With such a large group of people, they must have some people around to serve them. Including the internal guards and guards, there were a total of more than 21,000 people following the emperor on his hunting expedition. Not to mention the vastness of the team, there were more than 700 carriages providing logistics alone, and the entire team was more than 20 miles long.
With such a long team, Zhu Yijun was not in a hurry and walked slowly on the road. After two days of renovating at the Tangshan Palace to cleanse his body and mind, Zhu Yijun got up early on the third day and set out to visit the imperial mausoleum.
After paying homage to his ancestors, Zhu Yijun also inspected the construction site of the mountain mausoleum built for him. Although he was only in his twenties, this was a system. If Zhu Yijun wanted not to do it, the court officials would not let him.
After gesticulating, Zhu Yijun made a speech about the need to be frugal and frugal in the construction of his own mausoleum and not to waste any money. The officials in charge of the construction and the supervising officials all thought the emperor was talking nonsense. In such a prosperous time, it still cost money to build a mountain and mausoleum for the emperor. How did the emperor want the people in the world to see this court?
Zhu Yijun also knew that what he said was in vain. He talked about lavish support and poor burial. He also decreed that the subjects should not waste money on weddings and funerals. These were all restrictions on the subjects - the emperor must stand in line with the law. outside.
If the emperor's mausoleum is simple and crude, judging from the current ideology of the world, the people of the world will not think that the emperor is advocating diligence and thrift by setting an example. Instead, they will think that the country will perish and they will bury the emperor as a last resort.
Feeling deeply that he had a long way to go, Zhu Yijun endured the pain and hemorrhaged money and allocated 70,000 taels to build his own mausoleum. He did not know whether his grave would be dug up in the future. But it's useless to think about it at this time. The matter of Emperor Wanli's bones being smashed in later generations was a special situation. I hope it won't happen again in this time and space.
After seeing the construction site, the holy driver set off to inspect Jizhen. After the development of Northeast China, Governor Ji Liao moved his residence to Shenyang, but Governor Liang Menglong had already been waiting to pick him up in Ji Town.
Ever since the coalition forces organized by Dong Tuzi were annihilated by Zhang Chen and Ning Yuanbo outside Jizhen in the fourth year of Wanli, and eight thousand six hundred people were beheaded, there has been no smoke warning in the entire Jiubian for seven years.
Especially in the sixth year of Wanli, after the promulgation of the "Ordinance on Ennoblement of Titles", the people who controlled the grasslands and Gobi would rather go hungry than have the idea of breaking into the border and looting, for fear that the border troops who were stimulated by the order would seize the reason and exchange their heads for their titles. Land, exchange for civil nobility.
Although Kunduliha and Tumen Khan teamed up to rob the border market the year before last, they did not hurt anyone even though they used knives. Secondly, Zhongjin Hatun ran away from Guihua City, and Tumen Khan felt that they That makes sense - it's not that we don't want to go through the formalities to trade with each other, it's that something went wrong with Mrs. Zhongshun, who was conferred by the imperial court.
According to the past, this reason is already strong enough. But times have changed, and Chahar Khan and Kunduliha are still thinking about new problems with their old minds. So the two of them handed over the head together, which calmed the emperor's "anger" and maintained the dignity of the law.
When the two heads were handed down on the grassland, the emperor reiterated the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" in the edict: "Any robber who has committed a crime but has not gained the money will be punished with a hundred sticks and flowed three thousand miles away; but those who have gained the wealth will not be divided. All heads and subordinates will be beheaded."
Now all the ministries on the grassland could see clearly that the emperor was sinister and sinister. Once targeted by him, the tribe was basically eliminated from the grassland: not only was the population gone, but the livestock, women, children, etc. were immediately divided up by other tribes close to the Ming court.
It’s not like no one on the grassland has thought about grabbing a handful and running away. What can you do to me if I run deep into the desert? The imperial court can't raise large armies and go to desperate places just to vent their anger. But after the largest force, King Shunyi, moved into Guihua City, those who thought like this were lone wolves, Dingtian was a small tribe, and the frontier army was more than enough to deal with them. Those who tried this trick gave land and titles to some lucky guys in the border army.
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Liang Zhong, the son of Liang Menglong, the governor of Jiliao, was the son and daughter of Geng Dingxiang, the right deputy censor of the capital and a famous Neo-Confucian scholar. During Zhu Yijun's northern tour, the main places he passed were in Jiliao area. Of course, Liang Menglong had to carefully prepare for the pick-up.
Zhu Yijun promoted Liang Menglong to the post of governor of Jiliao because when he was patrolling Shandong during the Longqing period, he began to strongly support the transformation of river-to-cao transportation into sea transportation, and his political attributes were firm reformers.
Sure enough, when Wang Zongmu was impeached and Jia San was presenting the fishing inscription, Liang Menglong, as governor of Jiliao and the main player of the water transport reform faction, spoke loudly and fought with the conservative faction to the end - fully demonstrating a man who had the courage to take responsibility and was determined to reform. The image of a senior official.
His granddaughter Liang Xin commented on Liang Menglong: "If you just put the word 'power' on your forehead, you will not be afraid of ghosts and gods." This is actually true. If Feng Bao hadn't messed up early, Liang Menglong's granddaughter Liang Xin would have been married to Feng Bangning in the original history, then she would have been in tragedy.
But it is only one-sided to think that Liang Menglong is powerful. In Zhu Yijun's opinion, Liang Menglong can definitely be called a "capable minister and a minister of revolution."
And as the emperor, Zhu Yijun didn't care what Liang Menglong put on his forehead. At that time, he only looked at Liang Menglong's resume and decided to promote him: in the 32nd year of Jiajing, he was promoted to Jinshi and became a commoner. During the conferment of the military department, Li Mo, the official minister, was first impeached and his salary was taken away;
Later, he resumed his duties, sat in Beijing to inspect and collect relics, and became deputy envoy to Henan. When the Yellow River broke through Pei County, Zhu Heng proposed to open the Xu and Pixin rivers, and Menglong completed his campaign in Henan;
When he was promoted to governor of Shandong, Liang Menglong advocated maritime transportation. He not only cooperated with Wang Zongmu to complete a sea canal transporting 120,000 dan of grain, but also wrote a book "New Examination of Maritime Transport".
By the time Liang Menglong was on patrol in Henan, Zhu Yijun had already ascended the throne. Before the clan reform, Henan was oppressed by kings and there were so many bandits. On the one hand, Liang Menglong developed production in accordance with the New Deal, and on the other hand, he implemented the local policy of clan reform, and used ruthless tactics to cull the "evil forces". Within a few years, Henan was managed in an orderly manner: "Every household can leave the house and sleep in it."
How can such a capable minister not be put to great use?
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Liang Menglong salutes when he sees you driving, and he praises the saints when greeting. There is no need to elaborate. Zhu Yijun exchanged a few words with him warmly, and then asked about Ji Liao's military deployment and army training situation.
Liang Menglong first reported on the deployment of Ji Liao's troops: how many new troops were stationed in Shenyang; The core combat power of the Northeast region and so on. As for Ji Town, it was Zhang Chen's jurisdiction. There were 12,000 new troops distributed at different garrison points near the border wall.
After talking about the army deployment, Liang Menglong suggested: "Your Majesty, Rehe has been established as a province. Why do we need to station a large army on this wall? It is better to move the main force forward and use Saihanba as a new garrison. If the Emperor visits the north again in the future, he can still stay there. Tent? I thought it would be good to find a place with rivers nearby and build a palace - this new army garrison can also protect the palace."
Zhu Yijun was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself: "Governor Liang's road is getting wider and wider."
Putting aside the palace matters, Zhu Yijun asked with a smile: "Qian Ji's words are very popular with me. The grassland is vast and sparsely populated. This idea will have no effect if people and horses are spread into it. In a few years, the Tartars will multiply and live, and they will become entangled with the Han people." , but where does the wall end?"
Hearing this, Liang Menglong smiled and recited: "The emperor had a strategy for a long time, but he came to test the ministers. In the year before BC, the Ministry of War allocated land to build forts. I tried to build two outside the mouth. If there were water sources, food and grass, hundreds of them could be built. The defenders are hard to defeat!"
"On the Rehe grassland, there is no need to build a large bastion. One that can hold a thousand men is enough. One fort can control a radius of hundreds of miles, and hundreds of bastions can be built to reach Guihua City."
