Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 94
When Xu Miaowei changed back into women's clothes, Xu Da just escorted Zhu Di and his three brothers back.

Xu Miaowei stood beside her with her fan, Xu Da glared at her: "See how I will deal with you when I go back."

Xu Da clasped his fists and said, "Xu Tiande is incompetent in teaching daughters, His Highness please punish him."

Zhu Biao glanced at Wenwen Jingjing, who was full of stubborn Xu Miaowei, smiled at Xu Da, and said: "Uncle Xu, she is still a child, this matter is over, don't mention it again."

Everyone was there, so Zhu Biao said to Xu Da: "Tomorrow, I will go to see the people and farmland outside the city with me alone. The food farmland is still the top priority."

In fact, Zhu Biao wanted to see the people who had just immigrated. In order to build up their parents, Lao Zhu asked these Huaixi heroes to return to their hometowns to build houses and land.

The high-quality fertile land will be occupied by noble heroes after a long time.

If immigration is not restricted, the immigrants who come later will all belong to the people who drink soup in Fengyang, and there will be no fertile land to cultivate.

What's more, Sizhou on the banks of Hongze Lake is the location of the ancestral mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, where his grandfather Zhu Chuyi was buried.

In order to ensure that the "wangqi" will not be leaked, floods are not allowed to submerge the ancestral mausoleum, otherwise local officials will be held accountable.

Historically, when the flood was about to submerge the ancestral mausoleum, local officials dug up the Gaojia Weir to release water without reason, and artificially lowered the flood to protect the ancestral mausoleum.

But no one took care of the people and fields that were submerged after the flood was opened.

"Fengyang New Book" records that after the great immigration in the Hongwu period, the population reached as high as 14, and the population decreased sharply in the Wanli period.

When I go back, I still have to persuade Lao Zhu not to immigrate without restrictions.

In the early morning of the next day, when Zhu Biao opened the door, he saw that Xu Da and the others were already waiting, and Zhu Di and Zhu Xi had just woken up.Xu Miaowei was still in the same clothes, standing behind Xu Da.

"General Xu, let's go."

Zhu Biao walked out of the gate first, got on his horse, and led the crowd towards the outskirts of the city.

Although it is winter, there are still many people plowing the land in the fields, digging the soil.

Zhu Xi rode on the horse and shouted: "Hey, that farmer over there, come here."

"Zhu Xi, you forgot what your father told you." Zhu Biao stopped Zhu Xi, got off his horse and walked towards the fellow.

Li Shan, the magistrate of Fengyang, followed closely behind, and said to the old farmer, "I'm still here to meet His Royal Highness."

"Grassmen... kowtow to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

He knelt on the ground and buried his head in the soil respectfully.

"Get up." After Zhu Biao motioned him to get up, he said to the old farmer: "I ask you, how is the harvest in this field this year?"

"It's okay." The old farmer glanced at Li Shan, the magistrate next to him, with a respectful look on his wrinkled face: "If there is a stutter, the whole family will not die of hunger."

Zhu Biao glanced at the farmland in the distance. The land was very barren, and even if he worked hard, the harvest was very little.

Seeing that Zhu Biao was going to ask other people, the old farmer hesitated, and said, "Prince...does His Royal Highness manage the division of farming land?"

Zhu Biao was stunned and said: "This! I don't care." Seeing the old farmer's face, Zhu Biao nodded.

"Prince, can you give me a piece of land for my brother who just moved here? He has been waiting for almost half a year."

Li Shan's mouth moved, and he called the officials in charge. The two talked a few words before returning to Zhu Biao's side.

"Returning to His Royal Highness, it is the people who migrated in autumn, and they will not be divided until the next spring."

"It will be divided immediately."

"Ah, Your Highness, this!"

"Gu let you go right away, do you want to say it a second time?" Zhu Biao's voice only increased a bit.

"When it comes to spring plowing, should they plow the land or cultivate it? They have moved from other places, and they still have to wait. When they all starve to death, what's the use of the fields? Do it immediately."

Li Shan nodded, and shouted to other officials, big and small: "Hurry up, don't you hear what His Highness said? Go."

Zhu Biao wanted to call Mu Ying, but found out that Mu Ying hadn't come, so he had to give up. After returning, he had to send agricultural officials here, and those from the Academy of Science and Technology should also take care of their work.

"Prefect Li."

"The minister is here."

"Lonely, quickly register the people who migrated, and allocate land for them, so that they can all live together, so that they can have a local accent, and they can have the habits and tastes of their own hometown. You know, don't bully others."

People from other places will always be uncomfortable for a while, and some local people will bully newcomers. This is a problem that the people at the bottom will encounter.

"In addition, when I return to Nanjing, I will send you a science and technology officer to help you complete the cultivation of Fengyang Mansion. Next year, I will see that everyone has food to eat and clothes to wear. If you can't do it, I will ask you. "

Li Shan's eyes were firm, and he said: "I will naturally remember what His Highness said, and I will definitely live up to the emperor's grace. I will also remember to check the monk Shide in Longxing Temple."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally decreed that the farmland would only be distributed in the coming year, and soon Li Shan asked his subordinates to go down to measure the land and register.

Let them speed up the time to dig the soil and prepare for the spring planting after the New Year, and the spring planting cannot be delayed.

Then Zhu Biao went to see the people who had migrated in person. When they saw the current prince coming in person, they were grateful to Zhu Biao for remembering them.

As the new year approached, Zhu Biao stayed in Fengyang for three or four days, and then took Xu Da and the others back to Beijing immediately.

Because they wanted someone to take care of them on the road, Zhu Di and the others suggested that the girl Xu Miaowei take care of Zhu Biao.

Seeing that she was still a young girl, Zhu Biao nodded in agreement.

On the way back to Nanjing, the two had a general discussion about the customs and customs of various places. Unexpectedly, Xu Miaowei could do it at her fingertips, and said everything clearly and logically.

"Your Highness doesn't agree with the large-scale migration of the people?" Xu Miaowei asked Zhu Biao generously.

"Are you alone?" Zhu Biao looked at her and asked deliberately.

"Your Highness, please don't lie to me. Miaowei is aware of it. The large-scale migration of the people without restraint will only make the people suffer from leaving their homes. If life is not going well, it will definitely bring people's resentment."

Zhu Biao nodded, motioning for the girl to continue.

Xu Miaowei was affirmed by Zhu Biao, and continued: "Think about it, let the horses go to live in the water, let the fish roll in the grass, how can they adapt, even if they adapt, they will suffer a lot of pain, such good intentions will end up doing bad things .”

Under the dim moonlight, the people returning to Nanjing did not stop. In the large carriage, Zhu Biao and Xu Miaowei discussed about immigration and the military academy, expressing their opinions.

Xu Miaowei hugged her legs, leaned on the carriage and said with a smile: "Little girl, in my humble opinion, Your Highness should not make jokes."

"I'm not alone. You, a woman, can have such insights. It's General Xu who taught you well. You are worthy of being a girl." Zhu Biao turned his head and looked out of the window, and said, "Compared with your sister, who is better?" more powerful?"

"Of course it's me." Xu Miaowei said to herself holding a folding fan, "I am on par with my elder sister in essay writing, but female celebrities are not as good as her."

"I heard that you learned a lot of martial arts and tactics from General Xu?"

Xu Miaowei nodded.

After traveling day and night, I finally returned to Nanjing before the new year.

　Ask for recommended tickets and monthly tickets.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)