Five days later.

"Tianjin?"

Fang Congzhe sneered.

"Yang Yishi has a good calculation, Tianjin has been planting rice along the Haihe River for many years, and everyone knows that it is fertile land, so do you want to cultivate land there? The imperial court also wants to cultivate rice there! Don't think about it there. ”

He went on to say.

At this time, the war was over, just like Yang Xin said, when the White Lotus Sect of Zou County went to Yishan to shout and shout, the White Lotus Sect stationed there quickly killed Xu Heyu and other leaders and surrendered, because of the lack of food, there was already no food, and the army was already unstable. As for Shen Zhi of Teng County, he did not surrender, he tried to lead his troops to break through but was defeated again by the Sichuan and Zhejiang troops outside the city, Shen Zhi was beheaded by the white pole soldiers of Qin Bangping, and the remnants of a small number of subordinates fled to the mountains around Baoqinggu.

Most of the others also surrendered one after another after knowing that the Zou County cultists had surrendered.

The Shandong Rebellion struck out so suddenly, and was quickly quelled in less than three months.

Then Yang Xin ran wildly for three days and entered Beijing to face the saint directly.

He will reclaim the wasteland.

The reclamation of wasteland that Wanli has promised but has not fulfilled so far.

Wanli looked at Yang Xin.

His Majesty the Emperor's complexion is getting worse day by day.

Although he is only in his fifties, except for Zhu Yuanzhang's father and son, the latter of their old Zhu family seems to be in poor health, and his health has been deteriorating since last year.

Fortunately, during this time, Daming was quite normal.

Liaodong has not had any major battles so far because of the strategic shift of wild boar skins, and it is impossible for wild boar skins to attack Liaodong at least in the first half of the year, and it is not worth mentioning that the two sides have fought sporadically along the border wall.

Not to mention the wild boar skin, even with the Mongols, in fact, the same.

Although the fried flowers are quite honest this winter because they grabbed a large amount of grain in Kaiyuan, they do not represent all Mongolians, he only represents the five departments of Inner Khalkha, and the rest are not honest whether they are called by Lin Dan Khan or the Ming Dynasty, or Tumut. But fortunately, there was no real threat to the Ming Dynasty, nothing more than friction between each other outside the pass, occasionally Mongolian herdsmen gathered outside the border wall to demonstrate, and the Ming troops also stationed along the line also demonstrated.

And then sporadically a little bit of a hundred and ten people level fight.

The same is true in the southwest, and there are constant small battles with those mountain people.

And Xu Hongru's sudden rebellion is really likely to create a threat, but because Yang Xin's participation in the war and the amazing performance of the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies were quickly resolved, the latter did surprise Wanli, especially the Zhejiang army, even if he didn't admit it, he knew that Qi Jiguang, who he hated when he looked at it, did leave him a valuable legacy. In short, for the emperor of the empire, who has entered the forty-eighth year after ascending the throne, his empire, which has lasted for two hundred and fifty years, is still as stable as Mount Tai, and the prosperity of Wanli is still the same, at least there is no sign of collapse.

"In that case, this Tianjin is indeed not suitable."

He said slowly.

The imperial court really wanted to reclaim the land in Tianjin.

After all, from Wang Yingjiao back then to Xu Guangqi before, it had been confirmed that all that place could be turned into fertile fields, and Zuo Guangdou was inspecting the area with the supervision of the imperial history to see if large-scale reclamation could be carried out, so that Yang Xin could not be given.

"Your Majesty, the grass people don't want those suitable for planting rice in Gegu, the grass people said before that the grass people want those saline-alkali flats that no one wants, and the Gegu area can't be regarded as a saline-alkali flat.

What the grass people want is to go east and south, that is, the ones between Gegu and Dagukou, and from there continue to the south, that area can neither be cultivated nor salted, it is all a barren land, and the grass people want this place. With the idea of the grass people, it is to take these rebels anyway and let them use the transformation of this wasteland to apologize to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty has mercy and forgiveness of the capital crime of participating in the rebellion, then they cannot be punished at all, and the minister just wants them to accept punishment in this way.

The minister's plan was to take them, starting from Tangguantun in Qingxian County, to dig a river to reduce the flood on the Cao River.

Tianjin is known as the lower tip of the Nine Rivers.

Most of the rivers in Beizhili converge there, and every year there are continuous floods that threaten Caoyun and Tianjin City, and there is no year when Tianjin City is not besieged by floods. Therefore, the minister wanted to dig such a river, start from the upstream to divert part of the flood to the northeast, bypass Tianjin and the Sancha River and directly enter the sea at the mouth of Dagu, so that fresh water can be used to irrigate these saline-alkali land, and the safety of Tianjin and the Sanchakou Cao River can be guaranteed.

And these people can just dig the river.

After digging, let them stay in the local area to reclaim the land and maintain the river. ”

Yang Xin said.

He just wanted to dig a horse factory to reduce the river.

As long as there is a horse factory to reduce the river, then the small station rice will also have, at this time Tianjin's rice planting is only carried out in the Gegu area, the new city to the small station area is purely worthless, but there is a horse factory to reduce the river is different, in the canal diversion of fresh water under the continuous washing, the salt of the saline-alkali beach is all diluted and then taken away, leaving a piece of nature that has been deposited for millions of years, all humus fertile soil.

"How much silver does the court have to pay?"

Fang Congzhe said angrily.

Obviously, Fang Ge Lao can already say that he has a deep hatred for Yang Xin, this bastard and his niece's matter has become a joke in the capital, and the Fang family has also become a laughing stock, until now it is still the joke of the people in the capital after dinner, Fang Ge Lao couldn't suppress his anger when he saw his face, and he couldn't wait to step forward and hit him on the head with a wat board.

"You don't need a tael of silver from the court!"

Yang Xin said.

"And how do you dig the river?"

Wanli instantly became interested.

It's easy to say that he doesn't need silver, His Majesty the Emperor is most troubled to dig out silver, and those who can do things without him paying money are good comrades to him.

Yang Xin is a good comrade.

I never asked him for a silver tael, but he did things properly.

But it is still too unbelievable not to dig a canal of more than 100 miles for a tael of silver, and those who surrendered to the Smelling Fragrance Cult had to be fed at least if they did not have to pay them to work. Even if those people couldn't give it all to him, such a project would require at least 10,000 people, and at the current price of one tael of silver for rice, it would cost tens of thousands of taels a year just to eat.

And that's not even counting buying tools and the like.

"Your Majesty, you said before that the land reclaimed by the grass people is considered to be rewarded to the grass people, but the grass people can't ask for Your Majesty's in vain, the grass people don't want the court to dig this river for a tael of silver and then take them to reclaim the wasteland, and the amount of reclamation along the line is also considered to be the grass people, so that the grass people can have peace of mind. As for their food, the grass people themselves will solve it, but His Majesty has to allow the grass people to take them to do something else, after all, the grass people really have no money, so they can only find ways to make money while digging this river. ”

Yang Xin said.

He has enough money in his pocket to last this year.

In the same way, this year he can also start trawling, in fact, there are in Guangdong, but the upper layer of the sea is called a windbreaker, and all he needs to do is to make a large trawl, make a row boat to tow the bottom fish in the offshore water, and then use these fish to solve the problem of those people's food. In addition, in some places with high terrain and low salinity in this area, he planted sweet potatoes and the like first, so that he could harvest a batch of grain reserves this year, in short, he could deal with the past year.

And it didn't take long for the horse factory to reduce the river.

Originally, there were less than 20,000 Sheng troops in history, and it took more than a year.

The terrain in this area is flat and the soil is soft, so one person just sends a shovel to dig it.

"You can't boil salt!"

Fang Congzhe said immediately.

"Boiling salt can't boil salt, the grass people won't boil salt in this life, the grass people want to take them to fish to supplement food, the second is still the Kaiyuan military transportation mentioned last time, and the third is to engage in some trade, in short, as long as they don't break the law, the grass people want to take them to do it, but many of these have household registration restrictions, so you need Your Majesty's permission."

Yang Xin said.

"Accurate!"

Wanli said very cheerfully.

None of this is worth mentioning, as long as you don't ask him for money.

What's more, Yang Xin is indeed very useful in digging this reduction river, and the Tianjin section of the canal is not worried about running out of water, but is afraid that the dam will be washed away by floods, and even irrigating Tianjin City is very common.

Having this river diversion at least reduces flooding.

"But those people can't give it all to you, after all, they all give you time to spare these counties to be young and strong, and there will be no one to plant those lands in the future, you can only pick 10,000 people from them at most, there is no limit to the time to dig the river, you can dig it when you want." Even if they are your volunteers, I will give you a name for this volunteer army, since the slogan you shouted is to kill Hu, then it is called the Dangkou army, and it will not belong to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies or to the Beijing camp.

And you still have to have a military position, and you can't run around like this anymore.

You have a meritorious service in exterminating the Wenxiang Sect, especially to protect the Confucian Temple and the Yan Shenggong family, and I will give you a Jinyi Wei to command Tongzhi, and use Jinyiwei to command Tongzhi to supervise the Dangkou army. ”

He went on to say.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!"

Yang Xin hurriedly said.

This is Wanli's kindness, to put it bluntly, Wanli also knows the relationship between him and civil officials, so that in the future, even if he is directly under Wanli, it is similar to the nature of internal exercises, and his Jinyi Wei command Tongzhi is scary enough, and he can go to Tianjin to play freely in the future.

At the same time, it is there on standby.

In the future, no matter where there is a need for ambulance personnel, Wanli has to hurry up to solve the problem with a holy decree, the significance of this army is only that Wanli does not have to pay for him, he himself clears the wasteland and counts his own, and 10,000 soldiers are considered to be serfs for him, and the nature is similar to the military households under the hereditary generals of the guard at this time. In addition, it is also to tie him there, otherwise it is not good for him to run around all the time, Wanli doesn't want to have another Nishan incident, and he still has to be locked in a safe warehouse at the level of a big killer.

Fang Congzhe next to him looked at Yang Xin with complicated eyes.

Yang Xin turned his head and smiled brightly at him.