Chapter 192: Dongyong's Fundamental Strategy II

It's not just a matter of more people and less land.

Zhu Houhuang wanted to make Dongyong capable of self-sufficiency, so he focused on agriculture among all industries. And among the agriculture, the most important is the homesteaders. I want to give all the immigrants a piece of land and let them farm.

Such a manpower arrangement naturally brings great problems.

The first problem is that these immigrants have divided their land, and the officials at all levels who followed Zhu Houhuang do not need to divide the land

In order to establish his own interest group and let these people take root in Dongyong, Zhu Houhuang divided the land. Then another need came out, and the land was divided, and people should be planted. You can't let these officials go to the land themselves.

Zhu Houhuang's solution was to release the captured barbarians to them as slaves.

In fact, this is just a policy of equity. Zhu Houhuang also has no way.

In Zhu Houhuang's political design, yeoman farmers are the foundation of the Yongguo. Those who know a little bit about Chinese history know that when there are most yeoman farms in a country, it is the time when the country is at its strongest.

And the officials who followed him to the wild land of Dongyong also needed to be appeased. Isn't what they want after Zhu Houhuang to be glory and wealth? How many of them really have the spirit of communism?

That's all there is to it.

Lu Wan also seemed to know Zhu Houhuang's embarrassment, but he just said it euphemistically, and did not talk about it deeply.

Zhu Houhuang coughed twice and changed the topic, and said: "Sir, if they are all barbarians and soldiers, will there be a danger of Tai'a holding on?" ”

Lu Wan smiled and said, "Your Highness is too worried, Your Highness should know what is fundamental." His Royal Highness wants to establish a business for thousands of generations in the land of Dongyong. When knowing the Han people is the foundation, the acres of land are the foundation. The more Han people and the more acres of land, the more barbarians dare not rebel. Moreover, the county soldiers are more involved in the work, and it is not that they have completely put down their training. The barbarians on Dongyong Island are the big-bellied, and now the big-bellied is flattened, and the rest of the people are only sporadic and not to worry about. With the presence of ministers, His Highness can sit back and relax. ”

Zhu Houhuang thought about it and felt it too. He sometimes takes Taiwan's barbarians too seriously. If you go deep into the eastern mountains to clear it, it may be a little troublesome. But in the western plains, it was not at all an opponent of the Great Army. Even if the barbarians are soldiers, there may be a little trouble. However, Zhu Houhuang's personal soldiers are in hand, and no chaos can be calmed down.

But thinking of this, Zhu Houhuang suddenly felt that his own soldiers might need to expand the army.

I won't mention it here. Zhu Houhuang asked, "Sir, how are you going to establish Dongyong as a fundamental place?" ”

"If you want to be the fundamental place, you must pay attention to water conservancy. Guanzhong first had Zheng Guoqu, and then Tianfu. There was Dujiangyan in Shuzhong first, and the world was known as rich. Therefore, it is necessary to take Dongyong as the foundation and build water conservancy first. Repair the water and control the river first. The land of Dongyong, has always been barren, only in terms of the Yongjiang River, from the eastern mountainous area to the west into the sea, but more than 100 miles. Whenever flash floods break out during the rainy season, the rivers overflow. Though the river is a place of anointing, it cannot be used. It is necessary to build a hundred miles of embankment first. The Yongjiang River was darkened into fertile land. However, the Yongjiang River is not a case of the Yongjiang River, and most of the Dongyong River is like this, and embankments are built to prevent the river from flooding. The Dongyong River runs from east to west, and there is one for dozens of miles, which is simply a natural channel, based on the river. Repair the canal for the net, to be completed, the richness of Dongyong will not be less than the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Zhu Houhuang looked at the rudimentary map.

A lot of the map is blank. But Zhu Houhuang has already made up rivers and canals built one by one. and patches of fertile land.

From Dayuan all the way to the fertile fields of Beigang.

It took a while for Zhu Houhuang to come back to his senses, and he knew that his wish was beautiful, but it was not so easy to achieve. I want to build such a big water conservancy project. It doesn't take a few years, it's simply impossible to accomplish.

Zhu Houhuang asked Lu Wan and said, "What is Mr. going to do?" ”

Lu Wan said: "The minister is going to start from two places, one is to build the Yongjiang embankment. The future immigrants will be resettled on both sides of the Yongjiang River, and the water conservancy network on both sides of the Yongjiang River will be built first. ”

Zhu Houhuang nodded secretly, the meal should be eaten one bite at a time, and things should be done little by little.

That's right.

Lu Wan said: "The minister also wants to build a passage on the road from Dayuan to Beigang, so that Dongyong can be integrated. ”

Lu Wan's overall plan can almost be described by two words: water conservancy.

Zhu Houhuang also focused on mining, but in all of Lu Wan's plans, almost all of them were agriculture, agriculture, agriculture. Water conservancy, water conservancy, water conservancy

After listening to Lu Wan talk so much, Zhu Houhuang understood the importance of water conservancy in agricultural production, and fortunately, the thirteenth year of Zhengde was not a disaster year. Otherwise, Zhu Houhuang didn't know what to do.

However, these are not the reasons why Zhu Houhuang takes a fancy to Lu Wan.

The reason why Zhu Houhuang is most interested in Lu Wan is that it is cost-effective.

In Lu Wan's plan, such a large project does not require Zhu Houhuang to spend much money, of course, some materials and materials still need Zhu Houhuang to prepare. Most of the expenses came from the rations that Zhu Houhuang paid to the people.

Most of the people who immigrated to Dongyong were destitute and had no savings at all. Zhu Houhuang's own regulations provided at least one year's rations and wasteland.

And Lu Wan distributed these rations with the nature of relief in the form of work-for-relief. Even if so many projects are completed, under Lu Wan's adjustment, the consumption of money and food is not much.

This kind of method is beyond Zhu Houhuang's reach.

What Zhu Houhuang wanted, for example, wanted to establish a developed shipbuilding industry, iron-smelting industry, and so on in Dongyong. These thoughts were all told to Lu Wan.

Lu Wan only thought about it for a moment, and then gave a complete plan and prepared to do it.

Zhu Houhuang secretly said in his heart: "Lu Wan is really talented, but everything is easy in Lu Wan's mouth." I just hope that what Lu Wan said, he can really do it. ”

Zhu Houhuang sighed in his heart at the blueprint that Lu Wan drew for him, and secretly hesitated, not knowing if Lu Wan could really do it, but Zhu Houhuang was very satisfied with two-thirds of what he could do.

Lu Wan said secretly in his heart: "According to this plan, the silver taels that need to be consumed are as much as more than one million taels, and I don't know that His Highness really has so much money, don't let the project be abandoned halfway." I don't want to set some aside just in case? ”

Lu Wan is a doer.

Looking at Lu Wan's resume, you know that he served as the governor of Jiangxi, the governor of Xuanda, and the commander of the Jiangfang. As for the pacification of Liu Liu's rebellion, it is a brilliant stroke on his resume.

He's a man who can do things, and he can do things. It's not that he has risen all the way up from Hanlin Cichen. In Lu Wan's opinion, as long as there is enough manpower and Yinliang, there is nothing he can't do.

Although Dongyong's manpower is lacking now, there is Zhengde's exile order, and there will be a big mess in the future of King Ning, Jiangxi, there must be enough manpower to fill Dongyong, plus there is enough silver taels promised by Zhu Houhuang, what else can't be done.

It's just that he can't understand where Zhu Houhuang has such abundant financial income, you must know that Beijing's annual income from silver taels is only one of three or four million taels. And the silver taels that Zhu Houhuang gave to Lu Wan have almost exceeded the silver taels that Beijing invested in Hegong.

The reason why Lu Wan proposed this plan was that his original meaning was very simple, but it was to spend the money in practice. In Lu Wan's opinion, Zhu Houhuang is really extravagant to the point of being incredible.

If these things are handled by Lu Wan, more than 100,000 taels can be done, but in Zhu Houhuang's hands, it has to be nearly a million taels.

Between Zhu Houhuang and Lu Wan, it seems that the monarch and the minister are in harmony, but there is no heart-to-heart relationship between them.

Zhu Houhuang has no choice but Lu Wan, the talents in the world are not something that can be found if you want to, and there are not many people who can support Zhu Houhuang's stall.

The same is true for Lu Wan.

He was involved in King Ning's case, if it wasn't for Yang Shen's help, it would be impossible to get out of the way. If he wants to eat at home and wait for death, there is no need to say it, if he still wants to do things and make contributions, only Zhu Houhuang can go to this place.

Anyway.

Zhu Houhuang wanted to learn more about Lu Wan's plan, and the two looked like they hated each other, and talked with candles until dawn.