King Lu's side?

Qi Jiguang's first reaction when he heard the word "King Lu" was "What kind of demon moth did King Lu come out again?" ”

Gao Pragmatic could see his thoughts from his face, but this time Qi Jiguang misunderstood.

"It's not like King Lu did anything this time." Gao pragmatic shook his head with a smile, and said: "It is the official of the Ministry of Etiquette who is sparse, and when it comes to King Lu's country, he should have been in the country a long time ago, but he has stayed in the capital so far, so he is not exempt from etiquette. Therefore, he asked the emperor for the specific time of King Lu's country. ”

Qi Jiguang asked, "Then how does the emperor reply?" ”

Gao Shishi raised his eyebrows slightly: "Of course, the emperor didn't reply immediately, but as far as I know, the emperor took the recital of the Ministry of Rites and went to ask the Empress Dowager Cisheng." ”

"What does the Queen Mother mean?" Qi Jiguang asked again.

"What can the Queen Mother mean?" Gao pragmatic shook his head: "She naturally wants King Lu to just leave ......"

Qi Jiguang frowned: "I'm afraid this won't work, right?" ”

"Of course not, the ancestral system of the dynasty is here, how can there be a reason for the vassal king to become an adult and not a country? How was the disaster of Zhu Gaoxu born in the past, even if the queen mother didn't know, didn't the emperor know? ”

However, Qi Jiguang was silent for a while, and then sighed: "The emperor may know, but before King Lu's wedding, the emperor used 3,869 taels of various colors, more than 8,700 green rubies, more than 24,000 coral pearls, and 100,000 taels of silver...... A total of more than 900,000 taels of silver was spent, and you also know these things. ”

Gao pragmatic closed his eyes slightly, but did not answer.

Qi Jiguang sighed lightly and said, "Right now, the Luwang Mansion is almost repaired, and it is said that it cost more than five or six hundred thousand taels just to repair the house?" And that's not counting the land, after all, the land is given...... The last general is worried that this King Lu will not be able to take up the country for a long time, then his palace will be repaired like this all the time, how much will it cost at that time? ”

Gao Pragmatic still closed his eyes, but replied: "The budget of the Luwang Mansion is more than 670,000 taels of silver, but this amount will definitely not be able to stop, even if the people below control the repair, the final completion will definitely exceed 700,000 taels...... If 700,000 can be stopped, it will be not bad, I am afraid that the bottom line in the emperor's heart is probably more than 700,000, maybe another 100,000 will be added. ”

Qi Jiguang clenched his fists, suppressed his breath and said, "This battle between Yunnan and Burma, we didn't spend 800,000 taels, right?" ”

That's certainly not the case. Under the highly pragmatic operation, the imperial court actually spent some money on this battle temporarily, and even had a lot of surplus in the long run.

Moreover, even if it was a temporary expenditure, it did not exceed 800,000 taels - the military salary prepared was about the same amount, but because Liu Wei and Deng Zilong's troops only advanced to the vicinity of Ava City, and the main battle in the south and central was completed by the Annan Expeditionary Force led by Huang Zhiting, the salary was actually far from being spent.

Gao Pragmatic said lightly: "The part spent on Zheng'er Bajing is only about 370,000 taels, and later the reward or something was spent, and the total is 400,000 taels." ”

The corners of Qi Jiguang's mouth twitched, and he sighed: "Such a battle to destroy the country only cost 400,000 taels, and King Lu will need 780,000 taels to repair a palace, which is ...... Alas, the last general always seems to have something to say in his heart, but when he thinks about it, he can't say it. ”

Of course, Gao Pragmatic knew what Qi Jiguang wanted to say, if this money was used by the imperial court to raise and train soldiers, it would be ...... this year Oh, not this year, it's winter now, and it's not suitable to fight out of the fortress - but with this money after the spring next year, I'm afraid it will be enough to march into Chahanhot.

"Nantang Gong, there are some things, you and I both know the crux of the problem, but knowing the crux of the problem may not be able to prescribe the right medicine. It's like I'm a man, and I know somebody is sick, but if that person refuses to ask me for treatment, or even thinks I'm just talking about it, I can't rush over and tie him up and force him to heal, don't you think? ”

The truth is naturally this truth, and Qi Jiguang also understands it, so he just shook his head slightly: "If Shao Sima can't start, then it seems that there is really no hope for this matter." ”

"A gentleman can't think of his place." Gao pragmatic said: "After all, I am just a squire of the military department, and the place where I can contribute now is to try to do the affairs of the Praetorian Guard, and when the imperial court can launch a thunderous blow, the Praetorian Guard can also go out of the border and exalt its prestige in the grassland." ”

Qi Jiguang nodded and said, "The last general should do his best to train his troops, in order to live up to the hopes of Shao Sima." ”

Gao pragmatic said: "This is not my hope alone, it is the hope of the government and the opposition." Then there was a pause: "Where did you just go?" ”

Qi Jiguang replied: "Speaking of the emperor, I have asked the Empress Dowager Cisheng." ”

"Oh, yes." Gao pragmatically nodded, and suddenly laughed: "Nantang Gong might as well guess what the Empress Dowager Cisheng said." ”

Qi Jiguang shook his head and said, "Young Sima, this last general doesn't dare to guess." ”

Gao Shishi chuckled: "Okay, then I'll say it bluntly - the Empress Dowager Cisheng said: 'Although there is no age limit in the country of vassal kings, it is probably after the wedding, and this is clear to the mourning family. However, although the country is an ancestral system, the emperor said that he would transfer King Jing's property to King Lu, I don't know if King Lu has got it now? If you get it, then the mourning family has nothing to say, of course they agree with King Lu to become a vassal. But if you don't get it...... Emperor, you won't watch your brother go to Weihui to drink the northwest wind, right? ”

When Qi Jiguang heard this, his face immediately changed, and he said in a deep voice: "King Jing's industry is still in the hands of the imperial court?" How did the last general hear about ......?"

Gao pragmatic said lightly: "King Jing's industry has long been gone, and it has been returned to the local people." ”

Qi Jiguang was stunned and hesitated: "Can the Empress Dowager Cisheng know about this matter?" ”

"If she didn't know, why would she ask that?" Gao pragmatic pouted and said: "If what I expected is not bad, I am afraid that someone will give the Queen Mother an idea behind this matter." As for the reason, one is to delay the time of King Lu's country, and the other is that even if it can't be delayed, it can make King Lu rich and full of joy. ”

Qi Jiguang was stunned for a while, sighed, but did not speak again.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic recalled carefully how much reward King Lu had received in history, and he even took the whole thing seriously several times.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there were few additional rewards for the palace, and everything was done according to the standards set by Zhu Yuanzhang, but at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were already cases of inviting and rewarding land, but the number was not large and it did not become customized.

After Xuande, due to the lessons learned from the Battle of Jingjing and the Gaoxu Rebellion, the imperial court's precautionary policy against the clan became stricter and stricter, and the guards and military powers of the various feudal domains were successively deprived.

The princes and princes could not and did not dare to do anything politically, so they turned to the direction of accumulating wealth and expanding the village by unscrupulous means.

During this period, the imperial court was also willing to give generous gifts to the royal palaces, thus depriving them of political rights, so the popularity of invitations became more and more popular, and the amount of land awarded gradually increased.

In such a situation, the early feudal palace used its privileges to annex a large amount of land by means of bargaining, donation, and encroachment. The kings of the later feudal kingdoms were on par with the early feudal palace in terms of industry, and tried to catch up with or surpass the early feudal royal palace before and after the inauguration.

During the Chenghua period, the kings of De, Chong, Ji, and Hui begged for permission and obtained the approval of thousands of hectares of land, and the pace of land annexation by various royal palaces was greatly accelerated.

To the Jiajing Dynasty's Jinggong King Zhu Zaizhen (that is, the one who competed for favor with Longqing during the Yu Dynasty), with the favor of Sejong, took advantage of the opportunity of the country to obtain 40,000 hectares of land and a large amount of rent, pit and salt taxes by means of bargaining.

No matter how much the courtiers at the time opposed the boycott, Jiajing ignored it, so King Jing still set a precedent for acquiring land on a large scale through the Song Request.

At present, King Lu is Zhu Yijun's only half-brother, and the government and the opposition call him "the head of the vassals", "the view of the vassals", and the favor is more than that of Zhu Zaizhen, the king of Jinggong.

Gao Pragmatic remembered that in the original history, King Lu was not a vassal now, he only officially became a vassal in the seventeenth year of Wanli, and at the same time used his special status to aid the precedent of King Jing and ask King Jing to leave his legacy.

Zhu Yijun has always responded to King Lu's request, and this time, of course, he also gave the same amount, and ordered the relevant courts, divisions, provinces, and governments to copy out the original amount of Jingfu Zhuangtian from the household department and transfer it to the counties, survey and demarcate the boundary, and discuss the amount of money and grain that should be paid.

The problem is that when he was in King Jing, due to the confusion of the traitors, he made a false name, and the amount of the property under his name was very large. Hong Qidao, who was then the county governor of Huangpi, said: "In the early years, Jingfu played a discussion, and there were many traitors who sacrificed, including hidden people's fields. ”

And twenty-four years have passed since the removal of the Jing Fan Kingdom to the Lu King's Kingdom, and the actual number of the original Jing King will definitely only decrease, not increase. "History of the Ming Dynasty" contains: "The domain of King Jing has been sick. Tens of thousands of hectares of Pitian occupied by the Jingfu were returned to the people, and the people of Chu were happy. ”

The fictitious amount of Jingfu was originally 40,000 hectares, and after the expulsion of the country, Xu Jie's "tens of thousands of hectares were returned to the people", indicating that basically all, or at least most of it, was returned to the original owners, or the land was returned to the tenants to pay taxes.

For example, in Huangpi County, after King Jing's reign, "the field returned to the people", and in the ninth year of Wanli in history, after measuring the land, it has been "registered in the copyright". It shows that the land of the original Jing Fan has been included in the national edition, and the land is returned to the private tax errand.

Therefore, when King Lu played the legacy of King Jing, "the court, the division, the province, and the government quasi-household department copied out the number of Jingfu Zhuangtian and other numbers, and transferred to the county to survey and demarcate the boundary." The county "cut 607 hectares of leased land in the Zhumuling Investigation Department near Zhumuling in Seyuan Township", and collected rent in accordance with the rent collection of the original Jingfu.

Therefore, the survey work of Luwangfu Zhuangtian is actually the original fictitious amount of Jingfu, and according to the records of the household archives, the people's industry was forcibly scraped out of nothing in the county of the original Jingfu Zhuangtian! This move has aroused strong resistance from the government and the opposition.

The villagers "heard the change of color", and gathered at the meeting of the gentry to ask the government and county to ask for reassignment or reduction; The government and county orders are jointly asked to be dealt with and resolved, and in the imperial court, there are divisions to boycott repeatedly.

In August of the sixteenth year of Wanli, the household department pointed out in the inscription of Shangshu: If you want to return the grain and land of the original folk tenants to the Luwang Mansion that the original Jingfu discussed, you are afraid of losing the national lesson and getting sick and people's livelihood. "Requirements" will be returned to the owners of the original civilian properties of Huguanghu, Hebo, and Zhoukeng. ”

However, for the sake of this "view of the vassals", Zhu Yijun ignored the opposition of the local government and ministers, and issued an edict: "Zhuangtian is allowed to give, and the boundary between the official and the zhang is established, so that it can be observed forever." And also let "check the corresponding soil again, you may as well add more, and the vice I am friendly and affectionate." ”

In the specific survey work, it is not easy to turn decades of imaginary amounts into real figures, and although there is a clear purpose, it is still not an easy task, and the difficulties and obstacles are still very great, and it cannot be carried out smoothly.

Wanli was furious at this, and seized the prison and the officials below the division level, and affected the officials of the relevant prefectures and counties, "such as Wang Yingqian, the left political secretary of the Buzheng Division, and Zhao Qintang, the left political secretary of Wuchang Daozuo, and the relevant officials, were all suspended from paying their salaries.

Under this pressure, the ministers concerned who were seized had no choice but to "look up to the emperor's friendship and affection for his relatives", "take great pains to investigate and prepare", and "under the condition that all the officials have tried their best to find out and fish for the sake of exhaustion in the localities", the imaginary number of Jingfu was finally changed to the real number of Lufu.

In the twenty-first year of Wanli, the household department asked: "Lufu plays the legacy of Jingfu, and the province and the government have checked and made up the rent. from it. It can be seen from this that after the survey work finally satisfied King Lu and the emperor, the officials whose salaries had been suspended were reopened.

In this way, from the beginning of King Lu's discussion in August of the 16th year of Wanli to the end of the survey work in October 21, a total of five years, King Lu finally obtained 40,000 hectares of land and a large amount of rent, pit mines, and salt taxes.

In fact, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the wind of donation has become more and more popular. In the early years of King Jing's kingdom, the number of donations was quite impressive.

During the Wanli period, the wind of dedication was even stronger, so much so that in the 34th year of Wanli, it was specifically proposed in the "Edict of the Virgin Mary Emblem to Fulfill the Responsibility of the World": "The small people are tired of the errand and labor, and they put their fields into the palace to insinuate." …… The people were not allowed to sell their land to the palace privately, except for those who had purchased them before, and their families were guarding them. If there are still disadvantages, the people will be punished, and the head of the clan, King Shi Qi, will be punished. It shows that dedication has become a matter of serious concern to the imperial court.

The main focus of the devotion was on the privileged royal palace. At that time, Lufu, which was the head of the feudal domains, was not a few. In addition, the history of the seizure and appropriation of private property by various royal palaces is endless, and it is common in the places where the kings are located.

It is also said in the "Edict of the Emblem of Our Lady of God" that "there are tyrannical and powerful sects, often leaving the city without permission and occupying land and property in various states and counties, without asking." ”

The Lufu Zhuangtian is very widely distributed, and it is intertwined with the Mintian, and the traitors are connected, and the things of grabbing and encroaching on the Mintian will often occur.

Hu Zhonglan took the Huangpi County Setyuan Township as an example in the "Wang Zhuang Discussion" and said: Lufu played to negotiate the inheritance of King Jing, and scraped 607 hectares of land within 70 miles of the township, but "the tenants (of Lufu) are suffering from heavy rents, and the boundary they are fighting for is 70 miles, and they do not think that there are dozens of acres of private land within 70 miles. The original amount of Jingfu was only Lu Baiqi, how could it be as much as seventy miles? In the tenants, they want to increase their land to reduce their rents, and they do not want to cede their land. For several years, it has been difficult to determine why. ”

The tenants of Lufu are still competing for civilian property in the name of seventy miles, not to mention Luwangfu? If there is no Lu Wangfu as the backstage, how can you not deal with it for several years because of the tenants' disputes? It's just that Hu Zhonglan only dares to talk about tenants, not Lufu.

It can be seen from this that there are not a few cases of Lufu seizing and embezzling people's property. Wang Yuquan said, "There are only a few ways for the prince of the Ming Dynasty to obtain Zhuangtian: giving, begging, contributing, seizing and buying, and directly encroaching upon." "Looking at the reasons and processes for the formation of Luwangfu Zhuangtian, there are no more than these. Among them, the 40,000 hectares of land of King Lu and Zhu Yijun Qinzhun are the mainstay, followed by a certain amount of sacrifice and encroachment.

There are so many twists and turns in this, how can Empress Dowager Li, a woman who has been waiting in the palace since she was a child, know so clearly? That's why Gao pragmatic said that someone was giving Empress Dowager Li ideas behind her back.

The two were silent for a while at the same time, Qi Jiguang finally couldn't help it, and asked, "The person behind the Queen Mother, but Li Wenjin?" ”

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PS: In the early days of this book, a friend asked King Lu how much money he spent in the Ming Dynasty, and I said that I would write about it later...... Well, this chapter is a basic answer.