Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 274
"Ill? Why is there something wrong with your expression?"

"It was windy last night, I guess I caught some wind and cold, it's not a problem..."

In the study, when Lu Wenzhao sat down, Zhu Youjian immediately saw his ugly face.

At the same time that he kindly opened his mouth, Lu Wenzhao opened his mouth and gave an awkward response.

"The wind and cold is not a trivial matter. Could it be that you want to lie in bed for half a month to recuperate like me?"

Zhu Youjian teased himself with a smile, and reminded Lu Wenzhao, and at the end he did not forget to explain with a smile:
"After talking about things later, you go to Tai Hospital to have a look."

"Yes..." Lu Wenzhao was in a complicated mood, but Zhu Youjian only thought that he was sick and uncomfortable.

"I didn't ask you to come here for anything else. I mainly wanted to ask you about Annan, the three propagandas and six comforts, and the Liaodong Jurchens."

Zhu Youjian crossed his thumbs on the table, and he was very relaxed.

Apart from Wang Chengen, Lu Wenzhao was the second backbone of the Qi royal party he came into contact with. He had been with him for nearly six years, and he was very relaxed towards Lu Wenzhao.

Some comforts that cannot be revealed to Man Gui, Sun Yingyuan, or even Cao Huachun can be revealed here by Lu Wenzhao.

Faced with Zhu Youjian's attitude, Lu Wenzhao hesitated to speak, but in the end he let go of what he was thinking, and said by the way, after getting rid of distracting thoughts:

"The Fusi of Beizhen has been investigating the matter of Annan for a long time. The number of cultivated land will not be less than [-] million, and the population will not be less than [-] million..."

"For them, we can attack them from the sea and the north with a thunderbolt, disintegrate the Wu family and the Mo family in an instant, then take down Lord Zheng in the north, and finally take down Lord Ruan, and then regain Champa."

"Their military strength is not worth mentioning, and the artillery is mostly Franco artillery purchased from Haojing."

Lu Wenzhao determined the nature of many Annan forces with a few words, but Zhu Youjian didn't think much about it.

He has never regarded Annan as a difficult role to deal with. In the final analysis, it is because except for the Song Dynasty, other Han Chinese dynasties basically crushed Annan when they fought against him.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't maintain Annan's rule, not because Annan was too powerful, but because of policy problems.

How to prevent rebellion?That is to solve all those who want to rebel.

Those who benefited from the settlement were distributed to those who were oppressed, and then the population was relocated to Sinicize the Annan people.

As long as the right person is selected, Annan's matter is not difficult to solve.

There are not many famous generals under Zhu Zhanji who can be transferred, but Zhu Youjian can.

Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, the Qin and Ma families...

Besides these, there are many others at his disposal.

These are all generals who have been tempered from the She'an Rebellion, the Southwest Mountain War. Let them go to Annan. Whoever fights guerrillas with them will hang themselves.

What's more, Hong Chengchou has already understood Zhu Youjian's meaning. When it comes time to send generals, Annan's situation will be stable and make people panic...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian rubbed his fingertips, feeling a little helpless.

Similarly, Lu Wenzhao also continued to say after seeing this:

"As for the three announcements and six consolations, it has only been a few months for Shen Lian and the others to go here. In addition, the local war is chaotic and there are many chieftains in the country. It may be difficult to collect them all at once."

"The Zhenjiang Jurchen training is almost done. Now Li Ruolian is going to send them to take a boat across the sea from Jingcheng to Beishan, and then find a chance to mix in with Jianlu."

"Okay..." Zhu Youjian was a little happy when he heard Lu Wenzhao's words.

Since the first year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi has used his appearance and language to exclude other Han people from outside, which made Jin Yiwei's job a bit difficult.

After the defeat in the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty, Nurhachi even killed Liao merchants and North Korean merchants, as if he would rather die than let people get mixed in.

In this way, Li Ruolian's continuous deployment of Jinyiwei in Liaodong became defensive, without any initiative.

But now, the successful training of the Zhenjiang Jurchen relocated from Kuandian means that they can finally get some information.

However, it is not easy to rush into Jianlu, and it is easy to be exposed, but it is not as good as...

"Wait..." Zhu Youjian stopped, and Lu Wenzhao couldn't help looking up at him.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao analyzed it, got up and took a few breaths from left to right, and then stopped and said:

"Don't let them directly join Jianlu, tell them to gather some Beishan Jurchen tribes after Nurgan landed, build cities, and reclaim arable land."

"Let Jin Yiwei deliver armor, weapons and food to them from Jingcheng, and then let them send people to Jianlu, communicate with Nurhachi to negotiate peace or form an alliance, and become their followers."

"You can pay a small amount of food to Nurhachi, you just need to guarantee the information."

Zhu Youjian thought about it, he was unwilling to use the Jurchens he cultivated to move into Houjin. If he was discovered, it would be a huge loss at that time.

Didn't Huang Taiji incite Bo Yunai to betray him and backstab Daming?

Well!

He is now sending the Jurchen who is interested in Daming to go further north than Jianlu, unite with other Beishan Jurchen, and pretend to negotiate peace with Nurhachi.

When Daming wants to attack Hou Jin, this force can also play a backstab...

"Your Highness, if you support them like this, if you raise tigers..." Lu Wenzhao was a little wary, but Zhu Youjian said:

"So what if raising a tiger is a problem? Whether a tiger dares to be a problem depends not on his own strength, but on me, Da Ming."

"If I am tyrannical, he will have no choice but to crawl obediently."

"What's more, it will only take three years to solve the Houjin matter..."

After all, Zhu Youjian picked up the teacup and took a sip, moistened his throat, and then said:

"The situation in Beishan is different from that in Jianzhou. Without external forces, even if people are sent to establish a force, it cannot be maintained normally. So what kind of influence do they have on my Ming Dynasty?"

"We can take advantage of this opportunity and let them hold my Daming's seal to secretly win over other Beishan tribes."

Beishan Jurchen have a wide range, from the Outer Xing'an Mountains to East Siberia and the coast of Kamchatka.

For example, in the outer Xing'an Mountains and the mountains on the north shore of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, there is a tribe that rides deer sleighs to pay tribute to Daming, and is called the Ministry of Deer by Ming. In addition to them, East Siberia and Central Siberia also have the Ministry of Dogs that drive huskies to pull sleds. .

Most of them lived scattered in tribes of a hundred or ten people, and did not form an alliance group like Jianzhou and Haixi Jurchen.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, the current expedition team of the Romanov Dynasty in Tsarist Russia is still exploring eastwards relying on the river, and should be currently operating in the Yenisei River Basin.

Not surprisingly, it will take them another seven years to reach Yakutsk.

Although East Siberia, Central Siberia, and even West Siberia are useless in this era, it is always useful to conquer the territory.

As long as the Western Regions are won, millions of acres of arable land will be reclaimed in the Ili River Valley, Urumqi, and Turpan in later generations, and a stable rear will be established.

At that time, the Ming army can completely use the Ob River water in the north of Altai to march north and directly reach the east of the Ural Mountains.

It can be said that transporting materials by water and land are two different things, not to mention that the Tuva area in the northern part of the Altai Mountains can be cultivated and herded.

Tens of millions of mu of pastoral areas and millions of mu of cultivated land are not small numbers.

As long as the Ming army can take the source of the Ob River, it will be a matter of time before the Ural Mountains are taken.

As for the so-called powerful Tsarist Russia, the population is less than ten million, and the professional recruiting army is less than fifty thousand.

A group of people are still using old-fashioned large matchlock guns and light artillery. It would be hell to beat the Ming army.

The strength of the army lies in the logistics. The Tang army was able to cross the Pamirs to fight in Central Asia because of the supply of millions of people in the Western Regions.

The only problem Zhu Youjian faces now is the problem of relocation after conquering the Western Regions.

The area of ​​cultivated land in the entire western region is predictably scarce, and it will become a problem for him to relocate the people's rations.

Thinking of this, Zhu You stroked his forehead and couldn't help but sigh:
"Have Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, and Song Yingxing arrived?"

"Return to Your Highness..." Lu Wenzhao responded:
"Sun Yuanhua traveled to Taiyuan, and Song Yingxing and others were also found. They are currently on their way north and should have arrived in Xuzhou."

"In addition, the Xu Xiake you were looking for has also been found..."

"As for Bi Shilang, I'm afraid he has already arrived at the Armament Research Institute in Yanshan."

"Are you here?" Zhu Youjian squinted his eyes when he heard the words, with a smile on the corner of his mouth:
"Then he should see the blueprints and theories I left behind now..."

Thinking about it, Zhu Youjian couldn't wait to go to the Armament Academy, but he also knew that he still had a few things to do, so he looked at Lu Wenzhao and said:

"Since Xu Xiake has been found, let's ask him for his opinion. If possible, let him wait in Songjiang Mansion. This time I am sailing to the West, and I need someone to record the process and results."

"After he returns to Daming, he will join the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry and be the head of the department. There are still many landscapes and humanities waiting for him to record tomorrow."

Xu Xiake, a geographer, traveler and writer in the eyes of later generations, is [-] years old this year.

Zhu Youjian did not find him on a whim, but he needed to use his reputation in the south of the Yangtze River to bring overseas knowledge into Daming, so that the scholar-bureaucrats and common people of Daming knew what changes were happening in the world now.

In his opinion, such a restless person as Xu Xiake might not be able to refuse such a good job as a voyage to the West.

As for him after returning to China, Zhu Youjian will not abandon him, but will continue to expand his reputation.

When the time is right, the vernacular newspapers will appear, and Xu Xiake's articles will be banned from the market and registered in the newspapers.

Not only that, but some of Xu Xiake's geographical knowledge might make a group of civil servants in the Ministry of Industry tricky.

This group of guys who don't even understand the hydrology of the Ming Dynasty also need to be educated.

If you don't even understand hydrology, how will you improve the Yellow River?

"By the way..." Thinking of the Yellow River, Zhu Youjian said:

"Didn't my elder brother transfer Wang Shunding, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, to manage the Yellow River? How is the management?"

Seeing Zhu Youjian asking about this matter, Lu Wenzhao also responded:
"Wang Shunding still uses Pan Shaobao's (Pan Jixun's) method of "beaming water and flushing sand", and the effect is not bad."

"Following Pan Shaobao's method of "building embankments to restrain water and attack sand with water", he cleared sections of the river downstream that were silted up, and mobilized more than [-] corvee workers to clean up the river section from Suqian to Yuntiguan. "

"Hmm..." Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youjian nodded slightly.

After all, Pan Jixun is a rare flood control genius who comes out once in a thousand years, but it is a pity that he has passed away for thirty-two years. If he could live to this day, Daming might not be devastated by the control of the Yellow River.

But in the final analysis, the treatment of the Yellow River has caused people to suffer, mainly because of the lack of money and food.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Jin Yiwei at the door: "Call Cheng Enlai, and bring along the accounts of money and grain after autumn!"

"Yes!" The Jin Yiwei at the door responded with a bow, and then went to look for Wang Chengen.

As for Zhu Youjian, he looked at Lu Wenzhao and continued:
"Pan Shaobao's method of controlling the Yellow River is really good. Even if it is put in hundreds of years, it must be a good strategy."

"However, relying solely on the strength of Wang Shunding and the local government, it is still difficult to stabilize the Yellow River."

"I want you to order Jin Yiwei to investigate how many sections of the Yellow River dams from Luoyang to Yuntiguan Haikou have cut corners, and by the way, a group of corrupt officials and subordinates can also be found."

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will take care of the humble job later." Lu Wenzhao responded, seeming to have forgotten what happened when he was with Man Gui just now.

"You go down first." Zhu Youjian waved his hand to signal, and Lu Wenzhao bowed and left the study.

However, when he exited the small courtyard of the study, he still turned his head and glanced at Zhu Youjian's study, and then left without knowing what to think, frowning.

Not more than two quarters of an hour after he left, Wang Chengen came with more than a dozen clerks from the palace, carrying hundreds of thick ledgers.

Zhu Youjian motioned them all to sit down, and they also hurriedly put away the ledger, took out the abacus, put the new ledger on the table, and set up the pen and ink.

After they were all busy, Zhu Youjian said:
"How much money and food have you counted for this year? Is there [-] million?"

Zhu Youjian boldly said a number, but Wang Chengen bowed with a smile:

"The specific amount of money and food after the fire consumption has not been calculated, but it has been calculated in general. After paying more than [-] million stone fields, it is about [-] million stone."

"If it weren't for the disasters in Shaanxi and Shandong, it might be about [-] million shi."

"In addition, the imperial store, officialdom, and textile factory made a total profit of more than [-] taels in nine months."

What Wang Chengen said made Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, expressing his satisfaction.

By the way, he calculated that according to Wang Chengen's words, the land tax income of the household department this year would not be less than [-] million shi.

Including other miscellaneous items, the household department should be able to enter more than three million taels of silver, and the internal funds can enter about four million.

That is to say, when Tianqi suffered catastrophe in two provinces in five years, Daming still received [-] million taels of silver, about [-] million shi.

This year's tax is almost equivalent to the tax in the third year of the Ming Dynasty, and such a tax increase not only did not increase the burden on the people, but on the contrary made the people's life more nourishing.

The imperial court has money, and the people have food. The current situation seems to be very good.

However, when Zhu Youjian thought of all kinds of expenses, he started to have a headache.

"How many food and meat tickets have been issued this year for the relocation of Shaanxi, Hexi, Liaodong, Jiugang, Ryukyu and other places?"

Due to the use of the food stamp system, the accounts of the Yumajian are much easier to calculate.

Food stamps were exchanged for food, while meat stamps were used according to differences between the north and the south.

There are officialdoms in the north, and fishing in the south. In short, there is no problem in supplementing a small amount of meat for the relocated people.

"A total of [-] million shi food stamps and [-] million catties of meat stamps were issued..."

Wang Chengen made a slight bow, which almost made Zhu Youjian lose his breath.

Fortunately, he heard clearly that the unit of the meat ticket is catty, if it is a stone, even if he is killed, he will not be able to get it out.

"The old port has the most meat tickets, but Governor Shen has already prepared many fishing boats, and seven saltworks have been opened in Ryukyu and the old port, so the problem of meat will not be too big."

You can still make a living by fishing along the coast, and Wang Chengen's comfort made Zhu Youjian slightly relieved.

"Official circles in the north have spread all over the provinces, but the supply of meat..."

Wang Chengen glanced at Zhu Youjian while talking, and then he bowed and said:
"Your Highness and the army continue to eat like this, I'm afraid the officialdom will be unable to make ends meet."

"What's wrong?" Zhu Youjian didn't care about official affairs for a long time, so seeing Wang Chengen crying poor, he didn't react for a while.

Regarding this, Wang Chengen just sighed and said: "Although Your Highness has lowered the standard of the Waigong Guards, the nearly [-] troops of the Five Mansions have to eat [-] catties of meat every day."

"Officials in various places have been supporting the supply for two and a half years, and the number of poultry and livestock in the field is actually not as good as it was at the beginning."

"If you continue to eat like this, I'm afraid that in four months, the officialdom in various places will..."

Wang Chengen didn't say the rest, but Zhu Youjian understood what the other party meant.

[-] catties of meat, which is still the amount of the Waigongwei camp, plus Shangzhi and the Navy, it is nearly [-] catties of meat per day.

Calculated in one year, there are nearly [-] million catties of meat. If these meats are replaced by the amount of meat after slaughtering live pigs, one million pigs will be eaten every year.

Of course, this naturally cannot be counted in this way, because most of the guard camps and navy along the coast are supplemented with fish and shrimps, and the main food for poultry and livestock is the Western and Northern Military Governor's Mansions.

Even Shangzhi is actually gradually reducing the supply of poultry and livestock.

The Ming army created by Zhu Youjian is an army based on sufficient logistics. It is obviously not feasible to reduce the supply at will, but if you buy from the people, you must consider whether such a large demand will rush into the people, which will cause prices Soaring questions too.

Zhu Youjian did a simple calculation. According to the arable land area and total grain output of Ming Dynasty, what he actually got was more than [-] billion catties of rice husk, wheat husk and other processable natural feed every year.

If the natural feed of more than [-] billion catties is used to reverse the calculation, the output of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry in the entire Ming Dynasty will not exceed [-] billion catties, which is equivalent to [-] million tons of meat.

In this way, the existence of [-] troops occupied [-]% of the meat in the market of Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming army does not lower the standards and cannot be self-sufficient, then the price of meat in the market will increase by at least ten percent...

"I have to find a way to solve it..." Zhu Youjian started to have a headache after calculating the amount of meat eaten by Daming with the back-calculation method.

But at this time, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he thought of something.

"By the way, I almost forgot about it!" Zhu Youjian, who suddenly remembered something, immediately asked Wang Chengen:
"How is the cultivation arrangement of sweet potatoes and potatoes? Is it the common people's habit of planting?"

"Return to Your Highness..." Wang Chengen, the chief executive of the officialdom and the chief plantation, responded directly without thinking:

"Right now, according to what you said, sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted in the two capitals and [-] provinces, of which more than [-] million mu are planted with sweet potatoes and more than [-] million mu are planted with potatoes."

"However..." Wang Chengen said with some embarrassment: "Although there are sales in Huangdian, the common people eat them as dishes."

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

Eight shi and two shi per mu, and the total output of sweet potatoes and potatoes that add up to more than [-] million shi, can't meet the food and clothing line...

"Wait..." Zhu Youjian came to his senses. Now the people of Daming have alleviated part of the land annexation problem through his means, but they are no longer hungry people struggling on the line of food and clothing.

For example, in Fujian, two-fifths of the province's population has been relocated, not to mention Northern Zhili, Shaanxi, Henan, Guangdong, and Southern Zhili.

Where land annexation is the most serious, he has eased the conflicts by relocating, sending troops to farm and other means. Although the common people don't say five acres of land per capita, there is still three acres per capita.

Under such circumstances, why do people take sweet potatoes and potatoes as their staple food?

The resource problem is solved. Unless there is a famine, those with brain problems will eat these things as a staple food.

Right now, in the entire Ming Dynasty, only the disaster victims in northern Shaanxi and Shandong are eating these two things.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian was a little speechless, then shook his head and thought:

"Today you don't answer, but when the famine comes..."

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Wang Chengen: "Since the common people don't eat it, let's use sweet potato vines and sweet potatoes as fodder for officialdom."

"But remember, these two crops must maintain a planting area of ​​[-] million mu, there can only be more and no less."

"Yes..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Wang Chengen also laughed:
"If sweet potato vines and sweet potatoes are used as feed, I am afraid that the number of livestock and poultry in the officialdom will increase."

Wang Chengen wanted to do this a long time ago, but His Royal Highness has always been concerned about expanding the scale of planting, so he was not allowed to do it.

Well now, according to this year's production, it is estimated that the planting area will be expanded to [-] million mu this year, and the sweet potato vines and sweet potatoes will still have a few million stones left over to feed the livestock in the official farms, so there is no need to worry about the food for the official farms. .

Thinking of this, Wang Chengen couldn't hide the smile on his face, and Zhu Youjian shook his head and sighed:

"Take good care of your *..."

"Your servant takes orders..." Wang Chengen happily agreed, but Zhu Youjian thought for a while

If grain feed is added to sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines, which have a cultivated area of ​​more than [-] million mu in Daming, then the feed output should reach more than [-] billion catties.

Food and fodder are often what restrict population and animal husbandry. The tripled feed production may allow the number of livestock in Daming to reach the standard at the beginning of the country.

Under this standard, the population of Daming may also increase slowly.

However, this improvement can only last until the severe drought erupts, that is, two years later...

Thinking of the severe drought, Zhu Youjian frowned, and then said:

"To adjust the money and food, first distribute the rewards from the Northern Army Governor's Mansion and Shangzhi, and ask Bi Ziyan to transfer [-] taels of silver and [-] million shi of grain from the household department to Xu Guangqi and Wang Shunding for the remaining money and food. "

"Let them solve the problem of blocking the Yellow River from top to bottom, and then rebuild the Yellow River."

"After the military salary and the salaries of hundreds of officials are finally paid out, how much is left?"

Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen also looked at all the scribes behind him when he heard the sound.

The clerks immediately struck up their plans, and it took a full quarter of an hour before they opened their mouths and said:

"Your Highness, Palm Seal, to pay the military salary and salary, you have to let the Changping warehouses in various places sell grain for [-] million shi."

"Finally, after the military pay is paid out, there will still be [-] taels and [-] stone grain left in the Yumajian, the household department, and the internal funds."

Zhu Youjian frowned slightly at the scribe's words. The military salary of the [-] troops of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was [-] million taels, which logically was just enough money.

But right now, [-] million shi of grain is going to be sold. Obviously, the silver after the grain sales is used to distribute official salaries...

"It's time to solve the redundant staff..." Zhu Youjian narrowed his eyes, remembering the account book he got from San Niangzi.

Not only that, but he also remembered the list of merchants and ministers in the ledger.

"If they ransack their house, I'm afraid the money will be enough for Daming to spend two years..." Zhu Youjian's eyes flickered, and then he turned to Wang Chengen and said:

"First transfer the surplus grain from last year to Baimaguan, that amount of grain is enough to deal with Hutudun and the others."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Youjian turned his head and looked outside the courtyard, muttering to himself:
"I'll come back and clean you up after I clean up the tiger and rabbit pier..."

　In order for someone to slap me again, post string data.

　　Daming's grain and meat yields are not much different from those at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After all, we haven't started to develop chemical fertilizers and feed, nor have we introduced Yorkshire pigs.

　　In 50 years, the country has 16.2 billion mu, with a population of 5.52 million, and the per capita arable land area is 2.9 mu.

　　The amount of arable land in Daming in the book is 8.4 mu, the population is temporarily counted as 1.5 million, and the per capita arable land is 5.6 mu.

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　　In 50 years, the annual meat output of my country's poultry, pigs, cattle and sheep was less than 300 million tons, or 10.8 catties per capita.

　　The total arable land area is one-half of our Ming Dynasty. In the case of the same grain output and livestock types, it is not surprising that the annual meat output is 120 million tons, and the per capita meat is 16 catties (this can explain the records of the county annals in the Ming Dynasty. , why meat is cheap).

　　As for 50 years later, there is no comparison. The yield per mu and the types of livestock will be different.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)