Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 337
"Go!"

"Pfft-"

In the dense forest on September [-]th, accompanied by the shout of one person, some people couldn't bear to behead the rebels who were bound to the ground one by one.

Blood splattered and sprinkled all over their faces. Some people felt no burden for it, while some had weak hands and feet and kept trembling.

Among these people, the most conspicuous ones are a group of young people talking and laughing...

"Behead level 57, Li Zicheng, it looks like you can be promoted to defense this time."

"Hey! If I am promoted to guard, I will let you be my general banner, hahaha..."

"Okay, you still want me to help you."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

A group of people burst into laughter. Li Zicheng and others who went south were dressed in Ming army iron armor and Li-shaped helmets. They were talking and laughing while wiping the Yanling knife in their hands.

However, among them, it is obvious that there are many clan children.

The battlefield is often the place where you can communicate the most, because facing enemies with different languages ​​and places with different environments, the familiar accent will often make people feel very familiar.

Li Zicheng and others' actual combat results are also outstanding in the second class of Yanshan Academy, so they can naturally protect many clan children who are on the same team as them.

Besides, the clan's children are not all fools, many of them can see that Yanshan officials will inevitably occupy the Ming Dynasty's officialdom in the future, so they who need to surrender must greet Yanshan officials well.

People like Li Zicheng, who came to Jiaozhi less than a year ago and were promoted from ordinary soldiers to general banners, naturally they also care about them.

As far as the potential shown by Li Zicheng in this battle is concerned, he will at least be the commander-in-chief of a province in the future.

If he can climb higher and become one of the six governors, then the feudal lords will be counted as someone in the court.

"Look at how arrogant they are."

When Li Zicheng and others were proud and complacent, a group of people beside the dense forest also became dissatisfied.

Looking carefully, Zhu Changqing, Zhu Yujian, Zhu Yukai, Zhu Yukai, Zhu Yue, Zhu Yuxi, Zhu Ci, Zhu Ciyong, Zhu Shaotong, Zhu Zhishu and others stood in this group of people.

Apart from them, there is also Zhu Yousong who is standing aside, trembling Yanling Saber in his hand.

His face was pale, apparently he hadn't gotten out of the shadow of dealing with the traitor just now.

After Zhu Yukai saw his appearance, he couldn't help whispering to Zhu Yujian:
"Brother, that Zhu Yousong is too cowardly, he has already beheaded the eighth level, and he still looks like this."

"Don't worry about him." Zhu Yujian didn't count Zhu Yousong in their small group.

After a few months of getting along, more than 30 of them, the children of thousands of clans, have already formed an alliance in private.

There is no other reason, the first is the issue of the domain.

On the feudal domain, they formulated some contracts for offensive and defensive alliances and economic alliances. Although the Ji Wang Mansion, Huai Wang Mansion, and Tang Wang Mansion did not choose to be a vassal in Tianzhu, the Zhou Wang Mansion and the Shu Wang Mansion, Chu Wang Mansion, Zhao Wang Mansion, Jin Wang Mansion, and the Prince's Mansion The children of the imperial family are in Tianzhu, but this does not mean that they cannot cooperate.

At the end, they saw the profitability of the rules of "catch up seedlings and expand their careers", and Zhu Yujian, Zhu Changqing, and Zhu Ci even agreed to Zhu Shaotong and others, willing to help them open up their vassal state.

The reason why these three people went to help Zhu Shaotong and others to establish a feudal state when their own feudal state had not yet settled was because they wanted to have a few final battles in Tianzhu.

The financial resources of Prince Ji's Mansion and Prince Huai's Mansion are not considered strong among the vassals, so even if they are vassals, the vassal states are not that big.

Although the Tang Fan was powerful, the old Tang King Zhu Shuoyin didn't care about Zhu Qiqi and Zhu Yujian's lineage at all, and gave all the gold and silver in the Tang Palace to his youngest son.

Judging from the current situation, Zhu Shuoxi may also plan to go directly to the Biyang Kingdom of his youngest son Zhu Qixu, King Biyang, after gaining a foothold in Tianzhu in the feudal kingdom.

In other words, Zhu Qiqi's lineage has been abandoned, and they have no income except for the thousands of taels of silver each year under the vassal king's reform system over the years.

In a few years, their family property was only 8000 taels of silver, and this amount of money was enough to support hundreds of family members. Therefore, in order to become a feudal clan, Zhu Yujian had to organize family members to go to Tianzhu to clean up.

He could use the gold and silver he obtained to help his father establish a vassal state in other places while sweeping the tail.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yujian looked at a wooden sign on his waist.

The orthographic number on the wooden sign was exactly seven, which also meant that Zhu Yujian beheaded 35 people during the mopping up.

Although this number is astonishing, it is slightly less than the group of Li Zicheng, Li Zijing and Liu Zongmin.

"Beep--"

"gather!"

Suddenly, while many clan disciples were chatting and laughing, the wooden whistle sounded, and the garrison in charge of leading the team also summoned them.

Almost a subconscious muscle reaction, everyone started to run to the defense and gather.

After a dozen or so breaths, they formed a small square formation.

The guard looked at them with satisfaction, and then said loudly:

"A letter from the General Office of the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion just now, if any of the children of the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion participate in Tianzhu's surrender, they can receive a transfer order and go to Cochin Port in Qinghua to board the ship. They will set off for Xiaoxiyang soon .”

"..." The news spread, but no one made any noise, which made the guard nodded in satisfaction, and then continued:

"The rest of the clan's children, if you are willing to continue to mop up, you can stay. If you don't want to, you can go to Jiaozhi Port together, and take the boat northward to Nanjing and Beijing on the tenth day of September."

"Do you understand everything?!"

"Understood!"

"Disband!" Everyone responded, but the guard glanced at them, and then said the word "disband".

After he uttered these two words, he turned and left, and the children of the various clans also began to celebrate loudly.

But during such a celebration, Zhu Yujian frowned, and Zhu Changqing even said:
"The mansion has to be cleared up early, and we should go to Xiaoxiyang to monitor the envoys and form troops in advance."

"Otherwise, I will rent and transfer Gongwei camp to participate in the sweeping." Zhu Shaotong and Zhu Zhishu also echoed in unison.

"Try it first..." Zhu Yujian didn't have a good solution, he could only nod his head, while Zhu Yousong next to him had a sore nose, thinking: "Can I still see my father alive?"

"Look, make them happy..."

"I don't want to leave Daming."

"Stop talking..."

When Zhu Yujian and others were discussing, Li Zijing, Liu Zongmin and others in the crowd also laughed at them, but Li Zicheng stopped this behavior in the end.

"It's true that they are going to leave, but we still have to continue to mop up and accumulate more military exploits. No one knows when the next big battle will be at the Confederate Commander's Mansion."

"If there's no battle to fight, we won't be able to rise up."

Li Zicheng only wanted to be promoted, not that he was an official fan, but that he wanted to have a higher status and be closer to His Royal Highness Qi Wang.

With such thoughts, the south wind blows northward, and at this moment Zhu Youjian has also finished the last tranche of grain in Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture.

"420 and 630 shi...these grains are enough for the victims in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Hexi to get through this year."

After finishing the last calculation, Bi Ziyan raised his head and looked at Zhu Youjian, who was sitting in the chair of the Mizhi County Yamen Hall, and Gu Bingqian, who was sitting opposite Bi Ziyan, also said:

"His Royal Highness, 26 victims of disasters in Shaanxi moved to Hexi, 50 people in Hanzhong collectively moved to eastern Sichuan, half of the people in Weibei moved to southern Shaanxi, and southern Shaanxi moved to Hanzhong. The relocation will probably be completed before winter comes."

"The cabinet estimates that after the relocation, there will be 430 million people in Hexi, about 550 million people in Sichuan, and 32 people who have moved to Jiaozhi, and the number in Shaanxi will drop from 490 million at the beginning of the year to about 380 million..."

Having said that, Gu Bingqian glanced secretly at Zhu Youjian who was resting with his eyes closed, and after finding that the other party hadn't spoken yet, he continued to report:

"In Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, a total of 96 people moved to Jiaozhi, and 29 people from Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi also moved out, plus 72 people from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan."

"Counting the people in Shaanxi, the number of Han Chinese in Jiaozhi will reach less than 230 million around the end of next year..."

"In addition to the relocation of the old port and Xiaoxiyang, the people of Nanzhou, between this year and next year, our dynasty is expected to relocate about 300 million people from the original two capitals and 200 provinces, and relocate about [-] million people inward."

300 million people moved out and 200 million people moved in...

With such a scale of migration, except for the Hongwu, Jianwen, and Yongle periods in the early Ming Dynasty, there has never been such a large-scale official migration in Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Youjian has been relocating people over the years, the largest scale was the Xu Hongru rebellion in the second year of Tianqi, when 200 million victims were relocated to Liaodong, and one million victims were relocated to Fujian from Ryukyu.

This totals no more than 300 million people, but now Daming has relocated 500 million people.

This is one of the benefits of the drought. If people cannot survive, they must leave their homeland.

As for whether there is any mandatory in the migration?Zhu Youjian didn't have any worries about this.

Just like the great famine in Henan in history, tens of millions of people spontaneously migrated to Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Hubei without food, walking hundreds of kilometers on only two legs.

In the situation of starving to death, the so-called returning to the roots of fallen leaves has become a joke.

In order to prepare for this great migration, Zhu Youjian has ordered shipbuilding to major shipyards since the second year of Tianqi.

With the carrying capacity of Huangdian, it is not a problem to migrate millions of people along the coast in two years, and it is not a problem to relocate people on land.

The people of Sichuan and Yunnan and Guizhou had long been recruited by Hong Chengchou to migrate to the Red River Delta Plain of Jiaozhi, and the rest were nothing more than follow-up immigrants from Jiangxi, Nanzhili and other places.

As for the people in Shaanxi, they have suffered a little and need to use their legs to migrate, but there is no way.

Steam locomotives could not be produced, and mercury fulminate explosives were also being developed. Although minerals had been transported from south to south, the quantity was not enough to build a thousand-mile railway.

On this point, Zhu Youjian was in no hurry.

Song Yingxing and the others have already advanced the steam engine to the "Saffrey Steam Engine". As long as they solve a few problems, they can advance to the "Newcomen Steam Engine".

But even at this stage, Song Yingxing and the others still need to fix the separate condenser, install an insulating layer outside the cylinder, lubricate the piston with oil, planetary gears, parallel-moving linkages, centrifugal governors, dampers, pressure gauges, etc. In order to develop a "Watt steam engine" that can be used as a steam locomotive and a steam engine ship.

Zhu Youjian also wanted to rub his hands together to create countless watt steam engines, but the problem is that this thing is not realistic.

Later generations thought that building a steam engine was easy, and most of them watched online videos. However, the reality is that most of the online videos were purchased steam engine parts online, and then assembled directly.

But what Daming has to do is to manufacture these components one by one, which contains various technological problems.

A person who can go back to ancient times and build a watt steam engine with bare hands, even in modern times, is still an engineer or mechanic.

Zhu Youjian is a liberal arts student, so it is not bad to know the principle of a steam engine.

Thinking of this, he opened his eyes and said to Gu Bingqian:
"The relocation of Shaanxi must continue. If there is still no rain in Shaanxi next year, the people should be notified early to relocate and provide enough food."

"The next official takes orders..." Gu Bingqian bowed in response, and Zhu Youjian also looked at the dead grass and potted plants in the courtyard, feeling the dry heat of the air, and then said:
"On the first day of September, you and I will return to the capital. By the way, Sun Chuanting will be appointed as the governor of the thirteen provinces. Whenever there is drought, he will walk around and supervise."

Zhu Youjian had no other choice. Apart from Sun Chuanting, he couldn't trust other senior officials for a while.

Lu Xiangsheng is going to Xiaoxiyang, Hong Chengchou is still in Jiaozhi, and Xiong Tingbi needs to guard against Jianlu. Besides, he is much older than Sun Chuanting and the others, and he is wandering around. Zhu Youjian is afraid that his health will not be able to bear it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian only felt that in an agricultural society, a natural disaster would be more troublesome than a war.

Even with a million captives, with Daming's current military strength, Zhu Youjian is sure to win.

But in the face of natural disasters affecting eight provinces, Zhu Youjian could only let the other party wreak havoc, and then silently stood up to clean up the mess.

"Get back..."

After finishing the business, Zhu Youjian also waved his hand to signal the two to leave. After hearing the words, Gu Bingqian and the two slowly got up and saluted, bowed and left the hall.

After they left, about two quarters of an hour later, Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao brought people into the hall with plates of food, brought the table and placed it in front of Zhu Youjian, and laid out the dishes one after another go up.

Zhu Youjian was still having a headache. When he opened his eyes, he saw a bowl of rice, a cup of tea, two plates of wild vegetables he couldn't name, and a plate of fried pork.

Three dishes, one meal and one tea, such a simple way of eating, has been Zhu Youjian's usual meal since he came to Shaanxi.

If Zhu Youxiao sees it, I am afraid that Zhu Youxiao will send people to send all kinds of ingredients and delicacies from mountains and seas, but even such a "simple" way of eating is still a table of dishes that many victims in Shaanxi cannot eat.

Zhu Youjian picked up the chopsticks, instead of picking up the meat, he picked up a stir-fried unknown wild vegetable.

He put the dish in his mouth, and after chewing it a few times, his expression became a little ugly.

Even though there were a lot of spices in this dish, Zhu Youjian could still taste the bitterness. He swallowed it forcefully, rinsed his mouth with brewed tea, and picked up another dish, but this time...

"Bah! Can this thing be eaten?!"

Zhu Youjian lost his temper on a rare occasion and vomited the vegetables on the ground, which made Cao Bianjiao and the others subconsciously kneel on one knee, not daring to raise their heads.

However, Zhu Youjian also quickly realized his impoliteness, and after gargling with tea, he said to Cao Bianjiao and the others: "Get up, tell me what these two dishes are?"

Cao Bianjiao and the others got up when they heard the words, then lowered their heads and said in a breathless voice, "The ones in front are plantains, and the ones behind are bitter cabbage..."

His words made Zhu Youjian's face a little ugly. He didn't expect that these two wild vegetables, which were placed on the side of the road in his previous life, would become the only dishes for the victims...

Without trains, fresh vegetables could not be transported. The entire Shaanxi was severely drought-ridden, and even these wild vegetables were only found on both sides of some unbroken rivers, and ordinary victims of the disaster could not eat them.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian bit the bullet and ate the two dishes, and then ate the pork.

After reluctantly eating, he leaned back on the chair, and after a while, Wu Youxing, the imperial physician who accompanied him this time, also walked into the meeting hall with two apprentices, bowed and reminded:
"Your Highness, today is the day of the pulse."

"Um……"

Zhu Youjian leaned on the chair and responded, and Wu Youxing also took two apprentices to the side of the main seat, brought a chair and sat down, and began to take Zhu Youjian's pulse.

But after checking his pulse, Wu Youxing frowned and said:

"Your Highness's liver stagnation has turned into fire. I think it's because I have dealt with too many government affairs these days, which has caused the liver qi to be unsatisfactory. Recently, have you lost your appetite and are irritable and irritable?"

When Wu Youxing asked this question, Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao standing at the entrance of the meeting hall immediately looked at each other, and Zhu Youjian also frowned and said, "It's really a bit..."

"Your Highness should rest well, otherwise the symptoms will gradually worsen."

"Recuperation..." Zhu Youjian sighed, he wanted to recuperate, but the problem was what about the tens of thousands of people outside Mizhi County who could only cook porridge?

The civil uprising in northern Shaanxi, the corrupt officials and the corruption of officials in Yanshan have already made him distrust the officials a little bit, and handing them over to the officials, he is afraid that there will be another civil uprising.

"Thank you, Mr. Ke..." Zhu Youjian thanked him first, and then talked about political affairs without listening to persuasion, and he still chatted with Wu Youxing:
"This time there is a severe drought in the province, and the severe drought is prone to outbreaks of locust plagues. After the locust plagues, food shortages and rats scurry around, and plagues are very easy to break out. This time, sir, I invited you to come to guard against the epidemic."

"Alas..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Wu Youxing sighed and said:

"As for the plague, I've been visiting around for the past few days, and I haven't encountered any intractable diseases. As for the plague, I can only listen to fate..."

Wu Youke's unsure words made Zhu Youjian feel depressed. After all, he knew very well that the result of the severe drought in the late Ming Dynasty was not simply that the people had nothing to eat, but various plagues brought about by dead bodies and rats running around.

The sea water in the south of the Yangtze River is flooding, and the north and south China are suffering from severe drought. One thing after another makes Zhu Youjian unable to stop.

Originally thought that the more than 2000 million taels of silver collected by the corrupt officials who ransacked the house would allow him to prepare for the sweeping of the captives next year after returning to Beijing, but the money was spent not long after he got it.

Although the millions of people affected by the disaster in the eight provinces survived for the time being, what about next year and the year after... How many catastrophes are waiting for him?
Zhu Youjian rubbed his brows, and Cao Bianjiao, who came to help him pour the tea, also poured the tea carefully, but halfway through the pour, he glanced at Zhu Youjian, then froze and said:

"Your Highness, your hair has grown white..."

"Huh?" Hearing Cao Bianjiao's words, Zhu Youjian raised his head in doubt, and Wu Youxing, who was in front of him, also took a look.

Although it is not very obvious, there are quite a few white hairs in Zhu Youjian's black hair.

"I think it's because I'm too tired. I'll prescribe some calming medicine after I'm off the job and rest for a while."

Wu Youxing comforted Zhu Youjian, while Zhu Youjian sighed a little.

He didn't expect that Chongzhen in history, who had grayed his hair for state affairs, would end up in the same way when he came to him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian was about to get up, but at this moment Lu Wenzhao walked in with several military newspapers.

"Your Highness, there is news from the capital and several military newspapers."

Lu Wenzhao walked in, and the general newspaper was handed over to Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youxiao opened the military newspaper in the capital.

Just looking at it, he frowned, because in the military newspaper, there were a few things about Yanshan’s officials in Beijing being bribed, and Jin Xuan’s impeachment of Cui Chengxiu was suppressed by Zhu Youxiao, and Jin Xuan’s role as Zhu Ciran’s teacher .

Three things, first of all, when he saw the bribe, Zhu Youjian said directly:

"Shangshu, please ask the emperor to abolish the salary of officials, and then tell Bi Ziyan to return to Beijing early, and find out the real salaries of officials at all levels early."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao bowed in response, and asked someone to inform Bi Ziyan.

When he was arranging things, Zhu Youjian took another look at the military newspaper, and Zhu Youjian was not surprised by the impeachment of Jin Xuan and Cui Chengxiu.

As he remembers, Jin Xuan was a student who was before the third senior high school entrance examination, and his theory was well-adjusted, but one thing was that his theory was about corruption, and it was extremely aggressive. It is very similar to Yang Lian.

It is not surprising that Kim Hyun will impeach Cui Chengxiu. Seeing this news, Zhu Youjian is not only not angry, but very relieved.

If even the stubborn Jin Xuan among the students in the third class dare not impeach Cui Chengxiu, then the others are even more afraid.

As for Jin Xuan's role as Zhu Ciran's teacher, Zhu Youjian was very satisfied.

Although Jin Xuan has the same stubborn temper as Yang Lian, he has some more qualities than Yang Lian.

These traits were cultivated in the Yanshan Academy. He is not high-minded, but a practical man. It can be said that he is an enhanced version of Yang Lian.

The six arts of a gentleman, the basic military, and the theory of governing the country. Although he is not the best in all aspects, it is enough to go to the East Palace to enlighten Zhu Ciran.

"Tell Jin Xuan, pay attention to the balance between work and rest, and don't blindly impose your own ideas on my eldest nephew."

"Yes!"

Zhu Youjian explained something to Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also responded with a smile.

He laughed because he saw Zhu Youjian smiling. God knows how long it has been since Zhu Youjian came to Shaanxi...

　The update is a bit late, because I am rushing to work on the manuscript.

　　I still have to catch up in the afternoon, so there is a high probability that the update in the afternoon will be between five and six o'clock.

　　In addition, the update is very tight and there are many words, so there are some typos, sorry sorry

　　
　
(End of this chapter)