Zhu Youzhen undoubtedly trusted Lu Xiangsheng very much, and Lu Xiangsheng became a civilian official and fought bravely, which made Zhu Youzhen have a very good impression.

As for Zhao Yan, he also had a very good impression in Zhu Youzhen's heart, although this son was appeased, but killing the thief was extremely active, Zhu Youzhen didn't even lower the order, he rushed to the Central Plains to fight the thief.

Saved the ancestral tomb of Fengyang before, and this time he defeated King Chuang, which made Zhu Youzhen feel very good, so he agreed to Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion and asked Lu Xiangsheng to send the 400,000 captives to Denglai Tunken.

However, the erosion of Shaanxi made Zhu Youzhen very unhappy. Hong Chengchou, the military governor of the five provinces, is even unable to cope with a corner of Shaanxi, and there are still thieves from various departments in the Central Plains, let alone Hong Chengchou's ability. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided to appoint Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Huguang, as the military affairs of Prime Minister Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, Huguang and other places, and led the general Zhao Yan to command the Denglai soldiers, Zu Kuan, Zu Dale, and the deputy general Li Chongzhen to command the Liao soldiers and the local garrison to suppress them, and give Shang Fang Jian to act cheaply. The terms of reference were clearly divided: "Hong Chengchou supervises and suppresses the northwest, and Lu Xiangsheng supervises and suppresses the southeast." ”

In order to speed up the progress of the crackdown on thieves, Zhu Youzhen issued an edict called "Amnesty Mountain Shaanxi Slave Bandits".

"I look up to the way of heaven, bow down to all directions, and read this army and people, who is not a child? Because of the greed of officials and the cunning of officials, the years are ferocious, so that they are forced by hunger and cold, and they are willing to do wrong. One or two are ignorant, and gradually coerce the people. For several years, the innocent has been killed, and I don't know how many of them are. I am sad and compassionate, and I sleep peacefully...... For this reason, a pardon was issued, and the officials were sent to the office, and the place was set aside by the big book, and the vulgar enlightenment was followed. If there is repentance and sincerity, abandonment of evil and return to righteousness, that is, to rescue the refugees, one by one to find out the place of origin, those who are in the local area are assigned to the armor, those in the provinces are sent to protect the return, the old business is returned, and many ways to care for the people, if you do not want to return to the locality, you can go to Shandong Denglai Tun reclamation, all of them will be sent to the ploughing cattle and fields, so that the joy in the well will never disappear. If there is obsession and disobedience, how can he be restored and reinstated? Supervise and care for the soldiers, work together to suppress them, and make sure that the roots are eliminated and there is no remnant of evil. Woohoo, Fushun and rebellion, the court law is selfless; From death to life, if the generation cannot miscalculate. The edict is well-known, and the salty envoy knows it. ”

In the edict, Zhu Youzhen also had a clear insight into the core reasons why the people became thieves, the corruption of officials, coupled with the continuous famine, and the thieves became bigger.

At the same time, he expressed compassion, gave a plan to deal with it, and threatened it. The radish stick went into battle, but Zhu Youzhen did not give a substantive means of placement.

Returning the old business and incorporating it into the Baojia is just an empty word, and the [***] at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the serious financial crisis of the imperial court will not achieve any effect at all.

However, sending it to Denglai Tunken is a practical solution.

Lu Xiangsheng's Shangshu sent the people to Denglai, which undoubtedly made Zhu Youzhen want to find a way to resettle the rebellious people, and the reclamation fee does not need to be paid by the imperial court, which is really a good way.

The Manchu Dynasty officials were even more affirmative of this method, Zhao Yan more or less sent them some filial piety, and he sent filial piety not directly to the door like ordinary vulgar warriors, but through the connections of Shandong merchants, it was very hidden, although a few were found by the people who were placed in the officials' homes by Jinyiwei, but in general it did not reach the point of being full of wind and rain in the city.

What kind of fist to serve the country, what loyal ministers can be commendable, in the midst of praise, Zhu Youzhen's good impression of Zhao Yan was once again aggravated.

However, Zhao Yan's sale of illicit salt can't be hidden for long after all, and Zhao Yan's selling method is almost naked in confrontation with the two Huai salt merchants, of which the main force is the Hui merchants.

Hui merchants are not only Confucianism and businessmen, but also make friends with powerful people, and their capital is extremely abundant, I believe that it will not be long before they will make trouble in the court............ Regarding Chongzhen's promotion of Lu Xiangsheng, Liu Heng seemed a little worried: "The saint gave Lu Xiangsheng the sword of Shangfang, and named the lord, Lu Xiangsheng is the master to suppress the thieves in the Central Plains, if you want to transfer the adults to the Central Plains to suppress the thieves, wouldn't it make me wait for chaos?" ”

"The so-called dragon does not leave the abyss, which is indeed not good for us." Zhang Buyun nodded.

"What do you think we should do?" Zhao Yan asked.

"If Lu Xiangsheng wants to transfer the adults to the Central Plains to suppress the thieves, the adults can send a battalion to assist in the suppression, if they want the adults to change the Central Plains, the adults simply don't go because of their illness." Liu Heng suggested.

"Hmmm! So be it! Zhao Yan nodded and said, if he wants to change the town, then naturally it is ten thousand unwilling, after all, Denglai is his foundation, in short, there is no way.

At the end of August, the battalions that had gone to the Central Plains to fight the thieves returned to Shandong with 400,000 prisoners. Then he settled in Dengzhou, which has many borderless lands.

This is a very congested place, except for the official road, many other roads are only allowed to be passed by one board car.

Choosing Dengzhou instead of Laizhou also has Zhao Yan's troubles.

Except for the land in Laizhou, which was ravaged by Kong Youde, most of the other places have dense landlords of all sizes, and these landlords are indeed not strong, but if they want to rob their land, they will cause chaos.

If he wanted to buy their land by force, Zhao Yan wouldn't have that much silver at all. Even if one acre of land sells for three taels of silver, one million mu will cost three million taels.

There is no doubt that he doesn't have that much silver. Therefore, the hilly areas of Dengzhou can only be reclaimed for cultivation first, and the hilly areas of Shandong are not fertile, and the most suitable crops for planting are soybeans and peanuts.

As far as the agricultural division of labor is concerned, it is generally the northeast and south that produce grain, and Shandong produces beans and peanuts, and then exchange. However, the environment at this time is not suitable for the division of labor.

Zhao Yan needs food, the more the better. However, a large number of beans are also needed, after all, soybeans are needed to feed horses and cattle, and with the expansion of horse farms and the increase of horses, the demand for beans has further increased.

After Zhao Yan discussed with Tang Zhengze, he decided to allocate 50 acres of cultivated land to each young man, in addition to the people who were snatched back from the thieves, there were also displaced people recruited from all over the place, and the number of young and strong people in Dengzhou was about 400,000, so it was necessary to reclaim 20 million mu of cultivated land in Denglai.

According to estimates, the ownerless cultivated land in Dengzhou is probably like this.

Among the 50 acres of cultivated land, 30 acres are planted with wheat, 15 acres are planted with beans, 3 acres are planted with peanuts, 2 acres are planted with sweet potatoes, and corn is planted during the period.

Thirty acres of wheat is planted because Zhao Yan needs a lot of grain, and the grain is naturally not called verbally and casually, even if the commercial bank is doing grain business, but it does not transport wheat from Denglai.

Fifteen acres of beans is planted to meet the needs of breeding, and if the demand is exceeded, it does not matter, and these beans can be exported to the south.

Three acres of peanuts are planted to meet consumer demand. Two acres of sweet potatoes are planted in order to prepare for famine, and in case of continuous war, people will not starve to death.

From next year, Denglai will no longer grow sweet potatoes on a large scale, and the areas where sweet potatoes are planted on a large scale will be moved to Yingzhou and Handan, after all, those two sub-districts are closer to the disaster area and more convenient for transportation.

"After these people are filled in Dengzhou, Dengzhou will inevitably be densely populated, and the output of grain will be more, but the road condition problem must be solved, otherwise it will not only be difficult to transport grain, but also difficult for the local area to be rich." Tang Zhengze said.

"After settling down, let these millions of people go to build roads! In addition, autumn is approaching, so let the textile mills hurry up to make padded jackets, and give two pieces to each of the people who have not settled down, so as not to let them freeze. ”

…… As soon as the policy was introduced, there was an uproar in all parts of Dengzhou, and more than one million displaced people poured into Dengzhou and began to build houses in the planned places.

The houses are all simple wooden houses, which can shelter from the wind and rain. In Zhaojiabao, Pingkoubao, and Anminbao, which were the first to carry out Tuntian, many people have begun to build brick houses this year. For the people who build brick houses, Zhao Yan will give them a few glass skylights, which can be regarded as one of the benefits! Make their homes brighter.

Many people who broke away from the thieves, and the homeless people recruited from all over the country, were pleasantly surprised to find that Zhao Yan's promises to them had been fulfilled, not only were the sweet potatoes full every day, but each of them also received a high-quality cotton jacket, and I heard that there was another one after winter.

According to the process, the homeless people must first be registered, and whether they have family members and whether they have skills must be clearly registered. Then demarcate the tundi, a tun land of 1,000 people are young and strong, in the past, three tun built a fort, now ten tun built a fort. This time, the number of young people in Tuntian reached 400,000, and 40 fortresses had to be built.

Then the newly appointed tun chief, set chief, group training, and shou each took office, and then assigned those young and strong people to each tundi, and the principle of distribution was to follow relatives, and the displaced people who had no young and strong relatives stayed in Zhaojiabao to wait for other distributions, and if there were young women who did not have a spouse, the matchmaker would come to pull the strings and let these displaced people re-form a family.

After the young men were assigned to their respective cantonments, they first began to build houses on planned sites, which were usually easy to defend and close to water sources.

Then we will start handing out the tools needed to build a house, as well as farm tools, seeds, and cattle. Then, the chiefs of each tun organized people to build houses and reclaim wasteland.

The forts will organize regimental training in each fort and begin to investigate the bandits in the vicinity of each fort, and after the bandits are discovered, the forts and townships will jointly arrest them. If it is more tricky, notify the military camp, and the military camp will send people to clean it up.

After the houses were built, they began to organize people to reclaim wasteland and build simple water conservancy. After planting crops, they began to build roads and forts, and improve the facilities and defenses of the settlement.

During the construction period of the first year, the young and strong people in the tundi generally have little time to practice, and only after the second year is stable will they have time to practice.

During the construction period, Zhao Yan provided food and clothing for the displaced people, as well as cattle, farming tools, and seeds, and they did not need to be repaid in the second year.

The influx of more than a million displaced people into Dengzhou has put some pressure on various departments.

There are not too many problems in terms of agricultural tools and seeds, and since Handan has produced iron, the output has far exceeded the consumption demand of this era.

At present, the total capacity of Handan's blast furnace has reached 100,000 cubic meters, producing 100,000 tons of iron, 30 tons of steel, and 80,000 people participating in steel smelting and mineral mining. At present, the output is maintained at this level, and the output is not continued to increase, because there is not enough market demand, and blindly increasing production will only cause surplus.

However, at present, it seems that there has been a surplus, so the farm tools needed in Tuntian, each of which is made of steel, is a good product, and the cost is almost the same as that of iron farm tools!

To this end, the commercial banks are stepping up plans for the production and sale of iron and steel commodities to absorb these excess production capacity as soon as possible.

Ploughing cattle is also a little tight, according to five people to a cow to distribute, need 80,000 ploughing cattle, fortunately in the past two years not only in the vigorous raising of horses, cattle have not been pulled down, each tun has its own cattle farm, Tang Zhengze also established three large cattle farms, all of them are still enough.

Cement, green bricks are needed for building tun, forts, and water conservancy, and the output of the kiln is obviously not keeping up, and the scale of production needs to be expanded. In addition, the fortifications of the cantonment and the forts can be postponed for some time, and the water conservancy is completely sufficient.

This large-scale tuntian project, Dengzhou prefect Chen Zhongsheng naturally also has to participate, Chen Zhongsheng is an official is quite honest, of course, that is only relatively speaking, those gray income naturally has some, after taking office in Dengzhou, but also for the people to do some practical things, Zhao Yan looks at him more pleasing to the eye, and Chen Zhongsheng often has dealings, the relationship between the two can be described as very good, not like Laizhou prefect Sun Yaoguang and Zhao Yan are very indifferent.

So many displaced people under the organization of Zhao Yan reclaimed land in Dengzhou, and repaired water conservancy and roads, it is conceivable that it only takes a few years to make Denglai flourish and his political achievements can also be improved.

At the same time, Chen Zhongsheng was also amazed by Zhao Yan's financial resources, such a large-scale tuntian, I am afraid that the cost will be no less than millions of taels.

"When he Zhao Yan started out, he was just a small landlord's family in the countryside, and in just a few years, he had trained a strong army, which not only quelled the bandits in Denglai, but also made the barren Denglai flourish again. The so-called way of governing the country is nothing more than to reassure the people and strengthen the army, if the people can be safe, the country can be safe, and if the army is strong, the alien race will not dare to commit it. If you can learn something from him, you can also make a difference in the future, and you can change the shortcomings of the present. After thinking about it, Chen Zhongsheng decided to have more dealings with Zhao Yan in the future.

At the same time, Chen Zhongsheng also personally inspected Zhao Yan's newly established tun, carefully paid attention to every detail and process of resettlement of displaced people, and found that there was nothing too difficult about tuntian, and most of Zhao Yan's large-scale tuntian fees were drawn from the tuntian income in Huangxian County, whether it was farm tools, seeds or ploughing cattle, all of which were self-produced.

That is to say, as long as he follows his way, he can snowball bigger and bigger, but it seems simple, but it is extremely difficult.

First of all, there must be tariff investment in the early stage, and it cannot be too small, if the scale is too small, the speed of expansion will be restricted.

Today, there is erosion, wars are raging, and the imperial court has long been unable to make ends meet, so it can only drink to quench its thirst and pay additional taxes, where can it draw money and grain to the fields.

In addition, there are various localities that need to pay attention to the recruitment of displaced people, land planning and resettlement of displaced people. First of all, there must be arable land, for example, today the fields are all owned by the rich, the rich have a lot of houses, and the poor have no place to stand.

It is only in places like Denglai, which have experienced war and turmoil, and are resistant to a large amount of wasteland in the middle of nowhere, that it is possible to find a large amount of arable land, and if it is in other places, it will definitely be counterattacked by large and small landlords.

If they are greedy, no matter how good the policy is, it will be implemented in a mess, and Zhao Yan's managers, although they are not named in the government, are the same as the wardens, but these wardens are all attentive, even if they want to be greedy, they dare not be blatant, they can only play some small tricks in concealment, and they are often afraid of being found out.

The reason why this is so is only because he put aside the existing [***] officialdom and set up a small and refined small officialdom by himself. An act like Zhao Yan is almost a big rebellion, but his actions have indeed brought a scene of peace and rising to Denglai.

If you want to settle fields in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, you have to rectify the officials first, and then you have to regulate and control the land, but this is obviously not realistic.

(To be continued)