After finishing the discussion with the people who were going to the estuary to pick coal and get off the boat, Zhu Yuanzhang had a smile on his face.

The old man stood up, patted the ash on his buttocks with both hands, and walked towards Iron Mountain Town.

Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing immediately followed.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked very slowly, and after knowing that the people in the town were living a solid life now, he no longer felt that there was anything bad about this Tieshan Town, which was full of pits.

Even if the land is destroyed, it is nothing.

Thinking about the smile that the other party couldn't hide when he asked how much money the people in the town could earn by working, and the cautious appearance of fearing that someone would know how much money they had at home, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if they could do so, it would be good to destroy the entire land in Tieshan Town.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked sideways at his fat grandson: "Do you know how much tax Daye County has paid to the imperial court in recent years?" ”

Zhu Gaochi shook his head very honestly: "There are too many taxes in the local government and county, and my grandson can't remember it for a while." However, because Tieshan Town is a concentrated iron industry, there is a separate record in the tax office. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

It would be difficult for this child to keep in mind all the prefectural and county tax amounts involved in the tax office at all times.

He was curious: "Then how much is the tax in this Iron Mountain Town?" ”

Zhu Gaochi tried hard to recall, and then he spoke: "Back to grandpa's words, only in the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu last year, the tax sent by Tieshan Town to the household department was 130,000 taels. ”

This is still the amount after excluding the wages to be paid to the people and the daily operation and maintenance costs of the Iron Mountain Mining Area.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it.

A Tieshan town can pay taxes of 130,000 taels of silver to the imperial court a year, and if the Ming Dynasty can have a hundred such towns, the imperial court can get more than 10 million taels of silver a year.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately raised his eyebrows and said: "The idea of relying on a certain industry and concentrating on the development of a place should be displayed in the imperial court, so that those officials inside and outside the court can see that if you want to get rich, you must not only farm, but also find the people to collect taxes all day long." ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded: "A few years ago, before the closed-door meeting of the cabinet, Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the household department, found his grandson, hoping that the household department could work with the tax bureau to propose the development of local concentrated industries at the closed-door meeting of the cabinet. ”

"Oh? What are the results? Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but ask.

"Back to Grandpa, when Xia Shangshu and his grandson proposed, they originally clarified the development of concentrated industries in local gold, silver, copper, iron and other mines." Zhu Gaochi began to recall the closed-door meeting of the cabinet at the end of last year:

Then the matter was put in a closed-door meeting of the cabinet, and the cabinet elders discussed it together, thinking that this matter could be more different industries, not limited to mining.

Subsequently, Zou Xueyu, the minister of the governor of Zhili, indicated that Zhili Dao could try first. In Suzhou, Songjiang and other places, try to build a centralized textile industry integrating silk and cotton planting, textile, weaving and garment making.

Relying on the early investment of the Ministry of Industry in Taiping Province, it has developed a centralized steel industry from mining, smelting to forging and manufacturing.

In addition, if Bozhou, Suzhou, Mengcheng and other places in the central capital are suitable for planting medicinal materials, you can urge the local government to try to concentrate the people's fields and rely on the needs issued by the Tai Hospital to concentrate on the cultivation of medicinal materials. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment before he spoke: "Making the people rich is something that the imperial court must do. But we must not act recklessly, and we must ensure that we do not cause the people to destroy their fields in order to engage in other industries.

If the big guys all go to steelmaking, planting medicine or doing side things, what will we use to feed the stomachs of the Ming people? ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded and said: "Brother Xi also mentioned this matter at that time, and said that it is necessary to develop the local economy according to local conditions and use different methods to make the people rich." Only when the people are truly rich will my Ming Dynasty be truly strong. ”

I heard that Zhu Yunxi was also involved in this matter.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face: "That kid understands the truth, and when I turn back to Tieshan Town, I have to praise him." ”

Zhu Gaochi smiled and agreed.

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And Zhu Yunxi, who had already rushed south from Wuchang Mansion to Yuezhou Mansion, couldn't laugh.

At this time, Yuezhou Mansion was no longer the Baling County of the year, and there were no Teng Zijing, Fan Zhongyan and others.

However, the Yueyang Tower by Dongting Lake was destroyed and repaired, repaired and destroyed, until now.

It is known that after the worship of the poem named Yueyang Tower, to the current Ming Dynasty Hongwu 30 years.

Yueyang Tower was destroyed and rebuilt thirteen times!

And the Yueyang Tower, which is the same as the Yellow Crane Tower, is not as majestic and tall as the Yellow Crane Tower.

The Yueyang Tower, which was rebuilt in the year of Hong Wu, is nothing more than a two-storey wooden building.

The abutment is paved with stone strips, and Yueyang Tower falls steadily on the foundation of the stone platform.

Yueyang Tower is located at the junction of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River, with South Lake on the southeast side and the endless Dongting Lake on the southwest side.

Dongting Lake, known as Yunmengze in ancient times, has the reputation of 800 miles of Dongting for a long time.

It's just that since the pre-Qin period, Yunmengze has continued to take over, and the upstream river channel has continuously brought sand and gravel to continuously squeeze the lake area.

Due to the decrease in the area of Dongting Lake and the elevation of the lake bed, the relationship between Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River has become more and more complex and intense since the Song Dynasty.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the arc was high and the river was low, and the lake water entered the river, which gradually evolved into the current pattern of high rivers and low lakes and rivers flowing into the lake.

It's just that Dongting Lake at this time is still worthy of the reputation of 800 miles of Dongting.

And this 800 miles is also real.

But Zhu Yunxi, who arrived with the army, was not happy because of the Dongting Lake scenery in front of him.

Because from Wuchang Mansion to Yuezhou Mansion, it means that he has begun to directly contact the Southwest Tusi and take over the situation in the Southwest.

It was also from Dongting Lake that the officers and men had to get off the big boats, change to walk or small boats, and walk all the way along the Lishui River into the mountains of the Tusi territory in the southwest.

But now Zhu Yunxi not only has to think about how to completely quell the Tusi Rebellion in the southwest and completely change the land and return to the stream, but also find out the old man who has not been found so far.

Because of this incident, Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, who should not have left Wuchang Mansion, also followed Zhu Yunxi to Yuezhou Mansion.

Yueyang Tower near the lake.

There were only a few soldiers downstairs waiting for an opportunity.

The fleet from Yingtianfu is sailing from the Yangtze River into Dongting Lake, looking for a suitable position to lower the anchor and camp on the river.

The officers and men had to change to small boats and move from the water to the land.

All this was naturally handled by the deputy general Puding Hou Chen Huan.

After Zhu Zhen used the telescope to observe the movement of the army on the lake, he put down the telescope and turned his head to look sideways at Zhu Yunxi, who was busy in the building.

"Don't worry, if the old man is really coming for you, according to the old man's journey, there will be news in these two days at most."

Zhu Yunxi was dealing with a big fish that had just been brought up from the lake at this time.

The scales are scraped away, the abdomen is disemboweled, and the sharp knife edge is close to the body of the fish to cut off pieces of fish meat.

On the table, a copper pot holds soup, already filled with pickled cabbage and old tofu.

After hearing Zhu Zhen's voice, Zhu Yunxi lowered his head and said: "The old man is definitely coming here, and my nephew is worried about pacifying the southwest Tusi and how the people in the southwest should become rich after completely changing the land and returning to the river for our dynasty." ”

Zhu Zhen turned around, walked to the table, stretched out his hand and beckoned on the copper pot, twitched his nose and sniffed, and couldn't help but praise him: "Sixth Uncle didn't know that you actually have studied this Dao, which is enough." ”

Zhu Yunxi smiled faintly, put the sliced fish into the hot copper pot, and said naturally: "Little Doyle." ”

"Oh, don't worry about it, isn't the life of the people worse now than it was thirty years ago?" Zhu Zhen asked, and then replied to himself: "That's countless times better!" Back then, not to mention the people in the southwest mountains, even the farmers in your sixth uncle's fiefdom often had times when they couldn't eat enough.

In recent years, the imperial court has implemented a variety of new policies and systems, and the people have been able to eat their stomachs, which is something that they didn't dare to think about thirty years ago. ”

This is true, and Zhu Zhen did not lie.

Thirty years ago, even when the Ming Dynasty had been founded, what the people thought about was that the world was peaceful, and there would be no more wars every year.

After a few more years, the people will at most think that it is a good thing that they will no longer be awakened from hunger or starved to death.

Who would think about being able to eat a full stomach every day?

Except for the New Year's holidays and farm work, no one will give themselves enough to eat regardless of the family and the days to come.

Zhu Yunxi didn't care about Zhu Zhen's appeasement, but said his thoughts: "In fact, since I received the order to leave Beijing, my nephew has been thinking that the road in the mountains is long and obstructive after all. With such lofty mountains, the people can only grow tea on the mountainside and cultivate the land in the valley.

But how much land can be cultivated in this way?

It is better to relocate most of the people out and live on the flat land of Yuezhou Mansion, Wuchang Mansion, Changsha Mansion and so on. ”

At this time, it is a simple matter to relocate the people.

With a decree from the imperial court, the people of one place can be moved to another distant place.

In addition to these few years, when the Ming Dynasty moved the people, they would provide the food and grass materials needed on the road and the living materials after arriving at the place, as well as simple houses to settle in.

In the past dynasties, there was almost no compensation except for the will of migration.

Often, a migration means that countless people will die on the way to migration.

This point will never be recorded in the canonical history.

Zhu Zhen naturally knew what the imperial court was doing to relocate the people now.

He just frowned and said, "There are 100,000 mountains in the southwest, you can't move everyone out." ”

Zhu Yunxi nodded: "It's not all, as long as half of the people can be migrated, many problems in the southwest will be solved."

As for the nephew, he has the idea of moving the people now, except for the purpose of making the people in the southwest rich in the future. The most important thing at the moment is that as long as these people are moved out, then the power of the Southwest Tusi will be greatly weakened, and after the imperial court completely abolishes the Tusi system, there is no need to worry about anyone being able to stir up any more big mess. ”

Many of the contradictions within the Southwest Tusi revolve around the land.

People often let two Tusi territories fight over a river or a piece of land, causing countless bloodshed and countless life lawsuits.

There are fewer people, and under the premise that the imperial court implements the apportionment into mu and re-equalizes the land, the average amount of land in everyone's hands will naturally increase.

As for those toasts in the southwest.

Even if Zhu Yunxi hasn't done anything yet, he knows it.

Even if he completely abolishes the southwest Tusi system at that time, there will be many Tusi officials who will hold a grudge because they can no longer enjoy the treatment and privileges of the past.

The soldiers and horses of the imperial court walked away, and these people would secretly create chaos if they couldn't say anything behind.

The relocation of the population from the southwest is also to weaken the power of these people to a certain extent.

Zhu Zhen nodded at this time: "It's not impossible to move the people out of the mountains and resettle them. Just Huguang Road, around Dongting Lake, can also be called the government to enclose the lake to make fields and settle these migrated people.

But this time, I have also heard about the things in the southwest. Therefore, it can also be known that the most important thing is the people's will. If that hadn't happened this time, you wouldn't have been able to come here in person. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhen smiled silently.

The people of the southwest thought that Tusi was deceiving them and did not implement the new policy according to the requirements of the imperial court, which was really full of drama and surprising.

Zhu Zhen bowed his head again.

I saw that in the copper pot, slices of fish meat were tumbling.

Zhu Zhen's eyes lit up, and he picked up the chopsticks: "The fish is cooked, it's ready to eat!" ”

With that, he began to raise his arms and scoop up the fish in the pot.

Zhu Yunxi sat opposite, holding a spoon and filling the fish soup into his bowl first.

On the contrary, fish has become a flavor.

"In fact, in my opinion, it will take tens of hundreds of years for the Southwest Tusi to change the land and return to the stream, and completely change the customs."

Zhu Yunxi took a sip of fish soup and said in a muffled voice: "It's just that my father thinks that this time is just an opportunity, so he thinks about this matter as soon as he does it." ”

Zhu Zhen ate fish meat in his mouth, but his eyes were raised: "What does the eldest brother mean this time?" I thought you meant it......"

He was not false at all.

When he knew that the imperial court was going to send a large army, and Zhu Yunxi personally led the army to solve the matter of the southwest Tusi, Zhu Zhen felt that this matter must have been proposed by the young nephew in front of him.

Where could he have thought of it.

This matter turned out to be brought up by his eldest brother, who has always been steady.

Zhu Zhen quietly lowered his head: "I thought it was ......"

Zhu Zhen why?

Before he could speak, footsteps could be heard downstairs.

Peal pedal, pedal, pedal.

Then, a hearty voice familiar to Zhu Zhen and Zhu Yunxi sounded.

"It's kind of a way for me to catch up with the time and eat a hot meal!"

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