What eats a big family, doesn't it just want food? And it's not good to ask for it, but a large group of people are armed to ask for food! It's almost the same to let Li Zicheng do this, he is the prince of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Cihong groaned: "Although the military division's method is good, the biggest family in the world seems to be my family, right?" My prince takes the homeless people to eat a big household, it's not appropriate, right? ”

When he spoke, his eyes looked at Wei Zaode - the crown prince is noble, and it is not suitable to take the homeless people to eat big households, you prime minister hurry up and come forward!

Wei Zaode was looked at by Zhu Cihong and knew that he was going to stand up and speak, so he smiled and said, "It's suitable, why isn't it suitable?" Such a thing appeared in the Sui and Tang dynasties, according to historical records, in the fourteenth year of the emperor's reign, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, and there was a shortage of food, so Emperor Wen of Sui led hundreds of thousands of officials and relatives and refugees in Guanzhong to eat Luoyang. Emperor Wen of Sui also got a reputation for chasing the son of heaven!

Later, Tang Gaozu became the emperor, and because of the lack of food in Guanzhong, he led hundreds of officials to eat Luoyang...... Due to lack of preparation, many people starved to death along the way. ”

What is the good name of the Son of Heaven...... Isn't that what it means to "ask for food"? Zhu Cihong said in his heart: I fooled people with the sign of "Emperor Taizu Gao's reincarnation" all day long, but now I am okay, I have been retributed, and I am really the same as Zhu Yuanzhang, I am going to beg for food!

But Hunan is my hometown in my previous life! People say that they have returned to their hometowns, but now they have to go back to their hometowns to beg for food......

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong sighed and thought: Why is there no famous minister who can beg for food on his behalf?

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Zhu Cihong was thinking about it, and Cao Youyi, the deputy military division, stepped forward.

All right...... Zhu Cihong looked at Lao Cao and felt that his appearance was very suitable for begging! Work hard, and leave a name in history in the future, you just want to be the head of the meal!

Cao Youyi said: "The minister thinks that His Royal Highness is still too close to Hunan to take people to eat, so it is better to go a little further and go to Guangdong." ”

What the? I also want to go to Guangdong to ask for food! Zhu Cihong still had a smile on his face, and he was already annoyed in his heart...... His eyes slid over the hall, looking for Zhang Shize, the British prince of the imperial history - this Cao Youyi looks like a corrupt official! Be sure to check it out!

Cao Youyi didn't know that he was about to be unlucky, so where else did he come up with an idea!

"Chitose Lord, leading the northern refugees to the south to eat is an opportunity to control the rich lands of Hunan and Guangdong!"

What the? Zhu Cihong's face changed slightly, "Tell me quickly!" ”

Cao Youyi said with a smile: "I often hear people say that Guangdong is rich, no less than Jiangnan, where the territory is vast, there are many paddy fields, the climate is warm, you can grow three times a year, and the provincial capital Guangzhou is still a thousand-year-old commercial port, extremely rich." Foshan, near Guangzhou, is one of the four gatherings in the world, rich in iron and firearms...... How can such a rich and important place not be guarded by our own people? The crown prince happened to take the opportunity of going south to eat, brought a dozen or two hundred thousand people over, settled them near Guangzhou, granted land, and then selected them to form a new army. In this way, the rich land of Guangdong is firmly in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

Isn't this the way the Eight Banners are stationed in the provinces? Zhu Cihong is already happy-he almost wronged Zhongliang just now.

In addition to worrying about eating, Prince Zhu is worried about how to clean up the Cantonese people!

There are nearly 26 million mu of land on the books in Guangdong, which is only more than 3 million mu less than that of Shaanxi (if you carefully check it, most of them are more fields in Guangdong), but the total amount of land tax is only 999,900 stones, which is more than 700,000 stones less than the total land tax in Shaanxi!

I don't know how the tax amount was determined in various places in the Ming Dynasty? Guangdong's tax is so much less than Shaanxi's! How could the people of Guangdong agree to such a thing? In the future, one Shenzhen will be worth two Shaanxi, right? Although there is no Shenzhen now, Guangzhou is the world's first commercial port!

Guangdong's taxes have to be tripled, no, five times to be like words!

In addition, there are customs duties and commercial taxes!

Guangzhou has been a major foreign trade port since the Han Dynasty, and has been prosperous for thousands of years now! So far, Guangzhou is also the first commercial port in the country...... But what about commercial taxes and customs duties? Isn't it embarrassing to have a few million taels a year?

But millions of stone of grain and millions of taels of silver are by no means something that can be received from the Cantonese people by issuing a few orders and cutting a few dirty officials. Because the Cantonese people are still quite fierce in these years - the conflict between the Turks and the Turks began to appear in the middle of the Ming Dynasty!

Although the Tuke fighting of the Ming Dynasty could not be compared with the Qing Dynasty, especially the middle and late Qing Dynasty, it still developed a certain military tradition in Guangdong.

According to what Zhu Cihong learned from Huang Jiang, Su Guansheng, Li Shichun and other henchmen of Guangdong nationality, the Tuke clans in many parts of Guangdong have now been condensed in many years of armed conflicts, and most of them live together, build forts, train clan soldiers, and build equipment, just like the strong clans from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

And between the Tuke clans, there are often fierce conflicts, and the two sides dispatch hundreds or thousands of people, set up formations, and fight each other occasionally, and the government cannot prohibit it at all.

Even the fighting of the Tuke clan can't be stopped, how can the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty in Guangdong collect taxes? Those powerful clans that often clash and fight are not comparable to the gentry in Jiangnan!

Not to mention the combat effectiveness exercised in the long-term conflict, even the size and degree of unity of the clan far exceed that of the southeast - because there is no pressure of the struggle of the Turks in the southeast, the cohesion within the clan is very weak, and the resistance to the imperial court's tax collection is the gentry power.

The southeastern gentry generally have no force, and Zhu Cihong really wants to turn his face and kill, and they are just fat pigs to be slaughtered. However, Zhu Cihong is still reasonable, no matter how bad the gentry in the southeast are, the Ming court can also receive six million stone fields from Nanzhili in a year, and also pay a lot of commercial taxes. Huguang people only give 2 million, Sichuan only gives 1 million, and Guangdong only gives 990,000...... In contrast, these southeastern gentry are still relatively conscientious, so they can't be too cruel to them.

And it's dark in Guangdong, collecting taxes and clearing fields in Guangdong is not fighting with the gentry, but directly attacking the Tuke clan, which is a strong clan! The Ming army that relied on Guangdong couldn't settle them at all, so no matter who was sent to Guangdong before, it was for nothing.

In order to receive enough tax from the Cantonese, it is necessary to send a new army that really works!

But Zhu Cihong didn't have enough new troops at hand......

Therefore, Cao Youyi's method can be regarded as solving a major problem faced by Zhu Cihong!

"Cao Qing!" Zhu Cihong smiled, "You are really the humerus of this palace!" ”

Since it's the humerus, don't check the corruption. Zhu Cihong has already made up his mind, and when he turns around, he will let Cao Youyi be the "General of Guangzhou", let him take people to Guangdong to beg for food, and easily occupy Hong Kong and Shenzhen - this is a fat shortage!

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince," Zhu Cihong's other confidant, Shangshu Lin Zengzhi of the Ministry of Works, seized the opportunity to come up with an idea again, "Now the number of exiled northerners is in the millions (in fact, tens of millions), and many of them are very strong, and the imperial court can divide them into the provinces, and then select the strong ones from them and train them into an army." If the northerners get food and the imperial court gets troops, their mastery of all places can be greatly enhanced. ”

"That's how it should be!" Zhu Cihong smiled, "The Ministry of War, the Generalissimo's Mansion immediately made a plan, Nanjing and Wuhan are the places where the most northerners are resettled, and then Fengyang, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Zhenjiang, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Jiujiang, Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Changsha, Guangzhou, Guilin and other places will be assigned and resettled."

Zhu Cihong ordered sixteen state capitals in one breath, except for Nanjing and Wuhan, a state capital arranges an average of more than 100,000 refugees, and two million northerners will have a place to eat big!

If tens of thousands of elites can be selected from these refugees, then the Ming court's ability to control Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces will also be greatly enhanced!

In addition, Nanjing and Wuhan will also place at least one million strong northerners, who will be the most important source of troops for the new army.

Zhu Cihong paused, and then said: "Dispatch a battalion of new troops to the places where refugees gather, responsible for calling refugees to Jiangdu, and the sailors must try to mobilize ships to assist refugees to come." When the refugees arrived in Nanjing, the palace personally took them to Huguang and Guangdong to eat. ”