Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 519 I have nothing to do
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March [-]rd, the most important Shangsi Festival for the Han people, is a sunny day.

Perhaps because he felt tired from working too much in the mansion, Zhu Youjian took a rare day off for himself, and took the whole family of Prince Qi's mansion to take the train to Yanshan County for an outing.

He did not go to Dading Palace, but enjoyed the cool air in the mountains in the south of Yanshan County.

The sound of the drizzling stream was pleasant to the ear, and Zhu Youjian, who was sitting on the bluestone beside the stream, led Yuan Xipin's legs into the stream as he rolled up his trouser legs.

The stream is not high, about one foot, but the water is quite wide, about two feet...

The stream was flowing slowly, three-year-old Zhu Cihong saw the coolness of the stream, took off his clothes clumsily, and jumped into the stream naked.

Once entering the water, the cold mountain stream immediately made Zhu Cihong tremble and scream, Zhou Sujie quickly picked her up from the water, watching Zhu Youjian on the bank couldn't stop laughing:

"The mountain stream is cold, I told him earlier, but he still went down, it's really not cold and memory..."

Zhu Youjian laughed at his son while looking at the green mountains and green waters in the distance. Yuan Xipin who was next to him couldn't help laughing when he heard it.

The Shangsi Festival has a long history. It has become a large-scale folk festival in ancient times. During the spring and Jingming, people go out of their homes and gather by the water to hold a ritual of exorcising ominous omens.

In this activity, bluegrass is used as a spiritual object.

The orchid grass has the characteristics of striking fragrance. The ancients had to fast before holding a major ritual ceremony, which included the best bathing method at that time - bathing in orchid soup.

Orchid soup is used for bathing, the only difference is that bathing in orchid soup is an individual activity, mostly indoors, and can be carried out at any time, while qi qi is a group activity, which must be held by the river and must be held regularly.

No, when Zhu Youjian and the others were playing in the stream, some accompanying female officials also threw some picked orchids into the stream, which can be considered as a bath...

As if he had adapted to the cold, Zhu Cihong got into the water again with his bare buttocks, and swam around in the water.

After Zhu Youjian felt a little hungry on the shore, he greeted Zhu Cihong in the water: "The weather is hot and cold, I'm going to go ashore, and I'm going back to the city to eat "Peach Blossom Yu"~"

"Eat Peach Blossom Yu~~~"

Children are the most playful and greedy for food. As soon as they heard that "Peach Blossom Yu" could be eaten cold, Zhu Cihong immediately went ashore with bare buttocks.

Seeing this, Zhou Sujie and the female officials quickly wiped his body to avoid catching a cold.

"Let's go back to Yanshan County." After Zhu Youjian got up and put on his shoes under the service of the female officer, he helped Yuan Xibin go ashore, and then got into a relatively simple carriage.

Four people from their family came out today, and the other four concubines were either taking care of their children or confinement, so they couldn't get away.

Although there were only four people, they were guarded by more than a hundred Jinyiwei Tiqi and more than 40 female officials.

The child was making a fuss, Zhu Youjian arranged Zhu Cihong, Yuan Xipin, and Zhou Sujie in the back car, and he himself sat in the front car.

Today, in order to accompany his family on an outing, he didn't even review the memorial.

Taking advantage of returning to the city at this moment, I can just spare some time to review the memorials.

No, as soon as the four-wheeled carriage started smoothly, Zhu Youjian began to review the memorials with his Langhao brush that was persistently stained with Zhu ink.

The first memorial was sent by Nanzhou Yamen, mainly about immigration.

It has been seven years since Daming discovered Nanzhou, and within seven years, the population, cultivated land, and pastures of Nanzhou have also risen sharply.

In the 11th year of Tianqi, Zhu Youjian remembered that there were only three counties in Nanzhou Yamen, with a population of less than [-].

But in today's memorial, the population of Nanzhou has increased to 56. The memorial sent by Liu Chengsi, the magistrate of Nanzhou this time, is a request to establish a county.

Now Nanyang is one state, three counties, twelve towns and sixty villages. The population limit is almost the same, and it is indeed possible to upgrade to a government.

Thinking about it, Zhu Youjian approved the reply to Nanyang, roughly agreeing to upgrade the three counties of Nanzhou to three prefectures, and to set up twelve market towns as counties, sixty villages as market towns, and then open three hundred rural gathering places.

In this way, it seems that the administrative team of Nanzhou has increased a lot, and it is a bit crowded, but in fact, the counties, towns and villages of Nanzhou are very far away.

Due to the unique terrain of Nanzhou, which belongs to the subtropical mountains in the east, the tropical Gobi desert in the middle, and the Mediterranean climate and temperate marine climate in the south, the population concentration of Ming Dynasty in Nanzhou is actually similar to that of later generations, and the population is mainly concentrated in the east. And the southern coastal areas, and the southwest.

Five branches with 10,000+ people are located on thousands of miles of coastline, and the distance between each village and village is calculated in days. If you want to go to the market town, you have to take a boat for several days, and the population is very sparse.

In terms of local conditions, according to the current standards of Daming, honest development can accommodate more than 2000 million people, but there are not many natives in Nanzhou, and the scale of nearly 200 million people in three prefectures and twelve counties is enough to help Daming control Locally, there is no need to go deeper.

Those who really need large-scale immigration are still Luchuan, Jiaozhi and Yingzhou.

Especially in Yingzhou, the complicated situation has caused Zhu Youjian to dare not transfer Yang Wenyue back to the capital.

The nature of Yingzhou people's inferiority is engraved in their bones, but after several years of migration, the local Han people are only a mere 200 million, accounting for less than one-sixth of the total population of Yingzhou.

Although Zhu Youjian used the arable land of Sidang of India and the Supervisory Commissioner of South Kunlun as bait to lure the people of Yingzhou to migrate, but within a few years, he barely managed to control the population of Yingzhou to about 1000 million.

As Yang Wenyue's reclamation in Beizhou (Hokkaido) exceeded 900 million mu, the arable land in Yingzhou also exceeded 500 million mu.

Yang Wenyue resolutely distributed the arable land in Hokkaido to the people of Kyushu, Shikoku, and the main island in the form of three mu per person when the land was transferred to the south of Hokkaido.

For the people in Yingzhou with only one mu of people, this temptation was extremely attractive. Many people in Yingzhou returned their cultivated land to the government, and dragged their families northward to Beizhou.

According to this, about 300 million people will hand over their cultivated land to Beizhou, and the 300 million mu of cultivated land they handed over will attract 15 Han people to relocate under the condition of [-] mu per person.

Although Yang Wenyue did this, Zhu Youjian knew that this would only intensify Yingzhou's internal conflicts.

When the gap between the rich and the poor between the Han people and the Yingzhou people reached a threshold, the Yingzhou people would be restless and make waves again.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian issued an order to the Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army, ordering Sun Yingyuan to transfer another five battalions of soldiers and horses to Yingzhou, and let Yingzhou keep twelve battalions of soldiers and horses to guard against local rebellion.

For Yang Wenyue, Zhu Youjian also wrote a receipt, that is, if there is a rebellion in Yingzhou, all the masterminds and sub-masterminds will be killed after the suppression, the accomplices will be demoted to reform through labor, and the distributed farmland will be returned to the chief envoy.

Although Zhu Youjian felt that even if he didn't write it like this, Yang Wenyue would do it, but just in case, Zhu Youjian still wrote it.

According to the situation of later generations, the arable land in Yingzhou can be developed to a maximum of 600 million mu, but that was reached when the second industrial revolution was coming to an end.

Judging from the fact that Ming Dynasty is still stuck in the middle of the first industrial revolution, manpower development in Yingzhou will be very slow. If the population is not controlled, the arable land in Yingzhou will not be able to keep up with the population growth.

How to control the population, I believe Zhu Youjian will not say, Yang Wenyue also knows how to do it.

Close the memorial and continue to process the next one, and this one was submitted by the Armament Academy, which mainly explained the current level of technological completion.

Zhu Youjian himself is more concerned about scientific and technological research on people's livelihood, but the Military Armament Academy is only good at military research except for Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing, so people's livelihood research has been silent for a long time.

Not surprisingly, the research presented by the Academy of Sciences this time is mainly research on breech-loading artillery and colliding shells.

The research on breech-mounted artillery is not very difficult. Daming's iron smelting technology has reached the standard for producing breech-mounted artillery. The wedge-shaped breech block that ensures airtightness is being researched and produced, so the degree of difficulty is not too high.

However, compared to artillery, the research on shells is a headache.

Historical breech-loading guns and standard shells were both invented and applied around the 50s, but compared with guns, Ming’s research progress on gunpowder was relatively slow, and the gunpowder was not strong enough, so it seemed a bit illusory to want shells to explode.

The Academy of Armaments can only say that it is studying this, and I would like to ask Zhu Youjian for his opinion by the way.

It's just that Zhu Youjian may have seen the appearance and structure of guns when he visited the military museum, but he himself was at a loss for gunpowder.

He only knows that smokeless gunpowder was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, but how to make gunpowder smokeless is his blind spot in knowledge.

Therefore, he could only express that he did not know about the inquiry from the Armament Academy.

"I hate that I didn't study military engineering back then..."

Rubbing the center of his brows, Zhu Youjian continued to look at other memorials.

Zhu Youjian is skeptical about whether the Academy of Armaments can solve the research on the impact and explosion of artillery.

But even if it fails, it will not affect Daming's current world dominance.

Of course, it would be the best if it succeeds. After all, with the blessing of breech-loading artillery, Ming can maintain a leading position in military equipment.

Afterwards, the steam train in logistics will be added, not to mention that it is no problem to dominate the world, at least it will be no problem to maintain the leading position of the Great Tomorrow Empire for 100 years.

Just judging from the fact that the Western countries are impatiently learning the tactics and firearms of the Ming army, if Ming doesn’t have some sense of urgency, then sooner or later the West will catch up. Yelang’s arrogance is not a good thing.

If Daming were to rest on its laurels and allow Westerners to develop breech-loading guns and breech-loading guns first, then the situation would be different.

As long as Daming weakens a little bit, this group of guys will repeat the appearance of jackals in their previous lives.

Writing homework is difficult, but copying homework is easy.

Under the influence of Zhu Youjian, Daming's thinking on armaments was correct, but under the influence of Daming, the thinking of Europeans was also correct.

The scientific and technological competition between the two, in the end, still depends on mathematics, physics and chemistry, and mathematics, physics and chemistry are Zhu Youjian's weak point, so it is also Daming's weak point.

Zhu Youjian crazily promoted official studies in order to find out some geniuses with fantastic ideas from the population of more than 6000 million in Ming Dynasty.

With the right thinking, Easterners are no worse than Westerners, at least Zhu Youjian thinks so.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at the lawsuit memorial submitted by Chengde.

In the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty had already begun to promote official education in Jiangxi, and the remaining three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Yingzhou did not promote official education.

As long as these two provinces also promote government education, then Daming will have completed the most basic five-year basic education.

However, although the current promotion of government schools has brought more than 400 million government school students to Daming, it has also brought huge financial pressure to Daming.

As of February 14, 28, the number of official school teachers in the Department of Justice has reached 60, the basic expenditure of official school has reached 280 million taels, and the teaching salary expenditure has reached 740 million taels. The total of the two is about 30. Ten thousand taels.

According to the situation of the Ming Dynasty last year, the fiscal revenue of the imperial court was only 400 million taels, and the expenditure on education accounted for one eighth of the fiscal expenditure.

If the 600 million taels of military expenditure, the 900 million taels of administrative expenditure, and the fixed 2000 million taels of "work-for-relief" expenditures fixed by the Ministry of Industry are included, then Daming is already living on its laurels right now.

With an annual deficit of nearly 400 million taels, it only takes 20 years to empty out the gold and silver accumulated by Zhu Youjian from overseas over the years.

Although overseas gold and silver are also being sent continuously, once the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Yingzhou are included in the official school system, the number of students will suddenly increase to 2000 million, and the expenditure will increase by 500 million taels in an instant.

Add 500 million taels to 400 million taels, that is a deficit of 900 million taels, which is another three rates.

"Everything goes into the mu..."

Zhu Youjian frowned. Even he couldn't find a way for Daming to make up for the 900 million taels deficit.

It seems that the only way is to maintain the government schools and wait for the first batch of students from the government schools in each province to graduate, which is also the largest group of students, so that it is possible to reduce the cost of education.

However, even if it is reduced, it will not be reduced too much. After all, it is impossible to abolish official education.

Even if one-third of the students graduate suddenly, the population of Ming Dynasty is still growing. Instead of reducing teaching, it is better to maintain the scale of teaching to increase the quality of education.

A teacher teaching [-] people is different from teaching [-] people. It is also a good thing that the quality of teaching improves. The bad thing is whether Daming can afford the salary of a million teaching staff.

It is difficult to have an answer to this question. For this reason, Zhu Youjian can only think about opening up new sources of income, or issuing national debt, and then allow time to increase Daming's wealth.

Daming's wealth growth is certain. The reason why he encountered financial difficulties was because Daming hadn't realized a large amount of raw land into fiscal revenue.

If Daming can develop [-] million mu of cultivated land in Northeast China, and [-] million mu of cultivated land in Indochina, Nanzhou, Jiugang and other places, then even if the price of grain is as low as one penny per catty, Daming can increase taxes by tens of millions of taels.

However, even in the United States in the 50s, it took a full 50 years to achieve it.

Although Ming Dynasty had tractor technology 20 years earlier than the United States at that time, it would take 30 to [-] years to achieve this achievement.

Zhu Youjian didn't have 30 to 15 years to spend here, and Daming's gold and silver treasury was only enough to maintain a deficit of 900 million taels for [-] years.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian raised his head and asked Wang Chengen who was handling official business together in the car: "How is the output of the industrial zone?"

"The annual output of tractors has reached [-] units. It is expected to reach [-] units by the end of the year and [-] units by the end of next year. The second batch of industrial zones will be fully put into operation, and the third batch of industrial zones will start construction."

Wang Chengen reported the situation without thinking, and seemed to know what Zhu Youjian was going to ask in the next sentence, so he reported directly:

"Currently, Beishan Province has distributed a total of 1 tractors, the old port has distributed [-] tractors, and Qi has distributed [-] tractors."

"The number of industrial machinery in Guochao has reached more than 230 units, 15 locomotives, and 18 steamships are under construction, which are expected to be completed between the [-]th year of the apocalypse and the [-]th year of the apocalypse."

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian was very pleased to hear the increasing proportion of industries, but at the same time, he also paid attention to the situation in Qi.

He dug up and found the State of Qi State Document presented by the chief envoy of Yingzhou, on which Jin Xuan recorded various situations, among which the situation of cultivated land developed the most rapidly.

The letter of credence was written by Jin Xuan on the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month in the [-]th year of Tianqi, and it was delivered to the Qi Palace yesterday.

Generally speaking, after more than two years of development, the Qi State now has more than 12 soldiers, civilians, and laborers, and 17 mu of cultivated land.

However, when Jin Xuan wrote this memorandum, the newly delivered 20 tractors had not yet been used, so calculating the time, I am afraid that the amount of cultivated land in Qi State should have exceeded [-] mu.

Zhu Youjian took his heart and continued to look at other situations in the national documents. Among them, the grain yield per mu was the most concerned by Zhu Youjian.

After more than two years, the first batch of arable land reclaimed by Qi State reached a good situation of seven buckets per mu in the harvest last year. Jin Xuan wrote this part very carefully, and believed that Qi State’s grain yield per mu was in the Apocalypse can reach the level of one stone in 13 years, and next year it can reach the level of seven eight fights with one stone.

In other words, the quality of cultivated land on the west coast is actually similar to that of Daming, and even better than some areas.

If the low temperature period of the Little Ice River passes after 90 years, then the yield per mu of cultivated land in Qi should reach the level of two stones.

In any case, according to this situation, Qi State only needs three acres of land to feed a common people under the condition of ensuring firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea and meat.

Zhu Youjian's idea of ​​relocating 200 million people to the state of Qi will probably be achieved within the next ten years with the continuous input of tractors.

"Finally some good news."

Looking at the joy revealed between the lines of Jin Xuan in the memorial, Zhu Youjian was glad that he chose Jin Xuan to go to Qi State. If he chose a few ambitious ones, he might try to separate the regime later.

"By the way, is Huang Long going to Qi country recently?"

Zhu Youjian closed Qi's letter of credence and asked about Huanglong's current situation, but Wang Chengen shook his head and said:
"Captain Huang can see Qi's credentials every year, but he doesn't seem to have the intention to go there. He probably thinks that Qi is a small country with few people, so it's more interesting to stay in Daming."

"That's true...hehe..." Zhu Youjian smiled, and didn't feel that Huanglong was doing anything wrong.

Just as people in later generations say that the frontier is important, but if they are really required to move from the rich land to the frontier, and their wealth will not increase, how many of them are willing to go?

It was only natural that Huanglong didn't want to leave. He still had several million taels of silver in his hands. Compared with Qi, which had just started, Daming was his ideal state.

With his temper and strength, Zhu Youjian is already very satisfied that he can be honest and not make trouble, and it is impossible to ask him to go to Qi State.

Still the same sentence, if you want the generals to go to Qi State willingly, then unless Zhu Youjian develops Qi State to the same level as Jiangnan.

If it could be done, the generals would flock to him without him asking.

The problem now is that the generals are all in a place of bitter cold, and they haven't enjoyed a few days of good times.

After finally being able to enjoy it, Zhu Youjian wanted them to go to Qi State, which was more bitter and cold than the frontier of Ming Dynasty, which was somewhat unsatisfactory.

If they were allowed to go to Qi State to enjoy it, they would definitely go, but going to Qi State now is to be a coolie, a coolie that is even harder than in Daming.

This kind of drudgery can only be done by Jin Xuan.

Fortunately, he did a good job, which made Zhu Youjian worry less.

"What have Ran'er, Xun'er, and Jiong'er been doing recently?"

Zhu Youjian continued to deal with the memorial, but he also cared about the current situation of his three nephews.

Regarding this, Wang Chengen thought for a while before saying: "His Royal Highness has been watching and studying in the Metropolitan Procuratorate recently. As for His Royal Highnesses Huai Wang and Yong Wang, they are studying at the government school in Mingshifang in the inner city, and they will graduate in two years. .”

14 years after the time entered the apocalypse, Zhu Youjian's elder brother Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, canonized Zhu Ciyun as King Huai, Zhu Cijiong as King Yong, and Zhu Ciwei as King Ding.

Although Zhu Youxiao has been married for 14 years, he still has only eight heirs, four boys and four girls.

On the contrary, although Zhu Youjian has been married for less than four years, he already has six children, four men and two women. Recently, Zhou Sujie is pregnant again, and it is estimated that he will give birth in September. By then, he will have seven children.

"Brother Hong, Brother Xuan, Brother Jiong, and Brother Can, when they reach the age of seven, it is better to study in government schools in Daming."

Hearing that Zhu Youxiao let Zhu Cixuan and Zhu Cijiong study in government schools, Zhu Youjian was a little relieved, and at the same time explained to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen nodded slightly after hearing this, but asked again: "Do you want to study in the junior school, or do you study in the junior school and the middle school together?"

"..." Wang Chengen's words made Zhu Youjian frown, which also made Wang Chengen realize that he had said something wrong, and quickly explained: "This servant just wants to make arrangements early."

"Well..." Zhu Youjian felt a little uncomfortable, but he still responded: "Let's finish the elementary school first, and as for the middle school, Qi Guo will also have it."

His words basically stated the time when he left Daming. Zhu Cihong is currently three years old, and the minimum standard for studying in government schools is seven years old.

It takes five years to learn for the first time, so adding up the front and back is nine years.

In this way, Zhu Youjian is planning to leave Daming around the 23rd or 24th year of Tianqi and become a vassal of Qi.

Comprehending this meaning, Wang Chengen cupped his hands in a bow, expressing his acceptance, and then lowered his head to deal with the memorial.

As for Zhu Youjian, he bowed his head and said at the same time: "If you want to tell others, just tell them, and it can be regarded as An An's heart..."

"..." Wang Chengen's pen paused, and when he came back to his senses, he could only answer "Yes" in a low voice, and then stopped talking.

After that, apart from the sound of the wheels of the carriage rolling over the county road in the carriage, there was only the sound of birdsong and streams in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)