Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 146 The Liao affair came to an end
[In this battle, the Seventeenth Fort north of the Taizi River was pulled out, more than [-] soldiers were killed, [-] shi of grain was taken away, more than [-] taels of silver were taken, countless armors and luggage were burned, and eight people were burned. More than [-] mu of cultivated land, more than [-] mu of young crops were harvested in Fengji and other places. 】

[The Zhe Bing Department beheaded [-] real captives, and lost [-] people. 】

[Shenyang went out of the city to behead nine hundred and forty-two real captives, and lost six hundred and twenty-one people. 】

[General Sun Yingyuan's troops attacked Gushan Fort and Xianchang Fort, beheaded [-] real captives, and self-injured [-] people. 】

[Qingheguan Mangui Department beheaded one hundred and forty-two real captives and self-injured three hundred and eighty-one people. 】

[A total of [-] real captives were beheaded, a total of [-] people were lost by the three armies, and there was no beheading in Guangning...]

On June [-]th of the first year of the Apocalypse, as the siege of Shenyang was untied, the Ming army also stopped its offensive.

This memorial was written by Xiong Tingbi to the emperor after he arrived in Shenyang and confirmed Nurhachi's retreat, and now it is handed to Zhu Youjian by Zhu Youxiao.

"The Liao incident is temporarily resolved, how does my brother plan to deal with the subsequent arrangements for the Liao incident?"

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Zhu Youxiao looked at his younger brother who had grown a lot taller, and felt a little relieved.

The difficult siege of Shenyang was lifted. Although the Seventeenth Fort of Taizihe was burned down and more than [-] people were killed in battle, the situation in Liaodong was finally stabilized for the time being.

Now Zhu Youxiao wants to know how his younger brother can stabilize the situation in Liaodong.

Faced with the questioning, Zhu Youjian, who was sitting next to Zhu Youxiao, looked at the memorial and thought about the changes in the past few days.

First of all, after Nurhachi retreated, Sun Yingyuan's troops on the East Road did not continue to advance. Instead, they left more than [-] people stationed to repair Xianchangbao and Gushanbao. Changbao became Kuandian's first line of defense.

After the evacuation, he set up three more forts on the sixty-mile road from Gushan Fort to Kuandian, and left three hundred to one thousand troops.

When he completely evacuated back to Kuandian, he handed over the soldiers and horses of the third battalion of Kuandian and the third battalion of Phoenix City, and led the Seven Guards to retreat to Zhenjiang.

Both Qi Jin and Xiong Tingbi arrived in Shenyang, especially Xiong Tingbi transported [-] shi of grain, which greatly eased the crisis in Shenyang.

Right now, there are about [-] people in Shenyang City, and less than [-] soldiers and horses. The autumn harvest outside the city has been burned and harvested, and the same is true for Fengji Fort and other places.

As a result, the more than [-] people north of the Taizi River this year will need assistance from the imperial court.

If the court's relief is unfavorable, I'm afraid they will turn to Jianlu and Beilu.

As for Mangui, after Manggurtai returned to Fangtieling, he took the initiative to withdraw to Daning and continued to prepare to build a city in Sanwei of Daning.

Therefore, what is placed in front of me now is firstly to replenish troops and horses for the various ministries that lost their troops in this battle, and secondly to rescue the people of Shenyang and find a way for them to survive.

The last thing is to think about how to trap Nurhachi and prevent him from invading Liaodong next year, or in other words, prevent him from getting such a rich spoils of war after he invades next year.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youjian said:

"It's already June, and Xiong Tingbi, Qi Jin, and Sun Yingyuan will only need to be stationed until September, and the old slaves will stop harassing them."

"Even if we go out to attack and harass again, it will be February and March next year, so what needs to be done now is to replenish the forces of Shenyang, Sichuan, and Zhejiang."

"According to what I have seen, Qin Liangyu can be promoted to be the consolation envoy of Shizhu and Youyang Divisions, with [-] taels of silver, [-] shi of grain, [-] armor, and [-] more soldiers."

"The [-] soldiers who had been recruited before were ordered to send troops north to aid Liao in September, stationed in Shenyang, and put them under the jurisdiction of Qin Bangping."

"Nine thousand soldiers from Yongping, who have been recruited for three months, will be transferred from Yongping Mansion to Shenyang, and they will be under the command of He Shixian and You Shigong."

"In this way, even if the Zhejiang and Liaoxi soldiers withdraw, including the original soldiers and horses, there will be [-] troops in Shenyang, and they will not be so embarrassing like a battle."

"In addition, [-] liang of silver, [-] shi of grain, and [-] shi of armor were distributed within the internal funds. Qi Yuanbi was ordered to go south to Zhejiang, recruit troops from all over Zhejiang, and go north to Liaoyang in November."

"In addition, Sun Yingyuan's troops from the Seventh Battalion of Shuntian Mansion were stationed in the third Battalion of Phoenix City, the third Battalion of Kuandian, and the first Battalion of Zhenjiang."

"Tune Qi Yuangong to be the commander-in-chief of Phoenix City, Qi Yuanfu to be the commander-in-chief of Kuandian, and Qin Minping to be the commander-in-chief of Zhenjiang."

"Reassign Qin Banghan to be the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou, and lead three thousand Sichuan soldiers from Shenyang to the south, and go to Jinzhou to repair Lushun and other waters at the end of June."

Zhu Youjian finished his first idea of ​​supplementing soldiers and horses, but the more he said, Zhu Youxiao's face became more and more embarrassed.

After a long time, Zhu Youxiao said in embarrassment: "Although this plan is good, but the internal money is only about [-] million taels of silver."

"Brother, don't worry." Zhu Youjian heard that this was the reason, so he comforted him:
"I have sent Huachun to Yanshan Daying to escort one million taels to the interior."

"Where did you get so much money?" Zhu Youxiao said in astonishment.

In his opinion, his younger brother wanted to raise an army of [-], so how could he spend a million taels of silver in one go with the little tax from the Yumajian?
Just facing his words, Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "Could it be possible that my brother forgot that I ordered Jin Yiwei to go south to sell food?"

"Take it with peace of mind. When the time comes, I will send the silver to Shenyang and Liaoyang. I will send soldiers from the Wanping Camp to escort, and my brother will send eunuchs to spread the holy grace."

"It's you paying for the money, and then the army's heart is with me." Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly, obviously feeling a little sorry for letting Zhu Youjian take the money.

Zhu Youjian doesn't care about this, after all, his private salt farm is about to start drying salt. As long as the private salt works, he won't be short of money.

At present, stabilizing Liaodong is the number one priority. Earn money if you don’t have it. With his identity and soldiers, if he operates properly, it is impossible to have no money.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian continued:

"I did the math. Adding in Qin Liangyu's soldiers and horses, Yongping's new recruits, and the second half of the year's military pay for soldiers and horses in Liao and Shenyang, the total is [-] taels of silver."

"In addition, the decapitation of the [-]-level real prisoner requires [-] taels, a total of [-] taels."

"Subsequently, the imperial court's arrears to Liaoxi and Liaonan, plus the payment for the whole year of this year, totaled [-] taels."

"Hmph!" Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly when he heard the military salaries in Liaoxi and Liaonan.

After all, the Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers, as well as the Shenyang Liao soldiers and the Seven Guards, combined to kill more than [-] real captives.

Excluding the Seven Guards, the soldiers and horses in Liaoshen and Shenyang only paid [-] taels of military pay for a whole year, while the [-] soldiers and horses in western and southern Liaoning were beheaded. One million three hundred and sixty-eight thousand taels to eat.

If you add the annual supply and the price of horse silver, you will get at least two and a half million taels of silver.

With so much money, it is inevitable that he will be angry.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian can only say helplessly:
"Right now is not the time to abolish Liao Town. Wait for Shanxi's Liao soldiers to settle in Shenyang, wait for the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers to arrive in Liaoshen next year, and then transfer the Five Guards to settle in. Liaodong should be abolished."

"It's better to abolish this kind of troops early, and I don't know how much space Xiong Tingbi has allowed his subordinates to eat." Zhu Youxiao scolded with a frown.

However, he also knew that Xiong Tingbi could not condone this kind of thing alone, and he was also one of the victims.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian also explained:

"Supplementing the Sichuan soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers, and He Shixian's troops in Shenyang, plus the seven battalions in the three cities of Zhenjiang, there are [-] guest troops in Liaodong. Twelve thousand people."

"At that time, some of the guards will be transferred to the west of Liaoning, and the vacancies can be found out in one fell swoop, the vacancies can be abolished, and the vacancy can be traced."

"At that time, the number of soldiers and horses in Liaodong should be stable at around [-], the military pay is [-] million taels per year, and the food and grass consumption is [-] million taels of silver, the total will not exceed [-] million taels. "

The abolishment of the original Liao salary of more than [-] million taels per year to [-] million taels is the most important thing for Zhu Youjian in the next three years besides rectifying the three towns in Shanxi.

"Three and a half million... just a place in Liaodong..."

Zhu Youxiao frowned, obviously very dissatisfied with Liaodong's [-] troops.

Zhu Youjian also understood his thoughts, so he comforted him:
"Brother, don't worry, not all of the [-] soldiers are stationed in Liaodong, and more importantly, they are going north."

"As long as Liaodong has [-] soldiers and horses, plus the mobilization of the [-]th Guards, then the Great Wall of Liaodong can be recovered first, and after going north to Tieling to open the plains, take down the Horqin tribe!"

"Horqin Department?" Zhu Youxiao asked puzzled, "That place is covered with snow for four or five months a year, what's so good about it?"

"The victory lies in the smoothness!" Zhu Youjian responded with a smile:
"Since the dismantling of the guards, didn't the emperor realize that there are too many hidden households in my Ming Dynasty?"

"That's true, but there are as many acres of land in Chaozhong, and even twice as many people can support them." Zhu Youxiao was very optimistic, but Zhu Youjian was not.

Perhaps as Zhu Youxiao said, the paper population of the two capitals and the thirteen provinces is twice that, and they can support them, or even triple them, and they can barely support them.

But the premise of all this is that there are no natural or man-made disasters.

But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty not only had to face natural disasters, but also had to face more than ten years of natural disasters!

Under such a natural disaster, it is impossible to feed more than [-] million people in Daming with the technological production of this era.

What we have to do is to open south and expand north, go west and go east!
Going east is for ocean trade, and expanding south is for recovering Jiaozhi and Myanmar.

Going west is the Western Regions and Uszang, while opening to the north is mainly the northeast, supplemented by the northern part of the country.

It has to be said that the territory of Qiuye Begonia opened up by the Qing Dynasty can be described as perfect. If you add the Ming Dynasty’s Sanxuan Liuwei and Jiaozhi in the southwest, as well as the old Hong Kong Xuanweisi in Malacca, it can be said to be the most perfect territory. .

In this era, Daming definitely has the largest population in the world.

The current population of Europe is only [-] to [-] million people, and now in Ming Dynasty, there are only [-] million males, so it is not surprising that the population is between [-] million and [-] million.

With such a large population, in this era of low productivity, once the population density is too high, it will be a dead end when encountering natural and man-made disasters.

There is still a glimmer of hope for development, even if it costs countless money and food, Zhu Youjian must make up his mind.

So he explained the advantages and disadvantages of Northeast to Brother Huang.

Generally speaking, the advantage of the Northeast right now is that the land is fertile and very flat, and it does not have as much miasma as in the Southwest.

The disadvantage is that the meadow is thick and densely forested, and it takes time and a lot of money to cultivate it.

For example, in the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe Plain reclaimed by Mangui, it took three years to start harvesting grain, and it took five years for the land output to be comparable to that in southern Liaoning.

In this era of low productivity, even with enough cattle, agricultural tools, and knives, one hundred thousand people can open up two to three hundred thousand mu of wasteland a year at most.

And the price of these [-] to [-] mu is at least two stone grains every three months.

[-] people and [-] cattle will reclaim at most [-] to [-] mu of land in three years, but they need to eat [-] million stone grains and [-] stone salt. Salt.

What is this concept?Daming's current one-year field tax can barely reach more than [-] million stone field tax income after Zhu Youjian's Yumajian handed over the land tax.

It is equivalent to saying that one-thirtieth of the fiscal revenue needs to be allocated every year to obtain [-] to [-] mu of land in three years.

If one million people cultivate it, only five or six million mu of arable land will be obtained in three years, but it will consume [-] million stone grains in three years.

Even if according to the military station, it is seven or three points away from the Yumajian, it will take twenty years to pay for the food and grass spent by the court.

If it is a feudal dynasty official with a normal mind, he will not think this is a good deal.

After all, this is twenty years, which is equivalent to one-fifteenth of the life span of a normal feudal dynasty.

In normal times, Zhu Youjian would not be willing to do this kind of business, but Zhu Youjian knew one thing, that is, Shaanxi will suffer from severe drought for more than ten years, and other places will also suffer.

In a province, except for the fields near the water source, which may be able to harvest food, the other fields can only be pitifully dry.

The only way to prevent them from rebelling is to provide disaster relief. Since disaster relief is required, they must be supported for more than ten years.

That being the case, it is better to move directly to other places and distribute food to them to cultivate new acres.

It is better to suffer for three years than to suffer for more than ten years, or even die in the world!
Moreover, right now is the only opportunity for Ming Dynasty to relocate people abroad, and this opportunity can only be said to be five years.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there will be a severe drought in Shaanxi, and then it will gradually spread, and the price of food will soar. At present, the food in Shaanxi is only four pennies a catty.

With the amount of fields in the Ming Dynasty, the amount of grain cultivated every year is more than one billion shi.

Even if you don't spend money to buy it, as long as you settle nearly [-] million mu of military farmland, even if you pay taxes on a seven-to-three basis, you will have more than [-] million shi a year.

These grains, excluding transportation losses, can be transported to the north with [-] million shi.

As long as the emperor supports his plan, after the abolition of the Tianxia Wei, Daming can maintain the annual number of three to four million people outside the Great Wall to cultivate people outside the Great Wall seven years before the apocalypse.

Time waits for no one, and Zhu Youjian can't wait that long, so after a simple calculation, he said:
"Don't worry about things outside the pass, brother, I will take care of it."

"What we need to do now is to reclaim the Three Guards of Daning first!"

"Three guards in Daning..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Youxiao absent-mindedly picked up a lychee and ate it:
"Can there be reclamation?"

"Yes, although it is a bit laborious, there are currently more than [-] cattle in Daning Sanwei, and there should be tens of thousands of cattle when we trade with the local barbarians." Zhu Youjian discussed:
"What I want is to send all the able-bodied people in the Nursing Home in Beizhili, as well as those who committed crimes in Beizhili, to the Sanwei of Daning."

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "That's a lot of people."

"I've seen the directory of the Beizhili Nursing and Jiyuan. There are about [-] people, including at least [-] prisoners. Are you sure that Daning can support so many people?"

"Naturally!" Zhu Youjian responded with a smile: "The grain of the Yumajian is more than enough for them to cultivate."

While responding, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but mutter in his heart what a hundred thousand people is.

After exchanging pastures with Zaisai now, this land is equivalent to Xinmin, Tai'an, Liaozhong and other places in later generations, and there are millions of acres that can be reclaimed.

If before Zhu Youjian was worried that he would not be able to reclaim land and cause waste of money and food, now that he has been affirmed by Man Gui and others, he has made up his mind heavily.

migrant!reclamation!
Anyway, it was a waste of food for those lazy people in the nursing home to stay in the nursing home, as well as the prisoners in Beizhili. It would be better to distribute the three guards in Daning to contribute to the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

"If you think it's okay, then let's do it." Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao didn't insist, and greeted Wei Zhongxian who was standing at the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation:
"Zhongxian, ask Wang Tiqian to draft an imperial decree to send all those with sound limbs and offenders from the Beizhili Nursing Home to the Sanwei of Daning."

"The maidservant leads the decree..." Wei Zhongxian heard the emperor calling him, and after returning the gift, he left to inform Wang Ti to do it.

But after he left, Zhu Youxiao said again:
"After talking about the replenishment of soldiers and horses, what about the more than [-] people in Shenyang?"

"The more than [-] people in Shenyang, according to my brother, should move all [-] people in the city to Zhenjiang, dismantle the [-] forts from Zhenjiang to Jinzhou, and order the Seven Guards to check the fields. , distributed to the [-] people."

"Didn't my brother say to stabilize the local generals and soldiers in Liaodong first?" Zhu Youxiao was puzzled, but Zhu Youjian said:

"Eastern Liaodong is no better than Western Liaoning, especially the generation from Jinzhou to Zhenjiang. Most of them are hills and plains, with a population of only [-] to [-] people. If they are carefully cultivated, there should be five to six million mu of arable land."

"At present, there are still a large number of hills in the Zhenjiang area that have not been reclaimed, and the five or six hundred thousand mu of military farmland in the army, so I dare to say that these people will be moved to the Zhenjiang area."

"However, for the relocation, I still need my brother to set up Zhenjiang as a state. Otherwise, with such a large population, it will be difficult to govern with a castle."

"It's not difficult, it's just that the food they need after they go to Zhenjiang Mintun..." Zhu Youxiao showed a look of embarrassment.

"Brother, let me tell you the truth. How much food do Taicang, Neijin, Liubu, Taipusi, etc. have?" Zhu Youjian smiled helplessly. He didn't expect that Daming would be in financial crisis just after entering June. .

To his question, Zhu Youxiao could only say helplessly as a brother:
"If you add them together, it's only more than [-] million stones of rice and wheat, and more than [-] million taels of silver."

"So, I still have a headache about how to pay the military salary of Liao Town. The salary owed and this year's military salary, the price of horses and silver, and luggage together, need [-] million taels, and there is still a shortfall of [-] taels."

"This..." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian was also speechless.

His Royal Horse Supervisor is rich, but the military salary of the Imperial Horse Supervisor is also paid every month. Although Lu Jianxing continues his life, the autumn harvest has not yet arrived, and the autumn tax has not yet been collected. After paying a million taels of silver, there are only [-] taels left.

Wanting here, Zhu Youjian can only grit his teeth and say:
"There are still more than [-] million stone grains in the Yumajian. The minister first ordered people to transport [-] stone grains to Zhenjiang, and asked the emperor to let Taicang transport [-] stone grains to Zhenjiang, and then transport [-] stone grains to Shenyang. .”

"In this way, we should be able to persist until May of next year. At that time, the Yumajian will transport another [-] stone grains to Zhenjiang, which should allow the people to persist until the autumn harvest."

"Ah..." Hearing what his younger brother said, Principal Zhu You sighed and said:
"It's letting my brother worry about family affairs."

"What kind of talk is this? Besides, my younger brother will also enter a new account." Zhu Youjian said with a smile, making the emperor's brother look surprised:
"what do you mean……"

"My brother is going to attack the six prefectures and two prefectures of Hejian in Northern Zhili, and the whole of Shanxi!" Zhu Youjian's eyes were burning.

He really didn't have the patience to wait any longer. There was not enough time for him to do what he wanted seven years before the apocalypse, so he had to speed up.

"At the beginning of the year, dozens of guards in the Second Mansion were just abolished, and now they are doing it again. Is it too hasty?"

Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao, who was anxious to solve the three towns in Shanxi, hesitated, and Zhu Youjian said:
"Time doesn't wait for us. If the old slave invades Liaodong next year, and with the increase of soldiers and horses in Liaodong next year, the court's taxes will be unaffordable."

"As long as the Seven Guards return to defense, they can use their swords after the autumn harvest!"

"Can one hundred thousand soldiers suppress Beizhili and Shanxi?" Zhu Youxiao frowned.

This matter is very important. If the repression is successful, then according to Zhu Youjian's previous changes, once the military settlements in Beizhili and Shanxi are abolished, the Yumajian will collect at least seven or eight million shi of grain, three or four hundred Ten thousand taels of taxation.

This sum of money will be able to solve the Liaodong problem.

But if it fails, it may cause the rebellion of the three towns in Shanxi!
Although Zhu Youjian assured that the three towns in Shanxi currently have less than [-] combatable soldiers, no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents.

"Brother, trust me!" Zhu Youjian looked at Brother Huang with a serious face.

"I... well... Forget it, brother, give me some time to think about it." Zhu Youxiao was still a little worried, so he needed some time to think about it.

But Zhu Youjian didn't force him, but nodded slightly, and then said:

"Brother, don't worry about the matter in Zhenjiang Prefecture. Then I will let Qi Jin lead the Zhejiang soldiers and escort the people to Zhenjiang."

"Well, if you just do it, the officials will not be embarrassed, but there is one thing..." Zhu Youxiao paused and said:

"Shenyang's millions of acres of arable land, if so many people have been relocated, how can the remaining tens of thousands of people cultivate it?"

"Brother, don't worry, you just need to let Xiong Tingbi move the people in western Liaoning to farm." Zhu Youjian responded, thinking in his mind.

If Xiong Tingbi relocated the people in western Liaoning, then the population density in western Liaoning could be reduced.

When necessary, the people of Shanxi can be sent to Beizhili, and the people of Beizhili can be sent to Liaoxi.

But he didn't say it, because it was too early, and the most important thing at the moment was to restore Daming's finances to a positive number.

As long as Daming's finances are normal, many problems will not be problems.

As for how to solve the financial problem, the guard is one aspect, but the more important aspect is to rely on one thing.

private salt...

　Because I have to go to the hospital for a follow-up visit, there is only one update today

　　
　
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