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Lian Zining smiled slightly, stepped forward, pressed him into a chair, sat on the opposite side of his own care, and said with a faint smile: "Lord Qi, this is 12,000 taels of gold!" It is the sand gold produced in the Northeast, the so-called big waves and sand, this sand gold is full of red gold! When we were in the 51st year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, one tael of gold was exchanged for sixteen taels of silver, which was close to 200,000 taels of silver! ”

Hearing this number, Qi Zhao swallowed heavily again, and his heart beat violently.

200,000 taels is a huge number, for Lian Zining, it is also Wu Yijun's expenditure for nearly half a month, and for Qi Zhao, it is undoubtedly a shocking huge amount of money! Some of the Jingguan'er are bitter, and some are fat, but even if they are fat, it is almost an impossible task to save hundreds of thousands of taels in this life!

During the period of Emperor Jingtai, in order to let the ministers support him to abolish the crown prince of Yingzong, that is, Zhu Jianshen of Xianzong in the future, he secretly bribed the minister, and a minister only gave a hundred taels of gold.

Even for the emperor, this is not a small amount.

Qi Zhao is not a saint, how can he not be tempted when he sees this gold?

Lian Zining pointed to the gold and said softly: "Lord Qi, all this money is yours!" ”

Hearing this, Qi Zhao's head, which had almost been burned faint by gold, suddenly sobered up, he looked at Lian Zining, and said, "That uncle, what do you need to do if you want to hold this money steadily?" ”

"Good!" Lian Zining high-fived. Haha laughed and said: "Lord Qi is really a refreshing person!" ”

Qi Zhao bowed his waist and said respectfully: "Uncle still asks for instructions, but if Qi Zhao can't do this, Qi Zhao will never dare to accept this money." ”

When he said this, Lian Zining clearly saw that the corners of his eyes twitched with extreme pain.

Lian Zining saw his expression. With a bottom in his heart, he said, "Master Qi, you don't have to worry about this." What the official wants you to do, you can definitely do! ”

Qi Zhao hurriedly pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"Master Qi, let me ask you first. In our Ming Dynasty, how many untouchables are there? ”

Lian Zining suddenly asked.

Qi Zhao was slightly stunned, but he was a cadre who could count in the household, and he knew all of these things well, and after a moment of silence, he said: "It's almost around six or seven million!" ”

He then explained in detail: "In Jingzhou Mansion, Yuezhou Mansion, Changsha Mansion and other places, there are 57,036 households and 2.09 million people of Chen Youliang's subordinates in the past; Jiangxi's political envoys to Hengzhou Mansion, Linjiang Mansion, Yuanzhou Mansion and other places, there are 653,133 households and more than 2.6 million people in the former Fang Guozhen and others; Zhejiang's political envoy Sihu Prefecture and Yanzhou Mansion. Quzhou Mansion is located in the four prefecture capitals, with 400,367 households and 1.73 million people, and these are already about to be moved to the northeast. ”

"Who is in control of these untouchables?" Lian Zining asked again.

"This. Naturally, it is a local government. Qi Zhao pondered for a moment and said, "But these untouchables don't farm or do business, they either hunt some fish in the countryside and pick some wild fruits to eat." Barely surviving, either doing some menial work in the city, or prostitution, or beggars, the local government has very limited supervision over them. ”

Lian Zining didn't seem to be in a hurry to get to the point, but continued to ask neatly: "So, what impact does the existence of these untouchables have on the local level?" ”

He was not in a hurry, and Qi Zhao did not dare to divert from the conversation, but just followed his train of thought and said: "The untouchables do not produce, have no stable source of income, it can be said that they have eaten the last meal but not the next, and the life is extremely hard. Since the founding of the dynasty, there have been more than 100 rebel rebellions, and the source of these traitors is the miners, the untouchables, and the white lotus. ”…,

Hearing Qi Zhao talk about the White Lotus Sect, Lian Zining's spirit couldn't help but be in a trance, at this moment, his thoughts seemed to return to two years ago, when he was still a small commander, and the Wu Yijun at that time was just a test field for the emperor and Dai Zhangpu to test the power of firearms, at that time, he led a mere 2,000 people to fight and quell the chaos in the land of Qilu, and he had also dealt with the White Lotus Sect!

Time flies, two years in the blink of an eye, and now, there are dozens of commanders under him, and his power has expanded rapidly, and now looking back, it is also incredible.

And Li Tie, who escaped into the white lotus, and Qi Jiguang and other heroes, don't know what to do at the moment.

It's just a trance for a while, and then he recovers, saying, "There's no oil and water, it's just going to cause trouble." In this way, the local government must treat these untouchables as if they were tumors, and they can't wait to get rid of them? ”

Qi Zhao nodded: "So to speak!" ”

"Lord Qi!" Lian Zining called lightly, leaned forward, Qi Zhao also hurried over, and heard Lian Zining say: "Look at my northeast land, how is it?" ”

Qi Zhao said: "The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the fertile fields are thousands of miles, the lower officials have come all the way, and they can see this northeast land, but wherever there are people, the crops are a great harvest, but where there are people, there are less!" Xia Guan also heard that the boundary of someone's land is only on both sides of the Songjiang River, and if you go inside, the large plain land is uninhabited. Although this northeast is called wild, if there are more people, in the eyes of the lower officials, although it is cold, it will definitely not be inferior to the land of Huguang and the country of Tianfu in Sichuan. ”

Lian Zining saw that Qi Zhao was gradually surrounded by himself, so he smiled and said, "Then Lord Qi, bring these untouchables over, give them land, farming cattle, and farm tools, and let them live and work here in peace and contentment." How's that going? ”

Qi Zhao was already a little bit of a bottom in his heart at this time, so he flattered: "Uncle's move is really a Buddha born in ten thousand families!" ”

"Lord Qi is overrated, overrated. Ten thousand Buddhas, I don't dare to be it! Lian Zining waved his hand and said with a smile: "Lord Qi also said just now, the local government regards the untouchables as enemies, and what about me?" Here I treat the untouchables as friends and relatives, and I need them the most, and they have come to me. They also live a comfortable life, which is a beautiful thing that kills three birds with one stone! Lord Qi, you are a cadre of the household department. Everyone in the court knows, you say, if you go back and tell Shengshang Chen that my northeast is vast and sparsely populated. Suffering from the lack of people, please move all the untouchables in the Guannai to the northeast, will the saint be allowed to play? ”

Lian Zining finally said his purpose, and Qi Zhao couldn't help but be stunned.

He had already guessed something, but he couldn't believe it, after all, Lian Zining was not such a flattering errand to do these jobs, and he couldn't see any benefit to himself at all. And he has to pay for his own activities to do this! For these Ming bureaucrats who do not seek merit but seek no fault, this is completely incomprehensible.

"This?" Qi Zhao pondered for a moment. Since ancient times, it has never been a trivial matter to relocate the people, often involving hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people, and the amount of work is extremely huge. All kinds of work are very tedious, and if something goes wrong, it is a great sin. So basically the population migration was led by the emperor, and few ministers proposed it, and since the Qin and Han dynasties, the officials have been rogue officials. If you don't stay in one place for a long time, you will be transferred, and the matter of immigration is an errand that can only be effective for a long time, so why do you have to work hard to do it, and you are about to make political achievements but you are transferred away to make wedding clothes for others in vain? …,

And once relocated, the workload of the government where the untouchables are located is certainly not small, and the government of those places where they pass by also has responsibilities and errands, so it can be said that people will scold all the way behind their butts.

This errand is risky, and it is also a thankless errand.

It was because Lian Zining tried his best to communicate with the household department at the beginning, and he invited the will of Emperor Zhengde, which was the reluctance to move more than a million people.

The household officials have never taken the initiative to do such things.

He smiled and said, "Uncle, don't you already have more than 1.7 million of Zhang Shicheng's remaining troops here?" ”

"Not enough! That's not enough! Do you think I'm such a big land? Lian Zining knew the doubts in Qi Zhao's heart, in fact, this is also human nature, his own approach seems to be a bit too selfless, too for the country and the people, this is not like an official of the Ming Dynasty!

This is also the reason why he found Qi Zhao, for the Ming Dynasty, a population of several million is nothing at all, there are too many people in the Ming Dynasty! The population on the imperial court alone is more than 98 million, and the actual population is only more than 20,000! But for Lian Zining, for Wu Yijun, and for the Northeast, population is everything! With people, wasteland can be developed, and the Northeast becomes richer and more prosperous; With people, food production has increased dramatically, and tax revenues have skyrocketed; With people, there is commerce, there are recipients for conscription, there are a large number of soldiers, and there are people who build armor for Wu Yijun, transport grain and grass, and build cities!

These untouchables, it is a pity that the court has no taste to eat and abandons them, but Lian Zining is determined to get it.

Therefore, he can't get all this through Dai Zhangpu and all the people who are close to him, in that case, it is easy for the court to guess his intentions, but he will expose his arrangement in advance, and now, it is not the time.

In this way, it would be better for Qi Zhao, who came to the Northeast for the first time and had no friendship with him, but only had some dealings because of official business, to be this person.

As for Qi Zhao's question, he didn't explain it, the more he explained, the more chaotic it became, and he wanted to cover it up. So fortunately, he didn't say anything, just let Qi Zhao guess for himself, anyway, no matter how he guessed, he couldn't guess his true intentions.

Lian Zining just smiled slightly: "Lord Qi, those populations are very important to me, yes, please ask Lord Qi to help, these money are just deposits, and when this matter is moved down, the official will have the same amount of gold as a gift!" ”

"The same amount of gold?" Qi Zhao repeated this sentence in his heart with almost great difficulty.

He finally couldn't help the greed in his heart, nodded heavily, and said, "Uncle, this matter, let's hand it over to a subordinate official!" After the official goes back, he will do it immediately! ”

"Okay, it's really a refreshing person!" Lian Zining laughed, got up and patted him on the shoulder: "Lord Qi is refreshing, and the official is not ambiguous." As long as all the untouchables can reach this place before this time next year, then this official will have an equal share of gold! ”

Qi Zhao was overjoyed, pointed to the three major boxes, and said in a trembling voice: "As much as this?" ”

Lian Zining smiled and bowed.

Sure enough, there is motivation if there is encouragement, if Lian Zining is only allowed to give him these gold. Then Qi Zhao agreed, I am afraid that he will not do enough to do his best, and the efficiency can be imagined. And Lian Zining first used this gold as an introduction. In addition, it was promised a heavy profit, and after the deed was completed, 12,000 taels of gold was reached, and it was this amount when it arrived in time.

Man's greed is limitless. With that, I want to have more. In fact, if there were no 12,000 taels at the beginning, maybe there would not be such great greed in my heart. …,

Qi Zhao only felt that his heart was burning at this time, and he couldn't wait to fly back to Beijing City immediately to do this big thing. Those eyes, but they can't do without the three chests of gold.

Lian Zining looked at it and smiled faintly.

Qi Zhao made money on this business, and he also made it, and the only one who suffered was the imperial court.

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Qi Zhao left.

After carefully discussing with Lian Zining for a full hour. Qi Zhao thoroughly understood Lian Zining's meaning, and immediately resigned. He couldn't wait, return to Jingshi as soon as possible, and complete this big thing as soon as possible, those golden gold. But it's in your own pocket.

And there is still a consideration in my heart, the temperament of the court has always been lazy, and after a year, it will have to wait until February to start doing things, so it is better to get everything done early and try to finish everything before the year. As soon as the New Year is over, I will mobilize those untouchables to leave their homes and go north, and I am afraid that they will be able to reach the northeast in the summer. Anyway, the winter in Jiangnan is also very warm, all the way to the north, and when you reach the cold land, the weather is also warmer.

Regarding Qi Zhao's positivity, Lian Zining naturally welcomed it with both hands, and even sighed, if the officials of the Ming Dynasty had such enthusiasm and pioneering spirit so strong, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty would have dominated the world long ago and become a planetary empire.

As soon as Qi Zhao left with his front foot, Hong Chao's back foot came.

"Uncle, congratulations!" Hong Chaojiao glanced at Qi Zhao's back, and said to Lian Zining with a smile.

"It's just a prototype, whether it can be done or not is a different matter, and don't be busy congratulating, but think about the work that needs to be done when the untouchables arrive in large numbers! The territory of our Wu Yijun is getting bigger and bigger, and you are in charge of the training of the Yamen, a civil official who guards the land, but some of them can't keep up! ”

At this time, it was afternoon, it was almost dusk, the dim and bleak sun reflected the infinite desolation, and the cold wind of Xiao Xiao was also awe-inspiring, hitting the face, a chill.

This late autumn in the Northeast is already extremely slaughtering.

Lian Zining let out a long breath of turbidity, widened his chest, and smiled sideways at Hong Chao.

"The lower official is ashamed!" Hong Chao said ashamedly: "After this incident, the lower officials have learned a lesson, the day before yesterday was already the county governance under the text, let each county elect five capable young people to come out, these young people will be on an errand for a period of time, gather in the general office yamen, according to what you said at the beginning, hold a training class, teach them the way of official governance, as a reserve force." And those young officials who were assigned to exercise below before will also be able to come back when the Chinese New Year comes, and by that time, we will have at least more than 100 capable officials in our hands, and these are all worthy of heavy responsibilities. ”

"Hmm!" Lian Zining nodded: "You are more detailed than I thought, you think clearly, you can do it yourself, what's wrong, something?" ”

Hong Chaojiao raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "But there is a big happy event to tell the uncle!" ”

Lian Zining raised his eyebrows, but he didn't hurry to ask, and said, "Let's go, let's go in and talk." ”

The two entered the General's Mansion, and Lian Zining was walking, but he saw a figure in green in front of him hurriedly running towards this side, and he looked fixedly, but it was Jiang Li Yena.

Ye Nai lowered her head and hurriedly ran forward, and she didn't see Lian Zining, until she saw two pairs of big feet in front of her, which was a quick brake, and it was also thanks to the very good flexibility of her body, which was to stop her steps in a hurry, but the whole person was stagnant backwards, becoming a bow, so that the perfect curve of the chest was highlighted, and Lian Zining found out. Ye Na has followed him for a few years, but his body has completely grown, and his chest was just a grip at the beginning, but now, it is already very impressive. …,

Hong Chaojiao was naturally very conscious, and tilted his head to the side.

Seeing that Ye Nai was flustered, Lian Zi Ning Nahan asked, "Ye Nai, what's wrong with you?" In a hurry? ”

Wild Na met Lian Zining. Suddenly embarrassed, I felt that the undignified appearance just now fell in Lian Zining's eyes, which was really embarrassing. She quickly straightened her back. put on a serious appearance, but his face was red, and he stammered: "Back to the words of the adult." I'm going to learn archery from Sister Bai! ”

"Sister Bai? Who? Lian Zining was even more confused.

Ye Nai hurriedly explained, Lian Zining was clear.

It turned out that this Bai sister was Bai Qiuyuan, the sister-in-law of Xia Zikai, the commander of the tenth guard who had just come to Zhenyuan Mansion not long ago. Although this Bai Qiuyuan was born in the people, but born in the boundary of Henan, it is not only the hometown of martial arts, but it is also a place where soldiers are in chaos and bandits are rampant. A few days ago, Nona and Qiwei took a few Japanese samurai out of the city to hunt. But I didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of these few of them is quite strong, but this riding and archery technique is extremely different, the mountains and forests around Zhenyuan Mansion are beautiful, and the grassland is also quite vast. There are many birds and beasts, but they can't see but shoot.

It made Nona and the others extremely depressed.

As a result, Bai Qiuyuan also took a few servants in the mansion to hunt that day, but she was extremely skilled in archery, and it could almost be said that she had a hundred shots, and it didn't take long for her to harvest a lot, and Ye Nai and Qi Wei really had bright eyes.

It's not that they envy that little prey. It's just that although the two women are both women, they are first and foremost a person who practices martial arts, and when they see this kind of archery, they are naturally very envious.

That Bai Qiuyuan is also a thoughtful person, and when he intends to make friends, he talks about it very much, and in the past few days, the three daughters have often come and gone. There are really not many women in Zhenyuan Mansion, and they all have no friends, and they don't have any people who talk to themselves, and it's rare to have a fate, and they soon became friends. In the past few days, Nona is clamoring to learn archery from Bai Qiuyuan, who has built a school field in his backyard, and horse archery is just waiting for leisure.

Lian Zining asked to understand the reason, and he didn't have any doubts, but he was also happy that Ye Na could have someone to talk to relieve his boredom.

He waved his hand: "Go, go, go!" Be careful, don't let that bowstring cut your fingers! ”

"Don't worry!" Nona shook her right hand, and a huge jasper wrench on her index finger shimmered in the sunlight, which was obviously a good object.

She tilted her little head and said, "Madame heard that I was going to practice archery, so she specially gave it to me." ”

"She loves you, go!" Lian Zining knocked on her little head and said with a smile.

Ye Nai saluted and went happily, Lian Zining remembered something again, and beckoned: "Come back early, don't be too late, let's have dinner together today!" ”

Nonadu had already run, and when he heard this, he quickly braked again, turned around, and bent down in a serious manner.

"This girl!" Lian Zining shook his head, his eyes full of pampering.

Come to the study and sit down.

Lian Zining leaned back in his chair and asked with a relaxed expression, "Those merchants, have they all been sent away?" ”

"I've walked for the most part, but there are still a few families in Jingzhou Mansion who have bought the most grain that has not been loaded, but it is only these two days, and after three days at the latest, they will all be able to set off!" Hong Chaojiao added: "Early this morning, my lord, your caravan also set off. ”

Lian Zining nodded, Lian Ji's caravan bought the largest scale of corn, but it set off earlier, which is naturally under the care of Hong Chaojiao, after all, it is the business of Wu Yibo's family, and this little discount can still be enjoyed. Of course, their convoy was already full of a large number of mountain goods and jewels that Lian Zining had moved out of the inner mansion. …,

Hong Chaojiao said: "These days, relying on the county governance near the town, the autumn grain tax has been collected, and the income has been collected in the warehouse in the north of the city, a total of more than 12 million stones, plus the transportation from Guannei and other places last year, a total of 14 million stones. This time the grain was sold, and a total of 7 million taels of silver were obtained, and there was no bag of grain left in the warehouse, and all of it was sold to those merchants. But at this time, the tax grain of the fields such as Muwei, Futiwei, Xuanchengwei, and Zhafei Hewei is also coming in a steady stream. The soldiers who escorted the food have also gradually returned to the camp. ”

"Hmm!" Lian Zining replied and asked, "What is the happy event you just said?" ”

Hong Chaojiao smiled and said, "It's also related to this grain." Just today at noon, the documents and materials of each county have been sent to the yamen, uncle, guess how much grain has been produced in our jurisdiction this year? ”

Lian Zining smiled: "Lao Hong, don't sell Guanzi, hurry up!" ”

Hong Chaojiao said excitedly: "In the seventeen counties under our jurisdiction, there are 1,136,050 households, 5,677,654 households, 1,053,400 hectares of cultivated land, and 890,000 head of cattle. Among these 17 counties, the six counties of Xishenwei, Mangjita City, Yaoqizhan Station, Wuzhi Yuyemusuo, Qileniwei and Kaolang Wuwei are planted with corn, which accounts for two and a half percent of the total cultivated area, while Kemuwei, Zhafei Hewei, Xuanchengwei, Futiwei, Tongjiangcheng, Suli Hewei plus the five counties below Zhubang Dacheng, Zhubangzhan, Anling City, Towen City, Tolunwei, and Fusi Muwei. And in these eleven counties they planted wheat. ”

"There are 310,000 and 397 hectares of corn cultivation, and a total of 96 million stone of corn is produced! A total of 650 catties of grain per mu! ”

"There are 743,000 and 3 hectares of land on which wheat is grown, and the raw grain produced by the communists after the peeling is 65,300,000 stone! The total yield per mu is 172 catties! ”

Lao Hong's excited beard trembled: "Uncle, nine six million stones!" Sixty-five million stones! That adds up to 161,000,000,000 stones! According to the tax system issued by you, my lord, where corn is planted, there is three taxes out of ten, and where wheat is grown, there is one tax for five! A total of 28.8 million stone of autumn grain and corn can be collected, and 13 million stone of autumn grain wheat and millet can be harvested! A total of 41,800,000 stones! ”

"The total output is 161,000,000,000 stones! 41,800,000 stone of grain was collected! ”

Hearing this number, Lian Zining was stunned at first, and then the whole person became silent like a pool of deep water. He leaned back in his chair, looking up at the ceiling, his eyes were very distant.

His expression seemed to be in a trance.

This number is an out-and-out miracle!

How much arable land there is in the Ming Dynasty, this has always been a mystery, in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the "Ming Shilu" recorded that "the number of official and private land in the world" is about 3.67 million hectares; In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, the actual record recorded: more than 3.87 million hectares; In March of the 26th year of Hongwu, the "Zhu Zhi Zhang" recorded that the 12 political divisions and the counties directly under the prefecture totaled more than 8.49 million hectares. In the early years of Renxuan, the number of cultivated land in the country, according to the records of the household department, was roughly about 4 million.

Before the Zhengde year, except for the "Ming Xiaozong Record" recorded in the "Ming Xiaozong Record", the number of fields in the world during the seventeenth year of Hongzhi was more than 8 million hectares, and the number of cultivated land in the country contained in the actual record was 4 or 5 million hectares. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )