On March 29, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, accompanied by Zhu Youzhen's letter to Kunming, Yunnan General Ma Xianglin led 9,000 troops to Lijiang Mansion.

His actions made Mu Changzuo, Mu Qiyuan, and Wu Bikui, who were in the Yuan Mou, nervous.

Because on the journey from Kunming to Lijiang, the nearest one was only more than 100 miles away from Yuanmou, so Mu Changzuo led 40,000 troops to garrison Laoqingshan, and sent sentinels to the south for 30 miles to observe the movements of Ma Xianglin's three battalions of soldiers and horses at any time.

When Ma Xianglin's soldiers and horses passed by, the atmosphere between the two sides was tense to the extreme, but no one dared to fire the first shot.

Mu Changzuo, who was full of confidence and thought that he could eat Ma Xianglin in a real fight, couldn't help but feel weak after seeing Ma Xianglin's 300 five-pound Yanshan General Cannons of the Chinese army.

The two sides spent a tense hour, and this tension gradually eased with the gradual distancing of Ma Xianglin's soldiers and horses.

"Ma Xianglin's guy looks like he's going to Dali and Lijiang? Could it be that you are ready to join forces with Mu Zeng to deal with me? ”

After Ma Xianglin's soldiers and horses went away, Mu Changzuo on the head of Daqing Mountain couldn't help but ask himself, but he thought about it and felt that it was impossible, because with the increase of soldiers and horses in Kunming, Hong Chengchou and Ma Xianglin could completely encircle and suppress him alone.

As soon as I thought that it was impossible to join forces, then there were only two possibilities: the two sides broke out and prepared for war, or Muzeng surrendered and accepted the land and returned to the stream.

As soon as these two possibilities appeared in Mu Changzuo's mind, his heart sank instantly.

He understands Mu Zeng, and it is impossible for Mu Zeng to betray Da Ming, so ......

"......" For a while, Mu Changzuo had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and after a long time, he directly ordered the troops to be collected.

The army collected its troops and returned to Yuanmou, and five days later, Ma Xianglin also led the army to Lijiang City.

Lijiang City was built at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the Yuan Dynasty Tong'an Prefecture Zhizhou Ajia Ade returned to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the Lijiang Military and Civil Mansion, and Ajia Ade was given the surname "Mu" by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and was named the hereditary prefect.

Recognized by the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's policy towards the local government, Lijiang City began to expand, and the Mu clan also developed stronger and stronger, and gradually became the overlord of northwest Yunnan.

After the Tumubao Incident, the Ming Dynasty's control over Qinghai-Tibet weakened, so they began to appoint the Lijiang Mu clan to monitor Qinghai-Tibet, and the Mu clan also used this power to exert force to the north to compete with the Qinghai-Tibet Tusi for gold and salt mines in the Tibetan region.

While competing for minerals, we have not forgotten to build water conservancy and develop agriculture, animal husbandry, handicrafts, and commerce.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Mu's was known as one of the three major Tufu in Yunnan along with Menghua and Yuanjiang, and it was rich in Tusi.

When the late Ming Dynasty was in financial difficulties, the Mu family actively donated silver and war horses to the imperial court from the beginning of the Jiajing period, and sent soldiers to help the imperial court fight many times, becoming the head of the province's Tusi.

Until the Qing Dynasty, he suffered heavy losses for supporting the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army, and after having to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he was targeted for supporting the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army, and then gradually declined.

For the Mu family, Zhu Youzhen had good intentions, so in the letter to Ma Xianglin, he also gave a special explanation of etiquette.

Ma Xianglin also did a good job of explaining to Zhu Youzhen, he ordered the army to camp ten miles away from Lijiang City, and he took twelve relatives to the south gate of Lijiang River.

When he came here, Mu Zeng, the prefect of Lijiang and the political envoy of Yunnan Youbu, had already lined up with 10,000 soldiers and horses in Lijiang City, holding a tray and presenting the seal of the tiger talisman of military power.

"This is the seal of the 30,000 army of Lijiang Mansion, please take it away from General Ma......"

Mu Zeng handed out the seal letter tiger talisman placed on the tray, and Ma Xianglin also turned over and dismounted and said:

"Mubu political envoy rest assured, the last general has received the dictation of His Royal Highness, from now on, Mubu political envoy will join the army for the left of the Western Army Governor's Mansion, and when the Duogandu Division sets up the political secretary in the future, it will also be served by the Mubu political envoy, and the gold and silver mine matter will continue as stated in the letter of the Mubu political envoy."

"Mu Zeng, Long live Xie, His Royal Highness Long En......"

After Mu Zeng received Zhu Youzhen's accurate recognition, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Ma Xianglin also took the seal letter and said:

"There are 30,000 troops in Lijiang Mansion, and what the Mubu political envoy needs can be withdrawn, and His Royal Highness personally promised that he could promise you to raise a thousand families and maintain the Duogan mining area."

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will not be blocked, and those who are willing to stay are fifteen taels a year. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Ma." Hearing that Zhu Youzhen was willing to let him raise a thousand families, Mu Zeng was even more satisfied.

To be honest, when the center is strong and powerful, it is not a good thing to have heavy troops in hand.

In order to maintain an army of 30,000, the Mu clan in Lijiang also spends hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year, and now it has handed over the military power and retained the mine, so in terms of earning silver, the Mu clan is not at a loss.

Once Dogan is set up as a province in the future, the status of the Mu clan in Dogan will be even higher.

Thinking of this, Mu Zeng also smiled, and after saluting each other with Ma Xianglin, the two sides turned over and walked towards Lijiang City.

In the following time, Ma Xianglin organized the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Mu clan during the day, and at night he and the Mu clan admired the customs of various local ethnic groups.

In a month's time, Ma Xianglin reorganized and dismantled the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Mu clan into seven battalions, totaling more than 21,000 people.

The news was intercepted by Yuanmou's sentinels on the way back to Kunming, and after Yuanmou's Mu Changzuo learned the news, his first reaction was impossible, but he soon cheered up.

He sent people to Lijiang to investigate, and it was not until ten days later that it was determined that Mu Zeng handed over the military power, accepted the land change and returned to the stream, and took the initiative to hand over more than 100,000 mu of military tuntian in Lijiang and other places.

Such news came back, so that Mu Changzuo couldn't hold back for a while.

Counting the imperial soldiers and horses in Lijiang, Yunnan Baguan, Kunming and other places, the strength of the Western Military Governor's Office in Yunnan reached a terrifying more than 67,000 people.

Mu Changzuo couldn't bear it any longer, so he could only take the initiative to admit his fate and write a handwritten letter to Zhu Youzhen.

At the same time that the handwritten letter was sent to the capital, the Tusi from all over Yunnan knew the news that the Lijiang Mu clan had handed over the military power, and the entire Yunnan Tusi was in an uproar for a while.

After all, the current Lijiang Mu clan is the real head of Yunnan toast, since the Mu clan has expressed its position, then other toasts must only follow suit.

Because the Ming Dynasty's restraint in Yunnan was mainly to maintain Tusi's national identity and territorial attachment to the Ming Dynasty, in order to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the territory of the southwest frontier country.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's governance of Yunnan Tusi was through military control and fetter rule, making Yunnan Tusi the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, it also made the Tusi of the Ming Dynasty bear the heavy responsibility of protecting the country and defending the border, so as to realize the expansion and stability of the southwestern territory of the Ming Dynasty.

This led to the Ming Dynasty's very loose rule over Yunnan Tusi, and the local government affairs and Tusi also had greater autonomy.

As for what the Ming Dynasty needed, it was just that Tusi would take the initiative to pay taxes while helping the Ming Dynasty resist the invasion of the enemy country.

Therefore, even though the Ming Dynasty has been changing the land and returning to the stream for more than two hundred years, even if the Tusi who accepted the change of land and returned to the stream, he still has a lot of military power in his hands.

However, with the surrender of the Mu clan's military power, the number of soldiers and horses on the Tusi side disappeared by one-tenth or even one-fifth in an instant.

Not only that, not long after the military power of the Mu family Tusi was handed over, the news of the small Tusi in northwest Yunnan and Yunnan Baguan successively handed over the military power continued to spread. Error-free updates @

Until April 28, more than 20 small Tusi west of the Yuanjiang River surrendered their military power one after another, and Ma Xianglin also followed Zhu Youzhen's instructions to list them as local prefects, and raised the salary to 821 years.

Even if they leave the prefect, their descendants still inherit the martial title of Zhengliupin Cloud Cavalry Captain, receiving an annual salary of 500 taels and maintaining their salary for five generations.

With such an official grade and a good fortune, these little toasts are very satisfied, and Ma Xianglin effortlessly solved the problem of one-third of the toasts in Yunnan.

When such news was transmitted back to the capital, Zhu Youzhen was personally quite happy.

On May 19, sitting on a chair in the study, he was holding the handwritten books of Ma Xianglin and Mu Changzuo, and his face was full of smiles.

If Ma Xianglin's handwriting represents the initial success of the Ming Dynasty's reform of Yunnan, then Mu Changzuo's handwriting represents that the Ming Dynasty can begin to comprehensively reform the land and return to the stream.

"Your Royal Highness, Qianguo Gong hopes that His Royal Highness can increase the hereditary lineage of the lords to five generations, and Banzai also suggests raising it after knowing it, you see......"

When Cao Huachun, who came from the capital, spoke, Zhu Youzhen was also pulled back to reality.

He glanced at Mu Changzuo's handwriting, and Mu Changzuo himself was the biggest worry and dissatisfaction. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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Or Zhu Youzhen treated the lords too harshly, so he also carefully said what he wanted in the letter.

To sum up these things, there are nothing more than four points.

First, the military tuntian can be handed over, but the Mu family's land that was granted by the emperors of the past dynasties cannot be handed over.

Second, the military power can be handed over, but he hopes that he and Mu Qiyuan, as well as the children of the Mu family after him, can have official positions in the Western Military Governor's Mansion.

Third, I hope to increase the hereditary lineage of the lords to five generations, because the third generation is really harsh on the lords.

Fourth, I hope that Zhu Youzhen can agree to the Mu family to retain a certain number of family members and continue to guard Yunnan.

These four pieces of news are everything Mu Changzuo needs, and Zhu Youzhen is naturally a little unhappy about this.

He added a quota of 1,000 families to Mu because the Mu clan really needed this 1,000 families to protect the mine, after all, the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were not ready to change the land and return to the Qinghai-Tibet Tusi.

But Mu Changzuo's request for a family is different, he hopes to live in Kunming, and he wants to have an official position in the Western Military Governor's Mansion and continue to guard Yunnan.

This kind of treatment determines that he can use a thousand families to develop his personal connections in the army, maybe after a few decades, the local garrison in Yunnan only knows about Mu Mansion and does not know about the imperial court.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen will not agree to the requirements of the family members needed by Mu Mansion at all, unless Mu Changzuo is willing to move his family to Meng Gen Mansion and guard the frontier for Daming Town.

"Huachun, help me write a letter and reply to Mu Changzuo, unless the Mu family is willing to move the family to Menggong Mansion or Longchuan, and defend Annan or Burma for the Ming Dynasty, otherwise there is no need to discuss the matter of the family."

"As for the hereditary five generations of lords......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen paused, and after a moment sighed:

"That's it, after the earl went to the knighthood, he was awarded the five-grade Xiao cavalry captain, with an annual salary of 1,500 taels. _o_m ”

Zhu Youzhen added an additional generation, and in terms of the title of the Duke of Qianguo, he can also be rich for four generations.

"The slave maid takes the order......" Cao Huachun breathed a sigh of relief, because he stayed in the capital, so he knew what the attitude of the lords in the capital was at the moment.

It can be said that if it weren't for the emperor's protection, they would have hated Zhu Youzhen to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Although this additional generation cannot offset their hatred for Zhu Youzhen, it can at least ease it.

"Do the requests of His Highness, the Governor of the Western Army, and Shitian need to be rejected?"

Cao Huachun took the pen and raised his head to ask a word, and Zhu Youzhen also said after being silent:

"It can be granted to Mu Changzuo as the right counselor of the Western Military Governor's Mansion, as for the land, if Mu Changzuo gives up his family, he doesn't need to open his mouth to recycle, if Mu Changzuo is willing to go to Longchuan and Menggen, the Qi Wangfu can buy the land for seven taels and one acres of silver."

"Yes......" Cao Huachun responded, and then continued to reply.

However, just as Cao Huachun replied, a brocade guard walked into the hall quickly, and saluted Zhu Youzhen in the study:

"Your Highness, news from the Korean Thousand Households Institute that the Tatar Hutudun sent troops to plunder the Horchen Department under the command of Horqin ten days ago."

"The chieftain of the Huoerchen Department asked the old slave for help, and after the old slave learned the news, he specially ordered Huang Taiji to lead more than 5,000 people from Jianyu and Beiyu three days ago to drive to the Huoerchen Department."

"The Horchen Division?" Zhu Youzhen frowned when he heard the news, just because that place was too far away.

The grazing land of the Huoerchen Department was between the Xing'an League and Baicheng in the later generations, and the nearest garrison to the Ming army was also nearly a thousand miles.

The cavalry could have been killed, but how to get back became a problem.

It is said that it is possible to graze cattle and sheep and come back nomadically, but if there are too many soldiers and horses dispatched, I am afraid that the cattle and sheep will not come back after eating.

But if there are too few soldiers and horses dispatched, and it is difficult to hit Horqin and Huang Taiji hard, this is a bit troublesome......

"This tiger rabbit mound, but pick a close fight......"

Zhu Youzhen had a headache, before the civil power of Liaodong was not restored, the Ming army in Liaodong could not organize an expedition of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

The Jianlu could do this because they were fishing and hunting, and there were a large number of Mongols in the soldiers and horses to help with nomadism, so it was so easy, but all this was not done by the Ming army.

Not to mention that the iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty has not been to the northern part of the Horqin grassland for hundreds of years, and is not familiar with the local situation.

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Even if he is familiar, who can judge whether Lin Dan Khan will suddenly attack the Ming army?

This guy's foundation in history is not clean, and he has done a lot of things while taking the annual tribute and looting the border towns.

"Keep watching."

After thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen was still not ready to send troops, because the cavalry of the Ming army in Liaodong did not have the ability to run back and forth for nearly two thousand miles for the time being.

"Call Lu Wenzhao."

After talking about Jianyu, Zhu Youzhen also cared about the affairs of Liaodong, so he specially asked someone to pass on Lu Wenzhao.

Recently, Lu Wenzhao has been busy with intelligence news in the southwest, northwest, and Nanyang, and he can't even follow Zhu Youzhen closely.

Zhu Youzhen also understood, so he didn't bother him much.

After all, the two haven't seen each other for more than half a month, and this time they just asked about something.

It was also with Zhu Youzhen's instructions that after a quarter of an hour, Lu Wenzhao rushed to the hall in a hurry, and saluted Zhu Youzhen as soon as possible.

"Your Highness......"

"Let's talk about the acres of land and the number of people in the Yellow Book of Liaodong, and then talk about the news in the northwest, southwest, and Nanyang."

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the study and sat in the main seat of the hall, while Cao Huachun also followed.

When Lu Wenzhao saw Cao Huachun, he greeted him with his eyes, and then responded to the question:

"At present, there are more than 646,000 households, more than 3.23 million people, and nearly 2 million refugees have poured in.

The total number of acres of land inside and outside the Great Wall of Liaodong is about to exceed 8 million mu, which is good news, and the population has also exceeded 3 million.

Last year, nearly 1.8 million mu of newly cultivated land was cultivated, and although this was only a preliminary reclamation, and it would take another two years to cultivate, it had to be said that the reclamation speed was indeed very fast, and there was no waste of the cattle and horses left by Zhu Youzhen.

At this rate, in two years, the number of acres of land in eastern Liaoning should exceed 10 million, and the number of fields that can grow grain will reach 8 million mu.

If the population of Liaodong can be larger, then the amount of cultivated land will be faster, but it will ......

Thinking of the population, Zhu Youzhen then thought of the problem of eating the two million hungry people in Liaodong.

No matter how careful Yuan Yingtai is, two million people still have to eat more than 12 million stone of grain every year.

If you include oil, salt, other vegetables, and meat, the annual expenditure is about 6 million taels.

After the Ming Dynasty's financial dissipation last year, it was only 37 million taels at most, and the annual expenditure of 6 million taels was indeed a bit difficult for the Ming Dynasty.

This is still Liaodong, if you count the Ryukyu Prefecture......

"What is the situation in the Ryukyu Prefecture?" Zhu Youzhen leaned back in his chair and asked, while Lu Wenzhao thought about it and said:

"The latest yellow book sent seven days ago is more than 260,000 households, nearly 1.3 million people, and a total of more than 2.04 million mu has been reclaimed so far."

"Shen Deputy mentioned that roughly next year, about 400,000 mu can be cultivated, but the specific yield should not be high, because Your Highness said that sweet potatoes cannot be planted more than half of them."

"Well, no matter how much, I can finally solve some problems on my own." Zhu Youzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

From the second year of the Apocalypse to the current fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Ryukyu Prefecture finally has some food income, although it is very little, but it is better than nothing.

With more than 400,000 mu of cultivated land, even if it can only produce 200,000 stone of grain, it can still meet the monthly ration of 450,000 people.

At present, the city of Ryukyu Prefecture earns silver, and all of them invest the silver in the grain trade, buying a large amount of grain from Huguang and Jiangxi and transporting it to Ryukyu Prefecture, spending no less than 3 million taels of silver every year, and also having to subsidize the imperial horse superintendent.

Ryukyu plus Liaodong, more than 3 million people in the two places need to consume nearly 10 million taels of grain worth of Ming Dynasty every year.

This has already made Daming a little stretched, but Zhu Youzhen doesn't have time, he still needs to fight the Hetao, and then move millions of people in northern Shaanxi.

The expenditure of these million people is greater than the expenditure of two million people in Liaodong, because the only way to reach Hetao is by land. @精华\/Shuge*First update~~

In this era, the flow of the Yellow River was less than that of later generations, and it was even more difficult to navigate, especially Luoyang. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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The section to the west, which wants to be navigable in this section, is comparable to ascending to the sky.

Therefore, it is not surprising that after the relocation of the people in northern Shaanxi, the Ming Dynasty will spend tens of millions of stone grain every year.

But the good news is that when the war ends next year, it will take at least six years of the apocalypse to relocate millions of people.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the hungry people in Liaodong also had an acre of land in their hands, which could reduce a lot of burden for the Ming Dynasty, and the same was true for the Ryukyu Prefecture.

Zhu You had calculated that in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty should only need to spend 26,700,000,000 stones, which would be enough to maintain the reclamation of these three places.

However, in addition to these three places, he also needs to launch another war against Nanyang, and increase the relocation and reclamation of the people in Nanyang.

Therefore, he must continue to open up new sources of revenue before the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and tap the tax potential of the Ming Dynasty as much as possible.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen did not ask in a hurry, but looked at Lu Wenzhao and gestured:

"Northwest, Southwest, what's going on in the South Seas?"

"Go back to Your Highness...... Lu Wenzhao said, and then said:

"The population of Qinghai, Ningxia, and Hetao in the northwest should be about 300,000, with no more than 150,000 men and no more than 50,000 soldiers in armor."

"The three departments have built cities and cultivated a lot of acres in the nomadic land, and the total number should be no less than 500,000 mu."

"As for the southwest, Burma and Annam and Nanzhang are all in turmoil, and the various tribes are fighting frequently, but Siam has been spared because of the annual tribute of timber to our court."

"It's Nanyang, Beizhen Fusi has been exploring for more than half a year, and he has almost figured out the number of soldiers and horses in various countries."

"There are no more than 15,000 people in the Great Franc (Spain), no more than 3,000 troops stationed in Luzon, no more than ten warships, and more than 100 merchant ships."

"The Francois (Portugal) have no more than 20,000 people in various places, no more than 2,000 troops, nine warships, and more than 100 merchant ships."

"Hongmaoyi (Holland) has the largest number of people in the South Seas, with more than 30,000 people, more than 20 warships, more than 200 merchant ships, and more than 4,000 troops scattered all over the South Seas."

"In addition, there are Dark Elia (England), Français (France) and other Europas, but there are only seven or eight hundred troops stationed there, and the total number of warships and merchant ships is only dozen."

"As for the dozens of tribal countries in Nanyang, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses for the strong, more than 1,000 soldiers and horses for the weak, and all of them will not exceed 150,000 soldiers and horses."

Lu Wenzhao's words were roughly Zhu Youzhen's explanation of the situation in Nanyang, and after listening to it, he also subconsciously rubbed his fingertips, and then said:

"In this way, it only needs to lead two B-class fleets, more than 100 merchant ships, and more than 10,000 soldiers to take the South Seas......

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes, and then said:

"You ask Huanglong, if you want to dispatch more than 10,000 sailors, more than 10,000 foot soldiers, and two B-class fleets, how much food will you need for an expedition to take the South Seas? What about the marching chart? ”

Zhu Youzhen said and said, but he was a little inexplicably excited:

"If the expenditure is not large, Gu Gong does not mind, and regains the old Hong Kong ...... before resuming it."

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