"That's great!"

In the moat of the Donghua Gate of the Imperial Palace, the sound came from it, but Zhu Youzhen was seen standing on the two-zhang long model, jumping and jumping, causing splashes.

He unfastened the sail a little rusty, and then took a step and walked to the canopy boat next to him, Cao Huachun helped him over, while Zhu Youzhen pointed to six or seven young eunuchs and said:

"Do you know water?"

"Yes...... Yes! Several young eunuchs replied hesitantly, and Zhu Youzhen grinned: "Then you go up and sit." ”

Several young eunuchs had no choice but to get on the boat and sit on the boat, and this narrow combination of Chinese and Western cargo ships was also driven by the autumn wind to blow the boat.

"How much does this ship weigh?" Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to ask, and Cao Huachun also said:

"The ship weighs 100 materials and can carry 2670 stones."

"Long live said, if this ship can be built, then build a big ship according to the craft, and you can start with a thousand materials to build a civilian ship with the Yin dry ship wood stored in Tianjin, Denglai and other places."

"If it is a large ship of thousands of materials, it should be able to carry 25,600 stones......" Hearing Cao Huachun's words, Zhu Youzhen thought in his heart, and asked again:

"There is no problem with the ship, since there is dry wood, let's use them to build a ship, first build ten ships of thousands of materials, how much silver will be consumed?"

"According to the quotations of Longjiang Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard in previous years, it is necessary to recruit 400 shipwrights and 4,000 people, and if a ship has raw materials, it only takes two months to build, and the cost is 272 taels." Cao Huachun replied:

"The people can recruit local conscripts without spending silver, and because the raw materials do not cost silver, it is enough to pay only two hundred and seventy-two taels of silver."

Thinkers

"Not necessarily!" Hearing Cao Huachun's words, Zhu Youzhen frowned and said:

"Please ask the royal brother to set up a shipyard in Tianjin, raise 1,000 shipwrights, and each shipwright will earn one or two or two dollars a month, and the people can be recruited from the Caoyun people, thirty wen a day!"

"Your Highness, the cost of this will be too big......" Cao Huachun persuaded him, but Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said:

"There is no need to mention the matter of conscription, and in the future, the tenants under the command of the Imperial Horse Supervisor will not have to serve the conscription, and they will be paid for their work, and the wages will vary from 15 to 30 according to the region."

Zhu Youzhen knew that the harm of conscription was, first of all, that it delayed the agricultural season and affected the livelihood of the people.

Part of the reason why the population of ancient times could not rise when wars were frequent was related to forced labor.

Forced men work as civil servants, which leads to delays in farming, and when the men have no time to work during the slack time, their natural income cannot rise, and they look down on doctors when they are sick.

In order to relieve the burden of the people, forced labor is the most important thing.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to start with the Imperial Horse Supervisor and dismiss the conscription, not only to lift it, but also to use infrastructure to drive the people at the bottom, give them copper coins, and let the economy operate.

Only when the people have money can they pay taxes and spend in the imperial store, and it is impossible to just rely on the grain in the fields to feed their families, right?

For example, this shipyard has a lot of thousands of people, but it only spends more than 4,000 taels a month.

But this kind of expenditure can make thousands of families earn more than a year's time in farming.

In the future, Zhu Youzhen will go by sea, and the first thing he will have to do is to solve the problem of the livelihood of millions of workers.

It is possible to dismantle the guards, but it can only feed a small number of people, and most of them can rely on the shipyards!

After the outbreak of the drought, the food shortage in Daming was tens of millions of stones, or even hundreds of millions of stones.

Even if it is a cargo ship with 5,000 materials, at most tens of thousands of stones will be transported back at one time, so at least hundreds of such ships will be needed to ensure the transportation of grain by sea.

Not to mention, Zhu Youzhen still has to open up and immigrate to Ryukyu, Annam, Burma, Nanyang, and Northeast China.

Shipping by sea is the least costly, and that requires enough ships.

Building a cargo ship with thousands of materials can allow thousands of people to survive the long winter and give them an income during the winter.

Then, if Daming has to go to sea every year with hundreds of thousands of materials, or even thousands of large ships, then not to mention millions of workers, even the livelihood of millions of workers can be solved!

Tianjin, Denglai, Jinzhou, Huaibei, Songjiang......

If a shipyard is established in these places, the volume of trade is large enough, and a single one can solve the livelihood of dozens of people, or hundreds of thousands of people.

It is not feasible for the country to be rich and the people to be weak, and it is not feasible for the people to be rich and the country to be weak, only by maintaining balance, but under the balance, it is necessary to make sure that it is the people who are rich, not the strong and the inferior!

"Tianjin's shipyard continues to find a place to expand, and it is not impossible to build hundreds of docks, which are enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands of people."

"As for the number of civilian ships, first build ten thousand ships, three of two thousand materials, and one of three thousand materials, and it is not required that all of them be successfully launched, but at least they must accumulate experience."

Zhu Youzhen put down his cruel words, the reason was because he found out after understanding that it was really cheap to build wooden ships in the Ming Dynasty......

Even if it is a large ship with thousands of materials, plus the wages of hundreds of people and hundreds of craftsmen, the raw materials are only 14500 taels.

Although after conversion, it is only a cargo ship of more than 300 tonnage, but the price is still acceptable.

As for the big ships of 2,000 and 3,000 materials, they are only two or three thousand, or four or five thousand taels.

Build enough cargo ships to use the experience you accumulate on your Sail Battleship.

Zhu Youzhen had even thought that when the Dutch came from afar to think about the invasion, they would be confronted with the suffocation of the fleet that the sun would never set.

Zhu Youzhen, who couldn't help but show a cruel smile on his face, gave Cao Huachun next to him goosebumps.

"That's it! You can arrange the dockyard business. After that, Zhu Youzhen said to the eunuch who was rocking the oar: "Go back to the palace!" ”

The boat returned to the shore under Zhu Youzhen's beckoning, but before the boat docked, Zhu Youzhen saw Li Ruolian standing on the shore, which made him realize that something was wrong.

"Your Highness, news from the southwest."

Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Youzhen came ashore, Li Ruolian handed out a military report that read First Class.

Zhu Youzhen took it and opened it, and he was still a little apprehensive after seeing the content of the letter.

The content of the letter is mainly aimed at An Bangyan and Song Wanhua's intelligence, and the content of the intelligence is something that Tusi in southern Guizhou has secretly responded to.

"Thirty-two large and small families, headed by Aminong, with about 20,000 troops......"

Looking at the content of this letter, it is basically determined that the number of rebels will be at least 80,000 at present, and the only uncertainty is whether other Tusi in Guinan will continue to respond secretly.

"Continue to monitor, especially to get the time for the rebels to raise their troops, first find out the time of the hundred and thousand households, and reward three thousand taels of silver!"

"Yes!"

Zhu Youzhen ordered Li Ruolian with a calm face, and Li Ruolian also responded.

"I have to tell the imperial brother about this, you step back first, I will go to the Heart Cultivation Hall now."

After that, Zhu Youzhen pulled out his legs and left, and when he walked to the Donghua Gate and hurriedly went to the Wenlou, this appearance happened to be seen by the officials of the Wenhua Palace.

Looking at Zhu Youzhen's face, the officials immediately entered the hall and prepared to tell Ye Xianggao.

"This Du Wenhuan, like his uncle Juniper, is a reckless guy!"

In the cabinet, when the officials arrived, I only saw Yao Zongwen, who was scolding.

After Yao Zongwen finished scolding, he reluctantly handed the song to Hanlin in the cabinet, and they forwarded it to Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixie.

Liu Yixian and Ye Xianggao both saw Yao Zongwen's scolding, but they were curious about what was going on.

When they looked at the content of the impeachment recital of the imperial history, they instantly frowned.

[On July 26, Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier of Yansui (Yulin), sent troops out of the Hetao and smashed the nest to cause Kou. The tribes hated, went deep into Guyuan, Qingyang, surrounded Yan'an, threatened to bind Du Wenhuan, and plundered for more than ten days. 】

Well, it turned out that Du Wenhuan, Juniper's nephew, sent troops to Hetao, and after smashing the nest, he was retaliated against by the Hetao Beijiao, which directly led to the Hetao Beijiao knocking from Guyuan Town, and then looting Qingyang and besieging Yan'an.

In the end, he put a cruel word and ran away.

In this recital, Guyuan's general army did not send troops to be blamed, but it was Du Wenhuan who should be blamed even more.

Since you rushed to make trouble, you have to dare to deal with it when people come, but as a result, they besieged and looted Yan'an for more than ten days, and you were too late?

Thinking of this, Liu Yixiao spoke: "Ordered to be dismissed and waiting for investigation." ”

"Hmm......" Ye Xianggao also bowed slightly, and agreed to the means of dismissing Du Wenhuan, a brave general, at any time.

After settling the matter, he picked up another note, opened it and frowned even more.

[Chen Liangbi, the governor of the capital camp of the Guiwei Army, said that the original amount of 21,250 horses in the three battalions was 21,250, and 1,793 horses died in the 48th year of Wanli, and the ...... was checked]

This performance is an impeachment of the Beijing camp for raising and selling horses indiscriminately, and the content of it makes Ye Xianggao frown.

"Leave it to Banzai." Ye Xianggao knew that at the moment, King Qi's four cavalry guards were short of war horses.

Once this note is handed over to the emperor, I am afraid that all the horses in the capital camp will also be transferred.

It's okay to do this, it's useless anyway, and it's a waste to take so many horses.

Ye Xianggao put Song Shu aside with peace of mind, and at this time, the official who watched them finish handling the matter walked over quickly, and then walked to Ye Xianggao and bowed down and said in his ear:

"Elder Ge and King Qi went straight to the Heart Cultivation Hall just now, their faces were not very good-looking, as if there was something ...... big thing."

"......" Hearing the news, Ye Xianggao immediately frowned, and then said to Liu Yixian next to him:

"Liu Gechen, these songs are almost piled up, it just so happens that the old man is going to discuss with Banzai, why don't you go together?"

"Pavilion Elder first, please ......" Liu Yixian and Ye Xianggao partnered for a while, and they also knew that it was inconvenient to talk about something here, so they asked him to go out and talk about it on the road.

He immediately got up, walked out of the door side by side with Ye Xianggao, and walked towards the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Behind them, they were closely followed by two officials who needed to deal with the music, and Ye Xianggao also spoke:

"King Qi finished rafting, and then went to the Heart Cultivation Palace, looking very anxious, thinking that something big had happened."

"Hmm......" Hearing that it was Zhu Youzhen's movements, Liu Yixiao's brows furrowed.

Zhu Youzhen rarely interfered in political affairs, mainly in the abolition of guard posts and border towns, as well as in military equipment.

If Zhu Youzhen is in a hurry, then there must be something wrong with the side matter......

Therefore, after the analysis, Liu Yixiao and Ye Xianggao hurried towards the Qianqing Palace's Heart Cultivation Palace.

Also when they were on their way, a eunuch walked into the Heart Cultivation Hall and whispered to Wei Zhongxian at the door:

"Palm print, King Qi asks to see long live, and now he is listening to the announcement at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, and he looks a little anxious."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian, who was still thinking about how much silver he had recently made, suddenly came back to his senses and hurriedly replied: "Come in directly, don't snub King Qi." ”

"Yes......" The eunuch turned around when he heard this, and Wei Zhongxian also turned around and walked into the Heart Cultivation Palace.

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao was not dealing with the music, but hugged his chest with both hands, touched his chin with one hand, and looked puzzled at a large basin of water on the table in front of him.

The basin is round, six feet in diameter and one foot high, and is a large bathtub.

It's just that on this bathtub, a ship that is more than a foot long, exactly like the sail battleship painted by Zhu Youzhen, is quietly floating on the water.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian could only step forward and say: "Long live, King Qi is asking to see him at the palace gate, he looks a little anxious, it should be urgent." ”

"Huh? It's good to come, just ask my brother how this model is. Hearing that his younger brother was coming, Zhu Youxiao's originally frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen was also summoned and strode into the Qianqing Palace and the Heart Cultivation Palace.

As soon as he entered, he was surprised to see the large bathtub and the model of the ship, but more importantly, he was talking about things.

So he picked up the handwritten book in his hand and said to his royal brother who greeted him with a smile:

"Brother, you need to take a look at this."

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao was still thinking that his younger brother was a little cold today, but he didn't want to see Zhu Youzhen's nervous appearance.

He took the handbook, and then after reading the information on it at a glance and ten lines, Tong Kong couldn't help but shrink.

Immediately, he raised his head and asked, "With the current strength of the southwest, can you keep the southwest worry-free?" ”

Seeing that his imperial brother asked, Zhu Youzhen also replied resolutely: "I have already transferred Ma Xianglin and the 10,000 white pole soldiers who have just left Sichuan to help, plus them, as well as the 10,000 new soldiers just recruited by Old Madam Qin, and they have more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in conjunction with Sun Chuanting. ”

"Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan have more than 100,000 guards, but they are useless, and it still depends on the local soldiers of the Propaganda Division and the Tusi Division."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked back at the Tusi who was more loyal to the Ming Dynasty in the southwest and had a strong strength, and then continued:

"Right now, Mu Changzuo and Mu Qiyuan of the Qianguo Mansion were ordered to lead the troops to Qujing Mansion to station, and then ordered them to lie about giving wine to Long Live and summon all the consolation envoys in Yunnan to Qujing for drinking and talking."

"In addition, the prefect of Lijiang Prefecture, Mu Zeng, was ordered to gather soldiers and horses, and with the will of the imperial court, he ordered Wu Sizang, Duogan and other places not to meet with each other, and all the capital divisions and Wanhu Mansions transferred troops and horses into Lijiang, and they were under the jurisdiction of Mu Zeng, and moved to Tengzhou, North Yunnan!"

Zhu Youzhen rarely said a place where Ming Dynasty officials often do not move, Wu Sizang.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not send troops to Wusizang, since the Chenghua period, under the instruction of the emperor, Lijiang Mushi Tusi deliberately opened up to the east of Wusizang, stationed troops in the area of Qamdo in later generations, and supervised Wusizang.

This Mu's toast is the top priority that Zhu Youzhen wants to mobilize.