Chapter 960: Recover Wuszang
"I have already said that because he is my uncle, he must take the lead in this matter!" Zhu Youxiao sat on the Jiulong Royal Seat in the West Warehouse Pavilion and said angrily:
"There is nearly 40,000 hectares of farmland under his name, just one vassal king in Hanzhong! How many tenants should he have and how much does Ding Yin have to collect every year?"
"How many acres of land are listed in Hanzhong?"
Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at the Minister of Revenue. The latter felt his eyes and immediately lowered his eyes, his guilty feelings were beyond words.
Zhu Youxiao turned around and squeezed a small seal in his hand hard.
"If all the vassal kings in the world follow their examples, how could they be more than good?"
"You don't have to persuade you about this matter anymore. I have decided! If my uncle doesn't recognize my favor, then I don't need to save face for him!"
Upon hearing this, the ministers in the Western Warehouse looked at each other.
In fact, since the merger of Ding Yin and the land tax, they have not stopped for a day. People of all kinds who come to visit the mansion have been visiting all day long, and they can only sneak out from the small door to enter the palace.
Even so, many officials came to them privately, giving gifts and standing sidelines, and they couldn't be guarded against, so it was so annoying!
But this situation happened, which they had foreseeed.
After all, the reform of the land tax is not a trivial matter, it involves the interests of everyone in the world. No one will be careless, and it is also forced by the situation for the court officials to take sides.
Wen Tiren said: "The current situation is that the people are joking, and local officials and gentry are so angry that they are gritting their teeth for us, the officials of the court."
"To Your Majesty, of course..."
Yang Sichang took a look and thought to himself, why did this guy dare to say this in front of the emperor?
Zhu Youxiao was not angry and looked at Wen Tiren angrily, the leader of the Zhejiang Party whom he promoted.
He glanced at me and said, "You can say directly that they hope that I will die. The earlier I die, the better, the faster I will be, and it is best to die suddenly!"
"Your Majesty..." Hearing this, all the ministers were shocked, and quickly stood up and knelt down.
"It's nothing, get up, I just told the truth." Zhu Youxiao looked at them and sighed:
"Don't worry, I won't die yet, at least not now."
"Just to promote the land tax reform, I have to live and live well, so that they can watch me cut off their financial path little by little."
Wen Tiren was immediately impressed by the emperor's great benevolence and righteousness. He naturally understood how dangerous this reform was with a long journey.
This problem was not something that the emperor had realized before, but they were either afraid of offending many people or were indecisive and no one was going to do it.
The emperor did it, and he started preparing from the moment he succeeded to the throne.
He also made up his mind to assist the current emperor in completing this important land tax reform.
"By the way, Hong Chengchou is said to have a good return?" Zhu Youxiao suddenly asked.
Wang Qia, the Minister of War, quickly stood up and said, "Ah, I forgot. This morning, I sent a report back from Uszang. It was sent back by Hong Chengchou, who led his troops to the expedition."
"Show me!"
Zhu Youxiao almost forgot that Hong Chengchou had put on his seal five years ago and led 200,000 Ming troops to expedition Uszang.
His anxious expression at this moment was no less than that of Emperor Wu of Han who suddenly heard Zhang Qian on the Western Regions return.
Only after holding the good news in his hand, Zhu Youxiao realized what Hong Chengchou had done during the five years of no news.
It's hard, he has lived in these five years too hard.
It must be Hong Chengchou. Zhu Youxiao was a little lucky at this moment. Fortunately, the one who sent him was the scheming Hong Chengchou. If it were someone else, it would be hard to say.
According to the Tangbao, the 200,000 Beijing troops who went out experienced more than 100 wars in Us Tibetan land in five years, and 50,000 or 60,000 people died in battle.
At first, Hong Chengchou took Zhu Youxiaoyan to rule Uszang and claimed that he was the thing that Zangbahan wanted to bind himself and surrender.
Unexpectedly, when the army arrived there, Zangpakhan not only did not surrender, but also used the terrain to directly give the Ming army a warning.
After an ambush, the Ming army was defeated and one or two thousand people were damaged.
It was from that time that Hong Chengchou began to take it seriously.
Although the quality of Uszang's Tibetan Pakhan army is far inferior to the Beijing army brought with them, and the equipment and weapons are even less worth mentioning, it is the territory of others after all.
The climate and complex terrain of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are all enemies led by Hong Chengchou, and these enemies are far more terrifying than the local Tibetan-Pakistan army.
According to Hong Chengchou's Tang report, most of the casualties also originated from the disagreement of the local environment and climate.
In addition, the local people were hostile to the Ming army. Even Hong Chengchou was led by Zangba Khan at the beginning, and he had no idea where he was and how to fight this battle.
Just when Hong Chengchou was not daring to act rashly in a place and was thinking about whether to return to Beijing to apologize, an envoy gave him hope.
The current Zangpa Khan Pengcuonanjia, who believed in the Buddhist Karma Kagyu Sect, once sent troops to attack Bhutan, the faithful Lord Ba Kagyu Sect due to religious disputes, and also sealed the seal of the living Buddha Karmapa.
Later, Zhu Youxiao asked Feng Quan, the Minister of Works, to build the Guihua City on the Chahar Grassland as a religious holy place in Mongolia and welcome the living Buddhas to enter and live.
What Zhu Youxiao supported was Gelug Buddhism.
After the Us-Tangbahan Pengcuonanjia usurped the Us-Tang regime, he established the so-called Tibetan-Ba Kingdom. He hated the emerging Gelug Sect and abolished the title of the Dalai Lama granted by the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao took this incident as an excuse and sent troops to fight against Tibet and Ba five years ago.
The person who came to find Hong Chengchou was Turubai, the leader of the Heshuot Mongolia at that time. He also had a well-known name in later generations - Gushihan.
Mongolia was still in a state of fragmentation at that time and did not completely belong to the Ming Dynasty.
However, Gushikhan, the leader of the Hoshuot Mongolia, had already keenly realized that he would collide with the Ming Dynasty to the east, so he chose to head towards Uszang in the south.
The meaning of Gushikhan's letter was very simple. He wanted to fight Zangba Khan with Hong Chengchou's coalition forces.
Because the Hoshuot Mongolia where Gushi Khan was actually also believed in the Buddhist Gelug Sect, and the Ming Dynasty was vigorously supporting the Gelug Sect, and the common enemy was the Zangpa Khan who believed in the Buddhist Karma Kagyu Sect.
Gushikhan also understood that the Ming Dynasty had already crippled Chahar at that time, and it was even more impossible for the Later Jin Dynasty to become bigger, so he did not want to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty at all.
What's more, Gu Shihan did not have the great ambition to advance to the Central Plains at all.
Therefore, he showed to Hong Chengchou in his letter that once Hong Chengchou helped him gain the rule of Uszang, he would surrender to the Ming court for generations.
After all, Hong Chengchou had no other choice at that time, so he happily agreed.
The Ming army, which was just Hong Chengchou, had to deal with the local climate and terrain. Later, the Hshuote invaded and attacked east and west, and was soon defeated.
Last year, Zangpakhan lost Lhasa, and now he has been driven abroad by Hong Chengchou and Gushikhan.
Now Turubai has officially established the former Tibetan and Pakistani country in Lhasa, which believed in the Gelug Sect of Buddhism.
Surprisingly, this brave and warlike Gushihan seemed very friendly.
The day after the establishment of the Khanate, Gushi Khan summoned twenty-two lords of the Hoshuot Mongolia who believed in the Gelug sect of Buddhism to the capital with Hong Chengchou's triumphant army.
Chapter completed!