Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 472
"Drive! Drive..."

"Your Highness! Dading Palace urgent report!"

"Call..."

In April, when Zhu Youjian, who was riding southward with more than a hundred cavalry, was stopped by Tangqi on the Horqin Grassland, he immediately reined in his horse, grabbed the emergency report, and read it.

Under his glance and ten lines, the ins and outs of Lin Danhan's entry into the bandits were all under his eyes, and Zhu Youjian was even more relieved by Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran's worry-free.

"Hoo...it's fine." Breathing out a turbid breath, General Zhu Youjian closed his eyes, turned his horse's head on the green grassland, and looked around the grassland while spinning around in place.

The Horqin Grassland in front of him is extremely vast, and the patches of colorful wild flowers are dotted on the grassland, like a big colorful carpet.

Being in this vast grassland, he felt that his hundreds of cavalry were just a few small boats in this vast green sea, insignificant.

"Your Highness, Long Live urgently orders you to go to Dading Palace."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian had nothing to say, Tang Qi hurriedly said the emperor's oral order, but Zhu Youjian raised his hand clenched to the horsewhip, indicating that he knew.

"Tell Long Live, I will rush back to Dading Palace on Dingmao (fifteenth) day."

Zhu Youjian responded to Tang Qi, and then continued to circle around on the spot.

His actions puzzled Wei Shichun, Liu Xiaozu and others who followed the southward retreat, and Li Dingguo stepped forward and said:

"Your Highness, why don't you go directly south?"

"This time I acted too hastily. I haven't explained the situation in the four northeastern provinces to Xiong Tingbi carefully. At least I have to explain it before going south." Zhu Youjian responded to Li Dingguo, and educated Li Dingguo and Liu Bingwen while explaining:
"It is not difficult to fight a war, but it is more difficult to manage and recover lost land after the war."

"The population of the four northeastern provinces is nearly 800 million, but the arable land is only less than 4000 million. How to develop it? How to provide food for the people? These all require you to imagine while fighting in the future."

Zhu You pointed at the vast grassland with a whip and said: "This vast grassland is very flat, but not everywhere can be reclaimed as arable land."

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Youjian talked about some ecological knowledge, such as arable land consumes a lot of water, and planting crops consumes the nutrients in the land. If there is no water for irrigation for a long time, the dry land will become saline-alkali land and affect food production.

As far as the four northeastern provinces controlled by Daming are concerned, the area is far larger than the three eastern provinces of later generations, and the cultivated land that can be reclaimed is also more than the three eastern provinces of later generations.

Although Zhu Youjian did not visit the mountains and rivers to see the entire four northeastern provinces in person, according to the situation of later generations he has mastered, the four eastern provinces of Ming Dynasty can reclaim at least one billion mu of cultivated land, and at least [-] million mu of cultivated land can be reclaimed according to the protection performance. .

Under the circumstances of later generations, the Northeast has not been able to reclaim one billion acres, so it is even more impossible for Zhu Youjian.

He predicted that at least 200 million mu would be reclaimed to ensure [-] mu per capita in the Northeast, that is, on the basis of the original population of the four Northeast provinces, another [-] million people would be relocated to the four Northeast provinces.

However, because it was a piece of white land, Zhu Youjian could completely free up his hands to work, so he had to do a good job in all aspects.

Steel and coal are abundant in the Northeast, so in terms of urban construction, Zhu Youjian moved all the modern architectural concepts to Daming.

Collective heating, sewage pipes, neighborhood divisions, sidewalks, roads, horse paths, etc. are all scored.

At such times, Zhu Youjian is always more grateful for the painting memories Chongzhen left for him.

"Go to Jilin Mansion first."

Zhu Youjian looked around, and then led more than a hundred cavalry towards Jilin Mansion, which is more than a hundred miles away to the southeast.

At the same time as he was on his way, a team of Yang Wenyue and others, who had been away for a long time, also ushered in a long-absent team at Dongji Port, the capital of Beibei Prefecture in Yingzhou, thousands of miles away.

"Jingle Bell--"

There was still a coolness in Dongji Port in April, but this coolness was dispelled by the lively crowd after the arrival of a fleet.

The North America Merriga expedition team, which had been away for nearly a year, finally returned to Daming, and Yang Wenyue, who was among the crowd, couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief when he saw his eldest son, Yang Bingwen.

No one knows how Yang Bingwen and the others returned to Daming, but compared with the fleet and number of people when they went out, only about one-third of them came back.

"father……"

Yang Bingwen got off the boat and came to Yang Wenyue, and Yang Wenyue nodded slightly, with a smile in his eyes:

"Let's go back to the mansion first."

Worried about Yang Bingwen, Yang Wenyue temporarily moved his chief secretary office to the vicinity of Dongji Port, because this is the port of Yingzhou closest to Merica in North Asia.

After waiting for nearly a year, he finally waited for his son to return. Yang Wenyue is a reserved person, just like traditional Han parents, unsmiling and not good at expressing.

But even so, he reached out and patted Yang Bingwen on the shoulder, and then got into the carriage with him.

The father and son in the carriage were chatting about some family issues. It was nothing more than Yang Bingwen's sudden disappearance, which made Yang's mother angry and sad, so that Yang Wenyue was scolded by letters from his wife every month.

When he said this, Yang Wenyue could only show a helpless wry smile, and Yang Bingwen also smiled to comfort his father.

Under such parental grievances, the two returned to the temporary yamen in Dongji Port by car, and walked into the study to sit down.

The sensible servant had already poured the tea, Yang Wenyue took a sip from the teacup first, then put it down, and chatted about the business:
"Let's talk about it, is it suitable for Northern Asia Merriga to become a vassal state?"

Yang Wenyue's words made Yang Bingwen pause. He organized what he saw and heard in his mind, and then said:
"Northern America has both advantages and disadvantages compared to India. The advantage is that the local population is similar to that of the barbarians of the dynasty, and the country is vast, but the disadvantage is that it is too barren."

Yang Bingwen used barrenness to describe the North American Merica he saw:

"Where we landed in the west, thousands of miles to the north are dense forests and snow, rivers, lakes and swamps."

"To the east is a large mountain range that runs from north to south. The only people who can live are the hilly plains at the foot of the mountain range. The land is only more than 1000 miles away. At most, it can support [-] million people by itself, and no more."

"But the situation in the south is good. Our city sent officials from the Siyi Pavilion to pretend to be local natives and go south to visit the city-state of the Grand Franciz (Spain). The terrain is flat and suitable for developing agriculture. It can feed four to fifty million people. People are not a problem."

"In addition, our people have inquired there. According to the local Great Franji people, South America is basically a plain and dense forest, while the east of North America is wet, but there are also many swamps and rivers."

"How is it better than Liaoze?" Yang Wenyue interrupted Yang Bingwen and asked him, but Yang Bingwen didn't think about it: "It's easier to cultivate than Liaoze. As long as there are enough people, good land can be cultivated."

"However, the central part of North America is flat and dry. According to the Dafo Langji people and the local natives, it is almost impossible to cultivate here. There will be a period of heavy wind and snow every year, and the planted crops will die soon."

"In short, based on what the kid has seen, North America can be established as a vassal state, and it can even accommodate tens of millions of people to migrate and survive."

"Further away in South Asia, there is not enough food on board, and the bulk purchase of food is easy to be noticed by the big Francois, so the boy did not take anyone there, but prepared enough food, and brought some people back to Ying. continent."

"The soldiers and horses left there are enough to resist the natives. It is estimated that when the boy brings people back this year, hundreds of acres of fields have been reclaimed and several villages have been established."

Yang Bingwen explained clearly what he could understand about North Asia, but Yang Wenyue stroked his beard when he heard the words:
"You came at a good time. Your Highness wrote me some things about the Armament Academy. If there is no accident, the organization will be relocated from the age of two today and tomorrow."

As he spoke, Yang Wenyue told Yang Bingwen about the steamships, trains, tractors and other items mentioned in the letter, but Yang Bingwen's eyes widened after hearing this.

"In this way, wouldn't it only take one month to cross the East Ocean (Pacific Ocean)?"

"It's not difficult to cross the east and west. As a father, I care more about the tractor." Yang Wenyue stroked his beard:

"The Yumajian has prepared a large number of tractors to be transported to North America. It is estimated that when the news of your return and the information provided by you are delivered to King Qi, King Qi will order to organize immigrants to go there. "

"As long as there is coal in the local area, it only takes a thousand tractors to reclaim tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of arable land within a year, and the number of people who will migrate there in the coming year will increase tenfold."

Speaking of this, Yang Wenyue also has to lament the ingenuity of these "exotic tricks":

"If His Highness doesn't let go, it is estimated that before he takes over, Guochao can transport tens of thousands of tractors to Qi every year. In less than 50 years, Qi may surpass Daming..."

After Yang Wenyue finished speaking, Yang Bingwen did not refute, because in terms of the circumstances mentioned in Zhu Youjian's letter and Tiangong Machinery, it is not difficult for Qi State to surpass Daming if Daming has transfused blood to Qi State for 50 years.

"However, His Highness probably won't do that."

Yang Wenyue shook his head again, which made Yang Bingwen puzzled: "Boy doesn't understand."

From Yang Bingwen's point of view, Daming can almost be said to be Zhu Youjian's words. Zhu Youxiao looks like the emperor, but in fact he is a mascot, but his needs as a mascot will be met, and no one dares to say he.

If you really want to compare, it can be said that Zhu Youxiao is Liu Chan of Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youjian is Zhuge Liang of Ming Dynasty.

The only difference between them is that, from the point of view of the legal system, if Zhu Youxiao's lineage is eliminated, then Zhu Youjian will definitely be the emperor, and he will be the one who can't even be wrong.

From Yang Bingwen's point of view, the present brothers and sisters are nothing more than the fact that they are still young, and most kings and brothers can live in peace when they are young, but when they are older...

Yang Bingwen's eyes flickered a few times, but Yang Wenyue took a sip of tea calmly:

"His Royal Highness hopes that the people in the world can have a comfortable and full meal. He built the Qi State for his own heirs in the future, but in his opinion, the people are before the heirs."

"Of course, Da Ming wants to give blood to Qi, but Qi also needs to help Da Ming solve the land problem."

"At present, although the Ming Dynasty has alleviated many conflicts through the many reforms and innovations of His Highness, the conflict of land annexation is very slow to alleviate."

"His Royal Highness mentioned in the letter to me that after the fall of Jianlu, the land in the northeast can support 2000 million people, and the three propagandas and six comforts in the southwest can also support tens of millions of people."

"It's just that it's only enough to support the people, it's still too little."

"Currently, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces hardly produce food, and the tens of millions of people there depend entirely on relief from the imperial court."

"If there is no natural disaster, it's okay to say, the tens of millions of people are not enough to fill the land of Nuergan in the northeast."

"According to what His Majesty wrote in the book "Weather Maps" in Shuntian Official School and Yingtian Official School, the country is currently in the same little ice age as the end of Han Dynasty and the end of Tang Dynasty."

"Looking through the history books for my father, I roughly looked at it, and felt that what His Highness said should be true, and natural disasters will continue."

"It's just that it spreads to the north. The population of the six provinces in the north is only over [-] million, and the land of Nuergan can accommodate most of the people."

"However, if the land in the south of the Yangtze River is affected, according to the current population counted in the yellow book, there will be at least 3000 million victims in the country."

Speaking of this, Yang Wenyue stroked his beard, and Yang Bingwen also thought of something belatedly.

The route to immigrate to Qi State started from Nanzhili, and Nanzhili was the most populous place in Ming Dynasty, which meant that Zhu Youjian had made a plan to use Qi State to help the victims.

It can not only emigrate, but also relocate the victims, and relieve the existing population pressure for Daming.

However, all of this has to be based on the disaster of the Nanzhili Society.

Thinking of this, Yang Bingwen thought about the situation in North Asia, and then hesitated:
"If this is the case, then His Royal Highness only needs to relocate 9 people and release 10,000 tractors to reclaim [-]+ acres of arable land in one year. In this way, I am afraid that the western coastal area of ​​North America will take at most five or six years. We can win them all and develop to the same level as Jiangnan."

Yang Bingwen's words were ideal, so Yang Wenyue shook his head when he heard the words:

"It depends on whether the Military Armament Institute can produce so many tractors. Besides, His Highness will not give all the tractors to the Qi State. The land of Nuergan, which is about to be recovered, needs tractors even more."

Naturally, while their father and son were talking, footsteps came from outside the door. When they looked at the door, Cao Dingjiao in a round neck robe walked into the courtyard with a copy of military information.

When he saw Yang Wenyue and Yang Bingwen, he immediately saluted and said, "Political Envoy, General Yang."

"General Cao..." Yang Bingwen returned a salute, while Yang Wenyue looked at the military situation in his hand: "Is there anything important?"

"Jianlu was destroyed, and the land of Nuergan was taken. His Highness set up three provinces outside the customs, and united Liaodong to form the four northeastern provinces." Cao Dingjiao explained and handed over the military information to Yang Wenyue.

Due to the problem of news transmission, Yingzhou at this moment only got the news of Jianlu's demise, but did not know about the incident in the capital.

Yang Wenyue glanced at it, and couldn't help sighing after reading it: "Although the old slave is strong, but in the hands of His Highness, it is hard to escape destruction."

"It's not bad to be able to persist for 13 years." Yang Bingwen's sense of Jianlu is average, and he can't talk about good or bad. He just thinks that ordinary rebels have been wiped out.

On the contrary, Yang Wenyue looked at the military situation, then turned to Yang Bingwen and said:
"The land of Nuergan was taken down, and His Highness established three new provinces. It is estimated that the next step is to immigrate to Shibian and strengthen the imperial court's rule over the three provinces."

"On the Qi side, I estimate that after the news is reported, His Highness will first send out a group of machines and soldiers. The leader of the army is either me or Huang Long, but there is a high probability that it will be Huang Long."

Yang Wenyue's analysis is good. Zhu Youjian really prefers Yang Wenyue because he governs Yingzhou very well, but Huang Long has too many uneasy factors for Daming. Sending Huang Long to Qi State is more suitable for Zhu Youjian to govern Daming, and it is also more It is suitable for Zhu Youjian to become a feudal clan in the future.

No one restrains Huanglong in Qi State, and he is loyal and will not oppose Zhu Youjian's policy. Moreover, he knows how to deal with Huang Taiji and Nurhachi with his ability, but it is simply impossible to deal with the Europeans in North and South America. It can be said to be crushed.

As for Yang Wenyue, Zhu Youjian prefers to let him maintain the immigration channel from Nanzhili to Yingzhou as an important transit point for Ming immigrants to Qi.

"Okay, you can write what you have seen and heard in the past two days to His Highness, and I won't disturb your rest as a father."

Yang Wenyue issued an order to evict the guest. Yang Bingwen knew that his father had something to tell Cao Dingjiao, so he didn't stay. Instead, he got up and saluted and left the study.

Sure enough, after he left, Yang Wenyue asked Cao Dingjiao, "How many workers are left?"

"Since the spring of this year, seventeen rebellions have been suppressed, and the number of workers has dropped to 230 million." Cao Dingjiao responded, but also explained:

"After the autumn harvest, there is basically enough food to eat. It is estimated that the rebellion will stop."

"Hmm... what about immigrants?" Yang Wenyue was determined to train Cao Dingjiao. No matter whether Cao Dingjiao stayed in Daming or went to Qi in the future, it would be good for their Yang family, especially this time Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao were shining in Beishan. It is even more destined that the Cao family will become the new nobles of the Apocalypse Dynasty.

"In the three months since the beginning of spring, more than 6000 people have been relocated to the South Island Prefecture. From this point of view, the number of immigrants this year is estimated to be less than 40."

Cao Dingjiao has already started to study government affairs management, and Yang Wenyue nodded slightly after hearing this:
"There are no major natural or man-made disasters in the south of the country this year, and it is normal that the migration population is small."

"Although Wen'er is back, judging from the news he brought back, His Highness will not organize the relocation of the people this year, but will relocate some soldiers and horses to North America, but it is estimated that the number will not be large. More than a guard horse."

"However, from next year, or the year after, His Highness should continue to move the people to Qi."

"The development of Beizhou Prefecture has to be accelerated, and the amount of arable land in Yingzhou needs to reach 15 million mu of arable land 5000 years before the apocalypse."

"Yes!" Hearing Yang Wenyue's words, Cao Dingjiao nodded in response, and Yang Wenyue also picked up his teacup and asked, "Is there anything else?"

He was serving tea and asked, if Cao Dingjiao had nothing to do, he could leave.

However, facing his question, Cao Dingjiao hesitated before saying:

"Recently, there have been many incidents of local males in Yingzhou attacking immigrant males from the Kingdom of Korea. The people below have checked, and it is basically because of women."

"Because of a woman?" Yang Wenyue was stunned for a moment, Cao Dingjiao also nodded, and then explained.

This matter is not complicated, nor is it simple.

To put it bluntly, when Ming men with an average of five feet two inches or more per capita migrated to Yingzhou, many local women in Yingzhou fell into the arms of the immigrants because of Mu Qiang and their looks and height.

Since most of the immigrants are men, nearly 70 men in Yingzhou basically found local women in Yingzhou as wives after they settled down.

As a result, the local men in Yingzhou were unbalanced, so the two sides often quarreled when they did not understand the language, and finally developed into fighting.

The four-foot-five-six-inch Yingzhou men naturally couldn't beat the five-foot-two immigrants, so they often became angry and attacked with sharp weapons after failure, which caused a lot of bloodshed.

Regarding this, Cao Dingjiao wanted to ask Yang Wenyue's attitude and how to punish those who hurt others.

Hearing this, Yang Wenyue said without thinking:
"The two sides who do the work will be fined one tael of silver, but if it is a sharp weapon, the person holding the sharp weapon will be fined ten taels of silver. Those who fail to pay the fine silver will be sent to Beizhou Capital to be repaid according to the daily wage of ten taels until the fine is paid back." Released only when he is full!"

Yang Wenyue's words seem to be impartial, but the problem is that most of the local men in Yingzhou can't beat immigrants single-handedly, let alone being fined.

Immigrant men basically have [-] acres of arable land per capita. After working for a year, they still have an income of nearly seven taels of silver after paying taxes.

As far as the basic income is concerned, the fine of one tael for a fight is, at most, for immigrants from Ming Dynasty, who can’t afford meat for a few months this year, but for local men in Yingzhou, they can’t eat or drink for four years. Only then can we fight.

As for the rise to the sharp weapon, not to mention the men from Yingzhou, even if they work part-time jobs every year except for the busy farming season, they can't save three taels of silver at most in a year. The annual income is more than ten taels easily.

That is to say, for the fine money involving sharp weapons, the Ming men at most agreed to pay the fine money, but the local men in Yingzhou had to come to Beizhou to do reform through labor for at least three years.

"The chief minister has a high opinion, and the next official will let people announce it."

When Cao Dingjiao heard the words, he immediately felt that this method was good, but Yang Wenyue stopped him and continued:

"Those people who marry Yingzhou women will be exempted from their one-year land tax, and those who marry Yingzhou men will also be exempted from one-year land tax."

What Yang Wenyue said seems to be impartial, and even men in Daming will feel angry when they hear it, but the problem is that immigration requires an immigration certificate, and Daming's immigration to Yingzhou is only for men.

In other words, except for some Han families who had already taken root in Yingzhou before the Ming Dynasty attacked Yingzhou, there were actually not many Han daughters in the whole Yingzhou.

This policy seems fair, but in fact it encourages intermarriage between Han men and Yingzhou women.

In a patriarchal society, the man of which nationality a woman marries will basically give birth to a man of that nationality, especially Zheng Chenggong.

Therefore, according to the current situation in Yingzhou, as long as another 400 million Han men are relocated, then Yingzhou men will basically have to be single for a lifetime.

Yang Wenyue has achieved impartiality in policy, but whether there is any bias, the government officials who have mastered the data of Yingzhou know...

　The second estimate is around [-]:[-] p.m.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)