Also in mid-July, when the Ryukyu Prefecture was preparing to recover Nanyang, the governors and commanders of Shaanxi and Shanxi also arrived in Guyuan Town.

Compared with the troublesome matter of the provinces south of the Yellow River, the reorganization and abolition of the four towns in Shaanxi and their 28 guards can be said to be extremely easy.

Zhu Youzhen had personally promised the towns that the vacancies would not be pursued, so in the first month of the year, the general soldiers of the towns directly handed over the soldiers and horses.

The original quota of Yansui Town was 40,000, the original quota of Guyuan Town was 54,000, the original quota of Ningxia Town was 20,000, and the original quota of Gansu Town was 40,000......

The four towns in the northwest, which had nearly 170,000 soldiers and horses on paper, were only 84,600 under the investigation of Sun Chuanting and Man Gui.

After the elimination of the old and weak, as well as the people who cheated and cheated, there were only more than 36,000 people left in the four towns, and they were reorganized into 12 battalions by Mangui.

Counting the soldiers and horses transferred from Mangui, Sun Chuanting and Shanxi, Shaanxi soldiers and horses totaled three guards and thirty-two battalions, totaling 114,000 people......

This is only a reorganization, and the corresponding important equipment such as rifles, armor, blades, and war horses have not yet been issued.

If you want to equip the unequipped people in the 32nd battalion of the 32 guards, you need to invest more than 700,000 taels of silver.

However, the only good news, I am afraid, is that after the elimination and reorganization, Man Gui and Sun Chuanting successfully clarified the Taifu Temple and the military tuntian in Shaanxi.

The total number of military tun fields in Shaanxi is more than 18.76 million mu, and the population of more than 800,000 military households has reached 3 million after more than 200 years of multiplication.

This military household population accounts for one-third of Shaanxi's population, and according to Sun Chuanting's inference, Shaanxi's population should be around 9 million.

Of course, the Shaanxi in his mouth includes Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia......

In other words, the vast northwest only feeds more than 9 million people.

Such a population naturally represents the difficulty of the Ming army's reset.

Because of this, after clarifying the military tuntian and military households, Sun Chuanting summoned the commanders and governors of various departments who needed to participate in the battle of Futao to come to Guyuan.

When everyone arrived, the hall of the General Military Mansion of Guyuan Town was already full of generals and officials, and the first to sit was Sun Chuanting, the political envoy of Shaanxi, Xu Guangqi, and the governor of the Northern Army, Mangui.

The generals at the bottom were Li Rubai, the general soldier of Guyuan, Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Yansui, Yang Zhaoji, the general soldier of Hexi, Lu Qin, the general soldier of Shanxi, and the generals of all sizes.

The general soldiers of Ningxia and Gansu have already been approved for their resignations, mainly because they are afraid that Zhu Youzhen will settle accounts for them after the autumn.

As for Wenchen's side, it is Sun Yuanhua, who was promoted to governor of Ningxia only last month, Zhu Tongmeng, the governor of Yansui, and Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu.

Judging from the number of civil and military personnel, it is not difficult to see that civil officials are slowly withdrawing from side affairs.

Sun Chuanting, who was a master of scripture, glanced at the hall before speaking:

"The main purpose of this summoning of you is to convey His Highness's military orders and the will of Long Live."

"Long live the will, the military tuntian in all parts of Shaanxi will be delegated according to the standard of five acres for one military family member and ten acres for one local soldier joining the army."

"After the distribution of acres of land for military family members and soldiers, the people will be distributed according to one person and four acres, and all taxes will be paid according to 30 percent, and it will be reduced to 2 and a half percent next year."

Sun Chuanting first talked about the matter of Juntuntian at the beginning, and seeing that many Wenchen generals listened to it, he continued to speak:

"This time, Banzai has already released five million taels of silver, and the grain has been transferred to Guyuan, and there are still more than 6.8 million stones."

"His Royal Highness also ordered that the taxes collected by the military tuntian this year should be transferred to the five major plugs."

"In this way, after the autumn harvest this year, the Northern Army Governor's Mansion should have at least 12 million stone of grain in stock."

Speaking of this, Sun Chuanting glanced at everyone and made sure that no one asked questions before continuing:

"You should have seen the marching map of the five major stops, and now that you have seen it, now is the time for the soldiers and horses to be arranged."

"The first plug is at the end of the pass, and the six battalions of horse infantry led by Lu Qinti, the general soldier of Shanxi, went out of the fortress along the Yellow River and swept the northern captives of the Hetao on the south bank of the Yellow River."

"In the second Saikou Yansui Town, the Mandu Governor led the three guards of Daning and the second battalion of cavalry out of the fortress, and the third battalion of horse infantry covered the people to follow, and the army went straight into the red salt pond and cut off the salt of the Hetao."

"The third fortress is the Zhenyuan Pass in Ningxia, the soldiers and horses are divided into two branches, led by Yang Zhaoji, the general soldier of Hexi, the fourth battalion of cavalry, and the third battalion of horse infantry, the army crosses the Yellow River and sweeps the north and south along the Dusitu River."

"The second is led by the three battalions of cavalry, the army does not move, waiting for news, observing the whereabouts of the Tumochuan Tumut Division, once Tumot's Su Nang leads the troops south to support, immediately attack the back."

"As for the fourth fortress, Wang Chengen, the chief soldier of Yansui, and Li Rumei, the deputy commander-in-chief, led the four battalions of cavalry, and the four battalions of horse infantry went out of the fortress to attack Juyanhai and Baitinghai respectively."

"At the last fifth exit, Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, and Li Rubai, the general soldier of Guyuan Town, led the four battalions of the horse infantry of the army, and swept north along the Zhangye River."

"The remaining six battalions of soldiers and horses, dispatched by Zhu Tongmeng, the governor of Yansui, are stationed in Xiningwei to guard against Qingqing."

Sun Chuanting fine-tuned Zhu Youzhen's marching map, and finally formed a scale of more than 116,000 people with three guards in Daning, 20 battalions of horse infantry, and 13 battalions of cavalry.

Among them, Lu Qin commanded the six battalions of horse infantry in Shanxi, while Shaanxi left six battalions of soldiers and horses to defend the Qinghai Tumut Department in Qinghai.

The reason why Shaanxi was able to suddenly pull out the 20th Horse Infantry Battalion and the 13th Cavalry Battalion was thanks to the strong families that have been entrenched in Shaanxi for more than 200 years.

When the Taifu Temple Horse Farm was recovered, a large number of heroes and powerful people disobeyed the order, and Sun Chuanting's military order was simpler, that is, one word.

Kill –

In just three months, no less than 100 Haoqiang families were confiscated, and tens of thousands of military horses and horses were confiscated.

After the number of horses was reported, Zhu Youzhen was not surprised, because he had long known that Shaanxi Haoqiang had a large number of horses in his hands.

After all, after the uprising of Li Zicheng and others, the peasant army in Shaanxi basically did not lack horses, and the horse infantry that can be seen everywhere in the historical materials ran back and forth.

In the final analysis, these heroes and strongmen dug the corners of the Ming Dynasty to raise horses, and finally led to the sad situation that Shaanxi obviously has enough horses, but there are no war horses available in the border towns.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen replied to the letter, it can be said that he praised Sun Chuanting fiercely, and also recognized Sun Chuanting's marching map, and personally wrote a letter to Sun Chuanting, promising Sun Chuanting that before the war began, he would personally lead 30,000 soldiers to kill the tiger in Datong.

Once Su Nang dared to help the Hetao Department and the Ningxia Department, Zhu Youjian would personally step on the plate to ascend to the city.

The news that Zhu Youzhen led 30,000 iron horsemen made Sun Chuanting more confident in the reset, and he was much more bold in strategic fine-tuning.

After arranging everyone's tasks, he spoke:

"The number of captives and Ningxia captives will not exceed 50,000, and the armor will not exceed 20,000, and the heavily armored ones will only be 5,000, and the captives will be defeated in a head-on battle."

"In this battle, His Royal Highness will personally lead 30,000 iron horsemen to kill the tiger's mouth to sweep the battle for our army, so the repetition must be clean and neat."

"The captives and the Ningxia captives should already know that my Daming is about to sweep the traps, and it is not surprising that this time the various ministries will unite, and the captive chieftain will lead the battle under the leadership of the naked relatives."

"When our army goes out of the fortress, we must not return in vain, as long as we defeat the heavy cavalry under the command of Huoluo, the captives will be vulnerable."

"This scripture hereby issues a reward, those who behead the fire and fall to the red, will be rewarded with 5,000 taels of silver, those who capture and kill 26 Taiji and Baylor will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver, and those who behead the captives will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver."

Sun Chuanting issued a reward for the 26 Taiji of Hetao and Ningxia, but the amount of silver for beheading was lowered from 50 taels to 20 taels.

The reason for the downward adjustment is that he knows that the Ming army has a great advantage in terms of equipment and logistics, and on the contrary, the trappers have no advantage except for being able to run.

This battle was different from the First Battle of Fuliao, in which the cavalry and horse infantry of the Ming army combined did not have 60,000, and this battle was almost all horse infantry and cavalry.

Although the cavalry of the Ming army in Shaanxi could only reach the basic standard of one man and two horses, it was enough for one man and two horses to gallop through the Hetao.

The advantage of the Ming army in this battle was more obvious than that of the Fuliao battle, and in terms of terrain, unless the captives were drilled into the desert, the mobility of the Ming cavalry would not lose too much to them.

Nearly 150,000 to 50,000, Sun Chuanting can rest assured that he can boldly arrange the broom.

The only thing he had to worry about was the tens of thousands of Mongols entrenched in Qinghai, so it was a safe move to let Zhu Tongmeng command the sixth battalion to garrison Xiningwei.

As long as Xiningwei is not lost, the Ming army's re-entrapment can be said to have been half successful.

"All the armies recruit their own people, and all the people cannot be forced to be conscripted, but they can be rewarded with money, grain and acres in accordance with His Highness's military order."

After talking about the arrangement, Sun Chuanting finally explained the matter of the people's husband.

The 116,000 troops of the Ming army went out of the fortress this time, and the battle line was 600 miles long from north to south, and it was necessary to mobilize at least more than 400,000 people and more than 200,000 horses.

Although the people can be recruited by conscription, the people will inevitably run away on the road, so they can only know with affection, move with reason, and lure them with money, grain, and acres.

In this regard, there is no problem with the plan given by Zhu Youzhen, but what Sun Chuanting is worried about is that there are also Han refugees who have fled north in the places where the captives and the northern captives built cities and opened up land.

In this way, after the land is laid, it will not work to divide the land directly, and the only way to continue to cultivate new fields will be possible.

But it's useless to worry, what to do specifically, you still have to wait until you lay down the loop first.

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting transferred more than 6 million stone grains and 5 million taels of silver to the ministries according to the number of soldiers and horses, and then announced the dissolution of the meeting.

After the meeting, he handed over his march map of the resumption of Liao to the Jinyiwei who carried him with him, and the Jinyiwei also sent this new march map of the resumption of Liao to the capital and the Yanshan camp.

When the marching map was delivered, Zhu Youzhen, who was in the Yanshan camp, was also lying on a recliner, soaking up the sun, and listening to the sound of abacus in his ears.

"Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Fengyang, Fujian, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other seven provinces of Beijing and one capital have completed the innovation, except for the Xiaoling Wei retained and reorganized, the rest of the health centers have been renovated."

"A total of 32,376,430 mu of military tun land, 1,464,720 military households, and 7,423,600 people were found."

"I have two capitals and fourteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty, except for Guangxi, Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, and the rest of the provinces have been renovated, and only Xiaolingwei is retained."

When Cao Huachun finished speaking, the sound of the abacus disappeared completely, and Zhu Youzhen also sat up lazily, slowly opened his eyes and adapted to the surrounding sunlight.

"Xiaolingwei continues to be retained, but it is necessary to send a thousand soldiers and horses to the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum Gongwei."

"As for all military households converted to civilian registration, the military tuntian is distributed according to the old rules, except for the people of Shaanxi who have four acres per person, and the rest of the provinces have three acres per person."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, he distributed more than 30 million acres of land to the people, soldiers, and their families.

However, the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guangxi, which have many toasts, have not yet been completely renovated, which makes Zhu Youzhen a little dissatisfied.

"Is there any movement in the Southwest? Those toasts ......."

Zhu Youzhen, who pinched the back of his neck with his hand, asked Lu Wenzhao, who was standing next to him, and Lu Wenzhao also shook his head and said:

"In June, after the Duke of Qianguo and Wu Bikui handed over their military power, a large number of Tusi such as Yunnan, Guangxi, and Sichuan Xingdu Division were quiet."

"However, at present, there are still 32 Tusi who have not accepted the land change and return to the stream, and most of the Yi Tusi of the Xingdu Division in Sichuan have a very tough attitude of refusal."

Sichuan Xingdu Division, that is, the area of Daliang Mountain in later generations.

For the tenacious attitude of the toasts, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect it, but he didn't expect that these toasts were unwilling to let them out at all.

"How about the strength of the thirty-two Tusi?"

Zhu Youzhen, who took a sip of tea, was very calm, and Lu Wenzhao also replied: "About 80,000 people." ”

"Eighty thousand ......" Hearing this number, Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and then said:

"Wait another half a year, wait for the battle of Hetao to end and then clean them up, the output of the ordnance station can no longer keep up with the speed of army expansion."

"The ordnance produced by coming in will first meet the soldiers and horses of the Northern Army Governor's Mansion and the Navy Governor's Mansion, and the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion is currently equipped enough to resist the captives."

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao responded, and at the same time, Zhu Youzhen also got up and stretched.

"I will pass on the order, on the first day of October, the four cavalry guards will be transferred to Datong to kill the tiger's mouth, and the cavalry of Lu Longwei, Shence Wei, Yingyangwei, and Jin Wuwei will also be transferred to the tiger's mouth."

"The Juntun seed grain harvested in Shanxi, Beizhili, Henan, and Huguang this autumn was transferred to Yansui respectively."

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen turned his head and glanced at Cao Huachun, and ordered:

"Transfer another 300 five-pound cannons, 10,000 horses, and 200,000 stone military rations to kill the tiger."

"The slave and maid receive the order......" Cao Huachun remembered it in his heart, and was ready to tell the people below to do it.

At the same time as he received the order, Zhu Youzhen also asked: "How is the progress of the cement yard?" ”

"Probably the moon will be able to run, and the four workshops are estimated to produce 120,000 stone ......of cement per year," Cao Huachun replied honestly, and his answer also made Zhu Youxiao have mixed feelings.

A cement that can be seen everywhere in later generations, but in this era, Zhu Youzhen and many craftsmen in Yanshan groped for more than two years before finally finding a suitable formula.

But even if the formula is figured out, with the mining power and manual speed of this era, a factory with four thousand people can only produce 120,000 stone of cement a year, which is equivalent to only 8 or 9,000 tons of cement.

What is eight or nine thousand tons of cement enough? At most, build a concrete road that is one zhang wide and three inches thick, and is no more than 60 kilometers long.

Even if Zhu Youzhen promotes it all over the world and builds hundreds of factories, the cement output will only be more than 100,000 tons, and at most a cement road of 7 or 800 kilometers will be built.

But if thousands of factories are built to increase the output of cement to millions of tons, it will require millions of Ming people to participate in the production.

In exchange for the annual output of millions of tons of cement that millions of people in the Ming Dynasty may suffer from pneumoconiosis, Zhu Youzhen is unwilling to do it.

Therefore, the cement plant should not be built in Daming in large quantities, but should be built in ......

"Your Highness, this cement is estimated to be very interested, do you want to send some to the palace after the output?"

Cao Huachun's voice broke Zhu Youzhen's thoughts, and when he heard this, he smiled:

"This cement plant will be built first, and then I will give it to my brother for a trial, and if I can, I will use it in the construction of a new city in the capital at that time."

"As for expansion, there is no need, I heard that there are many Kunlun slaves in the land of Nanyang, and it would be good to let Shen Tingyang and Huanglong build a workshop in Nanyang when the time comes."

Kunlun Nu, also commonly known as dwarf blacks, are generally between 1.4 and 1.5 meters tall, and are extremely widespread in the South Seas, numbering more than one million.

It was a very cost-effective way to use some money and food to hire dwarf blacks to make cement.

It will not harm the health of the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also develop the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen is very happy.

After all, the dwarf black people have no land, they can't farm to get money, and they can't enjoy the silk tea and various delicacies brought by the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Highness, Ryukyu and Shaanxi have sent news."

Just as Zhu Youzhen was thinking about solving the problem of the survival of the dwarf blacks in Nanyang, Lu Xiu walked into the inner courtyard with two documents.

Zhu Youzhen took the paperwork, opened it one by one, and he had no objection to the fine-tuning of Sun Chuanting's strategy and tactical line in Shaanxi, but added:

"Sichuan's military tuntian will not be left alone for the time being, and the other military tuntian will be solved first, and the grain after the autumn harvest will also be sent to Ningxia via Shu Road."

"In addition, the artillery of the Ordnance Institute will be transferred to Shaanxi first, and it is estimated that the five-catty cannon will not be needed to recover Nanyang."

Zhu Youzhen quickly arranged everything new, as for saying that Nanyang does not need five-pound cannons, it is also because most cities in Nanyang are close to the sea in this era, as long as there are roads, ten-pound cannons can get off the ship.

Moreover, in the face of the fortress of Western technology, the five-jin cannon was far less useful than the ten-jin gun, and the lightweight five-jin cannon could be said to be the most suitable for the Ming army's high-mobility fighting style in the grassland and desert.

Closing the paperwork, Zhu Youzhen looked at the documents of the Ryukyu Mansion, and Shen Tingyang and Huang Long also made it clear about the matter with Li Dan and others.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the content, and nodded slightly from time to time to express his approval, but after reading it, he still spoke:

"The seed grain of the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong will be transported to the Ryukyu Prefecture after the autumn harvest, and another handwritten copy will be given to Shen Tingyang, saying that the efforts of the coastal provinces to relocate the Ryukyu Prefecture will be increased."

"After moving to the Ryukyu Prefecture, you can choose some people to move to the South Seas, and the Ryukyu Province will be the bridgehead for the migration of the South Seas in the future."

"Luzon, Batavia, Old Port and other places already have ready-made cultivated fields, and after taking them, they can be retained to develop the local areas."

"Yes." Lu Xiu responded, and Zhu Youzhen also added:

"The matter of recovering Nanyang, let Shen Tingyang and Huang Long watch it, if the time is right, you don't need to ask me, just start and recover."

"In addition, the Kunlun slaves and natives captured during the war can stay in Nanyang and let them reclaim the fields and build cement and honeycomb coal yards."

"As for the Europas, if anyone is willing to ransom them with money, it is not impossible to let them go after the peace has been negotiated."

The corners of Zhu Youzhen's mouth unconsciously outlined a smile, just because he remembered that there were many volcanic ash raw materials in Nanyang.

I think that if Daming successfully gains a firm foothold in the local area, the cement output should rise steadily, and Daming's traffic will also become accessible in all directions.

The demographic dividend allows the Ming Dynasty to obtain a large amount of cement, honeycomb coal, as well as gold and silver mines and various resources, so as to expand its territory to the northwest and northeast.

If the cement road is matched with a railroad carriage, one is used for the march of the army and the other is used to transport supplies, then the delivery capacity of the Ming Dynasty will be greatly enhanced.

The cost of inland expedition is very high and the benefit is too low, but for the safety of the two capitals and fourteen provinces, the Ming Dynasty must recover the Western Regions, Mobei, Qinghai-Tibet, and even the Mengchi Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to recover these places, maintain the number of local garrisons, and establish domination, a large amount of raw materials and supplies will be needed, and Nanyang can provide just that.

The only thing to care about is that the population of Nanyang is still a little small, but Zhu Youzhen has already found a few other suitable places.

"Japanese ......"

Zhu Youzhen's eyes narrowed, and he looked at the end of the paperwork, and Shen Tingyang said that he handed over his handwritten letter to Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi will be a knife for Zhu Youzhen to bleed the shogunate, and it is impossible for him to let the Ming army go to fight the shogunate, because the Ming army needs to fight other more important places.

On the contrary, Yan Siqi, who has connections in Kyushu, if he can stir up the storm, it will be of great help to Daming.

Donghu Burma, Nanzhang, Annam, Ahom, Qinghai-Tibet......

In addition, after conquering the South Seas, overseas kings had to enter the South Asian region......

These places will be important places where the Ming Dynasty needs to solve internal population contradictions, land contradictions, interest contradictions and class contradictions.

If the population density is too high and the disaster resistance is not high, then the population will be relocated.

If there is a big contradiction of interests, then expand the market, and class contradictions, as long as the previous problems are solved, class contradictions are not a problem.

As long as the resources are enough and can be implemented in the hands of the people, the people are too lazy to care about the royal affairs.

"Speaking of which, Ran'er and Shu'e are about to turn one year old, right?"

Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun also saluted: "Yes, Your Highness, the crown prince will be one year old on November 13, and the eldest princess will be in February next year." ”

"Since Ran'er is one year old first, then as the emperor's uncle, I have to come up with a birthday gift." Zhu Youzhen smiled:

"Tell Huang Long and Shen Tingyang to take Luzon quickly, I will give them a map of the gold mine, and after taking Luzon, I will give this gold mine to Ran'er as a birthday gift......"

Zhu Youzhen had a smile in his eyes, and used a gold mine as a first birthday gift, so he could have this skill.

Lu Wenzhao, Cao Huachun, and Lu Xiu next to him could only smile helplessly when they saw the appearance of their Royal Highness.

There is a shift at four o'clock in the afternoon

(End of chapter)