"Hetao victory! A great victory in the Loop! ”

"King Qi led his troops to break the trap in Bansheng City and beheaded more than 10,000 people!"

"King Qi led his troops to capture five major departments in Wolf Mountain and beheaded seven thousand!"

"The king of Qi led his troops north for 700 miles, broke the trap and captured the three major departments, beheaded the fire and fell into the red, Mengkeshili, and Sha Jinai, and beheaded more than 10,000 people!"

"Your Majesty proclaimed to the world that the Hetao and the old port will be tax-free for the people, and those who voluntarily relocate will be exempted from taxation for one year in the old port and three years in the Hetao."

"Regardless of men and women, old or weak, those who move to the Hetao will be given 30 stone of grain per person, and one ox per household!"

"Those who move to the old port will be given ten stones of grain per person, and each household will be given a ploughing ox and a horse!"

On March 17, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, along with the posting of the notice of Tangqi, nearly 1,600 counties and tens of thousands of villages in the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of millions of people knew about the relocation and the great victory.

Once this kind of thing starts, the first people to react are those who are so poor that they are dying.

It just so happens that the number of such people is not small in the late Ming Dynasty......

"Give me one! I'm a family of twelve, give me one! ”

"I want one too! I want one! ”

"My son is studying at Yanshan Academy, and he is the slave of King Qi, give me one!"

"Give it to me! I want one! ”

In Shuofang Mansion and Li Jiqian Village in Mizhi County, when the Qi Wangfu sent scribes and soldiers to count the migrant population, most of the villagers in the poor Li Jiqian Village enthusiastically signed up.

"Li Shouzhong! Your Hongji and the third child have both entered Yanshan Academy, what kind of land are you grabbing? ”

In the crowd, some people laughed and scolded a thin old man in his forties, and this man also grinned and replied:

"The second child in my family is no longer called Li Hongji, His Royal Highness King Qi personally changed his name to Li Zicheng."

The old man puffed up his chest proudly, and the people next to him laughed and scolded him for bragging and not making drafts.

He didn't bother to refute, he squeezed directly to the front, and said to the imperial horse supervisor scrivener behind the table:

"Official, the second and third children of my family have entered Yanshan Academy, and His Royal Highness King Qi also helped my second child take a name called Li Zicheng, can you give me an immigration roll?"

"You've entered Yanshan Academy, and you still want to move? Isn't it good to wait for your son to come out and be an official? The scribe listened to the general idea and joked with a smile.

"After all, that official is a matter of the next few years, and he still has to eat now, right?" Li Shouzhong smiled a little embarrassed, and the official also shook his head and said:

"Say, a few people in the family, I'll register it for you."

"Counting both men and women, my family has three brothers, a total of seventeen people." Li Shouzhong was afraid that the other party would regret it, so he hurriedly reported it, and the official also repeated:

"Li Shouzhong, three brothers, three households, 17 people, 170 acres of land, three cattle, 510 stone of grain."

He was saying that the soldier next to him was also tearing off some printed paper rolls, and then handed these hundreds of rolls three fingers wide and one finger long to Li Shouzhong.

The scribe also carefully explained: "These are cattle stamps, these are field stamps, and these are grain stamps." ”

"I have to make it clear to you that the land in your hands was given to you by the imperial court, but your land is a relocation land, and it cannot be traded and sold."

"After the field stamps, cattle stamps, and grain stamps arrive at the relocation site, they can be exchanged for ploughing cattle, grain, and fields according to the amount on the books."

"After the relocation, your fields need to be cultivated by yourself, but the land in the Hetao is easy to cultivate in the summer, so don't worry."

"Food stamps can only be exchanged for food, but don't worry about salt and vegetables, the imperial court needs to recruit you to build a post road when the time comes, but you will be paid twenty wen a day."

"With wages, you can buy these things yourself."

"As for the ploughing cattle, although the imperial court has issued them to you, you need to return them to the imperial court within ten years."

"That is, if your ploughing cow gives birth to a calf in the future, it needs to be returned to the court after it is raised."

"As for the tax on the field, it is exempt from tax for the first three years, but after three years, how much will the tax of the Imperial Horse Supervisor be, and how much you need to pay, but the tax will not exceed 30%."

"Did you hear that? Nothing is wrong, right? No problem, go home and wait for the wind and snow to stop, and then go north with the army to the resettlement site. ”

"No problem, no problem......" Hearing the scribe's words, Li Shouzhong only felt that the paper ticket in his hand was heavy, and his whole person was fluttering.

He didn't care about the thirty percent tax and six ploughing oxen, after all, he had one hundred and seventy acres of land and three ploughing oxen in his hands, as well as food stamps that could be exchanged for five hundred and ten stones.

With these, he will be able to survive until his two sons are in their early teens.

Thinking of this, Li Shouzhong returned home happily, and people like him can be said to abound in the entire Shuofang Mansion.

The people of Shaanxi, who are densely populated and have little arable land, began to migrate in large numbers, and even crazier than them were Fujian and Guangdong.

Surprisingly, the most densely populated Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi do not have many people who want to migrate.

"How did Nanzhili and Jiangxi and Zhejiang migrate so few people?"

Hexi, Zhangye......

When Zhu Youzhen, who was dressed in coarse linen clothes, spoke, the expression on his face was very unnatural.

At this moment, he is standing on the cultivated land in Zhangye County, Ganzhou Prefecture, looking around, it is an endless cultivated land, and behind him is the towering Qilian Mountains.

Zhangye here in the south pillow Qilian Mountain, north of Heli Mountain, Longshou Mountain, Heihe River runs through the whole territory, the territory is flat, coupled with the passage of Zhangye River and the snow melting of Qilian Mountain, this place can be said to be one of the few treasures in Hexi.

Zhu Youzhen has only only reached Zhangye in the middle of Hexi since he went east from Jiayuguan last month, but he has also had many thoughts along the way.

One of the biggest thoughts is the issue of immigration.

Therefore, when he found that there were not many people moving in the densely populated three provinces of Jiangnan, he instantly felt uncomfortable.

If there are not many people who migrate, then the old port will only be a wealthy version of Hexi.

Along the way, what he saw was that the Mongols were living with a large number of Hui and Han Chinese.

But this kind of life is very rough and savage.

A large number of Buddhist temples and temples of other religions can be found everywhere, and many people go to the temples to escape forced labor.

The local yellow book is also a confused account, and the statistics of the population and acres are a mess.

Just like the two books in his hand at the moment, it fully explains how confused the yellow book of Hexi is.

"If I didn't check, I didn't know that this Zhangye could have millions of acres of land and a population of 140,000!"

Zhu Youzhen threw the yellow book in his hand to Sun Chuanting, who was standing aside, and after Sun Chuanting caught it, he also said shamefully:

"In this land west of the river, not only is the yellow book confused, but even my "Da Ming Law" has not been implemented well."

"There is a provision in the "Hu Law" of the "Da Ming Law" of our dynasty that Mongolians and Hui people are not allowed to marry their own people, and those who violate it will be punished for eighty, and the children born will be reduced to slavery."

"And require Mongolia to return to intermarry with the Han people, wear Han clothes and use Han etiquette, and completely Sinicize the language and lifestyle."

"But along the way, there have been many acts of intermarriage between Mongolia and Huihui in private, and even if they intermarry with Han women, they also require Han women to follow their faith."

"In this way, a hundred years later, won't all the places west of my Daming River become ......?"

"Alright." Zhu Youzhen interrupted Sun Chuanting's words, and then glanced at the field in front of him:

"Whether it is the Mongols or the Sogdians, or the Hui or the Uighurs, in short, according to the strict requirements of the "Great Ming Law" formulated by Emperor Taizu Gao!"

"In addition, change all their household registrations to Han Chinese!"

"What does it mean to always fill in Tatar and Varat on the household register? Since I have entered the Ming Dynasty, there is only one nationality, and local officials and officials must not discriminate! ”

Zhu Youzhen was rarely angry, after all, if the policy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang was implemented, Hexi would have been a complete Han land long ago.

As a result, this group of Hexi officials and officials were corrupt and perverted the law, not to mention the concealment of the population of the fields, and they did not even implement the "Da Ming Law".

Zhu Youzhen is glad now, he is glad that he came to Hexi, if he doesn't come, he doesn't know that the officials in Hexi dare to do this!

In the same way, he was angry, and a Pentecostal civil servant behind him stepped forward and said:

"Your Highness, Hexi's poor governance is the fault of the lower officials, and His Royal Highness is guilty of ......"

"The Maeb envoy is not guilty." Zhu Youzhen turned around and glanced at Mei Zhihuan, who was pleading, and raised his hand to help him up before saying:

"Gu has already inquired, and since the arrival of the political envoy Mei Bu in Hexi, he has already rectified the rule and atmosphere of the officials."

"The incident in Hexi did not appear overnight, but was caused by the inaction of successive officials."

"Envoy Mebu is not only without fault, but has merit and needs to be commended!"

Zhu Youzhen is not trying to win people's hearts, but his true feelings.

Since he came to Hexi, all he has heard is the praise of Mei Zhihuan from the people.

Mei Zhihuan used the thousands of taels of silver saved in Hexi every year to mobilize the people to dig land and dig canals in Hexi, and reclaim tens of thousands of acres of land.

You must know that this is without the support of Zhu Youzhen and the imperial court, and this place is still Hexi.

Zhu Youzhen attached great importance to Mei Zhihuan, and in order to restore the livelihood of the people in Hexi, he said after helping Mei Zhihuan up:

"The inventory of the military tuntian in Hexi has been completed, and the local heroes have also been cleaned up......"

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen turned around and asked: "Sun Shoufa and tell the political envoy Mei Bu how many things have been seized by Shangzhi!" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, the political envoy of Meibu ......" Sun Shoufa heard this, and immediately replied:

"Seventeen Haoqiang families who encroached on the pastures of Taifu Temple, 31 people who embezzled the army's tuntian and did not return it, and copied out more than 14,600 taels of gold, more than 752,000 taels of silver, 1.06 million stones of grain, and countless acres of land and jewelry."

Sun Shou's words made Sun Chuanting, Mei Zhihuan, Li Rubai, Li Rumei, Wang Chengen, Cao Bianjiao, Cao Meng and others present speechless.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he also took a book from the Jinyi guard next to him and said:

"The land west of the river has been cleared three times before and after, with a total population of more than 2,174,000 people and more than 9,269,300 acres of land."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen handed over the document to Mei Zhihuan, and explained earnestly:

"Mr. Xintian (Mei Zhihuan's self-name), I don't have to worry that this land west of the river is still in your hands."

"At the moment, everything in Hexi has been cleaned up for you, and what Gu wants is very simple."

"Encourage the people to reclaim the fields, especially the official fields, only when there are more fields, Hexi can be restored to the appearance of the Tang Dynasty."

Zhu Youzhen seems to be serious, but in fact he knows that he is painting a big pie.

After all, the temperature in the Tang Dynasty can be two or three degrees higher than that of the late Ming Dynasty, and the simple problem of two or three degrees represents the result of land desertification and desertification.

If the temperature does not warm, the snow in Qilian Mountain will melt, and even if Mei Zhihuan's hands are worn out, he will not be able to recover Hexi in the Tang Dynasty.

However, he always had to put a little pressure on Mei Zhihuan, so after finishing speaking, he explained:

"In Hexi, although I haven't traveled to Liangzhou and Xining, I have already roughly seen that it is not difficult to reclaim tens of millions of acres within ten years."

"If Hexi is short of manpower, orphans can immigrate to Shaanxi people."

Zhu Youzhen gave a small goal, and Mei Zhihuan knew what he meant when he heard this, so he began to ask his own questions.

"Your Highness, Hexi can actually reclaim 30 million mu if you want to, but you have also seen that Hu and Han live here together, and the orders of the imperial court cannot be executed."

"Therefore, please ask Your Highness to let the Northern Army Governor's Office station soldiers and horses in every county in Hexi, and allocate a large amount of money and grain to encourage the people to move, so as to achieve the feat of reclaiming 30 million acres."

"If there are 5 million people in Hexi, it is not difficult to reach 30 million acres of land in the territory within ten years."

Mei Zhihuan dared to say this, and he was naturally sure in his heart.

After all, just at the foot of Qilian Mountain, it is enough for the people of Hexi to reclaim more than 30 million mu, and if you add other places with water sources, it can be said that 40 or 50 million mu is not a problem.

What plagues Hexi is not the climate, but the people.

"Good!" Facing Mei Zhihuan's "big breath", Zhu Youzhen also smiled and bowed:

"If there are disaster victims, they will be arranged to go to Hexi, but what you need to do now is to double the number of acres in Hexi."

"As long as there is enough money, grain, and cattle, this matter is not difficult!" Plum Zhi

Huan responded directly, and Zhu Youzhen also turned his head to Cao Wenzhao when he heard this:

"How many cattle, horses, and sheep have we captured in the battle of Futao?"

"Back to His Highness, a total of more than 264,000 cattle, more than 2 million sheep, 260,000 horses, and 90,000 qualified military horses were captured." Cao Wenzhao's words equated the results of the First World War.

The crackdown on the Hetao allowed the Ming Dynasty to get more than 2 million cattle, sheep and horses, not to mention the price of the sheep, the more than 200,000 cultivated cattle alone represent the productivity of liberating the hands of millions of people.

However, it is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to leave all the cattle to Hexi, because compared to Hexi, Hetao and Liaodong are the places where cattle are most needed.

Therefore, he could only speak: "I will leave 64,000 ploughing cattle for you, and I will leave the remaining 200,000 in Hetao and take them to Liaodong." ”

"As for the flocks of sheep and horses, and military horses, I am going to divide them into three parts and graze them in Hexi, Houtao, and Qiantao."

"Your Highness is wise!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Mei Zhihuan immediately said:

"With these more than 60,000 ploughing cattle, the speed of cultivating new fields will be greatly accelerated."

"Hmm......" Seeing Mei Zhihuan's appearance, Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, and then said:

"The affairs of Hexi will be left to you to do, you can do things, you can rest assured."

After that, Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Rubai and Li Rumei standing next to him, as well as a forty-year military general standing behind the two of them.

"For the defense of Hexi, you have to work hard, don't let Wara, Xilu, and Qinglu disturb the people to live and work in peace and contentment."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth and Li Rubai and the two responded, although later generations had many criticisms of the two, but Li Chengliang's vein was slaughtered by Nurhachi in the Battle of Tieling, leaving only the two and a few three generations of descendants.

The age of the two is also old, especially Li Rubai is seventy-two years old, and it is estimated that he will have to beg for a few years to work.

They will hold out for a few more years, and in a few more years, the generals of the new generation will slowly emerge......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think of Cao Bianjiao, Li Zicheng, Li Zijing and others in Yanshan Academy.

"If there is nothing to do, let's all disperse, and Lone will continue to go south."

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, Mei Zhihuan and others also retreated, and then Zhu Youzhen also took Sun Chuanting and they continued to embark on the road south to Xiningwei.

Although they could choose to take Qilian Mountain and take a shortcut to Xiningwei, Zhu Youzhen did not do that.

He walked out along the east of Qilian Mountain, passing through Shandan, Yongchang and other counties along the way, and finally came to Wuwei County in Liangzhou Prefecture.

Wuwei is a very tidy city with a strong city, and it is considered that since Zhu Youzhen came to Hexi, he has seen a slightly clean city except for Zhangye.

Built by Song Sheng, a famous general in the early Ming Dynasty, the city is shaped like a square drawn with a ruler and a pair of compasses.

In the central market of the city, acrobats perform, most of them handsome boys, who paint their faces red and white before going on stage, and if they happen to see them, they will be regarded as girls with hats on their heads and beads on their ears.

"Your Highness, I didn't expect this Wuwei to be quite neat, much better than the outer city of Shuntian."

Driving a horse down the street, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but praise, while Zhu Youzhen looked at some acrobats performing traditional acrobatics around him, and responded:

"The city is small and easy to take care of, and if a big city like the capital is carefully managed, the monthly expenses will not be small."

"But this expenditure is also essential, and when I return to Beijing this time, I must first make standards for all cities in the world and make all cities clean and tidy."

Zhu Youzhen looked at some Wuwei County officials who sprayed the square with water and cleaned the square, and said thoughtfully.

Cao Wenzhao and others only thought that Zhu Youzhen was not used to seeing the dirty outer city of the capital, but they didn't know that Zhu Youzhen was trying to avoid the outbreak of the plague.

After the flood, there is a great drought, and only after the great hunger, after the great hunger, the corpses are all over the field, and the corpses that no one collects will be eaten by the wild mice, and finally the wild mice will carry some pathogens to various cities.

Why did the city of Beijing fall so quickly in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and the outbreak of the plague was a key reason.

No matter how wasteful Beijing is, it can defend the city, even if it is Beijing

No matter how big the city is.

The reason why Huang Taiji entered the city many times without causing too many casualties to Beijing is that there are many anti-aircraft artillery in Beijing.

As a result, in the winter of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the plague began to break out in Beijing, and five or six out of ten people died in the city.

This is just a regional microcosm, if you really count, the Xiaoice famine at the end of the Ming Dynasty killed far fewer people than the plague.

In the Middle Ages, Europeans also did not take a bath and the dirty and poor urban environment led to the spread of the Black Death.

In the late Ming Dynasty, all kinds of government institutions were neglected, and redundancy was even more serious, and there was not one person in the hundredth.

Zhu Youzhen understands the dangers of redundancy, don't look at the current Ming Dynasty, there is a sign of ZTE, but Zhu Youzhen dares to guarantee.

As long as he doesn't solve the problem of redundancy, Daming won't improve much in another thirty years.

Especially after he didn't know when he would go to sea and become a vassal, Daming might completely collapse in a time he couldn't even imagine.

Solving redundancy is equivalent to improving the efficiency of local affairs, and this matter will be the matter that Zhu Youzhen will put up on the agenda.

Solving the problem of redundant personnel means abolishing a large number of officials and officials, and carrying out a thorough reform of the official system, the system of officials, and even the imperial examination system.

This year, more than 40,000 students will graduate from Yanshan Academy, among whom the older ones and the capable ones can be delegated to become officials, while the younger ones can start as officials or go to the countryside to teach.

However, their appearance means that the word "Xu Official" is about to disappear.

The Ming Dynasty must give the grassroots officials a chance and hope to climb up, and the reform of official positions must be put on the agenda.

Only after the reform can Zhu Youzhen arrange the Yanshan students into the Ming official system, so as to solve the problem of redundancy.

Thinking like this, Zhu Youzhen felt a lot heavier, and at this time, the sound of chanting Buddha sounded in his ears.

He looked sideways and saw hundreds of monks knocking on wooden fish, missing from them.

"So many men have gone to become monks?"

Seeing so many men as monks, Sun Chuanting frowned, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but look at Sun Shoufa when he heard his words:

"Let people find out how many monks and Taoist priests in Hexi, as well as people from other sects, especially the number of acres of their fields."

"Yes......" Sun Shoufa responded, and Zhu Youzhen also led people and continued to walk behind the monks.

It's good not to go, but I found that in Wuwei County, there are many Buddhist temples, mosques and Taoist halls that cover an area of about ten acres.

These temples are laid with dry bricks throughout, and their dry bricks have a stone-like luster and are very strong.

Among them, there is a very large Buddhist temple, covering an area of hundreds of acres, so much so that his area exceeds the area of the original temple site, and the number of monks in it also makes people's scalp tingle.

"Let's go, go in and have a look."

Looking at this huge Buddhist temple comparable to the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen took Sun Chuanting and them in.

As soon as he entered the temple, Zhu Youzhen saw dozens of believers around the long road, following some monks to ask questions.

There were also monks who wanted to come to solve Zhu Youzhen's doubts, but when they saw Cao Wenzhao and Sun Shoufa, as well as the tall Sun Chuanting, they all stopped.

In this way, Zhu Youzhen came to a Buddha hall in the center of many temples in the temple, and when he walked in, what he saw was a reclining Buddha ten zhang long.

The reclining Buddha is painted with gold as a whole, dressed in colorful clothes and costumes, and listening to the words of the believers and monks next to it, its name is Shakyamuni Buddha.

Zhu Youzhen was not interested in the Buddha or not, what he was interested in was seeing the dozens of believers who were worshipping the Buddha statue next to him.

"Your Highness, these Buddhist temples are obviously in violation, do you want to ......?"

Cao Wenzhao stepped forward and spoke cautiously, but Zhu Youzhen could only frown and ordered:

"Let Jinyiwei handle the case, and the monks and Taoist priests who did not have a degree from the imperial court, as well as people from other sects, have forced me to return to the world."

"If the temple violates the regulations, I will be ordered to demolish the temple, and the monks of the temple in the west of the river will be limited to me."

Zhu Youzhen understood why the three martial arts and one sect in history wanted to destroy the Buddha.

He himself did not discriminate against many religions, and he believed that some people had no choice but to become monks.

But the problem is that the current group of monks in Hexi is obviously not the kind of monks who have no choice but to become monks, they are wearing brand-new monk's robes, and they can't see the tattered clothes of the believers at all, and they are trying to let the believers give alms.

Zhu You, who watched this scene, was very angry.

When the imperial court needed people to open up, they didn't pay taxes, they didn't even have the most basic compassion, and they still asked the poor to hand over their money to satisfy their selfish desires......

You must know that at present, Zhu Youzhen is short of people, and he can't wait to throw the entire population of Jiangnan to the north.

As a result, this group of people hid in the temple and chanted sutras, except for providing a little spiritual sustenance, they did not create any wealth, but also plundered wealth, and it is strange that the ruler can look at them comfortably!

"Let's go!"

Zhu turned around and left, and some of the monks who were talking to the followers about the Dharma did not know that they were about to be in trouble.