Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 408 Great Mercy and Great Mercy Yang Wenyue

"Hey!"

"You all work honestly! You still have 14 years of labor reform!"

"The fields cultivated now are your future cultivated lands. If you don't cultivate honestly, you are against yourself!"

"Banglong-"

In late April, when Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian were hunting in Dading Palace in Yanshan, the speed of Yingzhou's development far exceeded the speed they knew in letters.

Ten years after entering Apocalypse, when Huanglong and Mirza confronted 10,000+ people, Yang Wenyue easily dispatched three battalions of soldiers and horses to incorporate Hokkaido into Yingzhou Province and named it Beizhou Prefecture.

As the largest island in Yingzhou other than the main island, the natives of Yingzhou call it "Ezo Land".

The terrain is high in the middle and low in the surrounding areas, with mountains and mountains in the middle, and vast flat land around, with extremely high forest coverage.

Yang Wenyue learned about the basic climate of the North Sea through the local Ainu people. Generally speaking, except for the development of the local people in Yingzhou in the south, many other plains still maintain a wild and beautiful environment, with beautiful scenery throughout the year.

In terms of temperature, the island is only suitable for farming from May to mid-September, but because the Ming army does not have cold-resistant wheat like rye, the local area is only suitable for growing potatoes, and even soybeans, corn, and sorghum cannot be grown.

"Effectively, this damn place has been developed and can only grow potatoes, why spend so much effort to develop here, it is better to directly develop the old port."

On the city wall of Beizhou County (Sapporo), when Cao Dingjiao breathed out his hot breath and came to the city wall next to Yang Wenyue in the early morning cold, he complained a few words impatiently.

It's not his fault. In Beizhou County in the late April of the seventeenth century, the temperature was around [-] to [-] degrees.

For Cao Bianjiao, who grew up in the capital and traveled only in the north of Daming, he was somewhat uncomfortable with the temperature this month.

Compared to him, Yang Wenyue was very calm. Facing the complaints, he stroked his beard and said with a smile:
"His Highness said that the cold-resistant rice in Liaodong is being cultivated. Give the Department of Agriculture some time. Sooner or later, Beizhou will be able to grow rice."

"What's more, this place is just a springboard to North America, so there is no need to be so harsh on it."

Yang Wenyue eagerly explained, Cao Dingjiao could only rub his nose, which was frozen red from breathing in the cold air, and nodded helplessly.

Seeing his appearance, Yang Wenyue smiled and asked:
"How is the extradition of the prisoners going? Have the ships from the north headed for East Nurkan (Kamchatka) returned?"

"37 people were extradited, distributed in 23 gathering places planned by Beizhou Prefecture, and belonged to the jurisdiction of four counties." Cao Dingjiao responded after hearing the words:
"The inspection department helped to inspect the northern waterway. There are six major islands. Yanshan officials from the Chief Secretary are planning to invest 6 people to develop the area."

"As long as these six islands are well developed, you can go to Dongnuer in the north to do it. The local envoy Lubu has not gone south to pay tribute for about 80 years. I don't know if they still know me, Daming."

Cao Dingjiao's words explained many things, especially Yingzhou's exploration of the waterway to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the negotiation of the local tribes in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

In the Ming Dynasty, the peoples in Central Siberia and East Siberia north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains were Koryak and Chukchi.

However, in history, they will be slaughtered by Tsarist Russian Cossack soldiers in the next 100 years, and only a small number of them survived.

In the Ming Dynasty, the names of these two races were the Ministry of Deer and the Ministry of Dogs, because they were good at raising reindeer and sled dogs as means of transportation.

Yang Wenyue checked the information of the Ministry of Rites and found that these two major ministries and dozens of smaller ministries had not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty for nearly 80 years, so he didn't know how to treat them.

The best situation is that they recognize the inspection department or Ming Dynasty soldiers and officials, and then continue to be managed and ruled by the Ming Dynasty.

If they want to rebel against Daming like Jianzhou Jurchen, then Yang Wenyue can only wipe out the envoys and deer tribes in the East Nurgan area.

Thinking of this, Yang Wenyue sighed and said:

"If the local deer envoys and dog envoys are willing to submit to our Ming Dynasty, we can give them official positions and let them help manage the prisoners in Yingzhou."

"By the way, how is the recruitment of the local Utari people in the northern state capital?"

Yang Wenyue talked about the native Utari people in Hokkaido. These local people who were called the Ainu by the shogunate were the main targets of Ming Dynasty when it opened up the northern state capital.

The Utari people belong to the mixed type of yellow race and white race, their skin is relatively dark, and their facial features have the typical characteristics of the Europa race.

In the language of the Utari people, "Ainu" means "person", so many Utari people don't like the title "Ainu".

When Daming came to Beizhou and liberated the Utari who were enslaved by the local Yamato, they expressed their hope that the government would call them Utari.

In their language, Utari has the meaning of "partner", and Yang Wenyue is not so hypocritical, and directly issued an order to call the locals Utari people in the northern pioneering troops.

Yang Wenyue's idea is very simple, that is to win over the relatively small number of local Utari people to manage the prisoners in Yingzhou.

After all, the total number of prisoners in Yingzhou is more than 280 million. It is difficult to manage by relying on the strength of the seven battalions of the Ming army, and it is impossible to use the native population of Yingzhou. Became Yang Wenyue's wooing target.

The Utari people have lived in this extreme north for a long time, living on fishing and hunting, with a total population of no more than 30.

Before the Ming army destroyed the shogunate, the Yamato people in the south gradually went north, and disputes with the aboriginal Utari people continued, and the conflicts continued to intensify.

Relying on the advancement of weapons, the shogunate daimyo who moved to the north also launched many military operations to suppress the Utari people.

In the case of such conflicts between the two races, it was Yang Wenyue's simplest idea to use Utari people to manage the shogunate prisoners.

Not only that, but he also planned to use the Shilu Department to manage the Yingzhou prisoners who moved northward to the Dongnuergan area, so he specifically asked Cao Dingjiao.

Cao Dingjiao's answer was quick, he said directly:

"The more than 2000 Utari people who were released before became guides and led us to find many people from the local Utari tribe."

"Although most of the people in the Utari tribe resist being ruled by me, Ming Dynasty, there are also many tribes who say that they can obey the government and become servants of the government, but they don't want to pay taxes."

"Not paying taxes?" Yang Wenyue frowned, apparently a little unhappy, but Cao Dingjiao quickly explained:
"The local Utali people live by fishing and hunting. We can give them tax exemptions on these two items, and then distribute land to them and teach them to farm to collect land taxes."

"It's possible..." After listening to the explanation, Yang Wenyue didn't think there was anything wrong.

The fishing and hunting taxes are too complicated and too small, even if the Utari people are willing to pay, Yang Wenyue will not ask for it, because organizing tax collection requires people, and there are too few Han people in Beizhou.

It's not worth fighting the Utari for a little fishing and hunting tax...

"The imperial court requires that 300 million taels of silver and 600 million shimimai be shipped back every year."

Yang Wenyue suddenly talked about the taxes that Yingzhou was responsible for, and then glanced at the tens of thousands of labor reform prisoners outside Beizhou County, then turned his head and said:
"It's not enough to simply open up Beizhou Prefecture, and after supplying the imperial court, it will be difficult to supply food for the 200 million prisoners in Beizhou Prefecture in the future."

"For the 280 million prisoners, first transfer 80 to the Northern State Capital for development, and the remaining 200 million will be temporarily placed on the main island and the North Island for development."

Hokkaido's road to pioneering started from virgin forests. Prisoners needed to cut down forests, reclaim farmland, and open roads. All of these required time and food.

It is impossible for Yang Wenyue to force the prisoners to reform through labor without giving them food. This will not only lead to riots, but also lead to a sharp drop in the number of prisoners, which will affect the plan to open up North America.

Right now, the total grain output in Yingzhou is less than 5000 million shi. The government still has more than 300 million mu of immigrant land that has not been released for taxation. It is supplied to the local people for cultivation. Therefore, it is estimated that this year it will receive about 1000 million shi.

Needless to say about silver, the production of 300 million taels of silver is not difficult for Yingzhou.

Adding the land tax paid by 200 million common people and 60 Han immigrants, an additional 300 million shimimai should be collected.

That is to say, after fulfilling the imperial government's quota and transporting 300 million taels of silver and 600 million shimimai back to China, Yingzhou can still have about 700 million shimimai.

Although it sounds like a lot, Yingzhou needs to feed the 280 million prisoners and the 10,000+ people working in Yingzhou.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor is responsible for paying the wages, and the Chief Secretary is responsible for the daily food. These 360 million people will have to spend at least 600 million shimimai, so there is still a gap of 900 million shimimai in Yingzhou.

Yang Wenyue has to solve the gap of 900 million shimimai, and the best way to solve the gap is to increase the intensity of mining gold and silver mines, or lower the standard of food.

"Three catties of rice a day is too much for prisoners, so reduce it to two catties a day. The land in Beidao Prefecture is used to grow potatoes. According to the yield of potatoes, the 300 mu of cultivated land in Beidao Prefecture should be able to produce 300 yuan next year." Wanshi Potatoes."

"After distributing to the tenants, the government can still get sixty-seven million stone potatoes."

"Although the government is short of 200 million stones of rice and wheat, these potatoes are enough to meet [-]% of the meals for these prisoners. Next year, the rice and wheat can be reduced to one catty per day, plus one catty of potatoes."

"Tenants in Shikoku and Kyushu, set aside half of the land to grow sweet potatoes. 400 million mu of land can produce 3000 million stone sweet potatoes. The government will make half of the profits and use the sweet potatoes to sell in Yingzhou."

"500 million stone sweet potatoes can be sold for at least 200 million taels of silver. If the prisoners in the north can't eat enough, one-third of them will be transferred to the north to let them eat enough, and the sweet potato vines will add vegetables to them."

A few words from Yang Wenyue basically solved the problem of feeding the 280 million prisoners. As for whether they will riot, Yang Wenyue is not worried at all.

Eating coarse grains is different from eating refined grains. Coarse grains are the most filling. As long as people are full, they will cherish their lives and be afraid of death...

"The end general will do it."

When Cao Dingjiao saw that Yang Wenyue had finished speaking, he immediately bowed in return, then turned and walked down the wall.

Yang Wenyue stood behind the female wall of the city full of Ming style, looked at the prisoners in Yingzhou who were working on the reclamation in the distance, stroked their beards, and said with satisfaction:

"In three years, almost 800 million mu of arable land can be reclaimed..."

"Wow!"

When Yang Wenyue was satisfied, in the royal safari garden of Dading Palace in Yanshan, accompanied by the wailing of wild deer, Zhu Youjian walked out of a bush, skillfully pulled out the deer-cutting knife at his waist, While killing the wild deer, he quickly skinned it.

"Brother, you too...should be handed over to the cooks..."

Zhu Youxiao got out from behind Zhu Youjian, looking at his younger brother who was skinning and bloodletting expressionlessly, he felt a little bloody for a while.

"It's nothing, there are too many disgusting things on the battlefield."

Zhu Youjian responded to Zhu Youxiao while cooking the wild deer.

After he finished handling the wild deer, he threw the internal organs aside, and the two soldiers of the Xiao cavalry also stepped forward to lift the wild deer, ready to take it back to Dading Palace for an extra meal at night.

"Leave the internal organs aside like this, I'm afraid it will attract beasts."

Zhu Youxiao looked at the forest around him fearfully, but Zhu Youjian smiled lightly and said:

"With me here, brother is fine."

He washed his hands with a water bag, wiped the deer knife with a coarse cloth, and then picked up the bow on the ground and stood up.

"Do you want to go deeper?"

Although Zhu Youxiao likes to hunt with horses, he is still a little afraid of the mountains and forests. If he saves some fierce beasts such as tigers, black bears, and leopards from them, it will be difficult for him personally to deal with them.

If there are ferocious beasts, then we have to talk about actual combat, and Zhu Youjian happens to be not afraid of actual combat.

No matter how strong the so-called beast is, it cannot compare with a sword.

Since humans knew how to use tools, there were basically no animals on the surface that could compete with humans, let alone the armor on the two brothers.

Maybe Zhu Youxiao's armor and long sword are ceremonial things, but Zhu Youjian's long sword, bow and arrow and armor are all for actual combat.

Zhu Youjian really wanted to find a tiger to kill, just in time to give the tiger skin to Sun Chuanting who had been busy for several years.

"Screw rustle..."

"Ok?"

As soon as he put the deer cutter on his waist, Zhu Youjian heard the sound of the grass around him.

He put the water bag on his waist, took out the bow and arrow, and set the bow and arrow with ease.

The shovel-shaped heavy arrow made people's scalp numb, Zhu Youjian listened carefully to the sound, and shot the arrow in the next second.

The process was very short. Zhu Youxiao had just seen his younger brother stretching his bow and setting an arrow, and the next second he shot the arrow, and then there was a "rustling" sound in the bushes, which was obviously the sound of the arrow fleeing from the prey.

Hearing the sound, Zhu Youjian drew his bow and drew his sword, and rushed over at once. Zhu Youxiao quickly followed after seeing this.

After swiping the knife to cut off the bushes, no animals appeared, but Zhu Youjian noticed the blood on the leaves on the ground, and there was a beast path next to it.

"Want to chase?"

After running for more than twenty steps, Zhu Youxiao was panting slightly, but Zhu Youjian looked around calmly: "You can chase."

After all, he took Zhu Youxiao to chase along the animal path and bloodstains.

Zhu Youxiao thought he had shot some wild animal, but when he took Zhu Youxiao to chase for a mile of mountain road, he only saw a wild boar lying in the forest.

"Look at my..."

Seeing that it was just a wild boar, Zhu Youxiao immediately became more courageous, and ready to shoot the wild boar to death with his bow and arrow.

But just as he raised his bow and was about to release the arrow, Zhu Youjian heard other sounds around him, and quickly raised his hand to grab Zhu Youxiao's hand that was about to release the string.

"Ok?"

"Wait a minute..."

Zhu Youxiao looked at his younger brother in doubt, and Zhu Youjian also reminded him in a low voice.

With doubts, Zhu Youxiao waited for a few seconds, and then saw a relatively small wild boar running out of the bushes, coming to the side of the injured wild boar, circling anxiously, biting out the arrow, and licking the wound of the wild boar in the arrow .

"It's alright..."

"My brother shoots the arrow, I shoot the other."

Looking at this scene, Zhu Youjian raised his bow and arrow, and at the same time signaled to Zhu Youxiao that he could prepare to shoot.

But at this moment, Zhu Youxiao stopped Zhu Youjian, shook his head and said:

"forget it……"

"I think they should also be brothers in size. You and I are on a blind date, so how can you have fun shooting this brother?"

Zhu Youxiao put away the arrow and got up at the same time, while the two wild boars fled and hid in the forest when they heard the sound.

Seeing the wild boar fleeing, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to collect the bow and arrow and said:
"What brother said is that today's safari has shot a lot of prey, so we can go back."

"Hmm..." Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly, feeling a little depressed, and Zhu Youjian probably guessed something when he saw it, but he didn't make it clear.

The two went down the mountain along the animal path, and the journey was safe.

When they walked out of the mountain path, Wei Zhongxian and Wang Chengen, who were waiting for them with soldiers, hurried forward and said with concern:

"Long live (His Royal Highness), are you tired?"

"Well, it's hot, let's go back to the palace." Zhu Youxiao handed the bow and arrow to Wei Zhongxian, and Zhu Youjian also handed it to Wang Chengen.

It is already four o'clock in the afternoon of Shenshi (four o'clock in the afternoon), although it will not be dark until Xushi (seven to nine o'clock) in this season, but since Zhu Youxiao has spoken, the two can only prepare.

They ordered people to bring the horses, and the two brothers also got on the horses, and then led the troops on the way home.

When the two returned to Dading Palace, it was already the seven quarters of Shen Shi, and on the square in front of Dading Palace, the accompanying imperial chef was cooking the prey that Zhu Youxiao and the other two had hunted in the open air.

The full prey was filled with three carts and placed beside it. Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao turned his head and asked Wei Zhongxian with great interest:
"How many prey did my brother and I hunt today?"

"Long Live hunted three lynxes, six deer, and three wild boars..." Wei Zhongxian said flatteringly, then turned his head to look at Zhu Youjian, and said politely:

"Your Highness shot two leopards, eleven lynxes, fourteen deer, nine wolves, fourteen wild boars, six wild sheep, and four foxes..."

Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao set off from Mao hour, and the hunting time was less than five hours, except for the noon break.

In five hours, Zhu Youjian shot and killed [-] prey, big and small, while Zhu Youxiao only killed [-], the difference is obvious.

But these days, Zhu Youxiao is used to it. After all, these days, the number of his younger brother hunting has been several times that of his.

"Leave the wild goats, and share the rest with the palace servants."

"Long live Ron..."

Zhu Youxiao didn't like to eat venison and wild boar, so he only kept the wild sheep, and Wei Zhongxian thanked the palace servants.

When he was thanking him, the two brothers got off their horses, and Zhu Youjian also said at the same time:
"I have been hunting for several days, and only two bears and more than [-] wolves and leopards have been hunted. It seems that the prey in Yanshan is a little less."

"Do you want someone to catch some and put them in the mountains?" Zhu Youxiao asked after hearing the words, and Zhu Youjian shook his head:

"It's time-consuming and labor-intensive. It's better to ask my brother to wait for a few years, and wait for me to wipe out Jianlu and Beilu for my brother. At that time, my two brothers will go hunting in Harawen Mountain."

As he spoke, he and Zhu Youxiao walked towards the yellow tent that had been set up long ago.

"Then I'll wait a few more years..."

With a smile, Zhu Youxiao took Zhu Youjian into the yellow tent and sat down. The tent is not big, only tens of square meters, but today there are only two brothers eating, so there is no need to drag the house like last time With a mouth, extravagance and waste.

As soon as the two of them sat down, a court lady brought the "Sushan" which was blowing out of the cold. While the two were eating, the voices of the royal chefs showing off their skills came from outside the tent.

Listening to the sound of the pots and pans, the two brothers chatted with each other about homework, and the basic topic was about Zhu Ciran and the other three.

"My younger brother is getting married this year, and it is estimated that he will give birth to an heir next year."

"When they grow up, you and I will be old too. When the time comes, let Ran'er and the others handle the state affairs, and you and my brothers can also travel around the mountains and rivers."

Zhu Youxiao leaned on the chair and imagined the future, and said enviously:

"My younger brother always said that Yazhou in the south of Qiongzhou Prefecture is very beautiful, but I have always been curious. I don't know how the sea in Yazhou is different from the sea in Tianjin."

The farthest place Zhu Youxiao has ever been to in his life is the Dading Palace at his feet.

The largest mountain range he has seen with his own eyes is Yanshan Mountain, and the sea he has seen with his own eyes is the sea of ​​Tianjin.

In his 26 years of life, he has never left the four hundred miles of the capital.

Compared with going to Mobei to see the yellow sand, going to the Central Plains to control the Yellow River, going to Hexi to look at the Qilian Mountains, and going to Liaodong to chase Zhu Youjian who was a prisoner, the living environment of Zhu Youxiao is really too small.

For the beautiful scenery all over the world, he often learned about it through the dictation of Zhu Youjian and others, and his envious appearance was also seen by Zhu Youjian.

He couldn't help but feel a bit of sadness in his heart, and at the same time, he introduced Zhu Youxiao in detail:

"The sea is bluer than Tianjin's, and the beach is finer. If you say it is the best, many islands in Wanli Shitang and Wanli Changsha are actually good."

"It's hard to imagine what it's like..." Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help looking at the blue sky outside the yellow tent.

Zhu Youjian followed his gaze, not knowing what to say for a moment.

There was a moment of silence between the two, and before the next topic started, Wei Zhongxian bowed at the door of the yellow tent:

"Long live, Your Highness, dinner is ready..."

"Let's serve the meal!" Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly, signaling Wei Zhongxian to pass on the meal.

Wei Zhongxian bowed in return, and then saw several court ladies entering the yellow tent with trays of dishes.

Roast goose, mutton head and hoof, steamed chicken with five flavors, mutton bones in Yuan juice, kidneys in spicy vinegar, mutton crystal dumplings, silk goose powder soup, mutton with minced pepper...

For the two brothers, the delicious dishes were supposed to be mouth-watering, but they didn't know if the previous topic was too heavy, so they both chose to eat in silence.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian outside the tent felt puzzled, not knowing why the two of them remained silent.

I have my own troubles. Perhaps in his view, power is what he pursues. Compared with the two brothers who have power, doing whatever they want may be what they yearn for...

　The evening update is around eight o'clock

　　
　
(End of this chapter)