Folklore has it that Fang Guoan is a "square anus lone egg", so it is the rich and noble life of "non-public marquis". Zhu Cihong learned from Zhang Dai's prose in his previous life that Fang Guoan was awarded the title of Duke of the State in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it seems that the folklore also has a certain forward-looking. It's just that this kind of prophecy about physical disability, I really don't know if Lu Dao is fanning him or blacking him.

When he saw Fang Guoan himself, Zhu Cihong didn't see any of the prince's atmosphere. This warlord, who was born in a poor family and lost his parents since childhood, has been completely corrupted by the fat powder of the south, and does not look like a self-struggling official generation at all, but like the children of those degenerate wealthy families. is the real second generation of Wu Sangui, who is more heroic than him.

- This is not a person who can make things happen.

Zhu Cihong secretly labeled him.

"Your Royal Highness, there are not many troops stationed in Hangzhou, and there are slavery and bandits in many places, so the armies are scattered in Zhejiang, including Zhuji and Yu......yao" Fang Guoan had already heard that the crown prince was shrewd, and he was a little timid to lie to his face at the moment, but he had carefully inquired about the crown prince's itinerary and his important staff advisers, so he should not have been able to collect evidence of his guilt so quickly.

His sin was nothing more than drinking the blood of soldiers, eating empty wages, taking some fields, and digging up guards.

As long as he does not rebel, Zhu Cihong has no intention of investigating it in detail.

"How many men did he report?" Zhu Cihong asked the staff officers around him.

The staff officer of the adjutant staff sent by the General Staff to accompany him quickly responded: "Fifty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-two people, one thousand war horses, and two thousand pack horses and donkeys and mules of various colors. A number of ordnance. ”

"Admit it all." Zhu Cihong said: "Let Xiao Mo hand over the troops according to this number." Let him take his pocket today, leave the barracks, and fend for his own living. All the land and houses under his name were confiscated. If there is nowhere to go, give him a post ticket and let him go to the Beijing dormitory. ”

The staff officer retreated.

The guards on the left and right set up Fang Guoan, who was dumbfounded and even forgot to beg for mercy, and went out together.

Zhu Cihong looked at Min Ziruo beside him. said: "You have been with me for so long, and now that the situation is stable, can you think about earning a future in the army?" ”

Zhejiang Town will certainly not have a scale of more than 50,000 people, and if it can accommodate 10,000 qualified soldiers, plus the newly trained southern soldiers, the first division can be expanded into an army. Min Ziruo has been Zhu Cihong's personal guard since he joined the army. If you are willing to lead the troops, this is an opportunity.

Min Ziruo thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, you are still willing to follow Your Highness." ”

"Oh?"

"I only want to practice the boxing technique like my master, but I really don't have the energy to focus on training and fighting." Min Ziruo said consciously: "And with the humble kung fu, it is still somewhat useful to protect His Highness, but if you really enter the military formation, you can't use it." ”

The army also practiced boxing, and they also had to stand on stakes. There is also the art of hand-to-hand combat. However, when it really went to the battlefield, the artillery hit first, followed by the firecrackers, and now the only troops that can meet the elite of the field are the Dongyu. And the Dongyu is also getting weaker and weaker, and the battles mentioned in the recent Liaodong War Report were all initiated by Xiao Donglou and Chen De.

In this case, it is true that the force of individual soldiers does not work.

Zhu Cihong nodded and stopped mentioning the matter of the troops. In fact, he is also more happy to see the experienced Min Ziruo always by his side. I'm just worried about his future.

As soon as Fang Guoan fell, his family was willing to follow. There are also those who hope to stay in Zhejiang and continue to serve as soldiers and eat food, but none of them are willing to unload their armor and return to farming. The Ming Dynasty was an important period of agricultural specialization, and coupled with the difficult climatic conditions of the late Ming Dynasty, it was no longer possible for anyone to become a farmer.

Xiao Mo naturally welcomed this. The Zhejiang soldiers selected by Qi Jiguang laid down the prestige of the Qi army, and even in the battle of the Hunhe River, the Zhejiang soldiers also let Jiannu flee. Xiao Mo came to Zhejiang this time. At the pass of expanding the army, it is natural to get close to the water and the moon first, and select a batch of elite soldiers.

Compared with the devastation in the north, Zhejiang is indeed a paradise place. Even if the whole country is in turmoil caused by the national upheaval, the market can still be kept clean. Zhu Cihong only walked around the city of Hangzhou once. He reappointed the important members of the Zhejiang Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Department, and then went out of the city and lived in the barracks.

Song Yingxing was also very curious about the crown prince's refusal to enter the city, and soon he knew why.

The crown prince began to take a large group of people to "travel around the mountains and rivers", sometimes not even returning to the barracks, and camped directly on the spot. If it weren't for the warmer weather, he would really be a little unbearable with his physical fitness.

Zhu Cihong went south to Zhejiang this time, but he wanted to use Song Yingxing's mind to vigorously carry out the sericulture industry.

From the national level, it is obviously not as profitable to let Jiangnan farm as raising silkworms and harvesting silk.

Mulberry trees are not picky about the land and can survive whether they are barren, fertile, or too dry or wet. Just the income of mulberry leaves, there can be three taels and six dollars per mu per year, which is comparable to a good field. Moreover, there are various risks associated with growing crops in the fields, while the risks of mulberry leaves are negligible.

What's more, mulberry trees do not need to occupy good fields, whether it is sloping land or corner wasteland, they can be planted, and mulberries and firewood can also be provided.

Moreover, silkworm raising and silk reeling in the south of the Yangtze River have a folk foundation, and every household in many places is a silk household. From mothers-in-law to young daughters, they will raise silkworms and reel. And the benefits of raw silk and silk are naturally greater than those of grain. In addition, raw silk is also an important commodity in exchange for copper, silver, and sulfur in Japan.

Zhu Cihong raised a version of silkworms when he was in elementary school in his previous life, and he didn't care much about it, and there were three or four cocoons at the end, and finally became silkworm moths. Therefore, to let him guide silkworm raising is tantamount to a fool's dream. However, this is not a problem, because although Zhu Cihong can't, he has the right to recruit enough silkworm households.

From Huzhou to Suzhou, silkworm households with more than eight years of silkworm raising in every village were recruited to Hangzhou. Without these main silkworm breeders, the family may not be able to harvest enough silkworm flowers this year, so the government gave the family a "buyout fee" of ten taels of silver, even if it was hard work in previous years, it may not be able to earn so much.

The amount of silver given is enough, and naturally some people fight for this beauty. In terms of basic conditions, he did not dare to let anyone cheat, for fear that the past would be seen through and he would commit the crime of defrauding the king. Of course, the more daring ones still dare to go up with their relatives who are three or five years old, and they are not novices anyway.

That's how the Sun family lady. She is also twenty-three or four years old this year, and she is the mother of three children. Because my cousin married the county history as a concubine, she got this beauty difference and got a "buyout fee" of four taels of silver. There is a mother-in-law at home, who is also an expert in raising silkworms, so the family still has to raise silkworms this year, and the buyout fee is purely earned for nothing.

At the beginning of March, the Sun family and her sisters from a nearby village gathered in the county, got on a four-wheeled chariot, and then turned boats, and arrived outside Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang, three days later.

Seeing that the cart ran to the countryside without even entering the city, the carloads of little daughters-in-law thought that they had been sold.

Before they could panic, a mountain villa with white walls and black tiles had already appeared in front of them. Judging only from the chalk painted on this wall, it is clear that the new repair has not been long.

There are a large number of bungalows in this villa, and I don't know how many people will live in the road. It is elegantly made, not only the doors and windows have gauze covers, but even the ground is made of green bricks, not simple rammed earth. The lady of the Sun family walked into the Zhuangzi with the team, but saw that these bungalows were not made of wooden bricks, and there were stones underneath, and I don't know why Lu Dao invested so much.

"These are silkworm houses, which will be used to raise silkworms in the future. Your dorm room is on the other end. "The person who came to pick up the silkworm woman in Zhuangzi was a eunuch with a shrill voice. He raised silkworms for decades in Ouchi, of course, not really for silk, but for the common sense education of the princes and princesses.

This time, he was transferred over, and he was also the foreman, even if his skills were not good, he finally knew the rules of the crown prince.

The houses of the silkworm women are very similar to temporary barracks, and the houses are not as elegant as the silkworm houses, and there is no treatment of stone and blue brick paving. Eight people in a room, but one zhang long and wide, put four high and low beds, wooden straw mats, two thin quilts, is their accommodation treatment.

Even such a humble treatment is impossible to pick. The silkworm women were already very happy when they saw that they were eating and lodging here. What's more, there may not be such a new tuft of straw mats to sleep on at home.

Early the next morning, the lady of the Sun family was woken up by a terrible whistle, and seeing that the sky outside was already dark, she couldn't help blushing: she must have been too tired on the road and overslept. It seems that the main family is a little angry this time.

After the whistle, someone knocked on the door of the room and shouted, "Get up, get up, there will be no breakfast after six o'clock." ”

The man knocked on the door and left, and did not come in and beat anyone with a big stick.

The lady of the Sun family asked carefully: "What is six o'clock?" ”

None of the silkworm women in the same room knew the way, but everyone knew the meaning of "breakfast", for fear of making a mistake, they hurriedly got dressed and went out to find a place to eat.

In each dormitory, four or five square tables were set up, on which were large pots of rice porridge, as well as buckets of dried radishes and salted fish. Each silkworm woman who came over was commanded by the eunuch and female official to line up with a small flag, and took the dinner plate and wooden bowls, plates, chopsticks and other tableware one by one. Then he walked past the table in order, and someone scooped a spoonful of porridge - exactly one bowl, a plate of dried radish, a salted fish, and at the end of the table, two cooking cakes.

This is already the standard of food during the busy farming period.

The lady of the Sun family made a meal, found a step to sit down and eat, while looking at the situation nearby. She soon saw a large Tessie thing behind the dining area. There is a disc on it, with numbers from one to twelve written in cursive script, and a short needle has just pointed to "five", most likely related to the "six points" that the steward said.

After eating, the expected heavy work did not come. The lady of the Sun family and other silkworm women gathered together, and a female official stepped forward and lined them up according to their height and shortness, forming a phalanx, so that they could remember their positions in front and back, left and right, and issued bamboo cards one by one, with the same straw numbers on them, and then took them to the back of the Zhuangzi. (To be continued......)

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