"Banzai agreed、How?"

In the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, with Lu Wenzhao bringing the news, Sun Yingyuan and Man Gui, who were sitting on the main seat, frowned.

"If we were sincere, we would be safe, at least twenty years safe......"

Man Gui rubbed his fingertips unconsciously, obviously a little anxious.

Regarding his words, Sun Yingyuan and Lu Wenzhao also bowed their heads.

Twenty years, this is the time when Zhu Ciran grew up, obviously although they believe in Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao's brothers, friends and brothers, but they do not believe that Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Ciran's uncle and nephew are harmonious.

After all...... There is no example of harmony between the uncles and nephews of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Wenzheng, Zhu Di, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Changxun, Zhu Youxiao......

In the future, maybe he will add his Royal Highness and the future crown prince.

After all, Zhu Youxiao at least has the identity of his brother, but Zhu Ciran can be said to have been suppressed by Zhu Youzhen in all aspects.

Twenty years later, Zhu Youzhen is only thirty-six, upright and prime, who knows what Zhu Ciran will think at that time.

However, it is too far to say that at the moment, if you want to talk about it, you have to talk about Zhu Youxiao's attitude.

Is he sincere in forgiving the generals? This is the key question.

On this kind of question, Sun Yingyuan suddenly had an answer, and he analyzed with a solemn expression:

"No matter what Banzai's mind is, as long as we take a step back, then even if Banzai wants to do it later, His Highness will not sit idly by and watch us be slaughtered."

Sun Yingyuan's words can be said to have grasped Zhu Youzhen's character, Zhu Youzhen is too affectionate, if the generals take a step back, then even if Zhu Youxiao personally takes action later, he will stand up and persuade Zhu Youxiao.

In the end, the worst ending for everyone was to go to the Qi country.

When they arrived in the Qi State, Zhu Youzhen would still let them fight in Levia by means of "driving seedlings and expanding industries".

The Mangui also have confidence in themselves, as long as there is enough population, they can completely defeat most of Levia.

At that time, they will still not be far behind, and even if Zhu Youzhen goes to Qi State, Man Gui and they will all have confidence in him, and Qi State will be equal to Daming within a few decades.

"Levia's matter, let Huanglong send someone to explore."

Man Gui opened his mouth and decided the position of their group, although they all knew that such a position was temporary, but it was better than competing against each other.

The strange atmosphere during this time overwhelmed everyone, so it was time to rest.

"Let's start the matter of sweeping the north, since we want to choose to lie dormant temporarily, we still don't want to get too involved in the affairs of the court."

As soon as Sun Yingyuan spoke, everyone bowed slightly in agreement.

Subsequently, the three of them left the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

At the same time as they left, Gu Bingqian also found Zhu Youzhen in the Qi Palace's mansion with a booklet.

[It is the number of households in the world, the number of land endowments in the world, the land of the government and the people is 8,224,521 acres, 32 acres, 8 centimeters and 9 millimeters, the number of households is 17,275,426, and the population is 86,377,000 people. 】

[Half wheat 4,382 stone ......]

The long five-year confluence of the Apocalypse was handed over to Zhu Youzhen, and it is worth noting that the land and population problems of the Ming Dynasty were noted.

In the first year of Taichang, the Ming Dynasty was only 7.43 million hectares, with more than 9.5 million households and a population of more than 51.6 million.

In just five years, Zhu Youzhen actually found out a large number of acres and population through the means of military tun farmland and relocation and reclamation.

Compared with the first year of Taichang, Zhu Youzhen found out the real population of Daming more than 34 million people in five years, and increased the number of acres of Daming fields by more than 80 million mu through conquest, investigation and reclamation.

However, this is not his greatest achievement, perhaps in the eyes of the hundred officials, his greatest achievement is to rectify the armament of the Ming Dynasty and raise the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty to a historic peak.

But in Zhu Youzhen's own opinion, his greatest achievement is immigration......

[Liaodong has a population of 4,644,309 people, and 15,214,000 acres of land ......]

[The population of Ryukyu is 1,923,110 people, and the acres of land are 4,279,000......]

[The population of the old port is 814,453 people, and the acres of land are 16,555,000......]

Looking at the population of these three places and the total number of acres of land, Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly.

As for why the population of the last old port was only more than 810,000, Zhu Youzhen knew the reason very well.

He had told Shen Tingyang before that there was no need to count the number of local natives in the old port, so all the people reported here were Han people.

However, a quarter of them were Chinese who had migrated before the Ming Dynasty took Nanyang, and less than 600,000 immigrants were the result of last year's migration and this year's migration.

"We have to increase the relocation of the old port, even at the level of ten acres of one person, we still need to move more than 800,000 people, not to mention the speed of reclamation......

Zhu Youzhen muttered to himself, and then looked up at Gu Bingqian: "How much money and food are left after the allocation of money and food from the household department?" ”

"Your Highness, after paying the salaries and military salaries, as well as the two million stone grains transferred to the old port and the Ryukyu Prefecture, there is also a balance of more than 4.76 million stone wheat." Gu Bingqian flattered him in return and opened his mouth to respond.

Listening to his words, Zhu Youzhen nodded, and then picked up the military report sent by Shen Tingyang on the table.

This year, Daming harvested nearly 50 million stone of grain in the old port, except for the more than 18 million stone that had been relocated to the hands of the people of Nanyang, other grain could be mobilized at will.

However, the premise of the transfer was to leave 20 million stone of food for the local natives to eat.

But even so, the old port can come up with tens of millions of stone of grain, counting the grain allocated last year, and the grain allocated this year, the old port should be able to make up 15 million stone.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Gu Bingqian:

"Have you counted the number of hungry people in Shandong?"

"Back to His Highness, there are about 7.75 million people in total, and the details cannot be counted." Gu Bingqian's efficiency is very fast, and the number of hungry people in Shandong was quickly counted by him.

His statistical method was also carried out in the pattern of food stamps according to the human hair, so the calculation was relatively accurate.

These 7.75 million people are basically the approximate population of the people of Shandong.

Thinking of the 100 million Shandong people in later generations, there are only less than 8 million in this era, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help sighing, and then said:

"I will ask Shen Tingyang to mobilize the cargo ships and merchant ships of Huangdian to move the hungry people from Shandong Denglai to Liaodong, and transfer another three million stones to Liaodong from the surplus grain of the household department, and the rest will be handed over to the Imperial Horse Supervisor to make up for it."

"Yes......" Gu Bingqian responded with a smile, and he didn't care what the relocated people thought.

After all, the people of Shandong at the moment are said to be hungry, but in fact they are no different from "livestock".

If you don't go where you are given food, you will starve to death before the next autumn harvest.

It's a bit ugly, but it's true.

In this year's locust plague, if Zhu Youzhen had not actively diverted grain, and Yuan Keli had not made overall plans and orderly, and allowed the people to develop, it would not have been surprising that it had developed into "cannibalism".

At present, the great hunger in Shandong did not starve to death many people at all, which proves many things.

"Your Highness, how many hungry people from Shandong are going to move to Liaodong? The fields of these relocated people, this ......" Gu Bingqian asked, mainly coveting the fields in the hands of the hungry.

However, for the fields of the hungry people in Shandong, Zhu Youzhen has long had his own ideas:

"How many people can be moved, at least two million people, and as for the fields in their hands......"

"Tell them that the government will distribute cattle and farm tools and grain, and after they go to Liaodong, they will have two catties of rice per person a day, and from today onwards, the same will be true for the people who have been migrated from all over the country."

Zhu Youzhen cut the food rations of the people who reclaimed the new land, and this cut pulled the lives of the displaced people from the well-off to the level of food and clothing.

"Your Highness...... As a result, I am afraid that there are not many people who take the initiative to move. ”

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's new policy, Gu Bingqian cautiously put forward his ideas, but Zhu Youzhen said unfazedly:

"I know, you just have to do this, and according to the original ration standard, the Ming Dynasty can't move many people in a year, you just have to do it, and the people themselves will choose to move."

Zhu Youzhen's words are three points true and seven points false, and it really lies in the fact that after the Ming Dynasty issued military salaries and salaries, there was indeed not much food for large-scale migration.

The lie is that he says the people will choose this for themselves.

It has been five years since the apocalypse, and from the first year of Taichang to this year, Zhu Youzhen can feel that there are more and more disasters, and the scope is getting bigger and bigger.

Shandong has not stopped for three consecutive years, and man-made disasters and natural disasters have caused Shandong a lot of harm.

If Zhu Youzhen was not mistaken, Liaodong was a little more stable at this time, so he moved the people to Liaodong.

As for the people's choice, in fact, the people did not have a choice at all.

With the people's own ability to resist disasters, at most they can withstand half a year or a year, which is already a good situation.

But the current situation is not a disaster of one or two years, so in order to survive, the people can only chase relief food.

Although Zhu Youzhen knew that it was a bit immoral to do this, he could only do it for the sake of Daming and the people to survive.

Under the drought, the capacity of the imperial court is also limited, so it is necessary to save more people with limited food.

"The old port must be well developed......

Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes, and then said to Gu Bingqian: "You retreat." ”

"Xiaguan retires......" Gu Bingqian left with great interest, and Zhu Youzhen also wrote back to Shen Tingyang immediately after he left.

The content of his reply is very simple, that is, no matter how many consumables are consumed, the old port must be cultivated by the end of next year, and every year after that.

More than 300 million mu of cultivated land is easily cultivated along the coast of the old port, and 4.5 billion mu is inferior to the other.

But even if it is inferior, it is still better to reclaim than Daning Province, especially Nanhai Province (Java Island).

The cultivated land in the old port is three crops a year, and the yield per mu is three or four stones, even if it is only cultivated for one year, and the land is planted immediately in the second year, the yield per mu can be at least seven or eight buckets, and the yield per mu will not be as low as that of Liaodong and Ryukyu.

As long as the old port is well reclaimed and Annam is recovered, then the grain from the old port can be transported to Annam, Annan to Liangguang, Liangguang to the southeast, and so on.

The coastal provinces are migrated by sea, and the inland is by horse-drawn carriages, and the Ming Dynasty can always get through.

If the Ming Dynasty, which has the old port and Annam, and the Hetao, can't survive it, then the rest of the world won't be able to get through, let alone the rest of the world.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also finished writing a reply, and then sent someone to send the reply to Nanyang as soon as possible.

After arranging the old port, Zhu Youzhen glanced at the military report sent by Sun Chuanting again.

Basically, two-thirds of the Tibetans in Duogan were relocated by him to the Hexi Zhenfan area for grazing and reclamation, while he and Xu Guangqi relocated 170,000 affected people to some habitable river valleys in Duogan.

As a result, the proportion of Han people in Duogan is as high as sixty.

Zhu Youzhen was still quite satisfied with this method and method, but after he looked down, his brows furrowed involuntarily.

The number of people affected in Shaanxi far exceeded their estimates, reaching more than 3.7 million.

Among them, more than 1.3 million people moved to Shuofang, Dingxiang, Jiuyuan, Wuyuan, and other places in the Hetao, and Sun Chuanting implemented their resettlement in accordance with the policy that Zhu Youzhen had left behind.

Water conservancy was built, then cultivated land, and finally trees were planted in the main trunk canals during the slack time, from the north of Datong Prefecture to Daqing Mountain, Yin Mountain, Wolf Mountain, and Helan Mountain.

In the 17th century, there were still many "lakes" in Monan, and it was not too late to plant trees in the area.

As for the desert in the central and western part of the Hetao, Zhu Youzhen could only rely on the windbreak belt of straw to fix the sand.

Inserting straw into the sand with a shovel to form the specifications of patches of tic-tac-toe fields is the knowledge that Zhu Youzhen learned in the poverty alleviation cadre group and the poverty alleviation cadres in the northwest, which is very useful.

Not only that, but the people were also forbidden to cut down trees, but instead burned honeycomb coal.

Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to eat sand in the capital every year when the wind is strong, he has been eating it for five years, and he really can't eat it anymore.

If he doesn't make a move, it is estimated that he will have to eat for another forty or fifty years.

Although the main task of the people is to plant the land, and they cannot concentrate on planting trees, after all, they have made a contribution, and the rest depends on the number of days.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen continued to scroll down, and then turned to Sun Chuanting's resettlement plan for other affected people.

First of all, 920,000 people were relocated to Hexi to settle for reclamation, while the remaining 1.5 million people in northern Shaanxi were still farming in the vast northern Shaanxi.

However, the good news is that after relocating a large number of people, the people of the six prefectures in northern Shaanxi were treated as one person and six acres under Sun Chuanting's arrangement.

This move made the people of southern Shaanxi red-eyed, but they couldn't do anything, after all, the imperial court had no policy against southern Shaanxi.

However, the policy in southern Shaanxi was decided by Zhu Youzhen from the beginning, and Sun Chuanting also knew about it, so he sent a notice to appease the people.

Nearly 2 million people in southern Shaanxi will move to Sichuan one after another, and the number of people in Sichuan will not exceed 10 million, or even only 6 or 7 million, according to Zhu Youzhen's estimate.

After all, the Mongols Huohuo Sichuan, which led to 26 years of recuperation in the early Ming Dynasty, Sichuan only recovered to a population of 1.6 million.

Although 200 years have passed, according to the situation of the provinces, the population of Sichuan has quadrupled at most.

As for the so-called 60,000,000 or 60 million Tuchuan in later generations, most of them are nonsense......

In Zhu Youzhen's plan, once the people of Sichuan encounter a catastrophe, they will unconditionally move to Yunnan, Donghu, Burma, and Annam.

Even if all the six million are moved, Zhu Youzhen feels that it is not enough.

After all, the combined population of Taungoo and Annam is at least 10 million.

It is very difficult to rule 10 million other ethnic groups with 6 million Han Chinese without resorting to violent means, but fortunately, the Ming Dynasty needs their labor force......

"We have to settle the steel matter first."

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen asked the Jinyi guard at the door:

"Salt merchants and tea merchants everywhere have not made any moves?"

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's inquiry, the Jinyi Wei Qianhu on duty at the door immediately trotted into the study and said:

"There is no move, the two divisions have taken over the salt and tea fields in various places."

"......" Hearing that the salt merchant and the tea merchant did not move, Zhu Youzhen frowned.

It is normal for salt merchants and tea merchants not to dare to move, after all, the imperial court has soldiers and horses everywhere, and whoever dares to agitate the people will be the first to die.

The second is that Zhu Youzhen won the hearts of many local people through the distribution of military tuntian, which increased the cost of the two merchants to agitate the people in disguise.

Zhu Youzhen is not afraid of salt merchants and tea merchants at all, to put it bluntly, the so-called merchants, in the face of the army and strong centralized power, are just fish and meat on the board.

However, there are hundreds of salt merchants in Daming, each with assets ranging from tens of thousands of taels to millions of taels, plus a large number of smuggler salt dealers, if this group of guys can be raided, the treasury will be able to fill up a lot.

Although the tea merchants are not as good as the salt merchants, the scale of their assets is not small.

Zhu Youzhen is currently in control of the accounts of the three ladies, which record the criminal records of businessmen in Qin and Jin, as well as a large number of officials.

But this thing can't be moved now, the most important thing is that Zhu Youzhen's subordinates don't have so many people to take over the market and official positions after they have been dealt with.

He still needs to wait for a year, and when the battle to sweep the north is over and the second batch of students in Yanshan graduate, then it will be time to solve the salt merchants and tea merchants in the north, as well as many officials.

However, compared with the north, the salt merchants in the south and the tea merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have a large number of cloth merchants and miners, and they have the most resources, and there are countless officials and officials who protect them.

At most, the Ming Dynasty will be reinstated for a year or two, but if the large number of Jiangnan officials, businessmen, gentry, and officials who collude with officials and businessmen can be resolved, Zhu Youzhen can start to promote the state-run policy of "salt iron ore tea".

First unify the state-run enterprises to help the Ming Dynasty and the people survive the next 19 years, and then slowly separate the private market, and finally form a situation of harmonious competition between the state-run and the private.

This is the initial tax reform that Zhu Youzhen wants to carry out, and if this step is taken well, it will not be a problem for Daming to survive the drought.

It's just that at the moment, the salt merchants and tea merchants in the north and south are not moving, as if the benefits of being harvested are not theirs.

"Probably waiting for me to go on ......"

Zhu Youzhen's brows furrowed a little again, and he could almost figure out the thoughts of these merchants, gentry, and officials.

However, Zhu Youzhen is not afraid that they will engage in means, but he is afraid that they will not do it.

If you have the means, Jin Yiwei will be able to do it directly, and if you don't use the means, Jin Yiwei still needs to investigate the evidence by herself.

Therefore, it seems that the state-run price increase of salt tea can be put on the right track.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen said to Jinyiwei: "Go and ask Bi Shangshu from the household department to discuss the matter of the two divisions." ”

"Yes!" Qianhu returned the salute, and then sent someone to find Bi Ziyan.

However, Bi Ziyan was handling the case in the sixth department after all, and the sixth department was in the inner city, and the Qi Wangfu was in the eastern city, so it took a lot of time.

By the time Bi Ziyan came to the Qi Palace, an hour had passed, and Zhu Youzhen also motioned for him to take a seat when he saw him, and then said:

"I plan to sell all the salt prices of the two divisions to Huangdian, and then Huangdian will set the price of salt according to the income of the people in each province."

Zhu Youzhen did not kill him with a rod, even if he knew that it would be more convenient to collect taxes by doing so, and he could also put an end to the reselling of official salt by the people.

"How much is Your Highness going to order?" Bi Ziyan didn't think that Zhu Youzhen did something inappropriate, but asked him about the price of salt he wanted to set.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen did not hesitate to say:

"Based on the income of peasant households, according to the fact that there are only three acres of land per person in each province, the price of salt should be 100 percent of the price of grain."

"For example, Beizhili produces two stones per mu, and three acres will earn six stones, and the grain of the imperial horse supervisor and the imperial court will be handed over, and the average people can have an income of four stones and two buckets."

"Four stones are calculated according to the price of grain, and they will be paid one or two nineteen yuan, so the price of salt in Beizhili should be nineteen wen and one catty."

"Ordinary people only eat three catties of salt a year, so the annual expenditure of the people of Beizhili on salt is 57 Wen."

"In this way, the annual salt tax can reach between 700 and 10 million taels."

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he quietly waited for Bi Ziyan's answer, and Bi Ziyan thought about it, so he could only frown and say:

"With such a salt price, I am afraid that the people will scramble to buy private salt first."

"I will let the inspection department crack down on the matter of private salt, and it will not occupy too much of the market share." Zhu Youzhen responded:

"The collection of this silver does not mean that it does not flow, but that it is necessary to raise labor, and the imperial court will take the lead in building roads, ditches, and embankments during the agricultural slack time."

"In disguise, it will also flow into the hands of the people."

Zhu Youzhen's words are about farming, but in fact, they are mainly aimed at the hungry people and refugees after the disaster.

Use silver to buy food for disaster relief, and work for disaster relief.

Whether it is building railroad tracks or cement roads, or water conservancy projects, or renovating houses for the people in some places, in short, while feeding the people, but also making the local environment better, is what Zhu Youzhen has to do.

The reason why poor households are poor is not that they are lazy, but that they do not have a job that can guarantee their livelihood.

This kind of thing is okay, but the problem has no effect under the drought of the Xiaoice River.

Under the severe drought of the Xiaoice River, Zhu Youjian turned hard-hit places like Shanxi and Henan into permanent workers' families.

As long as there are one million workers, one million families can be solved, and one million workers are just a drop in the bucket for the projects that Daming needs.

But if too many workers are recruited, the finances of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably collapse, so it is necessary to find enough financial resources.

Only when the Ming Dynasty has enough silver can it carry out the transfer of grain from the east to the west and from the south to the north during the drought.

There is a change at four o'clock

(End of chapter)