Hehe...... Cao Bingbi, this is some gadgets given to His Royal Highness King Qi by the contemptible people, please accept it......

On the first day of the eighth month, when the ministers flocked to the Qianqing Palace, Cao Huachun, one of the two major stewards under Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, also received many civil officials' overtures.

In the current situation, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the king and emperor of Qi have torn their faces with the parties.

But the strength of the two sides, as long as anyone with eyes can see clearly, it is obvious that the imperial power with hundreds of thousands of troops is greater.

It is not so much that Zhu Youzhen's subordinates are the Qi Wang Party, but that he is a royalist.

Judging from the current situation, it is the best choice for non-partisan officials to side with the emperor.

If you want to stand by the emperor's side, it is naturally impossible to bribe the emperor and wag your tail casually, after all, Wenchen still has to be faced.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen, who is above 10,000 people under one person, has become a breakthrough.

Just a few days after the end of the Battle of Fuliao, Cao Huachun received hundreds of Beijing officials and hundreds of foreign Beijing officials, that is, in disguise, the Qi Wang Party finally had its own people in the political arena.

Cao Huachun compiled a list of these people's names, and then sent them to Zhu Youzhen in Shenyang.

When Zhu Youzhen received this list, he didn't have the heart to deal with this group of opportunistic guys, but showed dislike, or slightly angry expressions on one of the letters in his hand.

[Beizhen Fusi Guangxi Qianhu Concert: On July 26, He Zhongwei of Annan Luzhou invaded Shangsizhou, Guangxi, besieged Longtong, plundered Pingxiang Baisha Village, and the governor He Shijin led the army to repel. 】

The news of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si was like a resounding slap in the face of Zhu Youzhen.

He was still celebrating the Battle of Fuliao here, and he never thought that there would be people stretching out their minions to Daming.

The most ridiculous thing is that this guy who stretched out his hand is still a small force in the north and central of Annan.

Although this person's soldiers and horses were repelled by He Shijin, the governor of Guangxi, when the Ming Dynasty was celebrating, Annan's soldiers and horses suddenly did this kind of thing, which really made Zhu Youzhen's face gloomy.

However, if it was just like this, there was no need for Zhu Youzhen's face to be ugly.

Right now, although his face is ugly, he is actually happy in his heart.

"I'm worried that there is no reason to recover Annan, and now that you're invading my Ming Dynasty, if you don't fight back, won't you be laughed at by all nations?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes, and said to Lu Wenzhao without raising his head:

"Go and pass on Hong Chengchou, and then let Jinyiwei bring all the information about Annan......

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao responded, and then ordered someone to summon Hong Chengchou, who had just returned to Shenyang from Jiefan City for two days.

While he was arranging, Zhu Youzhen was also thinking about how to deal with Annan.

First of all, from a moral point of view, Annan has long been demoted by Jiajing's subordinate state to the subordinate territory of Annan, and now it is the Ming frontier that they took the initiative to attack, and the reason for sending troops can be said to be just.

Secondly, because the Ming army had just ended the battle of recovering Liao, plus the accumulated reward of tens of millions of taels after the battle of recovering Liao, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to launch too large-scale "counterinsurgency" against Annam.

In addition, in terms of terrain, Annam was not suitable for the large-scale southward movement of the Ming army.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, the current cultivated land area of Annan will not exceed 30 million mu, and the population will be about 3 million to 5 million.

With such a large population, and still a population with its own culture, how to fight? How to govern? How to integrate it into the basic plate of the Ming Dynasty has become something that Zhu Youzhen needs to consider.

When he was thinking so, Jin Yiwei also sent Annan's information, and Zhu Youzhen also looked at it himself.

To put it simply, since the retreat of the Ming army during the Xuande period, Li Li of Annam established the Li Dynasty, and then Annan Chengping for a hundred years, until the Zhengde period, Annan Mo Dengyong overthrew the Li Dynasty and established the Mo Dynasty, and then Annan began a hundred years of war.

At this time, the remnants of the Li Dynasty continued to rebel on a large scale, from the Zhengde period to the Longqing period, which was also the "Northern and Southern Dynasties Period" of Annam, also known as the "Li Mo Dispute".

The Moh clan ruled the northern region of Annam, known as the "Northern Dynasty", while the Nguyen clan mastered the region south of Thanh Hoa, known as the "Southern Dynasty".

The fierce civil war between these two rival feudal groups lasted for more than half a century.

The Mo clan surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and successfully made the Ming Dynasty stop its idea of attacking the Mo Dynasty at the cost of reducing the subject state to a dependent territory.

As for the Nguyen clan of the Southern Dynasty, after the death of its ruler Nguyen Gan, there was a dispute between Zheng Nguyen and Ruan.

Nguyen Gan's son-in-law, Zheng Zhen, took all the power in his hands and plotted to deprive the Nguyen clan of his power and establish the hereditary power of the Zheng clan.

Seeing this, Nguyen Gan's son Nguyen Huang took the initiative to defend Hue and Quang Nam to establish his own separatist power.

In addition, in the northern part of Annan, there are also the Wu clan who have been guarding Xuanguang Town for generations, as well as some barbarian forces.

It's just that these so-called forces have developed so far, and they have almost been wiped out.

At present, there are only four forces left in Annan, "Zheng Ruan Mowu", and the scale of their soldiers and horses is not small.

All of them add up, and they can still make up 50,000 soldiers, more than 100,000 auxiliaries, hundreds of war elephants, and a lot of arquebuses bought from Europeans.

However, if it is only to this extent, there is no need for Zhu Youzhen to worry.

What he is worried about is how to govern after the foundation is laid, and this problem of governance, in his opinion, maybe Hong Chengchou can give him a satisfactory answer.

"Your Highness, Governor Hong has arrived at the main hall."

Lu Wenzhao's words interrupted Zhu Youzhen's blind thoughts, and when he heard this, he also spoke:

"Let him in......

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao still responded, and then ordered someone to pass on Hong Chengchou.

This process didn't make Zhu Youzhen wait too long, almost after a cup of tea, he heard a footstep.

"Xiaguan Hong Chengchou, see Your Highness, Your Highness Chitose......

Hong Chengchou's voice sounded, and Zhu Youzhen also came back to his senses when he heard this, "Get up, I have something to say about you."

"Yes......" Hong Chengchou got up, then lowered his head and waited to listen to Zhu Youzhen's instructions.

Zhu Youzhen looked at him, thought about Houjin's broken crest dog again, and then said:

"Annan invaded our border and was repelled by Guangxi soldiers and horses after capturing the people, I want you to send troops to recover Annam while controlling Yunqian Gui......

"......" Zhu Youzhen said as soon as he said it, Hong Chengchou did not respond in a hurry, but was thinking.

Zhu Youzhen didn't urge, just drank tea and waited quietly for him to speak.

After a while, Hong Chengchou suddenly spoke:

"If you are under the official headquarters, plus the Qin capital commanding the envoys, and the Ma Du commanding the two troops and horses, you should be able to pacify Annan within three years."

"If there is the support of the three guards of the navy, plus a thousand five-pound cannons, the time can be shortened to two years."

"That's ......" Speaking of this, Hong Chengchou hesitated and asked tentatively, "What kind of recovery does His Highness hope for?"

What kind of recovery? This question is a good question, obviously Hong Chengchou also knows that if it is just a normal attack on Annan, then even Yang Wenyue and others can recover Annan.

Since Zhu Youzhen asked him, it naturally needs to be different.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen took a shallow sip of tea, and then said absentmindedly:

"I hope that the Tusi of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangzhou, and Sichuan will be reclaimed after the land is restored, and it is best to be as stable as Huguang."

Zhu Youzhen's words made Hong Chengchou understand everything in his heart.

The first mention of changing the land and returning to the stream means that he does not want to see that Annan still has a force that is not controlled by the imperial court.

It is as stable as Huguang, but why is Huguang stable? Why didn't the Gu Barbarians and Yao people who made trouble in the past stop making trouble? This is the question given by Zhu Youzhen.

Hong Chengchou knew better than anyone how to deal with this problem, so he immediately said:

"Your Highness, rest assured, the lower officials will definitely recover Annan, but if you want to achieve the stability of Huguang, you may have to pay a lot of money and food......

"You don't have to worry about money and food, if you calm down quickly enough, or after the next Jingcha, the six departments can have your seat." Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth suddenly, but Hong Chengchou was not shocked.

"Your Majesty should do your best, just wait for the money and food to arrive, and His Highness will give the military order, and then he can send troops!"

He responded solemnly, and Zhu Youzhen also waved his hand calmly, signaling him to retreat.

Hong Chengchou didn't say much, when he retreated, and Zhu Youzhen also picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Only Lu Wenzhao, he looked at Zhu Youzhen puzzled and asked, "Your Highness, what did you mean by what you just said?"

"......" Lu Wenzhao's inquiry, Zhu Youzhen did not answer immediately, but said with low eyes after a while:

"There are a lot of people in Annan......

"With so many people, even if the Zheng Ruan Mo Wu Si clan is razed, how much land can they get?"

"But ......" Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen paused, and continued:

"It would be nice if we could use these people to develop the South Seas."

"Your Highness, are you in too much of a hurry? After all, this year, I still have to spend tens of millions of taels of silver for rewards and pensions, and more than seven million taels of silver for military salaries......" Lu Wenzhao said with a worried face, and Zhu Youzhen touched his chin and said with a smile:

"Things didn't start so quickly, not to mention anything else, it will take a lot of time for Beizhen Fusi to find out the news of Nanyang, and it will take a year for the troops and horses to be mobilized."

"This year and next year will still focus on maintaining stability, as long as Hong Chengchou knows how to do it, it is enough to let Annan and Guangxi always collide."

"As for the mobilization of grain and grass for the army, the opening of silver, and the like, that will also be a matter of the year after tomorrow."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at the courtyard outside the study, looking at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance, and at the same time, he felt a lot more comfortable, but also felt that the burden on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier.

Great hunger in Huaibei, the breach of the Yellow River, the earthquake in Shandong, and the drought in northern Shaanxi......

None of these things are accidental, but man-made disasters and natural disasters.

How can we use Wei Zhongxian's brainless violent framing methods in the next time to solve the problem of those who are capable and resist changing the law.

As long as this group of guys is dead, the remaining group of stinky fish and rotten shrimp don't need Zhu Youzhen to take action by himself, and they will be solved by Wenchen who wants to take refuge in him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen glanced at the music sent by Cao Huachun on the table.

Lu Wenzhao looked at Zhu Youzhen's gaze, and after looking at it, he also spoke:

"Your Highness, with the addition of this group of people, it will be much easier to deal with the parties in the future."

"It's just grass on the wall, take refuge in me today, and tomorrow you may turn to someone else." Zhu Youzhen retracted his gaze and said:

"There are no available people at the moment, let's use them for the time being, and when the students of Yanshan are successful, we can clean up the court at that time."

People who reuse the old interest groups will not be able to make the new method that Zhu Youzhen thinks continue, and they must still use Yanshan students to complete the change in Zhu Youzhen's heart.

Especially in the fight against the impending Xiaoice River drought, this group of people will become a backward existence.

"Go and pass on Sun Chuanting."

As soon as he thought of the natural disaster, Zhu Youzhen thought of Sun Chuanting.

Seeing this, Lu Wenzhao ordered someone to pass on Sun Chuanting.

Since the end of the Battle of Fuliao, the armies on the front line have also begun to withdraw one after another.

After all, the supplies on the front line need to be transported by the people, and without the big war, the army staying in the local area is just a waste of supplies.

The people's power must be reserved for the cultivation and inheritance of the land.

"Your Highness, Yuan Bu's envoy asks for a meeting."

Just as Zhu Youzhen was thinking about it, Yuan Yingtai's sudden request to see him pulled him back to reality: "Biography"

After saying a word, the brocade guard who passed the word turned around and left, and then after a while, Yuan Yingtai, who was holding two books, walked into the courtyard and said at the door:

"Your Highness, the number of acres in Liaobei and Guanwai have been counted."

"Come in." Zhu Youzhen sat back in his place, and Yuan Yingtai also took the booklet into the study, handed the booklet to Lu Wenzhao, and he handed it over to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen, who got the booklet, also looked at it at a glance.

Kaiyuan, Tieling, Fushun, Puhesuo and other places within the Great Wall have more than 980,000 mu of fields that can be directly cultivated, and Xinsarhu, Jiefancheng, Gulecheng, Jianzhou and other places outside the eastern pass have nearly 600,000 mu of fields of all sizes.

That is to say, in the first battle of the Liao War, the Ming army recovered nearly 1.6 million mu of land, plus the original fields, and the new fields that were relocated to Zhenjiang and other places to reclaim, the cultivated land in eastern Liaodong has reached more than 7.8 million mu.

"Have all the victims entered Liaodong?"

Looking at the book of acres of land, Zhu Youjian asked without raising his head, and Yuan Yingtai was worthy of the name of his governance ability that was often praised by Xiong Tingbi in history, and immediately said:

"All the victims have entered Liao, and there are now more than 2.97 million people in Liaodong."

"Since they have all entered Liao, then move them to northern Liaobei and Guanwai, first send the local soldiers in Liaodong to reward the fields and compensatory fields, and then divide the acres of land equally according to the head to the victims." Zhu Youzhen closed the document and said as he spoke:

"Nearly three million people and nearly eight million acres of fields, it is still a bit difficult to raise an army of 120,000 in Liaodong, don't worry about food, the imperial store of the Imperial Horse Supervisor will transfer grain from the south to the north, and I will also pay full military salaries every year, what you and Xiong Tingbi have to do next is mainly to reorganize the cavalry to continue to attack Jianyu while cultivating the people's livelihood."

"Don't give them a chance to breathe, but don't go deep into the mountains lightly, mainly to deal with the captives of the Wuye Vultures."

"With the acres of land in their hands right now, they shouldn't be able to support those fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses, and it is estimated that the next step is either to rob the Beishan Jurchens or plunder the Outer Khalkha."

"If it's neither, then it's only skirmishers, but with the nature of an old slave, as long as he doesn't die, he probably won't do that."

"Xiaguan thinks the same way, but Jianyu has not taken action for nearly half a month, and Xiaguan speculates that something may have happened to the old slave." Yuan Yingtai speculated, while Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"It doesn't matter whether they act or not, the most important thing is to train the soldiers and horses in Liaodong and rectify the internal affairs."

"120,000 elites who have experienced the first battle of Fuliao, and those more than 4,000 artillery, if the old slave dares to come, he will definitely break his teeth."

"Yes......" Yuan Yingtai responded, and then Zhu Youzhen did not instruct, and replied with a sentence of "the lower official retired", and then left the study.

However, not long after he left, Zhu Youzhen received a message from Jinyiwei again, saying that Sun Chuanting had arrived.

"Let him in." Hearing that Sun Chuanting was coming, Zhu Youzhen also put down the teacup and quietly waited for Sun Chuanting to appear.

"Xiaguan Sun Chuanting, see Your Highness, Your Highness Chitose......

A moment later, Sun Chuanting came dressed in the regular clothes of an official, and Zhu Youzhen saw him coming, and also motioned for him to take a seat, and then said:

"I sent you here for the sake of Shaanxi."

"This time, the guard office will be abolished, and I am going to abolish the Taifu Temple as well......

Zhu Youzhen's words were amazing, which meant that he was going to tear his face directly with Wenchen.

In other words, Wenchen's side had already torn his face, and Zhu Youzhen was too lazy to get used to them.

The 16 million acres of land under the Taifu Temple are managed by this group of waste, and there is only an annual income of more than 1 million taels.

More importantly, most of the fields and pastures of Taifu Temple exist in Shaanxi, and compared with the population, the land in Shaanxi can be said to be scarce and pitiful.

If Zhu Youzhen doesn't make a move against Shaanxi again, I'm afraid he will really have to wait for the people of northern Shaanxi to rebel in the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

Of the three regions of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo, which do not exceed 30 million mu of fields, there are more than 3 million mu of Juntun fields, and the number of mu of Taifu Temple fields has reached 12 million mu.

In other words, the number of official fields has reached half of the acres of land in Shaanxi.

But the embarrassing thing is that the imperial court did not receive much of the income from these acres.

The pasture land that was specially divided for raising horses was encroached upon and reclaimed by the powerful landlords in Shaanxi and Shandong, and the officials of Taifu Temple were helpless about this, so they acquiesced to the existence of this situation, and issued regulations to the Haoqiang who encroached on the pasture land to collect a fixed pasture rent.

However, the rent is pitiful, and it is better to directly distribute the land to the people of Shaanxi.

Therefore, what Zhu Youzhen asked Sun Chuanting to do is one thing he has done in history.

Clarify the acres of land......

"Nearly half of the acres of land in Shaanxi belong to the Taifu Temple and the Guard, if these acres are recovered, clarified, and then distributed to the people for cultivation, it will greatly reduce the burden on the people."

Zhu Youzhen said while watching Sun Chuanting's expression change, but although Sun Chuanting was not as cunning as Hong Chengchou, he did not show his thoughts on his face at will.

Regarding Zhu Youzhen's words, Sun Chuanting just said:

"Clarifying the acres of land, I am afraid that there will be a conflict with the local Haoqiang in Shaanxi, and most of the Haoqiang in Shaanxi are from the Northwest Frontier Army, and if we want to clean them up, I am afraid that they will meet each other......

"The court is difficult, and the people can't survive anymore, if they don't hand over the number of acres, why kill them?" Zhu Youzhen responded with a sneer.

To put it bluntly, military generals are inferior in this era, especially when the central power is extremely high.

The current center, the current imperial power, can be said to have reached the most powerful time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

For Zhu Youzhen, if the Northwest Frontier Army really dares to rebel, it will be swept away directly.

The four towns in the northwest can pull out 40,000 elites, which is a lot, and Sun Chuanting's one, plus the outer arch guard camp in Shaanxi, may have just broken out and will be over.

Not to mention that among the four towns in the northwest at the moment, Guyuan Town is still Li Rubai's soldiers and horses.

However, Sun Chuanting's worries are not unreasonable, and there are also a lot of soldiers and horses in Shanxi.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said:

"You lead the troops to Shaanxi this time, I will issue a military order, and transfer another ten battalions of soldiers and horses from Shanxi to you, in addition, the 1,400 five-pound cannons newly cast by the Yanshan Ordnance Institute and 600 ten-pound cannons can be transferred to you."

"If that's the case, then there is nothing to worry about in Shaanxi." Sun Chuanting saw that everything he needed could be satisfied, so he naturally had no worries, and directly responded to Zhu Youzhen's idea.

However, if it is only to this extent, there is no need for Zhu Youzhen to let Sun Chuanting come, he wants Sun Chuanting to come, and there is one more thing.

Thinking of this, he got up and said:

"Even if the acres of land are cleared, the land of Shaanxi is still not enough to make the people of Shaanxi rich, so what I want you to do is to relocate the people and the Tuntian Hexi Corridor."

The Hexi Corridor, that is, the Gansu region of later generations.

This area was lost after the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, and it was not recovered until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty after nearly 600 years, and when it was recovered in the early Ming Dynasty, there were only more than 30,000 people in the entire Gansu territory, and most of them were people of other races.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang sent the population of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Gansu in the early Ming Dynasty, the current population of Gansu is less than 1.5 million.

If you want to recover the Western Regions, this population is completely insufficient, because in Zhu Youzhen's memory, after the Qing Dynasty took over Gansu, the population did not recover to 2.2 million until the Yongzheng period.

But with this 2.2 million people, even the 30,000 troops on the southern route of the Qing Dynasty to attack Dzungaria from the north and south could not be sustained.

The reason is too simple, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the journey to attack the Western Regions is even more desperate.

From Jiayuguan to the Yinli River Valley, there are 3,000 miles of road, and due to climate changes, the environment in the Western Regions at this moment is much worse than that of later generations.

This can be seen from the attitude of the seven guards in Kansai after moving in, obviously they are the boss outside the gates, but after moving into the gates, everyone in the seven guards is happy.

You must know that Gansu during this period was even more barren than Yunnan, Guizhou, Liaodong and other places, but they still felt that Gansu was a paradise.

Even if the Ming Dynasty asked them to fight back several times, they were also "planting melons and lending money, making a living, and never thinking about it".

Such a harsh place in Hexi made Zhu Youzhen dare not say to Sun Chuanting and others that he wanted to recover the Western Regions.

If he really said it, I'm afraid that Sun Chuanting and Lu Wenzhao would wonder if he was caught by a monster.

Spend millions of taels of silver to build a place where only a million acres of fields and five or six million acres of pasture can be cultivated?

Not to mention the follow-up expenses of spending money to garrison troops here after the battle, if you want to have this energy, it is better to recover the three propaganda and six comforts.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen did not say that he wanted to recover the Western Regions, but only said that for the livelihood of the people of Shaanxi, he needed to move some people to Hexi.

After all, no matter how barren the land of Hexi is, no matter how serious the desertification is, after all, there is snow water from the Qilian Mountains to irrigate the fields.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, in the context of the great drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Gansu was less affected.

Thinking about it this way, moving the people to Gansu to reclaim land is a good thing for the people of Shaanxi and the Ming Dynasty.

The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the problem of the food needed for reclamation.

In this regard, Zhu You checked an account, and then said:

"In the matter of Tuntian Hexi, I will order the Imperial Horse Supervisor to transport grain from the south to the west to stabilize the local grain prices."

"What you have to do is to dismantle the local guards, and then move the people of northern Shaanxi from Yansui and Yan'an to Hexi to reclaim."

"The people who migrated were given 12 stone of rice and 60 catties of meat per person every year, and each household was given a cow for farming, and the acres of land reclaimed were registered and registered, and all the people who reclaimed them belonged to the people who reclaimed them."

"This ...... The specific reclamation matters need to be sent to Hexi before they can respond to His Highness." Sun Chuanting did not nod because of the generous conditions offered by Zhu Youzhen.

In the final analysis, he still needs to see the situation of the people in Shaanxi, and then look at the situation in Hexi, so as to decide whether he can relocate the population to reclaim Hexi.

"You just do it, and you can lead the troops to set off in the middle of next month, and as for the guard post in Shaanxi, just wait for our military order."

Zhu Youzhen said that, he signaled that Sun Chuanting could leave, and when Sun Chuanting saw this, he immediately made a resignation.

Looking at his departing back, Zhu Youzhen looked a little worried.

In the final analysis, he doesn't know how bad the current environment in Gansu is.

Specifically, only after Sun Chuanting himself went to see it, could he decide whether he could move the population to Hexi.

If you can't......

Zhu Youzhen's mood sank, if he couldn't, it meant that the Ming Dynasty might need to wait until the coldest period of the Xiaoice River had passed before he had a chance to recover the Western Regions......

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