Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 406

"Raising the bow..."

"Peace..."

"Calm..."

When the capital was criticizing Zhu Youjian for liking mature women because of his concubine selection criteria, a familiar voice was talking in a house in Zhenwu County, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi.

Sun Chuanting, who was dressed in a black round-neck robe, finally rushed back to his hometown in Shanxi from Sichuan at his own expense after many days of trekking.

At this moment, he is facing the eldest son who has not seen him for three years, teaching him martial arts.

Unlike in history, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng and others did not delay their years because of the suppression of bandits, but were very stable most of the time.

Therefore, whether it is Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, or Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng, the group of people who should have married and had children in their 30s basically got married and had children several years in advance.

For example, Sun Chuanting, he married during the period when he was sent to the Northwest after the Liao War.

At the time of the Northern Expedition to Hetao, it was when his wife gave birth. After the re-tao battle, he managed to settle down in the Northwest for a few years.

Although in the past few years, he often took his family back and forth in Xining, Ganzhou, Ningxia, Xi'an and other places, but he was still able to get along with his family.

It's a pity that the civil uprising in Shaanxi uncovered the fig leaf of Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youjian had to send Sun Chuanting as governor in order to fight against corruption.

In fact, from the day he became governor, Sun Chuanting knew that his end would not be good, so he sent his family back to Zhenwu's hometown at that time.

Now the eldest son is six years old and the second son is four years old. Although there are not many children, Sun Chuanting is already satisfied.

"Wen'er, take your time, don't worry..."

Seeing the eldest son's punches and kicks getting faster and faster, Sun Chuanting reminded him patiently, but under his reminder, Sun Bingwen slowed down.

Not far away, Sun Zhang was holding three-year-old Sun Yinzhi and watching Sun Chuanting and Sun Bingwen practicing martial arts.

The Sun Mansion is very large, and the Sun family is the main surname in Zhenwu County.

When the guards were abolished, the basic guards were changed to prefectures and counties, and Zhenwuwei was changed to Zhenwu County.

Zhenwu County has been expanded, but even so, the Sun family compound still occupies a quarter of the area of ​​the new county. In terms of population, the Sun family also occupies a quarter of the population of Zhenwu County, as many as More than three thousand people.

Sun Chuanting's mansion is the first class in the Sun family compound, covering an area of ​​nearly ten acres, and the martial arts training ground alone covers an area of ​​one acre.

Taking Sun Bingwen to practice martial arts, Sun Chuanting's heart was extraordinarily peaceful.

People say that naming depends on the state of mind of the person concerned, but in history, Sun Chuanting named his two children Sun Shirui and Sun Shining.

This is because Sun Chuanting was suppressing the rebellion at that time, and the Ming Dynasty was in the midst of internal and external troubles, and he hoped for peace and prosperity in the world.

But right now, the Ming Dynasty that Sun Chuanting sees is a sign of ZTE, but under ZTE there are many corrupt officials who come to dig out the roots of the Ming Dynasty.

Under such circumstances, Sun Chuanting chose to name his sons "Bingwen" and "Yinzhi".

The former is taken from the "Zhou Ji Qing Temple" in "Zhou Song·Qing Temple", which refers to being upright and talented.

As for the latter, it is taken from "Children and grandchildren, don't quote them for others" in "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Chuci". The interpretation is to hope that future generations can inherit the good family style.

From the name, in Sun Chuanting's hope, he hopes that the two children will be upright when they grow up, even if they cannot become pillars of talent, they should not become treacherous villains.

He was raised with such expectations, and Sun Bingwen followed his teachings to learn.

Time passed little by little, and at noon, the family returned to the hall for dinner.

Although Sun Chuanting is strict with himself, he is not harsh with his family.

Being used to seeing hungry people, he often eats a bowl of rice alone, and a plate of meaty vegetarian dishes is enough, but when he returns home, the four of them sit in their seats, no matter how poor they are, they still have to satisfy the two meat, three vegetarian and one soup meals. standard.

The whole family ate happily, and Sun Chuanting also ate with his rice bowl.

But halfway through the meal, he still asked Sun Zhang:

"Right now, I've been dismissed from office and lost my salary. I don't know how much money I still have in my family?"

Sun Chuanting was a little worried about his family, because although he said that he had entrusted money over the years, he did not allow his family to buy land on a large scale, and the family also raised cattle, horses, and servants, which cost a lot of money.

But in the face of his concern, Mrs. Sun Zhang smiled knowingly:
"Husband, don't worry, there are still more than 3 taels of silver in the mansion, plus the gold and silver sent by someone from the Tiangong a few days ago, there is no problem in maintaining the mansion's expenses for 30 years."

To marry a wife is to marry a virtuous person, Sun Chuanting is an official outside, and Sun Zhang has always known how to increase income and reduce expenditure, and has never spent money lavishly.

Sun Chuanting had a lot of salary these years, but he also spent a lot of money. He often invited his subordinates to dinner, and he would give everyone a red envelope of [-] liters of money in the Jinglue Mansion during the holidays.

Although there are not many Bailaiwen, there are hundreds of people in the Jinglue Mansion, and they are distributed at a time of dozens of taels of silver, and he will basically distribute them on the 24th festival and various festivals.

Not only that, when the local government's expenditure is not enough, Sun Chuanting will spend money to build bridges in the two northwestern provinces, so there is not much money left in his salary.

If it weren't for Mrs. Sun and Zhang doing the housework behind, I'm afraid I don't even have 1 taels now.

For the huge Sun Mansion, if the account management is not good, then the 1 taels is nothing more than a few years of expenditure, and the Sun Zhang family can use 3 taels to guarantee the Sun Mansion's expenditure for 30 years, which is considered a housekeeping Well done.

Such a woman is considered a good wife and mother to many men.

"In the next three months, the mansion will be closed. If anyone from outside the mansion comes, they will not be seen unless the elders of the clan come."

"Even if the clan elders come, please ask Madam to meet me."

Sun Chuanting wanted to avoid suspicion, so he had no choice but to make a bad move. Mrs. Sun Zhang didn't think there were too many things to do, but understood her husband's difficulties, so she nodded and gave him some meat and vegetables with chopsticks.

She kept looking at Sun Chuanting. He basically ate vegetables all the time, and left the meat and vegetables for his wife and children. Sun Zhang saw all these behaviors.

Of course, paying attention to behavior is just a daily routine. She is more aware of her husband's temperament, so she took the opportunity to say:

"There are a lot of hungry people outside the county. It just so happens that there is a three-acre land in the mansion at the foot of the mountain in the east."

"I think it can be like the imperial court, hiring hungry people to build a villa on the land with work as relief, and go to escape the summer heat when June and July are hot."

"Well, Madam made up her mind." Sun Chuanting was very satisfied with Mrs. Sun and Zhang's behavior, and continued to eat.

The husband and wife didn't talk too much, and their thoughts were kept silent.

In the following days, just as Sun Chuanting expected, gentry officials from Taiyuan and Datong came to visit one after another, and the elders of the clan also came to visit.

The gentry officials wanted to please and give gifts, but Sun Zhang refused.

The elders in the clan wanted to ask Sun Chuanting to repair the ancestral hall, repair houses for some widowed and lonely elders in the clan, and distribute rice and wheat. Sun Zhang agreed, but he made the calculation very clear.

Having her at home saved Sun Chuanting a lot of trouble, and all this was recorded by Jin Yiwei and sent to the capital.

When Zhu Youjian got the news, he was on his way to Yanshan Palace with Zhu Youxiao to escape the summer heat.

The difference is that Zhu Ciran, Li Dingguo and Zhang Yan are not in the summer team this year.

The former is busy studying, while the latter is busy choosing a concubine for Zhu Youjian.

Without them, the traveling team of the two brothers has been reduced a lot, with only more than [-] people accompanying them to the north.

In the team going north, apart from the two brothers, Wang Cheng'en, Yang Rushi, and Yang Yuan'ai from Prince Qi's Mansion all followed, as did six concubines including Concubine Yu and Concubine Liang from the inner court, Wei Zhongxian and Li Yongzhen.

There were 600 court ladies accompanying him, 500 Jing troops, 1000 Xiaoqi guards, and 1000 Yiluan guards.

The long team passed through Miyun early and entered Yanshan Mountain, but they hadn't left the Great Wall yet.

The difference from three years ago is that on the way north this time, villages and cultivated land appeared in some Yanshan valleys. From Miyun to Yanbian of the Great Wall, Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao saw many people who moved north.

The rubber tires of the carriage were pressed against the newly built concrete road, so it was very easy to walk without shaking at all.

Zhu Youxiao was sitting in his three-foot-by-three-foot mobile palace carriage, looking at the window restlessly, while Zhu Youjian, who was sitting at the head left, was concentrating on processing the memorial.

Feeling the feeling of sitting in the carriage, Zhu Youxiao seemed to be looking for some topics, so he said on purpose:
"How many people are there in this Duoyan mansion right now? How much arable land is there? How many miles of mansion roads are there?"

He told Zhu Youjian what he said, but someone had to answer it.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian became a quarrelsome person, and quickly said:
"Duoyan Mansion currently has more than 27 people, of which more than 3 are the original Mongolians. As for the cultivated land, there are more than 120 million mu, and the grassland is more than 3000 million mu."

"Not many mansion roads have been built, only the mansion road from the capital to Dading Palace in Yanshan County, Duoyan Mansion."

"There is only one..." Zhu Youxiao sighed with regret, and then cheered up and asked:

"Then how many miles of government roads have been built in Beizhili since this year?"

"This..." Wei Zhongxian was stunned, not knowing how to answer.

He was able to know the road from the capital to Yanshan County because he knew that the emperor would take this road to Dading Palace, so he wrote it down on purpose, but he really didn't pay attention to the number of roads in the entire North Zhili.

"About 230 miles. In recent years, a total of more than 730 miles have been built, and it is expected to reach [-] miles by the end of the year."

Zhu Youjian, who was dealing with the memorial, answered without raising his head, but Zhu Youxiao said in surprise after hearing this:
"Why are so many built? Didn't it just say last year that the output can only be built for two or three hundred miles a year?"

"The output of cement is constantly increasing, especially last year when hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials were affected in the north. All these people were sent to the cement factory to participate in labor reform. It is expected that their family members will be reformed through labor for ten years." Zhu Youjian explained.

"Then how much cement will be produced this year? How many government roads can be built?"

Zhu Youxiao leaned on the chair and asked. He was not worried about people's livelihood, but felt that the government road was very good for the carriage, and the speed of the carriage was also improved.

Zhu Youxiao calculated that on the former post road, it, a six-horse-drawn royal carriage, could travel up to eighty miles a day.

But if you walk on the government road, this carriage can travel at least 120 miles a day.

If the government roads are fully promoted, then Zhu Youxiao will be able to go further.

Of course, this is before the train is put into use. If the train is put into use, Zhu Youxiao is naturally willing to take the train.

He has been on the steam train of the third version of the steam engine of the Armament Institute, although it is a bit noisy, it can really go a long way.

If there is a train, he can take the train to the Dading Palace in Yanshan to rest before the curfew on the first day, and return to Shangzhao Dynasty the next morning.

The current speed of the train is 120 miles per hour, but this is when it is fully loaded with cargo. Once only one passenger compartment is left, the speed of the train can reach 720 miles per hour, and it can go back and forth [-] miles in six hours.

Like Zhu Youxiao now, when he only goes to court once a month, he can even take a month to play.

In a month's time, even if the train is fully loaded with ten carriages, pulling Zhu Youxiao and two hundred soldiers of the Three Guards of the Imperial City, it can run a full [-] miles at a speed of fifty miles per hour.

This distance is enough to run the entire northern capital, three prefectures and six provinces.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to do this very much, so he has been paying attention to the construction of the railway, but the construction of the railway is too slow, so for at least seven years, he still has to stay in the three-acre land around Shuntianfu, and he can only expect Looking forward to the road to the cement government.

When his question was asked, Zhu Youjian replied without thinking:
"North Zhili produces more than 500 million stones annually, the north produces more than [-] million stones annually, and the world produces nearly [-] million stones annually."

"Northern Zhili can be built for [-] miles, the north can be built for [-] miles, and Guochao can be built for more than [-] and [-] miles, but!"

Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Youxiao, and specially emphasized a but, then he put the prepared memorial on the table aside, bowed his head and continued to process the memorial, and then said:

"The country still has water conservancy, dams and various constructions. Only two-thirds of the cement can be used in the construction of government roads, which is about [-] miles."

Zhu Youjian said that he was very satisfied with the situation in his heart. Although at this speed, it would take more than 200 years for Daming to catch up with the road mileage of later generations before Zhu Youjian crossed, but technology can slowly increase production.

"After the fourth version of the steam engine works, can the production of cement be increased?"

Zhu Youxiao is not stupid. He thought of the miraculous fourth version of the steam engine that his younger brother and the Military Armament Academy boasted, and thought of the increase in cement production and the third version of the steam engine being related to manpower, so he asked specifically.

Zhu Youjian actually figured out the answer he wanted a long time ago, so he said calmly:
"The production can be increased by about three times, but the entire industrial layout will take about three years, that is, the production will take three years to reach."

As Zhu Youjian said, he quickly processed another memorial. Although Zhu Youxiao didn't understand what "industrial layout" was, he could still understand the time limit.

"That is, three years later, the cement in the province of Beizhili will be enough to repair nearly five thousand miles? That's not bad...haha..."

Zhu Youxiao laughed happily, but Zhu Youjian shook his head when he heard the words, but didn't say anything.

He knew very well why Daming's cement production exploded. To put it bluntly, it all needed to be rooted in one place... Yingzhou.

By April of the tenth year of Tianqi, a total of 720 cement plants had been installed in Yingzhou, employing 50 people in Yingzhou.

In addition, according to Zhu Youjian's order, Yang Wenyue hired 10 people to build a cement plant in Liaodong, and another [-] people to build a cement plant in Busan, North Korea.

This has employed 70 people, which is close to one-twentieth of the current population of Yingzhou.

They will work in the cement field for several years. In this dusty environment, pneumoconiosis is unavoidable, but they still choose to work in order to make money.

Daming paid them [-] Wen in Yingzhou, [-] Wen in North Korea, and [-] Wen in Daming, which could basically support a family of three.

The annual expenditure of 300 million taels was exchanged for a steady increase in Yingzhou cement production.

According to Yang Wenyue's estimate, Japan's cement production alone will reach one-third of that of Ming Dynasty this year.

It is precisely because of the sudden rise of Yingzhou that Daming not only stabilized its cement production, but also achieved a steady increase in the situation where the number of workers in the old port was naturally reduced.

"I just don't know how long these 70 people can last..."

Zhu Youjian handled the memorials mechanically, and while muttering something in his heart, he remembered what happened in Yingzhou.

In general, Yang Wenyue had already arrested most of the shogunate samurai who were hiding in Yingzhou. Under the impact of this kind of local tyrants and land distribution, more than two million people were taken as prisoners and sent to labor reform for ten years.

The target of their reform through labor is Beizhou, which is the Hokkaido area and the four northern islands of later generations.

There are more than 700 million mu of cultivated land in the Hokkaido area of ​​later generations, while the current Beidao Prefecture has less than 100 million mu.

In the next ten years, Yang Wenyue will "reasonably" use their labor reform period to develop the agriculture of Beidao Prefecture to the level of future generations as much as possible.

Of course, there are also the four northern islands, and...

"Kanchajia..." Zhu Youjian thought of the handwritten reply to Yang Wenyue six days ago.

In the handwriting, Zhu Youjian asked Yang Wenyue to go north to develop the Kamchatka area while reclaiming the Beidao Prefecture.

The Kamchatka Peninsula will be an important supply place for steam ships to go to the Americas in the future, but the place is cold, and only a small number of areas can be cultivated, and the cultivated crops are also very limited.

There is no rye in Daming, but fortunately as far as Zhu Youjian knows, potatoes can be grown in this area.

Therefore, he told Yang Wenyue that he could organize a small-scale migration of thousands of prisoners and plant potatoes in the local area.

In the follow-up, the capital will transport the glass to the local area, and then build floor heating and glass greenhouses to grow vegetables.

In Zhu Youjian's vision, as long as the local potato production keeps up, then Yang Wenyue can continue to develop the local area according to the situation, and then wait for the steam ships to be launched in batches.

As long as there are enough steam ships, Yang Wenyue can use the steam ships to continue to move the prisoners, and go to Anchorage, Alaska later to establish the first supply station for the Han people in America.

After that, it will continue to go south to establish a second supply point in Vancouver and Seattle, and then head south to establish the third and fourth supply points in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In these main supply points or immigration points, as long as Yang Wenyue used prisoners to reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land, Zhu Youjian could organize the relocation of Ming people.

Of course, the construction of this ocean-going migration route and supply station is easy to say, but when it really starts, the difficulty will appear.

Zhu Youjian predicts that ten years later, that is, in the 20th year of the Apocalypse, the amount of cultivated land in the area will exceed one million mu, and the number of Han people will reach at least 50.

Then in the 25th year of Tianqi, the amount of local cultivated land will exceed 500 million mu, and the number of Han people will exceed 200 million.

As long as this scale is reached, then Zhu Youjian can start to mobilize the army to liberate Central America, South America and the eastern coast of North America, and bring real "civilization" and "culture" to the local area.

If this plan is to be implemented well, labor in Yingzhou is essential.

At present, the total population of Yingzhou is more than [-] million, and prisoners account for one-seventh.

Counting the one million people from Wanyingzhou who worked in the fertilizer plant, mine, cement plant and other construction sites, almost one-third of the young and strong locals worked under Daming.

"It's still not enough, at least half of it."

"If the men don't go out, how will the men of Daming move there..."

Zhu Youjian sighed a little in his heart. All he had to do was to recruit all the men from Yingzhou to America and Nanzhou to work, and then let them return to Yingzhou happily with their silver bags.

Of course, in the process of part-time work, some dangers are naturally unpredictable, and it is hard to say how many people can come back, especially when the waves come, thousands of people will disappear when the boat capsizes.

"The age of great voyages is still somewhat dangerous..."

Zhu Youjian murmured, but the ink brush in his hand was outlining, without stopping for a second.

When he finally finished processing all the memorials, put down the ink pen and stretched, he turned to look at Zhu Youxiao's desk, and there were still at least half of the memorials that had not been processed.

"younger brother……"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youjian eagerly, and Zhu Youjian frowned at him, but in the end his heart softened, and he raised his hand and took a third of the memorials from Zhu Youxiao's desk.

"I can only help my brother get here, and I have to deal with the rest by myself."

Zhu Youjian shook his head and sighed, but he opened the memorials and dealt with them one by one honestly.

Compared with his own pile of various military and state affairs and financial expenditures, the memorials handled by Zhu Youxiao are very simple for Zhu Youjian.

Thirty or so memorials were quickly processed by him, and Wang Chengen, Wei Zhongxian, and Li Yongzhen looked at them in awe.

If they had seen the factory assembly lines of later generations, they would be able to accurately identify and differentiate the two brothers.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian, two brothers, one is a part-time worker, and the other is a fast-handed piecework worker.

The speed at which the two handled the memorials was as high as the sky and the other was underground. In their eyes, Zhu Youjian processed three memorials, and Zhu Youxiao only processed one.

This is not to say that Zhu Youxiao is slow, but that Zhu Youjian is too fast.

Apart from his own memory and experience, the biggest golden finger he has come across is the improvement of memory and physical fitness.

Although he can't achieve the photographic memory, he only needs a few breaths to read and memorize the content of some memorials with hundreds of words, and he can give the best solution in a short time.

Not to mention Zhu Youxiao, even if Wang Chengen and the three of them tied together to compare with him, they might not be able to compare with him, so...

"Huh...it's finally over."

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Youjian twisted his somewhat stiff neck, and wanted to stretch, but suddenly felt that a hot gaze was almost roasting him.

"Huh?" Looking sideways, an unexpected scene reappeared.

I saw that there were more than 50 copies of the hundreds of memorabilia that had been removed by Zhu Youjian, and there were more than [-] copies left, and the owner of that fiery gaze was naturally...

"younger brother……"

Zhu Youxiao had an aggrieved expression on his face. He obviously took the initiative to take care of Zhu Youjian when he was a teenager, but when he was in his twenties, he needed Zhu Youjian to take care of him.

"I'm afraid of you..." With a sigh, Zhu Youjian could only stretch out his hand to draw out a third of the memorial, but he paused, and after thinking about it, he still pulled out two thirds.

Seeing this, the living annotator squatting behind the bookshelf in the carriage immediately took up his pen and wrote down the scene, as well as the number of memorials that Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian respectively dealt with today.

[April 190th Bingshen, Emperor read memorials 370 four pieces, Qi Wang read memorials [-] two pieces]

　The second is about eight o'clock in the evening

　　
　
(End of this chapter)