Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 310
Chickens crowing and dogs barking, this is the sound of the countryside, and this kind of country sound was Zhu Youxiao's favorite sound when he left the capital.

It's just that on the way back after seven days of hunting in Nanyuan, he was not as happy as when he came, but looked out of the blurred glass window on the side of the four-wheeled carriage.

Looking out from the carriage, both sides of the official road are covered with dry and yellow grass, and the official road is also dusty.

On both sides of the road are dry and cracked farmland, and beside the farmland, there are more than a dozen ordinary people who are constantly stepping on water wheels.

The waterwheel pumps up the river water and a large amount of silt that has dropped to the river bed, and pours it into the fields. In the cracked fields, the green and yellow rice ears make people feel sad.

The spring drought lasted for a long time and affected a wide range of areas. The spring planting of the people and the growth of crops were affected.

There has been no rain in Beizhili for [-] days. One hundred and thirty-six small rivers and two hundred and thirty-four dams in the territory have dried up, and there is still water, only rivers that can be named.

"If it doesn't rain again, I'm afraid most areas in Beizhili will lose their grain harvest this year..."

When Zhu Youxiao was looking at the scene outside the car, Zhu Youjian who was sitting next to him said this silently.

As soon as this sentence was said, Zhu Youxiao immediately turned his head to look at Zhu Youjian, and said with a sad face:

"Does your brother have any plans?"

"Natural disasters are like this, we can only do our best." Zhu Youjian sighed and said:
"Chendi has ordered Bi Ziyan from the household department to send money to Huguang, Jiangxi and other places to buy grain after the autumn harvest in September."

"In addition, the Changping warehouses in the old port and the Changping warehouses in Ryukyu, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places are also transferred from one province to the north."

"This year, the local government's Changping warehouse has more than [-] million shi of grain. If it is transferred to the north one by one, the price of grain in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and North Zhili can be stabilized at [-] million shi for a shi."

"How long can it last?" Zhu Youxiao asked with a little worry, and Zhu Youjian said after a moment of contemplation:

"How long it lasts depends on the local people..."

"If the common people loot the grain, the [-] million shi of grain in the Changping warehouse can only last until October."

"However, Bi Ziyan allocated [-] million taels of silver to Huguang and Jiangxi and other places. After the autumn harvest, the grain price in these places is roughly [-] Wen per shi, and [-] million taels can buy more than [-] million shi of grain."

"Including this year's grain from Shandong and other places, as well as land taxes from various places, the imperial court may be able to collect [-] million stone grain."

"Yu Ma..." Zhu Youxiao wanted to ask about the military farms of the Yu Ma Jian, but then he thought about it. Most of the military farms of the Yu Ma Jian are gathered in the north. Now that the four northern provinces are suffering from drought, I am afraid that the annual income of the Yu Ma Jian this year... …

"The yearly income of Yumajian is probably less than [-] million shi..." Zhu Youjian said silently.

That is to say, the field tax in the seventh year of Tianqi is more than [-] million stone lower than that in the sixth year of Tianqi.

The two brothers were speechless, and it was only after a long time that Zhu Youjian said:

"The planting area of ​​sweet potatoes and potatoes is not small, and they are all cultivated as disaster relief food. The cultivated area is [-] million mu."

"Although there is a severe drought this year, only more than [-] million mu have been affected, and more than [-] million mu have survived."

"Based on the production of sweet potatoes, if the four provinces really have insufficient food, they can cook sweet potato porridge with rice and sweet potatoes. You only need to use [-] million shi of rice and [-] million shi of sweet potatoes to make more than [-] million The people survived the spring planting and next year's autumn harvest."

Although Zhu Youjian said so, his heart is still heavy.

He knew very well that the key to this catastrophe was not them, but the people themselves.

After several years of cultivating people's livelihood, the people's food storage must be an astronomical figure.

It is impossible for Daming to use all his strength to rescue the disaster from the beginning, otherwise he will only fall into an endless loop and directly drag Daming to death.

What should be done is to first let the people use their own food to resist natural disasters, and after one or two years to gather food from all over the world, start to use work as relief.

In this way, Daming has two years to make some adjustments to the situation, such as Jianlu in the northeast and Annan in the southwest...

In short, the people in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Beizhili have to migrate one after another...

Similarly, under natural disasters, it is also a good time to investigate black households.

Count out the black households and move them to the south, such as Annan and Sanxuanliuwei...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian opened his mouth and said:

"There is a long drought in the interior, but there is a severe cold outside the customs. Although the severe cold will reduce food production, as long as there is enough land, people can still live."

"Your brother is going to launch an army against Jianlu after the autumn harvest."

"The army that needs to be dispatched in this battle is the [-] troops of the Eastern Army's Governor's Mansion and the Shangzhi Governor's Mansion. The Shangzhi will send troops from the North Zhili, and the civilians will be mainly the victims of the disaster in Shanxi and the North Zhili."

"After the fighting, the people will be resettled to farm in Nuergan and other places. There will be [-] people. If you send troops from Beizhili, you will need to mobilize at least [-] people."

"The Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army dispatched [-] troops from various places in Liaodong, and the people of the Liao Dynasty were mainly Liao people."

Zhu Youjian is using war as a substitute for relief. This method is often difficult to work, because launching a war requires money and food.

If, when launching a war, it is necessary to recruit distant civilians, the cost of the war will increase to an exaggerated figure.

Just like the [-] people in Shangzhi, if civilian husbands are transferred from Liaodong, and they go out from Liaodong, a maximum of [-] civilian husbands will be recruited.

However, he chose to transfer from Shanxi, Beizhili and other places.

Without a strong finance, it would be impossible to carry out this kind of war, and Zhu Youjian's self-confidence comes from the "three divisions".

Salt wine tea...

The tax revenue of these three divisions is enough to support this war of sweeping captives, and Zhu Youjian doesn't have to worry about the Annan War in the south.

Hong Chengchou even knows better than Zhu Youjian how the method of catching seedlings and expanding their careers is operated.

You must know that the current old port is short of people, and various mines and reclamation require a large number of people.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, next year's situation should be a severe drought affecting several provinces in both the north and the south.

At that time, the north will move to the northeast, and the south will move to Old Port and Annan.

Zhu Youjian has already thought about where the victims will go. The immigration ships of several major shipyards have also formed a scale in the past few years. Using all the ships, millions of people can be relocated southward at one time.

In other words, everything is ready, and now it is waiting to be implemented.

"The vassals have returned to the capital one after another, and the fleet sailing to the west will arrive at Tianjin Port on the ninth day of March."

Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth suddenly, but changed the topic, and discussed the matter of the feudal vassals becoming vassals.

He looked at Zhu Youjian who was sitting next to him, with a hint of incomprehensible thought in his eyes:

"What does my younger brother think about becoming an overseas feudal vassal? And how do you plan to operate..."

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian unhurriedly took out an aluminum flagon from his arms, opened it and took a sip before saying:
"First meet the fleet going to the west, and then let the feudal vassals live in Beijing and walk around for ten days."

"Ten days later, the [-]th Battalion, which was preparing to go south, was mobilized from the southern army's governor's office to take over the old port, and ordered the remaining six guards of the navy to prepare for battle."

"When the feudal vassals have discussed it, which feudal lands do they need? When how many people need to be relocated, the money will be collected first."

"The six guards of the navy set out to Tianzhu first, and beat down the feudal land."

"At that time, the matter of Jiaozhi will almost be settled, and the children of the clans who participated in the battle of Jiaozhi can go to the place of defense with the guard battalion of the southern army's governor's mansion and the remaining six guards of the navy."

"The vassals moved, and the navy moved its base to the Champa area in the south of Cochin, and built three sub-bases in Palembang, Nanhai, and Xiaoxiyang Supervision Department."

"The Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commission maintains three guard battalions and the three-guard navy all year round. While monitoring the feudal vassals, it works with the Palembang navy fleet to maintain the waterway of Xiaoxiyang and protect the people from migrating."

Having said that, Zhu Youjian glanced at Zhu Youxiao, and said again:
"Currently, there are more than [-] cargo ships in Shi Shipsi and Huangdian, and more than [-] private merchant ships."

"The small ones of these boats can carry one or two hundred people, and the larger ones can hold nearly a thousand people."

"Mobilize all the ships and move millions of people from the coast of Daming to the south every year."

"There are nearly [-] criminals in the Ministry of Criminal Justice of the Ming Dynasty every year. These nearly [-] people are transferred to the feudal clans, which is an income of [-] taels of silver."

"Disaster victims and hungry people, as long as the feudal vassals are guaranteed to distribute farmland and cattle, more and more people will migrate."

"My brother is worried that the strength of the feudal vassals will be comparable to that of Ming Dynasty, but in reality this is impossible."

"Why do you say that?" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, while Zhu Youjian said easily:

"When the feudal vassals arrive in Tianzhu, they are local minorities, and they need continuous blood transfusions from Daming to take root."

"Instead of thinking about how to restrict them, it is better to think about how to make them expand and control their internal conflicts."

"The simplest are three aspects, one is to recover Uzang, and look down from the north to the south."

"One is to regain three propaganda and six comforts, and coerce the feudal lords from east to west."

"The last one, which is also the most important one, is to monitor the feudal clans from the sea."

"Of course, the most important thing is to leave a port where they can go to sea in each domain."

Zhu Youjian knows exactly what a port means.

Under the high pressure of Ming Dynasty as the clan state, the internal strife among the vassals will be suppressed, and the suppressed market demand will be followed by contact with and imitated by Western colonists and Western colonial methods.

The attitude of the Ming Dynasty to the outside world, or the attitude of the Han people to the outside world is that "those with fists not as big as mine are barbarians."

Thinking that the feudal vassals would treat the barbarians better than the Han people?This kind of thing is impossible to happen in the Ming Dynasty.

The humiliation left by Song and Yuan made officials of the Ming Dynasty unwilling to admit that foreign races were nobler than themselves even if their faces were swollen from beatings.

This can be said to be a kind of inferiority complex that was humiliated by the resurgence of alien cultures, which is why the Ming Dynasty was able to play "catch up seedlings and expand business" so bloodily and resist alien cultures so much.

Rare things are precious, when surrounded by other races, the feudal lords will only find ways to create classes and unite the migrated people.

This is the same as the defense of the Ling family in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Youjian is not worried at all.

As long as there are ports, Han people, and a large number of foreign races to drive, the conflicts among the feudal vassals will turn into foreign affairs.

Moreover, there are still some doubts about whether the feudal vassals can destroy the Mughals in Zhu Youjian's lifetime.

Although the matter of mercury fulminate has begun to emerge, the percussion gun can slowly form a production line after the mercury fulminate and the steam engine come out.

But it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to use things like firing guns for all feudal lords, except his Qi vassal.

Daming must maintain technological iterations with the various vassals in order to overwhelm the various vassals.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao was also thinking about it.

He thought about his younger brother's thoughts, and felt that although it was a bit troublesome, it was indeed a good deal to use this reason to drive away the feudal clans, "reduce the feudal clans" in disguise, and obtain a large amount of land and silver.

"This matter, you can figure it out, pay attention to propriety, and grasp the feudal lords."

Zhu Youxiao still chose to believe in his younger brother. After all, since his younger brother supported him to sit on the throne, his intuition has not missed it.

Although some things often have some flaws, they are still flawless after all.

"Brother, don't worry..." Zhu Youjian responded with a smile, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

The laughing carriage passed the official road, leaving dust flying all the way, slowly falling into the dry and cracked farmland on both sides of the road...

"In the four provinces, except Luoyang in Henan Province, which is suffering from drought, the rest of the place has even cut off water sources. His Royal Highness Qi Wang has already made arrangements for this matter. First, the Changping warehouse will be moved northward to stabilize food prices and appease the people."

When Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian returned to the capital, in the Wenhua Palace, Gu Bingqian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, sat in his seat and talked freely.

Under his position, all the civil servants of the party sat on the side, and more than forty people watched their noses, noses, noses and hearts.

For the various parties, this severe drought has no effect on them.

The Zhejiang, Proclamation, and Kunming parties headed by Yao Zongwen are more concerned about the imminent implementation of the alcohol tax, while the Qi and Chu parties have actually been defeated. In addition, the severe drought is not their turn, so there is no reason to meddle.

On the contrary, Han Yu, Sun Chengzong, Zuo Guangdou and others from the Donglin Department frowned, and Han Yu even said:
"Although the transfer of Changping granaries to the north is good, the quantity is not enough. There are more than [-] million people in the northern land with household registrations. How long can the imperial court last for the more than [-] million stone Changping granaries?"

"Your Highness has his own arrangements for this matter..." Gu Bingqian frowned slightly, obviously dissatisfied with Han Yu's questioning.

"Your Highness is a human being, not a god!" Han Yu looked at Gu Bingqian who only knew how to execute, and said in disgust:
"If His Highness is a god, everything is right, so what do you need the cabinet and all the officials for?"

"You don't need to be so angry..." It seemed that Han Yu's words were too much, so Sun Chengzong hurriedly smoothed things over:

"With all the officials in the imperial court, it is impossible for His Highness to make suggestions all the time. It would be too much work..."

"It's still possible to discuss with all the officials, maybe there will be a better way." Zuo Guangdou couldn't help but open his mouth.

Gu Bingqian was a little jealous of the relationship between Sun Chengzong, Zuo Guangdou and Zhu Youjian, so he didn't get angry, but suppressed his anger and said:
"The third division will start to collect taxes during the autumn harvest. By then, the imperial court will have sufficient financial resources and will naturally be able to tide over this severe drought."

After Gu Bingqian finished speaking, everyone looked at Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Household Department who was sitting on the side, and Bi Ziyan also frowned slightly, feeling that after the financial concentration, the burden on the Household Department was even heavier.

However, Bi Ziyan didn't evade when he was looking for something in his position. Instead, he gave the answer to the officials:
"The tax revenue of the third department and the department of shipping should be able to guarantee the food of the people..."

Seeing that Bi Ziyan had said so, Han Yu stopped being entangled, and Gu Bingqian also took out a memorial and said:

"Jinglue Hong Chengchou has sent a memorial. The Western Army Commander's Mansion, Eastern Army Commander's Mansion, and Navy Commander's Mansion have begun to recruit civilians to open up roads from Sichuan to Yunnan, and from Huguang to Guangxi."

"Hong Chengchou rejected the power given to him by the court to allocate taxes to Sichuan and Huguang, and believed that the court needed the money and food more than he did."

"..." Listening to Gu Bingqian's words, the more everyone listened, the more uncomfortable they became.

They thought that Gu Bingqian wanted to say that Hong Chengchou was suffering, but they didn't want him to say that Hong Chengchou was sympathetic to the court.

Officials are sympathetic to the court, which is a rare scene in the history of Ming Dynasty.

However, Gu Bingqian suddenly brought up this kind of incident, and it seems that he wanted to use Hong Chengchou's incident to show that the Qi royal party is for the country and the people...

"Hmph..." Many officials sneered in their hearts, and Gu Bingqian continued:
"At present, His Highness means to prepare to move a group of people to the three prefectures of Taining after the autumn harvest..."

As he spoke, he glanced at the reactions of the Donglin party members. After all, the three prefectures of Taining are now governed by Yuan Keli and a group of relegated Donglin officials.

But to his disappointment, Han Yu and the others didn't react violently.

It's just that it's not important. He released this news to benefit Dong Lin and not to make trouble in the following matter.

Therefore, after seeing that no one responded, he took out a memorial, pushed it to the table and said:
"This is the follow-up to Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang's investigation into the case of the third lady..."

As soon as the words "Three Ladies Case" came out, many people frowned, most of whom were officials from the five parties of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan, and Kun.

They all thought that the San Niangzi case had stayed at the level of thousands of officials and hundreds of thousands of subordinates last year.

But now Gu Bingqian brought up the case of the Three Niangzi again, and the reason why Yao Zongwen and others frowned after hearing this case is also very simple.

In the San Niangzi case, nearly one-third of the tens of thousands of officials were members of their five parties.

Donglin was hardly implicated, while the rest were mostly other small and non-partisan factions.

Now it is suddenly said that there is still a follow-up to this case, no wonder they are nervous.

"Hehe..." Gu Bingqian, who noticed the expression of the five parties, chuckled in his heart, but said with a serious face on the surface:

"This case is not that simple. Among the smugglers, there are even names of many senior officials who have retired."

"After Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang jointly investigated, they concluded a follow-up list of people involved in this case..."

"This case involved a total of [-] high-ranking officials, innumerable subordinates, and [-] generals."

Gu Bingqian paused, and then continued: "At present, the three divisions need to jointly interrogate these suspected officials. What do you think?"

"..." After Gu Bingqian finished speaking, the various parties did not keep talking and rushing to answer like in the previous party struggles, but fell silent.

Obviously, they saw that Zhu Youjian still had a lot of black material about the San Niangzi case.

In other words, regardless of whether there is black material or not, as long as there is the case of San Niangzi, he has the final say on what charges he wants to catch.

Last year, last year, and this year...

Chief Prosecutor Zhu You organized major cases in the spring and summer and abolished officials and subordinates. Any fool could see that he was paving the way for Enke's Yanshan students.

The case of the three ladies is almost comparable to the three cases of Hongwu.

Who knows how long Zhu Youjian will play with this case?So they had to think of a way to kill the signs.

It's just that it's debatable what excuse to use to kill the signs...

After a long time, Tang Binyin was the first to speak:

"The San Niangzi case has spread far and wide, and there are too many officials to clean it up. The officials who were cleared up last year have not been replaced by this year."

"If another major case is to be carried out, it will cause panic among the people, the lack of official officials in the government offices of the state capitals, and the government's decree will not be implemented, then the gain will outweigh the loss."

"Indeed..." Gu Tianjun also guessed and said:

"This case may be put on hold for a year, or it can be tried slowly. After this year's Enke is over, it will be finalized, and no further investigation will be carried out. Who knows if there are any wrong or unjust cases?"

Tang Binyin and Gu Tianjun put forward a cryptic statement that they could accept the appointment of officials by the Qi Royal Party.

But the current situation is that the Qi royal party has continued to attack them without filling up some vacant official positions, which is a bit ugly.

But for people like Gu Bingqian, he doesn't care whether his food is ugly or not, what he cares about is whether the government order arranged by Zhu Youjian can be implemented.

"You can't say that, let corrupt officials and corrupt officials go, if this kind of thing gets out, will the people still dare to trust the court? Will anyone dare to report it?"

A royal censor of the Qi royal party stood up and spoke in a neither humble nor overbearing manner, which was very pleasing to Gu Bingqian.

"Is that going to make people panic?" Yao Zongwen frowned angrily, and when Gu Bingqian saw Yao Zongwen stepping down, he immediately said:
"you……"

"It makes people panic, which is not good for the imperial examination."

Suddenly, Cui Chengxiu, who had been sitting all the time, spoke, obviously he didn't want to see the five parties being maimed.

If the five parties are disabled, the Qi Wang Party will become the dominant family. At that time, the eunuch will have to rely on the breath of the Qi Wang Party to do things.

Moreover, the eunuchs did not gain a few of the official positions that were destroyed by the five parties.

Instead of making the Qi royal party popular, it is better to maintain the current situation.

"You can check it, but you have to check it carefully, and check it slowly..." Han Yu also said suddenly, which made the corners of Gu Bingqian's eyes twitch slightly.

Apparently, the current King Qi Party has become the target of public criticism, and Gu Bingqian knew that the case of the Three Niangzi would not be resolved today.

It depends on the owner to beat the dog. Under the pressure of the group, he can move out Zhu Youjian, but that would be the end of the owner.

This kind of trivial matter needs to be moved out of Zhu Youjian, so Gu Bingqian's status in His Royal Highness Qi's heart is likely to decline, so he chose a roundabout way:
"This case can be investigated slowly, but the joint trial of the three divisions is too troublesome. For officials below the sixth rank, I think it will be fine for Dali Temple to conduct a separate trial."

"What's this..." Yao Zongwen wanted to speak, but seeing Tang Binyin's eyes signaled, he immediately closed his mouth.

"Let's put this matter on hold for now, and let's discuss it tomorrow."

"Seconded……"

"Seconded……"

Tang Binyin spoke suddenly, and the party officials also echoed after hearing the words.

Obviously, there was something behind them that didn't come out, and when Gu Bingqian saw that there were more than forty officials in the hall, nearly half of them seconded, he could only squint his eyes and announce the dissolution of the meeting.

After the meeting broke up, officials from the five parties joined Cui Chengxiu one after another, while Gu Bingqian called someone from the Qi Royal Party.

Caught between the two, Zuo Guangdou and Sun Chengzong looked at each other, helpless...

　The updates for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are estimated to be delayed until nine or ten o'clock in the evening. This business trip will take three days to go back.

　　Don't worry about updating, the normal two updates are [-] words.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)