At the end of August, with the end of the autumn harvest, the Han people in Fushun and Puhesuo were forcibly driven and relocated to the northeast by Dai Shan under the command of the soldiers and horses of the two red flags by Dai Shan, because of an order from Nurhachi.

More than 50,000 people were required to arrive at the stone forts in Beishan before the beginning of spring and reclaim them in the coming year.

Some of the lucky ones were assigned to a closer place, and they only needed to walk four or five hundred miles.

Some people who were unlucky were assigned to Sali and Duolunwei, that is, the area of Jiamusi in later generations, and they had to travel thousands of miles.

Many of them gave up their homeland, but they were eventually driven north under the sticks and knives and guns of Jianju.

At the same time as they were expelled, Huang Taiji built stone forts at various places leading to Hetuala, Mang Gurtai built stone forts on the road from Shenyang to Tieling and Kaiyuan, and had people build stone forts on the mountain road leading to Wuyewuwei.

In just one month, more than 300 stone castles have risen in the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain, densely packed, and all of them have stored enough grain and grass for a cow to stay for three months.

Unlike Nurhachi, the Ming army in Liaodong was still distributing fields for the people, and the people who got their own fields were also happy to harvest grain when the autumn harvest came.

At the same time, the imperial court's order to exempt Liaodong from paying taxes for three years was posted in the counties of Liaodong, and notices on reclamation and grain borrowing were also posted at the same time.

The Liao people, who scolded the imperial court a few months ago, only experienced a month of hair, and became a Shunmin who sang the praises of the Ming Dynasty.

The people wanted to live, and Liaodong, a place dominated by military camps, gave them hope of surviving after the abolition of the guards.

They once did not believe in the Ming court, so they boldly borrowed grain after the autumn harvest, and then carried the farm tools issued by the government, and went out of the house to start reclamation of some marginal mountains.

Such a scene is not limited to one place, but in the land of Liaodong, vigorously carried out.

Of course, at the same time, the account books were also constantly sent to the capital, and Cao Huachun's hands trembled when he saw it.

"Ningyuan County, borrowing more than 74,600 stones, Liaoyang County, borrowing more than 274,000 stones......"

"Zhenyuan County, Lushun County, Haizhou County, Gaizhou County, ......"

"Your Royal Highness......" Cao Huachun looked at Zhu Youzhen who was lying on the recliner and basking in the sun in the courtyard with a sad face.

"This is just the autumn harvest, and Liaodong has borrowed more than 2.16 million stones of grain and spent more than 176,000 taels of silver!"

"Hmm...... Got it......"

Zhu Youzhen covered his face with a pu fan, and replied half-asleep, next to him was Yang Ai, who was holding a pu fan and fanning for Zhu Youzhen, and Yang Yuanai, who was kneeling on the courtyard futon, holding a bowl of cold snow lotus seeds in his hand, and feeding it in a few seconds.

This guy enjoyed the service of the two palace maids, and left all kinds of accounts to Cao Huachun, who was sitting in the hall and settling accounts with sixteen royal horse supervisors.

Today is the thirtieth day of September, and the autumn harvest of the month has passed, and the various places under the command of the Imperial Horse Supervisor have begun to hand over the tax papers.

Zhu Youzhen listened to the sound of abacus in his ears, and it didn't take long for him to want to sleep again.

Finally, he was about to fall asleep, but the sound of the abacus in the hall stopped, and the sound of footsteps sounded.

Zhu Youzhen frowned and took away the fan on his face, looked sideways at the hall, and sure enough, he saw Cao Huachun holding a booklet and walking over with a pale face.

"Your Highness, count ......"

"Tell me how much." Zhu Youzhen took a bite of the cold snow lotus seeds handed by Yang Yuanai and responded.

"A total of more than 27,644,000 stones, and after deducting taxes, there are more than 19,668,000 stones."

"Counting the taxes owed to the household department last year, as well as the taxes paid this year, it is necessary to pay more than 7,976,000 stone taxes to the household department, or 3,988,000 taels of silver according to the grain price of Beizhili."

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhen swallowed the cold snow lotus seed in his mouth, and then said to Cao Huachun:

"Did the Ministry of Households agree to open a new warehouse?"

"Naturally, it's ......," Cao Huachun smiled helplessly: "After all, nearly four million taels of silver is a quarter of the tax paid by the six and five temples." ”

"The new library was opened next to the Ming Shifang and the armor factory, and twenty acres of land were divided, and the household department said that it was best to fold the color."

"Fold the color, fold the color." Zhu Youzhen got up and got down from the rocking chair, and then said to Cao Huachun:

"How is the construction of the three warehouses in Yanshan?"

"It will take another month to complete, but the large granary of Yanshan Daying can store five million stones." Cao Huachun responded.

"Then store five million stones first, and then temporarily store the grain in Hebei and Shanxi in the granary of the previous local health center."

"The surplus will be transported to Liaodong for sale, and after being folded into silver, it will be delivered to the new warehouse, and then the Daxing battalion will be divided into 500 troops to garrison the new warehouse."

"How much money and grain do you have in the treasury of the Imperial Horse Supervisor right now?"

Zhu Youzhen stood up straight, stretched his waist, and then walked towards the outside of the Qinqin Palace, and Cao Huachun also followed.

Seeing this, the eunuch also ordered someone to follow Zhu Youzhen with a canopy umbrella, and he followed closely with a bamboo tube of ice water.

Zhu Youzhen likes to drink ice water, which is already a habit that the eunuchs in the hall keep in mind.

A group of people followed him, and Cao Huachun also said: "At present, there are only more than 1,812,000 taels of silver left in the treasury, and the total amount of grain stored is more than 21,560,000 stone including the autumn harvest." ”

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the Qingong Palace and came to the East Palace to wander around.

Walking under the red wall and yellow tiles, he did not speak for a long time.

It wasn't until they met Lu Wenzhao who was in a hurry that Zhu Youzhen was ready to speak.

When Lu Wenzhao saw Zhu Youzhen, he immediately saluted, handed over the booklet and said, "Your Highness, there is a new military situation in the southwest. ”

Zhu Youzhen took the military information from Lu Wenzhao's mouth and opened it, and the content was written that Sun Yingyuan and Qin Liangyu, Ma Xianglin, and Hu Yingtai attacked together to capture Ligu Prefecture, and An Bangyan left more than 4,000 corpses and retreated to Duyun Mansion with the remnants.

In addition, Mu Changzuo also quelled the Tusi rebellion of Shanglin Division and An Longsi Division in Guangxi.

As a result, the space for the rebels' activities was further compressed into a place of three guards and four states.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen also said:

"It's almost, it's ...... at this time."

"Tell Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Wu Aheng, Yang Wenyue, and Cao Wenzhao that they must defeat Shuixi City, Zhijin Pass, Yongning Prefecture and Anshun Prefecture before the lunar month!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, he asked Sun Chuanting to lay down An Bangyan's lair and the two states in southwest Guizhou.

If these places are laid, then An Bangyan and Song Wanhua can only run around in the mountains of the land of one mansion, three guards and two states.

"Humble command!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youzhen explained to him when he saw this:

"I'm going to the Heart Cultivation Palace, you pay attention to Cui Yingyuan's side, if he has any news, tell me immediately."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao returned the salute, and Zhu Youzhen also left the long road with a hip step, walked out of the East Palace, and walked towards the Heart Cultivation Palace.

It's just that when the group walked to the front of the Wenhua Palace, it was just the time for Wenchen to go to the Da Ku Kitchen for dinner during his lunch break.

As a result, the Wenchen who walked out of the Wenhua Hall saw a picture of Zhu Youzhen walking in front, followed by more than a dozen brocade guards on the left and right.

"Humph! Behave freely and swagger through the market! ”

Seeing Zhu Youzhen's appearance on foot, some of the Wenchen couldn't help but snort coldly, estimating that Zhu Youzhen heard this, and he was about to call the Han general immediately.

A few days ago, he sat on an elephant chariot in the palace, and as a result, many civil servants impeached him, saying, "It is not a day of celebration, and it is inappropriate to ride on an elephant chariot."

As a result, now that he is on foot, Wenchen can still talk about him.

If you don't give this group of rotten people a little color, do they really think they are afraid?

"Look at what? Old glass ......"

Zhu Youzhen, who was passing by, also saw the eyes of the ministers on the steps of the Wenhua Palace, and suddenly felt unhappy, and then said to Cao Huachun next to him:

"Tell the people in the big cook's house to add some ingredients to the food of this group of rotten people."

"Uh...... Your Highness, I'm afraid this will not work. Cao Huachun said as he walked:

"If it is found, those cooks will also be held accountable, but you can let the chef prepare honey for the ministers and pour it into the cup with water soaked in onions and garlic."

"Huh? What is the rationale for this? Zhu Youzhen's eyes lit up.

"Eating will cause diarrhea and abdominal pain......" Cao Huachun looked embarrassed, and Zhu Youzhen immediately clapped his hands and said:

"That's it!"

"Slave maid takes the order......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Cao Huachun immediately asked people to go to the big kitchen to prepare, and by the way, he reminded the imperial doctors on duty in the Tai Hospital.

So when Zhu Youzhen rushed to the Yangxin Palace to find his imperial brother to prepare lunch, the big kitchen next to the Wuying Hall in the northwest corner of the outer court ushered in a team of more than 100 people.

"If you want me to say, Qi ...... Well? How did you replace today's thirst-quenching tea with honey water? And the taste of this honey water, why is there something wrong? ”

In the big kitchen, in the courtyards like wing rooms, Gao Panlong, a Hanlin weaver, took a sip of honey water and felt that something was wrong.

However, he didn't think much about it, continued to drink, and then continued to say to the other Donglin officials at the dinner table:

"King Qi will be thirteen years old in two months, and he can also arrange a marriage match if he wants to, and then he will be vassal early."

"That being said, Banzai should not want King Qi to leave, and a person like King Qi will not easily give up the military power in his hands." Wan Yanyang also replied.

"Eh, so if it wasn't for the poor supervision of the eagle dogs, how could such a scourge of the country be allowed to steal military power?"

A Donglin official also said a word, and by the way, he glanced at Yang Lian, Wang Yingjiao, Zuo Guangdou, Liu Yixian, and other four people who were eating in another room in the courtyard.

"That's it, it's not ......" Gao Panlong wanted to say something, but he felt a twitch in his stomach, stretched out his hand and rubbed it, and then said:

"It won't ruin the mood for some people."

At this time, the meals of the big cook were also served by some of the Guozi prisoners who entered the palace to study, and today's food was also good.

Seven dishes and one soup, including pearl cabbage, roasted shiitake mushrooms, roasted clams, bamboo shoots and chicken breast, boiled puffer fish, mutton in a water basin, frozen ginger and vinegar fish, and pearl jade soup.

"Eh, the year of calamity, what a waste of extravagance......"

Looking at the food in front of him, a Donglin official sighed in his mouth, but his hand moved the chopsticks after Gao Panlong moved the chopsticks.

It's just that while eating, a group of people rubbed their stomachs unnaturally, and then some people even oozed cold sweat on their foreheads, and Gao Panlong got up and said:

"The old man needs to go out first, and you can use it first."

After that, Gao Panlong got up and walked out of the courtyard, ready to go to the toilet of the big kitchen.

Seeing Gao Panlong get up, a group of Donglin officials couldn't help it, and hurriedly got up and went to the toilet.

"What's wrong with them?"

Zuo Guangdou, who was at Yang Lian's table, watched curiously, not only them, Ye Xianggao, who was sitting in the courtyard next door, and some non-party officials also looked curiously.

They didn't know what was going on, because under Zhu Youzhen's instructions, they drank pure honey water, while everyone else drank ingredients.

For a time, the only twenty toilets in the big kitchen were occupied by hundreds of officials, and in a courtyard not far from the toilet, a group of officials with pale faces were waiting anxiously with cold sweat on their foreheads.

"I can't help it......" Gao Panlong gritted his teeth, and then prepared to go to Wuying Hall to borrow a toilet, but as soon as he took two steps, his stomach growled.

"Ask the chef if there is a night pot!" Gao Panlong couldn't walk, so he could only open his mouth to some officials, and the officials also passed on one by one to ask the Guozi prisoners who had not eaten to question.

But he didn't want to have so many night pots in the big cook's kitchen, so he barely found thirty of them, and Zhu Guozuo and Shen Xiao, Yao Zongwen, Qi Shijiao and other party leaders divided a batch first.

The remaining high-ranking ones were divided into another batch, and Gao Panlong was fortunate to have old qualifications, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to get the night pot.

I just got a night pot, but there was no place to go to the toilet.

In the end, I had to go to the place where the pigs were raised, let people hang up with a coarse cloth to separate the position, pinch their noses and start to go to the toilet.

But it's better to be okay, once you enter, you can't get up again......

"Let me see where you ......"

"Brother!"

When it was dark for the ministers, the atmosphere of the Qianqing Palace appeared with Zhu Youzhen's voice, and it immediately froze.

Zhu Youzhen stepped in, and then saw the blindfolded Zhu Youxiao raising his hands in the Qianqing Palace, groping around.

In front of him, there were several palace maids with shy faces......

"His Highness Chitose!"

Seeing Zhu Youzhen suddenly appear, several palace maids immediately knelt on the ground and shouted Chitose, and as soon as Zhu Youxiao heard the words of the palace maids, he immediately ripped off the yellow silk that was blindfolded.

"My brother is here?!"

Zhu Youxiao smiled and threw the yellow satin on the ground, and then waved his hand to the palace maids:

"All right, stand down."

"Yes......" The palace maids immediately retreated when they saw this, and Zhu Youzhen was speechless:

"Brother, don't you have to deal with it?"

"Solo! I just wanted to talk to my brother about this. Zhu Youxiao smiled heartlessly:

"I heard that the Tianjin shipyard made a cargo ship with 8,000 materials? I'll have to take a good look at this, and when I come back, I might be able to get a warship of 5,000 materials. ”

"So I want to ask my brother to take care of ...... for me."

"Brother, don't think about it." As soon as Zhu Youzhen heard that his imperial brother wanted to let him be in charge of the country, he immediately vetoed:

"The Tianjin shipyard has been played, and the 5,000-material warship does not have too many technical problems, so I won't bother my brother."

"I must be needed for those 6,000 materials!" Zhu Youxiao was anxious when he heard this, and Zhu Youzhen also squeezed out a smile, and then immediately said with a cold face:

"The technology of 6,000 materials can be taken slowly, and the keel of the 5,000 material warship has been laid, and when there is no problem after launching, 6,000 materials can be built."

"My brother must be coaxing me!" Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he didn't believe that the people of the Tianjin Shipyard could understand the technology of the 6,000 and 5,000 warships so quickly.

You must know that he has not used the teak wood that was transported to the capital last time, the reason is that he wants to make a huge warship of 8,000 materials.

Although he has been reading the shipbuilding materials of Tianjin Shipyard, and has also obtained from Zhu Youzhen "Yanshan Arithmetic", "Yanshan Geometry", "Yanshan Mechanics" and other freshly baked basic books on mathematics and physics, the problem is that more than 2,000 shipwrights have also learned these.

And compared with Zhu Youxiao, one of their greater advantages is the shipbuilding experience accumulated for decades.

When the experience of shipbuilding collided with engineering mechanics, many of them immediately understood why the past experience could support the construction of large ships.

While brainstorming, plus Zhu Youzhen provided hull drawings, many shipwrights and masters could use armed merchant ships to try and make mistakes, but Zhu Youxiao did not have so much energy.

So, under trial and error, more than 2,000 shipwrights brainstormed and quickly understood the technology of 5,000 warships.

Even the data of the 5,000-material warship was sent to Zhu Youzhen's hands, and Zhu Youzhen came to the Heart Cultivation Palace, in addition to talking about things, he came to send drawings.

Therefore, in the face of the suspicion of his imperial brother, Zhu Youzhen decisively took the drawings from Cao Huachun's hand, handed them to the other party, and said:

"5,600 warships (1,820 tons), the total length of the ship is 25 zhang, the waterline is 23 zhang long, the keel is 13 zhang long, the width of the ship is 4 zhang and 9 feet, the food is 2 zhang and 1 foot, the two-story gun deck, 92 guns, and the crew is 680 people."

"I don't believe it!" Zhu Youxiao snatched the drawings and observed them carefully, and Zhu Youzhen's triumphant expression made Wei Zhongxian, who was watching not far away, smack.

"I really got it out......"

Zhu Youxiao looked at the perfect design drawings in his hand, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it.

"Okay, brother, don't doubt yourself, after all, more than 2,000 craftsmen have brainstormed, and it's not strange to come up with it."

Zhu Youzhen didn't take this matter seriously, but said:

"These 5,000 warships, the ministers are going to be positioned as the C-class warships of our Daming Naval Division, the future 7,000 warships are B-class warships, the 9,000-material warships are first-class warships, the warships below 3,000 materials, and the supply ships above 6,000 materials are D-class warships."

"The first class is named after the three mountains and five mountains, the second class is named after the table characters of the ten philosophers and seventy-two sages of the Wumiao, the third class is named after one hundred and eight people selected from the military generals who have passed away in my Ming Dynasty, and the D class is named after more than 300 prefectures and prefectures in my Ming Dynasty."

"Where is the need for so much?" Listening to his younger brother's words, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

The three mountains and five mountains are eight, the Wumiao is eighty-two, plus one hundred and eight Wenchen generals, more than 300 prefectures and states, that is nearly 500.

If this is really calculated, there must be more than 5000 warships, even if the cost is cheap, but the equipment also requires an investment of several million taels of silver, plus the military salary of more than 300,000 crew members, that is more than an astronomical amount.

Where in the world does it need Daming to use so many fleets?

However, after Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen also smiled: "It's just that the rules for naming the ship have been set so that people can make it clear." ”

"If it is really built, the future naval division of the Ming Dynasty may be renamed the navy, the number of warships will be about 300, the supply ships will be 500, and the total number of naval sailors will not exceed 210,000."

"To maintain such a scale, it is necessary to invest more than 16 million taels, and follow-up maintenance and military salaries need to be spent 6 million taels per year."

"Why do you want so much?" Zhu Youxiao saw that his younger brother was not joking, so he immediately frowned slightly, but Zhu Youzhen responded with a smile:

"I'm afraid my brother will be too little in the future......"

"Huh? That's it, my brother doesn't understand you. Seeing Zhu Youzhen's appearance, Zhu Youxiao also knew that he would not make a loss-making transaction, so he would no longer pursue it.

However, due to the passage of time and Zhu Youzhen's original promise, Zhu Youxiao showed a serious expression and said:

"Now that we are about to enter October, there is still a year before the end of the autumn harvest next year, does my brother remember what he promised me?"

"Remember! The autumn harvest of next year is over, and troops will be sent to recover the entire territory of Liaodong! Zhu Youzhen responded with his hands, and there was no way to wander on weekdays.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao's frowning brows also relaxed, and he sighed to Zhu Youzhen:

"Although I am not as good as my younger brother, I also know that if I support the 200,000 army, the money, food, people, mules and horses needed to be raised a year or even years in advance, and now I am ......."

"The younger brother came here for this reason." Zhu Youzhen said:

"The younger brother wants to ask the imperial brother to pass on the decree, and order the southwest Sun Chuanting and other departments to lay down Zhijin Pass, Shuixi City, Yongning Prefecture, and Anshun Prefecture before the lunar month."

"When these four places are taken, you can send Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue, Cao Wenzhao, Sun Yingyuan, Qin Liangyu, Ma Xianglin and other six troops and horses to the north to aid Liao!"

"At the same time, after the beginning of spring next year, together with the six departments and five temples and the internal guards, please send Liaodong soldiers and horses to open silver, and pay military salaries throughout the year."

"Then order the Liaodong Political Secretary to build six warehouses in each of the six prefectures to store more than 3 million stones."

"In the spring of next year, the Imperial Horse Supervisor will allocate 6 million stones of grain to be sent to the warehouse of Shenyang Mansion in Liaodong, and in the autumn, another 3 million stones will be allocated to the warehouse of Zhenjiang Mansion."

"At the same time, the four prefectures of Guangning, Daning, Liaoyang, and Jinzhou each transported 1 million stone of grain."

"The Sixteenth Guards, the three cavalry guards of Xiaocai, Tiance, and Yulin are transferred to support Liaodong, and the three guards of Daning are transferred to support nine thousand cavalry."

"In this way, the regular soldiers of Liaodong can reach 250,000, in addition to the 40,000 soldiers and horses needed to stay behind, 210,000 regular soldiers, 120,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 34,000 horses."

"Six hundred warships have been prepared, which can extend the Liao River and the Taizi River and transport 700,000 stones."

"From Shenyang to Kaiyuan, but two hundred and forty miles, from Liaoyang to Yaqueguan two hundred and eighty miles, these two roads can be taken by water, and there is no obstacle to transporting grain."

"From Kuandian to Lao Ya Pass by land, two hundred miles away, the mountain road is rugged, and it is the easiest to be ambushed, so it is necessary to transfer Qin Bangping, Qin Liangyu, Ma Xianglin, Qin Banghan, Cao Wenzhao and other five troops and horses."

"Liaoyang can use Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan's two troops and horses to take the waterway, and assist the Kuandian soldiers and horses to attack Lao Yao Pass."

"Of course, the most important thing is to recover Tieling, Kaiyuan, Fushun, Salhu and other places."

"Therefore, Shenyang gathered the most heavy troops, and Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue attacked Fushun and captured Salhu."

"Qi Jin, Qi Yuanbi, He Shixian, You Shigong and others led the troops north to attack Tieling."

"At the same time, Mangui led the Daning Sanwei, and the three cavalry guards attacked Qinghe Pass and cut off the connection between Tieling and Kaiyuan."

"In this way, the 330,000 troops of the main auxiliary army can recover the entire territory of Liaodong!"

Zhu Youzhen has accumulated more than two years of hole cards, and he is finally about to play.

The thick capital and troops, and the grain and straw can be said to be the face of the flying dragon.

If this battle can be lost, then Zhu Youzhen will stop changing the law, go directly to Jingshan to find the crooked neck tree, and hang himself in advance.

When he also revealed the whole plan, everyone in the entire Qianqing Hall trembled because of his plan.

There are 330,000 auxiliary soldiers, which is far more than the original encirclement and suppression of Yang Yinglong.

The last time the Ming army mobilized so many soldiers and horses, was it ......

"Hooray, Your Highness! South and North Towns Fu Si A and other military intelligence! ”

While everyone was still immersed in the battle of reconquest depicted by Zhu Youzhen, Lu Wenzhao was in a hurry, knelt down in front of the Qianqing Palace, held two copies of military information marked as first-class, and said loudly:

"Xu Hongru, the remnant of the White Lotus Sect, will raise the flag to rebel in the land of Kaifeng, Guide, and Yanzhou on the second day of October!"

There is a change at four o'clock

(End of chapter)