Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 324 Recovering Cochin
"Things are doing well, and Hong Chengchou is ordered to go south quickly to recover the rest of Jiaozhi's territory after resting."

On October [-]th of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, when the news from the south came back to the north, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian had already returned to the capital, and now Zhu Youxiao was playing chess with Zhu Youjian in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

While playing chess, he suddenly received a good news from Hong Chengchou, which naturally made Zhu Youxiao very happy.

After all, the most powerful force in Annan is Zheng Bing. Now that Zheng Bing committed suicide and the entire Zheng family is recovered, it is only a matter of time before the rest of the Ruan family, Zhanpo and other forces are pacified.

"Brother also read the good news."

After Zhu Youxiao was happy, he also handed the victory report to Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian, who was playing chess, took the victory report and read the battle process in the victory report carefully.

Less than half a month after Zheng Yan committed suicide, all the four prefectures and thirteen counties in the south were taken back by troops led by Mu Qiyuan and Wu Bikui, but the result was somewhat brutal.

More than [-] strong men who were "involved" with the Zheng family, as well as more than [-] tenant men under the Zheng family, were convicted and sent to Laogang reform through labor.

Although in this way, the Red River Delta lost a large amount of labor force, but the political significance that Zhu Youjian needed was achieved.

It was nearly four months before and after the dispatch of troops, and it was expected that the northern part of Cochin would be captured, and the next Nguyen and Champa would also be completely captured before next spring planting.

From this point of view, there is no need to care about Annan's affairs, but what Zhu Youjian needs to care about is the issue of Nanzhang and the issue of immigration.

"How are the victims moving to Jiaozhi?"

Zhu Youjian used Jiaozhi to refer to Annan both inside and outside the words, and Zhu Youxiao also understood his brother's thoughts when he saw this, and immediately said:
"Abolish the Annan Metropolitan Command Division, re-establish the Jiaozhi Chengxuan Envoy Division, establish the Jiaozhi Province, and change the name of the Thanglong Mansion to the Jiaozhou Mansion and become the Jiaozhi Administration."

"Mu Qiyuan inherited the title of Duke of Guizhou, and will guard Jiaozhou from now on. Wu Bikui will serve as the commander of Jiaozhi, and Hong Chengchou will temporarily lead the envoy of Jiaozhi. Jiaozhi will be under the control of the southern army's governor's office,"

Zhu Youxiao made many appointments in one breath, and Wei Zhongxian in the Hall of Mental Cultivation immediately accepted them.

As for the matter of immigration, Lu Wenzhao, who was standing aside, also bowed back and said:
"There are already [-] relocated victims from Shaanxi. They have moved southward in six batches. At present, the first batch of [-] people has arrived in Tsinghua County, the capital of Jiaozhou."

"In addition, the millions of disaster victims in southern Fujian were divided into two, [-] were relocated to Jiaozhi, and [-] were relocated to Palembang, Nanhai, and Old Port in the old port."

"The [-] people who migrated to Cochin will be relocated in twelve batches of [-] people. It is expected that all of them will be relocated to Cochin within half a year."

"For the people who migrated to Jiaozhi, Hong Jinglue has distributed acres of land according to the relocation standard of [-] acres per person in accordance with the imperial court's order."

Lu Wenzhao's reply made Zhu Youxiao frown. He looked at his younger brother and asked:

"In this way, the number of people who moved to Jiaozhi has reached [-] million? If each person has [-] acres, can Jiaozhi have so much cultivated land?"

There are [-] million people, [-] mu per person, and [-] million mu of arable land needs to be redistributed.

With so much arable land, it is hard for Zhu Youxiao to believe that Jiaozhi has so much arable land.

But regarding this, Zhu Youjian said: "Yes, even if not, Hong Chengchou will let the local people have it."

These words are a bit convoluted, but Zhu Youxiao calmed down after hearing this.

As for Zhu Youjian, he had already figured out how to clean up the place.

Not enough arable land?Then follow the example of Jianlu. Jianlu used more than [-] Han people to reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land, and Ming Dynasty could also use millions of Annan people to reclaim millions of acres of arable land.

Moreover, compared with Jianlu, Daming had a huge population market. When Jianlu opened up wasteland, they felled wood, and the wood could only be used to build houses and smelt iron, but Daming could use it to build ships, and the processed wood was transported north to make building materials.

Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Monan, Jiangnan...

The forest area in these places is far inferior to that of later generations. Transporting the wood of Jiaozhi to the north can only make money, and it is impossible to lose money.

The reason is simple, because there is no need to pay wages...

"How many old and weak women and children are involved in the Zheng family?" Zhu Youjian asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao responded when he heard the words:
"About a million..."

A funny scene happened, Jiaozhi, which has a population of just over [-] million, actually has nearly [-] million rebels.

No one believed what he said, but Zhu Youjian didn't need others to believe it.

"Tell Cheng'en to build two major shipyards in Jiaozhi, and two major textile yards, cement yards, and iron yards in the north and south."

"The old, the weak, women and children need to be reformed through labor for three years, and after three years, they will be paid ten cash per day."

"Your Highness is benevolent..." Seeing that there was someone to flatter Wei Zhongxian, he immediately flattered Zhu Youjian.

"How is the drought?" Zhu Youjian ignored Wei Zhongxian's flattery and asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also said:

"Water wells have been drilled in various places in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Although the fields are dry, drinking water for the people is not a problem."

"The Ministry of Industry has recruited [-] million civilian workers from Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi."

"Among them, [-] civilians combed the Yellow River, and [-] civilians expanded post roads and official roads."

"The wages of the peasants are ten renminbi per day. Now counting the materials, the daily expenditure is about [-] taels of silver."

"Twenty thousand taels?" Hearing the amount, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youjian:

"If this goes on, can the Ministry of Finance survive?"

"If you can't hold on, you have to hold on." Zhu Youjian said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Behind these [-] million civilian husbands are [-] million mouths, [-] million people."

"Ten cash a day, based on the local grain price, can still buy three catties of rice at present."

"Three catties of rice cannot feed six people, but at least it is a source of income."

"This is already the best work-for-relief method that the imperial court can make this year. If you want to increase the wages, you can only see how much the tax from the wine department can collect."

Doesn't Zhu Youjian want to pay the victims high wages?Of course he wanted to, but he had to consider whether someone would get in and make up for it, and whether the national treasury would be able to function.

During the Tianxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population was no more than [-] million at most, and these [-] million people created a wine tax of [-] million.

The price of wine in Ming Dynasty was far lower than that in Northern Song Dynasty. For example, after the establishment of Liquor Department, the Sweet Potato Burn was only sold for Bawen, which was only a quarter of the price of wine in Northern Song Dynasty.

The population of the Ming Dynasty should be around [-] million. This Zhu Youjian has a bit of background, that is, when the price of wine is a quarter of that of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population is three times that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song Dynasty could collect [-] million guan wine taxes, and the Ming Dynasty could earn at least [-] million taels.

As long as the [-] million taels of silver can be collected, it will be much easier to pay the salaries of the officials, and it will be easier to raise the price of the victims' wages.

If the wine tax is not enough, then put the deed tax, mining tax, business tax and other taxes on it.

Anyway, as long as the miscellaneous items are abolished, the gentry will be suffering, not the common people.

If the gentry thought of other means to transfer taxes to the people, then Zhu Youjian could also use other means to deal with them.

Of course, the most important thing is to control public opinion in order to better deal with the gentry.

Controlling public opinion is not something that can be solved simply by a newspaper.

To put it bluntly, the ultimate control of public opinion is the issue of education.

When did civil servants control public opinion?Didn't it start after social studies and private schools became popular?
Why didn't civil servants control the world's speech during the period of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di?The promotion of official schools and the knowledge that students have access to are the most important means to consolidate the rule and spread public opinion.

It is better to put a person in a government school to study for ten days than to read a thousand newspapers.

Zhu Youjian has been preparing for a major exchange of blood between officials and schools since the second year of Tianqi, but the speed cannot be accelerated.

Yanshan No. [-] and No. [-] colleges are the beginning of division of subjects. However, after three years now, the number of students among them does not exceed [-].

Five thousand people, based on the fact that there are at least five subjects in government schools, can at most benefit one thousand government schools, and one government school has no more than a few hundred people.

It is good to let hundreds of thousands of people receive the education of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but compared with the sociology and ethnology that Zhu Youjian is fighting against, the number of people affected is much smaller.

Fortunately, according to the current speed, Yanshan Third University and Fourth University should be able to break through the upper limit of [-] people in a few years. Once Zhu Youjian releases people by then, the students who can be affected are millions of people up.

"Right now, apart from the third and fourth colleges of Yanshan College, how many students are there in the other six basic education colleges?"

Zhu Youjian took a sip of the tribute tea, and Zhu Youxiao also looked at Lu Wenzhao curiously, and although Wei Zhongxian didn't look at it, he listened with his ears up.

The matter of Yanshan Academy was not a secret in Ming Dynasty. Everyone knew that Zhu Youjian's powerful method was not the army, but this group of people.

"About five hundred and seventy thousand..." As soon as Lu Wenzhao opened his mouth, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help looking at Zhu Youjian.

He wanted to know how his younger brother supported so many students. After all, Zhu Youjian told him that every student in Yanshan invested six taels of silver every year.

Five hundred and seventy thousand students means that Yanshan Academy needs to invest more than three million taels of silver every year.

Zhu Youjian basically didn't ask for this money from Zhu Youxiao, and the money on the account of the Yumajian was also very secretive, and there was no trace of accounting at all.

It's not surprising that Zhu Youxiao couldn't see it, because since the third year of Tianqi, Yanshan Academy has been placed under the jurisdiction of Huangdian's officialdom.

That is to say, Yanshan Academy is actually spent by the Huangdian, and the large number of Huangdians want to make accounts, so that no one can see what is wrong with the accounts, which is very simple.

Even in the information age, it takes a long time to check a large-scale company, let alone this is the seventeenth century.

"At present, the number of students enrolled each year is about [-]..." Lu Wenzhao's words made Zhu Youxiao even more impatient.

One hundred thousand people, it can be said that the number of people in the Southern Beijing Cheng Guozijian is just like this.

This means that Zhu Youjian is producing [-] scribes every year. At this rate, it only takes ten years to replace the officials and subordinates, and there is no need to worry about corruption.

Anyone who is corrupt can be replaced. It is not too easy to select hundreds or thousands of people from among [-] people to replace a group of officials.

"According to the number of students, if there is no one to send after ten years, how will my brother solve their employment problem?"

Zhu Youxiao asked this point without any scruples, because this point was also something that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di failed to solve.

The long-term stability of the country has led to the introversion of the Guozijian students who can take the top position, and hundreds of officials are arrested every year, and the students of the Guozijian are unwilling to be subordinates.

Later, when the civil servants began to tempt them, they couldn't resist the temptation and chose to take the bait one after another. In the end, the emperor lost his talent reserve.

"Daming is constantly expanding its territory. If nothing else, just like right now, after Jiaozhi is recovered, at least ten thousand officials need to be dispatched to manage it."

"Xiaoxiyang Supervisor also needs to send [-] officials."

"Another theory is that Yanshan is currently preparing for the ninth, tenth, and eleventh schools."

"The number of teachers required by the three schools is as high as [-] people, all of which need people to operate."

"Also..." Zhu Youjian glanced at Wei Zhongxian, and then blatantly said:

"The government school should also be changed. There should be more than [-] government schools in my Ming Dynasty. Calculated based on a hundred people enrolled in each school, it also needs a total of [-] teachers."

"What's more, government schools should not stop at the county seat, but should be distributed to townships, and each county also needs to reach four government schools."

"Based on this calculation, my Ming Dynasty must have at least one million people to become teachers, and this one million people requires the number of students of Yanshan Academy for ten years."

Zhu Youjian was deliberately letting go, and Zhu Youxiao probably heard it. He wanted to tell the officials in the court through Wei Zhongxian's mouth to give them a sense of urgency.

In other words, it is also necessary to give the gentry below some sense of urgency through the mouths of the officials.

It doesn't matter that they know Joo's plan, because there's not much they can do.

Gathering people to spread Zhu Youjian's black spots?It doesn't matter, Zhu Youjian doesn't care.

Then gather a crowd to smash the county government?Just kidding, the soldiers and horses and the officials of the local criminal department are not vegetarians.

Even if soldiers, horses and yamen servants can't solve them, the local Gongwei battalion can solve them.

Zhu Youjian doesn't kill people, he only chooses to go into exile.

But thinking of exile, Zhu Youjian remembered Huanglong's memorial, and then said to Zhu Youxiao:
"By the way, brother, Huanglong discovered a new continent south of the old port when he was exploring south. There is also a small continent just south of this continent, and there are two continents, one large and one small, thousands of miles away to the southeast."

"In these places, I hope my brother can set up a new government and move the people to the border."

After all, Zhu Youjian looked at Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also nodded and walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and then came to the hall with two Jinyi guards, and replaced the old-fashioned "General Map of Daming Kunyu" in front of Zhu Youxiao .

When the brand-new "Daming Kunyu General Map" was replaced, it can be seen that the territory of the Ming Dynasty basically included Australia, New Zealand and other places in later generations.

After these places are marked and dyed with Ming's red paint, people only feel that they are particularly vast, and Zhu Youxiao pointed to Australia in the first reaction and said:

"This place looks big enough, you can all enshrine your younger brother as a vassal."

"This..." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian laughed, while Zhu Youxiao looked at him puzzled, as if wondering what was so funny.

For his puzzlement, Zhu Youjian could only get up and pointed at Australia with his pear stick and said:

"The situation in this new continent is mountainous in the east, plains in the middle, and plateaus in the west. About [-]% of the land is arid or semi-arid land. Although it is very large on the map, one-fifth of it is desert."

"Therefore, the land that can be used for animal husbandry and farming is actually less than one-half of the land..."

"In this half, most of the land can only be used for grazing, and the land that can be used for farming is about [-] million mu."

Having said that, Zhu Youjian returned to his position with his hands behind his back, and said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Let's leave this place to Ciyun and Cijiong..."

Zhu Youjian doesn't really want to go to Australia. After all, Australia's geopolitics is too bad. If you want to develop, you can only take the old port in the north.

With his power, it would not be a good thing if Qi's domain was too close to Daming.

"If my younger brother goes to Levia and becomes a vassal, then I will not let my younger brother leave Daming in my lifetime."

It is rare for Zhu Youxiao to use my self-proclaimed name for Zhu Youjian. Obviously he is really reluctant to leave Zhu Youjian.

Whether it is political, military, or emotional, he is inseparable from Zhu Youjian.

Regarding this, Zhu Youjian also smiled wryly: "Don't worry, brother, if my younger brother goes to Levia, it will be decades later."

"My parents are not traveling far, but if my parents are not there, my elder brother is my father, and my elder brother is still here. How can I travel far with confidence?"

It was rare for him to say some provocative words, and Zhu Youxiao also showed some smiles when he heard it, but after Wei Zhongxian heard it, although he was smiling on his face, he felt so uncomfortable that he wanted to die.

It's just that these words are just words on the occasion, the most important reason is the current conditions of Daming, which are not yet in line with the conditions for Zhu Youjian to leave.

He had to leave Daming with a well-connected transportation, a semi-industrialized society, and a relatively complete government-academic system.

Only with these, can he leave Daming with peace of mind.

Besides, if Daming has reached this level, then it will be much easier for him to go to the old domain.

During his ruling period, he could start to work on the affairs of Qi with the birth of his own heir.

Even if only tens of thousands of people are relocated every year, thirty years is enough to relocate millions of people to Qi.

The state of Qi, which has millions of Ming people, is not too slow to develop.

But Zhu Youjian still has a headache as far as the matter of Fandi is concerned.

His idea is very simple, if within a few years after the arrival of the descendants, the Military Armament Academy can produce steam engine ships, steam locomotives and steam locomotives, then the homeland of Qi State will be America.

If not, then the vassal land is Levia, or just squatting in the Nile River Basin, after digging the Suez Canal, let Qi sit and collect taxes.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also thought of Xu Xiake, turned to Lu Wenzhao and said:
"Is there any news from Xu Xiake?"

"This..." Lu Wenzhao was stopped by Zhu Youjian's question, he hesitated and said:
"Flying Pigeon's transmission of letters is limited, and Daming is far away from Levi, so the last news was sent back on August [-]th."

"At that time, Mr. Xu and the fleet had arrived at the southern tip of Levia, which is called the Cape of Good Hope by the Europeans."

"In the letter, Mr. Xu said that it is difficult to travel from the southern tip of Leviathan to the west of Leviathan, so the message will be delivered slowly..."

The induction of the homing pigeon is about [-] kilometers, and although Zhu Youjian is not very clear about the distance from the Cape of Good Hope to the capital, he can estimate that the straight-line distance is about [-] to [-] kilometers.

Therefore, Xu Xiake's pigeons need to fly to Liusha Qianhusuo (Maldives), then fly to the old port, and then fly back to the capital.

Due to the limited information carried by the carrier pigeon, Zhu Youjian could only know the approximate location of Xu Xiake.

If they make it to the west of Levia, it will take at least two more months for the pigeons to fly back.

"I don't know if Levia can rule..."

Zhu Youjian frowned. He naturally knew the harsh environment in Levia, and also knew that it would take a lot of manpower and material resources to reclaim tens of millions of acres of arable land there.

but……

He doesn't care about the life and death of the Kunlun slaves. Besides, as long as the Suez Canal is opened up and the gold mines above Levia are added, the country of Qi can live a very prosperous life. There is no need for him to rely on agriculture to get rich.

He only needs to reclaim enough food for the people of Qi on the banks of the Nile River, Niger River, Congo River, and Senegal River. These places have also been verified in later generations that they can be reclaimed, and the cost is not high.

These projects are relatively difficult to carry out, so we can only suffer from the local people.

As for the local malaria and various diseases, Zhu Youjian was not very worried about how to treat malaria. Daming had a systematic way to deal with it.

How did those rare viruses arise?Zhu Youjian is also aware of this, and it is nothing more than the fact that the local natives and wild animals are too close.

The Ming people are not as perverted as the local natives. As long as you tell the dangers, some viruses will naturally disappear slowly.

Every continent has its own way of ruling, and copying the rule will only shoot yourself in the foot.

The vast African rainforest has bred many viruses, but as long as Zhu Youjian establishes the Qi State in the Nile and other river basins, it is really hard to say how many years these rainforests can last according to the architectural style of the Han people.

After all, more than [-] years ago, Henan was still a tropical rain forest. As a result, it was turned into a plain by the people of the Shang Dynasty in less than [-] years.

How many people were there in the Shang Dynasty... As long as Zhu Youjian migrated enough people, coupled with the process of industrialization, it was only a matter of time before he wanted to reduce the rainforest area.

However, if the steam engine can be produced, Zhu Youjian would rather go to Central America and directly snatch Central America, which has been half developed by the Spaniards.

There is no such thing as snatching incense in reclamation...

It's just that Zhu Youjian's conscience is a little bit sorry for robbing the Europa people all the time.

Fortunately, after he picked up the tribute tea and took a sip, his regret disappeared.

"By the way, your marriage seems to be a bit of a mess..."

Zhu Youxiao suddenly mentioned marriage again, but Zhu Youjian put down his teacup and looked at him curiously.

Regarding Zhu Youjian's curious eyes, Zhu Youxiao laughed and said:
"North Korea, Siam, Ganbozhi, Boni, Sulu, and Turpan in the west all mentioned it during the pilgrimage. I hope that your marriage will not be simply selected from within the Ming Dynasty, but placed among the vassals."

"They care a lot..." Zhu Youjian felt a little uncomfortable, but Zhu Youxiao said:

"The king of North Korea, Li Ji, has been selecting beautiful girls for training. I heard that he has selected [-] beautiful girls. Even if you don't choose by then, it's good to stay in the palace as a slave."

"Let's see when the time comes. It's too early to talk about it now." Zhu Youjian had already heard about Li Zhen's actions from the handwriting sent by Yang Gao.

He didn't expect that this guy would spend so much energy trying to flatter him, but right now Zhu Youjian didn't have the heart to think about these things, what he cared about was the wine department and the drought...

(End of this chapter)