A very special military meeting was held on the river boat to Yilingzhou - in addition to an emperor, a prince and several ministers, there was also a crown princess and a prince and princess to listen and record, which was really unprecedented......

"Your Majesty," Wu Guoyong, the deputy military division, spoke first, "the military division of the palace received a report from Yunnan-Guichuan this morning that Yong'an City, Qutang Pass, Daxikou, Xiamadu, and Wushan City in Kuizhou Mansion have all been recovered. Qutang Gorge has been opened, and the army can march along the river at any time and settle in Yong'an.

However, the cities and pavilions in Yong'an City, Qutang Pass, Daxikou, Xiamadu, Wushan City and other places were overburned, and the surrounding countryside was also looted by the rogues. The Military Department of the Imperial Palace believes that it is still necessary to raise food and grass in many ways, and recruit people to repair the city and pavilions before they can be stationed there. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled, noncommittal, and then turned his gaze to Zheng Sen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

The major work of repairing cities, roads, ports, canals, embankments, canals, etc., is now the work of the Ministry of Works. However, the construction of palaces and imperial tombs was not the responsibility of the Ministry of Works, but was solved by the royal family themselves. As for ordnance, weaving and dyeing, sundries manufacturing, and so on, they are no longer under the Ministry of Industry.

Ordnance is mainly purchased by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Admiralty, while the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Navy also have their own arsenals and shipyards, and there is no need for the Ministry of Industry to intervene.

In addition, the Ministry of Engineering, which is in charge of so many large projects, does not maintain a large engineering team of its own, but adopts the method of market-oriented bidding to award projects.

The Ministry of Industry's own personnel are the officials and craftsmen who are responsible for the design, supervision, and acceptance of the project, as well as the officials who are responsible for the management of the "Ministry of Industry's assets" (that is, the projects invested by the Ministry of Industry or for which the Ministry of Industry is responsible for operation and maintenance).

This time, Zheng Sen led a team of master craftsmen and officials, as well as some suppliers from the Ministry of Industry, to follow Emperor Zhu on his westward expedition.

Seeing Emperor Zhu's consultative gaze, Zheng Sen frowned a little embarrassed, and said: "Your Majesty, there are not many soldiers and civilians who set off from Huguang, if the cities and pavilions in Yong'an City, Qutang Pass, Daxikou, Xiamadu, Wushan City and other places are too damaged, I am afraid it will be difficult to repair for a while......"

Zhu Cihong said: "You can requisition Sichuan people!" ”

Zheng Sen shook his head: "If you are not familiar with life, I don't know if you can recruit it?" Moreover, before the retreat, the rogues were still looting in the east of Kuizhou Prefecture, but I am afraid that there is a shortage of materials, high prices, and it is difficult to hire people if you have money! ”

Zhu Cihong glanced at Shi Kefa again.

Shi Kefa said: "Your Majesty, the cabinet has long ordered Shi Zhouwei to prepare 200,000 stone rice grains for use in the Jiannan Division, which can be transported to Kuizhou Mansion at any time." Moreover, Shizhou Wei is rich in rice, and there are many stocks of grain in various forts in the territory that can be sold to the imperial court, at least not to starve the army stationed in Kuizhou. ”

Shizhouwei is a good place, not only there are many fertile valleys, but also the contradiction between man and land is relatively relaxed, so the local military families can accumulate a lot of grain - Shizhouwei's transportation is not very convenient, and it is difficult to transport things out if it is not close to the Qingjiang waterway, so the local Haoqiang is used to storing grain, instead of transporting grain to Jingzhou Mansion for sale, and now it can be poured to Emperor Zhu at a high price.

Shi Kefa said again: "As for the people...... The Sichuan people have been suffering from thieves for a long time, and they have long been looking forward to the king's master, and if the court can be appeased, it can be used for its own purposes. Just ......"

Just how to appease it?

The governance of Sichuan by the Dashun Dynasty is actually relatively successful, and the current failure is not the failure of governance, but the "swelling death" - because Sichuan has not experienced a long-term bloody war before being occupied by Dashun (Sichuan has a Tusi rebellion in the Apocalypse years, until the Chongzhen year, but the casualties caused are not large), Dashun and Daxi brought a large number of Shaanxi people (there are also some Huguang people) into Sichuan, resulting in the population density of Sichuan, in the early years of Hongxing and the population density of the eight southeastern provinces of the core territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Dashun's "equalization" reform is more able to support people - in the early days of Dashun's entry into Sichuan, because there were only more than 200,000 military households, it did not swallow up the land of Sichuan, so many Sichuan farmers also benefited from the equalization movement, and the direction of the entire reform was actually to divide the land equally.

Equalization of land is undoubtedly the best means of promoting population growth – some argue that equalization of land can foster rural markets, but in practice it fails. Because the peasants' fertility needs were greatly released after the equal distribution of land (as happened in later generations, in the early 50s, the Chinese population grew at an astonishing rate), and the increased grain was first used to feed the new population, and then used to exchange with the cities.

Sichuan under the rule of Dashun also experienced rapid population growth, and the rapid growth of the population further intensified the already grim contradiction between man and land. The expansion of the military households of Dashun Province forced the Sichuan people, who were numerous, to their opposite......

Now it's Zhu Cihong's turn to deal with Sichuan's overpopulous population!

Because the current population of Sichuan is too large, even if the land of Sichuan is divided equally, the per capita is only about a few acres and a few cents, and the sky is a food and clothing.

But the problem is that Zhu Cihong also has a group of landlords on his side to counterattack!

Most of the people in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan army were originally from the Sichuan landlord class, although these people were not very good at fighting, but there was no merit and hard work, and Zhu Cihong had to take care of their interests. At least one-third of Sichuan's land must be allocated to them, and the rest can be divided equally......

Of course, it's better to get a little bit of land than nothing...... However, after a large number of Ming troops entered Sichuan, they had to let the Sichuan people provide food, grass and people's food, which would strengthen the suffering of the Sichuan people!

In addition, the Sichuan people have been suffering from the government and soldiers in the past 20 years, and have not suffered from the capitalist market! The capitalist market is a beast of prey, and it will soon be clear to these people, who are living a stable life under the strict rule of the Great Shun Dynasty, what is the murder of capital and what is the non-business and treacherous......

"It's just that the Sichuan people need a chance to climb up!" Zhu Cihong took Shi Kefa's words with a smile, "The Liukou are based on the Shaanxi people, and the Sichuan people are firmly suppressed in the lower strata and cannot move. People's hearts will always overestimate themselves and underestimate difficulties, and Sichuan people will not be an exception. Therefore, among the Sichuan people who are oppressed by the Shaanxi people, there must be many people who think that their talents are not met...... And we should let them see the opportunity to climb up, so that they will be of use to us. With the available Sichuan people, it will not be difficult for Sichuan to be pacified. ”

"Father," the local tyrant Wang Zhu and the trench interjected, "what kind of talent is usable from Sichuan?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "I don't know, but I know how to find them?" ”

"How do you want to find it?"

Zhu Cihong spit out two words: "Exam!" ”

Exams again!?

Ding Yuying, who was bowing her head to record, heard these two words, and her heart trembled - it was because of the exam that she was selected by Emperor Zhu from the people and had a seemingly brilliant future, but in order to get this future, she now has to be a cow and a horse for the Zhu family, working day and night, and learning a lot of things, and she doesn't dare to learn well......

Emperor Zhu touched his beard and said proudly: "This time I entered Sichuan with three points of military and seven points of exam...... We have to use the exam to find out all the people in Sichuan who are willing to do things and can do things for us, and with them, we can help us run and raise money to appease the people. Our affairs will be easy to do, and then the people will have it, and there will be food! ”

The exam still has such a role!

Ding Yuying said in her heart: The imperial examination has been taking the examination for almost 1,000 years from the beginning of the Sui Dynasty to the present, and it is also the old man of your father and emperor who has passed the examination.

"Father," Zhu Hehao still couldn't figure it out, "how can we use an exam to make the capable people in Sichuan willing to do things for us in a down-to-earth manner?" ”

Zhu Cihong suddenly glanced back at his precious daughter-in-law Ding Yuying, and said with a smile: "One exam is not good, you have to let them take the test one by one...... You can't give all the benefits at once, you have to give a little bit, and you have to test again and again! ”