Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 536

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In the last ten days of the twelfth lunar month, as the sound of rifles sounded in the vast grassland, a wild deer that was still running fell down.

Shortly after it fell, there was a dense sound of horseshoes in the distance.

Zhu Youxiao, who was wearing a yellow tuanlong narrow-sleeved round-neck robe and a red cross-collared shirt inside, rode a tall Arabian war horse and led more than ten Jinyi guards to the side of the fallen wild deer.

Zhu Youxiao got off his horse with difficulty, walked to the side of the wild deer's body and looked at the mouth of the bullet. Just looking at him, he picked up the Eleven Forms of Apocalypse in his hand and looked at it.

"This rifle is indeed a magic weapon, no wonder it can kill tens of thousands of Jianlu in one battle."

"Long live, the Apocalypse eleven-style rifle is indeed a magic weapon. With this magic weapon, the country's [-] soldiers and horses are enough to sweep the world!"

Among the crowd, Wei Liangqing, the leader, bowed to Zhu Youxiao's words, but as the emperor Zhu Youxiao, there was no shortage of people around him who agreed.

He threw the gun to Wei Liangqing, put his hands on the jade belt around his waist, walked over the dead deer, and looked at the vast prairie.

"This Modong Grassland is fertile and beautiful. In the coming year, there may be hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses galloping on the grass."

"By the way..." After Zhu Youxiao sighed, he turned to Wei Liangqing and said, "After Mobei was attached, did my brother set up a prefecture?"

"Long live back..." Wei Liangqing returned the salute first, and then explained:
"It was just discussed a few days ago that the Mobei and Monan regions will be set up as Shanyu provinces, with three prefectures and twelve counties."

"However, at present, among the three major tribes in Mobei, there is still the Zhasaktu tribe that has not moved westward, nor has it been attached, so the three prefectures and eight counties are temporarily set up."

"As for the emigration, what His Highness means is to build a railway from the capital to connect with the Liaomo railway, and then build a railway from the Kaiping government section to Langjuxu Mountain, and build Shanyu City at the original site of Hulanhushui."

"Well... setting up a province is enough." Zhu Youxiao didn't interfere with any state affairs. After Wei Liangqing's report, he returned to his horse. return trip.

Since Shuo Lei of the Chechen tribe in Mobei moved south, and Gonpo of the Tuxietu tribe moved westward, only the Zhasaktu tribe in the east of Hangai Mountain remained among the three major tribes in Mobei.

The attachment of most of Mobei has made the original Modong safe. Modong, which used to be a frontier fortress, has now become Zhu Youxiao's favorite hunting ground.

Sometimes, he would go hunting in the Harawin Mountains in the north. Compared with the Yanshan Mountains, the Harawin Mountains had more and richer prey.

Although there is no palace in the north, Zhu Youxiao once built a bell tower for Zhu Youjian at the southern foot of Harawen Mountain.

The building near the clock tower can be used as his temporary residence, and he is not worried about the incident of Lin Danhan hitting Caogu last time.

It is more than 2000 miles from Hang'ai Mountain to Harawen Mountain. At the peak of Lin Danhan's [-] cavalry, he could not catch him. What's more, now that Lin Danhan has gone to the Western Regions, there is only one Zasaktu tribe in the west of Mobei.

What's more, the three guards of the imperial city who followed him were all equipped with the Apocalypse eleven-style rifle, whoever dared to come would be sent to death.

Zhu Youxiao returned to Duolun County with the dead deer and other prey from hunting.

Almost at the same time, when Zhu Youxiao returned to Duolun County, Zhu Ciran also crossed the Chengdu Plain and arrived at Jianchang Mansion, the "former Sichuan Xingdusi".

Sichuan Xingdusi is located in the later Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture. The Yuan Dynasty once set this place as Xuanweisi and merged it into Yunnan.

In the 15th year of Hongwu, after the Ming army recovered Yunnan, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the local Xuanweisi.

However, because it is located in Daliang Mountain, there are too many people, and there are almost no Han people. Therefore, in the 27th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set the locality as the capital of Sichuan in September of that year, and the government is located in Jianchangwei.

The entire capital is in charge of the five guards, eight offices, and four chiefs' lawsuits. Administratively, it belongs to Sichuan and belongs to the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army.

More than 200 years have passed in this way, and the Ming army has been suppressing the local chieftains who tried to separate themselves, but they have not been able to completely rule the local area.

It wasn't until the She'an Rebellion broke out and the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty ended that the Ming army had the spare power to develop the local area.

After Zhu Youjian appointed Hong Chengchou to manage the southwest, Hong Chengchou immediately dismissed the Sichuan Xingdu Division and set up Jianchang Mansion.

After Zhu Youjian agreed, Hong Chengchou led troops to reform the land and return to the local people.

The chieftains who were willing to accept were all appointed by Hong Chengchou to official positions, confiscated military power, and sent them to serve as officials in various parts of the Southwest, and their descendants enjoyed the separation.

The chieftains who were unwilling to accept were all suppressed by Hong Chengchou's troops.

In June of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Hong Chengchou basically completed the land reform of Jianchang Mansion. At the same time, the population of Jianchang Mansion in the Ten Years of the Apocalypse Statistics Office was more than 42, including about 36 Han people and about [-] people. [-].

In order to consolidate the local area, Hong Chengchou moved 30 people southward to Jiaozhi, distributed the land according to the migration rules of the people of Ming Dynasty, and then left [-] people in eastern Sichuan in Jianchang Mansion while migrating south from Sichuan.

As a result, the ratio of ethnic groups in Jianchang Mansion changed from the original six to 36 to sixteen to six.

Therefore, when Zhu Ciran entered Jianchang Mansion, the buildings and villages he saw in Jianchang Mansion were basically in the architectural style of the Han people, with only a few buildings in the Minority style.

However, it is not appropriate to say that there are few people, because in the "Announcement to the World Xingdocument" in the ninth year of Tianqi, Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao jointly recognized the united front thinking of "the barbarians enter China and become China".

Therefore, as long as the Ming Dynasty opened a government school, it must learn the official language and use Chinese characters.

Not only that, even the school uniforms issued by the school are all round neck robes.

If the young people in the Southwest want to divide their land, they must first admit that they are citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and then they can obtain the relocated land according to the standards of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Although there are Daliang Mountains in Jianchang Prefecture and a population of 22, this does not mean that they have few resources per capita.

The Anning River Valley in Jianchang Prefecture is the second largest plain in Sichuan Province after the Chengdu Plain. In addition, Hong Chengchou used labor camps to reclaim many fields in the local area, so the number of local fields reached 260 million mu.

The people who migrated here and stayed here can often obtain ten acres of self-cultivated land according to the rules.

Therefore, during the repeated migrations, Sichuan's population of more than 420 million gathered in four places: Chengdu Plain, Yuechi Plain, Anning Valley Plain, and Jiangzhang Plain.

These four plains account for more than [-]% of Sichuan's population, and the remaining [-]% live in the hilly areas of eastern Sichuan.

In the [-]th century, whether a place was rich or developed did not depend on technology or various things, but mainly on the arable land and population in the hands of the people.

Zhu Ciran traveled around Sichuan and found that the cultivated land in Sichuan is basically six or seven mu per capita, and in some areas it can reach ten mu per capita.

Representatives of these are the Chengdu Plain and the Anning Valley Plain. Chengdu is the most developed province in Sichuan right now, not only because of the large population, but also because the arable land in the hands of the common people can basically be maintained at about [-] mu per capita.

Although Jianchang Mansion has the Anning River Valley Plain and can reach the standard of [-] mu per capita, the population is too sparse.

Right now, Zhu Ciran is riding south along the provincial road, all he sees are vast fields and sparse farmers along the way.

Three or five farmers spread out on thousands of square meters of arable land, driving the oxen to start plowing the land, preparing for the spring planting in the coming year.

Everyone was so busy that Zhu Ciran stopped to fetch water in a village but couldn't find anyone, so he could only go to the village official's office to fill up the water and continue riding south.

"It doesn't matter if you work hard or be busy, you can have a good year after the autumn harvest next year."

Riding on the cart, Zhu Ciran looked at the people working in the fields, and felt much happier.

If Shanxi let him see what it is like to encounter natural disasters with a dense population, Shaanxi let him see what it would be like to implement the New Deal, and what it would be like to encounter natural disasters after relocating the population, and Hexi let him see what the frontier of Ming Dynasty was like, then Sichuan let Zhu Ci Ran saw what it would be like to promulgate the New Deal without natural or man-made disasters.

If you want to use dynasties for comparison, Shanxi is the Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Shaanxi is the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the people urgently needed stability during the Wude period.

Hexi is the heyday of Kaiyuan during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, when the national strength was prosperous but the people still had burdens.

When you arrive in Sichuan, here is the Wenjing of the Han Dynasty and Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty.

Although the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains are only separated, the people in Sichuan have never worried about the lack of food.

Even though the eastern Sichuan region is currently experiencing drought, the price of rice in eastern Sichuan, which is suffering from drought, is only four hundred wen per shi.

The same drought, the same stabilization of grain prices, Shanxi [-] yuan per shi, but eastern Sichuan is only half of Shanxi's rice price.

Shanxi is still eating boiled vegetables, but every household in Sichuan has raised livestock and poultry.

Even if every household in most places in Sichuan cannot eat a meal of meat every day like Nanxi Village, it is still no problem to eat some meat every now and then.

This is the result of raising 3000 million people with 420 million mu of arable land. Such a scene made Zhu Ciran even more curious about Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other places where immigration was more thorough.

He looked at the population yellow book of the Ministry of Household Affairs. In the fourth year of Tianqi, the Ministry of Household Affairs estimated that there were more than 300 million people in Yunnan, nearly 400 million in Guizhou, nearly 700 million in Guangxi, nearly 1000 million in Guangdong, and nearly [-] million in Fujian.

The registered arable land in the five provinces is 200 million, 500 million, 200 million, 600 million and 800 million respectively.

After immigration reclamation and land census, by the twelfth month of the 14th year of Tianqi, the population of the five provinces was more than 160 million in Yunnan, more than 150 million in Guizhou, more than 280 million in Guangxi, more than 320 million in Guangdong, and more than [-] million in Fujian.

The population of each province has declined or even cut in half, and the disappeared population has migrated to Luchuan, Jiaozhi, Jiugang, and Ryukyu Prefecture.

In ten years, nearly 300 million people were relocated from the Ming Dynasty, but the cultivated land in the five provinces gradually surfaced during the investigation.

Yunnan has more than 860 million mu, Guizhou has more than 750 million mu, Guangxi has more than 670 million mu, Guangdong has more than [-] million mu, and Fujian has more than [-] million mu.

According to the yellow book of the imperial court, after ten years, the population of the five provinces dropped from 600 million to 300 million.

In terms of arable land, the number of fields that have been fooled for many years has finally come to light, from 300 million mu on paper to 200 million mu in reality.

Of course, many of the 200 million mu of arable land have only been reclaimed in recent years, but even so, the original real arable land is at least 500 million mu.

With 500 million mu to feed 600 million people, even if the yield per mu is two stones, it can only feed the people and produce a hundred catties of grain.

But the problem is that in the past, most of these lands were owned by powerful landlords, and less than [-]% belonged to the common people.

As in Sichuan, if Sun Chuanting hadn't condemned a large number of gentry and powerful gentry in one breath, let alone eating meat twice every three days, even if he can eat meat once a month, it is his own merit.

A large number of powerful gentry were relocated to Luchuan, Jiaozhi, and Jiugang, and those who remained were basically rich peasants, small landlords, and commoners.

In this way, when the 200 million mu of land is equally distributed to 300 million people, even if small landlords and rich peasants occupy a part of the land, the rest of the land can be divided into four or five mu per capita.

Zhu Ciran asked the people that in this southern land, as long as there are two mu of arable land, one person can be fed, three mu can raise poultry, and four mu and above can raise one pig per mu.

Therefore, if you want the people to have enough food and a meal of meat every day, you must have at least five mu of land.

This is the case in the south, but the standard in the north is higher than this, requiring six mu of land.

"When the people live and work in peace and contentment, there will be fewer things to do, and if there are fewer things to do, His Highness will not have to work so hard."

Liu Shun, who was cycling side by side with Zhu Ciran, smiled and said that compared to half a month ago, he has become darker and thinner.

Behind them, the two fat Jinyiwei also became thinner, pedaling their bicycles panting.

After entering the boundary of Jianchang Mansion, it was all uphill all the way. The two uncles in front could rest and step on it, but the two of them could not.

"At present, Guochao's tractor production is increasing day by day. If, as my uncle said, hundreds of millions of acres of arable land can be reclaimed outside the customs, then the people in the north will have a better life."

Zhu Ciran smiled when he heard Liu Shun's words, but in the end he added: "But we have to wait for the drought to pass."

"I heard that more than 100 million people have relocated from Shanxi this year, but it's a pity that we don't have much time, so we can't go back to see them."

"Otherwise, if you go back to see them next year, you will know whether their life is better or worse than this year."

Zhu Ciran always cared about the people in Shanxi, because the people in Shanxi were the only place where people starved to death during his journey.

Whether it was due to long-term hunger that caused illness and death, or starvation to death, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he was obliged to bear the consequences.

After watching this journey, he gradually realized the burden on his shoulders, but at the same time, he also complained to Zhu Youxiao who had been playing around.

In his opinion, his father can't save the people under natural disasters, but at least he can help with some government affairs in the capital, so as not to make his uncle so tired.

He knows best what his father's life is like.

The six memorials sent to Dading Palace were only one-third of those sent to Prince Qi's Mansion.

My father spent at most four hours processing these memorials every day, while my uncle spent seven hours processing the memorials.

It was only twelve o'clock in a day, and the delay in the memorial was only seven hours. Counting eating and sleeping, my uncle's day was basically spent dealing with government affairs.

"After I go back this time, although I can't share much for my uncle, I can still share one or two yamen memorials."

"I share one or two yamen, and uncle can rest for an hour or two more."

The bicycle reached the top of the slope, and we were faced with a downhill slope of more than ten miles, with the icy cold wind blowing, Zhu Ci said with a smile, and his words were recorded and sent to the capital by Jin Yiwei.

His southward journey is still going on, and Zhu Youjian is rarely happy when he reads the content of this day's travel notes.

"My eldest nephew knows how to share my worries, but his father is too ignorant, hahaha..."

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, sitting in the Chengyun Hall of Prince Qi's Mansion, Zhu Youjian couldn't help smiling happily as he looked at the letter in his hand.

His words made Cao Huachun and the three of them look at each other in blank dismay, not daring to answer, but after a while, Wang Chengen still bowed and said:

"Your Highness, if the prince really grows up, why not let him come to Beijing to take over things?"

"Well... I want to take over, but he hasn't finished the journey yet." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, but then shook his head:

"Both the north and the southwest are the provinces where the New Deal is implemented best, but the drought in the north is not in the southwest."

"It's especially important for him to look at what's going on under the New Deal drought and what's going on without it."

"When he arrives in Guangdong and Guangxi, he will basically be able to see clearly."

"The rest of the Jiangnan land is for him to see the most prosperous place in Ming Dynasty, so that he can understand how big the difference in people's lives is."

Zhu Youjian put down Zhu Ciran's handwriting, and he leaned on the chair, talking about his arrangements.

To put it bluntly, he just wanted to show Zhu Ciran how big the gap between rich and poor was in Daming.

As long as Zhu Ciran can understand people's livelihood, his concept and policy of "equalizing the rich and the poor" will continue to be implemented.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran, the two father and son received different educations.

Zhu Youxiao is a traditional imperial education, and the means used to govern the country are the five arts of controlling the people.

However, with the progress of the times and the coming of the industrial age, the traditional five techniques of controlling the people can only maintain stability and cannot make Ming Dynasty prosperous and strong.

At this time, Zhu Ciran, who has received both the traditional imperial education and the new education, will be able to make Ming prosperous and strong while maintaining stability.

This prosperity is not only the Ming Dynasty itself, but also the suzerain-vassal system under the dynasty system.

In terms of immigration, this matter has to be done continuously. Unless Daming's technological level is improved to the point where one acre of land can produce food for one person to eat and drink, and can also eat meat every meal, otherwise the immigration will always be difficult. Is necessary.

"In Brother Ran's letter, what I care most about is what the common people call "four mu of land" and "five mu of land."

Zhu Youjian looked at the handwriting on the table, and said to Lu Wenzhao, Cao Huachun, and Wang Chengen:

"If there is no disaster in the south, pigs can be raised on four acres of land, and one meal of meat can be eaten every day on five acres of land."

"It's the same in the north, but it takes five acres of land to raise pigs, and six acres of land to eat meat every day."

"If this is the case, if the common people have ten acres of land, can they eat meat every meal and change into a new dress every year?"

"The common people understand this truth, why is it never mentioned in the memorials of local officials?"

"What standards do the people need to live a good life? Don't they know this kind of thing as local parents?"

Zhu Youjian's talk turned to criticize local officials. As a person who has been investigating cases in the local area for many years, Lu Wenzhao naturally knew the answer Zhu Youjian wanted.

Therefore, he bowed to Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Highness, the officials actually know about it, but..."

He paused, until Zhu Youjian looked at him, and then he continued:
"However, many officials need to steal and steal at various checkpoints. Once the people move too much, the court's investment in the place will decrease. Once the investment decreases, the officials will be able to steal less."

What Lu Wenzhao said is almost pointing out that under the background of the infrastructure construction of "relief with work" in the Ming Dynasty, there were not a few people who relied on "relief with work" for corruption.

For them, the more people they manage under their command, the more the imperial court invests in the localities. The greater the investment, the more projects there are, and the more places that can make money.

This kind of thing, in fact, everyone knows, including Zhu Youjian.

It is harder than the disappearance of the Little Ice River drought to prevent officials from being corrupt.

It is impossible for Zhu Youjian to arrest all corrupt officials, because there is no end to arresting them.

What he wants is to let the officials do more serious business on the surface while being corrupt. As long as they don't go too far, he will naturally not embarrass them.

But if he really went too far, then he would have to invite Jin Yiwei to ransack his house and exile him.

"There must be no mistakes in the "Fish Scale Atlas" and "Yellow Book", and the local government must not prevent people from emigrating."

When Zhu Youjian spoke to Lu Wenzhao, he was saying his bottom line. Lu Wenzhao bowed and responded, and at the same time replied:
"We sent news from the Western Regions that on the fifth day of October, a conflict broke out between Gushi Khan (Gushi Khan) and Huduntu, and the two sides fought in Bieshabali."

"On the ninth day of October, Taiji Batuhun (Baturhun) of the Junggar tribe led [-] cavalry from the Oirat tribes to join the melee. The Oirat side was defeated, Huduntu occupied Bieshabali, and Oirat retreated to Huangcaopo in the west. "

"In this place, Gushi and Batuhun have a disagreement. Gushi is going east to Jiayuguan to submit to our Ming Dynasty, and Batuhun is going north to form an alliance with the Raksha Kingdom to fight against Tiger Tuhun."

"In mid-October, Gu Shi led a group of [-] people to prepare to go south, and then left Turpan for Hami, and rushed to Jiayuguan."

"Lead Tuhun to lead the rest of the tribe, establish themselves as the Junggar Khanate, and go north to nomadic in the Zhaisangbo area in the northwest of Jinshan."

"According to the time, Gushi should arrive in Jiayuguan in a month's time. Your Highness, please see...do you want to send someone to meet them?"

After Lu Wenzhao finished speaking, Zhu Youjian stood up with great interest and looked at the map behind him.

When Junggar went north, Zhaisangbo should be the northwestern area of ​​Altay in later generations. Gushi Khan, who originally established the Qinghai-Tibet Heshuote Khanate, is now going to seek refuge in Ming Dynasty. Lin Danhan, who died of illness in Qinghai, has now gained a firm foothold in the Western Regions.

The changes in history made Zhu Youjian very interested. As for Gushi Khan's refuge, he naturally accepted it.

"Send Jiayuguan General to write to Hami, asking Hami to release Gushi to Jiayuguan. In addition, Shangshu Longsui, canonize Gushi as Jin Manbo, and confer on his heir the fourth-rank general Mingwei."

"His tribe moved to the nomadic area of ​​Qinghai, and Gushi was placed in the Xi'an mansion. Please long live to grant Baoan County Prince's Mansion for him to live in."

"Then tell the local chief secretary and the government office that there should be no discrimination or bias against Jin Manbo's mansion, just treat it as ordinary officials."

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Lu Wenzhao quickly responded: "The humble job takes orders..."

Zhu Youjian was quite satisfied with accepting the surrender of Gushi Khan.

If the Ming army wanted to recover the Western Regions, it would definitely need a leader. The Heshuote tribe and Gushi Khan were the leaders...

　Update around six in the afternoon

　　
　
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