Of course, the experience of each war still has to be summed up.

This time, it can be said that the most profound feeling is that there are still too few elite soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. It's just that like the three major battalions, there are too few who can become the main force to fight.

On the side of the Guanning Army, it is indeed the most elite of the Zujia Army, therefore, after the Zujia Army was destroyed by Jianjiao, the remaining army can still defend the city, and it is okay to cooperate in combat, but it is not possible to participate in the war as the main force.

Therefore, the first thing Emperor Chongzhen did after coming back was to summon Liu Kongzhao, the chief of the Beijing camp, and bluntly said to him: "It is imperative to reform the Beijing camp. I will give you a month to eliminate the weak and retain the strong for the current people in the camp. ”

There had been a premonition of this before, so Liu Kongzhao had expected it a long time ago. However, when he heard Emperor Chongzhen mention it at this time, he wanted to speak and talk about a few things he was considering.

However, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to know what he wanted to say, and directly continued to him: "There is only one principle, eliminate the weak and keep the strong. Qing can be divided into three classes. The first class, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, who cannot even adhere to basic physical work; second-class, those who have strength but are not fit for battle; the third class is the soldier who is suitable for the battlefield; I do not limit the number of Qing people in these three categories, and each class is as much as it should be. Within half a month, all the differentiation will be completed, and I will personally verify it. ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Liu Kongzhao's eyes, saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, so he smiled and said: "I can first reveal to Qing that the first-class old, weak, sick and disabled, I will give him a grain field that he can live in, but not in Beijing, but in the Shanhaiguan generation, which can be relieved of armor and farming; The second-class soldier will be reorganized into an engineer soldier, which is used for building roads and bridges, disaster relief and disaster prevention and other aspects of people's livelihood on weekdays. The third class, naturally, I don't need to talk about it. ”

Liu Kongzhao didn't expect the emperor to arrange everything properly, so he had nothing to say, and immediately received the order.

The innovation of the Beijing camp, Emperor Chongzhen was ready to watch it personally. When this is done, we will use this as a template and gradually roll it out to health centers across the country.

The Ming army should also change.

After instructing this matter, Emperor Chongzhen immediately began to check the financial situation.

The salt policy reform is still being implemented, and it is not clear whether the people will benefit from it.

The phased results have been achieved is the establishment of branches of the Daming Royal Bank, which have been set up and started operation in all the 13 provinces of Daming, Beijing and Beijing. As far as the situation currently grasped by the Jingshi side, the deposit and loan situation in various localities is not extensive enough. Relatively speaking, there are more on the Jiangnan side, but only more. In this regard, the imperial court still has to continue to guide.

After Emperor Chongzhen finished reading the recital, he went out in person and was received by Song Yingxing of the Kaiwu Division.

Song Yingxing naturally knew what the emperor's intention was to run over so quickly, so he immediately played to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, there are some results at present, and they can indeed be burned as Your Majesty said. However, there is a difficulty now, that is, the refractory bricks are still a little weak, and Weichen is still experimenting in many ways, and I believe that in another year or so, it should be able to solve the current difficulties. ”

Emperor Chongzhen didn't hope that Song Yingxing could get it out at once, but there should still be a reminder, so he said to Song Yingxing: "Don't be stingy with the reward you should have, you must fully mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of the craftsmen, and apply to me if the funds are insufficient." This thing is widely used, it will greatly change the current people's livelihood, of course, it can improve the finances of the imperial court, we must pay close attention to it! ”

With the emperor's words at the bottom, Song Yingxing immediately laughed, and immediately replied: "The importance of this matter, Your Majesty has already told Weichen, how dare Weichen procrastinate!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen was still very satisfied with Song Yingxing's ability to do things, nodded and prepared to leave. But before leaving, he suddenly turned to Song Yingxing and said, "It's really not easy for Song Qing to insist on refusing all kinds of excuses to give gifts!" ”

Song Yingxing was stunned for a moment, and then came back to his senses, knowing that after he became the prince's lecturer, he was immediately popular, and he did find all kinds of relationships and various excuses to give gifts, but he was all rejected by himself. The emperor has a factory guard in Beijing, and it is normal to know this situation.

Thinking like this, after coming back to his senses, he immediately put on a serious face, bowed down and replied: "This is the duty of the minister, and I dare not break this bottom line." Wechen's money and His Majesty's reward are enough for Wechen's life! ”

"Hehe, Qing De is well enlightened!" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said with a smile, "When Qing finishes this, I will give Qing one percent of the shares, and I will receive dividends every year, and the time will be set to sixty years." ”

As soon as he heard this, Song Yingxing couldn't help but be overjoyed, after Emperor Chongzhen's explanation, he knew that if that thing could be made, it would be widely used, which was unprecedented. In other words, it's worth a lot of money. Even if it is one percent of the shares, with the expansion of the scale, it will definitely be much higher than that of Yulu.

"Wechen thank the emperor!" Song Yingxing immediately saluted solemnly, with this great gift, the Song Mansion will have no worries about food and clothing in the future!

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen accepted it calmly and immediately returned to the palace.

What I said just now was indeed told to him by Wang Chengen, the governor of Dongchang. Almost all the important officials in Beijing have now set up eyeliner surveillance. As soon as Emperor Chongzhen returned to Beijing, the relevant summary of the chapters had already been placed on his imperial case.

Compared with Song Yingxing, Chen Zilong received some of it. However, Emperor Chongzhen is still understandable, because Chen Zilong's social relations are far more complicated than Song Yingxing's, and there are naturally more human contacts. As long as it is not excessive, Emperor Chongzhen will turn a blind eye. After all, when the water is clear, there are no fish, and it is impossible to think that all officials are like Hai Jui!

After returning to the palace, Emperor Chongzhen began to look through the disaster recitals in various places.

Since April, there has been a severe drought and no rain in the Wujiang area, and the locusts have taken the opportunity to make the situation worse. However, thanks to the disaster relief mechanism set by Emperor Chongzhen, the food was transported in time, and there was no large-scale starvation death.

However, Emperor Chongzhen saw that there was also a stack of chapters, all of which were about disaster warning. There is a summary of the disaster situation of the cabinet at the top. Emperor Chongzhen just looked at it, and his face was a little grim.

There are also signs of severe drought in the land of Gyeonggi and the vicinity of Nanjing, as well as in Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Huguang. The scope is so wide. It's a bit scary. If it doesn't rain in the future, and all of them go into a big drought, then the problem will be serious.

As the Cabinet wrote in its recital, it was rare for a drought of this magnitude to occur before. It will rain somewhat. Qin Tianjian also gave a reply, thinking that there should be a province where the disaster situation would be alleviated.

Although they all thought so, Emperor Chongzhen didn't dare to be careless. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was a famous period of natural and man-made disasters. said that it shouldn't be, but God will.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen preferred that these provinces would also have a severe drought in the future. Therefore, on this matter, he immediately convened the meeting of the six ministries and nine secretaries in the Wenhua Palace.

Now, Emperor Chongzhen's prestige is really high, and he can deduce the truth from the clues, so none of these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty dare not ignore the emperor's opinion.

Under the re-emphasis of Emperor Chongzhen, these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty talked about the disaster he was worried about.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the local Metropolitan Procuratorate can send the imperial history to inspect the disaster areas in various places. As a result, the Imperial History Office has a limited range of inspections, so it can concentrate on improving the region's ability to resist disasters! ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that we should build water conservancy and do a good job in storing water and fighting drought."

"Your Majesty, sweet potatoes, as a supplement to the staple food, have been promoted for three consecutive years, especially in the southern regions, such as Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places, and the harvest is very large. Some of the grain can be drawn from it. ”

"Your Majesty, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops, the imperial court should give repeated orders, asking the local government to pay attention to them, and plant them in places other than farmland to supplement the needs of food."

“……”

Each suggestion basically has a certain amount of truth, and Emperor Chongzhen nodded when he heard it.

In fact, behind these suggestions are the efforts of Emperor Chongzhen. After a few years of layout, now it is a bit of a gain.

After the meeting, there were as many as 12 relevant recommendations, and immediately after sorting them out, the holy decree was issued to the Beijing Division, ordering all localities to implement them.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that he had done nothing wrong with what he took so seriously.

In the original history, from April to August of the 14th year of Chongzhen, there was a great drought and no rain in the Wujiang area, and locusts covered the sky. Arrests by officials are becoming more and more common. The price of rice is four taels of silver per stone, and the beggars are full of roads, and many pillows are dying. Folks take the rotten residue of bad grain as a treasure, or eat tree chips and elm bark. Factories are set up everywhere to give porridge, and tens of millions of people eat it every day.

With such a tragic situation, it can be said that the Ming court has been powerless against the local government at all. The people of the Ming Dynasty, in that plane, really live in dire straits, and it is completely the scene of the end of the dynasty.

Also, in the original history, starting from June of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Lianggi, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Huguang had a great drought and locusts. At that time, Shandong and other provinces reported disasters for many years, and urged Zuo Mao and other governors to rush to Caoyun, and Dao Zhongchi said: "The minister arrived in Linqing from Jinghai, and saw that the people died of hunger three times, three people died of the epidemic, and four thieves died. Li Qingshan then led the people to revolt, blocking the Cao Yun, and the Ming court was shaken.

However, now, the disaster of Chongzhen's fourteen years, because Emperor Chongzhen prevented it properly, the adverse effects are being postponed. At least in the Wujiang area, there is no tragic situation in history. In the disaster-stricken provinces, Emperor Chongzhen now attaches great importance to it and has sorted out twelve measures for disaster prevention and relief.

In the original history, the thieves were not extinguished, and at this time, they were already full of flames. The war has added to the snow and frost of disasters in various places. If it had not been for man-made disasters, there would have been no disasters of this magnitude.

No matter how big the disaster is, as long as the government and the people work together to fight the disaster and provide relief, the so-called man will conquer the sky, which can be reflected.

And Emperor Chongzhen is like this, just to do the thing that the man will conquer the sky.

However, in his heart, he still knows that the various measures he has laid out in China still need time to accumulate effects. For example, the promotion of sweet potatoes, although they can be grown, the selection of varieties, storage, how to be more productive, and how to harvest a bumper harvest cannot be solved by relying on the experience left by Xu Guangqi. It takes time to accumulate, and it will only explode after a certain extent.

As for potatoes and corn, which have higher requirements for the environment, Xu Guangqi did not specifically experiment and write a summary of experience when he was alive, so it is even more difficult to promote them. This task, although it was handed over to Chen Yulong to do. However, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is vast, and it is still necessary to accumulate experience in various places after a few years.

From this, Emperor Chongzhen knew that at least in the past few years, the most critical thing in the disaster relief of the Ming Dynasty was the food problem. And this still depends on the Zheng family's fleet to continuously transport grain back from the South Seas.

It should be that since last year, the Zheng family has begun to transport grain to Daming on a large scale. Whether it is the disaster relief of domestic food in the Ming Dynasty, or the food of the Dongjiang Army, or even the food of the Guanning Army, a large part of it depends on the blood transfusion of the Zheng family.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little worried, such a thing did not exist in the original history. Now that grain is being brought in from the South Seas on a large scale, this will inevitably have a butterfly effect. I don't know what will happen to this butterfly effect, is it good or bad for Daming? And how big is the impact?

If there is a problem with the grain in Nanyang and the grain can no longer be imported, it will have a great impact on the Ming Dynasty. For example, disaster relief and disaster relief is a problem, and the war with Jianfu is another problem.

Thinking of these, thinking of food restricting the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. It can even be said that whether the Ming Dynasty is prosperous or not depends on whether the food is enough to eat. And this can only be solved by relying on the Nanyang side at present. This made Emperor Chongzhen feel that his neck was stuck, and he didn't know when he would be strangled by someone? Or, won't you strangle?

My life is up to me, not to anyone else! Emperor Chongzhen was secretly ruthless in his heart, and he must pay attention to the grain production of the Ming Dynasty, and the manpower and material resources invested in this area are still too little. Didn't Yuan Daxia's hybrid rice solve the problem of food and clothing for 1.3 billion people in later generations? It's nothing more than artificial breeding of various kinds of rice, right?

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent Zhang Zilong of the Agricultural Division to tell him this idea, and asked him to send the backbone of the Agricultural Division to the south to select the experimental field, and once the place is determined, let the local government fully cooperate and conduct more experiments. Even if you can't do it in ten years, what about twenty years?

When Emperor Chongzhen was busy with disaster relief, a large army was gathering on the grassland outside the Great Wall of Shaanxi. In the Chinese military tent, sitting on the main seat, the money rat tail, very obvious, needless to say, is a prisoner.

This person is Ji'er Harang, who was sent by Huang Taiji to the Hetao area. At this time, he was listening to the news from the man kneeling in front of him.

The person who gave the news, dressed as a Han person, spoke a Ming official dialect with a Shaanxi accent.