Surplus grain?
Are military households going to Yunnan for dinner?
As soon as Mu Tianbo, Duke of Guizhou, heard the question raised by Zhu Youjian, he immediately became vigilant!
Because his mother, Mrs. Chen, had taken care of him when she sent him away from Kunming. First of all, it cannot be said that the Duke of Guizhou had more money and food - Mrs. Chen already knew that Zhu Youjian was a beggar emperor, so she held back her energy to eat. The big ones!
It's not that the Mu Mansion is reluctant to take out some grain, but that there is no way for Yunnan's grain to be transported to the Central Plains... If the little emperor casually issued an imperial edict and asked the Duke of Guizhou, the Mu Mansion, to transport grain to the Central Plains, Isn't Mu Mansion dumbfounded?
Second, the imperial court cannot be allowed to send more troops to Yunnan. The situation in Yunnan is very complicated. Generally speaking, it is a mixed struggle between three parties. On one side is the power of the Duke of Guizhou. The Duke of Guizhou was the first to be the Marquis of Xiping. It was only in the generation of Mu Sheng, the grandson of the first lord Mu Ying, that he was able to level Jiaozhi. , was promoted to Duke of Guizhou. Unlike other dukes and princes in the Ming Dynasty, the Duke of Guizhou also received the title of Yongzhen Yunnan starting from the first Hou Muying of Xiping.
Moreover, Yunnan is a newly expanded land compared with the inland provinces, and the Ming Dynasty's method of expanding territory was to open military posts and station them there. That is to say, military immigrants were used to occupy and expand land on the border. These military immigrants who were affiliated with the guards were all military households and were under the jurisdiction of the Mu family, the Duke of Guizhou.
The result of more than two hundred years of continuous development is that the military households and farmland under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan General Military Officer's Office are far more than the civilian households and farmland under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan Chief Envoy Department. The land occupied by Xunzhuang owned by the Mu family reaches more than one-third of the registered land in Yunnan! If you include the land that is not registered but is occupied by Duke Mu's Mansion of Guizhou, it is an astronomical figure.
And owning land can have a large population and wealth, and can also support retainers and private soldiers... In other words, although Duke Mu of Yunnan Guizhou is the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Ming Army on the surface, he is actually the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Ming Army. The largest feudal lord in Yunnan!
The second force in Yunnan was of course the governor's Yamen, the chief envoy's Yamen, and the inspector's Yamen sent by the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the governor's yamen directly controls part of the army, and nominally controls the food and wages of the Ming army in Yunnan (money and food for Beijing transportation, democratic movement, etc.), while the governor's yamen and the inspector's yamen control Yunnan's household registration (households), taxes , litigation and other matters.
The third party forces in Yunnan are all kinds of chieftains. This group of chieftains sometimes obeyed the Ming Dynasty and sometimes betrayed the imperial court. However, most of them stayed away from the Ming Dynasty and dealt with it carelessly.
And these three forces, after more than two hundred years of overt and covert struggle, have basically reached a balance, restraining and supporting each other, and no one has the ability to eat the other.
The Ming Dynasty sent a large number of military households into Yunnan, which will undoubtedly break the original balance. Because the newly dispatched military households to Yunnan will definitely not take orders from Duke Mu's Mansion of the State of Guizhou. They will only take orders from the governor of the imperial court or the officers sent by the imperial court.
At that time, the imperial court's portfolio in Yunnan will inevitably expand... This means that the portfolios of Duke Mu of Guizhou and the chieftains of Yunnan will shrink!
But who is willing to spit out the fat in his mouth?
"Long live Lord, Yunnan... Yunnan doesn't have much food left..." Mu Tianbo looked at his eldest brother Zhu Youjian with a caring expression, and stammered nonsense, "And the Duke of Guizhou The government can also deal with barbarians."
Zhu Youjian shook his head, with a look of anxiety on his face, "If you don't have any leftover food, hurry up and plant more! Disasters are frequent in today's world. Maybe Yunnan will be the next disaster? Save more! Ordinary farmers know this, you guys Why didn’t the Duke of Guizhou know?
In addition, your Duke of Guizhou cannot deal with the barbarians. I know... Yuye, I treat you as my younger brother and will not lie to you. So you have to believe me, you can't deal with those cunning and insidious barbarians, so I will send more hungry people from Shaanxi and Henan to Yunnan to help you! "
Mu Tianbo opened his mouth and really didn't know how to answer.
Why is Chongzhen his good brother? And why couldn't he deal with the barbarians on his own? Besides...aren't they sending military households? Why have we become hungry again? Are they beggars or military households farming?
Zhu Youjian looked at "Brother Tianbo", and based on his ability to observe faces and emotions, which he had only practiced with Nizi for more than 50 years, he could tell that Mu Tianbo hadn't been convinced by him yet...
"By the way, there are the Toungu people!" Zhu Youjian decided to make another enemy for his good brother. "The Toungu people are the most hateful. They don't accept the king's rule, arrogantly claim the kingship, seize my land, kill my people, and disrupt the history of Yunnan." Ten years have caused countless lives to be destroyed, which is simply the greatest evil...Yuye, don’t you want to lead my Ming Dynasty’s heavenly troops to pacify Donggu and open up territory for the country?”
This...opens up new territories! To pacify Taungoo! Command the heavenly troops!
Just thinking about it makes my blood boil! Mu Tianbo is still a fourteen-year-old teenager, in his "secondary middle school" years! If you don’t have any passion at this age, is there any hope?
"Brother Imperial, I'm afraid I won't be able to defeat Taungyu..."
Zhu Youjian nodded, a boy can be taught! If you are afraid of not being able to beat, that means you want to beat, but you know you can't.
He waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid... Brother Wei is here! Brother Wei knows how to fight best. Brother Wei's bodyguards are actually a school for learning how to fight. You also join the bodyguards, and I will teach you step by step. , and it includes teaching and skills!”
"Brother Emperor, can those hungry people really be beaten?" Mu Tianbo immediately began to ask for advice.
Why not? Zhu Youjian said heartily: I beat you to Uzang in my last life! Why can't I fight?
"Don't worry, dear brother," Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "Since ancient times, hungry people have formed armies. Aren't your ancestors just hungry people? When he was eight years old, he begged for food in Haozhou and was adopted by my ancestor. Later, he went on the Eastern Expedition If you spend most of your life fighting against the West, you will be invincible and capture everything you attack!"
yes! Mu Tianbo was right! Isn't his ancestor Mu Ying a "begging soldier"?
His ancestors were beggars, but he was still able to fight and kill, killing all the barbarians in Yunnan and Burma to the point where they knelt on the ground.
"What the emperor said is true... this beggar soldier can be beaten after being trained." Mu Tianbo said, but felt something was wrong again, "There were so many beggars who had no food in the Ming Dynasty?"
This question is a bit heartbreaking!
The Ming Dynasty is now ruled by a holy king, and the people should live and work in peace and contentment. How could there be so many people begging for food? According to Confucian principles, if there are too many beggars, the emperor is immoral and wants to punish himself!
Zhu Youjian doesn't care about losing his morality... He is a king who convinces people with virtue and nothing else. He has plenty of morality, and losing one is nothing.
He said nonchalantly: "In recent years, disasters have been frequent, and the sky has not provided food... In the Central Plains and northwest, there are many people who don't have enough to eat. I just happened to take them south to beg for food and find a way to survive. Of course. , this is not that I have lost my virtue, nor is God warning me. But God hopes that I can send virtuous ministers to lead the hungry people in the Central Plains to go abroad to beg for food... Dear brother, do you know? In today’s world , the art of navigation flourished, and all the beggars in the land of Western Europe boarded large ships and sailed thousands of miles to the New World, the Southeast Asia, and the African continent to beg... By the way, there were also some Portuguese beggars. They have all arrived on the territory of our great Ming Dynasty.
Humph, aren’t you just asking for food? This is our ancestral skill...how could we lose to those Westerners? But if the weather in the Central Plains is good and the people are prosperous and happy, who will go to Nanyang, Nanman, and the New World to beg for food? How hard it is to beg for food! That’s why God will send disasters to force our people to go out. Only when we go out can we have a way to survive! Dear brother, are you willing to be the vanguard of my Ming Dynasty's march south? "
"Brother Imperial, I am willing!" As soon as Mu Tianbo said this, he realized something was wrong. How could he become the "beggar" leading a begging team?
In addition, how do those Xiyi people beg for food? If you come all the way to beg for food, why can't you get it at your doorstep?
