At the end of August, in Nanjing City, Wang Yan recalled the people who were responsible for the relief of the victims in Jiangbei and arranged for You Youlun, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials to move to Taiwan.

He is a student of He Tengjiao, in Wuchang to help the victims, the construction of Wuchang has achieved good results, Wuchang Mansion tax payment is the highest in Huguang Mansion, not to mention, compared with the predecessor, but also more than doubled.

It was difficult for the central court to know the specific situation of local officials, so promotions were mainly based on political performance, population and tax growth.

You Youlun's political achievements were outstanding, and he was naturally promoted in the line of fire, and his position was taken over by an old friend of Uncle Wang Yan, Zhao Renji, a jinshi during the Chongzhen period.

In the cabinet council hall, Wang Yan is seated in the middle hall, five senior members are in the inner hall, You Youlun is in the last position, and outside the hollow pear wood partition, there are several officials who are to be questioned, waiting to be called.

"Your Highness, several cabinet ministers, the situation in Jiangbei is basically stable now, and every day there are ships from Fujian and Guangdong coming to Jiangbei to pick up refugees, and then transport them to Taiwan and occupy the city." You Youlun said to a few people.

Wang Yan nodded, the refugee problem has been dragging on for more than half a year, and it's time to solve it.

"How about the preparation for the resettlement between the two places?"

You Youlun smiled, "The Taiwanese side is less prepared, but the Zhancheng side has already been prepared. Since the beginning of the year, Champa has been waiting for refugees to pass, and the result has been waiting until now. In this transport, many businesses in Quang Nam took the initiative to send ships over to help the imperial court transport and distribute them to the 200,000 refugees in Champang, and the transport had already been completed before Xia Guan returned to Beijing, but the Taiwan side was slower to move and would probably not end until mid-September. ”

Listening to You Youlun's words, Wang Yan smiled and said to Wang Fuzhi: "It seems that the reform of the household department to the business name has been effective!" ”

"Commercial development, the gentry and the common people will inevitably chase interests, this year's cotton price is high, they will flock to plant cotton, the price of mulberry silk is high, and all the mulberry seedlings are planted, so that the rice fields are less and less, the court can not restrain them, and the government is to order restrictions, and the people will also secretly replant, which cannot be stopped at all, so they can only start from these businesses that have made a lot of money. The Ministry of Household issued a rule that if a merchant wanted to do maritime trade, he had to help the imperial court collect a batch of grain, and then the city department would give it a share of the trade according to the voucher of the merchant receiving grain. This forced the merchants to look for grain everywhere, and the people in the interior were growing less grain, and the cost of growing grain was high and the returns were low, so these maritime merchants were forced to buy land in Nanyang to prepare for growing grain. However, there were few people in Nanyang, and the natives were lazy, so the maritime merchants bought a lot of land in Zhancheng, but no one cultivated it, so they were in a hurry to transport people from Jiangbei. Wang Fuzhi explained to several cabinet ministers around him that this was a decree issued by the household ministry in March, and because it was a trial period, it had not yet been notified to the cabinet.

The Ming Dynasty was a stage of social transformation in China, with commercial development and the budding of capital.

During the Wanli period, Zhong Huamin, the governor of Henan, said, "The minister saw the fertile soil in Zhongzhou, half sandalwood, and the cotton was all returned to the traders, and the folk clothes were from the trade." This shows that Henan at that time, there has been a large-scale change to cash crops phenomenon, and in addition to cotton fields, the Ming Dynasty also began to grow tobacco, tobacco profits, than rice fields ten times higher, there is a record of "outsiders to horses easy to smoke a catty", and Chongzhen Dynasty also banned smoking twice.

This is because "eating tobacco" violates the taboo of the Yan Domain, and the second is that some ministers have written to say that tobacco has been planted in some places.

Although the imperial court explicitly forbade it, the pursuit of interests by the people could not be prohibited at all. In addition to natural disasters, the famine in the Ming Dynasty was also related to the cultivation of cash crops.

Of course, there are two sides to everything, and the same thing, from many aspects, can be completely opposed, but both of them make sense.

The sprout of capital makes the people pursue profits, and the people replant cash crops on a large scale, resulting in food shortages, resulting in famine, and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, but the capital must sprout, and the society must change, and it will inevitably face this kind of pain.

China has been looking for solutions internally, but all have failed, and the only one that came close to success was the Song Dynasty, but this process was destroyed by foreigners.

Wang Yan summed up the lessons of the past dynasties, of course, because he represented the interests of the gentry class, and the resistance to breaking through inward was too great, so he locked his eyes on Nanyang.

After the business completes the target, the imperial court will also give a certain amount of tax exemption to encourage, otherwise the business will not agree to the plan of the household department.

This plan is only a preliminary attempt, and it is currently only being implemented in the Guangzhou City Division, and the specific situation will not be achieved until next year.

Wang Yan thought about it, and suddenly said to Gu Yuanjing: "This is the Ministry of Rites, and we should also pay attention to it, if the maritime merchants buy land in Nanyang, it will inevitably cause local contradictions. ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, after the last big reading, many vassals were very respectful to our dynasty, and when the lower officials went back, they instructed the officials stationed in the feudal court to protect the interests of the dynasty."

Wang Yan looked at Chen Bangyan of the Ministry of War again, "The Ministry of War should also pay attention to the fact that the Governor of Zhancheng is the governor of the city, so many refugees have poured into the city, and the locals will inevitably be disgusted. ”

After discussing with the cabinet, Wang Yan learned the lessons of Yongle in Annam, and learned from the Dutch in Taiwan, and set up a governor in Zhancheng, and gave him great autonomy.

The first governor of Zhancheng, who is also Wang Yan's person, is still relatively old, and Qian Yifeng, who followed him in Shandong, has been taking care of the Yangzhou people in the past in Qiongzhou, so there has been no improvement in the past few years, but under his management, Qiongzhou Island has become the superior state capital of Liangguang second only to Guangzhou, and his political achievements are eye-catching enough.

Wang Yan also saw his achievements in developing Qiongzhou, so he ordered his general, originally wanted him to be the governor of Taiwan, but because of the transaction with King Gui, let him take the lead in responding to the relocation of Taiwan, so Qu Shiyun, who had been idle for a long time, was used as the governor of Taiwan, and let him be appointed as the governor of Zhancheng.

Chen Bangyan understood what Wang Yan meant, that is, he hoped that the military department would let the governor of Zhancheng let go of his hands and feet, in fact, the military department did this, otherwise when Zhancheng called, the military department made a decision, and then sent it back, I am afraid that the daylily will be cold.

"Your Royal Highness, the Ministry of War has already written the Liangguang Governor's Palace, as well as the Governor of Champang, if there is a problem in Nanyang, the Governor of Champong can directly mobilize the Champa army, and the Governor of Liangguang will cooperate with the Governor of Champa before the order of the imperial court, and after the order of the imperial court arrives, the order of the imperial court will be the mainstay."

Wang Yan nodded and pulled the topic back, "You Shilang, you have to continue to follow up on the resettlement of refugees, and the Taiwan Island side should communicate more with Governor Qu, and strive to transport all the refugees in Jiangbei away in early September." The ships to be requisitioned by the Ministry of Officials were to be vacated by the Imperial Court and then sent to Korea. ”

"The lower officials know that they will definitely live up to the trust of His Highness and the imperial court." You Youlun got up and saluted.

Wang Yan waved his hand, "You Shilang Fang went back to Nanjing, and he was tired all the way, so go back and rest first." ”

You Youlun bowed and took a few steps back, then turned to leave, and when he came out of the inner hall, Wang Fuzhi said: "Your Highness, are you ready to start a war with the Manchu Qing?" ”

Wang Yan did not deny, "The grain shortage in the Manchurian Qing Dynasty last year was alleviated after the summer harvest this year, and now since the DPRK has 30,000 troops, it should play a role, and Gu is ready to transfer Zheng Chenggong's sailors into the DPRK, cooperate with Xie Qian, and attack the coastal areas of Shandong and Beizhi on the occasion of the autumn harvest, and destroy the autumn harvest of the Manchu Dynasty." ”

"In this way, the peace talks will not be able to drag on, and Yangzhou will also start fighting." Wang Fuzhi said.

Wang Yan smiled, "Yes, it's been more than half a year, and the time is about the same, if you wait any longer, the cooked duck will fly." ”

After speaking, he looked at the outer hall and said, "Song Shilang of the Ministry of Engineering came in to speak." ”

Among the several officials seated at the end of the outer hall, one person immediately stood up, and it was Song Yingxing, who entered Beijing from Guangzhou, and the manufacture of weapons in Guangzhou was coordinated by his brother Song Yingsheng.

Song Yingxing walked in from the outer hall and saluted Wang Yan and several cabinet ministers, Wang Yan stretched out his hand to let him take a seat, and then asked: "Song Shilang, how is the military manufacturing over there in Guangzhou, and how many reserves are there now, can it support the imperial court to carry out a big war of about 100,000 people." ”

Before the Ming Dynasty, they retreated to the southwest, so many ordnance workshops were in Guangdong and Huguang, and had not yet moved to Jiangnan.

Song Yingxing had just come from Guangzhou, and he undoubtedly knew a lot about the manufacture and reserve of weapons, he listened to Wang Yan's inquiry, and said: "Back to Your Highness, the reserves of weapons in Guangzhou are very sufficient, mainly to repair and refurbish 40,000 sets of armor, 20,000 guns, 80 newly made red-coated cannons, 400 Furang cannons, 4,000 guns of their own, 10,000 sets of new armor, plus the manufacturing and reserves in Huguang, there should be no problem in supporting the 100,000 army, but there is a lack of gunpowder. ”

With so many equipment, it is impossible to manufacture it within half a year, and the majority of the new equipment is actually not much after the results of the new repair, as well as the capture of the Qing soldiers' armor and the results of the transformation.

Wang Yan listened to the previous words, and was overjoyed, and when he heard that the gunpowder was insufficient, his brows couldn't help frowning, "More than half of the army of this dynasty uses firearms, how to fight if the gunpowder is insufficient, what is missing, resulting in the lack of gunpowder, is the imperial court not enough silver?" ”

Song Yingxing hurriedly got up and saluted, and shook his head, "Your Highness, it's not that you don't have enough silver, it's that you don't have enough fire." ”

Wang Yan looked confused, where did he understand these things, "Can't you buy them with silver?" ”

"Nitrate is an important reserve, and we were able to buy some from Japan before, but now that the scale of our army has expanded, the nitrate is consumed too quickly, and the nitrate produced and purchased from outside can no longer keep up with the consumption of the army."

Wang Yan understood, pondered, and asked, "Didn't the ordnance supervisor think of a solution?" Is it possible to expand production? ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, the Ordnance Superintendent has been trying to make nitrate by soil method, and it has achieved certain results, but if you want to obtain greater production, you still need the cooperation of local governments, and the lower officials have already written an excerpt and are preparing to send it to the cabinet."

Wang Yan didn't ask what the soil method was, and he didn't understand it, he just wanted the result, professional things, and let the proficient people do it.

"Since there is a way to solve it, it is a good thing, the cabinet should discuss the plan proposed by Song Shilang as soon as possible, and if it is feasible, it will be handed over to the subordinate places and let them cooperate!"