Brother Zhu Youxiao

"If Brother Xuan and Brother Jiong were conferred the titles of King Wu and King Yue, and then moved to the mausoleum, they might not be able to suppress the powerful gentry in the south of the Yangtze River."

On the ninth day of February, when Zhu Youjian's handwriting was sent to Nanjing, Zhu Youxiao's first comment after reading it was that Zhu Cixuan and Zhu Cijiong could not restrain the Jiangnan gentry.

My younger brother's idea is good. The two countries of Wu and Yue were canonized to Gabaldia (northern Caucasus) and Wuqin (Kazan), and then the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River were moved to the local area.

The number of gentry in Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces, if counted by the three ethnic groups, at least 50 people can be relocated there.

But the problem is that there are tens of 10 gentry and their three ethnic groups in Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces alone. Can Zhu Cixuan and Zhu Cijiong suppress so many people?
From Zhu Youxiao's father's point of view, they couldn't...

Zhu Youxiao also has selfish intentions, he doesn't want his son to be raped by the following.

In his opinion, the only ones who can suppress hundreds of thousands of gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are himself and his younger brother.

"Reply to my brother..."

Zhu Youxiao stood in the hall with his hands behind his back, and after hesitating for a few seconds, he said to Wei Zhongxian:
"With the internal funds, 20 taels of silver are distributed every year to Changping to repair the mausoleum and build the mausoleum."

"If my younger brother thinks it's okay, I will move the gentry from the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River to the north to Changping to move to the mausoleum."

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, Wei Zhongxian knew that once this matter was announced, the world would be in chaos.

There are not many powerful gentry in the world, but there are many people involved with them.

Although it shows that the army is brave, if there is a real chaos, it will take a lot of time to calm down.

However, this matter has nothing to do with him, Wei Zhongxian, and he feels that as long as King Qi is around, those gentry tyrants will not be able to overthrow the sky.

Therefore, after getting Zhu Youxiao's order, he immediately sent his cronies to carefully bring Zhu Youxiao's intentions to the capital.

After his arrangement, Zhu Youxiao also sat at the main seat of Qianqing Palace, opened the memorial of the relocation department on the table, and nodded involuntarily:

"Brother Ran still did a good job. In two and a half months, 47 people from Beijing and five provinces in the north were relocated, and 26 people from southern Zhili and southern provinces also participated in the relocation. This..."

Zhu Youxiao wanted to say something else, but he saw the note below.

[Last year, more than 26 people immigrated from Qi State, and this year, more than [-] people immigrated in the first month of the year...]

There are more and more immigrants in Qi State, especially after Zhu Ciran issued an order to announce that the government will no longer be responsible for immigration fees after June, many people who don't know the policy have accelerated the pace of emigrating to Qi State.

Obviously, there are many farsighted people among the common people. They all think that the apocalyptic prosperity was created by King Qi, so they are all planning to go to Qi State.

In fact, Qi State immigrants are not under the jurisdiction of Daming, because the migration costs are paid by Qi State.

However, the speed of Qi's development really surprised Zhu Youxiao.

After Xu Xiake returned to his hometown of Jiangyin in Nanzhili, Zhu Youxiao called him to inquire about the situation in Qi State.

According to Xu Xiake's answer, the amount of gold mined in Qi State is no less than 4 taels, silver is no less than 100 million taels, and copper ingots are no less than 50 jin.

With these, Qi's annual income has reached 150 million taels.

Counting the 200 million taels supported by domestic funds, Qi's annual revenue has reached 350 million taels.

This is not counted, because the 150 million taels is only the mining capacity of Qi State, not the weight of Qi State's gold and silver reserves.

Xu Xiake told Zhu Youxiao that in the colony of Francine Kingdom in the south of Merica in North Asia, nearly 15 taels of gold and more than 600 million taels of silver can be mined into the country every year.

Such wealth is also the reason why Spain is reluctant to give up its colonies.

If Qi State can annex Spain's local territory, then even if internal funds are no longer imported into Qi State, Qi State's annual revenue can reach more than 800 million taels.

However, Zhu Youxiao has read many economic books written by his younger brother, and he also knows that if there is no corresponding industry and commerce, only a pile of precious metals, it will only lead to national inflation.

As far as Qi's industrial strength is concerned, Qi will still need to rely on Daming's national strength and population to develop itself in the future, so gold and silver can basically only flow into Daming.

This is a good thing for Ming Dynasty, at least judging from the current population trend, it is a good thing.

Last year, a total of 520 million newborns were born in the Ming Dynasty, and about 41 people migrated to other feudal states.

In just one year, Qi has immigrated 26 people, and it may exceed 40 this year depending on the situation.

The other vassal states are not very attractive to the people of Ming Dynasty, mainly because many things they did back then made the people very disgusted.

Qi country's immigration speed is a bit fast, although it does not affect Daming, but one day it will need to be restricted.

Zhu Youxiao will not restrict, after all, he feels that he owes Zhu Youjian too much.

Not to mention the population, even his chair was reinforced by his younger brother little by little and helped him to sit on it.

But he also understood that he was indulging the Qi country by doing so, just like his imperial grandfather indulged King Lu and King Fu back then.

"I just hope that future generations don't blame me..."

Zhu Youxiao sighed and put away the memorial.

Then he turned around and walked out of Qianqing Palace, ready to go to the outer court to see how the restoration of the three main halls was going.

Compared with him, when his intention was sent to the capital, Zhu Youjian frowned tightly.

"Since the emperor doesn't want to, let's prepare for the construction of the mausoleum temporarily."

"In addition, a Changling Guard is specially set up to defend the Changping Emperor's Mausoleum and withdraw other soldiers and horses. The city pair also claims that the Changling Guard is stationed in the city."

Standing on a tall building in Prince Qi's Mansion, Zhu Youjian turned his back to Wang Chengen, holding the message sent by the eunuch in his hand, and after thinking about it, he made the following arrangement.

There is no shortage of smart people in Daming, and everyone knows that Zhu Youjian will have a fight with the gentry before he leaves.

If the construction of Zhu Youxiao's imperial mausoleum is started now, and the city will be overhauled, it will be difficult for people not to think of the mausoleum system in the early Han Dynasty.

Even if Zhu Youjian can use Changling Guard to deceive the gentry all over the world for a while, it will not last long.

But the problem is that the gentry in Ming Dynasty are only people with knowledge and culture, who have certain influence in local clans and officialdom.

They were not the nobles of the pre-Qin period, nor the aristocratic families of the Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was impossible for them to rebel.

Zhu Youjian has read some materials from the late Ming Dynasty in his previous life, and he also wondered why the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River did not resist the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that after reading it, he found that most of the gentry in the late Ming Dynasty didn't want to fight against the Qing Dynasty at all.

Before the Qing army entered the customs, many workers and tenants in the south of the Yangtze River began to rebel. Due to the lack of strength in the guards, the gentry had long recruited civilian bravery to "counter the rebellion".

The result is that this group of workers and tenants with hoes abruptly wiped out wave after wave of the brave men recruited by the gentry.

In the Southern Ming Dynasty, this kind of situation was not uncommon, but the population in the south of the Yangtze River was dense, and the gentry could join forces to fight more and less.

When the Qing army entered the customs, all the "mobs" who dared to resist were slaughtered. Although they had to pay more taxes, at least the Qing army would not want to cut off the heads of gentry like the "mobs".

This is why historians of later generations commented that "the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs easily because some reactionary landlord classes took the initiative to unite".

The gentry and landlords were willing to serve as dogs for the Qing army to wipe out the peasant army in order to be a lord for the rest of their lives.

It can also be seen that the power of the gentry was already very weak by the end of the Ming Dynasty, and after 20 years of continuous attacks by Zhu Youjian, the power of the gentry in the court and the local area has been very light.

For him, as long as he speaks, there will be no problems with the army, and the removal of the so-called gentry and powerful is a certainty.

He understood what Zhu Youxiao meant. He thought he could suppress the gentry, but Zhu Youjian didn't think so.

Zhu Youjian knew exactly what his brother was like.

Even if he can suppress the powerful gentry, he may be backlashed when he gets old.

Instead, Zhu Youjian himself, originally he was an unknown teacher, and could not transfer the gentry to Qi.

But if the Yiling system is noticed by the powerful gentry, they will rebel.

Then Zhu Youjian can take the opportunity to counter the rebellion, and then exile them all in Qi State.

He is still very envious of the 10 population of gentry and powerful.

He wasn't afraid that the powerful gentry would come back against him. After all, their property of several generations disappeared in smoke, so what could they do to him?
Even if they are ahead of ordinary people, it will take several generations of reproduction before they can accumulate a family business in Qi.

Several generations...whether Daming and Qi can survive until then is a question.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also relaxed his mind.

He turned around and went down the tall building, but after he went downstairs, he saw Chengde who had been waiting downstairs for a long time.

"what happened?"

"Your Highness..."

Seeing Chengde, Zhu Youjian asked first, and Chengde saluted first.

After the ceremony, Cheng Decai replied: "Recently, Yanshan is very dissatisfied with the new policies of Jian Guo, especially the dispatch of a large number of officials to Anxi and Beiting provinces."

The Yanshan faction has disliked Zhu Ciran for a long time. Since he was only two or three years old, the officials of the Yanshan faction wanted to send someone to kill him.

It's just that they had no power at that time, but after they had power, King Qi's power became even greater, so they were always suppressed.

Originally suppressed, suppressed, most of the Yanshan faction only felt aggrieved and did not understand, but Zhu Ciran's move this time, the move of dispatching more than 4000 Yanshan officials in one fell swoop, immediately made the Yanshan faction prepare to report to the supervisor. Let's get off to a good start.

When Cheng De came, he told Zhu Youjian that the Yanshan School had this intention.

In the past, Zhu Youjian would definitely send someone to reprimand the senior officials of the Yanshan faction at all levels, but this time...

"Let's go to Shangshu, right now he is the supervisor, not me."

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he left the tall building and walked towards Chengyun Hall.

Cheng De was stunned by what he said, and didn't react for a while.

When he reacted, Zhu Youjian had already walked away, and he quickly bowed back to Zhu Youjian's background.

He knew that Zhu Youjian was going to let Zhu Ciran experience the experience of being bullied by officials, so that he could understand that his new policy could be implemented because there were people behind him, not because officials were afraid of him.

If he thinks it's because the officials are afraid of him, the country supervisor, then once Zhu Youjian is not around and Zhu Ciran does this again, he will only experience what is called frustration.

Zhu Youjian wanted Zhu Ciran to recognize himself in advance and where his power and majesty came from.

Otherwise, let him go on like this, and when Zhu Youjian leaves, he will soon be backlashed by Yanshan faction officials.

It is impossible for Zhu Youjian to take away all the officials of the Yanshan faction. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of them, and most of them are the backbone of the Ming army and local yamen.

Facing them, even Zhu Youjian would feel very powerless sometimes.

"Finally here..."

When Zhu Youjian made arrangements for Zhu Ciran's growth, Sun Kewang, who was arranged by Zhu Ciran to take office in Shanshan County, also successfully arrived in Shanshan County after 28 days of trekking.

In fact, they haven't arrived at the county seat yet, but they have already seen a large oasis and grassland ahead.

Shanshan County, as the territory of the Loulan Kingdom in the Qin and Han Dynasties, was also a place with lush water and grass.

Even in the Song Dynasty, tens of thousands of people lived here.

However, with the low temperature period beginning in the late Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty, coupled with the massacre of the Mongol Empire's western expedition, the entire Western Region was emptied and quickly occupied by the Hui people.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the rapid flow of the Qiemo River and the Shanshan River on which Shanshan County depended for survival plummeted, and the number of people living here also began to decrease.

And with the abandonment of the Silk Road, desertification became more and more serious, and the number of people here was only a few thousand by the end of Ming Dynasty.

In the end, these thousands of people were also moved away by Lin Danhan, and this place was completely taken over by Daming.

As the second strategic passage from the Central Plains to Central Asia, and from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, Shanshan was also the main route of the ancient "Silk Road".

The whole Shanshan County has high mountains and basins alternately, and the terrain is diverse. There are the Tarim Basin and the Beishan part of the East Tianshan Mountains in the north, and the Kunlun Mountains and Altun Mountains in the southeast and south.

Relying on the Qiemo River and [-] rivers of various sizes that flow down from the Kunlun Mountains, Shanshan County can survive in this era of severe desertification.

At this moment, Sun Kewang and his group were full of travel and dust. After 28 days of traveling, everyone was quite dark and had a stomach full of wind and sand.

Some people became more and more desperate as they walked, some proposed to go to other places, and some even fled in the middle of the night with water and food.

In short, when Sun Kewang led his people to the oasis in front of them, there were only 800 people left among the original 570 people, and 20 of them were soldiers and guides to protect them.

Fortunately, the appearance of this oasis has made the people who have suffered these days relax. Many of them almost thought that they would spend their entire lives in yellow sand in the northwest, and even felt that they were cheated by the court.

"This oasis is not Shanshan City. Shanshan City is still a hundred miles ahead, and there is a bigger oasis in front of it. That's it."

"This is the pasture of the Mongols, which can raise thousands of horses."

Heshuote's guide spoke to Sun Kewang and the surrounding people, which made the people see hope.

The current oasis, not to mention flat, has an area of ​​at least tens of thousands of mu, and most of it can be reclaimed as arable land, which is much better than the arable land that these people living in Shanxi's Taiyuan and Datong prefectures have seen.

If Shanshan County is better than here, then they have come to the right place this time.

Thinking of this, many people began to rejoice that they did not run away, and never thought that they were still regretting the idea of ​​not running away earlier last night.

"We are camping here today, and tomorrow we will continue to Shanshan County."

Sun Kewang announced his arrangement to everyone, and at the same time led people to light a fire to boil water, and filled many empty wooden barrels with cold boiled water.

They camped here and rested overnight. Apart from needing to be careful of some wild animals, they didn't have to be afraid of horse bandits and bandits.

Although the Western Region is large, the most suitable places to live are some plains and hills along the river.

Under the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry from the early Ming army, the horse bandits and bandits in the entire western region have long been emptied.

As for the so-called ferocious beasts, facing the percussion guns in the hands of twenty cavalrymen, unless a pack of wolves appeared, there would be no creatures in the entire western region that could threaten them.

That night, smelling the fragrance of green grass, Sun Kewang and the common people slept very soundly.

At dawn the next day, many people were still reluctant to leave, and wanted to stay here to reclaim the fields.

Fortunately, Sun Kewang's persuasion was helpful, and the group of them set foot on the road to Shanshan County again.

After walking like this for another two days, although there was no oasis during the period, it was not as desolate as before.

Until the third day, they saw the oasis and grassland again, and it was a large oasis and grassland.

After the guide's explanation, they realized that they were less than twenty miles away from Shanshan County.

Everyone started to speed up, and after two or three hours, Sun Kewang heard the sound of the tractor working.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he walked forward for a mile, and then he saw acres of fields in the distance, and Ming soldiers working in the fields, wearing mandarin ducks and battle jackets.

Dozens of soldiers were using more than a dozen tractors to reclaim the fields, and when they saw Sun Kewang and others coming, everyone happily put down the farm tools in their hands and shut down the tractors.

The arrival of Sun Kewang and the common people also meant that they could suspend the work in the military settlement.

Not long after, a chief banner officer on horseback led people, and the chief banner officer led people to lead the way. He and Sun Kewang enthusiastically introduced the situation of Shanshan County on the way.

The county seat of Shanshan County was repaired by the Ming army with rammed earth. The city is not too big, with a circumference of only three miles, and at most ten thousand people live there.

The city is not so dry, there are woods and grasslands around the city, but there are sandstorms in certain seasons every year.

In addition, the local land is no different from that in Shanxi. If you want to use less water, you can grow wheat, and if you are not used to it, you can grow rice, but it uses a lot of water.

Sun Kewang and the chief banner officer went into the city to have a look. The city was full of Huihui-style buildings, which displeased Sun Kewang.

"These houses are not very good. When the cement factory in Luntai County is opened, the cement can be transported to rebuild the houses."

The Chief Banner Officer smiled, and then said:

"Since you are here, we won't stay here any longer and will return to Khotan tomorrow."

"There are still [-] shi of grain in the treasury in the city, which are all leftovers from the army's harvest last year."

"It's not bad here. It's not a problem to grow a stone of wheat per mu."

The Chief Banner Officer explained over and over again, and Sun Kewang also replied after listening:

"Since this is the case, then Sun will stay soon. There are too many things to do. I will invite my brother to drink when Sun goes to Khotan to report on his work."

"It's easy to say..." The chief banner officer responded with a smile, but he obviously didn't take Sun Kewang's words seriously.

In his opinion, Shanshan County is good, but the population is too small, and Sun Kewang probably can only live on his salary, and he doesn't have much spare money to treat him to dinner.

It should be noted that the price of goods in Anxi is very expensive at present, even the county magistrate of the seventh rank dare not say that there is meat to eat every meal.

Unless Sun Ke hoped to restore production in Shanshan County and at the same time lead the people to reclaim more fields.

"Let's go!" The chief banner officer greeted, and then took his brother away.

After they left, the people standing on the street all looked at Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang opened the city map left by the chief banner officer, and then said:
"Sun Ji, take the people to the county. They used to live near the Mongolian Qianhusuo, and the Qianhusuo will be the county government of Shanshan County in the future."

"Everyone have a good rest. Tomorrow I will distribute food and tractors to everyone. Let's work together, so that we can live the life of the people in Sichuan and Yunnan who eat meat every day!"

"Eh--"

Listening to Sun Kewang's words, all the people responded with satisfaction.

During this journey, they have often heard from Sun Kewang what he saw and heard along the way when the crown prince traveled south.

Although Sun Kewang didn't go, he didn't think Zhu Ciran was a big talker.

The current people in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places may live as well as those in Jiangnan.

Since these places can live a good life through immigration, there is no reason why Shanshan County cannot.

Sun Kewang asked people to resettle the people, and went to the Yamen of Qianhu in Ruoqiang City, which was once the Yarkand Khanate.

The full Mongolian style, return wind building made Sun Kewang seem to feel that the place was not clean because of psychological effects when he walked into the gate.

When he saw that the yard was actually an open space with yurts, he laughed instead.

"It's good to move, I don't need to work hard to dismantle it..."

With that said, Sun Kewang and an attendant hung a wooden plaque they had made by someone from Dunhuang on the door of the Thousand Households.

The earthen wall, the dilapidated wooden door, the empty courtyard, and the wooden plaque that seemed to be blown off by a gust of wind.

Anyone who saw this scene felt more like ruins.

But in Sun Kewang's eyes, this is his first step towards the political center of Ming Dynasty.

As long as he can make meritorious deeds here, even the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will not be able to impeach him.

What he wants to do is not to flirt with the officials who are in charge immediately, he wants the real achievements to stop those insects in the capital who only know how to talk!