Brother Zhu Youxiao

"It's okay to watch the fun, but don't make trouble!"

In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, when Xu Xiake was still busy in Europe, the number of Gongwei soldiers in the Jiangnan area of ​​the Ming Dynasty increased significantly.

With the imminent implementation of the New Deal and the destruction of Hou Jin, the soldiers and horses originally placed in the north by the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion and Shangzhi Governor's Mansion began to be called back.

There are a total of [-] battalions of soldiers and horses in the Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army, controlling the seven provinces of Liaodong, Modong, Beishan, Donghai, Yingzhou, Shandong, and Zhejiang.

For the seven provinces, Zhu Youjian and Sun Yingyuan's arrangement is that the sixth battalion will still be stationed in Yingzhou, the first battalion will be stationed in Qi State, and the remaining 33 battalions will be stationed in Liaodong, Donghai, and Beishan provinces.

The next three provinces, Modong, Shandong, and Zhejiang, each stationed ten battalions of soldiers and horses.

As an important military location, Modong is responsible for defending the northern captives, and there is no problem with stationing the ten battalions.

However, Shandong and Zhejiang, which are provinces within the pass, also suddenly poured in ten battalions of soldiers and horses, which is worth pondering.

There are more than [-] soldiers and horses in the ten battalions. Compared with the more than [-] soldiers in the third battalion, the number has more than tripled.

This also led to the strengthening of the military forces of the Five Armies Dudufu's subordinate courts in Shandong and Zhejiang provinces, and the meaning of deterrence is obvious.

Zhu Youjian wanted to implement the New Deal, the most important thing was to deter the localities so that the local gentry would not dare to make trouble.

Therefore, not only the Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army, but also the soldiers and horses of the Shangzhi Gongwei Battalion began to retreat.

The Sixteen Guards of Shangzhi withdrew to North Zhili, the forty Gongwei battalions outside the pass were divided into six battalions and withdrew to Henan, the tenth battalion withdrew to Huguang, and the sixteenth battalion withdrew to Jiangxi.

In addition to the [-] battalions of soldiers and horses stationed in South Zhili, as well as the Xiaoling Guards, Daming completed the repositioning of soldiers and horses in South Zhili, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang.

The soldiers and horses stationed in the four provinces of Beijing are a total of 66 battalions of one guard, with 20 people.

In detail, there are more than 3 garrisons in South Zhili, [-] in Zhejiang, [-] in Jiangxi, [-] in Huguang, and [-] in Shandong.

For one capital and four provinces with only more than [-] prefectures, on average, Zhu Youjian deployed almost a battalion of soldiers and horses in each prefecture.

Zhu Youjian's purpose is very clear, he will kill anyone who dares to make trouble.

Perhaps for the common people, the military drills that can be seen everywhere on the government roads and county roads make them feel safer.

But for the powerful gentry, at this moment they feel that a knife is hanging above their heads, and it may fall at any time.

Such precarious days make people melancholy...

"The 29th Guard, the 230th Battalion, and more than 88 soldiers and horses, it is really absurd to spend nearly 50 in the pass..."

When the layout of the five military governor's mansions was completed, many officials in the six departments couldn't help but mocked.

As the big chef who eats meals for the officials of the outer court, the voice of ridicule here is also the loudest.

"The new policy promulgated by Guochao this time, the annual revenue will inevitably drop to 7000 million taels."

"With an annual income of 7000 million taels, it will cost nearly 2000 million taels of silver to raise the army. I am afraid that the country will not usher in peace, and it will be dragged down by hundreds of thousands of troops..."

"I heard that there is going to be disarmament. In my opinion, disarmament is right. How can it be enough to cut 17? Simply cut off all soldiers over the age of 40."

"boom!"

Inside the big kitchen, when some conservative civil servants from various parties began to sneer, the military attache of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, who was also on official business in the outer court, felt a little uncomfortable, and the more irritable person even patted the table.

It's a pity that the civil officials of the various parties didn't care at all, they were still mocking:
"Some people spend the salary that we and other civil servants get from governing the world, but still lose their temper wantonly at us and other civil servants. Could it be that they want to repeat the disaster of the Five Dynasties?"

"Huh! The huge overseas is all conquered by me. Without us, some people don't know how meager their salaries are, secretly stealing and stealing, and poaching the corners of the court."

"That's right, if you want me to say, this kind of people should record their military merits according to their heads, cut off their dog's head, and get ten taels of silver!"

"Hey... How can a dog's head be worth ten taels of silver? I'm afraid three hundred Wen will be enough."

"Haha... That's right! A dog's head costs three hundred coins, and if you kill tens of thousands of vicious dogs who stole and stole it, maybe the people will applaud it."

"If you ask me, isn't Jin Yiwei killing thousands of vicious dogs every year? It's time to increase the salary of Jin Yiwei."

The civil servants were mocking, but the military attaches working in the capital governor's office of the five armies in Beijing were basically officials from Yanshan.

If it's poetry and poetry, they may not be as good as the old-school civil servants, but if it's insinuation, their Yanshan school's insinuation is much more ruthless.

However, although the military officers of the Yanshan School grasped the pain points of the conservative civil servants, the old school also had the pain points of the military officers of the Yanshan School.

"It's not surprising that some people have vicious dogs who steal and steal at home. At least the vicious dogs know how to protect their masters. They don't want to have concierges who open the door to let thieves come in. They almost let the master of the family fall."

"Bold!"

Hearing that the civil servants actually made a fuss about Lin Danhan's invading the bandits, a fourth-rank governor's mansion, the Tongzhi, took the case.

"People don't fight with thieves, let's go!"

Looking at the many military officers of the Yanshan faction, the conservative officials could only leave in desperation, but even so they let go of their self-deceiving words.

However, because of their disturbance, the military officers of the Yanshan faction lost their mind to eat and left their bowls and chopsticks one after another.

This kind of conflict is just a partial microcosm of the entire Ming Dynasty. The powerful local gentry, and officials with family backgrounds of gentry and subordinate staff, were indifferent to the officials of the Yanshan faction.

Of course, among them, there are also Yanshan officials who have been bribed.

The New Deal must be tried and implemented. No one can stop it, and everyone knows it in their hearts.

If Zhu Youxiao was in charge of the New Deal, then they might still have a chance to stop it, but if Zhu Youjian was in charge of the New Deal, then they could only complain at most.

The Huaibei Great Hunger Case, the Three Niangzi Case, the Shaanxi Civil Revolution...

There are too many people who were sentenced to death in these three cases. The beheaded officials can build a tall tower. No one would dare to go to Zhu Youjian at this time and accuse him of something wrong in person. .

Not only because they are morally untenable, but also because Zhu Youjian really knows how to kill people.

Just like some policies promulgated by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the officials below knew that these policies would affect them, but they still had no choice but to implement them.

They really wanted to do foreign work, but Lu Wenzhao, who was constantly going south and north to arrest people with more than 1000 supervisors, Jin Yiwei, was not so easy to deal with.

The stipulated time limit is up, and if they can't solve the policy issued by the imperial court, then everyone will be demoted one level.

It can be said that Zhu Youjian may be among those in power in the past dynasties, who knows best what it means to be "able to go up and down".

Hundreds of thousands of officials are waiting for positions every year, and he is not afraid of officials not doing their jobs at all.

If you don't do anything, just downgrade it. If you are down to the ninth rank and still don't do anything, you will be dismissed directly and will never be hired.

Since you like to mingle with gentry, you should do it well. Grandparents and grandchildren have been mixed together for three lifetimes.

For Zhu Youjian, he doesn't worry about having no officials, and he doesn't worry about the follow-up maintenance of work-for-relief, because once Daming stabilizes, coupled with the continuous advancement of surgery, the premature death rate of newborns will drop greatly, and Daming's Population will only guarantee.

There were tens of millions of white people in the fifteenth century, but 500 years later, they accounted for more than [-]% of the world's population.

Daming now occupies a quarter of the world's population. Once it enters industrialization, the population will inevitably grow explosively.

With the current size of the Ming Dynasty, even if the population soars to one billion in 100 years, its direct territory can support so many people, not to mention the countries under the suzerain-vassal system.

The suzerainty system and the enfeoffment system in Europe, in essence, the lands of the major vassal states still belong to the territory of Ming Dynasty, this system is different from the enfeoffment and franchising in Europe.

Joining and enfeoffment can be separated, but if the vassal state wants to leave, it means that it is going to rebel.

If you want to rebel, you have to consider the consequences of being isolated by the huge economic circle of Daming.

For example, the current Little Western feudal clans, if Daming stopped importing their grain, they would go bankrupt in an instant.

The same will be true for the feudal vassals in Levia in the future. Once Daming, which has the largest population market, stops importing their local resources, they will go bankrupt in an instant.

Big countries rely on the population market, force and economy to support themselves, while small countries rely on selling manpower and resources to support themselves.

Zhu Youjian wants to recover South and North America, which means that Europe has lost its gold and silver mines, but this is not a problem, they can still sell other resources to trade with Ming.

Animal husbandry is a way out, as are other underground resources.

As the population of Ming Dynasty continues to increase, the proportion of European markets in Ming's foreign trade will gradually decrease until there is no need for them to exist.

Instead, it was the trade between the feudal vassals and Ming Dynasty.

However, as far as the moment is concerned, the trade between the feudal vassals and Daming is actually the key to how Ming can survive the severe drought for the remaining 13 years.

"According to Lu Xiangsheng, the inspector of Xiaoxiyang, the feudal clans in India have already started planting the rice distributed by the state. If there is no accident, the feudal clans will be able to abandon the native rice in India in three years and switch to Daming rice."

"The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household have already set up trades with the feudal clans for next year. They are 400 million shi rice that can be used as feed, and 600 million shi Ming rice that can be directly supplied to Luchuan."

"Indica rice will be transported to Luchuan to make feed, and then continuously transported to the southwestern provinces. The estimated output is 82 tons, which can allow more than [-] million livestock to be slaughtered and reduce the price of meat in the provinces south of the Yangtze River."

On the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, in the Chengyun Hall, following the report of Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Zhu Youjian kept nodding his head, and finally asked Cao Huachun who was not far away:
"This year, how many tons of oil does Guochao produce?"

"This year, Guochao meat oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, and peanut oil are about 120 million tons, with an average per capita of nine catties. Compared with the estimated three catties per capita in the fourth year of Tianqi, it has doubled on the original basis."

Cao Huachun's words, together with Bi Ziyan's words, basically reassured Zhu Youjian a lot.

The reason why people in the Ming Dynasty ate a lot was mainly because of the high price of oil. This is the same as most people in later generations before the 70s. There was no oil in their stomachs. Many families even used oil to brush the pot, which was a family of seven or eight. There is not even half a tael of oil for a meal.

As Zhu Youjian promoted peanuts and dispersed farming, peanut oil began to enter the homes of ordinary people. The price of oil that was originally 45 Wen per catty in the fourth year of Tianqi was also reduced to [-] Wen per catty this year.

The reason why the reduction is not much is because the news is not spread well, and the common people who grow peanuts also need to make money.

For an acre of land, rice can produce a stone and a half of rice, and the harvest is at least 750 cash, but peanuts can only produce one stone.

A stone of peanuts can produce [-] catties of oil, which can be sold at a price of [-] Wen per catty, which is one tael or two.

For the purchase price of peanuts, the Huangdian offered [-] Wen per shi, and the remaining [-] Wen, and [-] Wen was the labor of the oil mill. Shipping is not included.

This is only peanut oil, other soybean oil, rapeseed oil, and meat oil can be said to have basically not made much money for Huangdian.

Today, Suihuangdian sells 120 million tons of oil, but only earns more than 240 million taels. It can be said that it only earns a profit of less than two cents per catty of oil.

The reason why Zhu Youjian strongly encourages oil production is to let the people have oil in their stomachs and reduce their dependence on and intake of staple foods.

Nine catties of oil per capita. It can be said that oil alone can solve the problem of food rations for most people for a month.

What Zhu Youjian has to do now is to further promote peanuts and soybeans to other areas that are not prone to disasters, so as to avoid the complete failure of grain and peanuts in the north during the next severe drought.

If there is oil and water in the guarantor's stomach, he will not be able to eat much rice, so oil and meat are the top priorities.

The Indian servants' feed can allow Daming to raise more than 300 million more livestock, and more than a billion catties of meat are poured into the market, although for Daming with a huge population, these meats are consumed for a month.

But oil and meat, this solved the two-month ration problem of more than 4000 million people in Daming.

"How many acres of arable land in Ryukyu Prefecture are there now..."

Zhu Youjian asked Bi Ziyan, and Bi Ziyan replied after listening: "670 million mu, with a population of 130 people."

The population of the Ryukyu Prefecture has declined, and Bi Ziyan needs to explain it here, so he explained:
"Since the opening of the Old Port, coupled with the dense population of Ryukyu Prefecture, people have continued to move southward to the old port, Jiaozhi and other places. The population and cultivated land of Ryukyu Prefecture have actually become relatively average."

"670 mu..." Zhu Youjian didn't interrupt Bi Ziyan, and he didn't care that the Ryukyu Mansion, which used to have a population of more than 130 million, became [-] million.

He thought about it, if half of these lands were used to grow peanuts, then the production of peanut oil would increase by more than 200 million tons, which would increase the per capita edible oil in Daming by one and a half catties.

Zhu Youjian was able to guarantee that the per capita edible oil of Ming people should not be less than five catties, and most of the peanut and soybean planting areas are in the north. Once there is a severe drought, the production of peanut oil and soybean oil in Ming Dynasty may be cut in half.

"Explain to the people of the Ryukyu Mansion that starting from the 13th year of the Apocalypse, the Ryukyu Mansion must cultivate at least 300 million mu of peanuts, and the purchase price of peanuts is still [-] yuan per mu."

The price of grain is different between the north and the south. Although Ryukyu Mansion can produce two stones per mu a year, the price of grain in the south is only [-] renminbi. Planting peanuts can earn [-] renminbi more. The common people have no reason not to plant them.

Besides, peanuts are much easier to serve than rice.

"Your Highness, there is too much oil, and the price of oil is about to drop..."

Cao Huachun saw his highness disregarding the income and expenditure of the imperial store, so he had to stand up and remind him.

"If you drop it, you will drop it. Even if you don't make money, you have to continue selling oil." Zhu Youjian said openly:

"You can't make money from oil, but you can definitely make money from other places."

"Chengen!" Zhu Youjian shouted to Wang Chengen.

"The servant is here..." Wang Chengen got up to respond, and Zhu Youjian also raised his hand to signal:
"Officials should take good care of themselves. In the future, the feed will be bran and indica rice grown in India."

"The meat of the people in the country is all tied to the officialdom."

"The maidservant takes orders..." Wang Chengen still acted like that, honestly doing what he should do, and Zhu Youjian was also very satisfied with his appearance.

He nodded slightly to express his satisfaction, then looked at Bi Ziyan:
"After the promulgation of the new government policy, the people handed in less grain and sold more, and more rice was cheap. The Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry should make preparations to expand the Changping warehouses of counties and towns. Then buy food."

"Starting from this year, counties will build new Changping warehouses according to their population. The food stored inside must be enough for the local people to eat for more than three months."

"This..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Bi Ziyan hesitated for a few seconds, and then saluted after a pause:
"Your Highness, since this is the case, the local government may have to store hundreds of millions of rice and wheat every year. The imperial court's financial resources are not enough, and it may be unsustainable..."

Bi Ziyan knew very well that in order to store enough food for the local people to eat for three months, even if it is porridge, there must be hundreds of millions of shi rice and wheat.

According to the current grain price, no matter how you buy grain, the price will not be lower than 5000 million taels.

Even if it is stored in three years, it will cost more than 1000 million taels of silver every year.

Bi Ziyan was not very clear why Zhu Youjian did such a thing, because in his opinion it was a waste of resources.

In the past, the Changping granary in the Ming Dynasty was basically used to stabilize the price of grain. The year of the largest storage was the 25th year of Hongwu, with a total of 4000 million shi of grain stored. This is the time when the grain was stored the most.

Now the amount has reached [-] million shi, and the Ministry of Household Affairs simply cannot spend that much money to buy grain.

"There is not enough silver, this Gu knows, but Gu also knows that the Finance Department is constantly minting coins."

Zhu Youjian got up to prepare for activities, so he walked out of the hall, and Bi Ziyan and others followed after seeing this.

"No matter how you say it, the coins minted by the Finance Department are also gold and silver. Besides, the population of the country is constantly increasing, with a huge increase of 300 million every year. It is not surprising that millions of taels are normally released."

"In addition to the problem of gold and silver circulation, the release of 1000 million taels per year should not have too much impact on the people."

"If there is an impact, then temporarily stop, and at the same time let the local imperial stores store all the gold and silver, so that the circulation of gold and silver can be controlled and the risk can be reduced."

Zhu Youjian spoke halfway, but Bi Ziyan said: "You can buy 1000 million taels of silver, at most 2000 million shimimai, which is far away from the people of the country..."

Zhu Youjian raised his hand to stop Bi Ziyan, and then said: "Luchuan, Jiaozhi, Yingzhou, Jiugang..."

"If these four provinces don't need to build regular warehouses, how much can they save?"

"Probably..." Bi Ziyan calculated: "About 2000 million shimimai, 1000 million taels of silver."

"The Changping warehouses in these four provinces do not store grain for the time being. We must first ensure the grain storage in Jiangnan and the north."

"As for Changping warehouses in Huguang, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian and other places, we have to build them, but the problem of grain storage..."

Zhu Youjian calculated the population and acres of fields in these provinces, and it was almost [-] million people and more than [-] million acres, which is indeed a bit crowded.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, the 12-year drought in Tianqi should continue to shrink in the north, but two droughts will break out again in the south, namely in parts of Huguang, Jiangxi and Nanzhili.

If the drought is not late, there is no need to store food in Huguang, Nanzhili, and Jiangxi provinces, because the government's food storage is tantamount to competing with the people for food.

So he could only say: "Sichuan, Guangdong, and Guizhou have to save grain, but Jiangxi and Nanzhili don't have to."

"In this case, we can probably save more than 1000 million taels, but it's still not enough." Bi Ziyan quickly explained, lest Zhu Youjian think he could spend tens of millions of taels empty-handed.

"How far is it?" Zhu Youjian frowned, he didn't expect that after so many years of busy work, Daming was still so short of money.

"About 600 million taels..." Bi Ziyan replied respectfully, Zhu Youjian could only think about some provinces that did not suffer from drought in his mind, and arranged in advance:
"Henan and Shandong only have one month's Changping granary, how about it? Is it enough?"

"Enough..." Bi Ziyan responded quickly, and Zhu Youjian also breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hands and said:

"Since this is the case, let's say hello to the Ministry of Industry and Huangdian. The grain storage needs to be completed before the autumn harvest. In addition, if the victims of the disaster in various places this year intend to move to Luchuan, they should follow the previous rules."

"People in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other places, especially those living in the mountains, should be persuaded to emigrate, so as to avoid the construction of more difficult mountain and forest roads."

"The next official takes orders..." Bi Ziyan responded, Zhu Youjian also signaled that he didn't have to follow after seeing this, and led Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun to the Palace of Cunxin.

Bi Ziyan looked at Zhu Youjian's back and bowed, and waited for him to walk away before getting up and leaving.

On the contrary, Zhu Youjian, the reason why he walked so quickly to the Palace of Cunxin is also because there is something waiting for him to deal with in the Palace of Cunxin at this moment.

He walked through the palace gate of the Palace of Mind, then walked into the palace passage, and then entered the Palace of Mind.

"Your Highness Chitose..."

When the maid at the door suddenly spoke, a group of people in the hall looked at the door one after another.

All the concubines in the harem appeared in the Hall of Cunxin, and there were two acquaintances of Zhu Youjian who were feeling the pulse of the two concubines in the Hall of Cunxin.

"Congratulations, Your Highness, the princess and Empress Zhou are indeed pregnant..."

When Wang Kentang and Wu Youxing stood up and bowed to Zhu Youjian to congratulate him, the faces of many people in the hall changed for a while.

Wei Pingyang, who was backed by Xungui, frowned, Li Shaoxi from North Korea clenched his clothes tightly, Tian Xiuying and Chen Xiangjun were a little disappointed, while Yuan Xipin and Zhou Sujie laughed subconsciously, and couldn't help touching their stomachs.

For the Qi Palace, the pregnancy of Yuan Xipin and Zhou Sujie may be a good thing.

However, for the entire Ming Dynasty, the pregnancy of Yuan Xipin and Zhou Sujie was not a good thing.

Knowing all this, Cao Huachun's first reaction was to look at his highness. No accident, Zhu Youjian did not have a smile on his face, but a solemn expression...

Meeting until two o'clock, then writing until now.

The second update is estimated to be until eleven o'clock in the evening, sorry sorry...