Chapter Seventy-Four: Spring Ploughing Preparations

After the fifteenth day of the first month.

The yamen was opened. It seems to indicate that the tenth year of Xuande has officially become a thing of the past, and the first year of orthodoxy has officially arrived.

It's just that even so, there are still some lazy people in the imperial court.

Baiguan seems to be intoxicated with the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the excitement of the nineteenth Yanjiu of the first lunar month, and cannot extricate themselves.

When the momentum comes, February is in sight.

In the second half of the first month, a major event was decided in the court. In other words, Zhu Qizhen thinks that the major event that deserves his attention is that the Beijing army is planted near Beijing.

When Zhu Qizhen heard the news, he was so mixed that he didn't know what to say, especially on that day, it was also the first time he summoned Yu Qian.

Yu Qian tried his best to tell Zhu Qizhen about the more than 3 million troops of the Ming Dynasty and 1.2 million deserters.

Zhu Qizhen thought he was very calm. His self-cultivation is already very good, but after knowing the news, he still has an urge to kill.

Of course, he knew that in this matter, it was the result of the sinking cause from the Taizu Dynasty to the present. It is not the fault of any one person, let alone killing one person, or killing 10,000 people, which can be solved.

But he still wanted to kill.

Killing people may not solve the problem, but it can get angry.

This news ruined Zhu Qizhen's good mood when he saw Yu Qian for the first time.

If you look at this news and the matter of Jingying Tunzhong together, Zhu Qizhen is even more unhappy in his heart.

The reason is very simple, and after learning that the number of fugitives in various health centers is as high as 1.2 million, Zhu Qizhen no longer has any hope for the combat effectiveness of the health centers in various places.

Perhaps Yu Qian believed the estimate given by Yang Shiqi. But Zhu Qizhen didn't believe it, he would rather think about this one thing in the worst.

Is Yang Shiqi's data accurate?

Isn't there a cover-up below?

He couldn't help but wonder if the guards below had already fled more than halfway through.

If this happens, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Beijing are the only force that the Ming Dynasty can rely on.

Now it is allowed to be planted in Jingying.

Of course, I know that the imperial court is not very good financially. But it doesn't have to be like that.

Zhu Qizhen took a long breath, suppressed all kinds of emotions in his heart, and said, "Mr. Yu, do you have any lessons in this matter?" ”

Yu Qian said: "The minister is stupid. I don't dare to say anything, however, the Wang Bingbu actually intends to replace the garrison with recruitment. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, smiled slightly, and said, "Where does the money come from?" ”

Yu Qian was speechless for a while when he heard this. He could only say: "Your Majesty is wise." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I'd rather not be wise. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's guard system is known as raising millions of soldiers without spending a penny.

But in fact, the imperial court was not without expenditures, and many people could not say how much land the Ming Dynasty Wei occupied, and there were one-eighths of it, and some of it was split in half.

Anyway, if these lands can be moved together, they will definitely exceed one or two provinces.

This large amount of land tax was given up by the imperial court.

These invisible losses, let's not talk about it for the time being. Among the various expenses of the imperial court today, there is actually no expenditure on raising soldiers. If you recruit soldiers. It's the expenses outside of the expenses.

Now that the imperial court is still overwhelmed, Yang Rong will not know the importance of Jingying, but the cabinet still agrees, and Jingying is planted near Beijing.

This shows that Daming's finances are not optimistic.

Zhu Qizhen sighed in his heart, financial problems are a barometer of a country's politics, many times, as long as there are no financial problems, even if there are some problems in other places, the imperial court can still support it.

This was especially true for the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that this problem is not something that Zhu Qizhen can solve today.

Zhu Qizhen pulled away from this topic and said, "Does Yu Qian know how to grow rice?" ”

Yu Qian said: "Chen Qiantang people, when he was young, he also went to the ground. It's just not very familiar. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Since this is the case, follow me to have a look." ”

As soon as Zhu Qizhen gave an order, the group left the Qianqing Palace, and after walking all the way out of the Forbidden City, they got on the horse one after another.

Many people think that the clear palace is just a Forbidden City, but in fact, the Forbidden City is just an imperial city, and there is a palace outside the imperial city.

The palace city is much larger than the imperial dynasty, and there are several lakes in it, which the people of Beijing call the sea, which is the famous Beihai, Nanhai, and Zhongnanhai.

There are a lot of large gardens and palace groups, which is often said in the history books, the West Garden, the South Garden, the North Garden, and so on.

The Empress Dowager did not let Zhu Qizhen leave the palace. It's just that now, the homework prepared by the Empress Dowager for Zhu Qizhen is farming. Of course, this agricultural matter does not need Zhu Qizhen to go to the field himself. But at least Zhu Qizhen has to watch people work.

Let Zhu Qizhen know the hardships of the people.

But there is no such big place in the palace.

If you find a place in the palace to farm, but you can, the big deal is to eradicate a garden somewhere. This can be regarded as an old thing for Emperor Taizu at the beginning.

When Emperor Taizu was in Nanjing, in the palace, he did not grow flowers, but all crops and vegetables. So much so that most of the expenses in the palace are self-produced and sold, and they are not purchased outside.

The Empress Dowager simply asked Zhu Qizhen to go to Xiyuan to choose a place and go to Qingqing by the way.

Zhu Qizhen led more than 100 guards, relying on him, and Yu Qian followed behind, all riding horses. Heading west, you will not be far away to the lake, looking at the ocean. Zhu Qizhen was in a good mood.

Today, there are no large palaces here.

It looks extremely light.

Now the snow and ice are melting. There are already a few waterfowl flying shallow above the lake.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help itchy, took out the bow and arrow, and prepared to shoot an arrow.

Seeing this, Yu Qian said: "Your Majesty can't, don't hunt in spring." ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he immediately said, "I know it's wrong. "Let the left and right put away the bow and arrows.

Spring is the day when birds and beasts breed, and many birds and beasts are pregnant. If you hunt, you are unkind.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen didn't care too much.

After all, Zhu Qizhen himself can shoot a few, and even Zhu Qizhen estimates that with his archery skills, I am afraid that the arrows will fail. After all, practicing archery is not an easy task.

It takes hard work. Zhu Qizhen can only shoot bows and arrows now, as for the quasi-head, forget it. And it can't shoot far, it's not a matter of Zhu Qizhen's talent.

It's just that he's weak.

However, as the emperor's favor bird beast, it is politically correct.

In such a thing, Zhu Qizhen has long been used to it. Under the education of the Empress Dowager, Zhu Qizhen remembers the word "virtue" every day.

The more you are in front of outsiders, the more you pay attention.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Mr. Yu, can you open a field nearby?" ”

Yu Qian looked at it and said: "This place is near the water, although the soil quality is not good, but if you want to open up the wasteland, you might as well." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Ruan An." ”

Ruan An immediately stepped out and said, "The slave is here." ”

Wang Zhen looked at Ruan An and couldn't help but feel a little jealous in his heart.

Now Wang Zhen, Jin Ying, and Ruan An have become new giants among the eunuchs.

Needless to say, Wang Zhen and Jin Ying used Ruan An, but Zhu Qizhen used Ruan An, but he found that the person who can really do things in the palace is Ruan An.

After all, when the city of Beijing was built with the most effort, there were as many as 700,000 people, and Ruan An could arrange it properly.

It can be said that with such an ability, it is not an exaggeration to put a feudal official in Zhu Qizhen's opinion.

But Ruan An was a eunuch after all.

Zhu Qizhen wants to do something, as long as he asks, Ruan An must be the best at it, not to mention anything else.

Building roads, building warm pavilions, farmland and water conservancy, these things have been done by Ruan An, and everyone is a first-class builder. These things are handy.

Zhu Qizhen naturally smashed one magic after another on Ruan An.

As long as Zhu Qizhen asks for it, Ruan An can handle it properly. has always satisfied Zhu Qizhen, Party A, in this case, Zhu Qizhen does not use Ruan An, who does he use?

Zhu Qizhen said: "I want to open a hundred acres of land here, and I must have all the crops that I can grow here, especially rice is the top priority, and this matter will be left to you." There is still some time before spring ploughing, you need to step up, don't miss the time, the canal, the waterwheel everything must be repaired. And leave room for the future. ”

Ruan An immediately said: "The slave and maid have the order." ”

Zhu Qizhen handed over this matter to Ruan An, he was very relieved, and even had a sense of being a little useless, and he immediately said to the people around him: "You are all here, I will go by myself." ”