Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 258
"Great victory in the Hetao! Great victory in the Hetao!"

"The king of Qi led the army to smash the captives' bag in Bansheng City, beheading more than ten thousand people!"

"The king of Qi led the army to break through the five major captives in Langshan, and beheaded seven thousand!"

"The king of Qi led the army to march north for seven hundred miles, broke through the three major groups of captives, beheaded more than ten thousand people!"

"Your Majesty announced to the world that he will distribute acres of land in Hetao and Old Port to the common people. Those who voluntarily relocate will receive ten acres of land. The Old Port will be exempt from taxes for one year, and Hetao will be exempt from taxes for three years."

"Regardless of men, women, old or weak, those who move to Hetao will be given [-] shi of food per person, and one cattle per household!"

"Those who relocate to the old port will be given ten stones of grain per person, and one cattle and one horse for each household!"

On March [-]th of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, with Tangqi's notice posted, more than [-] counties and tens of thousands of villages in Daming, and hundreds of millions of people knew about the relocation and the great victory.

Once this kind of thing starts, the first to respond are those who are poor to the point of death.

It just so happened that there were not many such people in the late Ming Dynasty...

"Give me one! There are twelve people in my family, give me one!"

"I want one too! I want one!"

"My son is studying at Yanshan Academy, and he is King Qi's servant, give me one!"

"Give it to me! I want one!"

Shuofang Mansion and Li Jiqian Village in Mizhi County, when Qi Wangfu sent scribes and soldiers to count the relocated population, most of the poor villagers in Li Jiqian Village signed up enthusiastically.

"Li Shouzhong! Your family, Hongji and the third child, have both entered Yanshan Academy, why are you here to grab?"

In the crowded crowd, some people laughed and scolded a thin old man in his forties, and the man responded with grinning yellow teeth:
"My second child is no longer called Li Hongji. His Royal Highness Qi Wang personally changed his name to Li Zicheng."

The old man puffed out his chest proudly, while the people next to him laughed and scolded him for bragging and not drafting.

He didn't bother to refute, and directly squeezed to the front, and said to the scribe behind the table:
"My lord, both my second child and third child have entered Yanshan Academy. His Royal Highness Qi Wang even helped my second child to be named Li Zicheng. Can you give me an immigration certificate?"

"You have to move after entering Yanshan Academy? Wouldn't it be good to wait for your son to come out and become an official?" The clerk laughed and joked after hearing the general idea.

"After all, the official is a matter of the next few years, and he still has to eat right now?" Li Shouzhong smiled awkwardly, and the official shook his head and said:

"Tell me, how many people are in the family, I will register for you."

"Both men and women are counted. There are three brothers in my family, a total of seventeen people." Li Shouzhong was afraid that the other party would repent, so he quickly reported it, and the official repeated:
"Li Shouzhong, three brothers, three households, seventeen people, [-] mu of land, three cattle, and five hundred and ten shi of grain."

He was talking, and the soldiers next to him were also tearing off some stamped paper scrolls, and then handed these hundreds of scrolls, which were three fingers wide and one finger long, to Li Shouzhong.

The clerk also explained carefully: "These are cattle tickets, these are field tickets, and these are grain tickets."

"I have to make it clear to you that the land in your hands was issued to you by the imperial court, but your land is a relocation area and cannot be traded."

"After the field tickets, cattle tickets, and food tickets arrive at the relocation place, they can be exchanged for cattle, grain, and fields according to the book value."

"After the relocation, your fields will need to be reclaimed by yourself, but the land in Hetao is easy to reclaim in summer, so don't worry."

"Food stamps can only be exchanged for food, but don't worry about salt and vegetables. The imperial court will recruit you as corvees to build post roads, but you will be paid [-] Wen a day."

"With wages, you can buy these things yourself."

"As for the farm cattle, although the imperial court has distributed them to you, you need to return two of them to the imperial court within ten years."

"That is to say, if your farm cattle give birth to calves in the future, they will need to return two calves to the court after they are raised."

"As for the tax on the land, it is exempt from tax for the first three years, but after three years, what is the tax of the Yumajian, and how much you need to pay, but the tax will not exceed [-]%."

"Have you heard everything clearly? There is no problem, right? If there is no problem, go home and wait for the wind and snow to stop, and then go north with the army to the resettlement site."

"No problem, no problem..." Hearing the scribe's words, Li Shouzhong only felt that the paper note in his hand was heavy, while he was in high spirits.

He didn't care about the [-]% tax and the six cattle. After all, he now had [-] mu of land, three cattle, and food stamps that could be exchanged for five hundred and ten shi.

With these, he can survive until his two sons are in their early years.

Thinking of this, Li Shouzhong returned home happily, and people like him can be found everywhere in Shuofang Mansion.

People in Shaanxi, which is densely populated and sparsely cultivated, began to migrate in large numbers, and places like Fujian and Guangdong were crazier than them.

Surprisingly, in the most densely populated areas of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, there are not many people who want to migrate.

"How come there are so few migrants from Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang?"

Hexi, Zhangye...

When Zhu Youjian, who was dressed in coarse linen, spoke, the expression on his face was very unnatural.

At this moment, he is standing on the cultivated land in Zhangye County, Ganzhou Prefecture. Looking around, there is a vast expanse of cultivated land, and behind him is the towering Qilian Mountains.

Zhangye is adjacent to Qilian Mountains in the south, Heli Mountains and Longshou Mountains in the north, and the Heihe River runs through the whole area. The terrain in the territory is flat, plus the Zhangye River passes by and the Qilian Mountains are nourished by the melting snow. This place can be said to be one of the few places in Hexi. Treasure land.

Zhu Youjian inspected from Jiayuguan to the east last month, and he has only come to Zhangye in the middle of Hexi, but he also has a lot of thoughts along the way.

One of the biggest impressions is the issue of immigration.

Therefore, when he found that there were not many people migrating in the three densely populated Jiangnan provinces, he felt uncomfortable instantly.

If not many people migrated, then the Old Port would only be a wealthy version of Hexi.

He walked along the way, and what he saw was the return to the Mongols and a large number of Hui and Han people living together.

But this kind of life is very rough and savage.

A large number of Buddhist and other religious temples can be seen everywhere, and many people go to the temples to escape corvee.

The local yellow book is also a mess, and the statistics of the population and acres are a mess.

Just like the two books he was holding in his hand at the moment, it fully explained how confused this Hexi yellow book was.

"If I don't check, I don't know that this piece of land can have millions of acres and a population of [-]!"

Zhu Youjian threw the yellow book in his hand to Sun Chuanting who was standing aside, and after Sun Chuanting caught it, he also said with shame:

"In the land of Hexi, not only is the yellow book confused, but also my "Law of the Ming Dynasty" has not been properly implemented."

"There is a regulation in the "House Law" of the "Da Ming Law" that Mongols and Hui people are not allowed to marry their own people. If they violate it, they will pay [-] points, and their children will be demoted to slaves."

"And demand that Mongolian Huihui intermarry with Han people, wear Han clothes and use Han rituals, and completely Sinicize the language and lifestyle."

"However, along the way, there have been many private intermarriages between Mongolia and Huihui, and even if they are intermarrying with Han women, Han women are required to follow their beliefs."

"In this way, after a hundred years, wouldn't all the places in the west of the Ming Dynasty become..."

"Okay." Zhu Youjian interrupted Sun Chuanting, then glanced at the field in front of him and said:
"Whether you are a Mongol, a Sogdian, or a Hui, or a Uyghur, in short, follow the strict requirements of the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" formulated by Emperor Taizu Gao!"

"In addition, change all their household registrations to Han Chinese!"

"What's the point of always filling in Tatar and Wala on the household registration? Since I entered the Ming Dynasty, there is only one ethnic group, and local officials and subordinates cannot be discriminated against!"

Zhu Youjian was rarely angry. After all, if the policies formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang were implemented, Hexi would have been completely Han territory long ago.

As a result, this group of officials and subordinates in Hexi did not mention corruption and violate the law, and concealed the population of the fields, but they did not even implement the "Law of the Ming Dynasty".

Zhu Youjian is now glad that he has come to Hexi. If he hadn't come, he wouldn't have known that officials in Hexi would dare to do this!

Similarly, he was angry, and a Pentecostal civil servant behind him also stepped forward and bowed:
"Your Highness, Hexi's poor governance is the fault of the lower officials. Your Highness Qing punishes the crime..."

"Mei Buzheng is not guilty." Zhu Youjian turned around and glanced at Mei Zhihuan who was pleading guilty, raised his hand to help him up, and then said:

"Gu has already inquired about it. Since Mebu's envoy arrived in Hexi, he has already rectified the bureaucracy and customs."

"What happened in Hexi did not happen overnight, it was caused by the inaction of successive officials."

"Meibu's political envoy is not only innocent, but also meritorious, and needs to be rewarded!"

Zhu Youjian is not trying to win people's hearts, but his true feelings.

Since he came to Hexi, all he heard was praises from the common people for Mei Zhihuan.

Mei Zhihuan used the thousands of taels of silver saved in Hexi every year to forcibly mobilize the people to dig and open canals in Hexi, and reclaim tens of thousands of acres of land.

You must know that this is the case without the support of Zhu Youjian and the court, and this place is still Hexi.

Zhu Youjian attached great importance to Mei Zhihuan. In order to restore the people's livelihood in Hexi, he helped Mei Zhihuan and said:
"The military garrison in Hexi has been inspected, and the local tycoons have also been cleaned up..."

Then, Zhu Youjian turned around and asked, "Sun Shoufa, tell the political envoy Meibu how many things Shangzhi has seized!"

"Return to Your Highness, Mei Bu Political Envoy..." Sun Shoufa heard the words, and immediately replied:
"Confiscated [-] powerful families who invaded the pastures of Taipu Temple, and [-] families who embezzled the land and did not return it. A total of more than [-] taels of gold, more than [-] taels of silver, and [-] grains of fodder were confiscated. Thousands of stones, as well as fields and jewels that cannot be counted."

Sun Shoufa's words stunned Sun Chuanting, Mei Zhihuan, Li Rubai, Li Rumei, Wang Chengen, Cao Bianjiao, Cao Meng and others present.

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian also took a booklet from Jin Yiwei next to him and said:

"The land of Hexi has been cleared three times before and after, with a total population of more than [-] million and more than [-] million mu of land."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian handed over the document to Mei Zhihuan, and explained earnestly:
"Mr. Xintian (Mei Zhihuan's own name), I can rest assured that the land of Hexi is still in your hands."

"Gudu will help you clean up everything that governs Hexi right now, and what Gu wants is very simple."

"Encourage the people to reclaim fields, especially official fields. Only when more fields are reclaimed can Hexi recover its appearance in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty."

Zhu Youjian seemed to speak earnestly, but in fact he knew that he was drawing a big cake.

After all, the temperature in the prosperous Tang Dynasty was two or three degrees higher than that in the late Ming Dynasty. The simple question of two or three degrees represents the desertification of the land and the result of desertification.

If the temperature doesn't get warmer, the snow in Qilian Mountains will melt. Even if Mei Zhihuan wears out his hands, he won't be able to recover Hexi in the heyday of Tang Dynasty.

However, he had to put some pressure on Mei Zhihuan, so after he finished speaking, he confessed:

"In the land of Hexi, although I haven't been to Liangzhou and Xining, I have roughly seen that it is not difficult to reclaim tens of millions of acres within ten years."

"If there is not enough manpower in Hexi, people from Shaanxi can immigrate here alone."

Zhu Youjian gave a small goal, and Mei Zhihuan knew what he meant when he heard the words, so he started to ask his own questions.

"Your Highness, Hexi can actually reclaim [-] million mu if you want, but you have also seen that Hu and Han live here mixed together, and the imperial court's order cannot be carried out."

"Therefore, Your Highness, please ask the Northern Army Governor's Mansion to station soldiers and horses in every county in Hexi, and allocate a large amount of money and food to encourage the people to move, so that the feat of reclaiming [-] million mu can be achieved."

"If there are five million people in Hexi, it will not be difficult to increase the number of acres in the territory to thirty million within ten years."

Mei Zhihuan dared to say this sentence, so he was sure in his heart.

After all, just the foot of the Qilian Mountains is enough for the people in Hexi to reclaim more than [-] million mu. If you add other places with water sources, it can be said that [-] to [-] million mu is not a problem.

What troubles Hexi is not the climate, but the people.

"Okay!" Facing Mei Zhihuan's "big breath", Zhu Youjian also nodded with a smile:

"If there are disaster victims, I will arrange them to Hexi, but what you need to do right now is to double the number of acres in Hexi."

"As long as there is enough money, grain and cattle, it's not difficult!" Mei Zhihuan responded directly, and Zhu Youjian also turned to Cao Wenzhao when he heard the words:

"How many cattle, horses and flocks have we captured in the double-set battle?"

"Returning to Your Highness, a total of more than [-] cattle, more than [-] million sheep, [-] poor horses, and [-] qualified army horses were captured." Cao Wenzhao's words replicated the results of the First World War. It is equivalent to saying it.

The attack on Hetao allowed Daming to obtain more than [-] million cattle, sheep and horses, not to mention the price of sheep, the more than [-] farm cattle alone represented the productivity that liberated the hands of millions of people.

However, it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to leave all the cattle to Hexi, because compared with Hexi, Hetao and Liaodong are the places that need cattle most.

So he could only open his mouth and say: "I will leave [-] cattle for you, and I will keep the remaining [-] cattle in Hetao and take them to Liaodong."

"As for the flock of sheep, poor horses, and military horses, I plan to divide them into three parts and graze in Hexi, Houtao, and Qiantao respectively."

"Your Highness is wise!" Upon hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Mei Zhihuan bowed immediately:
"With these more than [-] cattle, the speed of reclaiming new fields will be greatly accelerated."

"Hmm..." Seeing Mei Zhihuan's appearance, Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and then said:
"I'll leave Hexi's affairs to you. Don't worry if you do things."

After all, Zhu Youjian looked at Li Rubai and Li Rumei who were standing beside them, and a [-]-year-old general standing behind them.

"Hexi's defense, you work hard, don't let Wala, Xilu, and Qinglu disturb the people's living and working in peace."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness."

Zhu Youjian opened his mouth, and Li Rubai agreed. Although later generations criticized the two, Li Chengliang's lineage was slaughtered by Nurhachi in the Battle of Tieling, leaving only the two and a small number of three generations of descendants. up.

The two of them are also older, especially Li Rubai is already seventy-two years old, and it is estimated that he will be begging for retirement within a few years.

They last a few more years, and in a few more years, the new generation of generals will slowly show up...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help thinking of Cao Bianjiao, Li Zicheng, Li Zijing and others in Yanshan Academy.

"If there is nothing to do, let's go away, Gu will continue to go south."

As soon as Zhu Youjian waved his hand, Mei Zhihuan and others bowed to leave one after another, and then Zhu Youjian also took Sun Chuanting and the others to continue on the road south to Xiningwei.

Although they could choose to take the Qilian Mountains and take a shortcut to Xiningwei, Zhu Youjian didn't do that.

He went out along the Qilian Mountains, passed Shandan, Yongchang and other counties along the way, and finally came to Wuwei County in Liangzhou Prefecture.

Wuwei is a very clean city with a strong city. It can be said that since Zhu Youjian came to Hexi, he has seen a slightly clean city except Zhangye.

The city was built by Song Sheng, a famous general in the early Ming Dynasty, and its shape is just like a square drawn with a ruler and a pair of compass.

In the central market of the city there were acrobats performing, most of them handsome boys who painted their faces red and white before going on stage, and whoever happened to see them would take them for girls with hats on their heads and beads in their ears.

"Your Highness, I didn't expect this Wuwei to be quite clean, much better than the outer city of Shuntian."

Driving the horse on the street, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but praise, while Zhu Youjian looked at some acrobats performing traditional acrobatics around, and responded:
"A small city is easy to take care of. If a big city like the capital is to be taken care of carefully, the monthly expenses will be quite large."

"However, this expenditure is also necessary. When we return to Beijing this time, we must first set standards for all cities in the world, so that all cities are clean and tidy."

Zhu Youjian looked at some Wuwei county government servants who sprayed the square with water and cleaned the square, and spoke thoughtfully.

Cao Wenzhao and others only thought that Zhu Youjian could not get used to the dirty and messy outer city of the capital, but they didn't know that Zhu Youjian was trying to avoid the outbreak of the plague.

After the flood, there is a severe drought, and after the severe drought, there is only a severe hunger. After the severe hunger, corpses are scattered all over the field, and the corpses that are not restrained will be eaten by wild rats. Finally, the wild rats will carry some pathogens to various cities.

Why did Beijing fall so quickly in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen? The outbreak of plague was a key reason.

No matter how useless the Beijing camp is, it can still defend the city, no matter how big the city of Beijing is.

The reason why Huang Taiji entered the invaders many times without causing too many casualties to Beijing is that there are many anti-aircraft artillery in Beijing.

As a result, in the winter of the [-]th year of Chongzhen, the plague began to break out in Beijing. Five or six out of ten people died of the disease in the city.

This is just a regional microcosm. If it is really counted, the number of people killed by the Little Ice River famine in the late Ming Dynasty is far less than that of the plague.

The Europeans in the Middle Ages also caused the spread of the Black Death because they did not take a bath and the dirty and messy urban construction environment.

In the late Ming Dynasty, all kinds of government agencies were slack in politics, and the redundancy was very serious.

Zhu Youjian understands the dangers of redundant staff. Don't look at Daming's resurgence at the moment, but Zhu Youjian dares to guarantee it.

As long as he doesn't solve the problem of redundancy, Daming won't improve much in another thirty years.

Especially after he didn't know when he would go to sea and become a vassal, Daming might completely collapse at a time he couldn't even imagine.

Resolving redundant staff is equivalent to improving the efficiency of local affairs, and this matter will be put on the agenda by Zhu Youjian.

Solving redundant staff means abolishing a large number of officials and subordinate staff, and implementing a thorough reform of the official system, subordinate staff system, and even the imperial examination system.

This year, more than [-] students from Yanshan Academy will graduate. Among them, those who are old and capable can be transferred to officials, while those who are young can start as officials or go to the countryside to teach.

However, their appearance means that the term subordinate staff will disappear.

The Ming Dynasty must give the junior staff a chance and hope to climb up, and the reform of official positions must be put on the agenda.

Only after the reform can Zhu Youjian arrange Yanshan students into the Ming official system, so as to solve the problem of redundant staff.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian's mood was a lot heavy, and at this moment, the sound of praising Buddha sounded from his ears.

He turned his head to look over, and what he saw was hundreds of monks knocking on the wooden fish, and he missed them.

"So many men have become monks?"

Seeing so many male monks, Sun Chuanting frowned, and Zhu Youjian couldn't help looking at Sun Shoufa after hearing his words:

"Let people find out how many monks, Taoists, and people from other sects there are in Hexi, and especially check the number of acres of their fields."

"Yes..." Sun Shoufa responded, and Zhu Youjian also led people and continued to walk behind the monks.

It’s okay if we don’t leave, but we found that there are many Buddhist temples, mosques, and gymnasiums in Wuwei County, each covering an area of ​​more than ten acres.

The whole of these temples is paved with dry bricks, which have a luster like stone and are strong.

Among them is a very large Buddhist temple, covering an area of ​​up to hundreds of acres, so that its area exceeds the area of ​​the original temple site, and the number of monks in it is also dreadful.

"Go, go in and have a look."

Looking at the huge Buddhist temple comparable to the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youjian led Sun Chuanting and the others into it.

As soon as he entered the temple, Zhu Youjian saw dozens of believers walking around the long road, following some monks to ask questions.

There were also monks who wanted to explain Zhu Youjian's doubts, but when they saw Cao Wenzhao, Sun Shoufa, and the tall Sun Chuanting, they all stopped.

In this way, Zhu Youjian came to a Buddhist hall in the center of many temples in the temple, and when he walked in, what he saw was a reclining Buddha ten feet long.

The reclining Buddha is painted with gold as a whole, and is dressed in colorful clothes and costumes of various colors. According to the words of the believers and monks nearby, its name is Shaying Muni Buddha.

Zhu Youjian is not interested in whether the Buddha is a Buddha or not. What he is interested in is seeing dozens of believers who are worshiping the Buddha statue next to him.

"Your Highness, these Buddhist temples are clearly in violation, do you want to..."

Cao Wenzhao stepped forward and spoke cautiously, but Zhu Youjian could only frown and ordered:
"Let Jin Yiwei handle the case, and the monks, Taoist priests, and people from other sects who have not been issued by the imperial court forced me to return to vulgarity."

"If the temple violates the regulations, I will be ordered to demolish the temple, and I will limit the number of monks in the temple in Hexi."

Zhu Youjian understood why the Three Wu Schools and One School wanted to destroy Buddhism in history.

He himself does not discriminate against many religions, and he also believes that some people have no choice but to become monks.

But the problem is that the monks in Hexi are obviously not the kind of monks who have no choice but to become monks. They are wearing brand-new monk robes, and they can't see the tattered clothes of the believers at all, and they keep asking the believers to give alms.

This scene made Zhu Youjian fire up.

When the imperial court needs people to develop, it's fine if they don't pay taxes, they don't even have the most basic compassion, and they still ask the poor to hand over their money to satisfy their selfish desires...

You know, Zhu Youjian is short of people right now, and he can't wait to throw the entire population of Jiangnan to the north.

As a result, this group of people hid in the temple and chanted scriptures. Apart from providing a little spiritual sustenance, they did not create any wealth, and even plundered wealth. It is strange that the ruler can see them comfortably!
"go!"

Zhu You turned around and left in a fit of anger, but some monks who were explaining the Dharma to the believers didn't know that they were about to face a catastrophe.

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