I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Originally, there was no Hanhai Province in the Ming Dynasty, but with the arrival of Cheng Shijie, there was a Hanhai Province in this time and space, not only Hanhai Province, but also Hanhai Mansion.

Hanhai Lake is about three kilometers away from the river. Lu Xiangsheng also knows that the Ming Dynasty is not short of food. At least the food in Liaodong, which is located on the south bank of Lake Baikal, exceeds 3000 million shi. These grains are only last year's old grain. When new grain comes, It is estimated that the food supply in Liaodong will exceed 6000 to [-] million shi.

Especially with the recovery of Jiangnan, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi, the Ming court will have more food in its hands. Of course, it will also spend more. Nearly 2000 million shi were spent just to settle the chieftains. More importantly, this transportation line It's really too far, and too much food is consumed just on the road.

If ten shi of grain can only transport one shi from a thousand miles, even if it takes 300 shi, it would take thirty shi of grain to transport one shi. To supply 290 shi to the Anbei Governor's Mansion, this means preparing [-] million shi of grain, of which [-] More than ten thousand stones of food were consumed on the road.

Lu Xiangsheng actually knew that Cheng Shijie sent him here to serve as the governor of Anbei. To put it bluntly, he wanted to restore people's livelihood.

When Lu Xiangsheng arrived at Hanhai, the first decree he issued was to reward the captured Jiannu, Mongolian, and other women of various ethnic groups to the unmarried soldiers of the Anbei Army as concubines, and to give them to settle down near Hanhai. In this way Since then, Hanhai City has gained more than [-] family members.

Although the families of these soldiers may not understand the language, it doesn't matter. They can live together and slowly get along. With the prestige of the Anbei Army sweeping all the way, neither the local indigenous nor the Mobei Mongolian and slave women chose to resist. room.

These nomadic women are more cooperative than Lu Xiangsheng imagined. In fact, the various ethnic tribes in Mobei have always implemented the law of grassland survival. The winner has everything, the loser loses everything. Those women have no concept of chastity. They are willing to whoever is strong. Who do you live with?

Lu Xiangsheng's bottom line is that he can be a concubine, but not a wife. All the soldiers, whether married or unmarried, will be allocated, and they will be allowed to build their own houses and graze their own animals, and the soldiers will be allowed to take turns going home.

Secondly, Lu Xiangsheng took a fancy to the peasants and young men who came to transport food. After these peasants arrived at Hanhai, they were not allowed to go back immediately. Instead, they stayed around Hanhai to farm. Of course, farming was the same as transporting food, and they were paid according to the number of working days. money.

Due to the current expansion of the Ming Dynasty, the population is smaller than in the first year of Chongzhen. The Dingxin Dynasty has done a good job in people's livelihood projects. Under normal circumstances, no one is willing to farm in Hanhai, and the court has not moved people over. The only way is to deceive.

It is not difficult to send troops to attack Hanhai. Without people to farm, the place cannot be defended.Lu Xiangsheng used deception. After investigation, he found that there were many young men with multiple brothers among the people, so he allowed these young men to stay. The total number was more than 3000.

Therefore, each person is given ten cows and twenty sheep, and can cultivate [-] acres of land and [-] acres of pasture. If a child is born here in the future, he can also be allocated at least [-] acres of land.

Although these people were unwilling, they were forced to stay.

Corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes have a short growing area. With these grown grains, the transportation burden of the court can also be reduced. With the same transportation capacity, more gunpowder, artillery and bullets for weapons and equipment can be transported.

Anbei Governor's Mansion, night.

Lu Xiangsheng stretched out his hand to light the fire and looked at the dark night sky and said: "The weather is getting colder and colder. All corn stalks must be made into silage and stored. It seems to be colder here than Liaodong!"

Gao Zongsheng, chief of staff of the Anbei Army, said: "This is a government affair. Is it to put up the airs of the Hanhai Management Committee..."

"The imperial court has not sent any officials here. I guess no one would be willing to send one even if they wanted to. This is even worse than being sent to Qiongzhou Prefecture!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly and said: "Perhaps, if the king appoints the director of the management committee, he will commit suicide!"

"That's true. I guess those civil servants will be scared to death!"

Lei Shisheng said with some worry: "It will be very difficult for the imperial court to occupy this place!"

"What news is coming from the front line again?"

Gao Zongsheng said: "The latest news is more than a month ago. More than [-] Cossack cavalry came over the Ural Mountains!"

"What's going on? Is the Goose King a fool? Don't they know that this is a tactic to add fuel to the fire?"

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said: "It's not that they are stupid, it's that they can't do it!"

"Can't do it?"

Lei Shisheng said: "Didn't I say that Big Goose has a population of nearly 2000 million and hundreds of thousands of troops? It shouldn't be difficult to send tens of thousands of troops, right?"

"They don't lack soldiers and horses, they just lack transported food!"

As Lu Xiangsheng judged, Big Goose was not a fool, but because the journey was too long, the small-scale troops could have supported the war with war, plus a small amount of transportation.

However, a large-scale army is not suitable. Now Siberia is a bit difficult for the big goose to get off. First of all, they invested a lot of manpower, money and food, but because of the existence of Bolo, they did not achieve the expected results.

However, due to climate problems, they need a truce for half a year every year. If it were just Bolo himself, without external assistance and blood transfusions, he would not be able to hold on very quickly.

After all, Leng Wenbian consumes an average of one-third after a battle, but they do not have the strength to make weapons. Originally, Jiannu had a large number of craftsmen, but they were lost in Monan when they went south.

Lu Xiangsheng finally waited for a reply from Cheng Shijie and the cabinet. First, Cheng Shijie agreed to Lu Xiangsheng's expedient plan to deceive the immigrants, and compensated the families of the immigrants in a tax-free manner every three years.

Secondly, if foreigners marry and have children with soldiers of the Anbei Army, they can obtain Ming household registration, be registered as a household, and enjoy national treatment. Of course, if they are foreign women who can speak Chinese, they can also be naturalized.

With the endorsement of the cabinet and Cheng Shijie, Lu Xiangsheng increased the trade volume with Bolo. First, he increased the trade volume of salt, tea, spices, and iron materials, and even sold them the most urgently needed medicines.

In Cheng Shijie's private message to Lu Xiangsheng, Cheng Shijie clearly told Lu Xiangsheng that Ming Dynasty needs time. Now Ming Dynasty is urgently planning to build a special railway, which will shorten the dedicated railway line from Tianjin to Hanhai.

This railway will start from Tianjin Port and reach Hanhai via Beijing, Miyun, Xinghe, Shengjing, Huihan and other places, with a total length of 680 kilometers.

Daming will adopt the principle of building and using at the same time. Of course, by the end of the second year of Dingxin, route planning and design were completed, and each factory was fully engaged in the production of cement sleepers. Although wood sleepers were easier to obtain, Cheng Shijie considered the durability of the railway.

Cheng Shijie provided special funds for this project. The source of the funds was the seizures obtained by the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy when they went to Xiaoli. More than 780 troops were sent out. It lasted for six and a half months, and a total of more than [-] million taels of silver were obtained.Cheng Shijie sighed: "It's better to make money faster than robbery!"

After arranging this work, Cheng Shijie entered the vacation period.

Sun Zhiwan had to remind Cheng Shijie: "The Ming Dynasty still has Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and other places that have not been recovered!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Zhiman calmly and said, "Do you know why I didn't advocate recovering Shanxi and Shaanxi as soon as possible?"

Sun Zhiman asked in confusion: "Why?"

"Because the gentry in the world had done too many evil things, Li Zicheng learned the model of the Dashun Army, divided the land against local tyrants, and quickly occupied Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai. Ordinary people and refugees strongly supported Li Zicheng and his Western Qin Army, in order to protect the fruits of their victory, they will take up arms and risk their lives to protect their fruits of victory!"

Cheng Shijie knew very well that if it weren't for Song Xiance's bent on accepting Ning Haijun's reorganization, with the Dashun Army's more than 20 troops and more than 30 militiamen, many battles would have been fought. Fight like Nanjing.

Sun Zhiyi suddenly realized the truth and said: "What does the king mean by waiting for their internal divisions and conflicts to break out?"

"That's obvious!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Whether it was Chen Sheng or Wu Guang who took the lead in launching the Dazexiang Uprising, or the Yellow Turban Uprising that put the Eastern Han Dynasty into the grave, including the Huang Chao Uprising and the Red Turban Army Uprising, in the end they did not enjoy the fruits of victory. Do you know this reason? ?”

"This is because... Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Zhang Jiao and Huang Chao, they are all too short-sighted, that is, they do not have the necessary military capabilities..."

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said, "How much military capability did Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, have?"

"That's... because they don't have the ability to integrate. For example, the king has strong integration capabilities and can effectively integrate various resources!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Because I have not compromised. If I occupy Beijing, I will use peace talks to solve the problems of Nanjing and Western Qin. Now I am also in the trap!"

Cheng Shijie looked in the direction of Chang'an. There were many reasons for the failure of peasant uprisings in history, including the quality of leaders, military strength, social support, strategic mistakes and internal contradictions.

In order to ensure the success of the peasant uprising, leaders need to have sufficient military, political and strategic knowledge, effectively integrate resources, build broad social support, make reasonable strategic decisions, and avoid internal conflicts.

Li Zicheng did not do this in history, so he quickly ascended to the throne and was quickly killed by the landlords' armed forces. This shows the problem. A clear-headed Li Zicheng was actually very difficult to deal with and not easy to deal with. , this is an expert in guerrilla warfare.

Cheng Shijie handed over state affairs to the cabinet, which made Sun Zhiman feel both excited and stressed. Cheng Shijie is now like the imperial censor during the Chongzhen Dynasty. Because he does not do things, he will not make mistakes. Once he makes a mistake, These are all problems of Prime Minister Sun Zhishan.

He is responsible for whether it is land reform, immigration, or tax collection. The Cabinet Prime Minister's Order signed by Sun Zhidao has forced countless gentry to have their families destroyed. These gentry hold the pen. In the future, he will be condemned to a place of disgrace. will remain in history as cruel officials.

There are many things that the cabinet needs to do now. The first is to improve and revise the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Cheng Shijie canceled many legal provisions, such as the marriage law. In the marriage law of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated: "Every man and woman have their own time for marriage. , or those who cut off their shirt skirts with their fingertips to marry, it is also prohibited. Men who are sixteen years old and women who are fourteen years old or above are subject to marriage."

The meaning of this sentence is that men and women must reach the legal age for marriage, and those who are under the age are not allowed to enter into marriage, and parents of both men and women are prohibited from making private arrangements for their children to marry when they are young.Cheng Shijie supported the ban on child marriage, but the age of marriage was postponed to 20 years old for both men and women. Women must be over the age of [-] before they can get married, and concubines must wait until they are older. Otherwise, if you take a young girl as a concubine, you will be severely punished.

In fact, flash marriages were prohibited in the Ming Dynasty. If you get married immediately without getting engaged first, you will be punished by the Ming law. Cheng Shijie did not modify these areas. Of course, the Ming Dynasty marriage law is more conservative for women. Except for the seven places where divorce is required, , there are three more that I won’t go to.

If you are married and have nothing to return to (you have no natal family to return to), you will not go; if you have been mourning for three years (you have been a mourner for your parents-in-law for three years), you will not go; if you were greedy and lowly, but you are rich and noble, you will not go.In the Ming Dynasty, it was not allowed to abandon a wife who was a loser, and she was severely punished.At the same time, those who favor concubines and destroy their wives must also be severely punished. Ancient proverbs and novels about women are simply not feasible in the Ming Dynasty. If you want to be promoted to a wife based on a concubine, unless the husband is willing to give up his official position, title, status and fame, stay for another year, and be exiled for three thousand miles. ,
When Cheng Shijie left Beijing, he strictly ordered Changyu, the governor of Anxi, that there was no civil strife in the Western Qin Dynasty and no western expedition was allowed, but he could occupy the Hetao first. Li Zicheng did not want the Hetao, but Cheng Shijie wanted it.

Cheng Shijie was about to leave Beijing, and Yang Yuniang, the second assistant to the cabinet and finance minister, then caught up with Cheng Shijie.

Yang Yunniang didn't understand very much: "Your Majesty, I really can't understand how many people have spent their whole lives trying to sit on your couch, one person is inferior to ten thousand people, but it's better for you. If you stay in the center for a long time, it will be like being in jail. of!"

Cheng Shijie cried and laughed: "It's not that miserable in jail, right? Even if you're in jail, you're not watching when you go to the toilet, right? It's so painful to deal with the same things every day and meet the same group of people! What's more, you I didn’t know those women in the Forbidden City were going to eat me!”

Yang Yuniang couldn't help but smile: "Then you are free now, what do you want to do?"

"Of course I will take my daughter and daughter to travel around and enjoy life!"

Yang Yunniang looked at Cheng Shijie with some resentment: "Your Majesty, your body..."

"I'm really not sick, don't you know that?"

"I have no idea!"

At this moment, Catherine's voice came from a distance: "Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Emperor..."

Catherine was originally blocked from the outside, but when she shouted, the guards around her deliberately refused to let her get close, because Catherine shouted out everyone's thoughts,
No matter what the officials from all over the country think, all the soldiers and ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty hope that Cheng Shijie can become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty most, because only if Cheng Shijie becomes the emperor can they enjoy the immediate benefits and treatment and avoid the death of the people and the government.

Cheng Shijie heard Catherine's voice and hurriedly ordered: "Go quickly, go quickly, speed up!"

Just as Cheng Shijie's four-wheeled carriage was rushing towards Tianjin, Yang Yunniang was puzzled: "Your Majesty, why are you afraid of that old lady?"

"She will definitely insist on buying a cannon. It is a powerful weapon of the country. How can it be sold?"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "Katherine is so good at pestering people that she can't resist her!" (End of Chapter)