Chapter 322 The Prince's Anger

After the Sichuan War, Zhu Gaoxu immediately gave twice the salary to the surrendered soldiers and the officials who surrendered in Sichuan, and immediately stabilized the hearts of the officials and soldiers, and at the same time reorganized the troops and trained elite troops.

He won a complete victory in three battles and obtained hundreds of thousands of troops. He must first absorb and digest it and stabilize the morale of the army.

During the Jingnan period, both soldiers and horses experienced great defeats, and the defeated soldiers surrendered to surrender. Because they were all civil wars, it was easy to surrender.

But now Zhu Gaoxu has distributed land and paid more money. From then on, they will be defeated by the government army, and will they still be surrendered?

The family has dozens of acres on Zhu Gaoxu's side.

Zhu Di, will you redistribute it to everyone after you win? Will you pay your salary according to Zhu Gaoxu's standards?

If Zhu Di wants to do this, he will go bankrupt soon.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu's move is very poisonous and effective. As long as he is given time, the territory he ruled will become more and more stable. In the future, the government army will attack, and it can be said that most cities and counties will not be cast like they did during the Jingnan period.

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After Sichuan won, Zhu Gaoxu did not rush to attack Huguang again because there were too many troops surrendering recently and it needed to be properly handled. More importantly, autumn grain is about to be imminent, and Zhu Gaoxu must stabilize the autumn grain and ensure military grain.

His troops increased sharply, and his salaries were doubled to officials, which required a lot of food.

For example, Baoqing originally had Baoqing Guard, but when Zhu Neng retreated to Changsha, he took Baoqing Guard away. There were only a few hundred soldiers in the city, and he also decisively surrendered.

Changsha is obviously unsafe. The rebels will definitely attack Changde next, and there are no troops there, so there will be a high probability of surrendering. Once the rebels take Changde, Changsha may be surrounded. If the rebels attack the rebels, they will bypass Changsha.

What should I do if I take Yuezhou (Baling) and cut off his retreat?

So they simply gave up on Changsha.

Because Yao Guangxiao and Yuan Gong were not popular among ministers, the prince had previously preferred to stand with Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and other cabinet members.

At the same time, Sheng Yong's army, who was returning from Sichuan to Guizhou, sent Zhao Gui to lead 20,000 troops, from Wushan, Sichuan to Huguang and Guizhou. The official army of Guizhou Changning had already given up and retreated to Jingzhou.

But at this time, the businessmen and wealthy families were still very obedient because their status was still below the farmers.

Kill, those who were sting inside and outside, and those who were on the fence on both sides wanted to kill, and a hint of cruelty flashed across Zhu Gaochi's kind-hearted face.

He immediately understood that these two people probably realized that the situation was not good now.

Now that Sichuan is defeated again, the prince feels that if he doesn't ask, he may not have a chance in the future.

A steady stream of ships are coming from Jiaozhi Haifang Port and other to Guangdong and Fujian coasts.

King Ji in Changsha has not appeared yet, and it will not be granted until the Ming Dynasty War God Ming Yingzong.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince." Yao Guangxiao and Yuan Gong bent down one after another.

"Please tell me, Prince." Yao Guangxiao smiled.

In the first year of Yongle after the Jingnan Dynasty (1403), Li Zhigang, the Minister of Rites, and others reported that Yanjing Beiping was the "land of dragon prosperity" of the emperor and should follow the example of the Ming Taizu's approach to Fengyang, Anhui and be appointed as the capital.

It’s so sad that the more I think about it, the more angry I get, the more depressed I get.

This made Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers not hesitate to Baoqing, Hengzhou, Wugang, and Qianyang. In this way, the entire southern part of Huguang was included in Zhu Gaoxu's territory.

Song Sheng was in the name of stability in the war. He had been commanding his troops for decades and had never been defeated. He Fu, Zhang Wu, Qu Neng and other generals helped him, but he was defeated.

People were whispering in groups of three or five.

It was not until early September that Zhu Gaoxu's troops set out from Yongzhou and officially entered the hinterland of Huguang.

But since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhu family has liked to do this.

Huo Zhen, who was originally in Yuanzhou, first retreated to Changsha, and then he and Zhu Nengyi combined. The two of them had less than 100,000 soldiers and horses. The rebel artillery was powerful and could only defend one big city. If the troops were dispersed, they would defend several small cities.

, it must be seeking death, and will only be defeated by each one.

Zhu Gaoxu moved the main force to Changde, while the official army arranged defense lines in Jingzhou and Yuezhou. Both sides were in Dongting Lake, crossing the river, and there was no major move for the time being.

That scene was no different when Zhu Di entered Beijing.

Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi stood silently beside Yao Guangxiao and Yuan Gong. After the Han King raised his army, they became diligent in court and basically came every time.

Here, west of Yuezhou, Huguang, and Changsha, fell into Zhu Gaoxu's hands one after another.

Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty vigorously promoted the status of Beiping Prefecture in Yanping, and made Beiping Prefecture in Beiping Prefecture and changed Beiping Prefecture to Shuntian Prefecture, which was called "Xingzai". At the same time, it began to move the people to enrich Beiping; various places were forced to move to Beiping.

More than 100,000 refugees, wealthy families in Jiangnan, merchants in Shanxi and other people.

"Master Daoyan, Lord Yuan." Zhu Gaochi looked around and saw that the other ministers around him were a little far away at this time, and even shouted softly.

So there was no royal family in Changsha, and Zhu Neng and Huo Zhen thought about it, but they still retreated to Wuchang.

The imperial court invested nearly 10 million taels of silver and a large amount of manpower and material resources around Peiping, almost emptied the finances of the Ministry of Revenue.

At this time last year, Zhu Di was still discussing the relocation of the capital in the north in the court, but now, in addition to moving the capital, there are also the rebellion of the King of Han. Two major events have made the capital officials frustrated, or, in other words, it is even better to make Zhu Di frustrated.

The production of the southwestern provinces is far inferior to that of the territory controlled by Zhu Di. Fortunately, he has two grain-producing areas, Jiaozhi and Chameng, to support it.

Now he has suffered a lot of defeats. Those court officials who have a strange intention and dared not speak out before will definitely be gloating.

As one goes down and the other goes up, the Han King Zhu Gaoxu's troops were said to have exceeded one million, and they firmly control the southwest provinces, forming a force of competing with the Ming court.

Yao Guangxiao and Yuan Gong were inexplicably strange.

By the fourth year of Yongle, that is, in January this year, before Zhu Gaoxu had risen, Zhu Di issued an edict to build the Beiping Imperial Palace and the city wall based on the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

At the end of August, Zhu Neng, Huo Zhen, Chen Zhi and others in Huguang received news that the official army was defeated again in Sichuan. Song Sheng retreated to Shaanxi and reorganized the defense line.

This incident caused public complaints at that time, and the people were suffering.

Zhu Gaochi thought secretly while looking at his ministers.

When you were in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the landlord class was relatively arrogant. It would not be so easy to move like this at that time.

Who should I ask? Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi has something to ask them.

At this time, the troops recruited by the court were gathering from Henan, Jiangnan and other places to Wuchang, which was too far from Changsha.

Changsha is an important town and should have been defended, but the waterway is a little narrower and is far away from Jiangnan and Henan.

Sichuan was defeated again, and when the ministers were talking, many people couldn't hide the gloating. Of course, the prince knew that there were some great ministers in the court who were still dissatisfied with his father, Zhu Di.

In fact, when the imperial court suffered a crushing defeat in Guangxi, the prince wanted to ask the two, but at that time he was still very afraid of his father and did not dare to ask. Moreover, if the imperial court won in Sichuan, there was no need to ask.

It is said that the defeat was as miserable as Guangxi, and he only fled back with tens of thousands of cavalry.

"Brush" the prince's face suddenly turned red, and his expression was a little hideous.

In their eyes, the people of the Ming Dynasty, especially the wealthy businessmen, were no different from Zhuluo, and wanted to accommodate them.

No, Zhu Gaochi soon thought that Emperor Jianwen still had many ministers who refused to surrender and would rather die. If Gao Xu entered the capital, how many ministers here today would be willing to die for my father?

At this time, the official army had just experienced a great defeat in Guangxi, and there were not many soldiers in Huguang. In order to protect himself, Zhu Neng gathered the troops of nearby counties and governments to Changsha.

On the second day of September, it was another day of courtship.

Zhu Yuanzhang moved wealthy families in Suzhou, Jiangnan to Fengyang, and when he went to other places, he moved tens of thousands or more than one hundred thousand.

After September, the court's three major battles had spread all over the world, and the situation was extremely unfavorable to the Ming court.

He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Yao Guangxiao and Yuan Gong, and found that they were not in good looks, which was completely different from the high-spirited expression during the Jingnan period.

Just a few months after the groundbreaking started, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly turned against him.

So Zhu Gaoxu was recruiting and circulating food everywhere at this time.

Zhu Neng wanted to guard Guilin at that time. In addition to trying to nail a nail in Guangxi, it was also because Guilin had a royal family.

In the original history, in the seventh year of Yongle, Zhu Di carried out a northern expedition with Beiping as a base and began to build Changping near Beiping. The construction of his tomb in Beiping instead of Nanjing proved that the Ming Chengzu had made up his mind to move the capital.

When the three great masters of Jingnan heard this, they couldn't believe it.

News of Sichuan's great defeat has spread everywhere, and Zhu Gaoxu's salary for officials all over the world is well known. All places in Huguang where there are no large number of official troops stationed in many states surrendered.

I'm afraid there isn't one.

Zhu Gaoxu brought craftsmen from Yunnan to prepare to cast a large number of artillery artillery in Huguang.

Unexpectedly, after August, the court suffered a crushing defeat in Guizhou, Guangxi and Sichuan.

Within a few days, the entire battle was slowly passed back to Huguang, and the generals realized that it was Qu Neng who turned against the water.

But these days, the prince has some worries and has been looking for opportunities to ask the two of them, so today he is standing close to them.

What's even more terrible is that at this time, Zhu Gaoxu proposed to double the salary of officials all over the world.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he first conquered Annan and built the Beijing Imperial City. Tens of millions of silver were invested in two major events, and the national treasury was almost hollowed out. Zhu Gaoxu chose to raise his salary at this time, which was really a murderous death.

The government army was desperately dispatching troops from all directions to prepare for the next decisive battle, while Zhu Gaoxu slowly stabilized the rule of the provinces, trained elites, recruited food and civilians, and was also prepared.

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It is obviously quite cool, but September in the capital is full of coolness.

"I have something to ask two of you."

It was early in the summer, and before the sun rose, the ministers had already arrived outside the gate of the imperial city.

Three major battles in the three provinces ended in a crushing defeat, losing 500,000 to 600,000 to 600,000 to 600,000 yuan before and after.

Emperor Zhu Di had only been in office for about three or four years, and Zhu Gaoxu started his army and his status was not very stable.
To be continued...