Since Anda Khan was established in the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom was recognized by King Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty, the Tumote tribe has been crowned in the western part of Monan and is known as the Mongolian right wing.

At present, the Tumote tribe is quite respectful to the Ming Dynasty. They are stationed in Fengzhoutan and Houtao, which is the area where Bayan Erzhuo later came to Hohhot.

There was a conflict between the place where they lived and the place Zhu Youjian wanted to conquer, but Zhu Youjian did not expect to conquer the other party blindly by force.

The current Tumut leader, King Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty, is the fifth-generation grandson of An Dahan, Bu Shitu.

With the mediation of Sanniangzi, Bu Shitu was recognized by the Ming Dynasty before Sanniangzi's death. However, because Su Nangtaiji in Tumut's tribe refused to accept him and fought against him for a long time, Bu Shitu's power declined, and his subordinates

Many disobey orders.

As the King of Shunyi recognized by the Ming Dynasty, among the 350,000 Tumote tribe, there were less than 30,000 Bu Shitu and only 10,000 men. The nomadic station was 700 miles northwest of Shanxi Pianguan.

Other places are very far away from Ming Dynasty.

In comparison, Su Nang Taiji, who rejected him, was recognized by 70 lords of the Tumote tribe and had more than 60,000 troops under his command. Taiji, who supported him, lived in Fengzhoutan and Houtao areas.

In this case, the situation becomes very delicate.

In the name of helping King Shunyi inherit the throne and nomadic land, Zhu Youjian could directly send troops to defeat Su Nang and more than 70 lords under him, and occupy Fengzhou Beach and Houtao.

As for whether Bu Shitu will ask Zhu Youjian for help after the occupation, Zhu Youjian is not worried at all, unless Bu Shitu is a fool.

The only problem with this plan right now is the problem of the four mounted guards, or rather the problem of the horses.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to the emperor brother:

"To make Tumut surrender, we must first destroy the northern barbarians entrenched in the Hetao, and to go deep into the Hetao, we will need many war horses."

"At that time, my brother may use four horse guards, and the four horse guards require 90,000 horses. Going deep into the Hetao will require a lot of baggage and supplies, and a large number of civilians will be needed to transport them."

"Therefore, my brother has calculated that after the troops and horses in the three towns of Shanxi are abolished, the fields will be divided among the military households. After the autumn harvest, the imperial horse supervisors in Shanxi will have enough food to support the army out of the fortress."

"At that time, my brother will unite the three towns of Ningxia, Guyuan and Yulin to search for Tao. Since the civilians after the autumn harvest have no work, then they can conquer Beilu in Hetao and Su Nang in Fengzhoutan without delaying the farming season.

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In Zhu Youjian's words, he said that he would be the commander-in-chief, and he also formulated the idea of ​​sending troops after the autumn harvest.

Of course, this autumn harvest will naturally not be this year, but should be next year or the year after.

If we want to take action against the three towns in Shanxi and Beizhili and then divide the fields, the time span is very long.

Zhu Youxiao knew that this was his younger brother giving him the news in advance.

Looking at Zhu Youjian in front of him, he said helplessly: "How about letting other generals lead the troops deeper? My brother is still too young."

"I think back then, Emperor Xuanzong Zhang only conquered Mongolia with Emperor Wen at the age of twelve. At the age of fifteen, he personally led the troops to pursue the northern captives. Emperor Zhang can do it, why can't I?" Zhu Youjian moved out of his ancestors again.

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Again, I don’t blame me for going too far, it’s just that my ancestors did too many things that were too much, so it seems like what I did is not too much.

Zhu Youxiao was at a loss for words regarding his younger brother's move to move away from his ancestors, but he soon coughed and said:

"Emperor Zhang also followed Emperor Wen for several years and then led troops to pursue the enemy, and..."

Zhu Youxiao was embarrassed to say the next thing, because when Zhu Zhanji was fifteen years old and led an army for the first time, he was surrounded by the Wala cavalry. It would not be good for the embarrassment of his ancestor to be recorded by the official.

"Did Emperor Zhang formulate a strategy of advancing in four directions at the age of eleven to push back the Jianqi? Or did Emperor Zhang's command wipe out a tribe?"

When it comes to military achievements, Zhu Youjian's military achievements are too great.

It can be said that as far as the current Ming Dynasty is concerned, there is no new generation general who has surpassed him in military merit.

Even among the generals of the older generation, there are only a few who can take credit for annihilating one group.

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao was angry that he had indulged his younger brother. He did not expect to give this boy the power to help. This boy had established meritorious deeds, but in turn he used it to argue with him.

"No matter what my brother said, he is still too young." Zhu Youxiao simply pretended to be an ostrich and turned a deaf ear to Zhu Youjian's words of quoting scriptures, and only talked about his lack of age.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Youjian was speechless. He simply didn't hold back, made crazy moves, and then killed the emperor's brother on the chessboard until he lost his armor.

"Brother, are you taking revenge on me?" Zhu Youxiao looked resentful, but Zhu Youjian lowered his head and said:

"I was only focused on looking at the income and expenditure of the Imperial Store and didn't pay attention..."

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao wanted to curse, but Zhu Youjian pretended to be an ostrich.

"You guys..."

"Long live, Her Royal Highness the Queen has come to pay her respects."

Just when Zhu Youxiao was about to sign with his younger brother, Wei Zhongxian at the door sang a salute.

Zhu Youxiao squatted down, turned around quickly and said: "Xuan!"

"Yes..." After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian walked to the gate of Qianqing Palace and looked at the pretty lady in front of him. Even though he was no longer a man, he still wanted to take another look.

He told the queen to enter the palace, and at this time, a queen wore a green crown with dragon, phoenix and pearls on her head, a red long-sleeved dress, a Xiapei, a red Luo long skirt, a red trousers, a special bun with dragons and phoenixes on her head, and embroidered with

A girl with gold dragon and phoenix patterns and embroidery came in.

"Long live the Holy Gong..."

"Well, Baozhu, are you okay?"

When Zhu Youxiao saw the other party, he just nodded slightly and then asked if everything was okay. Zhu Youjian glanced at his sister-in-law and had to praise her from the bottom of his heart.

Sure enough, as Zhu Youjian expected, the most outstanding person in the imperial court that day was his original sister-in-law Zhang Yan.

According to historical records, Zhang Yan was "slender and plump, with a face like Guanyin, eyes like autumn waves, a mouth like cherry blossoms, a nose like hanging gallbladder, and white teeth." She was one of the five great queens in ancient times.

From this point of view, it is hard to imagine what kind of appearance she will have in a few years if she only has this appearance at the age of sixteen.

but……

Thinking about it, Zhu Youjian glanced at Zhu Youxiao and murmured in his heart: "Why did such a beautiful daughter-in-law only have a nephew with her..."

"My concubine heard that Wan Sui was playing chess with King Qi's brother and saw that today is the beginning of autumn, so she brought watermelons." Zhang Yan bowed slowly and behaved appropriately.

"Well, put down the watermelon. I'll go to Kunning Palace to accompany you later." Perhaps it was because the moment of impatience had passed, but Zhu Youxiao did not try to persuade him to stay.

When Zhang Yan saw this, she didn't say anything. She saluted Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian, and then exited the Yangxin Hall.

However, after he exited, Zhu Youxiao glanced at Zhu Youjian who continued to read the Huangdian brochure, and said, "Brother, do you understand?"

"It's almost done..." Zhu Youjian pushed Huangdian's handwriting over and said:

"In the past month, 727 Huangdian stores have been opened, and every county and town has one Huangdian, covering the entire territory of Beizhili and Shanxi."

"Today and yesterday alone, we sold a total of more than 726,000 jins of coarse salt, more than 14,000 jins of fine salt, and more than 885,600 jins of honeycomb briquettes, earning 5,730 pounds of silver.

Sixteen taels and four cents and three cents."

"If this continues, Beizhili and Shanxi alone will receive about one million taels of silver per year."

"After the cost, the profit is about 820,000 taels, but..."

Having said this, Zhu Youjian looked up at his royal brother and said:

"With the scale of the Yongping Salt Farm, it produces more than 90 million kilograms of salt every year, which is enough for the people of Shanxi and Beizhili to eat cheap coarse salt."

"This year, because the salt is dried late this year, and with the beginning of autumn, there are still more than 20 days of salt drying. In this time, nearly six million kilograms of coarse salt can be produced."

"Including the salt from the first ten days, there should be nearly ten million catties, which can be sold for fifty thousand taels of silver."

"Judging from the current situation, there is no problem in selling this salt. Even the salt farm can be expanded to 200 miles or even 300 miles."

"But the problem is that the imperial store sells such cheap coarse salt, which will surely attract the attention of the censors from all over the country, so I need my brother's help to solve the problem."

Selling private salt was very easy for Zhu Youjian, because the Royal Horse Supervisor had soldiers, an imperial store, and fields.

But similarly, in the late Ming Dynasty, when nobles, civil servants, and military officers all protected private salt traders, only Zhu Youjian dared to openly build dozens of miles of salt flats.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian can also create larger salt flats and produce more coarse salt. This approach is undoubtedly annexing the private salt market on the market.

It's just like now, others sell it for six or seven cents, but he sells it for five cents.

He is not only occupying the market, but also making the market less profitable.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, doing this is asking for death and killing the official salt and private salt of the Ming Dynasty.

But only Zhu Youjian knows that cheapness is the biggest monopoly.

Once the monopoly is formed, it will be up to Zhu Youjian whether a pound of salt will cost ten or twenty coins.

The various classes don’t know, they only know that Zhu Youjian’s involvement will make them make a lot less money!

As a result, it can be foreseen that Zhu Youjian will be impeached by numerous memorials in the next few days.

At this time, we have to see how strong Zhu Youxiao's resistance is.

If we can resist this wave, the private salt sales in Huangdian will take shape, and the Yongping Salt Farm can also be expanded to an annual output of hundreds of millions, or even hundreds of millions of kilograms.

At that time, the income from private salt may initially be similar to the annual income of the imperial salt department, which is more than two million taels.

But once a monopoly is formed, every penny increase will be hundreds of thousands of taels in taxes.

After his brother's explanation, Zhu Youxiao had long understood that this was the best opportunity to run the salt state, so he gritted his teeth and said:

"The rumors and memorials in the court will not disturb my younger brother. My younger brother only needs to continue recruiting troops, expand the salt field, and prepare to abolish the Shanxi and North Zhili Guard Stations!"

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Chapter completed!