I, the grandson of the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, earned 100 million taels at the beginning

"Everyone, His Royal Highness is coming soon, how are you thinking?"

Yang Shiqi took the lead in asking questions.

"We can't go on with this stalemate anymore. We can handle it, but the prince can't. If something happens to the prince, we won't even have a chance to change in the future."

Yang Pu also expressed his thoughts.

"In my opinion, if it's just like this, the emperor has already given the steps, so we can use the slope to go down the donkey. If we don't give the emperor face, if this stalemate continues, let's not mention the emperor's anger, the prince's health may I can't hold on anymore."

"But the question is which half to choose, the south or the north. Even if we have made a decision, will the people on that side accept such a result. If it is not handled well, it will be a troublesome matter, and we will not be left behind Well, I will still be scolded by people pointing at my spine."

"Hmph, so what if you don't accept it. Who are we risking our lives to get into trouble with the emperor? Is it for ourselves? Isn't it all for them."

"It's not that you don't know the emperor's character. It's all thanks to the prince's life to get to this point. Otherwise, a few years ago, we wouldn't even have a chance of stalemate. The emperor probably sent troops to enforce it."

"That's true. Let's just wait a few years. Paying the money will be considered as a face for the prince. When the time comes, whichever side pays the money, whichever side will recruit more people in the imperial examination later, it can be regarded as compensation."

The officials discussed in a hurry for a while, and finally decided to take the steps given by the emperor.

Divide the north and the south by the Huaihe River, and then choose one side to implement the imperial court's policy, and the other side to continue as before without any changes.

They just thought that they spent money to eliminate disasters in the past few years. When the emperor is gone and the crown prince is completely stable, they are thinking about changing things.

It was only a few years before and after, and it passed by gritting your teeth.

But which side to choose has become a headache for everyone.

If you choose the north, the officials in the north will not do it. If you choose the south, the officials in the south will not agree.

For this choice, the two sides quarreled endlessly across the fence of the cell, and even a few violent ones almost staged a full-scale martial arts.

No one wants to suffer losses on their own side, let alone being scolded by others in the future.

Zhu Zhangui, who was outside the cell, smiled with satisfaction when he heard the quarrel inside.

Originally, he thought that he would have to talk a lot before he came here to convince these stubborn donkeys, but he didn't expect that before he arrived, the people here began to discuss which half.

After listening outside for a long time, seeing that there was really no noise inside, Zhu Zhangui coughed and walked in.

"See His Royal Highness Taisun!"

The officials who were arguing hurriedly bowed their hands and saluted.

"I didn't come in just now, but I heard you guys arguing. You guys are very well informed."

The crowd was embarrassed.

What the emperor just decided, they knew before the person who conveyed it came over, and all fools knew that they had insiders in the palace.

It seems that new informants will be prepared, and the old batch will probably be purged.

"Since you all know, I won't talk nonsense anymore."

Sitting down on the chair brought by Jin Yiwei, Zhu Zhangui looked at everyone with a serious expression.

"You all know the bottom line of the emperor. My father bought it with his life. Don't think about continuing to oppose it. Just accept it as soon as you see it. If this continues, everyone will lose face."

"I'm waiting for orders!"

Now that everyone has made a decision, they don't insist on it.

After all, the crown prince is still kneeling there, if they delay for a while, the crown prince's body will be more at risk.

"His Royal Highness, we have agreed to the solution proposed by His Majesty, but we cannot make a decision at the moment, whether it is the south or the north. Can you ask the emperor if you have any thoughts on this?"

An official stood up and wanted to kick the offending ball back to the royal family.

Zhu Zhangui glared at him angrily, "After all, you are also ministers of the humerus of the imperial court, each of you holds important positions, and you can't even decide on such trivial matters as sesame and mung beans. How do you become officials?"

The royal family can't see this hot potato. After finally pouring out this pot of dirty water, the ghost will pick it up.

The officials were worried for a while.

Seeing that as long as everyone makes a decision, the emperor will make a decree, and everyone can go back, but they just can't decide on the result.

Still the same sentence, no one wants to do something sinner, who decides who is unlucky in this matter, and will even be written in books or biographies by those literati who are going to be taxed and taxed, discrediting their reputation for a lifetime It stinks forever, so no one dares to pick this head.

Even Sanyang and the others are now squinting their eyes and pretending to be thinking, without any intention of expressing their opinions.

The old man is still kneeling there. I still have a lot of things to prepare. After all, I will go to North Korea in a few days. Zhu Zhangui doesn't have so much time to spend with these people.

"I have an idea, I wonder if you would like to listen to it."

The tense atmosphere relaxed instantly, and everyone looked at Zhu Zhangui and saluted, "Please give instructions, Your Highness."

Zhu Zhangui quickly waved his hand, "I'm just a little grandson, but I don't have that much right to help you make decisions."

People are helpless.

No one is a fool, and no one dares to take on this mess.

Zhu Zhangui got up slowly, walked to several important officials and whispered: "The Nankong family has been writing to the court, wanting to take over the position of Yan Shenggong. After careful observation, the emperor found that they are really good. There has been a change. I heard that the head of the Nankong family is in Jinling, maybe you can convey this good news to them and make them happy too."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Zhangui gave a few people a look that you understand, stretched out his hand and patted Yang Shiqi on the shoulder, turned and left.

Yang Shiqi and the others looked at each other looking at their backs going away, and finally Yang Shiqi gritted his teeth and said to a Jin Yiwei: "Brother, please ask the head of the Nankong family to come here. If he wants to ask why, you can tell him. I have persuaded the emperor to give them the title of Duke Yansheng."

Dead Daoist friends, not dead poor Daoists.

The reputation of the old Confucian family is so bad, it’s not too bad this time or twice. If you want the title of Lord Yan Sheng, what you don’t want to pay, the emperor promised and we didn’t agree.

The speed of the civil official group was very fast. Less than half an hour after Zhu Zhangui left, Jin Yiwei sent a joint memorial.

The old man couldn't help a sneer when he looked at the memorial, the words of the officials pleading guilty, and the string of names appended after it.

Soon the prince Zhu Pangpang, who was still trembling while walking, went to the cell with a pale face and took the imperial decree, announcing the pardon of all civil officials.

Of course, a full pardon does not mean an acquittal.

Contradicting the emperor, if he let it go so easily, the emperor would lose face.

All these officials were fined for one year, and Yang Shiqi's leading elders were directly demoted to one level, but the court couldn't choose a replacement for a while, so they temporarily held their current positions.

A conflict that almost shook the foundation of the country, just like this ended under the performances of the prince Zhu Pangpang, the prince concubine and the old man.

In this conflict, Zhu Pangpang was the one who suffered the most.

After all, he is the main performer, and everyone else is just assisting.

But then again, Zhu Pangpang is the crown prince, and in two years he will be the new emperor of the Ming Empire, so this suffering should be regarded as a celebration before enthronement.

The things decided by the imperial court were implemented very quickly.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the imperial court's big announcement was circulated to all parts of the country, and it was stipulated that the announcement should be announced to the world before February.

There are three contents in this announcement.

The first issue is the reform of military households. There is nothing to dispute about this point. Except for military households, no one cares about this issue.

The second is the matter of the official and gentry receiving food together. According to the above, Nan Kong Jiayan Shenggong wrote to the imperial court, in order to show the heart of the literati in the world to serve the country, and proposed that the imperial court implement the official and gentry receiving food together.He also suggested that the national implementation is a bit too sudden, and it can be implemented in one area first. In the end, he even suggested that the area north of the Huaihe River should be tested first, and then spread to the whole country if feasible.

Out of respect for the Kong family, the emperor didn't even think about Yan Shenggong's proposal, and directly agreed.

That is to say, starting from this year, under Yan Shenggong's suggestion, all the country gentry and gentry north of the Huaihe River who are famous and famous will have to pay taxes and serve the court corvee just like ordinary people.

Good guy, the old man and the civil servants are shameless enough. In order not to leave a bad reputation for thousands of years, they directly pushed everything on the old Kong family.

It even stated in the notice that the policy of paying the government and the gentry together was proposed by the Confucian family, and the emperor agreed to test it out of respect for the sage Confucius.

And the third policy is that starting this year, all men over the age of 3 and under 16 across the country, regardless of whether they are poor, rich or noble, or the children of noble officials, will all be required to serve in the army for two years.

As for the old man's promise, the promise that money can be used to pay for military service, of course it will not be written on the face of it.

People who should know about this kind of thing will naturally know it, and those who shouldn't know it will be useless.

When these three policies were officially announced to the world, it caused an uproar in the world.

The military households were naturally cheering, celebrating their children and grandchildren happily, and they were no longer restricted by the shackles of military households.

The famous scholars and gentry in the south, while secretly rejoicing that they don't have to pay taxes, at the same time look at the third policy with a bitter face.

Of course, those who are sad-faced are almost adults, and those who are over 20 years old are not required to serve according to the imperial court's regulations.

The reason why this age group has to be set is because if all adults are required, Ming's army will increase by at least several million this year.

With millions of troops, not to mention weapons and equipment, just food can make Xia Yuanji cry.

In fact, Zhu Zhangui decided this age stage mainly because he wanted to change the thinking of the people themselves.

Those men who are over 20 years old have fixed their ideas and concepts, and it is simply impossible to change their concepts in two years.

As for men who have just grown up, their thoughts are in the budding stage of good education. At this time, it is very feasible to let them enter the army and use the surrounding atmosphere and patriotic thoughts to change some of their thinking.

"Be careful, you are not allowed to rush to the front line again, do you hear me?"

At Jinan Railway Station, Zhu Zhangui jumped out of the car with his guards.

Zhang, who was worried, exhorted loudly.

Zhao Linger and the others were also worried, with reluctant eyes, looking at Zhu Zhangui who waved goodbye to them.

"I see, I'm right behind this time."

After waving at his mother, Zhu Zhangui bowed his hands to the old man who was standing at the window looking at him, then turned around and got on the horse that had been prepared earlier, and led the guards towards Weihaiwei where the troops assembled.

Walking out of the train station, Zhu Zhangui looked up at the land of Shandong where everything was revived and revived, and said, "I'm here again for my little days, this time we have plenty of time to play."

This time, Zhu Zhangui didn't intend to keep his hand.

It's time for the little pumpkin country to be destroyed.

Chapter 298: The problems that can be solved with other people's lives are not problems!

The easternmost part of Weihai Wei Daming Mountain is directly pointing to the opposite Korean city of Seoul.

Since June last year, the Ming navy has gathered like Weihaiwei. Before the sea was sealed off, all of Ming's naval forces, except for the squadrons stationed in various places, gathered here, waiting for orders.

At the beginning of November last year, Japan, which the navy had been staring at, finally took action.

The Japanese army set off from Honshu Island, bypassing the Tsushima Island ceded to Ming Dynasty, and landed directly in Busan, North Korea.

At this time, the North Korean army was actually not weak in combat effectiveness, but since the Ming Dynasty navy beat off the Japanese pirates, North Korea's sea area has become much safer.

After a few years of peace and health, the army here slowly began to relax a little bit, and the trade goods brought by the caravan of the Ming Navy accelerated the corrosion.

All kinds of weird and new gadgets, as well as the unsalable female slaves of the Japanese country in Daming, and some black slaves of the Three Kingdoms, dazzled the North Koreans.

As the saying goes, it is not easy to learn well, but it is easy to learn badly.

Under the corrosion of beauties, food, wine, and all kinds of exotic gadgets, the combat effectiveness of the North Korean army is constantly dropping and vigilance.

In mid-November, 11 Japanese pirates marched straight to Busan. Without the restraint of the Ming Dynasty navy stationed in Japan, the Japanese country did not have any worries. Riding a Korean stick was a mess.

Occupy Busan in one day, take Daegu in less than 5 days, take Mungyeong directly after half a month, and approach Seoul, the capital of North Korea, at the end of November.

The reason why the Japanese pirates attacked so fast was that apart from the fact that their soldiers were among the elites of war all the year round, the most important weapon for killing the enemy was the flintlock guns in their hands.

I have to say that I still have some brains, relying on some simple drawings left by Ashikaga, after two or three years of exploration, and sneaking to the weapons of the Ming army stationed in the country of Japan, they finally imitated the flintlock.

Due to the lack of iron in the island country, in order to make enough flintlock guns to equip the troops, under the call of the emperor of the island country, all the citizens donated all the iron weapons in their homes in order to avenge their hatred.

After two years of secret development, before attacking North Korea, Wa finally equipped a flintlock force of 1 people.

If there are weapons, there must be ways to use them.

In order to learn the advanced flintlock tactics, Japan spared no effort to use countless beauties of gold and silver, and successfully seduced several soldiers of the Shenji Battalion of Ming Dynasty stationed in Izumo, and obtained the training technology of flintlock guns and advanced black powder technology .

With weapons and training methods, the next step is revenge.

The battle of the Ming Dynasty almost bruised the Wa Kingdom. It was a crazy slap on the face. Coupled with the harsh treaty after the war, the warriors of the Wa Kingdom could not bear the humiliation.

For so many years, in order to get revenge, they endured humiliation and secretly trained and prepared weapons, in order to drive away the intruder, Da Ming, and return all their shame to Da Ming.

After the flintlock rifles were distributed and various training tactics were completed, many high-ranking officials in the Japanese kingdom clamored for immediate revenge and killed all the Ming troops stationed in Izumo.

It's a pity that he was rejected by the emperor who had just gained real power for a few years.

In the words of the Emperor, our country of Wa is surrounded by the sea. Without the support of powerful warships, even if we win the Ming army stationed in Izumo, we will suffer endless revenge from the Ming navy.

The emperor's words brought back painful memories for everyone.

It was a sunny day.

Thousands of sails were like clouds that day.

That day the artillery roared like thunder.