Time is slowly passing, when the first white but cold snowflakes fall, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty has been forty years, for the first time gathered military and political officials from all regions of the country.

In addition to Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, and Zhu Gaoxu, the deputy marshal, who were far away on the northwest front, and Chen Chunsheng, the commander and deputy marshal Zhu Yunxi, who were guarding the southwest, even the commander of the Fujian and Zhejiang Naval Division, Yongcheng Hou Xue Ke, all returned to Nanjing, including Xu Huizu and Li Jinglong, who had been on local business.

The political envoys and commanders of the provinces all arrived, and in the city of Nanjing, the official spirit was soaring.

It's a pity that the days that should be laughing and laughing were covered with a layer of heaviness with an obituary, and Song Sheng, one of the three households in Moting, died of illness as early as a few months ago because of the sudden cold weather in the north, coupled with the age of seventy.

It is only a few months before he leaves office for five years, and he can return to the capital to recuperate.

His second son, Song Xuan, returned to Nanjing with his own soldiers, wearing linen and wearing filial piety, and after receiving the funeral report from Zhu Di early to Zhu Yunwen, the latter personally took Zhu Di, Xu Huizu, Li Jinglong and others out of the city for ten miles to receive the spirit.

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said:

Xiping Hou, Moting Court all protect Song Sheng's loyalty, courage and martial arts, Xuanwei is solemn, today in the disaster, four out of seventy died, the misfortune of the Ming Dynasty, the misfortune of the time.

I lost my humerus, the pillars of the country were broken, I thought of it, and I mourned it.

Xiping Marquis since childhood, attached to the Taizu Xu, first have the razor of the founding of the country, and then set up a rebellion to defeat the enemy, since I ascended the throne, Zuo Lai Qi held the northwest, after the town of the grassland, guarding the land and the country, is the pillar of the country.

The special edict told the world, posthumously awarded the Marquis of Xiping as the Duke of Su Guo, Xuanwu, and posthumously awarded the title of Doctor of Special Jin Guanglu, and carved a stele in Dingyuan County, Fengyang Prefecture, his hometown, to write his honor. The second son, the Marquis of Xiping, and his daughter Langa ordered the county lord of Yuan, Qin this. ”

Xuanwu Su Guogong.

Yin Zi Yin Girl, although Song Sheng's life is over, it finally ended up with a happy ending.

In the future, when the Ming Dynasty is revised, the last sentence of the general name of the loyal ministers and famous generals, one of their descendants, can also enjoy several generations of wealth, which can be regarded as fame and fortune.

When the funeral was held, Zhu Yunwen did not go again, but he still asked Shuangxi to be the representative and sent a banner and silk gold.

After finishing Song Sheng's mourning, time is even if it is stepping on the tail of the New Year, and a conference worthy of special mention and attracting the attention of all provinces and localities of the country was officially held in Fengtian Temple.

In addition to Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di, chief of the General Staff, all cabinet ministers, 10 governors of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, Beijing officials above the third rank in Beijing, and political envoys and envoys of Zuobu from various provinces attended the meeting.

Summarize the first five-year plan and commend the merits.

That was the main item on the first day of the conference.

On behalf of the cabinet, Yang Shiqi, the first assistant of the cabinet, made a report at the meeting, reported all the achievements of the First Five-Year Plan, reported the actual completion of the provinces, and finally announced the commendation.

"In order to commend the merits of Ding Jingfu, the political envoy of Shanxi Zuobu, Fang Mengsheng, the political envoy of Jiangxi Zuobu, and Chu Zhijie, the political envoy of Fujian Zuobu, the title of Shangshu is specially added, and he is still in his own position, and he will be rewarded with 5,000 taels of silver and 100 horses of silk."

If you do a good job, you will naturally be rewarded for your promotion, but the central position is a turnip and a pit, and the cabinet discussed it with Zhu Yunwen once, and there is no suitable position arrangement to find it, even if you can squeeze out a ministry book, it is not enough for three people to divide it, or Zhu Yunwen waved his hand.

Then simply add a title of Shangshu to each person and continue to be a political envoy.

Low jobs and high allocations are not over.

The real power has not been increased much, but this is from the third product to the second product, which can be regarded as a reward.

Because the provinces assigned to the First Five-Year Plan have basically completed their tasks, there is no punishment this time, and only these three provinces have been rewarded for their most outstanding achievements.

"Today's achievements are all the merits of the secretaries, and I have set up a state banquet in the Huagai Hall to celebrate the merits of the secretaries."

Although it was said that he drank bitterly to congratulate, not only did Zhu Yunwen not drink, but everyone who went to the banquet also tasted it, because everyone knew that the first day of the conference was just a sweet date given by the emperor, and the real test was still a few days later.

That's looking forward to the second five!

In order to let the people in all provinces of the country live a good life, we dare not say that we can get rid of poverty and become well-off, but the minimum food and clothing line must be reached.

"Duogandusi and Yunnan in the northwest are the most vulnerable places in our Ming Dynasty at present, with a total of 2.47 million Dingkou in the two provinces, and it is difficult to have surplus grain every year, let alone buy new clothes and delicious food."

The first to raise a difficult problem was that Gu Xian, the political envoy of Yunnan Zuobu, and Duogan Dusi knew the same thing, the former Great Khan of Hami was taken off, and after Hami was attached to Hami Wei in Hami, Tokh was given the Han surname Meng by Zhu Yunwen, Tongmeng, and the name was given loyalty.

Some of the Mongols who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in the early years moved to Liaodong and Hebei, and some of the Shunmin who had surrendered for 30 years stayed and lived in Qinghai by animal husbandry and barley cultivation.

The problem in Yunnan and Duogan is that it is difficult to be self-reliant, and relying on the imperial court to exempt taxes alone does not have much effect, but in fact, the annual taxes in Yunnan and Duogan are basically negligible, not even as many as any of the provinces under the feet of Nanzhili.

"The problem has been raised, and the cabinet has come up with a solution."

Zhu Yunwen is also frowning now, he doesn't know much about the situation in these two provinces, except that these two places are very big.

The Duogan region is equivalent to the combination of Qinghai and Gansu provinces in later generations, and Yunnan is also larger than Yunnan in later generations, after all, there is Luchuan (northern Myanmar and part of the central region) Xuanwei Division in its jurisdiction, plus the previous Yunnan capital commander is Ma Dajun, a fierce general, some no-man's land or sparsely populated places, it is natural that they have become the land of the Ming Dynasty.

"The cabinet plans to build a road from Xi'an to Duogan within five years, and the Duogan area has now discovered the nickel ore and other useful minerals needed by the Ministry of Industry to cast cannons, and there are also coal mines, and the cabinet's opinion is to set up a coal transportation department and a mining transportation department in Duogan, and resettle those people who live in the desert or in poor land near the mines, and change the peasant households into mining households, and all the output should be owned by the people, and the imperial court will not collect taxes.

After being transferred to Shaanxi, it was purchased by the Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce and the Shaanxi Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Industry, and the money from the sale was exchanged for food and clothing, and was equally distributed to these people. ”

Unified production, unified distribution.

Isn't this the commune's big pot rice system of industrial production?

Constrained by the transportation capacity of the times, if only relying on the continuous supply of grain from the inland provinces, it is indeed difficult for the people in the Dogan area to survive, and they can only struggle to survive.

Moreover, although the degree of soil erosion and desertification was much better than that of later generations, compared with the old Qin era 2,000 years ago, the northwest is no longer the so-called fertile soil of Guanye after all.

The land is barren and difficult to be self-reliant, and the way of survival must be changed.

Zhu Yunwen thought for a while, and there was no better way, so he looked at Meng Xianzhong and asked, "The cabinet means this, does the Qing family have any questions?" ”

The latter is also a hemp claw, he used to say that he was a king, but there are only tens of thousands of people in the Hami country, and he lives by the water and grass, and he still lives the old habits of nomads, and now he is the chief official of the Duogan region, not to mention the increase in population under his rule, the situation is also complicated, where do you know how to lead.

He didn't understand the cabinet's suggestion, anyway, he felt that it was much better than his laissez-faire autonomy and life and death in previous years, so he nodded busily at the moment.

"So be it."

The problem of the Duogan region was solved, followed by Yunnan.

Compared with the northwest, although Yunnan also has difficulties, but it is still better than that, after all, there are several other countries in the southwest to support, and there is such a granary as Jiaozhi.

But the problem lies in this, the Ming Dynasty can afford to raise Yunnan and raise Duogan, but it can't be raised for hundreds of years, so we have to find a way to let the people of Yunnan have the ability to be self-reliant and achieve a balance between income and expenditure.

"It's still the same sentence, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads."

The value of these six-character proverbs can be eaten in any era, especially in ancient times, which is the first element to achieve food and clothing.

"The southwest is mountainous and forested, and if you go inland, it will be labor-intensive and time-consuming, and the cabinet's opinion is to go to Jiaozhi."

Xia Yuanji said: "The whole journey is nearly 1,500 miles, after opening up this traffic artery, not only will the exchanges between my Ming Dynasty and the southwestern countries be closer, but also make Yunnan and Jiaozhi achieve rapid interconnection, this road will be built in the middle of the dense forest in the southwest of the year."

The trees cut down along the road can be sold to wealthy merchants in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places to build mansions and fill charcoal with charcoal in Haiphong Port.

And Yunnan Zhilu Sichuan Xuanwei Division, there are many gold and silver and other things, organize mining, can be used to buy food and other necessities of life in Jiaozhi, since the opening of Haiphong Port, the development of maritime trade in Jiaozhi is extremely rapid, one of the needs should be living materials are basically available. ”

Having said this, Zhu Yunwen understood it.

It was up to the imperial court to increase investment in the early stage to open up the external environment for these two barren regions, and then enable the people of these two provinces to achieve mutual trade self-sufficiency according to the geographical production advantages of their respective regions.

If the center has no money and no one, then these two provinces will continue to be poor for hundreds of years, just like the original time and space.

The two thousands of miles of thoroughfares, mining equipment and supporting construction, these two provinces, at least tens of millions of continuous investment.

"There is a solution, whether the cabinet has made a budget or not, how much money, how many people, how many years."

"If there is enough labor, the end of the second five-year plan can be realized, and it is estimated that the total cost of the two places together will be about 80 million."

That's a total of 80 million in five years, which is not a big number, but only if the number of workers is sufficient.

It seems that Ma Dajun will soon be able to put on the battlefield and return to the army.

This also made Zhu Yunwen's heart feel a lot more steady.

"Okay, this matter is decided, the Duogan region and Yunnan will work out this matter with the cabinet as soon as possible in the past two days, and the project will be set up to concentrate on supervision."

With a wave of the hand, these two policies that affect the lives of millions of people can be considered passed.

Then, there is the problem of Liaodong.

Although the reclamation work in the Liaodong Plain (Northeast Plain) has been very prominent in recent years, most of the land is in the hands of the Han people who broke through the northeast before, and the nomadic herdsmen of Mongolia, Jurchen, and Wuliang Ha Sanwei who are not good at farming do not have much land.

The problem of food and clothing has not been solved for a long time.

"Liaodongping originally raised nearly six million people, which is more than enough, why can't it produce results for a long time."

Does the geography of Liaodong need to be repaired?

Just that piece of black land, let alone six million, it is easy to multiply it several times, in the final analysis, it is still a local problem.

If all these six million were Hermes-Epitek, not one of them would starve to death every year.

There is also the ability of the nation to change its habits.

The hundreds of thousands of Han people who moved to Moting at the beginning changed their farming to animal husbandry, and they didn't live a good life, and their mouths of beef and mutton were full of oil?

The Han people have the ability to adapt to the environment by relying on the mountains and the water, and it has been internationally recognized and proven by countless practices.

Those who crossed the South Seas in the south and Europe and the United States in the west can quickly adapt to and form the climate, especially the ones who crossed the South Seas, the powerful founding of the country, and the almost all of them were manor owners and farmers.

Although the westward crossing to Europe and the United States was much more miserable, it was because of the special circumstances of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the low international status, the westward crossing was not an immigration, but a labor transportation bill.

As for the nomads in the land of Liaodong, they are not satisfied with the hard work of sweat beads falling to the ground and falling eight petals, but they only get steamed bread and brown rice that taste far inferior to those in the grassland.

"In Liaodong, many villages outside the city are often accompanied by serious security problems, such as theft and robbery."

It was the commander of Liaodong who reported this problem.

"According to His Majesty's instructions, a village of 100 households, Han Qiyi and Yi 3 are mixed, among which Yi 3 Middle School, many households of men are on active duty, but Rao is so, and the problem of public security is also quite tricky."

This is one of the crux of the problem.

Adult men serve in the service, leaving only women and children in the family, and it is even more difficult to clear the land.

"Didn't I give special permission that if two men from these families serve, they will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver every year?"

The reward of twenty taels, plus that you are engaged in production, can you still spend it?

The political envoy of Liaodong smiled bitterly: "Because of this, some families with many male soldiers, simply do not produce, every year pointing to the reward of cash to sit and eat empty, at the beginning of each year, spend lavishly, buy clothes and things, eat and drink are bought, slack spring ploughing, and wait until the end of the middle of the year, the family is embarrassed, there is no rice to cook, and since then there is a breeding of robbery." ”

What a thing?

Zhu Yunwen looked a little unhappy, but he managed to endure it and did not get angry, and continued to look in the direction of the cabinet.

"The cabinet has a solution."

The cabinet plans to open several large garment workshops and kiln factories in eastern Liaodong, and recruit local women and teenagers to participate in manual work in exchange for wages to support their families.

Zhu Yunwen closed his eyes and groaned.

Of course, he didn't show mercy to the children who committed crimes, and even Zhu Yunwen hated the statement 'he was still a child' in his heart.

The reason why he pondered and pondered was mainly because Zhu Yunwen was thinking about the current pros and cons.

It's like he used to send the previous Liaodong Zuobu political envoy who was removed due to neglect of government to Liaodong for beheading.

Why should civilians be angry?

It is because there are nearly 100,000 soldiers of all ethnic groups on the battlefield in the northwest at present.

The matter is big, and the Ming Dynasty naturally has the absolute strength to quell the civil strife, but in the external war, without these soldiers, it is necessary to use the Han people, so in the end, is the head of a Han person important, or is the head of 10,000 or 100,000 Han family sons and daughters important in the future?

In the face of the interests of the country, we must not only consider the slightest small issue.

"Those who should be arrested must be arrested, and those who should be sentenced must be sentenced, but except for cases other than homicide, all cases will be changed to labor as the main punishment, and no knife or beheading is allowed."

After the war in the northwest is over, it is likely that there will be a head-on conflict with the Timurid Khanate, and it will be a protracted and even national war that requires the Ming Dynasty to be prepared for.

At this moment, you can't use knives to deal with the problem roughly.

Otherwise, the group of soldiers on the front line is fighting, and they hear that their children have been beheaded at home, or their wives and children are starving to death, who can continue to work hard?

It is quite possible to turn against each other.

"Yes."

Shang Shu of the Criminal Department received the order.

"Then the matter of Liaodong is so decided, let's continue."

There were nearly two hundred people in the main hall, one followed by another after speaking.

This time, it turned out to be Chu Zhijie, the richest and most popular political envoy in Fujian Zuobu, who stood up this time.

What is Fujian anxious about?