Chengdu, Shu Wangfu.

"Yes, 60,000 taels of gold, all sent to the Son of Heaven, now there is a bank system, this system is good, so much money from the household department as soon as they go out."

Zhu Xuanqi, the king of Shu, has been attacking the king of Shu for more than 20 years, and he has a standard old Zhu family's big face, he is a fat middle-aged man, and he waved his hand and said: "Remember to hand over this letter to the Son of Heaven together, these kings and generals of our Shu domain, no matter what Your Majesty wants to do, will resolutely support it!" ”

The Mansion of the King of Shu is not a mansion, it is a palace city.

The front gate of the palace city is the Duanli gate, the triple palace in the door is laid out on the central axis of the north-south direction, the palace room is layered after the main hall, the palace wall of the Forbidden City is three zhang six feet high, and the palace wall of the Shu Wangfu is three zhang and five feet high, which is much higher than the two zhang nine feet and five inches stipulated by the regulation.

However, this palace was built under the order of Zhu Yuanzhang, it was the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Chengdu began to build the palace of Shu according to the edict, and told to take the old city of Houshu as the outer wall, and build the royal city in it, so the palace of Shu that was built in nine years to complete the construction covers a particularly large area, and the palace wall is particularly high.

At that time, this was the western part of the Ming Dynasty, and the vassal king could still lead his troops out of the town fortress.

Zhu Xuanqi, the king of Shu, would not have thought that the Shu domain would carry a cauldron on his back if he offered 60,000 taels of gold to the emperor, but the fact is that the Shu domain is indeed the richest of the feudal states in the whole world, and there is only this one feudal state in the whole Sichuan.

60,000 taels of gold is not Zhu Xuanqi alone, it is the entire Shu Domain, outside the gate of the Shu Wangfu Palace in Chengdu Prefecture, outside the Tiren Gate and Guangzhi Gate, many county kings' mansions are lined up, and the 60,000 taels of gold are the credit of the entire Shu Domain.

Relatively speaking, the Shu domain was relatively closed, and although the connection with the Central Plains was better than that of the previous generations, it was also limited, except for the implementation of the emperor's orders very thoroughly.

A few years ago, Henan Fu pressed Meng Zhong and others to suggest that the imperial court, the Zongxue was adjusted and enriched, and it was approved, and then the news came to Sichuan, and the head of the Shu King Zhu Xuanqi began to build Zongxue, Zongxue has not yet had time to establish, and the emperor ordered the implementation of the new Wanli Primary School in various places.

Immediately afterwards, something happened that was enough to affect the whole of Sichuan - Banzhou Xuanwei Division.

It was at that time that Zhu Xuanqi and other Shu clan clans finally knew that the Ming Dynasty still had a place called Xinming overseas.

Also in the same year, Sichuan began to repair the telegraph network, from Shaanxi in the north, Chaohu Guang in the east, and from Songping Pass in the south to Yunnan.

Compared with such a huge project as the construction of palaces, it is difficult to call the telegraph network along the original post road a huge one, but it is a great test of the mobilization ability of the grassroots.

It is precisely because of the existence of the Shu Domain that Prince Zhu Xuanqi led the king of the side branch of the Shu Domain to mobilize tenant farmers, so that Chengdu Mansion became the first to be completed by the Prefectures, and then helped Long'an Mansion and Chongqing Prefecture to carry out conscription, so that the mission was completed quickly and well.

For Zhu Xuanqi, his trick was only to promulgate a clause that allowed the tenant farmers of Wangzhuang who participated in the telegraph service to pay less than one cent of silver per mu for two years, and to exempt one-third of the tax from one work at a time.

The telegram was too important to them, the wealth of the Shu domain was the 'Shu Fu Zhengzi' caravan on the ancient tea horse road, which was a special transaction assigned by the imperial court to the Sichuan region, and the Shu domain made a lot of efforts;

A large part of the reason for the meritorious service reward is that the traffic is not smooth and the news is not conveyed in a timely manner.

The imperial court had a time limit for the information of the vassal state, and the time limit for Shanxi and Shandong to receive the news and reply to the capital was six months; six and a half months of Henan Zhou Domain; Seven months of Qin Domain, Shaanxi; Jiangxi Yifan, Huguang Chu Fan for eight months; Ten months in Jingjiang Palace, Guangxi, and eleven months in Shu Domain, Sichuan.

The news was not conveyed in time, and in the early years, the Shu Domain was the western domain of the imperial court, and in case of trouble, it was necessary to act with the camera and make decisive decisions.

For example, in the early years, when there was still military power, when there was a war, the imperial court asked the Shu domain to appoint 4,000 soldiers to go out and report to the imperial court; But just in the past month, the battle report on the front line has encountered the problem of insufficient troops, and the king of Shu at that time increased his troops to the front line by another 3,000 without the order of the imperial court, and after the fact, he was naturally rewarded and rewarded.

When the policy of the imperial court changed, the Shu clan took the lead in reporting to the imperial court, voluntarily handing over most of the military power in the guards to the imperial court, and showing loyalty to the imperial court with practical actions, which was naturally rewarded.

Militarily, they used troops to defend the western part of the empire many times to provide soldiers and logistical support, and economically used their power to fight for tax exemption opportunities for the people with tribute to Shu brocade and Sichuan fans, and it became a common practice to enter the imperial court every year; Locally, we subsidize temples, repair ancestral halls of fame, allocate funds to doctoral students, and give fields to celebrities.

Chengdu's Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Song Lian Temple, the century-old pear orchard outside the palace, the new capital Deyang Wangqiao outside the city, and the righteous mound land used by the poor in the dead suburbs of Fucheng are all the focus of the repair of the princes of the Shu Domain.

So that in Shu to form a tradition, but when it comes to public utilities such as building ancestral halls, temples, and bridges, or the people are hungry and need to give soup porridge, and are caught by the local people and need ransom, local officials and village elders will ask for help from the Shu Domain, and the Shu Domain will respond to their requests.

Naturally, there is Dujiangyan where the Shu domain is guarded, and their fiefs are all in the Dujiangyan line, so this major water conservancy project has also been concerned by the Shu domain for a long time, Dujiangyan makes iron cattle, and the Shu domain sends ten thousand catties of iron and one hundred taels of silver; After each repair of Dujiangyan, the Shu clan will let Changshi send coins and bring sheep wine to reward the people who have completed their servitude; In addition, tens of thousands of green bamboo poles are weighed every year, and the palace officials are appointed to supervise the weaving of bamboo baskets and the loading of stones to fund the repair work.

Shu is good, it is really good, generations of emperors, generations of scribes, generations of people, there is no one who does not praise them for being virtuous.

But in the land of abundance, there are no yeoman farmers.

The better they do, the more the royal family will reward, and if they reward more, there will be no other tricks to reward, only to increase the farmland.

Seventy percent of the fields here belong to Wang Zhuang, two percent belong to military fields, and the remaining one percent, I am afraid it is difficult to say that the people who enjoy the fields are self-cultivated farmers, because most of their fields are given by the Shu domain.

You are a famous doctor, there are countless living people, Shu Fan gave you eighty acres of old mother land, and recommended you to the imperial court to let you go to Beijing.

You are a good boy who is filial to your elders, and the Shu Domain invited someone to compose poems for you, erect a monument for you, and give you eighty acres of land.

The more virtuous the Shu Domain, the more Wang Tian the Shu Domain had, so much so that the surrounding prefectures and counties of Chengdu Prefecture could no longer be described by the word land annexation.

A more accurate word to describe this state of affairs would be the nationalization of land.

People do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality, anyway, everyone has no chance to become a landlord, and those who can cultivate more will rent more farmland; If you can't plough more, you will rent less, and there has been no war in central Sichuan for 200 years, but the Chengdu Mansion, which has been annexed to the extreme, is much better under the culture and education of the Shu Domain than other places in the process of annexation.

Generations of Shu kings have made the vassal kingdom a moral model, at least this is much stronger than the bastard bastard clan that often kills and robs women in other feudal kingdoms.