Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 151
"Then, let's see, what is this word?"

On August [-]th, in a classroom in Yanshan Institute, the teacher dipped a brush into ink and wrote on a wooden board. He turned around and looked at the twenty or so students in the classroom.

"Muslim, this is the character for 人!"

In the crowd, Li Zicheng, who had studied for a few days because he became a monk, stood up and answered.

At this time, the teacher also smiled and said, "Then tell me, what does this person mean?"

"People are scholars, Juren and officials. Ai Juren said we are mud legs and livestock, but mother said we are not as good as livestock, because it costs fifty yuan to hire a cow, but my parents can't earn fifty yuan in three days. arts."

At this time, next to Li Zicheng, Li Zijing, who was only ten years old, rushed to answer.

His answer instantly silenced the entire classroom, and at the same time silenced Zhu Youjian who was outside the classroom.

Despite knowing that the strong prey on the weak, that man competes against nature, and that class will never disappear, this answer silences.

Speaking of it, Zhu Youjian may be one of the most contradictory people in this era.

In his previous life, he was the lower class, but in this life, he has become the top class.

When productivity is insufficient and everyone is exploiting, he still thinks in his heart to free the people from poverty and hunger.

This is where he is incompatible with the current world, and he needs to make a choice.

He can't abandon his royal brother because he thinks about the people, nor can he abandon the people for his own brother.

People are like water, water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it.

Let the people have enough food, have a path to rise, and hope to rise, so that the people will be stable, the Ming Dynasty will be stable, and the emperor's brother's throne will be stable.

"Let's go..."

As if stung by what Li Zijing said, Zhu Youjian said, and left with a few Jin Yiwei.

He walked out of Yanshan Office, turned around and took a look here before leaving.

Like Yanshan Daying, after expansion, the number of students here has reached more than [-].

This is a frightening number. You must know that the total number of civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty is only more than [-].

If after five years, the students of Yanshan Institute become talented, then these [-] people will be enough to replace one-third of the officials of Ming Dynasty.

If a small number of them are promoted to official positions and most of them are made subordinates, then they can completely control the land of a province.

What kind of speed is this?If there are [-] students enrolled every year, then it will only take ten years for Zhu Youjian to control ten provinces, and it will still be at the level of imperial power going to the countryside.

But he doesn't need such tight power, he only needs to master the county magistrate, and the county officials who are responsible for collecting land taxes and counting the population and acres of land are enough.

Therefore, more than [-] people are enough to control two provinces, which means that it only takes eight years for Zhu Youjian to control the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the world.

Eight years later, he was only nineteen years old, and his imperial brother was only twenty-four years old.

That was when they were at the peak of their youth, and he himself probably had already laid down a large territory and almost managed the overseas domains.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian got on his horse and rode slowly towards Yanshan Camp.

At this time, Wang Chengen, who was going to see the situation in the briquette kiln, also came on horseback, and joined Zhu Youjian and others.

"Your Highness, winter is about to enter. Right now, the three Mongolian tribes of Tumed, Tuman, and Harqin all love our briquettes."

"Wai Khalkha and the Tatars in the north also know about briquettes. It is estimated that before winter, they can sell much more briquettes than in previous years."

"Taking advantage of this opportunity, we should be able to exchange for many military horses, cattle and sheep."

"You can figure it out. You can also take advantage of this time to sell private salt." Zhu Youjian confessed:
"I have already asked the emperor to get the exchange market location of the Tatar and Barbarians to Daning Zhongwei."

"The two of them plus Karaqin, probably have a lot of needs for more than [-] northern captives."

"Including the northern captives from the Tumote Department in Zhangjiakou, this year should be able to sell twice as much honeycomb coal as in previous years, and there are still a lot of private salt."

"By the way, what happened to Mangui?" Zhu Youjian asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen also explained with a smile:
"At the beginning of the month, the idlers from the nursing homes in Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion sent more than [-] people there, and the soldiers and horses of the Three Guards of Daning also sent them there."

"This has reduced the pressure on the Yanshan camp a lot. Not to mention, more than [-] people have dug the earth to build the city, and in half a month, they built an outer city that can accommodate [-] people on the original site of the Bayo department. .”

"Right now it's called Daning Zhongwei, the south is the defender, and the northeast is the avant-garde."

"Currently, there are still [-] to [-] lazy people sent to the Sanwei Sanwei Nursing Home and criminals from various county governments. Sending these people out will reduce the burden on the governor of Shuntian Prefecture."

"The only thing that needs attention is the food for these hundreds of thousands of people."

"Slave and maidservant do the math, one person has ninety catties of rice, half a catty of oil, four taels of salt, three catties of meat and ten catties of vegetables per month."

"Vegetables and oil can be grown on the land reclaimed by Zhongwei in Daning, which is basically enough, but one year's calculation still requires seven stones of rice, thirty-six catties of meat, and three catties of salt."

At the end, Wang Cheng'en said: "It's impossible not to eat meat, and they don't have the energy to cultivate, so almost these people have to eat hundreds of thousands of chickens and ducks, more than [-] shi, and [-] shi salt a year."

For what Wang Chengen said, these materials should be invested for at least three years, and in the fourth year, the fields in Daning Sanwei can support these people, and the annual investment is [-] million taels in silver.

"In Haitang Mountain in the north of Guangning, there are more than [-] miles from east to west and [-] miles from north to south. It is enough to raise tens of thousands of chickens and ducks and open up [-] officialdoms."

"The poultry and meat there should be used for reclamation in Sanwei, Daning."

Zhu Youjian opened his mouth and set the rules of Daning Sanwei for self-sufficiency in meat.

As for Mimai, more than [-] shi was within acceptable range for Zhu Youjian.

There are [-] people, and the rice consumption in three years is only more than two million shi. This food can be easily obtained, and they can be used as an experiment to see how much food and time it takes to reclaim one mu of Liaohe Plain.

"How is the opening of the imperial store?"

"Return to Your Highness" Wang Chengen responded:
"At present, Huangdian has reached Xi'an in the west, Luoyang in the south, and Denglai in the east."

"In the Liaodong area, Shenyang, Liaoyang, Jinzhou, and Kuandian were also opened."

"However, salt cooking is popular in Liaodong, so the Huangdian can only sell some briquettes."

"Some income is good." Zhu Youjian replied:

"How about the saltworks?"

"More than [-] mu of salt fields have been opened up, and now there are more than [-] mu of salt fields," Wang Chengen responded, then hesitated and said:
"However, recently, there are always some people spying on the saltworks..."

"Don't worry about them, they're just clowns." Zhu Youjian waved his hand, and at the same time led people into the Yanshan Camp.

Wang Chengen followed closely, but Zhu Youjian paused suddenly, then turned his head and said, "How is Li Rubai?"

Wang Chengen was taken aback when he heard the words, and then said: "After being dismissed and returning home, he has been staying behind closed doors in the mansion in the capital."

"However, some people and officials often pass by to ridicule him. I heard that he is not in good spirits. I'm afraid..."

"Let him write a letter to scold his younger brother who surrendered to the prisoner, and then send someone to find the emperor and pardon Li Ruzhen." When Zhu Youjian opened his mouth, Wang Chengen showed embarrassment and said:

"Your Highness, it is said that the Li family is connected with the captives, so to save the Li family at this time, I am afraid..."

"Keep them, and we will use them when we solve the Liaodong affairs in the future." Zhu Youjian replied, and said:

"After Li Ruzhen was rescued, Li Rubai was transferred to the northwest to serve as the chief soldier, and Li Ruzhen was transferred to be the deputy chief soldier."

"Just tell Brother Huang that the two of them are useful to Liao affairs, and Brother Huang should agree."

"Your maidservant takes orders..." Wang Chengen could only bow in response when he heard the words.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian continued to walk forward, and then heard enthusiastic shouts.

I saw a battalion of soldiers and horses running out of the barracks, and under the leadership of Cao Wenzhao, ran towards the outside of the camp.

This was running exercises, Zhu Youjian took a look and then looked away, and went to the armory with Wang Chengen detour.

When they came to the armory, there were loads of armor packed in wooden boxes on the open space of the armory, and there were thousands of vehicles.

Liu Fan from the Ordnance Institute, who was chatting with someone while taking notes, saw Zhu Youjian approaching, and bowed from a long distance and said:
"Your Highness, this is the gunpowder and armor sent by the Jingcheng Armor Factory."

Zhu Youjian strode over, stretched out his hand and picked up a cloth mask and shook it, looked inside and outside, checked the arm armor and pocket, and finally put it down with satisfaction.

"The quality of this batch of armor is good, let Sun Hao do it well."

"The maidservant takes orders..." The eunuch in charge of the escort returned the gift, and Zhu Youjian asked:
"Is there any Kuyin in the armor factory now? How many armors are out of the moon?"

"I'm about to tell His Highness about this matter." The escort eunuch said cautiously:

"The silver in the armor factory has been used up. Sun Zhangyin wants to ask His Highness how much more armor is needed. In addition, the armor factory currently has more than [-] skilled craftsmen, and the monthly output is about [-]."

"Including mandarin duck battle coat, pocket guard, gauntlet, neck armor, hat-shaped helmet, waist-length chain mail, cotton armor, cloth face armor, belt, combat boots, long knife, and pumpkin hammer."

"In addition, objects such as boring palladium and spears are made according to the material files of the commanders of the guards."

After the escort eunuch finished speaking, Zhu Youjian nodded slightly and then said to him:

"How many pieces of armor and gunpowder are here?"

"Return to Your Highness, seven thousand six hundred and thirty-two pieces, one hundred and forty thousand catties of gunpowder." Liu Fan bowed in response, because he had just memorized the answer to this question when it was handed over.

"Then make another [-] armors, and besides..." Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Chengen and said:

"How much silver is left in the treasury?"

"Returning to Your Highness, there are still 109 taels of treasury silver and 4054 shi of military rations." Wang Chengen responded, but did not forget to remind:

"The autumn harvest in the north field of the Yumajian has ended, and the harvest document has been sent to the Yumajian this morning, and it is now on the desk in His Highness's study."

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian replied, and said to Liu Fan:

"How about the riding guns and rifles in the armory, craftsmen? What about the artillery factory?"

Wang Chengen closed his mouth, knowing that His Royal Highness was not going to say this here, but Liu Fan opened the mouth and said:

"At present, there are [-] ordnance craftsmen and [-] apprentices. They can produce about [-] riding guns and [-] rifles every month."

"The Artillery Factory has two months left before the female model is ready, and then it can start casting cannons. There are three hundred and twenty-seven cannon-casting craftsmen and seven hundred and thirty-five apprentices."

"Last year, a total of three hundred [-]-jin cannons, [-] clay molds for [-]-jin cannons, [-] clay molds for [-]-jin cannons, and [-] [-]-jin cannons were cast in the shade. If all the clay models are used up within a month, the probability of a good shot is unknown..."

Speaking of this, Liu Fan was a little embarrassed, but Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, very satisfied.

He has gone to see the clay models in the Artillery Factory. The appearance and shape are very similar to the Napoleon cannons he painted. Pounder.

With the gun carriage and gun carriage, the total weight of the artillery is about [-] jin, and the range is two miles.

The [-]-jin cannon has a total weight of [-] jin, and the [-]-pound cannon has a range of three miles.

The [-]-jin artillery and the [-]-jin artillery are the [-]-pound and [-]-pound cannons reserved for the three guards of the navy.

These two types of artillery have nothing to do with land warfare, because judging from the road conditions in the East Asian battlefield, it is better to get more twelve-pounders and six-pounders instead of pulling them to the battlefield.

After the conversion, Zhu Youjian said: "Remember to write down the weight of the bullets on the cannon."

"In the future, the artillery will not be called by the weight of the artillery, but by the weight of the stone bullet."

"Yes!" Liu Fan bowed in response, and Zhu Youjian said again:

"The artisans and apprentices of the riding guns can be assigned to the rifles. It is enough to keep producing [-] rifles per month, and it is best to reach [-] rifles."

Liu Fan saluted again, and when Zhu Youjian saw this, he didn't say anything anymore, he walked around and took a look around, and then took Wang Chengen back to the Yumajian yamen.

He sat in his study room and picked up the statistics booklets from all over the North Field, and Wang Chengen also explained:

"All the fields in Beichang harvested more than 3540 million shi. After the people handed in the land tax, the Yumajian received 1062 million shi. "

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen said again: "The officials of the household department have already arrived at the military camps in various places to wait."

"Hand it over..." Zhu Youjian sneered when he heard the attitude of the household official.

It is interesting to dare not to collect the land tax of the powerful and evil gentry, but dare to come to collect yourself.

But after lightly scoffing, Zhu Youjian said again: "It's just that the land tax can be handed over, even two million shi, but the land tax of the Yumajian needs to be set up as a separate library."

After all, Zhu Youjian said:
"Tell the officials of the Ministry of Households, let them not worry, the food will be converted into silver and handed over to the Ministry of Households. As for when to hand it over, it depends on when the new bank of the Ministry of Households will be ready."

"But the ugly thing is that the bank is supervised by the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Jinyiwei. The household department needs to transfer the money and needs the escort of the Jinyiwei and the Sixteen Guards from the Fusi of Nanzhen."

"I'm afraid they will find it difficult to accept this condition." Wang Chengen frowned, knowing that the condition was too harsh.

But Zhu Youjian said to him: "You still want to be an uncle if you want money? Is there something wrong with the officials of the household department?"

"Tell them that if they don't set up a new bank, my land tax will be handed over to the internal funds."

Zhu Youjian sneered in his heart. If he foolishly gave the grain or money directly to the household department, with the character of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, it is still a question of how much of the money can be distributed to the localities and the Nine Borders.

Want to pay the land tax?Can!Want to use silver?also can!

The household department made a report, the imperial horse inspector approved the note, and the sixteen guards sent people to escort them.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian put down the document and said to Wang Chengen:

"The grain in the south field should have just started to be harvested, right?"

"Return to Your Highness, it is like this." Wang Chengen responded, and Zhu Youjian also said when he saw this:

"If that's the case, transfer the Nanchang ship and ask Lu Jianxing to go to Tianjin and wait."

"Out of the 1062 million stone field Fu, two million stones will be left, and the rest will be handed over to Lu Jianxing, who will be sold in batches in Liaodong."

With a wave of Zhu Youjian's hand, the problem of the whereabouts of more than [-] million shi of grain was solved.

When these grains arrived in Liaodong, with the population size of Liaodong, it was enough to raise the price of grain in Liaodong from one tael to seven or eight hundred wen a stone.

Coupled with the grain purchased from Sichuan and Huguang after being sold by Nanchang and Lu Jianxing, the price of grain in Liaodong can return to the level of ten years in Wanli in just one or two years.

At this time, when Qin Liangyu's [-] Liao soldiers and Qi Yuanbi's [-] Zhejiang soldiers return to aid, Nurhachi will have his head broken if he dares to fight.

The only thing to pay attention to is that the price of grain in Liaodong is stable, and there may be a possibility of Huili Nurhachi.

Liaodong Han merchants and Korean merchants, these guys don't care about morality and law. As long as Nurhachi gives enough money, they will dare to do things that others dare not do.

"Let Li Ruolian's Beizhen Fusi take a good look at Liaodong. I think there will be many people who will take risks to sell food and build prisoners in order to make money."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen saluted first, and then said:
"Your Highness, Lu Jianxing already has a lot of money in his hands, should he take advantage of this time and let him spend all the money to test him?"

When Wang Chengen said this, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly.

In his heart, he was really dissatisfied with Lu Jianxing's practice of only handing over half of the millions of taels he earned.

It just so happened that this time he was announced to go north, and he had to buy grain from Sichuan and Huguang anyway, so it was better to give him a try.

"Let him use all the silver in his hand to buy grain, and then sell it in Liaodong."

Lu Jianxing still has about seven or eight hundred thousand taels in his hand. According to the grain prices in Sichuan and Huguang, this amount of money is enough to buy more than two million shi of grain.

At that time, it will be sold together with the grain from the North and South Fields. It is not difficult to imagine how big a splash this [-] million shi grain will make in Liaodong.

At that time, tens of millions of taels of silver will be sold, so there is no need to worry about the financial problems of the Yumajian.

But just when Zhu Youjian was thinking this way, hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, and then he walked to the door.

A brocade guard Qianhu in scarlet clothes bowed at the door and said:
"Your Highness, there is one thing you need to see..."

After that, he handed out the handwriting in his hand, and Zhu Youjian also took the handwriting with a frown.

There were not many words in the handwriting, but it made Zhu Youjian feel terrified.

[Extravagant Chongming wants to join Song An's two clans]

Just one sentence made Zhu Youjian tightly hold the letter in his hand. After taking a deep breath, he put the handwritten letter on the table.

He closed his eyes, and went through the chaos of She'an in his mind.

The She'an Rebellion was originally a farce in which She Chongming went to Chongqing by aiding Liao, and then killed Xu Keqiu and became the leader of the country.

But because She Chongming's younger sister was the mother of the chieftain of the Shui'an family at that time, An Bangyan took the opportunity to encourage the mother and son to rebel, and then joined forces with the Shuidong Song family and chieftains from all over the country to rebel.

An Bangyan led [-] Yi soldiers to Bijie to launch a rebellion under the pretext of encircling and suppressing Shechongming, calling himself the "King of Luodian".

As soon as he rebelled, most of the chieftains in Guizhou immediately began to rebel. An Bangyan also led troops to surround Guiyang, claiming to break through Chenzhou, break into Changde, take Jingzhou, and reach the Central Plains.

His rebellion shocked the Ming court, and immediately ordered the towns around Guizhou to send elite soldiers to help, and transferred [-] officers and troops from the three provinces of Huguang, Yunnan, and Guangxi to Guizhou.

This battle mobilized troops from Yunnan, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangxi, and Guangdong provinces. From the first year of Tianqi to the tenth year of Chongzhen, it took a total of [-] years to end.

It plunged the historical Ming Dynasty into a situation where chieftains rebelled in the southwest, hungry people revolted in the northwest, Jurchens were rampant in the northeast, and Holland invaded in the southeast.

The Shui'an family, the leader of the rebellion, occupied Guizhou from the first year of Jianxing in the Shu Han Dynasty, a total of 1398 years.

Its forces have a deep foundation in Shuixi, the strongest military force, and the largest area.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty always relied on Shuixi to suppress the rebellion in the southwest. For example, the Yang Yinglong Rebellion in Bozhou [-] years earlier than the She'an Rebellion, without the An family, Guiyang would have already fallen.

Therefore, when Zhu Youjian learned that She Chongming had cheated on An and Song, he knew the situation was getting worse.

Under the three chieftains, there are hundreds of small chieftains, and their soldiers and horses are nearly [-]. Although the elite are [-] to [-] Yi soldiers under the command of the chieftains of the three clans, their strength cannot be underestimated.

Right now his arrangements are Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, Hong Chengchou, and Qin Liangyu.

Their soldiers and horses add up to nearly [-] people, but [-] Sichuan soldiers have been transferred by themselves. At present, Ma Xianglin is leading the troops and has arrived in Jingzhou.

"The soldiers and horses must be transferred back, and then the mess will be cut quickly!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian immediately opened his eyes, and said to Wang Chengen:

"Eight hundred miles, hurry up, let Ma Xianglin immediately dispatch his troops back to Shizhu, and then tell the emperor about She Chongming's move!"

"Also, another life..."

Zhu Youjian paused. He originally wanted Qi Yuanbi to support Southwest, but Nurhachi was more fearful than extravagance and Chongming.

In addition, it was the time when taxes were transported to the north. In order to guard against Jiangnan's tax arrears, Jiangnan also needed soldiers and horses to intimidate him, so Qi Yuanbi could not move for the time being.

"Forget it, let Ma Xianglin lead the troops back to the stone pillar first. I will personally tell Brother Huang about this matter, prepare the horses!"

After all, Zhu Youjian was about to walk out the door, but when Wang Chengen saw this, he quickly asked Jin Yiwei to prepare his horse.

Zhu Youjian knew in his heart that once the She'an Rebellion broke out in this situation, the situation would not be much better than in history.

Sun Chuanting and the others are brave and good at fighting, but after all, it is the first time to lead the army. Besides, Guizhou is different from the north. If they are a little careless, will it also lead to the rebellion of the chieftains in Yunnan?Even he didn't have the confidence to bet...

Thinking of having just pacified Liaodong and facing the upcoming rebellion in the southwest, Zhu Youjian's heart sank...

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