"So, let's see, what is this word?"

On August 16, in a classroom in the Yanshan Institute, he turned around and looked at the more than 20 students in the classroom.

"Islam, this is a human character!"

In the crowd, because he became a monk, Li Zicheng, who had studied for a few days, stood up and replied.

At this time, Jiao Xi also smiled and said, "Then tell me, what does this person mean?" ”

"People are Xiucai and Juren and official masters, Ai Juren said that we are mud legs and livestock, but my mother said that we are not as good as livestock, because it costs 50 yuan to hire a cow, but my father and mother can't earn 50 yuan in three days."

At this time, next to Li Zicheng, Li Zijing, who was only ten years old, rushed to answer.

His answer instantly silenced the entire class, and at the same time, he also silenced Zhu Youzhen, who was next to him outside the classroom.

Despite knowing that the law of the jungle is the strongest, that people are naturally selected, and that class will never disappear, this answer is still silent.

Speaking of which, Zhu Youzhen may be one of the most contradictory people of this era.

In his previous life, he was the lower class, but in this life, he became the top class.

At a time when productivity is insufficient and everyone is playing exploitation, he always thinks about freeing the people from poverty and hunger.

That's where he doesn't fit in with the world right now, and he needs to make a choice.

He can't abandon his royal brother because he thinks about the people, and he can't abandon the people for his royal brother.

The people are like water, and water can carry boats and capsize boats.

Let the people have enough to eat, there is a channel to rise, and there is hope for rise, the people will be stable, the Ming Dynasty will be stable, and the throne of the imperial brother will be stable.

"Let's go......"

As if stung by what Li Zijing said, Zhu Youzhen said a word, and left with a few brocade guards.

He walked out of Yanshan and turned to look at the place before leaving.

Like the Yanshan camp, after expansion, there are more than 46,000 students here.

This is a terrifying number, you must know that the current civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty are only more than 100,000 people.

If after five years, the students of the Yanshan Institute are successful, then these more than 40,000 people will be enough to replace one-third of the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

If a small number of them are put in official positions, and most of them are made officials, then they can completely control the territory of a province.

What kind of speed is this? If there are 40,000 students enrolled every year, then it only takes ten years for Zhu Youzhen to control the land of the ten provinces, and it is still the extent that the imperial power goes to the countryside.

But he didn't need such close power, he only needed to control the county officials, and the county officials who were responsible for collecting land taxes, counting the population and acres of land were enough.

Therefore, more than 40,000 people are enough to master two provinces, which means that Zhu Youzhen only needs eight years, which is enough to master the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the world.

Eight years later, he was only nineteen years old, and his own royal brother was only twenty-four.

That was the prime of their youth, and he himself estimated that he had already laid a large territory, and the overseas domains were almost coordinated.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen turned over his war horse, and then slowly rode towards the Yanshan camp.

At this time, Wang Chengen, who went to the honeycomb coal kiln to see the situation, also rode a horse and joined Zhu Youzhen and others.

"Your Highness, winter is about to begin, and right now, the three Mongolians of Tumut, Tuman, and Karaqin can't put down our honeycomb coal."

"Transkhalkha and Tatar Ministries in the north also know about honeycomb coal, and it is estimated that they will be able to sell much more honeycomb coal before the winter enters than in previous years."

"Taking advantage of this opportunity, I should be able to exchange for a lot of military horses, cattle and sheep."

"You can look at it, and you can also take advantage of this time to sell it." Zhu Youzhen explained:

"I have asked the imperial brother to get the location of the mutual market between the Tatars and the Turks to Daning Zhongwei."

"The two of them plus Karaqin, the needs of more than 300,000 northern captives are probably a lot."

"With the addition of the Beiyu of the Tumut Department in Zhangjiakou, this year should be able to sell twice as much honeycomb coal as in previous years, as well as a lot of illicit salt."

"By the way, what's going on over there with Man Gui?" Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen also explained with a smile:

"At the beginning of the month, the lazy men of the nursing homes in Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion sent more than 30,000 people over, and the soldiers and horses of Daning Sanwei also sent them over."

"This made the pressure on the Yanshan camp a lot less, not to mention, more than 40,000 people dug earth and built a city in the local area, and in half a month, on the original site of the Bayo Department, an outer city was built enough to accommodate 50,000 people."

"At the moment it's called Daning central defender, the south is the defender, and the northeast is the forward."

"At present, there are still 70,000 or 80,000 lazy people in the nursing home who have been sent to Daning Sanwei and criminals from various county offices, and these people have been sent out, but it has reduced the burden on Yin and them in Shuntian Mansion."

"The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the food of these hundreds of thousands of people."

"The slave and maid have calculated, one person has ninety catties of rice a month, half a catty of oil, four taels of salt, three catties of meat and ten catties of vegetables."

"Vegetables and oil, you can use the fields reclaimed by Daning Zhongwei to grow, which can basically be satisfied, but you still need seven stone rice, thirty-six catties of meat, and three catties of salt a year."

In the end, Wang Chengen said: "It's not okay not to eat meat, and I don't have the strength to cultivate, so almost these people have to eat hundreds of thousands of chickens and ducks, more than 700,000 stones, and 2,200 stones of salt a year." ”

Everything Wang Chengen said, these materials will be invested in at least three years, and in the fourth year, the fields of Daning Sanwei can support these people, and the annual investment is converted into seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver.

"In Haitang Mountain in the north of Quang Ninh, more than 30 miles from east to west and 150 miles from north to south, it is enough to raise tens of thousands of chickens and ducks in captivity, and 30 officialdoms can be opened."

"The poultry meat there will be supplied to Daning Sanwei Tun for reclamation."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth and set the regulations of Daning Sanwei on meat self-sufficiency.

As for rice and wheat, more than 700,000 stones, for Zhu Youzhen, it is within an acceptable range.

110,000 people, three years of rice consumption is only more than 2 million stones, this grain can be easily taken out, and they can be used as an experiment to see how much grain and time is needed to reclaim one mu in the Liaohe Plain.

"How's the opening of the Imperial Store?"

"Back to Your Highness," Wang Chengen responded:

"At present, Huangdian has gone west to Xi'an, south to Luoyang, and east to Deng."

"The Liaodong area is also opened in the three cities of Shenyang and Liaoyang, Jinzhou, and Kuandian."

"However, the trend of boiling salt in Liaodong is prevalent, so the imperial store can only sell some honeycomb coal."

"Some income is good." Zhu Youzhen replied:

"How's it going over there at the salt works?"

"More than 3,000 acres of salt fields have been developed, and now there are more than 5,700 acres," Wang Chengen responded, and then hesitated and said:

"But lately, there have been some people snooping on the salt works......"

"Don't worry about them, they're just clowns." Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and also led people into the Yanshan camp.

Wang Chengen followed closely, and Zhu Youjian paused suddenly, then turned his head and said, "How is Li Rubai?" ”

Wang Chengen was stunned when he heard this, and then said: "After being deposed and returning home, I have been closed in the capital mansion. ”

"However, some people and officials often pass by to ridicule him, and I am afraid that I am ...... when I hear that he is not in good spirits right now."

"Let him write a letter, scold his younger brother who surrendered to Jian, and then order someone to find the imperial brother and pardon Li Ruzhen." As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, Wang Chengen said with a sad face:

"Your Royal Highness, people say that the Li family is captured, save the Li family at this time, I'm afraid it will be ......"

"Keep them, and when you solve the Liaodong affairs in the future, you will inevitably use them." Zhu Youzhen replied and said:

"After rescuing Li Ruzhen, Li Rubai was transferred to the northwest to serve as the chief soldier, and Li Ruzhen was transferred to the deputy chief soldier."

"You just need to tell the imperial brother that the two of them are useful for Liao affairs, and the imperial brother should agree."

"The slave and maid receive the order......" Wang Chengen heard this, so he could only respond.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen continued to walk forward, and then heard a hot shout.

I saw a battalion of soldiers and horses running out of the barracks, and under the leadership of Cao Wenzhao, they ran towards the outside of the camp.

This is running exercises, Zhu Youzhen glanced at it and then withdrew his gaze, and went to the ordnance station with Wang Chengen.

When they arrived at the armory, there were thousands of truckloads of armor in wooden boxes in the open space of the armory.

Liu Fan, who was chatting with people and recording at the same time, saw Zhu Youzhen coming, so he said from afar:

"Your Highness, this is the gunpowder and armor sent by the Beijing Armor Factory."

Zhu Youzhen strode over, stretched out his hand and picked up a set of cloth armor and shook it, looked inside and outside, checked the arm armor and the hood, and finally put it down satisfied.

"The quality of this batch of armor is good, let Sun Hao do it well."

"The slave and maid received ......the order," the eunuch in charge of the escort returned the salute, and Zhu Youzhen asked:

"Does the armor factory still have any treasury silver? How many moonrise nails are there? ”

"I was about to talk to Your Highness about this." The escort eunuch said cautiously:

"The armor factory treasury has been exhausted, Sun Zhangyin wants to ask His Highness, how much armor is needed, and the armor factory currently has more than 4,600 skilled craftsmen, and the armor factory produces about 8,400 armor per month."

"These include mandarin duck battle jackets, scarlets, gauntlets, neck armor, hat-shaped helmets, waist-length chain mail, cotton armor, cloth armor, belts, combat boots, long knives, and gourd hammers."

"In addition, boring palladium, spears and other objects are built according to the material books of the commanders of the various guards."

After the escort eunuch finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly, and then said to him:

"How many stomachs and gunpowder are there?"

"Back to Your Highness, 7,632 bodies, 140,000 catties of gunpowder." Liu Fan responded, because the answer to this question had just been written down when it was handed over.

"Then build another 21,66 armor stomachs, and ...... the other" Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen and said:

"How much silver is left in the treasury?"

"Back to Your Highness, there are still 1,094,054 taels of silver and 587,457 stone of military rations." Wang Chengen responded, but did not forget to remind:

"The autumn harvest has ended in the north field of the Imperial Horse Prison, and the grain collection book has been sent to the Imperial Horse Supervisor this morning, and it is now being placed in the eucalyptus of His Highness's study."

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhen replied and said to Liu Fan:

"Armoury's Riders and Infantry Craftsmen, how's the matter? And what about artillery factories? ”

Wang Chengen closed his mouth, knowing that His Royal Highness was not going to say this here, and Liu Fan opened his mouth when he heard this:

"At present, there are 1,462 craftsmen and 4,832 apprentices in the ordnance, and about 5,200 cavalry guns and 3,400 infantry guns can be produced every month."

"The artillery factory has two months to make a mold, and then it can start casting cannons, with 327 artillery craftsmen and 735 apprentices."

"Last year, a total of 300 4,000 catties of artillery, 500 3,000 catties of artillery clay molds, 1,500 catties of artillery clay molds, 800 catties of 3,000 catties, casting with all their might, should be able to use up all the clay molds within three months, that is, the probability of a good cannon is ......unknown."

Speaking of this, Liu Fan was a little embarrassed, and Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, very satisfied.

He had seen the clay molds of the artillery factory, and the appearance and shape were very similar to the Napoleonic cannons he painted, but because they were iron cannons, the stone bullets fired by the weight of 800 catties were less than six catties, which was equivalent to the six-pounder cannon in the West.

With the addition of the gun carriage and gun carriage, the total weight of the artillery is about 1,000 catties, and the firing range is two miles.

1,500 pounds of guns, the total weight is 2,200 pounds, 12-pound guns, and the firing range is three miles.

The 3,000-pound artillery and 4,000-pound artillery were the 24-pounder guns and 30-pounder guns left for the three guards of the navy.

These two types of artillery have nothing to do with land warfare, because judging from the road conditions in the East Asian theater, it is better to get more twelve-pounder guns and six-pounder guns than to pull them to the battlefield.

After the conversion, Zhu Youzhen said: "Remember to write the number of bullets on the artillery." ”

"In the future, artillery will not be called by the number of pounds, but by the weight of the stone projectile."

"Yes!" Liu Fan responded, and Zhu Youzhen said:

"The craftsmen and apprentices of the riding guns can be divided into the side of the riding guns, and the riding guns only need to maintain the production of four thousand guns per month, and it is better to have six thousand guns."

Liu Fan saluted again, and Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything anymore when he saw this, walked around to take a look, and then took Wang Chengen back to the Yamen of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

He sat in his study and picked up the statistics from all over the north field, and Wang Chengen also explained:

"All the fields in the north field harvested more than 35.4 million stones, and after the people paid the field endowment, the imperial horse supervisor received 10.62 million stone endowments, which should be handed over to the household field endowment of 1.983708 stones, plus 29 catties, 7 taels and 4 cents."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen said again: "The officials of the household department have already arrived at the military camps in various places early to wait. ”

"Let's hand it over......" Zhu Youzhen sneered in his heart when he heard the attitude of the household officials.

I don't dare to collect the rich and strong gentry, but I dare to collect my own, which is interesting.

However, after sneering, Zhu Youzhen said again: "It's just that this Tian Fu can be handed over, and it can even be handed over two million stones, but the Tian Fu of the Imperial Horse Supervisor needs to set up a separate warehouse." ”

Speaking of which, Zhu Youzhen said:

"Tell the officials of the household department, let them not worry, these grains will be turned into silver and handed over to the household department, as for when it will be handed over, it depends on when the new silver treasury of the household department will be ready."

"But the ugly thing is that ahead, the silver treasury is jointly supervised by the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Jinyi Guard, and the household department wants to transfer the silver, and it needs the Jinyi Guard and the Sixteen Guards of the Nanzhen Fusi to escort and escort it."

"I'm afraid it's hard for them to accept this condition." Wang Chengen frowned, knowing that this condition was too harsh.

However, Zhu Youzhen said to him: "Do you want to be an uncle if you want silver?" The officials of the household department have a problem with their brains, right? ”

"Tell them that if they don't set up a new treasury, my land will be handed over to the internal treasury."

Zhu Youzhen sneered in his heart, if he stupidly gave the grain or silver directly to the household department, with the character of an official in the Ming Dynasty, how much of this silver could be distributed to the local and nine sides is still a problem.

Do you want to hand over the field? OK! Do you want silver? You can too!

The household department made a report, the imperial horse supervisor approved the slip, and the sixteen guards sent people to escort it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen put down the document and said to Wang Chengen:

"The grain in the South Field must have just started to be harvested, right?"

"Back to Your Highness, it's like this." Wang Chengen responded, and Zhu Youzhen also said:

"In that case, transfer the Nanchang ship and ask Lu Jianxing to go to Tianjin and wait."

"Of the 10.62 million stone fields, two million stones will be left, and the rest will be handed over to Lu Jianxing and sold to Liaodong in batches."

With a wave of Zhu Youzhen's hand, it was the question of the whereabouts of more than 8 million stone of grain.

When this grain arrived in Liaodong, with the population size of Liaodong, it was enough to increase the price of grain in Liaodong from one or two stones to seven or eight hundred wen and one stone.

Coupled with the grain purchased from Sichuan and Huguang after Nanchang and Lu Jianxing were sold, the price of grain in Liaodong will be able to recover to the level of Wanli ten years in this year or two.

At this time, when Qin Liangyu's 10,000 Liao soldiers and Qi Yuanbi's 10,000 Zhejiang soldiers returned to help, Nurhachi would have to break his head and bleed if he dared to fight.

The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is that the grain price in Liaodong is flat, and there may be the possibility of Huili Nurhachi.

Liaodong Han merchants, Korean merchants, these guys don't care about morality and law, as long as Nurhachi gives enough silver, they dare to do things that others dare not do.

"Let Li Ruolian's Beizhen Fusi take a good look at Liaodong, I think there will be many people who will take risks to sell grain in order to make money."

"Yes......" Wang Chengen first saluted, and then said:

"Your Highness, Lu Jianxing's guy already has a lot of silver in his hands, do you want him to spend all the silver at this time, so as to test him?"

When Wang Chengen said this, Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly.

He was indeed a little dissatisfied with Lu Jianxing's practice of making millions of taels but only handing over half of them.

It just so happened that he was going north this time, and he had to buy grain from Sichuan and Huguang anyway, so it was better to give him a try.

"Let him use all the silver in his hand to buy grain, and then sell it in Liaodong."

Lu Jianxing still has about seven or eight hundred thousand taels in his hands, and according to the grain prices in Sichuan and Huguang, this silver is enough to buy more than two million stone of grain.

When the time comes, it will be sold together with the grain in the north and south fields, and it is not difficult to imagine how much splash these sixteen or seven million stone grain will make in Liaodong.

At that time, tens of millions of taels of silver will be sold, and there will be no need to worry about the financial problems of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

But just when Zhu Youzhen was thinking so, hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, and then walked to the door.

A brocade guard in a scarlet suit said at the door:

"Your Highness, there's one thing you need to look at......"

After that, he handed out the handwritten book in his hand, and Zhu Youzhen also frowned and took the handwritten handbook.

The number of words in the handwriting is not much, but it makes Zhu Youzhen's heart tremble.

[Extravagant Chongming wants to connect Song An's two clans]

Just one sentence made Zhu Youzhen clench the letter in his hand, and after taking a deep breath, he put the handwritten book on the table.

He closed his eyes, and his mind went through the turmoil of luxury.

The Rebellion of Lu'an was originally a farce in which Chongming went to Chongqing by aiding Liao, and then killed Xu Keqiu and became the Great Liang of the country.

However, because Yu Chongming's sister was the mother of the Shuixian clan Tusi at that time, An Bangyan took the opportunity to instigate the mother and son to rebel, and then united with the Shuidong Song clan and the Tusi from all over the country to jointly rebel.

Under the pretext of encircling and suppressing Luxury Chongming, An Bangyan led 20,000 Yi soldiers to Bijie and launched a rebellion, calling himself "the king of Luodian".

As soon as he rebelled, most of the Tusi in Guizhou began to rebel in an instant, and An Bangyan also led troops to surround Guiyang, claiming to break through Chenzhou, enter Changde, take Jingzhou, and reach the Central Plains.

His rebellion shook the Ming court, and immediately ordered the towns near Guizhou to send elite troops to help, and transferred 40,000 officers and troops from Huguang, Yunnan, and Guangxi provinces into Guizhou.

This battle mobilized the troops of Yunnan, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangxi, and Guangdong provinces, and it took a total of 17 years from the first year of the Apocalypse to the tenth year of Chongzhen.

It plunged the Ming Dynasty into a situation of Tusi rebellion in the southwest, starving uprisings in the northwest, rampant Jurchens in the northeast, and Dutch invasion in the southeast.

The head of the rebellion, the Shui Xi'an family, entrenched in Guizhou from the first year of the Shu Han Dynasty, a total of 1398.

Its power has deep roots in Shuixi, with the strongest troops and the largest territory.

In the past, the southwest suppressed the rebellion, and the Ming Dynasty all relied on Shuixi, such as the rebellion of Yang Yinglong in Banzhou, which was twenty years earlier than the rebellion of Lu'an, without An's rebellion, Guiyang would have already fallen.

Therefore, when Zhu Youzhen learned that Yu Chongming had fornicated with the An family and the Song family, he knew that the situation was even worse.

Under the three toasts, there are hundreds of small toasts, and their soldiers and horses are nearly 100,000, although the elite is 50,000 or 60,000 Yi soldiers under the command of the three toasts, but the strength cannot be underestimated.

At present, his arrangement is Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, Hong Chengchou, and Qin Liangyu.

Their soldiers and horses add up to nearly 40,000 people, but 10,000 of them have been transferred by themselves, and they are currently commanded by Ma Xianglin and have arrived in Jingzhou.

"The soldiers and horses must be transferred back, and then the chaos must be cut through quickly!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen immediately opened his eyes and said to Wang Chengen:

"Eight hundred miles urgently, let Ma Xianglin immediately transfer troops back to the stone pillar, and then tell the imperial brother about Yu Chongming's move!"

"In addition, I ...... again"

Zhu Youzhen paused, he originally wanted Qi Yuanbi to also support the southwest, but compared to extravagant Chongming, Nurhachi was even more fearful.

In addition, it was the time to pay taxes to the north, and in order to guard against Jiangnan's tax arrears, Jiangnan also needed more soldiers and horses to deter, so Qi Yuanbi couldn't move for the time being.

"That's it, let Ma Xianglin lead the troops back to the stone pillar first, I will personally tell the imperial brother about this matter, prepare the horse!"

After that, Zhu Youzhen was about to walk out of the door, and when Wang Chengen saw this, he hurriedly asked the Jinyi guard to prepare the horse.

Zhu Youzhen knew in his heart that once the Lu'an Rebellion broke out in this situation, the situation would not be much better than in history.

Sun Chuanting They are brave and good at fighting, but after all, it is the first time to lead the army, and Guizhou is different from the north, if they are not careful, will it also lead to the rebellion of Yunnan Tusi? Even he didn't have the confidence to gamble......

Thinking that he had just pacified Liaodong and had to face the rebellion that was about to break out in the southwest, Zhu Youzhen's heart sank......