Chengdu, Shu Prince's Mansion.

"Yes, 60,000 taels of gold were sent to the emperor. Now it's good to have a bank system. They took so much money out of the Ministry of Revenue."

Zhu Xuanqi, the King of Shu, has been in charge of the title of King of Shu for more than 20 years. He has a standard old Zhu family. He is a fat middle-aged man. He waved his hand and said, "Remember to hand this letter to the emperor together. The kings and generals of our Shu vassal must support them no matter what His Majesty wants to do!"

The Shu Palace is not a palace, it is a palace city.

The front door of the palace city is Duanli Gate. The three palaces inside the gate are arranged on the central axis facing north and south. Behind the hall are layered palaces. The palace walls of the Forbidden City are three and six feet high, and the palace walls of the Shu Palace are three and five feet high, which is far higher than the regulations stipulated by two, nine and five feet high.

However, this royal palace was built under the order of Zhu Yuanzhang. It was in the fifteenth year of Hongwu. Chengdu began to build the Shu royal palace in accordance with the edict, and told the old city of Shu to be an outer wall in the future to build a royal city. Therefore, this Shu royal palace, which was built in nine years, covers an area of ​​particularly large and has a high palace wall.

At that time, this was the western front of the Ming Dynasty, and the vassal kings were able to lead troops to fight and leave the fortress.

Zhu Xuanqi, the King of Shu, would not have thought that the Shufan would take the blame for donating 60,000 taels of gold to the emperor. But the fact is that the Shufan is indeed the richest among the vassal states in the world. There is only one vassal state in Sichuan, and 70% of the land in Chengdu Prefecture are the kings of Shufan.

The 60,000 taels of gold were not produced by Zhu Xuanqi alone, but the entire Shufan, Tiren Gate outside the Shuwang Palace Palace and Guangzhi Gate, many county and prince mansions were lined up in a row. The 60,000 taels of gold were the contribution of the entire Shufan.

Relatively speaking, Shufan was relatively closed, and although his connection with the Central Plains was better than that of the previous generations, it was still relatively good, but the emperor's orders were executed very thoroughly.

A few years ago, Henan Fuzhang Meng Chong and others submitted memorials to the court to adjust and enrich the sect and obtain approval. Then the news came to Sichuan. The eldest son of Shu King Zhu Xuanqi, the master, started to build the sect and sect. Before the establishment of the sect and sect, the emperor ordered all places to implement the new Wanli Primary School.

Immediately afterwards, something that was enough to affect the entire Sichuan happened. Bozhou Xuanwei Office was sealed.

It was at that time that Zhu Xuanqi and other Shufan clans finally realized that there was a place called Xinming overseas in the Ming Dynasty.

It was also the same year that Sichuan began to build a telegram network, from Shaanxi to the north, from Huguang to the east, and from Songping Pass to Yunnan Prefecture to the south.

Compared to a huge project like building a palace, it is difficult to lay a telegraph network along the original station road, but it is extremely challenging to mobilize the grassroots.

But such a thing is difficult for the Sichuan Provincial Administration Office, which has been decomposed for a long time. It is precisely because of the existence of the Shu vassal state that Prince Zhu Xuanqi led the kings of the Shu vassal state to mobilize tenants, making Chengdu Prefecture the first to complete, and then helped Long'an Prefecture and Chongqing Prefecture to carry out corvee service, which made the mission complete quickly and well.

For Zhu Xuanqi, his trick was to issue a tenant farmers in Wangzhuang who participated in telegraph corvee and paid one cent less silver per mu for two years, and one labor would exempt them from one third of the tax.

Telegram was too important to them. The wealth of Shufan was first in the "Shufu Zhengzi" caravan on the ancient tea and horse road. This was a special transaction assigned by the court to Sichuan. Shufan put in a lot of effort. Secondly, the fields were not robbed by force, but were rewarded by the emperor for their meritorious service, loyalty and virtuous people.

A large part of the reason for meritorious rewards is that traffic is not smooth and information is not conveyed in time.

The imperial court had time limits on information notification of vassal states. The deadline for Shanxi and Shandong to receive the news and reply to the capital was six months; the Zhou vassal in Henan was six and a half months; the Qin vassal in Shaanxi was seven months; the Yi vassal in Jiangxi, and the Chu vassal in Huguang were eight months; the Jingjiang Palace in Guangxi, and the Shu vassal in Sichuan were ten months.

The news was not conveyed in time. In the early years, the Shufan was the western vassal screen of the imperial court. When things happened, they had to go to the camera and make decisive decisions.

For example, when there was military power in the early years, when there was war, the court asked the Shufan to send 4,000 troops to fight and report to the court. However, just one month later, the war report on the front line had already encountered the problem of insufficient troops. At that time, the King of Shu at that time increased 3,000 troops to the front line without the order of the court, and naturally received rewards after the matter was completed.

When the court's policies changed, Shufan took the lead in submitting the court, voluntarily handing over most of the military powers in the guards to the court, and expressing his loyalty to the court with practical actions, and naturally received commendation.

Military, they provided troops and logistics support for the empire to guard the western border for many times, and used their powers economically to use tribute Shu brocade and Sichuan fans to fight for tax exemption opportunities for the people. It became a common practice to enter the court every year; they sponsored temples in the local area, built famous ancestral halls, allocated funds to doctoral students, and gave land to famous scholars.

The Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu, the Song Lian Temple, the century-old pear garden outside the palace, the new capital Deyang Wang Bridge outside the city, and the charity tombs for the poor to use in the suburbs of the palace, are all the key points of repair by the princes of Shu vassal states.

As a result, traditions were formed in Shu. Any public utilities such as building public temples, temples, and bridges, or people who need to pay porridge when hungry and are caught by local people need ransom. Local officials and old people in the village will ask for help from Shufan, and Shufan will respond to any request.

Of course, there is also Dujiangyan, where the Shufan detention center is located. Their fiefs are all on the Dujiangyan line. Therefore, this major water conservancy project has also been paid long-term attention by Shufan. Dujiangyan made iron cattle, and Shufan issued 10,000 kilograms of iron and 100 taels of silver. After each repair of Dujiangyan, Shufan would ask the chief minister to issue coins, bring sheep wine, and reward the people who completed the corvee service. In addition, every year, they have tens of thousands of green bamboos, and appointed officials of the royal palace to supervise the weaving of bamboo baskets and load stones to fund the repair work.

It is really good that Shufan is good. Generations of emperors, literati, and people, and there are no one who praises them for their virtuousness.

But there are no self-cultivating farmers in the country of Tianfu.

The better they do, the more they can reward the royal family. If they give more rewards, there will be no other tricks to reward, so they will only add more farmland.

Seventy percent of the fields here belong to Wangzhuang, 20 percent of them belong to military fields, and the remaining 10 percent is probably hard to say that the people who enjoy the fields are self-cultivated farmers, because most of their fields are given by Shufan.

You are a famous doctor, and countless living people are living. The Shufan gave you 80 acres of land to your mother and recommend you to the court to let you go to Beijing.

You are a good child who is filial to your elders. Shufan asked someone to write poems for you, erect monuments for you, and give you eighty acres of land.

The more virtuous the Shufan was, the more kings there were, so that the prefectures and counties around Chengdu Prefecture could no longer be described as land annexation.

A more accurate word to describe this state should be called nationalization of land.

People are not worried about the lack of people but the unevenness. Anyway, no one has the opportunity to become a landlord. If you can farm more, rent more farmlands; if you can farm more, rent less. If you can farm more, you can rent less. In Sichuan, there have not been any war for two hundred years, but the situation of Chengdu Prefecture, which was extremely well under the culture and education of Shufan, was much better than other places in the merger process.
Chapter completed!