Orange Island head, looking at Changsha in the east, looking at Yuelu in the west, Xiangjiang River to the north, the water and the sky are the same, who is the master of ups and downs?

At the south end of Orange Island, Zhu Cihong, who climbed a pavilion and looked at Changsha City, Yuelu Mountain and the vast Xiangjiang River, was already in tears at this time......

This is his hometown! He, a wanderer who has been adrift for more than 200 years, finally returned to Changsha, Hunan, which haunted his dreams, and saw a little bit of the same scenery as before. It's just that things are people, and the former relatives and friends have not yet been born...... Never again!

"Chitose Lord, Brother Prince, why are you crying?" Zheng Chagu's pretty face leaned over and asked curiously. Zhu Cihong realized that he had burst into tears at this time, his eyes were probably red from crying, and he didn't know how long he had been out of shape. The surrounding guards and eunuchs and palace maids all looked at his crying with their mouths half open.

These people are probably wondering in their hearts: What sad things did this prince think of? It's not easy to think about! Such a big golden branch and jade leaf, in the past two years and almost three years, it has not been a few days to have a peaceful birthday, either to start a war with the Tartars, or to start a war with the rogues, and to have time to deal with a group of chaotic ministers and thieves, corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Now I have to lead so many Northland refugees to beg for food!

For the sake of these northerner refugees, Zhu Cihong is really heartbroken! In order to bring out the more than 2 million people who were starving from various refugee camps (Zhu Cihong had always been very concerned about the refugees who had fled from the north, and built refugee camps for them in Fengyang, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Jiangpu, Yizheng and other places for some of them to live in), and from the death line (starvation), the naval warships and merchant ships on the Yangtze River, the boats on the canals, the sand boats anchored in Shanghai, and even some bird boats that could sail on the inland rivers were urgently requisitioned by the Generalissimo's Office.

The Cabinet Office also issued a letter to the prefectures (prefectures) and county (prefectures) along the river, along the Jiangxi (river), along the Han (water), and along the Hunan (river) to fully cooperate, and prepared a list of local wealthy merchants and gentry, so as to welcome the prince to bring people to dinner!

Of course, Zhu Cihong is reasonable, and he will never eat other people's food in vain - all the rich households who provide food will settle accounts with them.

The amount of food eaten will be doubled (at first it was planned to increase by 50%, but later considering the high price of rice now, it was changed to double), and it will be deducted with future field endowments.

In addition, all the local tyrants and inferior gentry who warmly entertained His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the begging masses could continue to lease the official land, military tun, and hidden land they occupied at a "preferential land rent" of three to seven buckets of rice after clearing the land, and the amount of grain they provided to the refugees could also be included in the deposit.

Inspired by a series of preferential conditions and the charm of the prince's personality, the gentry everywhere still knew the general ...... Anyway, no one dared to fight against Zhu Cihong's begging army behind closed doors, and they all obediently gave up food!

It seems that the gentry in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty are still worth saving...... They are all "loyal gentry", "righteous gentry" and "smart gentry", it seems that the Ming Dynasty has been a monk for more than 200 years, and it finally has a little effect.

In addition to begging for food, Zhu Cihong also had to resettle some refugees along the way.

The process of refugees fleeing all the way from the north is actually a process of eliminating the old and the weak. Therefore, most of the refugees who followed Zhu Cihong to beg for food were young and strong. At least most of the men met the selection criteria for the new soldiers.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong placed them in Anqing, Jiujiang, Wuhan, and Yuezhou (Baling) on the way to begg, and also sent some to Jingzhou, Xiangyang, and Nanchang, and when the begging army arrived in Changsha, the original 2 million people were now only more than 500,000 left.

According to Zhu Cihong's plan, Changsha will arrange 200,000 northerner refugees - the Jiwang Mansion and the garrison of the royal palace guards, which occupy half of Changsha City, will all be distributed to these 200,000 refugees. The Jiwang Mansion and some other county palaces and generals' mansions, as well as some related government offices, will also be demolished. The bricks, stones, timber, and land they received were given to these refugees to build their houses.

The Wangzhuang outside Changsha (not only the Wangzhuang of King Ji, but also the Grange of the five kings of Jing, Liao, Rong, Chu, and Min) and the military fields guarded by the palace will also be given to the northerners who resettled in Changsha.

In addition, Zhu Cihong will also set up a "Changsha General's Mansion" to manage and resettle 200,000 refugees in Changsha, and these 200,000 people are almost more than 40,000 households and less than 50,000 households if they are based on households.

In addition to this "Changsha General's Mansion", Zhu Cihong also set up a general's mansion in all the state capitals where a large number of northerners and refugees were placed.

However, these "generals' mansions" are not the same as those stationed in the Qing Dynasty in history, they only take care of refugees temporarily, and are also responsible for recruiting soldiers and conducting basic military training for new recruits. It is a bit similar to the Yingyang Mansion and Zhichong Mansion of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, they did not recruit the northerners refugees, who were not military or a privileged class like the bannermen.

Zhu Cihong didn't want them to end up becoming the bannermen of the Ming Dynasty, nor did he want them to become the new military households of the Ming Dynasty, but he just wanted to give some of them a chance to rise and become the upstarts of Beifu who supported them, and most of them still slowly integrated into the local area...... As a feudal dynasty, if you want to get Zhongxing, it is inevitable to produce a group of new nobles, but Prince Zhu doesn't want the upstart group to have too many people, and the wolves are too many and the meat is not enough!

Because Zhu Cihong handed over the Jiwang Mansion in Changsha City (which had been destroyed by Zhang Xianzhong) to the Changsha General's Mansion and the refugees, his own line was placed in the Yunlu Palace (Taoist Temple) on Yuelu Mountain on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River.

At the same time, he also let people find a villa of a rich family on Orange Island, and sometimes he would bring Wu Sanmei and Zheng Chagu to live, and by the way, he would take a look at Changsha City, which haunted him...... But I didn't expect to cry when I looked at it.

Huang Xiaobao saw that Prince Zhu was crying for no reason, and he didn't know what was wrong, so he had to go up and ask: "Master Chitose, Cao Zongrong, Governor He, Chang Zongrong and Blockage have all gone to Orange Island, do you want to see them?" ”

"See you!" Zhu Cihong wiped his tears, "Ji Kun and Wang Fuzhi have arrived?" ”

"Arrived, they arrived early."

"Then call them along!"

"Whoa!"

The place where Zhu Cihong met with Cao Youyi, He Tengjiao, Chang Yanling and others was the villa in Orange Island, a very elegant place, surrounded by orange groves.

The purpose of Zhu Cihong's summoning of them here was to discuss with them the Guangdong issue and the Xiangxi (including Shizhouwei) issue.

Now the plain area of Huguang has basically been effectively controlled by Zhu Cihong. Among them, Hubei asked Li Zicheng to clean up, and Zhu Cihong went to grab the fruits of victory, although there were many twists and turns in the process, but the result was not bad.

The plain areas of Hunan are Yuezhou, Changde, Changsha, and Hengzhou. Through the two generals' mansions in Yuezhou and Changsha, and a Hengzhou general's mansion later, it can basically be firmly controlled.

However, Guangdong and Xiangxi are not so easy to clean up! The former has a struggle between the natives and the merchants, and there are many maritime pirates, all of whom are thorns! The latter is a bunch of Xiangxi native warlords, whether they are Tusi or Weisu, they are also all kinds of dissatisfied.

In the original history, this group of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods was tossed until New China was bulldozed. Zhu Cihong is a feudal prince, but he does not dare to compare with New China.

So I don't think about completely bulldozing or anything......

On top of a small building that can look at Yuelu on the left and Changsha on the right, the seven people who came to visit Zhu Cihong set up a banquet. It is not a feast, but a meal to be eaten, just as the ancient kings did when they feasted their subordinates.

After the three rounds of wine and the five flavors of the dishes, Zhu Cihong smiled and said to He Tengjiao, Cao Youyi, and Chang Yanling: "The two general Rong, He Futai, and Blockage Fantai, invite you to come over today, just to find out how to deal with the territory of Guangdong and Huguang. Ji Yushi, Huang Taichong, Gu Fuzi and Wang Fuzi jointly wrote a "Advice on Sealing and Suggesting Political Sparseness", have all three of them read it? ”