"My lord, is this extravagant Chongming really willing to give us three thousand stomachs?"

In the southwest and Guizhou Zhijin Pass, in the Tongzhi Mansion, a middle-aged man dressed in a Ming Dynasty mountain armor and wearing a Yi headdress asked the person in front of him.

In front of him was An Bangyan, who was sitting behind his desk, dressed in Han clothes.

He is not tall, and even a little short, but he is about five feet tall, and his appearance is very ordinary, but he is slightly whiter than ordinary Yi men.

An Bangyan heard the words of his subordinates, slowly opened his eyes, and then said:

"What did Song Wanhua say over there?"

"Song Xuan's consolation envoy said that Shuixi and Shuidong are a family, as long as Shuixi raises troops, Shuidong will follow." The general responded, and when An Bangyan heard this, he lowered his eyes and said:

"Tell Yu Chongming, five thousand iron armor, if he agrees, I will join Song Wanhua and I to raise troops to respond to him, and flank Sun Chuanting in Bijie Mansion!"

"But the time to raise the army must be set for the arrival of winter, until the snow falls!"

"Snowing?" The generals were a little puzzled, snow was not a good thing for them.

It's just that he was puzzled, and An Bangyan looked at it in his eyes, and explained:

"If there is heavy snow in Guizhou this year, then Sichuan, Huguang, as well as the Central Plains and the north will fall into heavy snow, and when the Yellow River freezes, the soldiers and horses of Beizhili will want to be mobilized, and it will take four or five months to reach Guizhou."

"At that time, I had already drunk the Yangtze River and approached Changde!" A hint of greed flashed in An Bangyan's eyes.

He once went to Changde, Huguang when he was young, and he will never forget the prosperity of that place!

As long as Changde is defeated, it can be confronted by the Ming Court across the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake, and Xiangshui.

At that time, many Tusi in Sichuan Xingdusi, southern Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi and other places will see that the Ming court has lost its momentum, and they will attack in groups!

In the southwest, openly and secretly, how many Tusi want to rebel, An Bangyan knows very well in his heart.

The Ming Court's land reform in the southwest has long caused many Tusi to be dissatisfied, but it is just because of the strength of the Ming Court.

But now Shenyang City has been besieged several times, 100,000 troops of Salhu have been killed, and troops have been dispatched from all over the country to aid Liao, which is very empty, and it is a good time for an uprising!

An Bangyan couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, his left hand tightly grasped his thigh, and after a few seconds, he continued to raise his head and said:

"As long as Yu Chongming agrees to the conditions, the two of us will take Bijie as the boundary, and the prefectures and counties north of Bijie and west of Bijie will be his."

"To the south and east of Bijie, as much as I have laid, it will be mine!"

"But my lord, that Song Wanhua of Shuidong ......" The general hesitated to say the Song clan of Shuidong, and An Bangyan only hesitated for a few seconds before saying:

"Guangxi, Guangdong, south of Changde, how much is his Song family!"

"In addition, ask someone to send me a letter to all the toasts of the Ann family, and ask them to wait for my orders......"

An Bangyan's eyes were deep, and the general's heart was terrified, just because the meaning of this sentence was that even if Yu Chongming didn't agree, his own adults would still rebel.

Come to think of it, the three major toasts plus the countless small toasts under his command have nearly 100,000 people, which is several times more than Yang Yinglong and his ilk at the beginning.

Since Yang Yinglong can create such great power, it is impossible for the three of them to be the same four major toasts, and they cannot subvert the southwest corner of the Ming Court!

"Stand down!"

As soon as Yu Chongming waved his hand, the generals retreated, and then half an hour later, one by one, the horses riding the Shuixi horses sent the letters to the various Tusi under the command of the Shuixi clan, and even some guards were implicated.

At the same time as the letter was delivered, fast horses also sent news from all over Guizhou to the capital in an expedited manner of 800 miles.

On the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, Beizhen Fusizhong, a piece of important information marked as first-class was sent to Li Ruolian's eucalyptus.

At the same time, Cui Yingyuan of Nanzhen Fusi also received the news, and rushed to the outer court with the information in a hurry, preparing to send this military information to Zhu Youxiao one step in advance, as a way to show his merit.

But as soon as he entered the Donghua Gate, he saw Li Ruolian with five or six first-class intelligence, and the other party had already crossed the Jinshui Bridge and was one step ahead of him.

"Straight thief!"

Looking at the back of Li Ruolian leading people towards the East Palace, Cui Yingyuan stomped his feet angrily, and then could only grit his teeth and leave in disappointment.

However, after he left, Li Ruolian sent a piece of military information to the Miaoqin Palace in the East Palace, and personally handed over Zhu Youzhen's eucalyptus.

"Well done this time......"

Accompanied by Zhu Youzhen's words, Li Ruolian in the palace raised his head, and at first glance saw Zhu Youzhen sitting in the main seat, as well as Lu Wenzhao and Cao Huachun sitting on the left and right, and an unknown brocade guard sitting next to Lu Wenzhao.

"Your Highness Xie's compliment!" Li Ruolian returned the salute, and Zhu Youzhen also turned his head sideways to Lu Wenzhao and said:

"Where is Ma Xianglin?"

"Back to Your Highness, I have returned to the stone pillar." Lu Wenzhao returned the salute.

"Lu Jianxing, where is the grain under your command?" Zhu Youzhen asked again, and also revealed the identity of the person sitting next to Lu Wenzhao.

At this moment, Lu Jianxing changed into a commanding comrade's clothes, which was very magnificent, and nearly a year of business experience made his temperament more complicated and sleek.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen asking, he subconsciously wanted to get up, but was held down by Lu Wenzhao's thigh, and then he realized it and said:

"Your Highness, more than 2.4 million stone grains from Sichuan have been escorted by my second brother Shen Lian, leaving Sichuan from Chongqing and arriving in Wuchang."

"According to the time, it should go to Yangzhou into the Huai River in ten days, go to the sea to Liaodong, and arrive at Zhenjiang in a month."

"Okay......" Zhu Youzhen raised his hand, Lu Jianxing also closed his mouth, and Zhu Youzhen also said to Li Ruolian:

"This is Lu Tongzhi of the Jinyi Health Supervision Department in the future, you should be familiar with him later."

"Yes......" Li Ruolian was shocked when he heard that Lu Jianxing was actually the commander of the Supervision Department.

He squeezed out a smile at Lu Jianxing, and Lu Jianxing was still immersed in his promotion to command Tongzhi and supervise the power of the North and South Suppression Division.

Seeing Li Ruolian smiling at himself, Lu Jianxing also stiffly pulled out a smile, and then stopped talking.

"You go and get your hands dirty." Zhu Youzhen said to Li Ruolian, and Li Ruolian also knew that he couldn't squeeze into this circle at the moment, and he needed to accumulate time and show his loyalty.

In this regard, he left with interest, and Zhu Youzhen said after he left:

"Although the three toasts of Guizhou are powerful, they are not unstoppable, on the contrary, this is a good opportunity."

"Maybe we can take advantage of the situation after the war to promote the transformation of land in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and other places, and the health centers will be abolished."

"If the land is changed and returned to the stream, and the guard is successfully dismantled, it will be another 120 million mu of military tun land."

"Your Highness is very true." Lu Wenzhao said:

"Is it just a little insufficient just with the current troops?"

"Everything depends on the Qianguo Mansion, I expect that Mu Changzuo and Mu Qiyuan will not dare to send troops, and when the time comes, they can be detained and detained by disobeying the holy decree, and then find an opportunity to move the Qianguo Mansion out." Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes slightly.

The Qianguo Mansion is not just as simple as later generations say, in fact, the power struggle began in the Zhu Di period.

At the beginning, Zhu Di moved King Min to confront the Qianguo Mansion, and then failed, and after that, the Qianguo Mansion became more and more powerful, and it was even more out of control in the late Ming Dynasty.

In history, An Bangyan rebelled in Guizhou, and the Ming court ordered Mu Changzuo and Mu Qiyuan to go on the expedition, and the two were afraid and had many prevarications.

After the death of Mu Changzuo in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Mu Qiyuan attacked him and conferred on him the title of Duke of Qianguo, and Mu Qiyuan was reckless and lawless, conniving at the domestic slaves to kill the people, and patrolling Yu Ying to arrest the illegal domestic slaves according to the law.

After the house slave was arrested, Mu Qiyuan actually mobilized soldiers and horses and aimed his artillery at the patrol office.

After this incident broke out, the government and the opposition were shaken, and it could be said that Mu Qiyuan was slapping the face of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen did not kill them, for the sake of the Mu family's defense of the Ming Dynasty, the Han people, and the Chinese land for more than 200 years.

Moreover, unlike the nobles of Shuntian and Yingtian, Mu Fu still has more than 20,000 Mu soldiers and horses in his hands, and most of these soldiers and horses are led by local officials and Mu children.

But if you don't do it, the Mu family will occupy one-third of the land in Yunnan, which will damage the interests of the Ming Dynasty in disguise.

Therefore, the easiest thing is to take advantage of this opportunity to collect the tuntian in the hands of Mu Fu and move them elsewhere.

As for this place, Zhu Youzhen also thought about it, which is the southeast of Myanmar in later generations, and now the Mongunfu Province.

If you move them there, you may be able to wait for the opportunity to regain the three proclamations and six comforts.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen returned to reality and continued to say to everyone:

"The dismantling of the four provinces needs to wait until after the war is over, so the main energy at the moment is still on the three towns of Shanxi."

"At present, the 16th Outer Gong Guard Battalion of the Yanshan Battalion has been training for four months, and there are still more than 10,000 people who are not equipped with armor."

"I estimate the time, at the end of October at the most, I will be able to send troops to Shanxi and the south of Beizhili to dismantle the guards."

"This matter needs to be cut first and then played, even the imperial brother will not tell many nobles, you must be strict-mouthed, and things can be continued, but you can't talk nonsense."

"Humble and clear......," Lu Wenzhao and others made a fuss, and Zhu Youzhen continued:

"Once the matter of dismantling Shanxi and the south of Beizhili ferments, Guizhou is likely to rebel, and the old slave will even wait for the opportunity to move."

"On the North Korean side, the Beizhen Fusi must hurry up, and it is best to find out whether there is any news of illegal trade between North Korea and Jianyu before it is abolished."

"If Jianyu did not have fornicular trade with North Korea, the old slave would inevitably attack North Korea."

"But if there is trade between the two sides, the old slave should sweep to the Beishan Jurchen tribe in the north, or the barbarians, and form an alliance with Horqin in the west."

"And we can seize this opportunity to let Yang Ho expose this trade issue between North Korea and Houjin, and then seize the opportunity to transfer troops into North Korea, and even station in Cheongjin (northwestern North Korea)."

"Your Highness, if there is evidence, then why don't you just abolish Li Hui?" Cao Huachun was puzzled and asked, while Lu Wenzhao explained:

"The abolition of the king, although it is refreshing, does not solve the problem, and even makes the new king who succeeds to the throne afraid of my Daming."

"Therefore, the garrison can deal a blow to Li Hui's prestige, so that when the hidden people in Korea come to the surface and start a rebellion."

"At that time, when the new king succeeds to the throne, he will inevitably flatter our dynasty in order to obtain an orthodox position."

"When the time comes, we may be able to make a request to increase the stationing of troops in the DPRK."

Lu Wenzhao expressed Zhu Youzhen's thoughts, and in Zhu Youzhen's view, it is difficult to conquer countries with a population of more than 10 million, such as North Korea and Japan, with a butcher's knife alone.

The most important thing to use is to garrison the location where there is interest, and then use the Ming Dynasty's tributary physique, to infiltrate them with culture, and finally when the culture is almost infiltrated, other colored people are suddenly moved out.

At this time, you can distinguish between friend and foe by skin color, etiquette, and culture.

Without the steam engine, there would be no steamships, no trains, and no actual control over large areas.

Pioneering westward? It can be exploited, but after conquering the Central Asian region in the middle of the river, it reaches its limit.

For those who have legal principles, such as Sanxuan Liuwei, Jiugang, the Governor of Luzon, the Commander of Annam, etc., they can be recovered and governed by "kingization".

The South Seas have been suffering for a long time, and the Ming Dynasty must use the identity of a great country to save them, and stay in the local area to contribute to local education.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but feel a little proud.

He is about to be twelve years old, as long as he doesn't knock some medicine like his ancestors, according to the bloodline physique of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Jiajing and Wanli, it is easy to live to the age of sixty.

More than 40 years is enough time to initially spread the Ming culture in these places.

But if you want to fight, you need silver, and if you don't have enough money or food, everything is empty talk.

The two points of silver for war and grain for the people to move are the key points, representing whether Daming can survive the long Xiaoice period.

The Qing Dynasty was able to survive because the drought was carried by the Ming Dynasty, and then from the low temperature period of 1644~1720, and because of the massacre when entering the customs, the population was small and the land was large, resulting in barely being able to survive.

How many Han Chinese were slaughtered in the Qing Dynasty? It is difficult to count, and it is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to follow suit and slaughter his own people.

Therefore, he must complete the relocation of people in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places where the drought is most severe seven years before the apocalypse.

As long as the most difficult 17-year drought is overcome, the remaining low temperature period can be slowly migrated, or the grain from Southeast Asia can be transported north and distributed to various places to fight the drought.

Zhu Youzhen rubbed his brows, then looked up at Lu Jianxing and said:

"All the food in the Imperial Horse Prison is sold in Liaodong, how long will it take to sell it with your way?"

His question was handed over to Lu Jianxing, but Lu Jianxing said with an embarrassed face:

"Coupled with the grain in Nanchang and Sichuan, if the land is not paid, it will be 16 million stones, and I am afraid it will take three or four months to sell so much grain."

"According to the humble opinion of the humble position, it is still necessary to set up an imperial store in the entire territory of Liaodong, and use the imperial store to sell rice to suppress the rising grain prices in Liaodong."

Lu Jianxing's words made Zhu Youzhen frown, but he also knew that it was the truth.

Sixteen million stones, if you take it to Liaodong to sell, you must be able to make a lot of money, but the time is too slow, and the transportation time is also very long.

The only drawback of handing it over to the imperial store is that it is easy to collide with Liaodong generals and family members who secretly sell military rations, which causes dissatisfaction.

Zhu Youzhen is still ready to wait for Shanxi to be cleaned up first, and then Liaodong.

But at the moment, it seems that if you want to clean up Shanxi and maintain the operation of the Imperial Horse Prison, you must first set up an imperial store.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Cao Huachun:

"You asked someone to write a letter to Cheng En, support 30,000 taels of silver, and open a royal store in the whole territory of Liaodong, with a time limit of one month!"

After that, Zhu Youzhen looked at Lu Jianxing again and said:

"You and Chengen will do it, after the 16 million stone grain is sold, leave 7 million taels of silver, and all the rest of the silver taels will go to Huguang and Sichuan to buy grain, and you must buy this silver grain before spring planting."

"Humble command!" Lu Jianxing returned the salute, and Zhu Youzhen frowned.

The food of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, he did not prepare it for himself, but for the three guards of Mangui and Daning, as well as the Hetao that was going to be cleaned up in the next year.

The difficulty of reclamation of the Hetao is lower than that of Daning Sanwei, but even so, the migration of dozens, even hundreds of thousands, or millions of people, and the grain needed for three years of reclamation is an astronomical amount.

It is not difficult to eat all the food of the Imperial Horse Prison in a year, not to mention that Zhu Youzhen has to supply Daning Sanwei.

When Shanxi and Hetao have been cleaned up, and it is determined that the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe River can be reclaimed, it is time to clean up Liaodong and recover Tieling, Kaiyuan and other places.

If Nurhachi was still in the mountains at that time, the Ming Dynasty could go north to defeat Tuman and Horqin, and occupy the Horqin Grassland, as well as the Songnen Plain.

Stone forts were set up in the mountain passes, and small groups of men and horses were harassed, and when they were exhausted, it was time to make a contribution.

Of course, this is a plan, and plans tend not to change as quickly as they change, but plans also change as changes change.

"Keep an eye on the movements of the old slaves." Zhu Youzhen finally explained Lu Wenzhao, and then waved his hand to signal everyone to disperse.

Seeing this, Lu Wenzhao and Lu Jianxing retreated one after another, while Cao Huachun stepped forward and said:

"Your Highness, the people who transported the grain to Daning Sanwei have seen it, and it can indeed be cultivated, but the energy consumed is really huge."

"According to the eunuch who went there, the three ploughing oxen used a plough to plough the meadow, and for each third of the land, they had to change a rope."

"The Manchu general soldiers also admit that even if 100,000 people go and tens of thousands of ploughing cattle go together, I am afraid that before the Zhengdan Festival, at most 120,000 acres can be cultivated."

"The speed is good." Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, and said:

"If they can, let the Mangui people try to build a canal in Liaoze first, build a dam, and then fill in Liaoze with sand, or divert the water of Laoha River and Liaoze into the sandy land, raise livestock, and enrich the sandy land with livestock manure."

Zhu Youzhen knew that Daning Sanwei was Liaoze to the south and sandy land to the west, and there were only tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land that was easy to cultivate.

However, the sandy land is different from the desert, after the sandy land is fattened, and then the water source can be used for farming, and the sandy land of Daning Sanwei is caused by poor grazing, not a lack of water.

As long as the water of the Laoha River is connected to the sandy land and then fattened, more than 100,000 acres of cultivated land can be reclaimed and tens of thousands of people can be fed.

It is better to be able to feed a little more than to starve to death without land.

Zhu Youzhen sighed, then shook his head and turned around and walked into the study.

Cao Huachun followed, and then saw Zhu Youzhen holding the pen and laying out the scroll, Cao Huachun saw this, and beckoned the eunuchs to get paint.

Stacks of precious pigments worth thousands of gold were served, and then Zhu Youzhen painted little by little.

I have to say that after inheriting Chongzhen's body, Zhu Youzhen's Chinese painting, calligraphy, and opera have really grown overnight.

Even though he did not study Chinese painting, with the muscle memory of his body and the memory in his brain, he quickly painted the scenery of a stone table in the deep mountains, a woman wearing a stomach and resting from the saddle.

"Hoo ......"

With a little relief, Zhu Youzhen picked up the pen again.

[Learn the Xichuan Eight Formations, and the mandarin duck holds the talisman in his sleeve. The origin of women is willing to accept it, why should the general be a husband. 】

After writing, Zhu Youzhen asked people to put up the drawing, and Cao Huachun served an ice drink and asked:

"Your Highness is writing to Old Madam Qin?"

Zhu Youzhen took a sip and said with a slight bow: "Give it to the imperial brother first, and ask the imperial brother to transfer the armor of the ordnance department of the military department to the stone pillar, and send this painting in the name of the imperial brother by the way." ”

"This ...... It's ......" Hearing what His Royal Highness said, Cao Huachun felt that something was wrong, but he still bowed his head slightly.

However, just as Zhu Youzhen loves his royal brother, his brother naturally loves his younger brother more.

"Where do I need my brother to give up his name, I am the emperor, and the whole world knows my name, so let's give this name to my brother."

When the painting was brought to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, Zhu Youxiao was dining with Empress Zhang Yan.

When Cao Huachun handed over the painting, Zhu Youxiao's heart warmed, but he immediately said to Wei Zhongxian:

"Let someone take the King of Qi Golden Seal I just got and stamp it, and then tell Qin Liangyu not to live up to my brother's hard work."

"The slave maid leads the ......" Wei Zhongxian heard this, and immediately asked someone to take out a piece of Yunhu gold seal, and after staining it with ink, it was covered in the painting.

"Rebirth: The Great Age of Waves"

Zhu Youxiao took the golden seal and handed it to Cao Huachun with one hand: "Don't tell my brother that I withered." ”

"This ...... Long live ......" Cao Huachun hurriedly took it, and Zhu Youxiao also smiled and looked sideways at Queen Zhang Yan and said:

"Baozhu, you need to be like me and love my brother."

"Long live and the love of King Qi, it has long been rumored that the entire Beizhili is a ......" Zhang Yan smiled slightly, and her glamorous appearance made some of the eunuchs next to her swallow their saliva.

Zhu Youxiao is also itching to see it, after all, the newlywed has only been married for more than four months, and there is still some freshness.

Seeing that the food was almost over, Zhu Youxiao also waved his hand and said:

"Alright, let's get out of the meal." After that, he said to Zhang Yan again: "Go to your Kunning Palace tonight." ”

"Yes......" Zhang Yanhong pounced on her face, as if she was about to drip water, and Zhu Youxiao grinned, even if she pulled Zhang Yan to leave.

But before leaving, he paused, then turned to Cao Huachun and said:

"By the way, Hua Chun, I made a model of a two-zhang cargo ship, and you asked someone to move it for my brother to see."

"If there is no problem, you can use the wood dried by the Tianjin Sailor and the Denglai Sailor to get the cargo ship first."

"Slave and maid leader ......" Cao Huachun returned the salute, and Zhu Youxiao saw this, and also smiled and pulled Zhang Yan to run towards Kunning Palace.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian and others followed one after another, but they did not forget to leave a dozen eunuchs for Cao Huachun to drive the cargo ship.

Cao Huachun looked at the emperor and empress, the back of Wei Zhongxian's departure, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he found the cargo ship according to the instructions, and couldn't help but be stunned at the first time he saw it.