Chapter 195 Planning Shanxi Town

Soon, the first month of the 23rd year of Wanli passed, and Huang Laifu also returned to Ningwu Pass.

Ningwu Pass was still as calm, but something happened in the court in the first month. From the beginning of the country to the present, the Ming Dynasty royal family has a large number of children. Due to certain institutional problems, many children of the clan had no way out. Zhu Zai, the son of King Zhu Houhan of Zheng Gong, submitted a petition for Emperor Wanli: "Please allow the royal family to take the imperial examination. Chinese people are not allowed to take the position of Chinese and foreign positions, and they are qualified to be talented."

Later, after the meeting of the Lichens, Emperor Wanli agreed to Zhu Zai's request, but stipulated that the descendants of the royal family were not allowed to be appointed as officials of the capital.

A few days later, Yang Tianmin, the head of the Li Ke, asked Emperor Wanli to restore the Jianwen reign title: "The Jianwen reign title should not be removed. When compiling the national history, the titles of the 32nd to 35th year of Hongwu should be corrected to restore the old days of the Wenyuan, the 2nd, 3rd, and 44th year."

The Ministry of Rites followed his advice, and Emperor Wanli also agreed. Soon the imperial edict was issued to revise the year name at the end of the Jianwen Dynasty's "Book of Taizu" history.

The biggest movement in Beijing in the first month was about tomorrow's peace talks. As early as October 23 last year, Shi Xing, the Minister of War, who was strongly advocating peace talks to Japan, submitted a memorial to ask for the tribute of Japan to be granted as soon as possible: "When Japan captured North Korea, it used its power. It returned it to the prince and his accompanying ministers, which was about eating. The emperor agreed to grant the title, so he should grant it as soon as possible. One letter will be given to the Japanese invaders to retreat, North Korea will protect it, external troubles will be given to the internal preparations. Today, the Japanese army has been in Busan for a long time. I want to grant it but I have already broken my trust. He asked to grant it

If the title is not enfeoffed, doubts will arise. Therefore, if the title is enfeoffed and the orders are ordered to return, it is necessary to obtain everything. If the title is a few blame, it seems difficult to do so. On the one hand, it is necessary to order the Japanese enfeoff Xiaoxi to fly to Beijing to express the letter of the letter, and on the other hand, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army invading Korea retreated and wait for the enfeoffment to go there. Even if the president dares to return quickly, it will be impossible to return when the title is enfeoffed. If the title is enfeoffed, the North Korea will be temporarily safe and will be able to defend itself. If the difficult agreement is made again, the disaster will be caused to North Korea, and the Jeolla will be lost, and our Liaodong will be difficult to support it. If the title is repetitive, I am willing to come by myself. If the title is not effective, I will punish me for my crimes."

Emperor Wanli agreed to Shi Xing's memorial and ordered Xiao Xifei (Xiao Xi Ru'an) to enter the capital every day and promised him to grant him the title of the title.

As early as October last year, the Japanese peace talks, Ruan An and others, arrived outside Beijing and were anxiously waiting for tomorrow's peace talks. Before coming to the Ming Dynasty, Ruan An and President Xiaoxi reached an offensive and defensive alliance with Governor Xiaoxi to deceive their superiors and conceal their subordinates. They waited for several months until the first month of this year, and finally the Ming Emperor allowed the peace talks between the two countries. After Ruan An excitedly entered Beijing, he negotiated with Shi Xing, the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty, and agreed to the four terms proposed by Shi Xing in one breath:

1. After being sealed, the Japanese army quickly evacuated North Korea and Tsushima.

2. Only enthronement is not allowed to seek tribute.

3. Reconciliation with the North Korean state shall not be violated.

4. Indemnity for the Ming Dynasty military expenditure of 30 million taels of silver.

Finally, Emperor Wanli remembered Huang Laifu's words and inserted the amount of money that demanded Japan to compensate for huge military expenses. Therefore, there was one more item in the terms of tomorrow's peace talks than in the original history.

The Ming officials had no objection to the first three clauses proposed by the Ming Dynasty. Only the officials were talking about the fourth clause and said everything. But strangely, Xiaoxi Ru'an agreed to these clauses at once.

In fact, Xiaoxi Ru'an was originally here to fool him, and he had no sincerity at all. He just deceived the Ming people and did not understand Japanese and agreed without permission. Shen Weijing also cooperated with the Japanese mission to submit the Japanese submission forged by Xiaoxi Ru'an, which greatly satisfied the Ming Dynasty's monarchy.

The conferred agreement was decided, and Emperor Wanli appointed Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of Japan and appointed Japanese ministers according to the list provided by Konishi Ru'an. At the end of the first month of the 23rd year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli issued an edict to Japan based on the terms of the negotiations, ordering Li Zongcheng, the assistant general of the Linhuai Housing, to be the chief envoy, and Yang Fangheng, the right deputy general of the Five Military Camp, as the deputy envoy, to be given first-rank military officers, and each gave military officers a first-rank uniform, went to Busan, North Korea, and went to Japan to announce the edict.

Chen Weijing had no choice but to go to Japan with Li Zongcheng, Yang Fangheng and others. However, when he arrived in Busan, North Korea, Li Zongcheng was about to learn the inside story of the negotiations from someone's mouth. He was shocked and actually left the seal and the letter of the country, fled overnight, and disappeared. He only knew that this guy had fled back to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The chief envoy fled, and the deputy envoy Yang Fangheng and others had to stay in Busan, North Korea, until June of the following year before the following statement was found.

Huang Laifu learned about all the related matters after seeing the later Dibao, and was no different from history. Huang Laifu couldn't take care of these matters for the time being. After returning to Ningwu Pass, he was planning to manage the entire Shanxi Town.

It is necessary to plan and manage a place, which is inseparable from local resources, land, and personnel. Among the dozens of military forts in Shanxi Town, Huang Laifu has only three parts: Wuzhai Fort, Laoying Fort, and Ningwu Pass. The deep influences include Shenchi Fort, Bajiao Fort, Panguan Fort, and Kelan Prefecture. The rest are Hequ County, Baodezhou, and even the more fertile Taiyuan Prefecture, Daizhou, Xinzhou and Fenzhou. Huang Laifu has a small influence or almost zero influence.

Among the several places where Huang Laifu mastered and influenced, Wuzhai Fort is no longer the fundamental place. Laoying Fort Wei Town outside the Frontier is related to Huang Laifu's future business layout outside the Frontier, and the place controls the mutual trading tax in Shanxi Town, which is naturally important. Needless to say, Ningwu Pass is also important.

In Shenchi Castle, there are minerals such as limestone, coal and iron, which are close to Wuzhai Castle and are an important business area for Huang Laifu. Now the person in charge of Shenchi Castle is Huang Laifu's third brother-in-law Tian Dafu. Huang Laifu is preparing to cooperate with his third brother-in-law to operate Shenchi Castle as a main industrial mineral land, mainly developing industries such as coal, cement, bricks, and iron tools. In the future, Wuzhai Castle cement factory will also be moved here.

However, due to the increase in the amount of iron tools needed by Wuzhai Fort, the iron ore of Shenchi Fort will not be able to meet the demand in the future. Huang Laifu turned his attention to Paniguan Fort and Baodezhou. Paniguan Fort is close to Laoying Fort, and there are many limestone, iron ore and other resources in the territory. Later generations, Paniguan had cement plants with an annual output of 100,000 tons and an iron plant with an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons. If the local iron ore was developed, it could meet Huang Laifu's future needs.

As for Baodezhou, the local mineral resources are also very rich, including a large number of coal-iron ore, sulfur ore, limestone, kaolin, etc. In particular, the local coal has good quality, shallow burial, few impurities, and abundant reserves. Later generations have proven that the total reserves reached 12.7 billion tons. There are also many types of iron ore, with a wide distribution, with a total reserve of 3.78 billion tons. The reserves of limestone and sulfur ore also reach billions of tons.

However, due to the ravines and inconvenient transportation in Baode, and the local powerful forces have strongly, in recent years, few minerals have been transported to Wuzhaibao, and only Baode's oil dates are often transported to Wuzhaibao for sale. However, because Baodezhou's resources are too rich, which is what Huang Laifu needs in the future. He thought that even if land is difficult to walk, there is still a waterway between Baodezhou and Wuzhaibao, Zhujiachuan River to contact, and the local minerals can still be used in the future. At present, the garrison in Baodezhou is Huang Laifu's second brother-in-law Li Yingchun, and he also has an advantage. Huang Laifu puts the mineral resources in Baodezhou into his reserve plan.

In recent years, the connection between Gulan Prefecture and Wuzhaibao has become increasingly close. The high-quality velvet goats in the local ranch have provided a large amount of raw materials for the Wuzhaibao wool mill, and the local area has become rich. Over the years, local military, civilian, official and businessmen have been closely related to the interests of Wuzhaibao. Huang Laifu no longer needs to operate and lay out specially.

However, the various places under the jurisdiction and influence of Huang Laifu should develop, and the rest of the places should also develop, right? Under the planning of Huang Laifu's private shogunate, that is, the Wuzhaibao Bureau and other bureaus, Huang Laifu had a detailed plan for the management of various places in Shanxi Town.

On the first day of the second month of the 23rd year of Wanli, March 11, 1595 AD.

On that day, Huang Laifu joined the Governor's Office to discuss the planning and governance of Shanxi Town with Governor Yang. The reason why he discussed it with Governor Yang and others was that in the current Ming towns, there were civil officials who led the troops, and each governor's troops had great power. The governor commanded the military affairs of each town and also handled food and money. The troops and officials of the same department were dealing with the generals, soldiers, money and grain, warehouses, post delivery, grain storage, military farms, water conservancy and other matters in the forts in the road.

In addition to governors and military preparations, there are also Tongzhi, Tongzong, etc. from various prefectures, who are responsible for the military and political affairs of a prefecture, forming a complete system of civil officials to command troops. It can be said that the military generals in various places have very little power except for training wars. Huang Laifu had to plan civil affairs in various places. Without the support of governors, military preparations and others, it would be difficult to move forward.

The south of the screen wall of the governor's yamen in Ningwuguan is the Sansi Hall where the general governor and military preparation meeting is located. In this hall, all the decrees issued by the hundreds of counties in the town, rewards and punishments, and the commanders sent troops, received laws, and offered sacrifices, were discussed here.

Speaking of which, there are four military officials in Shanxi Town, including: Shanxi Town Jining Road Army is in charge of Yongning Prefecture, Ningxiang, Linxian and other prefectures, and Jingle, Taiyuan, Qingyuan, Jiaocheng, Wenshui and five counties. Shanxi Town Yanping Road Army is in Daizhou, managing generals and officials in Guangwu, Beilou, Pingxingguan and other departments, and also in charge of the four prefectures and counties of Daizhou, Fanzhi, Wutai, and Lingxian, and also in charge of the Dangdao military farming. Shanxi's Kelan Road Army is in charge of Bitooguan, Laoyingcheng, Lougou Fort, Kelanzhou, Hequ County, Baodezhou, Lan County, Xingxian City and other places.

There are also Shanxi Zhenning Wu Dao Bingbei in charge of Ningwu Pass, Yangfang Fort, Ninghua City, Pandaoliang Fort, Shenchi Fort, Limin Fort, Bajiao Fort, Changlin Fort and other places. The current Bingbei is Liu Tangsheng Bingbei in Ningwu City.

Originally, Huang Laifu wanted to discuss the matter of the entire Shanxi Town, but without all the soldiers and officials gathered together, it was not a matter of discussion. Take road construction as an example. From road construction in Kelan Prefecture to Wuzhai Fort, from road construction in Wuzhai Fort to Ningwu Pass, from road construction in Baian Pass to Wuzhai Fort, from road construction in Baian Pass to Wuzhai Fort, all the joint efforts of several military preparations were needed.

However, except for Gu Lan Bingbei and Liu Bingbei Ningwu, Huang Laifu had no friendship with other soldiers and other soldiers, and Gu Lan Dao was a little farther away. He decided to breathe a little with Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei first and see what happened. If the whole town could carry out affairs, it would be best. If not, start with Ningwu Dao first.

At this time, Huang Laifu was discussing affairs with Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei in the Sansi Hall. After hearing Huang Laifu's passionate words, he looked at some of the matters formulated in Huang Laifu's document. Governor Yang looked unhappy and said, "The Huang army only needs to train troops and kill thieves for the country. I, Lord Liu, and others, will work hard on the civil affairs of the town."

As soon as he said that Huang Laifu looked ugly. Although he was a civil servant, he had to pay attention to many things because he had cooperated with Huang Laifu in the past two years to make money. He showed a kind smile on his face and said, "I can understand the intention of Huang Junmen to be a country, but as the saying goes, he is not in his position and does not plan his own affairs. Huang Junmen's actions have exceeded your authority!"

Liu Bingbei also said sarcastically: "When Huang Junmen came, he would have to introduce agriculture, industry, commerce and mines at the same time. There are many entries for various documents, which makes readers sigh. He is so bold. I am afraid that with the current financial and human resources of Jin Town, I am afraid that there is no way to do anything. Just building a road requires a lot of money and food, right?"

In Huang Laifu's plan, Shanxi Town develops four aspects: agriculture, industry, commerce and mining. Agriculture, mainly to increase the production of land in various places, vigorously build water conservancy, promote Wuzhaibao water truck seeds and agricultural tools, etc. Industry, open various workshops and factories in various places, promote trade in various places and develop financial industries, mining in various places, develop land treasures, and utilize investment.

There are indeed many articles and a lot of financial resources. But the most important thing is that if these matters are implemented, Huang Laifu will have a deeper influence. Governor Yang and Liu Bingbei are afraid that they will steal their power. The vigilance of military generals in various parts of the Ming Dynasty is deeply rooted in the bones. Even if they have worked with themselves in the past two years and have made a lot of money, compared with the power dispute between civil officials and military generals, these are ranked last.

Thinking of this, Huang Laifu smiled slightly. Of course, he had his own words to persuade Governor Yang and others.
Chapter completed!