Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 477 Conscience Difficulties Zhu Youjian
"Jin Xuan, the former prefect of South Island Prefecture, is now awarded the history of Qi Guochang, and the book will start from now on..."

On the thirteenth day of May in the 11th year of Tianqi, when the imperial decree of crossing the ocean appeared in front of Jin Xuan, Jin Xuan's first feeling was heavy.

He didn't feel that he was being exiled, but that His Royal Highness King Qi had entrusted his shoulders with one of the most important matters to Qi, Daming, and the world.

Zhu Youjian's idea has not changed, that is, he will be a vassal of Qi.

It's just that the people below think differently from Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian is willing to open up wasteland, but they don't want to. They just want to satisfy their own enjoyment first, and then build Qi.

People who are willing to open up wasteland are often hot-blooded officials who have just entered the officialdom. Although Jin Xuan is not a newcomer to the officialdom, his personality is.

If he can make Qi State better than Jiangnan, a large number of officials will be willing to go to Qi State, because there is currently no conspiracy with various parties and imperial power there.

Therefore, Jin Xuan felt that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy, especially when he received the order and opened the boxes of drawings designed by the two brothers Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian, his mood could not be expressed in words.

Among them, the "Five-Year Plan for the State of Qi" written by Zhu Youjian himself is the most important.

"If it can really develop like this, I'm afraid it will not be difficult for Qi to compete with Jiangnan in ten years..."

Closing the "Qi State Five-Year Plan" in his hand, the shock in Jin Xuan's heart is beyond words.

In his mind, the scene of Qi State ten years later is already filled.

Scattered houses, tall city walls, wide arterial roads, trains leading to the north and south, and public carriages running constantly in the city...

This series of scenes seems to have appeared in front of Jin Xuan's eyes. The "Qi State Five-Year Plan" in his hands is like a projection of a modern person seeing the world 50 years later. The shock is beyond words. .

Thinking of this, Jin Xuan finally understood why His Royal Highness King Qi insisted on surrendering.

To put it bluntly, at the beginning, the national power of Daming was supported by the development of Zhu Youjian's New Deal, but as Daming gradually became stronger, the internal environment of Daming and the gang of insects who only knew about infighting would only slow down Zhu Youjian's New Deal. .

Without them and without such a disgusting political environment, Jianlu would have been destroyed in the seventh year of the apocalypse, and the world would have been at peace early in the Ming Dynasty, and it would not be delayed until now.

Zhu Youjian also tried to kill people, but it was useless. Daming's officialdom was already a turbid dye vat, and anyone who jumped in would come out dirty.

Therefore, only in the state of Qi with a tank of clean water, can Zhu Youjian implement the New Deal unscrupulously.

"Lock up all these things and put them away. In addition, use King Qi's handwriting to ask Yang Buzheng to issue the next batch of documents, mobilize 200 million shimi to be stored in Yingzhou Port (Tokyo Bay), and gather [-] reformed-through-labour workers to Dongji Port to wait. In June, the Kingdom sent two battalions of soldiers and horses to Yingzhou."

Jin Xuan gave an order to his staff, and the staff also bowed to each other when they heard the words:

"Futai, there are soldiers and laborers here, but what about the scribes and officials?"

"His Royal Highness the scribes and officials are also ready. The Qi Palace has transferred [-] officials and scribes from the Palace to accompany them. There is no need to worry."

Jin Xuan responded to the staff, and when the staff heard the news, they immediately sent people to Dongji Port in the capital of Beizhou.

When Yang Wenyue, who was here, got the news, he immediately issued the document without any hesitation.

However, the grain in Yingzhou cannot be harvested until July, so Yang Wenyue can only mobilize 30 shi of rice and wheat from the Changping warehouses of various prefectures to go to Qi State first, and the remaining 170 million shi needs to wait for the harvest to end in July can only be shipped later.

Yingzhou started to get busy, but Daming didn't seem to be idle at all.

Hong Chengchou in the southwest began to mobilize troops and food, and the immigration work in the northeast also continued. As Zhu Youjian estimated, when Yuan Yingtai opened up the northeast and distributed ripe fields, it took less than a month, and the more than 200 million mu in Donghai Province The ripe land was divided up.

The arable land in Liaodong has long reached the limit of carrying capacity. In terms of grain production in this era, the 3000 million mu of arable land in Liaodong is only enough to feed 600 million people. However, due to the continuous influx of people, the population of Liaodong has reached 800 million. people.

With the establishment of the three provinces outside the customs and the opening of Yuan Yingtai, 19 people rushed out of Liaodong and became the first permanent residents of Daming in Donghai Province.

The land in Jilin, Songhua and other prefectures and counties was taken over by these farmers one after another, and at the same time, the 10,000+ Beishan Jurchens who had meritorious service also moved south.

As Zhu Youjian expected, they took all the reward silver to buy cattle and fields, and they will work with the thousands of families who surrendered to the Fourth Han Battalion to cultivate the 10,000+ mu of arable land in Udolun City, and Develop the Sanjiang Plain.

The situation outside the customs is getting better, but at the same time, with 10,000+ people going south, the population of Daming in Beishan Province is less than 12, and most of them live in Beishan County (Nurgan).

There must be people in Beishan, because the local area needs to supply the thousands of Ming troops in the Lena River, so Zhu Youjian plans to implement household registration and village registration in Beishan Province first.

As long as households and villages are successfully organized, tractors can be distributed collectively by the village.

Qi State needs tractors, but Beishan in Daming needs them even more.

Fortunately, it takes a long time to organize households and villages. Even if there are only 10,000+ people, it may take until the end of the year to complete the registration of Qimin households, and then distribute tractors to the local area before the spring.

That is, they will not need tractors until next year, and due to the sparse population and the fact that there are about 10,000+ acres of arable land in Beishan, considering the needs of life, these 10,000+ people only need to reclaim more than 70 acres. Ten thousand mu can be self-sufficient.

Zhu Youjian plans to send more than 2000 tractors expected to be produced by May next year to Qi State in the middle of the year, and after May, they will be distributed to the people of Beishan Province according to the village collective.

Calculated, it should be about [-] machines. These [-] machines can plow the original cultivated land in Beishan in only two days. In less than six months of reclamation time, they are estimated to be able to reclaim one or two years. [-] mu of arable land, including animal power and manpower, will be able to reclaim at least [-] mu next year.

In the next year, if Zhu Youjian sends another 1000 tractors, then according to 160 people per village, each of these 40 villages can have at least [-] tractors.

In the follow-up, Ming Dynasty only needs to distribute another 18 units to them every year, and they can be self-sufficient in about 100 years of the apocalypse. The area of ​​cultivated land in Beishan can reach more than [-] million mu. They can support themselves while helping the Chief Secretary of Beishan to feed the north. A garrison of three thousand on the Lena.

Of course, this is a relatively slow algorithm. If the subsequent industrial zones are put into operation one after another, the number of steam engines put into use each year can be increased.

For the three provinces outside the customs, Zhu Youjian adopted the most appropriate method, which was to distribute tractors from north to south.

The reason for this is also because the southern part of Donghai Province, which is close to Liaodong, is destined to have a larger population than the north, and Daming cannot distribute so many tractors to the village collective in one go.

In addition, the further north you go, the lower the grain output, so Daming needs to take care of the people from all sides.

In the next few years, one-third of the tractors produced by the Daming Industrial Zone will be shipped to Qi State, and two-thirds will be used in the Northeast and the Old Port.

Among them, the Northeast will take three-quarters of the two-thirds share, and only one-quarter will be reserved for the Old Port.

Calculated, out of the [-] tractors, [-] are for Qi, [-] are for Northeast, and [-] are for Jiugang.

Zhu Youjian did the math, he still has five years to go, and after five years, the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River will suffer from severe drought, and tens of millions of mouths will need relief from Ming Dynasty.

Qi State and Jiugang are destined to be the places where the population of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River will be transferred, including the feudal vassals in India.

Thinking of this, returning to Dading Palace, Zhu Youjian, who was dozing in Changchun Hall of Dading Palace, slowly opened his eyes.

"Five years... In five years, Qi must be self-sufficient and be able to reclaim new arable land. The same goes for Jiugang and the four northeastern provinces."

Zhu Youjian murmured, but he also knew that things like industry can only take one step at a time, and it is impossible to reach the sky in one step.

The only advantages of Qi are the tens of millions of bison in North America and the countless fish on the west coast.

These things ensure that if Qi suffers from famine, there is almost no need to worry about meat.

However, Zhu Youjian will not exhaust the water like Europeans, but wants to keep the water flowing.

It’s just that if you want the water to flow for a long time, you have to drive away the Europeans who like to fish in the water.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian shouted to the door: "Bingwen!"

"Your Highness..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's call, Liu Bingwen also walked into the Changchun Palace, and at this moment he was already wearing the official uniform of the sixth-rank Yunqiwei.

Zhu Youjian's credit has long been unsealable, so he divided his credit, and Liu Bingwen was assigned a sixth-rank Yunqi Lieutenant, but this official status is only a loose rank of martial arts, and he has no real power. Salary.

As for Zhu Youjian's uncle Liu Xiaozu, at this moment he has been named the magistrate of Kaiping Prefecture in Modong Province, and he also has the official status of a five-rank Xiaoqi captain.

With the casual rank of the fifth rank hanging on his body, the Liu family's generation can basically say that they have no worries about food and clothing.

"Have someone bring the accounts of the Yumajian Industrial Zone and the factories."

Zhu Youjian gave instructions to his cousin Liu Bingwen, and Liu Bingwen responded immediately. After walking out of the Changchun Palace, an hour later, he walked into the palace with twelve scribes carrying abacus and accounts.

A book of accounts was placed in front of Zhu Youjian, and they each moved a table and chair to sit down.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian opened and flipped through the books. This process lasted for half an hour.

Half an hour later, the industrial strength of the entire Ming Dynasty was summarized and written on a piece of white paper by Zhu Youjian.

The annual output is 460 sets of two large high-pressure steam engines, 320 sets of industrial steam engines and 320 sets of five agricultural steam engines.

The railway mileage has reached 220 nine miles, and the locomotive is 230 four.

The annual output of pig iron is 72 tons, steel is 400 tons, white cloth is 150 million pieces, silk is 650 million pieces, cement is 12 million tons, bicycles are [-], and clocks are [-]...

Excluding these things related to industry, there are 63 tons of table salt, 75 tons of wine, 190 million tons of feed, and 270 million tons of soil and chemical fertilizers.

The above are some industrial and agricultural data that Zhu Youjian is more concerned about. Although they are based on the Ming system, six hundred grams is one catty, and ten catties is one ton. The real data has to be discounted, but anyway, Daming is still barely enough It reached the level of the great powers in the mid-nineteenth century.

The only thing to wait now is to wait for the steam engine to be continuously put into use, and then let Daming slowly complete the first industrial revolution.

According to Zhu Youjian's estimation, this process will take about 30 years, by which time the national strength of Ming Dynasty can basically reach the overall level of Britain in the 60s.

In the future, whether it can develop or not, Zhu Youjian is not sure.

Wang Zheng is already 60 years old, and Sun Yuanhua, Bi Maokang and others are also 60 years old. The only younger brothers are Song Yingxing and Song Yingchang, but they are also nearly [-] years old.

Before these people died, could Daming develop internal combustion engines and electricity?The answer is questionable.

After these people passed away, could Daming give birth to someone more powerful than them?This is also doubtful.

In Zhu Youjian's view, what he thinks is more promising is that Qi State under his leadership continues to consolidate basic science.

To put it bluntly, the current Ming scientists are senior craftsmen. They don't know many basic scientific principles at all, and they only know to study according to Zhu Youjian's requirements.

After the successful research, Da Ming certainly had new things, but once it involved a lot of research involving physical and chemical knowledge, they basically struggled, and it was difficult for them to succeed in research.

Zhu Youjian himself is also struggling, but he can continue to cultivate talents in Qi to improve basic science, and if he can't, he can grab people from Europe. Anyway, as long as Qi can produce electricity and internal combustion engines, it is only a matter of time before Ming has these.

"Okay, put it away, and tell me how much you can increase the production of these things before the end of the year."

Zhu Youjian asked Liu Bingwen to put away the document, and asked about the twelve scribes in front of him.

These scribes have the industrial data of the Ming Dynasty in their hands, and they can basically infer the industrial growth of the Ming Dynasty.

Following Zhu Youjian's order, their abacus began to beat continuously, and they came to a rough conclusion after a quarter of an hour.

"Except for saturated items such as salt, wine, white cloth, silk and satin, the production of other items should increase by [-] to [-] percent."

"Okay, let's back down." After getting the answer he wanted, Zhu Youjian waved them back.

After they left, Zhu Youjian leaned back on the chair and fell asleep, but his cousin Liu Bingwen said doubtfully:

"Your Highness, don't you want Jin Xuan and the others to bring some machines?"

"I want to bring it, but I can't bring too much, and I can't bring military machinery." Zhu Youjian slowly opened his eyes to respond, and then said:

"You ask Cheng En to transfer ten large high-pressure steam engines, one hundred industrial steam engines and all the tractors in stock to Jin Xuan. The weapons of the guard camp are still rifles and Yanshan five-pound cannons."

The heart of defense is indispensable, Zhu Youjian will not easily hand over Daming's highest-achieved rifle to Jin Xuan, because it is Daming's trump card.

With rifles, even if Jin Xuan and Huanglong rule Qi, Zhu Youjian can easily defeat them and regain Qi, but if they are given rifles, the two sides will fight for a long time.

What's more, the rifle and the Yanshan five-pound cannon are enough to crush the Europeans and indigenous people in North America, so there is no need for him to increase his firepower.

In case the rifle is seen by the Europeans, after witnessing the power of the rifle, there is no guarantee that they will not follow suit.

Zhu Youjian has long maintained an attitude of closing himself off to Europe.

The current Ming Dynasty occupies about two-fifths of the existing civilization of mankind. If the Qi State can take over North and South America, and Zhu Yujian and others will conquer Leviathan, then the Ming Dynasty’s suzerain-vassal system will be able to control the world. There are four-fifths of the land of civilization.

At this time, if you play closed-door policy, you will not stand still, but completely blockade Europe.

Zhu Youjian pondered, and Liu Bingwen also followed his words to send letters to others.

However, at the same time as sending the letter, Zhu Youjian also took a deep breath, thinking of Uszang from the Asian water tower.

Originally, he wanted Sun Chuanting to rest for three years, but now it seems that Sun Chuanting will have to come back next year and lead troops to recover Uszang.

Zhu Youjian was not worried about how to recover.

After the percussion gun appeared, even if there was only one battalion of soldiers, Sun Chuanting could recover Uzang, not to mention the twelve battalions of Duogan soldiers and horses in the Qinghai area.

What he is considering now is how to distribute the rifles of the Ordnance Bureau, and at the same time expand the production capacity of the Ordnance Bureau, especially the production capacity of bullets.

There are too many disadvantages of paper bullets, but Daming does not have the technology and ability to load bullets with steel, so he can only use copper to load bullets.

Among the top ten copper mines in the world, eight are located in North and South America, and the remaining two are located in Tsarist Russia and the Old Port area.

The copper mine in Jiugang has started mining now. Zhu Youjian just glanced at the document. At present, the copper mine has been able to stably produce [-] tons of copper ore per year. Including domestic copper mines, it can guarantee about [-] tons of copper ore. output.

Using them to make bullets can produce more than 500 million metal fixed bullets every year, but Daming still needs copper for currency iteration, so it is impossible to use them all for military affairs.

On the contrary, it is Qi State. If Qi State can win the Americas, the production of copper mines alone will allow Qi State to earn millions of taels of foreign exchange every year.

The two big states of Qi State are destined to be the second largest target of Ming Dynasty in trade in the future, but due to geographical problems, as long as Daming controls the feudal vassals in South Asia and Levia, Qi State will become an isolated island in the world.

Zhu Youjian is aware of this, but those things are already a hundred years later, and they are not in the scope of his consideration now.

What he is considering is whether Qi can increase the speed of immigration, the amount of cultivated land and the mileage of railways.

The gold, silver and copper mines on the west coast and South Asia's Meriga are still waiting for the more than 200 million reformed-labor laborers in Yingzhou to mine them, and the Qi State has to speed up their pace.

"younger brother!"

Just as Zhu Youjian was thinking, Zhu Youxiao's voice broke into the Changchun Palace, and Zhu Youjian instinctively looked towards the door.

Sure enough, Zhu Youxiao, who was wearing a crimson round-neck robe, walked into the Changchun Palace, smiled after seeing Zhu Youjian, and walked towards him.

Zhu Youjian was also helpless when he saw his brother, so he had to say:
"The blueprints in Qi's five-year plan have been sent to Yingzhou, and there is no need for planning at present."

For more than half a month, Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao have been discussing the construction and planning of Qi State, but discussing such things is also very tiring. Therefore, after planning the construction of Qi State in the next five years, Zhu Youjian Jian hurriedly wrote down the outline of the ten-year plan, and then someone gave it to Jin Xuan.

I just don't want to, Zhu Youxiao seems to be very addicted to building future cities, so even after the mission is over, he still drags Zhu Youjian to discuss it.

Zhu Youjian is also helpless and can only discuss with him, but if things go on like this, he will also be tired.

Psychologically, Zhu Youjian is not as young as Zhu Youxiao.

"It doesn't matter if you don't need planning, you and I can talk about the railways in the three provinces outside the customs!"

Zhu Youxiao is very good at having fun, and the officials in the three provinces outside the customs have not appointed many officials. He has already started to prepare for the construction of the railway.

"Okay..." Zhu Youjian was a little tired, but he still shook his head when he thought that the railway outside the customs had to be built.

"Look, brother, this is the picture I drew. The three provinces outside the customs need three railways. One is the main road from Shenyang to Songhua Mansion, and along the river to Beishan City."

"On the basis of these two, build from Songhua Mansion to Taining Mansion, and then build a line from Udolun City to Yaksa City."

"Three railways, about [-] miles, basically connect all the plains in the three provinces outside the pass, and all cities must also be built according to the railways. This can save a lot of costs, especially..."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian agreed, Zhu Youjian immediately started his performance without end. Zhu Youjian listened energetically at first, but as time went by, he became more and more sleepy.

The two brothers chatted from noon to dusk, and finally Zhu Youjian looked at the thick stacks of materials and drawings that Zhu Youxiao took out, and could only say helplessly:
"Although drawing is a good thing, the railway still needs to be inspected on the spot..."

"Then I'll go to investigate?" The wild horse in Zhu Youxiao's heart has never been taken back, and he took the opportunity to propose that he want to visit the three provinces outside the customs, and what he said was also a disguised way to ask Zhu You to inspect and supervise the country.

"No!" As soon as he heard that he wanted to supervise the country, Zhu Youjian immediately rejected his brother's "ridiculous" idea.

Are you kidding me, after killing Houjin, he just wants to rest for a while now, but his brother proposed to go outside the customs right now?
Not to mention that after Lin Danhan entered the bandits, his safety became more important. Even if this incident did not happen, Zhu Youjian would not agree.

Zhu Youjian can agree that the places where Zhu Youxiao wanders around can only be reached by trains, and among the nine railways under construction in Daming, the fastest one is only the first half of the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway and the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. The Beijing-Kaifeng Railway from Beijing to Kaifeng is nothing more.

Even this section of the railway has only been built to Anping County in Zhending Prefecture, which is a distance of about 350 miles.

All in all, it took a year to build three hundred miles, which is already considered fast. If it hadn't hired [-] people to build it, but built it according to the thousands of people in the Qing Dynasty, I'm afraid it has just been repaired in Gu'an County. .

"Brother, please bear with it for a few years. After 15 years from the apocalypse, all the railways can almost reach Shenyang. At that time, if my brother wants to go to Liaodong, I will never stop him."

Zhu Youjian did not give Zhu Youxiao room to bargain, but decisively set the 15th year of Tianqi as the time point when Zhu Youxiao could go out to the four northeastern provinces.

As for why this time point was set, we have to talk about Zhu Youjian's arrangement...

In the 15th year of the Apocalypse, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng and others basically joined the cabinet. With them in power, the Ming Dynasty would not be in chaos.

Of course, the more important thing is that when Tianqi was 15 years old, his eldest nephew was also 13 years old.

At this age, with the cabinet composed of Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others, this kid can almost be a mascot to supervise the country in the capital.

13 years old ...

Thinking that this kid is going to supervise the country at such a young age, Zhu Youjian felt a little bit uneasy...

(End of this chapter)