If these words were put on the ordinary concubine, the person would have been so frightened that he knelt on the ground and confessed his guilt again and again, but Concubine Guo Ning still had a calm expression and said: "I can't hide anything from Your Majesty, to be honest, the concubine really likes the two of them." "In the end, it is a husband and wife in distress, and the relationship is different.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't answer her words, and while looking at the cards in his hand, he thought with a little worry: "This thing is good, but it always belongs to fun, and it is easy to breed gambling." What I hate the most is gambling, I don't do anything, I always want to get rich overnight, if everyone in my Ming Dynasty has this mentality, then who will give me the land and pay for the grain? ”

Concubine Guo Ning and the other concubine all stopped talking, they were too familiar with Lao Zhu's temper, and they knew that Lao Zhu, a resolute person, would definitely not just spit and complain.

Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang put the cards in his hand and said: "Spread the will, this kind of playing cards can only be circulated among the royal family and nobles, and it should not be made to the people. ”

Lao Zhu is really domineering, if future generations can follow his edict, why can't he gamble?

Concubine Guo Ning's eyes rolled, and she took the opportunity to say to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty's will is good, if you want to make a fortune, you must rely on down-to-earth hard work, always thinking about opportunism, how can you do it?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was so wise, how could he not hear the intention of her words, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and said, "What do you want to say for King Su?" Just say it all in one go. ”

Concubine Guo Ning smiled and said, "Look at your quick temper, I really can't hide anything from your eyes." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was also amused by her words, with a rare smile on his face, and said, "If you can't even guess your thoughts, then I won't do it." ”

Concubine Guo Ning changed her tone and said: "Actually, it is not easy for King Su's child, his mother is not favored by you, and he has not received much love since he was a child." But this kid is self-motivated, whether you think he is doing the right thing or not, he is a willing person. Anyway, I think he's much better than those vassal kings who only kill the people. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't answer Concubine Guo Ning's words, with his cleverness, he could naturally hear who Concubine Guo Ning was talking about, and his sons, King Qin, King Jin, etc., were all known for being arrogant and cruel. But Lao Zhu's punishment of them was not taken at all except for admonishment or admonishment, which shows Lao Zhu's love for protecting the calf.

Concubine Guo Ning ignored Zhu Yuanzhang's psychological activities, and continued: "As far as I know, the wheat they suppress is about to have a bumper harvest, but the labor in his hands is not enough, if he can't harvest it, wouldn't it be a pity that all the good grain will rot in the ground?" This kid please be self-reliant, after the domain, he didn't ask you for anything, he asked for a group of prisoners to build a rich country, you don't hurt such a son, what kind of son do you want to love? Besides, isn't your aim always to encourage people who are active and hardworking? How can it not work for my own son? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang lost his temper by what she said, smiled and waved his hand: "Good, good, good." I can't talk about you. In fact, I also intend to help him, not to mention anything else, just say that it is a pity that so much grain is wasted, if it can be harvested, then the pressure of grain transportation in the north will be suddenly reduced. My son has done a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

Concubine Guo Ning put her hands on the table and said with a smile: "That's not it, if every vassal king is as capable as King Su, then how much worry do you have to save?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and did not answer. Because he knew in his heart that King Su's method would not work in other places. The biggest reason for King Su's success is that the land west of the river is vast and sparsely populated, and he can enclose a large area of land and engage in large-scale farm movements. But in the interior, the fields are basically divided by the people, and it is not an easy task to take the land from their hands, and the cost required must be far greater than that of the land in Hexi, and it may directly scare off the people who enclose the land. Moreover, Lao Zhu did not want Zhu Ao's production method to spread all over the country, because that meant that there would be countless heroes in the Ming Dynasty, and they would absorb the country's land, population and other resources, so that the Ming Dynasty would repeat the mistakes of the Eastern Han Dynasty and finally end up in a group of heroes.

Zhu Yuanzhang put down all the playing cards, stood up and said: "Immediately draft the order: if the people in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang and other places want to go to Hexi, they will all be released." In addition, the 70,000 prisoners who were newly convicted in connection with the Lanyu case also immediately left for Hexi. "A total of 15,000 people were killed in the Lan Yu case, and the families of these dignitaries and nobles add up to at least 100,000. It's just that these people were not killed all at once, but were bitten out one after another, and then killed, so Geng Bingwen only brought more than 10,000 prisoners before.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's holy decree was promulgated throughout the country, it immediately caused a big stir in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang and other places, and everyone was discussing the king of Su in the Hexi Corridor and whether to defect to him.

A mountain village in Sichuan. A few poor men in shirts got together to discuss the matter.

A thin man said, "Are you saying that King Su is telling the truth?" The land west of the river has really become Jin Zhangye and Yin Wuwei, and there is grain everywhere, waiting for us to harvest? ”

A slightly older man with a beard said, "I don't think so, you don't know?" That land west of the river is facing enemies on three sides, fighting all day long, and I see that the king of Su wants to trick you all over and use him as cannon fodder. ”

The thin man said, "But I have heard people who have been there say that it is indeed full of crops, and that King Su has invented many irrigation tools and dredged the canals of the previous generations, so he has a lot of food. There are so many that they can't take them all, so they want to let us go. ”

The bearded, slightly older man patted the thin man's head and said, "There is a saying that hearing is false, seeing is believing, have you seen it with your own eyes?" Don't be sold at that time, and help people count the money. ”

The thin man was stunned for a moment, there was no doubt that what the bearded man said was very reasonable, but after thinking for a while, he stomped his foot on the ground and scolded: "Daughter-in-law's baby! I think this is true, he is a prince, and he is not afraid of war if his life is so valuable, what am I afraid of? Besides, Lao Tzu has been poor for eight lifetimes, and now he can't even marry a daughter-in-law, what can he do in this small ravine? It's better to go outside and break in. Lao Tzu doesn't care, Lao Tzu goes! With that, he went home and packed his bags.

The two brothers in the crowd were stunned by the thin man's behavior, and the younger brother said to the elder brother: "Brother, I think what this thin man said makes sense, why don't we go and break through." Anyway, we don't have our parents, and the poor are left with this rotten life, and if we stay here, I'm afraid that we will be singles for the rest of our lives. ”

The elder brother held his chin with his right hand, thought for a while, and said: "Brother thinks that what the beard said also has a certain truth, the so-called 'the heart of harming people must not be there, and the heart of preventing people is indispensable', I think we are still safer." Brother will go to explore the road first, if there is really as good as people say in Hexi, brother will ask someone to give you a little letter to let you pass. ”

The younger brother thought for a while, and also felt that this method was safe, and said, "Then brother, be careful on the road, I am here to wait for your good news." ”

The elder brother said "um", turned around and chased after the skinny man before, shouting as he ran, "Hey! Thin man, you wait for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will go with you! ”

A village in Shaanxi, at night. A middle-aged woman said, "Boss, do we really want to move our family to the west of the river where we fight all day long?" ”

A middle-aged man immediately made a gesture to stop and said angrily, "Can you be quieter?" If we let the creditors know, will we still be able to escape? ”

The middle-aged woman said with a hint of concern, "Have you really figured it out?" I've heard that place is dangerous. ”

The middle-aged man scolded: "What do you know about a? Hexi is dangerous, but he is not dangerous for the yellow tiger? We owe him money and don't want to pay it back in this life, do you really want Xiaohua to be a slave for him? ”

At the mention of the child, the middle-aged woman's heart softened, hugged the little flower beside her, sighed, and said, "Okay." I listened to you, and we moved our family to Hexi. ”

In this way, the poor who could not marry their daughters-in-law, those who avoided debts, those who avoided revenge, those who wanted to make a fortune, and those who wanted to make a fortune rushed to Hexi one after another, plus more than 70,000 prisoners sent by Lao Zhu, Zhu Ao's subordinates increased the labor force by more than 200,000. Coupled with the previous manpower, it should be enough.

In the blink of an eye, it was harvest time, and Zhu Ao formed the newcomers according to the previous way, with ten people set up one captain, one hundred people set up one hundred commanders, one thousand people set up one thousand commanders, and ten thousand people set up ten thousand commanders, and the ten thousand commanders were directly under his own command. According to the rewards and punishments that were previously formulated, start to urge everyone to work.

Due to the small rations before, Zhu Ao only stipulated that the first place should be rewarded and the last place should be punished. This measure is clearly inflexible and will cause a negative mentality among some of the people in the middle. Anyway, you can't win the first place, as long as you make sure that you don't fall to the end.

This is also a reason used to incite people's hearts when the thousand households want to rebel. Based on this, Zhu Ao formulated new reward and punishment measures. He divided all the strong laborers into five classes, the worst of which was the fifth class, and he was given five buckets of rations every month, and each time he was promoted, he added an extra tito. Labor that has received first-class labor for three consecutive months will be rewarded with two additional buckets of grain, and labor that has received first-class labor for six consecutive months will be rewarded with another five buckets of grain. For one year in a row, he received a first-class labor, and was rewarded with one stone and five buckets of grain, plus thirty catties of pork. The female labour force is halved in line with this measure.

If you have been a fifth-class laborer for three months in a row, you will be deducted a bucket of grain every month from now on. If you have been a fifth-class laborer for five months in a row, you will be sent directly to a slave camp to do dirty work.

Encouraged by this measure, everyone began to harvest wheat in full swing, and it was a busy scene again.

Zhu Ao watched the golden wheat waves being cut off piece by piece, not to mention how cool it was, Jin Zhangye, Yin Wuwei, it really deserved its reputation.

At this time, Zhu Ao became more and more convinced of human creativity, and the land west of the river was originally a wild land that no one wanted to come to, but under his subjective efforts, in just one year, it became a paradise.

Some countries in later generations, such as Singapore and Israel, have poor natural conditions, and even belong to places where birds don't poop, but under the condition of relying on people's subjective creativity and relying on scientific and technological progress, they have also become countries that have attracted worldwide attention.

After the rush of the people, all the wheat fields of the Su Fan were harvested, and the grains were returned to the warehouse. Because he had long expected that there would be a bumper harvest in the Su Domain, Zhu Ao asked the craftsmen to expand the granary in advance, which happened to be used at this time.

These few days are Lan Youcheng's busiest time, because she has to figure out how much grain has been harvested this year, how much each farm produces, and how much each granary has stored. The prince gave her such an important job, and accepted her as a concubine to get her out of slavery, what reason did she have not to do her best for the prince?

Due to the huge workload during this time, Lan Youcheng stayed in the account room all day and did not come out, Zhu Ao was afraid that she would be tired, so he specially sent a few maids to serve her.

After five days of statistics, Lan Youcheng finally got the results. In the evening, Lan Youcheng ran to Zhu Ao's dormitory happily with the general account sheet. As soon as he entered the door, he saw that Zhu Ao and Sun Yunqi were both in the house, Lan Youcheng held the account sheet with both hands, walked two steps briskly to the two, slowly knelt on the ground, and said, "The concubine is the princess and the princess." ”

Sun Yunqi stepped forward, gently helped Lan Youcheng, and said, "Why should my sister be polite? Please get up. ”

Lan Youcheng slowly stood up, unable to hide the excited expression on her face, and said, "The princess's care for the concubine is remembered in the palace, but how can the concubine be rude?" In the eyes of others, the concubine body has become a person who does not know the height of the sky. ”

Zhu Ao nodded with satisfaction, she liked Lan Youcheng very much like people who knew how to measure, she could usually be coquettish, but she would never misplace her identity, and said with a charitable smile: "Tell this king quickly, how much grain have we received?" ”

Lan Youcheng's face bloomed with a smile, and said: "Lord Wang, the concubine body has been busy accounting accounts these days, and the more you calculate, the more you will throw yourself into the five bodies that the prince admires, to be honest, if it weren't for what the concubine saw with her own eyes, the concubine would never believe this amount." ”

Zhu Ao's heart was a little anxious by her, and said, "Don't sell it, say it quickly." Do you want the king to punish you? ”

Lan Youcheng spread out the account book, walked to Zhu Ao, slowly knelt on the ground, and then raised the account book above his head with both hands, and said, "Congratulations to the princess, concubine." This year, we have reclaimed a total of 5.1 million mu of land and harvested 12.8 million stone of grain, with an average yield of two stones and five buckets per mu, and in some places more than three stones per mu. ”

Sun Yunqi opened his mouth wide in shock, and the handkerchief in his hand fell unconsciously, and said, "So much, Lord Wang." We've collected so much food! ”