No one knows better than Zhao Zongwu in his heart the opportunities brought about by the population explosion.

Why did Zhao Zongwu focus on developing naval power during his reign in Liaodong?

One of them was the idea of relying on a strong navy to go to the South Seas to obtain cheap food.

It turns out.

Zhao Zongwu's previous deployments are all forward-looking.

"Although our ministry now has a diversified food supply system, and the food reserves in various places are enough to cope with the famine. However, with regard to the research and development of grain varieties, the Government Council must not slack off in the slightest. "Although a diversified supply chain has been established, no one can ensure that there will be mistakes in the middle, and in this special period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there must be no slackness.

During the Xiaoice River period, this was an extremely unstable stage for the land of China.

Sun Chuanting nodded and said: "Grandpa Guo, rest assured, every year the Government Council will allocate a special amount of research and development funds, which will be specially used for the cultivation and research and development of various types of grains. ”

While talking, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Shi Kefa have followed Zhao Zongwu for 14 years, and there will be several 14 years in their lives, but in these 14 years of getting along day and night, they have already honed their rhythm of dealing with the world.

Although the personalities between them are different, their styles of doing things are all influenced by Zhao Zongwu, and they are all so resolute.

Zhao Zongwu pointed out in particular: "Judging from the current situation, there are still many efforts that need to be made by our department, although it is said that at this stage, the northwest region and the eastern Liaodong region have built relatively complete local political powers, but there is one thing that my lord needs to explain to you that the rampant rogue forces have not been completely eradicated, and they are still the henchmen of our Chinese land."

But on the other hand, there are many areas that our department has mastered that need to be carefully sorted out, and the stubborn diseases accumulated over more than 100 years are by no means easy to eradicate in five or ten years.

Just like this food problem, it seems to be a very simple problem, if our department dares to have a seven-day famine, not to mention that foreign forces have crushed us, just the huge population concentrated in the northwest region and the eastern Liaodong region is enough to completely crush us. ”

As Zhao Zongwu said, the territory in his hands at this stage is like a flat burden on the shoulders of a merchant, and the goods at both ends are like the northwest region and the eastern Liaodong region, and what supports these two is the long and narrow nine-sided town.

It is also because of such a special environment that Zhao Zongwu will move the center of his power to Datong, a city that originally belonged to a military town.

The special geographical environment and special historical connotation have also indirectly created the rebirth of Datong.

Listening carefully to Zhao Zongwu's story, Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng agreed very much, after seeing too many bad phenomena in the Ming Dynasty, this also made them too disappointed in their hearts.

And if there is more disappointment, there will be a loss of hope......

"Grandpa Guo, just rest assured!" Yuan Chonghuan smiled slightly: "Although the Xiaoice River period will inevitably cause a reduction in farmland grain production.

However, our ministry has been actively improving this problem from the very beginning, and after these years of construction, our eastern Liaoning region has prepared for the construction of complete basic water conservancy facilities, and has carried out corresponding replanting and breeding policies in places suitable for rice planting, so as to ensure local grain production.

In addition, in recent years, as many as seventy percent of the basic water conservancy facilities in the northwest region have been prepared, and the reservoirs built in various places have been formed, even if there will be a large-scale drought in the northwest region in the future, it is still guaranteed to rely on the basic water conservancy to store its own water storage function to ensure that the water for cultivation for more than two years is still guaranteed. ”

Compared with the original Yuan Chonghuan, the current Yuan Chonghuan, after experiencing a lot of hardships in the peninsula region, has long lost the frivolity of the book.

For Yuan Chonghuan's change, Zhao Zongwu is still very happy in his heart, for him, if you start from scratch to cultivate talents to govern the country, it will take at least 20 years to precipitate, because the forging of talents requires step-by-step promotion.

Talents who are suitable for governing villages are not necessarily suitable for governing towns and villages.

Talents who are suitable for governing townships and towns are not necessarily suitable for governing county seats.

Talents who are suitable for governing counties are not necessarily suitable for governing provinces and cities......

By analogy, it seems that there are not many chasms in between, but with each level, a chasm will be crossed.

If Zhao Zongwu can take power from the age of ten, then he still has the heart to cultivate such talents step by step, so as to fully enable these officials who were active in the late Ming Dynasty, and many of them are burdened with infamy.

But obviously he does not have such conditions, which makes him have to retreat to the next best thing and adopt a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, use his own wisdom to induce Sun Chuanting and them to continue to move in the direction he expected.

If there is a deviation in the process, Zhao Zongwu will give them a chance to mend their ways, but if they don't seize such an opportunity, Zhao Zongwu will lock them up in a small black house.

On the one hand, Zhao Zongwu began to cultivate talents from the grassroots level, and established corresponding educational institutions, so that they can thrive in a relatively comfortable environment, which also enables them to have a long space for development.

At least for Zhao Zongwu, the nine premiers he selected are Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Shi Kefa, Yuan Chonghuan, Zhang Hu, Chen Xiong, Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, and Yang Jingchen.

He was very satisfied.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zongwu nodded and said: "You are the core circle of governing the northwest region and the eastern Liaodong region, others can make mistakes, but you must not make any mistakes, because behind you, you are burdened with the life and death of more than 20 million people, it seems that this is a conceptual existence, but if you say that because of your negligence, there are any accidents among the people in the territory, then you need to bear a lot of responsibility."

In the eyes of the world, you have great authority, but for my father, you are more of a responsibility, a responsibility to lead the suffering people to a stable life! ”

If it is said that in the early days of the creation of the force, Zhao Zongwu could also specifically intervene in local construction, because the governance team at that time was still in the initial stage, and many team members gathered together through various methods, and more of them adopted the method of forcible capture.

Therefore, Zhao Zongwu needs to show his super skills in such a special period to initially integrate their team.

Only by initially integrating such a team into a whole can he lead his members to make the cake he wants to make.

After the passage of time and the induction of innate advantages, the cake he wanted to make gradually grew into a very big cake.

Then at this time, it is no longer him who needs to do it personally, he only needs to stand behind the scenes, to command the CEO who is active in front of the stage, he is like a domineering president hidden behind the scenes, with his own ideas, to constantly induce the CEO, and constantly work hard for himself.

In Zhao Zongwu's view, the CEO is a group embodiment, there are here: Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Shi Kefa, Yuan Chonghuan, Zhang Hu, Chen Xiong, Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, Yang Jingchen, and in the Jiubian Marshal Mansion: Chen Qiyu, Hong Chengchou, Fan Tianxiong, Ding Kui, Zu Dashou, Zhao Shujiao, Sun Zushou, Li Yun, and below them, there are different levels of executor groups.

It is precisely because of such a pyramid-like talent pool that Zhao Zongwu dared to lay such a big stall.

For the construction of people's livelihood, it is very important to have a relatively perfect administrative system.

As far as the territory in front of Zhao Zongwu is concerned, if it is still purely dependent on the inherent local model of the Ming Dynasty, this cannot really give full play to the advantages of various places.

As far as the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Department is concerned, it includes the entire territory of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan, and many places use the guard system that has rotted to the roots.

If we want to let Shaanxi Chengxuan political envoy usher in a new life, then it must be truly demilitarized and the people of the main people.

In the past few years, Zhao Zongwu has coordinated the Government Affairs Yuan and the Nine Border Marshal's Mansion, and has been sorting out such situations, and truly ensuring that all the places that have to be passed are under the control of the local government.

As a result, this also made many large places in Shaanxi Province to announce the political envoy to make a policy of withdrawing guards and returning to their homes.

And this also leads to the fact that it is obviously unrealistic to rely solely on the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Department to manage such a huge territory.

After several years of tacit divestment, some new institutions were gradually separated out on the basis of the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Department.

"In order to enable the people in the northwest region to have a broader space, we will discuss the issue of local restructuring again today.

Last year, we did not reach a consensus on this matter, which also caused some unpleasant things in the process, but after a year of operation, I am afraid that everyone here knows in their hearts that it is not a bad thing to effectively separate the local territorial powers. ”

As a result, Zhao Zongwu took advantage of the situation to propose the separation of the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division.