The pain on the flesh can be resisted with a strong will.
But what if the will breaks down?
The people of the Three Guards have heard it clearly, and the residents of Peiping have also heard it clearly. The reason why the new army's strategy is not in line with the Three Guards of King Yan is that the problem is not with the court or the emperor, but with King Yan!
It was King Yan who did not allow the new army to enter the three guards!
It was King Yan who rejected such a huge benefit!
The stick hits my butt, it hurts, it hurts so much that it makes me want to cry.
Some people are heartbroken.
Someone was sobbing softly.
Some people look up to the sky and shed tears.
Why?
Why doesn't Lord Yan allow the new army to enter the three guards?
King Yan!
As your strongest force, we will accompany you through life and death, and fight on the battlefield. Don't you even give us the opportunity to enjoy the strategies of the new army and the blessing of your descendants?
We have fought countless battles for the rest of our lives, fought for our family and country, galloped through wind and snow, walked thousands of miles of desert, and stepped through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. In the end, did you just throw away all the interests of all of us with just one sentence?
Why!
Lord Yan!
Aren't you always the most considerate?
Why is such generous treatment not allowed to us?
Why can't you just nod?
Disappointment spread among the three guards of King Yan.
Zhang Yu took the people away. When they came, the group was full of life and arrogance, not afraid of death. When they left, everyone was in a state of despair, like a walking zombie.
People's hearts are scattered.
Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng understood the seriousness of the problem and quickly summoned the generals at all levels of the three guards of King Yan. After repeated discussions, Princess Xu Yihua made the final decision and issued the martial law order, explicitly ordering the three guards:
Anyone who leaves the camp without military orders will be killed!
Anyone who is good at talking about the strategy of the new army will be killed!
Anyone who expresses dissatisfaction with the army will be killed!
Those who slack off in training and disobey orders will be killed!
When the order to kill was conveyed to the three-guard barracks, none of the soldiers said anything. They just accepted it as silently as a ghost.
King Yan's behavior chilled the hearts of the three guards.
No one could figure out that even a blind and deaf person should agree to such a new army strategy. Why didn't the wise King Yan agree?
The respect for King Yan disappeared after Ping An's speech and after the news spread.
Zhu Neng led more than a hundred people out of Beiping City and headed south. He heard that Zhu Di had arrived in Jinan and that he would be able to go north to Peiping in a few days.
But Zhu Neng couldn't wait a few days. Now the new army strategy was vigorous in Beiping Prefecture, and even Shanhaiguan also started this trick.
In order to implement the new army strategy smoothly, the imperial court did not allocate money and food from the capital, but it allowed Zhang Bing, the chief envoy of Peking, to use the summer taxes that had not yet been shipped to the capital to allocate the military guards on the spot.
The increasing demand for food and meat in military camps directly drove the livestock breeding around Beiping Prefecture.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Bing, the chief envoy, encouraged all counties in Beiping Prefecture to expand livestock breeding, especially pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. In order to dispel farmers' concerns, Zhang Bing posted a notice saying that the Hongwu Thirty Years The market price in September of a year shall prevail. In the future, the army will purchase it and it will never be lower than the market price in September.
The September market price for pork is nine cents per catty. An adult pig, which varies in weight and fat, is about two hundred catties, and this is one thousand eight hundred cents, which is almost two taels of silver.
Although the farmers are a little bit more tired, but they have more revenue, right?
Wouldn’t it be much easier to pay taxes in the future?
In the past, I was always worried that I would have no place to sell the crops, but now I don’t have to worry. The military camp will collect them directly, and the farmers will never lose money.
Zhang Bing's actions greatly encouraged farmers' enthusiasm for animal husbandry, and also laid the foundation for subsequent food security for soldiers.
Whether it is the "carnivorous" chief minister Zhang Bing or the "new army imperial envoy" Ping An, they are constantly exploring new development paths.
Zhu Yunwen gave the two of them enough power. Zhang Bing wanted to loosen the restrictions on merchants, recognize merchants' household registrations, and no longer force merchants to register with other household registrations, so as to create conditions for the development of business in Peiping.
Zhang Bing wrote a memorial and arranged for it to be sent to the capital. At the same time, he began to lift the commercial ban.
The chief envoy is the Yamen.
Zhang Bing summoned merchants from the main businesses in Peiping, including some merchants and merchants, and listened carefully to the merchants' demands.
The merchants did not have many demands. They just hoped that the imperial court would lift the ban and allow free business. If the imperial court agreed, the merchants could accept the imperial court changing the commercial tax from thirty-one tax to twenty-five tax one.
Zhang Bing did not fully agree to the merchants' requests, but only told all merchants that in the boundaries of Beiping Prefecture, the governors at all levels would no longer restrict merchants' household registration and allow merchants to do business freely.
As for commercial tax issues, they were left to the court to decide.
After hearing this, all the businessmen were overjoyed. Although the geographical scope is limited, it has taken the first step.
Of course, Zhang Bing did not suffer any loss. He obtained the support of merchants in exchange for the loosening of household registration policies. When Zhang Bing raised the issue that there was currently a lot of grain in Peiping but little money, these merchants put up a guarantee and were willing to pay the court's price and use silver to purchase grain.
Zhang Bing exchanged the tax and grain for silver, kept 30%, and arranged for people to deliver the remaining 70% to the capital.
On September 14th, Zhu Di rode into Beiping Mansion with a tired look on his face, without even sitting on the carriage.
When leaving Beiping Mansion, Zhu Di was escorted by soldiers and civilians with great fanfare. But when he came back, he had changed. Even the soldiers guarding the city gate only gave Zhu Di a simple salute and no longer smiled as before.
Zhu Di was mentally and physically exhausted. On his way back, his son Zhu Gaochi fell ill and was delayed in Jinan for two days. Not long after leaving Jinan, he met Zhu Neng and learned about Ping An's strategy for implementing the new army, the three guards of King Yan's troublemaking capital Si Yamen, and the martial law order issued by the three guards of King Yan.
Things are worse than Zhu Di imagined.
Zhu Di did not expect that Ping An would implement the New Army Strategy and make it known to the whole city. He did not expect that Ping An would tell the world that he did not allow the New Army Strategy to enter the Three Guards!
This is not a means of peace!
Zhu Di understood that behind all this stood Zhu Yunwen!
Zhu Yunwen must have informed Ping An about how this matter worked, and signaled Ping An to arouse the dissatisfaction of the three guards of King Yan and escalate the matter. Finally, he pushed himself to take the blame, causing the three guards of King Yan to alienate themselves from him and no longer have the power to cohere!
Only then did Zhu Di understand that Zhu Yunwen did not intend to cut down the vassal, but he intended to take away every soldier's will and courage to fight against the imperial court!
Prince Yan's Mansion.
Zhu Di summoned all the core personnel, including the generals of the three guards of Yanshan, and asked: "How is the three guards doing now?"
Zhang Yu's eyes were sunken, and he steeled himself and said: "Your Majesty, the soldiers are quite emotional. Everyone is eager for the strategy of the new army. If this problem is not solved, there may be disaster."
"Hey, the strategy of the new army, the strategy of the new army!"
Zhu Di gritted his teeth and thought about it all by himself, but couldn't find a way to solve it.
If Ping An only promoted the new army strategy in the military camp, it would be better if the news did not reach the ears of the three guards of King Yan, so they could just block the news. But Ping An's method was so powerful that not only everyone in Beiping Mansion knew about it, but it also made the three guards of King Yan unforgettable!
"Your Majesty, if we can come up with better policies, we can not only regain the trust of the three guards, but also attract the soldiers of the Beiping Prefecture and gain more support."
Yuan Rong said confidently.
"idiot!"
Zhu Gaochi whispered.
"What did you say?"
Yuan Rong jumped up, pointed at Zhu Gaochi and shouted.
Zhu Gaochi looked at Yuan Rong coldly and said: "I said you are an idiot! You have forgotten that the three guards of King Yan are the soldiers of the imperial court, and they eat the imperial food and salary. What policies can we come up with? What power do we have to come up with? Policy? Once the Yan Palace intervenes in logistics, believe it or not, the Dusi army will be able to drive out the door immediately!"
"Besides, how much financial resources does the Yan Palace have to support the expenditure of 80,000 soldiers? The new army's policy clearly states that those who have served in the army for twenty years can retire. Those who do not retire after twenty years and pass the examination will have their annual salary doubled, and doubled again in five years. . Go and count, how many soldiers among the three guards of King Yan are veterans of 20 to 30 years?
"Some people joined the army when they were fifteen or sixteen years old. Now they are only forty. It is the time when they are strong and powerful. Who dares to let them retire? If they don't retire, how can you come up with so much money and food? In terms of Qiu Fu, his background I have been in the army for thirty-five years now. According to the new army's policy, the annual salary is more than a thousand taels. Can you afford it? "
Yuan Rong turned pale when Zhu Gaochi said that.
Although Zhu Gaochi is bloated and has bad legs and feet, he is a very insightful and capable person, and his words are very reasonable.
There is no legal support for imitating the New Army's strategy, and there is no conditional support for it.
Yuan Rong's idea was too naive and too fantasy.
Zhu Gaochi looked down on Yuan Rong. If he hadn't been a good-looking man, and he was the son of Yuan Hong, how could his father have betrothed his eldest sister, Princess Zhu Yuying of Yong'an, to him.
He was usually arrogant, but Zhu Gaochi would not pay attention to him for his sister's sake. But now the life and death of Prince Yan's palace is at stake, and in times of crisis, he still pretends to be romantic and wise.
If you don’t have a brain, don’t pretend to have one.
Otherwise, when you slap your face, it will make a snapping sound.
Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui looked at Zhu Gaochi and did not object. Although the two of them had some conflicts with Zhu Gaochi, they had to say that his analysis was correct.
Zhu Di stood up, rubbed his eyebrows, and said, "If Dao Yan were here, he would definitely not be so helpless."
"Your Majesty, did Master Daoyan leave any plans?"
Zhu Neng asked.
The letter Dao Yan left for Zhu Di was handed to Zhu Di by Zhu Neng himself. He and Zhang Yu did not know the content of what Dao Yan wrote.
Zhu Di frowned and said: "I didn't leave any strategy behind, but I recommended someone to the king."
"who?"
Zhu Gaochi and others asked.
Zhu Di looked at everyone and said slowly: "Jin Zhong."
Everyone was confused.
Zhu Di sighed and said: "In the early years, I arranged for Dao Yan to search for wise people. First there was Yuan Zhongche, and then there was Jin Zhong. You already know Yuan Zhongche, the master of metaphysics. And this Jin Zhong is not simple. , this person not only knows Yin and Yang, but also knows the art of war, and is a man of great talent."
"Father, what are you waiting for? Where is Jin Zhong?"
Zhu Gaoxu asked quickly.
Zhu Di sat down, took a sip of tea, and his mood gradually calmed down. He looked at Zhu Gaoxu and said, "Go to a secluded alley and invite the fortune teller there into the house. Remember, you must avoid the eyes and ears of others."
