chengdu mainly belonged to the Shu prince's palace. Move the King of Shu away, and Zhu Youjian will take action!
When the nine princes heard that they did not have to go to Shaanxi to suffer hardships, they were all overjoyed and bowed to Zhu Youjian to thank him.
Zhu Youjian waved his hand: "No need to bow, no need to bow... I will keep you in Sichuan for great use!"
Useful?
The nine county kings were all stunned - do they know if it is of any use to them? Although our ancestors were counting on the princes to defeat Hu Yulu when they divided the vassal kings... But since the Jingnan Campaign, the vassal ban has become more and more strict, and they, the vassal kings, have all been left to eat and die. What good can "Pig King" do?
This little emperor loves to torment people too much. He won't let us go to war with the two evil thieves She Chongming and An Bangyan, right?
If that's the case, let's go to Xi'an.
Zhu Youjian's eyes swept over the faces of these useless princes, and finally he laughed: "You princes, don't worry, I won't let you do something you can't do... I I know that you princes are only slightly talented in literature but not knowledgeable in the art of war or martial arts, otherwise She Chongming would not have been able to surround Chengdu for more than a hundred days!"
The princes were scolded by Zhu You, but they felt angry in their hearts. They are just useless, so they can't fight with She Chongming and An Bangyan...
Zhu Youjian smiled: "But you are Tianhuang nobles after all, and your status is still very noble... Although you can't be civil or military, you can use your status and your children to win over the southwest for the imperial court. With his tyranny, we weave a big net that stabilizes the situation in the southwest!
I have decided to grant marriage to your princes, county lords, as well as the southwestern chieftains and generals who are loyal to the court! We want the mighty people here in the southwest to blend flesh and blood with me, the Zhu Ming Dynasty, and become one! Even you yourself have to take one or two side rooms from the chieftain's home. "
It turns out that the county princes have a wonderful use - they can sell their sons and daughters and their bodies for the sake of the Ming Dynasty!
Of course, except that their own bodies must be of original origin, their children can be "outsourced". There are so many chieftains and generals in the southwest, and there are not enough princes and county heads who want to be native. Fortunately, there are hundreds of Zhenguo generals, Fuguo generals, Fengguo generals, Zhenguo lieutenants, Fuguo lieutenants, Fengguo lieutenants... They can all "contract" production for the princes. children.
However, it is not appropriate for a prince from a distant branch to do such a thing as selling one's sons, daughters, and one's body. The princes are inferior to the emperor, their status is noble, and their number is small. If all the chieftains in the southwest became the father-in-law, son-in-law, and father-in-law of the King of Shu, the King of Shu might be upgraded to the Emperor of Shu...
But the county kings are different. There are nine county kings...who will be the leader?
Moreover, Zhu Youjian would not allow these nine county princes to marry the top powerful men in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan - these top powerful men could only marry the children of Zhu Youjian's own lineage.
Of course, marriage is only the first step. After the marriage, there will be changes in customs, strict feudal order, and determination of feudal obligations... We will also need to gradually transform the Xuanwei Envoys into military and civilian command envoys, and each The military and civilian commanders who had solid territory and could manage the army and the people also had to shoulder the obligation to send troops to defend the country and the court.
Zhu Youjian paused and then said: "It doesn't matter if there are not enough heirs. There are hundreds of generals and lieutenants in Chengdu... If nothing else, will the bloodline of our great ancestor Gao Emperor be shortened? You guys After returning home, go and recognize your sons and daughters. Within a month, each palace will hand over 10 sons and 10 daughters to me. I will give them marriage!
If someone can't hand it over, don't be the county king...go to Fengyang High Wall to reflect! "
It turns out that there are still indicators for this matter!
One palace surrenders 10 sons and 10 girls, and the nine palaces have 180 "boys and girls", all of whom are of the blood of the old Zhu family. They can marry 180 chieftains, generals, and hereditary military attachés in the name of generals and county lords. .
As long as these 180 marriages are completed, the chieftains and Sichuan and Guizhou generals who are currently besieging She Chongming and An Bangyan will all become relatives of the emperor!
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Guizhou, Shuixi, Dafang City.
An Bangyan, the great elder of the fourth generation of Shuilin Wuzhan (he is not the head of the Shuixi An family, the head of the Shuixi family, An Wei, is his nephew), has learned about Zhu You, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, through several Sichuan and Guizhou chieftains who have secret connections with Shuixi. The prosecutor led tens of thousands of "begging soldiers" into Sichuan to deal with the Shuixi'an family, Shuidong Song family and Yongningshe family.
When he thinks of this Zhu Youjian, Elder An becomes very angry!
Because without Zhu Youjian, a foolish king, the war between the Shuixi'an clan and the Ming Dynasty would have ended long ago. Negotiations between the two sides began in the sixth year of the Tianqi year. If Emperor Tianqi's edict did not mention pardoning An Bangyan, but only exempted An Wei (An Bangyan's puppet) from the crime and allowed him to continue to serve as a consolation envoy, the war would have started long ago. It has ended.
But since Tianqi changed to Chongzhen, the Ming court no longer mentioned any recruitment and peace talks, and even wanted to kill the empty-headed chieftain An Wei who didn't care about anything... This was to destroy the Shuixi'an clan!
This is really a bit deceiving! The Shuixian clan has been the chieftain king for thousands of years! When Zhuge Liang attacked Meng Huo, he did not dare to touch the ancestor of the Xi'an family (the surname was not An at that time), so he had to declare that the ancestor of the Xi'an family was the king of Luodian, and also awarded the Iron Scroll of Alchemy to Liu Adou himself. The leader of the Shui Xi'an clan gave the Fire King a silver dove staff to show his extreme favor.
When the ancestors of the old Zhu family didn't know where to beg for food, the ancestors of the Shuixi An family became brothers with Zhuge Liang...Zhu Youjian actually wanted to destroy Shuixi. He didn't know how high the mountains in Shuixi were. How deep!
What's even more hateful is that the little emperor actually felt that the Ming Dynasty soldiers in Sichuan and Guizhou had been fighting for a long time without success, so he wanted to lead his own troops to attack Shuixi.
This is really a bit bullying Shuixi Renren!
