Da Ming started to ascend the throne

The little eunuch standing outside the room agreed, and immediately sent Sun Chengzong to see him.

Not much time, Sun Chengzong walked into the imperial study.

"Sun Chengzong, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, sees the emperor."

"Excuse me, give me a seat"

"Long live my emperor thank you."

Many things of Zhu Youjian are done in the imperial study room, which is not so formal here, Zhu Youjian will give him a seat, and the officials are also free.

Sun Chengzong sat on the chair with half of his buttocks, clasped his fists at Zhu Youjian and asked:

"Your Majesty, I wonder what is your purpose in summoning the old minister suddenly?"

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly and asked:

"How are Li Yan and the others doing now?"

Reporting back to the emperor, Li Yan and Yan Yingyuan have regained most of the lost ground in Gansu, and the surrendered soldiers accepted under their command are now about 30. "

Zhu Youjian was overjoyed when he heard that:

"Okay, let Yan Yingyuan lead an army of 15 into Mengyuan and Liaodong, and take over the cities captured by the Ming army in batches.

In addition, people were sent to send the excess cattle, sheep and horses, as well as the captured women and children back to the pass. The people are very short of farming cattle. "

"According to the purpose..."

Sun Chengzong hesitated, and asked:

"But Your Majesty, it's normal to bring back cattle, sheep and horses. What do you want those women and children to do?"

Zhu Youjian was helpless:

"I also want to kill them all, but this is not in line with the demeanor of a big country, and will be criticized by future generations and other countries. Women of different races are appendages, and whoever is strong will follow, without their own opinions.

And those young children are more likely to be assimilated, and then they will be separated. The good-looking women will be sent to Yichun Building, and the ordinary-looking women will be sent to the farm to do coolies.

Of course, it can also be allocated to soldiers who have made great military achievements. Daming will no longer be short of money. What we are short of is people, labor. "

When Sun Chengzong heard the emperor's arrangement, he immediately stood up and bowed deeply:

"Your Majesty, this is the most reasonable arrangement, and the old minister complies."

As soon as Sun Chengzong left, the little eunuch came in and told:

"Your Majesty, Li Banghua, Chief Assistant of the Cabinet, and Ni Yuanlu, Secretary of the Household Department, are asking to see you."

Zhu Youjian had a smirk on his face at that time:

"Oh, these people actually know to take the initiative to ask for an interview. They must have encountered some problems. Tell them to come in."

The land reform and the collection of commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty were extremely difficult problems, and there was nothing to learn from them.

Zhu Youjian threw all these matters to the cabinet and the Ministry of Household Affairs. He knew a lot of things.

For some old stubborn, Zhu Youjian deliberately made things difficult for them, just to let them experience the feeling of being made difficult.

"Decree, let them see me."

"obey"

The little eunuch took the order, bent down and exited the room.

Soon Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu walked into the imperial study, and saw Zhu Youjian sitting on the dragon chair with a big horse and a golden knife, they hurried forward to pay their respects:

"Cabinet chief assistant Li Banghua, see the emperor."

"Shangshu of the Household Department; Ni Yuanlu sees the emperor"

Zhu Youjian waved his hand:

"The two lovers are free of courtesy, come and give me a seat."

"Thank you, long live my emperor."

Before sitting down, Li Banghua hurriedly handed over a stack of memorials to Zhu Youjian.

"Your Majesty, please take a look for yourself. These princes directly wrote a letter to threaten the cabinet."

Chapter 145 The mastermind behind the scenes?

The vassals of the Ming Dynasty could not raise private soldiers, or in other words, they could not raise more than two thousand private soldiers.

This is the rule set by Ming Chengzu Yongle Emperor Zhu Di.Recommended reading../../

You can sit at home, eat, drink, spend time and drink, but it will not give you the opportunity to rebel.

This regulation has made a large number of vassal kings who are rich and invincible.

But most of them stood by and watched the safety of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the case with King Fu of Luoyang. He would rather the city of Luoyang be destroyed, and Li Zicheng cook him and sika deer into Fushou soup.

He is not even willing to use money to pay the army, to encourage Ming soldiers to defend the city, of course he does not know how he died like this

After his death, Li Zicheng took away dozens of carts of gold and silver from his house.

From this we can see the wealth of the Ming vassals. Not only did they have the best land resources, but they also enjoyed extremely high salaries from the state.

Their shops, land, etc. will not turn over a penny to the court.

However, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's early troops almost all relied on robbing them to support them.

After more than a dozen vassal kings were exterminated by bandits, other vassal kings were indeed worried day and night, really afraid that they would be ransacked and exterminated by bandits.

But in the end, Zhu Youjian went all out and killed the army of rogue bandits in the capital, so that they, the vassal kings, no longer have to worry about it.

But soon, the imperial court began to carry out reforms, not only dividing land, but also collecting commercial taxes.

This kind of reform made these feudal lords feel extremely angry, and it was clearly to cut off their money?

Not only did they refuse to hand over the occupied land, they also said that they would not pay a penny of commercial tax.

The memorials that Li Banghua gave to Zhu Youjian just now are their joint letters, asking the cabinet to delete the taxation clauses related to the vassal kings.

Otherwise, they will unite all the vassals to put pressure on the court, asking the court to dismiss the current cabinet and ministers of various departments.