Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 475

"Jinglue! Your Highness has replied! You can fight!"

On April 28, half a month after the memorials were sent and returned, when Mu Yi "broke" into the Longchuan Temporary Management Mansion with the red memorials and imperial edicts, Hong Chengchou was actually mobilizing the supplies.

Because Yunnan and some areas of Jiaozhi crop three crops a year, and many gold and silver mines were discovered in Zashan, Hong Chengchou accumulated a lot of money and food.

However, all these money and food will be used in the southwest as his invitation to ascend the pavilion.

"Dum..." Putting down the brush in his hand, Hong Chengchou dried his copybook, then wiped the ink on his hands before walking out from behind the desk, and took the imperial decree and memorial from Mu Yi.

He opened it and saw that there were many things written all over it, but in fact there was only one word... But.

"It's time to start. How much grain and fodder from Kunming has not been transported to Longchuan? How long will it take?"

Hong Chengchou put away the memorial and imperial decree, and turned his back to Mu Yi to ask.

"There are 60 meters, 17 taels of silver, and more than 30 catties of gunpowder."

"If we start deploying troops now, the 22 battalions in Yunnan Province can reach Longchuan at the beginning of May at most. There are [-] battalions in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Jiaozhi, but about [-] battalions can be dispatched to participate in the war."

"After all, thirty battalions of soldiers and horses will be able to gather in Longchuan by the beginning of July at the most."

Mu Yi talked excitedly about the strength of the Southwest. The 9th Battalion had more than 5 troops, 1 artillery pieces, more than [-] rifles, and more than [-] cavalry guns.

Not to mention the leveling of Burma, this power can even level Siam.

"Don't rush to mobilize, take your time, let all the ministries arrive in Longchuan before September."

Hong Chengchou turned around and ordered calmly, and Mu Yi quickly responded.

"The day when the army will send out troops is tentatively set in mid-October, and it is best to finish the whole battle by the end of the first month."

Hong Chengchou stayed in Longchuan for several months, and probably figured out what the climate was like with the three announcements and six comforts separated by a mountain.

In general, Myanmar maintains a high temperature of [-] to [-] degrees all year round, especially in February, March and April.

Hong Chengchou asked Jin Yiwei to test it with an outdoor thermometer produced by the Armament Academy. The highest temperature in the past three months was 38 degrees, and the lowest temperature was 21 degrees.

Based on the temperature survey of Jinyiwei in the past few months, according to the temperature survey of the whole year last year, for the Ming army, the only time they can fight is the three and a half months from mid-October to the end of the first month.

Once these three and a half months have passed, the Ming army will become unaccustomed in large numbers, because the Jin Yiwei who is in charge of the investigation is relatively healthy only during these three and a half months.

Hong Chengchou has read the explanation of miasma in "Yanshan Medicine". In general, miasma is generally compared to factors in the real environment such as heat waves, sun exposure, miasma disease, prolonged rain, noise, air pollution, and dust aversion.

These things can cause dizziness, heart palpitations, nausea, headache, loss of appetite, low self-esteem, physical weakness and other phenomena. According to the explanation of "Yanshan Medicine", it is the acclimatization of water and soil.

To alleviate the acclimatization of the soil and water as much as possible, we can only reconcile the soldiers and horses with similar local climates to fight the climate, so the soldiers and horses of the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Jiaozhou came in handy.

But really counting, in fact, only the soldiers and horses in southern Yunnan and Jiaozhi can adapt to the local area, and the other soldiers and horses will not adapt to the environment once they exceed the three and a half months of combat.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou's preparations were very simple, that is, three and a half months to recover the three declarations and six comforts, and then transfer the unaccustomed soldiers and horses back to the station, or exchange them with the soldiers and horses of the Yunnan Gongwei Battalion, and let them garrison the central Yunnan area.

At that time, only less than ten battalions of soldiers and horses from the two provinces of Gongwei Camp and Jiaozhi Gongwei Camp in southern Yunnan will be left to garrison Burma.

It is very difficult to use 3 people to try to rule 800 million people, but Hong Chengchou is not worried at all.

He wants to go to the cabinet, but before Zhu Youjian leaves Daming, he still needs to please Zhu Youjian constantly, so he has to collect enough seized money for Zhu Youjian.

It is very simple to give a gift. In the name of the Southwest generals, giving a gift at the birth of King Qi's son will not be gossiped.

As for how much gift to give?This depends on how rich the family property of the local powerful chieftain is.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou asked: "Is the head reward for Burmese thieves still silver?"

"Yes!" Mu Yi replied without hesitation. After all, the first-level silver reward is the most direct way for the generals of the five armies to earn money. He naturally pays attention to this point.

"There are not enough reform-through-labor workers in Cochin, and a lot of reform-through-labor workers are needed for the construction of Myanmar. Let Mu Qiyuan and Wu Bikui do the finishing touches this time. You and Ma Xianglin will take the lead. Long Zaitian, Qin Gongming, and Qin Yiming Several generals and I are in the Chinese army."

"Thank you Jinglue!" Hearing that he was playing forward, even though he was with Ma Xianglin, Mu Yi still bowed excitedly.

But when he bowed to salute, Hong Chengchou reminded him:

"I thought about it for a while, and if there are no accidents, His Highness should carry out reforms on Duo Gan in the past two years, and then restore Sun Chuanting to lead the army to recover Uszang."

"Your Mu family's business in Qamdo, it's best to count it early. If His Highness asks someone to check it, don't cheat and play tricks, and hand over the real account book."

"Think about the identities of your Mu family, it's good for you to do so."

Hong Chengchou reminded Mu Yi, and when Mu Yi heard it, his heart skipped a beat.

If the Ming Dynasty wanted to investigate Duogan, it could only investigate the minerals, and the Mu family began to manage the minerals in Qamdo during the Hongwu period.

Over the past 200 years, they have earned millions of taels from Qamdo, so they were able to pull out [-] soldiers and horses to support the Chongming rebellion in the first year of Tianqi, and they were able to keep [-] soldiers and horses to defend Us in Qamdo and Lijiang. Xifan (Tibetans) in Tibet and Qamdo.

When Zhu Youjian was in charge of the mining department, Mu Yi asked Hong Chengchou. At that time, Hong Chengchou told him to continue to do it and leave it alone.

It has been more than three years since then, judging by the situation, it is estimated that the Mu family will really have to pay taxes this time.

"Xie Jinglue reminded." Mu Yi heard that he was going to ask someone to go back to discuss with his father Mu Zeng, and Hong Chengchou waved his hand to signal him to back down.

Mu Yi had something on his mind, so naturally he didn't talk about Sun Chuanting's possible resurgence, but after he stepped down, Hong Chengchou still thought of Sun Chuanting.

He didn't understand why when he was an official in the same dynasty, he was doing very well, several times better than Sun Chuanting, but His Royal Highness King Qi always favored Sun Chuanting.

"Could it be that I didn't make a mistake, so Your Highness doesn't need help?"

Hong Chengchou was thinking wildly for a while, and even thought about whether he should make a mistake, but he is a wise and safe person, even the last "starving to death" incident was fake news, asking him to really put himself in danger , he is absolutely impossible to do.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Hong Chengchou could only attribute Sun Chuanting's favor to Zhu Youjian's liking for subordinates like Sun Chuanting.

Thinking about it this way, Hong Chengchou felt that his position was a bit unstable again, so he couldn't help squinting his eyes:

"Sun Boya..."

"Look, what I said is not bad, it looks better this way."

When Hong Chengchou was thinking about how to overwhelm Sun Chuanting, Zhu Youxiao's proud and complacent voice sounded in the Dading Palace in the Yanshan Mountains.

In the Summer Palace at this moment, a huge sand table measuring one foot long and three feet wide appeared above the main hall.

To the west of this sand table is the boundless sea, to the east are towering mountains, and only the narrow and narrow space in the middle can be used for human life.

However, on this long and narrow land, there are fist-sized cities, thumb-wide roads paved with cement, and carved wooden rails.

In general, if anyone sees this sand table and ignores its Chinese architectural style, those who don’t know it will think it is the old American West Coast in the [-]th century.

This is Zhu Youjian's painting, Zhu Youxiao's construction, and the craftsmen working overtime to make the West Coast sand table.

From Alaska in the north to Los Angeles in the south, there are ninety lens-sized counties and ten fist-sized prefectures along the coast.

In later generations, there is only one prefecture and ten counties in the north of Vancouver, and nine prefectures and ninety counties in the south of Vancouver. The entire Jingzhao Province is divided into Jingzhao Prefecture, Jinshan Prefecture, Anling Prefecture, Pingling Prefecture, Gaomi Prefecture, and Lushan Prefecture. Chengshan... wait for ten prefectures and one hundred counties.

All the names of the prefectures and counties are the city names of all the cities in the Qi State during the Warring States Period, which also echoes the etiquette system of the vassal kings, and also saves the problem of naming.

In general, Jingzhao Province basically covers most of the territory west of the Red River in later generations, and it can be cultivated and grazing. Although it is not as good as the east coast, this area is enough for the Qi State in the next ten years.

In addition to this sand table, there are two large sand tables of the same three feet not far away, namely the sand table of Jingzhao Mansion Wang Jing, and the sand table of the entire North and South America.

From the inside to the outside, King Qi's capital is composed of four walls: Miyagi, Wangcheng, Inner City and Outer City. It is 99 Wufang City, enough to accommodate 34 million people living in it.

Of course, such a large city cannot be built in one go, so its construction cycle is divided into 40 years and divided into four phases.

When Huanglong and the others went there, the first phase of construction began. The palace city covers an area of ​​[-] mu and is expected to be built in five years.

After the completion of the construction, the second phase will start, and the second phase will also last five years. The Wangcheng covers an area of ​​1 mu, and it is also expected to be built in five years.

As for the third inner city after construction, this time will be ten years, because the inner city covers an area of ​​more than 9 mu, enough to accommodate 60 people.

The final outer city has a construction period of 20 years and covers an area of ​​more than 22 mu, which is enough for 150 million people to live.

In general, based on the current prices, the construction cost of Qi Wangjing is more than 200 million taels. On average, the annual expenditure is 30 taels. ten years time.

The entire city is paved with cement pavement, with cement and masonry walls, and the houses are also cement masonry and wooden structures. All houses are uniformly built by the Qi State Ministry of Industry.

For such a city, it is estimated that when Zhu Youjian traveled across the ocean, he could only see the royal city or the inner city, and he would only see the completion of the entire Wangjing when he was very old.

Zhu Youjian's original intention was that it would be enough to build a Wangjing that accommodated millions of people, but this original intention was rejected by Zhu Youxiao.

According to Zhu Youxiao's words: "The national treasury cannot be moved, but the internal money can be moved. As long as my brother is alive, I will allocate 30 taels of silver to you every year from the internal money to build Qi Wangjing."

30 taels of silver, which is not a small expense for the income gradually limited to about 300 million taels of internal money. Given Zhu Youxiao's current physical condition, it may not be a problem to live to sixty.

That is to say, basically nearly [-]% of the buildings in King Qi's capital were built with money from internal funds.

Zhu Youxiao is very generous in this regard, but he is much stingy when it comes to immigrants from Qi.

"Such a big city, to fill it, the 200 million people need 1000 million taels of silver..."

Zhu Youjian watched Qi Wangjing suddenly say something like this, which made Zhu Youxiao look at him vigilantly, and said tentatively:

"Migrating silver is indispensable, this is what you said yourself, brother..."

"I said... I said..." Zhu Youjian couldn't laugh or cry, and when Zhu Youxiao heard this, he quickly asked:

"Brother, this country of Qi, when are you going to move the people there?"

"I was going to talk to my brother about this." Zhu Youjian immediately remembered after being reminded, and then said that he wanted to buy a tractor at a cost price with silver, and then relocate the people.

In fact, he doesn't need to tell Zhu Youxiao at all, because Zhu Youxiao basically doesn't care about these things. He only cares about the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Punishment.

But out of trust, Zhu Youjian still told him to avoid someone using this matter to sow discord in the future.

"This matter, my brother can do as he sees." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand after hearing this, and continued:
"Anyway, the more than [-] million mu of cultivated land left by the old slaves outside the pass cannot be eaten for the time being. Even if the people are relocated, it may take a year."

"One year later, the tractors in the industrial zone can provide [-] tractors a year to the three provinces outside the customs. Anyway, Liaodong has almost been reclaimed, and the remaining people will just get a little bit of land."

Zhu Youxiao said this very generously, but he also calculated it in detail.

According to Zhu Youjian's words, ten households have one mu of tractors, and those four thousand tractors will have to relocate 10,000 households, or [-]+ people, every year.

Of course, this is nothing to Daming. For two immigrants of 10,000+ people, Shanxi can easily relocate people from one prefecture to meet the target.

However, what can the two thousand tractors allocated to Qi State do?It goes without saying.

Counting the [-] tractors saved so far, and the [-] units produced by the end of the year, it can be said that there will be [-] tractors in Qigong by the end of the year, which can reclaim nearly [-] mu of arable land.

Only when the local area is rich, will the follow-up officials of the Yanshan faction be willing to go to Qi.

Zhu Youxiao is tantamount to helping his younger brother to build the Qi State, while eliminating hidden dangers in the country in exchange for the long-term stability of Ming Dynasty.

If it wasn't for the fear of other feudal lords and party officials having opinions, Zhu Youxiao would have used all his tractors every year to buy peace and send Yanshan faction officials out of Daming territory early.

It's a pity that he wanted to do this, but Yanshan officials didn't want to leave.

In the final analysis, not many people believed Zhu Youjian's words that he wanted to become a feudal clan and make Qi more prosperous than Daming.

In the eyes of most officials, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty was established by the construction of the Great Unified Dynasty over the past 2000 years and the construction of the Ming Dynasty over the past 200 years.

King Qi's New Deal is certainly good, but it is also a great achievement based on the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Youjian stays, relying on Daming's national strength, he can make greater achievements, and if he goes to Qi State, can Qi State develop better than Daming?no one believes...

"As for the industrial zone, it is estimated that the first batch of industrial zones will be fully put into operation next year, and the ten-year construction of the second batch of industrial zones will begin in the year after."

"Ten years later, the Ming Dynasty should be able to produce hundreds of thousands of tractors, tens of thousands of steam ships and locomotives, which can replace millions of cattle, millions of pack horses, and tens of thousands of wooden boats."

Zhu Youjian kept instilling in Zhu Youxiao the importance of the industrial zone, but he didn't want his brother to interrupt the research and development of science and technology in order to maintain the centralized rule of the Ming Dynasty after he left.

"By then, my brother will probably still be there. If my brother is in power, I don't need to worry, hahaha..."

Zhu Youxiao smiled heartlessly, but Zhu Youjian shook his head after hearing this.

If Daming had the soil to realize his political ambitions, he would naturally not want to leave, but the facts proved that there was no such soil.

Daming, a land that has inherited civilization for more than 5000 years, is already full of too many interests, and the interests have also been divided up.

All he could do was to lick bricks and replace tiles for this dilapidated house, but he couldn't dig out the roots, because his identity meant that he couldn't do this kind of thing.

But Qi State is different. After going to Qi State, he can give full play to his political ambitions in that piece of land where there are no conflicts of interests.

He wanted to try to see how to balance the relationship between monarchy and civil rights.

If it succeeds, all feudal lords will follow suit, and even Ming Dynasty will follow suit.

If it fails, then he can use the power of Ming Dynasty to try a new method, absorb the failure, and leave the successful national policy.

He can fail thousands of times, but as long as he succeeds once, Zhu Fan and Daming will know what to do.

This is an opportunity that Daming cannot give him, because once Daming fails and collapses, it will not have any power to help Zhu Youjian rebuild a new Ming, but let Daming transition naturally, it can help Zhu Youjian build countless at the critical moment. New Qi State.

Of course, this is limited to Zhu Youxiao's reign, because Zhu Youjian can't guarantee whether his eldest nephew Zhu Ciran will continue his policy.

"Based on this, next year Qi should be able to support the three battalions on its own."

Zhu Youxiao propped his hands on the sand table of Qi State, and said this inexplicably, but Zhu Youjian shook his head after listening:

"I'm going to let Jin Xuan and the others set off in June, first with two battalions of soldiers and horses and [-] reformed-through laborers from Yingzhou, and then in the twelfth lunar month, Huanglong will bring another battalion of soldiers and horses, tractors produced in the second half of the year, and [-] reformed-through-labor workers past."

"Jin Xuan arrived in Qi State, it should be in October, and the time left for him to cultivate is about five months. With [-] tractors, he can cultivate less than [-] mu at most in half a year."

"Counting the fish catch and locally made soil fertilizer, I estimate that in the first year, it should be able to produce one stone per mu. If it is not self-sufficient, Yingzhou must supply it with food."

"After Huanglong also brings people there, the local area may need 12 shi of grain every year to meet the gap."

"My prediction is that in about 15 years after the apocalypse, their 3 people can be self-sufficient and receive [-] immigrants. After that, the annual number of immigrants is about three times the number of tractors."

Zhu Youjian calculated that a tractor can cultivate ten to fifteen acres of land, and a person needs four to five acres of basic cultivated land if he wants to live.

In conversion, 15 tractors can cultivate [-] to [-] mu of arable land, and the number of immigrants is relatively safe at around [-].

Of course, when the first immigrants had more than five acres of arable land, meat for the people of Qi would not be a problem, because there was enough grain to produce fodder.

If the first batch of immigrants had more than [-] acres of arable land, then the subsequent immigrants would not worry about not being able to buy food when they went to the local area, and even Jin Xuan could rely on taxes to distribute food stamps.

Therefore, tractors are the trump card on Qi's development path. The more tractors there are, the faster Qi will get on the right track.

After the second batch of industrial zones are completed ten years later, Qi will acquire 10,000+ steam engines every year, add millions of acres of arable land, and relocate tens or millions of people every year.

But this premise is that Qi State can provide so much migration silver, and the migration silver can only rely on the labor camp workers in Yingzhou to go to Jinshan Prefecture (Alaska) to earn gold and silver for Qi State.

Right now, [-] to [-] reform-through-labor workers are nothing, but in the future, more and more reform-through-labor workers will be transferred, so naturally it will be difficult to discuss, so Zhu Youjian is going to make an agreement in advance.

"How about the Qi State pay a tael of silver to relocate one of the reform-through-labor workers in Yingzhou?"

"It's okay for my brother to take all the Japanese pirates away."

Unsurprisingly, Zhu Youxiao asked Zhu Youjian to take away all the reformed laborers with a big wave of his hand, but Zhu Youjian didn't do this, and insisted: "It's better to be one or two."

"..." Hearing his brother's insistence, Zhu Youxiao also glanced sideways at him, thought for a while and then nodded: "Then follow what my brother said, one or two."

After all, Zhu Youxiao was going to continue to concentrate on his wood, but Zhu Youjian talked about a serious matter.

"The third Northern Expedition and the war of feudal feudal feudal feudal lords have been completely over, and it's time for my brother to set a reward."

"This is the list drawn up by my younger brother. Brother can take a look..." Zhu Youjian said, and took out a piece of paper from his arms, and Zhu Youxiao also took it and spread it out.

On this piece of paper, Cao Wenzhao ranked first, followed by Cao Bianjiao, Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan, Sun Shoufa, Yuan Yingtai, Cao Meng, You Shigong, He Shixian and others...

The names of Zu Dashou, Mao Wenlong, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui and others are also on the list, a total of 120 seven generals are on the list.

In addition to them, Zhu Youjian also wrote down the names of Huang Long, Huang Fei, Lu Xiangsheng, Qi Yuanfu, Qi Yuanbi, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others. A total of 150 generals were on the list.

All of the above are heroes of the feudal vassal war and the third Northern Expedition, and among them, a total of seven were conferred titles.

Four people were knighted during the Northern Expedition, Xiong Tingbi was promoted to Jiangxiahou, Sun Yingyuan was promoted to Dingxinghou, Cao Wenzhao was promoted to Weiyuanbo, and Yuan Yingtai was promoted to Fengxiangbo.

There were three people who were knighted in the battlefields of the feudal vassals, namely Huanglong's Marquis of Liaodong, Qi Yuanbi's Dingxibo, and Qi Yuanfu's Dingdongbo.

There were three lords and four uncles in the two major battlefields in the north and the south, but what was even more terrible was that the Qi family had three nobles.

However, this fatality is not enough, just because Zhu Youjian wants to ignite the fire again:

"In addition, I suggest promoting Qi Yuangong to Dingnanbo, Qin Minping to Wulongbo, and Qin Liangyu to Shizhubo."

According to Zhu Youjian's words, there were two noble families in Ming Dynasty, and it was a family with many noble families.

That is, Qi Jin Dingyuan Hou, Qi Yuan Gong Ding Nan Bo, Qi Yuan Fu Ding Dong Bo, Qi Yuan Bi Ding Xi Bo, Qin Bangping Zhongzhou Hou, Qin Banghan Youyang Hou, as well as Qin Liangyu's Shi Zhubo and Qin Minping's Wu Longbo.

Two families, three marquises and five uncles, what an honor is this?
"..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Youxiao was silent for a moment. He knew very well that the veterans of the two sects hoped to help Daming and stand on his side, so promoting them was tantamount to consolidating the imperial power.

Huang Long would not have any objections to such a canonization, neither would Sun Yingyuan, nor would Xiong Tingbi, let alone the others.

In the final analysis, the Qin and Qi families are basically the mentors of most of the generals in the Qi Palace, and they have no reason to object.

"Just do what my brother said, but..." Zhu Youxiao approved the list, but then murmured:

"We can add Wei Liangqing, Jin Qi, and Zhang Xianzhong to this list."

"The three of them, the first two have made great contributions in escorting this time, and hope to be promoted to the commander of the three guards of the imperial city and the commander-in-chief of the Kaiping Mansion."

"As for Zhang Xianzhong, I heard that he made great contributions in defending the city of Duolun County and resisted the siege of more than 4 cavalry in Subu. This time, he may be promoted to be a battalion general or a guard commander?"

(End of this chapter)