Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Zhu Youxiao's thoughts were unimaginable in the eyes of most generals, but they were constrained by the deep-rooted fear and admiration for the imperial power and the emperor, and they quickly accepted that the emperor was for the sake of the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. , I would rather give up the great cultivated land in Houtao, and then give up the fertile land in Hetao, which can make the three sides self-sufficient.

Tut tut's voice of regret fell in the ears of Li Qiyuan, the governor of the three sides who rushed over from Guyuan.

Li Qiyuan sneered at the general's argument.These military generals just didn't study too much, and they waited for the civil servants to give them everything ready-made, so it's no wonder Xiong Tingbi didn't give them good face.

Hmph, the Son of Heaven wants to reduce the amount of water from the Yellow River going to Hetao, rather than shutting down the Yellow River.After the Ulan Buhe Desert and the Kubuqi Desert turn into oases, they will still be partially cultivated, no matter the front or the back.That is, if the Mu Us Sandy Land restores its forest appearance in the Qin and Han Dynasties after 20 or [-] years of afforestation, the area on the south bank of the Yellow River will also be cultivated.

"Your Majesty, according to my humble opinion, it is better to use some of the people who migrated to Shaanxi to cultivate. The taxes that these people should pay are used for tree planting in the Mu Us Desert. Ahem, it is the cost of greening that Your Majesty said. Let the Yellow River The forests along the north coast will be counted first, and then the tax collected later can be used for tree planting on the south bank.”

"What about the time? If it takes more than ten years, I'm afraid that the cost of river regulation downstream will drag down the imperial court. You know that since the 'three major levies', the internal treasury has relied on mining taxes to fill in a little money, Thrall The millions that Hu Qianqian invested in Liaodong completely emptied the internal treasury."

Then Zhu Youxiao added, "The imperial court's income is limited, and the pressure on the budget is too great."

Li Qiyuan thought about it and said: "The food and salaries of the soldiers on the three sides have been paid in full in advance this year. During the autumn harvest, I can transfer part of the autumn tax to supplement the tree planting expenses in the two deserts of the Yellow River. There are three million taels of food and salaries on the three sides this year. With silver as a turnover, I can plant saplings in Ulan Buhe Desert and Kubuqi Desert within five years."

The afforestation of the two deserts is a century-old project for future generations. Li Qiyuan decided to go all out, and spent time on the three sides as the governor.

Zhu Youxiao grinned bitterly, "It seems that I won't be able to take back the million taels of silver."

Li Qiyuan smiled and comforted the boy from years ago.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the Ministry of Households will give you money for the big wedding. Besides, even if the money goes into the internal treasury, it will still be spent on managing the Yellow River, Huai River, canals and disaster relief in the future. Why don't you manage the Yellow River upstream on your Majesty's behalf?" It has become clear, and even the north bank of the Wei River and the Jing River have been greened and stabilized the water and soil in Shaanxi according to His Majesty's wishes, and it will be a good story for our monarchs and ministers after thousands of years."

Zhu Youxiao agreed with Li Qiyuan's idea in his heart, and the governors of the three sides had to take over this matter and undertake all the coordination work.It is rare for the current governor to take the initiative to undertake and do this well.

So he solemnly said to Li Qiyuan: "If Li Qing completes the first step within five years, I will reward you with the hereditary earl. If Li Qing can completely solve the flood of the Yellow River within ten years, I will reward you with the hereditary marquis."

Li Qiyuan was overjoyed, and bowed to assure the emperor, "I will do my best to complete this matter."

It is difficult for civil servants to pay homage to each other, and titles are even rarer.What's more, the hereditary title obtained by controlling the Yellow River, and the reputation of Dayu for controlling the waters, has been passed down through the ages.

Isn't the purpose of studying to seal the fame of his wife and son? !

Someone was willing to do it and actively asked to take on such a difficult task, so Zhu Youxiao had a night talk with Li Qiyuan by candlelight.The monarchs and ministers discussed in detail the difficult points of governing the Hetao Desert and the Weihe and Jinghe rivers. By the time the sky was bright, Li Qiyuan had already drawn up specific action steps in his mind.

His years of experience as an official have made him more decisive in his actions, and this courage is also based on more careful and meticulous thinking.In front of the emperor, he summed up the one-night detailed discussion between the monarch and his ministers into a feasible plan.

When he put down the last stroke and blew the ink lightly, there was a sincere and confident smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, most of this memorial is His Majesty's painstaking effort, and I will start to do it after the cabinet approves it."

Although Zhu Youxiao stayed up all night, he was in very good spirits.

"In this way, Da Ming can continue his feats for another 200 years, which should be half of Li Qing's."

Li Qiyuan was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect the emperor to attach so much importance to the management of the Yellow River, but he immediately assured Zhu Youxiao.

"Your Majesty, when I return to Guyuan, I will immediately start making preliminary preparations. I will definitely let Your Majesty see the first effect within five years."

The next day, Zhu Youxiao took Li Qiyuan away from the camp with his personal guards.

Li Qiyuan remonstrated to the emperor: "Your Majesty should return to Beijing as soon as possible. Although the spring has been postponed for a month, the palace examination is still waiting for His Majesty to preside over it."

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "I'll just wait for the Tatar army to arrive and teach them a lesson before returning to the capital."

Li Qiyuan didn't try to dissuade the belligerent young emperor anymore, he knew it was useless to say what he said.Because he knew that by virtue of the more than 6 imperial troops gathered here, as well as the soldiers and horses of Ningxia Guards and Habayashi Guards, nearly [-] men and horses gathered here, as well as the new artillery and shells brought in by the imperial court, if the emperor could not It would not be reconciled to a war with Tatars here.

He was not worried at all that the emperor would be defeated.I just hope that the emperor can enjoy fighting the Tatars once, and I have no idea of ​​coming to the northwest.He only hoped that the Tatar army would arrive sooner and finish the fight sooner so that the emperor could return to the capital with peace of mind.

Before Li Qiyuan arrived in Ningxia Town, the 10,000+ Tatar army arrived at Dengkou.When Li Qiyuan got the news in Ningxia Town, he said to Ma Shilong who had returned to Ningxia Town: "What Wu Jinzhong is most worried about is that the Hui people in Ningxia Town are making trouble. There has already been a war in Dengkou, and Ningxia Town must be stable. The emperor is in the northwest, so we can't give the emperor a bad impression that we can't stabilize the three sides. You are the Hui nationality, and it is most suitable for you to come forward to deal with the troubles of your tribe."

Ma Shilong was as frustrated as his own father when he was no longer able to fight with the emperor.Since he returned to Ningxia Town, the returnees in Ningxia were almost honest when they heard that he was in charge of Ningxia Town.Because this guy is too ruthless.In addition, because of Ma Shilong's high prestige, he wanted to incite Huihui to do the right thing, but generally no one dared to respond.

Now the governors of the three sides have high hopes for him, and he immediately responded.

"Lord Li, don't worry, there are officials in Ningxia, who dares to blow their wings, the officials will make him regret his life."

Li Qiyuan stayed in Ningxia Town for ten days, waiting for the news of the emperor's victory.I learned that some generals led the army to chase the defeated Tatar army. After chasing the defeated Tatar army for five hundred miles, when the southeast wind rose, they set fire to the grassland and slowly led the army back to Dengkou.

When Wu Jinzhong and You's brothers returned to Ningxia Town with their troops, they learned that 36 mountain passes, large and small, and the northern side of Yinshan Mountain had been burned for [-] miles.

I learned that the emperor led the army to Datong from Qiantao of the Yellow River, and then returned to the capital.

Knowing the specific losses of the Tatars in Tengkou, Li Qiyuan understood that the emperor's battle with himself as a bait will protect the three sides for at least three to five years, and they will not be threatened by the north again.

The news of the great victory was sent back to the capital in one step by the emperor.While the capital was boiling, the imperial court also received an urgent report from Zhu Xieyuan, the Zuo Buzheng of Sichuan.

She Chongming, chieftain of the Yi nationality in Yongning, rebelled and attacked all parts of Sichuan in four directions.In history, She Chongming used Daming to raise troops when the Liaodong was repeatedly defeated, and wanted to take advantage of the restlessness of the Liaodong and the northwest of the Ming Dynasty to imitate the old things of Han Gaozu.

But now that Emperor Qidi has been replaced tomorrow, and the Liaodong War has also achieved an overwhelming victory, but She Chongming has prepared for several years of rebellion. You Xiao must have repeated the old story of Emperor Zhu being captured, mistakenly thinking that it would be difficult for the emperor to return to the capital, and outrageously ordered his sister-in-law Fan Long and his general Liu Tong to lead [-] infantry and cavalry to Chongqing.

The governor of Chongqing asked for permission not to allow She Chongming's sister-in-law Fan Long and general Zhang Tong to lead the army into Chongqing.He said that there was no order from the military department to deploy troops, and She Chongming's behavior was suspected of rebellion/rebellion, so he was refused outside the gate of Chongqing.

Fan Long and Zhang Tong immediately began to attack Chongqing.In vain, he turned around and captured Hejiang, Luzhou, Bozhou, and Zunyi, while She Chongming besieged Chengdu and set about establishing the "Daliang" Kingdom, setting up prime ministers and officials from the five prefectures. The entire Shu land shook and fell into panic.

Cui Jingrong, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, received such an urgent report from eight hundred miles away, and hurried to the cabinet to discuss with several cabinet ministers.

"Your Majesty is already on his way back to Beijing, do you want to inform me about this?"

Ye Xianggao immediately understood what Cui Jingrong meant. He was afraid that the emperor would go directly to Sichuan from Shanxi to suppress the rebellion.

Liu Yixiu had successfully completed the renovation of Hangzhou City and returned to the capital. He, Han Yu, Ye Xianggao, and Cui Jingrong all looked at Fang Congzhe immediately.

The author has something to say: Li Qiyuan was born in 1559, Jinshi in 1586, and died in 1629.

After Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi, and Chongzhen Six Dynasties, he successively served as county magistrate, principal, counselor, deputy envoy, political envoy, chief executive, chief envoy, governor, governor, and secretary of households in the northern and southern capitals.The left deputy capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the right capital censor, the right servant of the Ministry of War, the left servant, the prince Taibao, and the prince Taifu.

After Li Qiyuan managed the household department, he followed the order to meet the affairs of the department, Zuo Shilang, Chen Suoxue, etc. On May and February [-]th, the topic was to respect the amount of payment, the amount of income and expenditure, and the difficulty of transferring funds to ministers. I prayed Sheng Mingzhen recited the strict edict of the provincial governor to supervise the conquest, and sent officials to keep the reminders.The Nine Ministers and Thirteen Branch Conferences were held, and thirteen reform measures were made to deal with the financial chaos of the Apocalypse Dynasty, the serious arrears of tax thieves and the unreasonable taxation.

Existing ten volumes of "Ji Bu Zuo Shu" written by Li Qiyuan: (16 hardcover, all three volumes) published by the Microform Copying Center of National Library Documents.Book description:

"Jibu Zuoshu" has ten volumes, written by Li Qiyuan in Ming Dynasty.Li Qiyuan was once the governor of the three sides.At the time of the apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty was in trouble at home and abroad, with soldiers in the north, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan in the south were not peaceful, and their financial resources were exhausted. He told the emperor that he would rather stay in Nanjing as the Minister of the Household Department of Liudu, and please find another more suitable candidate.The emperor was not allowed to resign, and he took office in February of the fifth year.The first book on the above is "Liao's payment is interrupted, and it is extremely worrying".Li Qiyuan was very embarrassed in the key position of managing the country's money, food and military pay in the Ministry of Households. Most of the memorials in the book were distressed and complained about the shortage of money and food.This book records the national economic and living conditions in the fifth and sixth years of Tianqi in the late Ming Dynasty. It is a major database for studying the history of politics, economy, taxation, salt taxation, military affairs, and judgment during this period, as well as the history of the dynasty's decline and demise. .

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in history

In the first year of Tianqi (1621), Houjin rose in Liaodong, and the Ming army was repeatedly defeated. To relieve the urgent need, the Ming court recruited She Chongming to lead his troops to rescue Liaodong. She Chongming took the opportunity to send his son-in-law Fan Long and his general Zhang Tong to lead the cavalry Twenty thousand came to Chongqing. On September 1621, 9, taking advantage of the opportunity of a military exercise in the school field, he killed more than 17 military and political officials including governor Xu Keqiu, launched a rebellion, occupied Chongqing, attacked Hejiang, broke Luzhou, and fell into Zunyi (now part of Guizhou Province). , set up the prime minister, five government officials and other officials, and the whole Shu was shaken.

In She Chongming's rebellion, his party Fan Long occupied Chongqing for nine months and supported him.The terrain of Chongqing is dangerous, facing the river on three sides, and the main road to enter and exit is the road from Fotuguan to Erlangguan.Fan Long traveled from the moat of Tongyuanmen to Erlang Guanlian Battalion 27, housing tens of thousands of elite soldiers.In May of the second year of Apocalypse, Zhu Xieyuan governor Qin Liangyu and others seized Erlang Pass, and the general officer Du Wenhuan broke through Buddhatu Pass and took advantage of the victory to advance to Chongqing. On the [-]th, Xie Yuan captured and killed Fan Long, and captured Longzi Youbang and more than [-] members of his party alive, and then recovered Chongqing.