"The last shogun completely defeated the Wasuka clan on the 11th and 12th of the winter moon, annihilated more than 30,000 enemies, captured the entire territory of Shikoku, and the shogunate army was defeated from Tokushima Castle and returned to Kyoto......"

"However, the troops have lost more than 1,000 people, and I specially ask His Highness to support the three battalions of soldiers and horses, and I will definitely recover Ishimi ...... next year."

On the twentieth day of the winter month, with Yan Siqi's superiority sent to Zhu Youzhen, the news of his successful capture of the Four Kingdoms also followed.

On Zhu Youzhen's table, not only did it contain military information, but also the Tianmu document book and the population yellow book of the four countries were also sent.

The original population of the four countries was more than 500,000, but after more than half a year of conquest, the population plummeted to more than 300,000, and the amount of cultivated land also increased from more than 600,000 mu to more than 400,000 mu.

With Yan Siqi's less than 5,000 troops, it is indeed difficult to control Shikoku and advance to Kyushu Island and Honshu Island at the same time.

Retracting his gaze, Zhu Youzhen set his sights on the writing of the Beizhen Fusi on the war army report.

In this battle, what satisfied Zhu Youzhen the most was the power of the underwater Dragon King Cannon.

The underwater dragon king cannon is also a mine, and the underwater weapon of the mine was researched by the Ming Dynasty in the eighteenth year of Wanli.

This is the world's earliest drifting mine, mainly a timed mine with incense as the timing fuse.

In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, the general Wang Minghe invented the "underwater thunder" with the rope as the contact line according to the underwater dragon king cannon, and in the first year of the apocalypse, it was improved to touch the line drifting thunder, which was also the world's earliest trigger drifting thunder.

It's a pity that Wang Minghe died at the age of 76 in the second year of the Apocalypse, when Zhu Youzhen had not yet established the Armaments Institute.

However, the improved version of the underwater Dragon King Cannon he left behind made a significant contribution to the Ming Dynasty's navy.

"If the Armaments Institute researches mercury thunderate, many of the Ming Dynasty's firearms will be ...... powerful."

sighed, and Zhu Youzhen set his eyes on Yan Siqi's recital.

Yan Siqi hoped to transfer three more battalions of soldiers and horses to him, but this seemed a little childish to Zhu Youzhen.

Yan Siqi was originally the test stone he used to test the force of the Tokugawa shogunate, and now that he has tried out the situation of strong cadres outside the shogunate, it is time to put forward the plan to send troops to take the shogunate.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian wrote a handbook, then blew dry the ink, and handed the handbook to Wang Chengen next to him:

"Cheng En, herald Sun Yingyuan, transfer the four battalions of the Northern Army Governor's Mansion to North Korea to take Tsushima Island, land in Kyushu, let Yan Siqi take Kyushu, and then wait for the opportunity to go north to Iwami."

"Slave maid takes the order...... Wang Chengen responded first, and then asked:

"Isn't Your Highness still thinking about whether to levy the Jianyu next year? Now that the four battalions of the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion are transferred, will it ......?"

"It's okay, the requisition of the Jianzhu must be mainly based on the Sixteenth Guards, and whether it can be requisitioned or not, we still have to see the money and food." Zhu Youzhen said, and looked at the note handed over by the household department.

He picked it up and opened it to see that it was full of the summary of the year written in a strong and powerful pavilion style.

[It is the number of households in the world, the number of official and private fields is 8,639,319 hectares, 83 acres and 8 centimeters, 19,835,426 households, and the population is 99,170,763 people]

[Half wheat 2,382 stones, six buckets and nine liters, millet 27,493,563 stones, one bucket and one liter]

[The two divisions of salt and tea paid a total of 5,273,604,28 cents and 2 cents]

【Silk cotton folded silk 206,282 疋三......】

The dense tax situation gave Zhu Youzhen a headache, and he was most concerned about the population and the situation of the land endowment.

Needless to say, the population problem is actually a statistical population in disguise, and the population of Daming has actually reached more than 99 million, and it seems that the population of tomorrow will exceed 100 million.

In addition, the number of acres of land is also quite impressive, reaching more than 8.6 million hectares, that is, more than 863 million mu.

According to the per capita amount of cultivated land, the per capita amount of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty is eight acres and seven points.

This may not be particularly obvious, but if you take out the data of the Qing Dynasty, it will be obvious.

Although the grain yield per mu of the Ming Dynasty is very low, after the calculation of Zhu You's inspection of Jinyiwei, the average per mu is two stones, and the grain husk is removed, and it is only about 250 catties converted into a unit for later generations.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were few people in the field, with more than 2,100 catties of grain per capita, while at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were 400 million people, and the cultivated land was only 1.2 billion mu, with 3 mu per capita, and the yield per mu was much lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the per capita grain was only 730 catties.

This easily explains why the Qing Dynasty was a period of sharp decline in the height of the Central Plains people.

The population is too large to divide the land, and the per capita staple food must be kept at 600 catties in order to raise livestock to supplement protein.

The per capita grain of the Qing Dynasty was destined to be a luxury, which is why European scholars wrote about two completely different worlds after traveling in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Not only the Ming Dynasty, but also the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, although the grain production was low due to different planting varieties, the small number of people in the fields led to the fact that as long as the government did not levy too many taxes, the people could live a very nourishing life.

The Song Dynasty introduced Champa rice, although it did not have the obvious field advantage of the Han and Tang dynasties, but the yield per mu increased.

As for the Ming Dynasty, it was a great achievement, whether it was the yield of grain per mu or the number of fields, it was not surprising that the people lived a nourishing life.

On the contrary, in the Qing Dynasty, when the grain yield per mu of the previous dynasties was rising, the Qing Dynasty was slightly higher than the Ming Dynasty, and the grain yield per mu was not as good as the Ming Dynasty.

Coupled with the rapid increase in population, it indirectly left a mess for future generations......

However, this does not mean that the current situation of the Ming Dynasty has already beaten the future generations, on the contrary, although the amount of food owned by the Ming Dynasty per capita is large, the means are very primitive.

There were natural disasters and droughts in later generations, which could be suppressed by various means, but not by the Ming Dynasty.

This can be seen from the fact that the household department has less rice and wheat fields than last year.

The floods in the four northern provinces and the floods in the south directly turned the income from the fields that was originally close to 40 million stone into an income of less than 30 million stones.

Not to mention the household department, even the Imperial Horse Supervisor has also been affected.

"How is the collection of the military grain of the Imperial Horse Supervisor this year...... Zhu Youzhen seems to have known that the result will not be too good.

Sure enough, Wang Chengen wanted to speak and stopped, and finally said: "This year, a total of more than 39,180,000 stone ...... of rice and wheat have been harvested."

The two sets of teams that should have been able to collect nearly 90 million stone were only collected less than 70 million stone this year, and the blow of the disaster to the agricultural dynasty can be seen.

"Huangzhuang, Shibosi Salt Farm, Tea Farm, Shipyard and other places have an annual income of 7,270,600 taels." Wang Chengen added another sentence, but it did not relieve Zhu Youzhen's headache.

He tried to calculate, that is to say, in the situation that the field endowment is less than 70 million stones, the cash income of the Ming Dynasty this year is only less than 14 million taels.

With the addition of silk and other folded colors, it is about sixteen million taels.

If 70 million stone grain is converted according to the price of rice in Beizhili, it will be 21 million taels of silver at most, a total of 37 million taels of silver.

"......" for a while, Zhu Youzhen didn't know what to say, and he didn't know where to start.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty still entered 14 million taels of silver and 80 million stone fields in the case of a catastrophe in the two provinces.

As a result, only a year has passed, and although the cash has increased by 2 million taels, the field endowment has plummeted by 10 million stones......

Theoretically, this year's military ration collection of the Imperial Horse Supervisor could receive a field tax of 53 million stone without encountering a catastrophe and without experiencing a reduction in the field tax, but in practice, it ......

Zhu Youzhen has not seen the Tian Fu of the Imperial Horse Supervisor exceed 50 million until now, and this year it has even dropped to less than 40 million.

Not only that, but the reduction in food production brought about by the Xiaoice River has also begun to slowly appear.

Zhu Youzhen carefully studied that thirty-eight years ago, the yield per mu of the fields at the foot of Yanshan Mountain in Beizhili was about two stones and one bucket, but at this age, there are only one stone and nine buckets.

The grain yield per mu has dropped by 10%, which is nothing if it is placed on one acre of land, but if it is placed in the Ming Dynasty......

"How is the research on fertilizers?"

Zhu Youzhen opened his eyes, withdrew the hand from his face, frowned and asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen also said:

"The chemical fertilizers made by His Highness are indeed useful, and in the fields where several kinds of chemical fertilizers are applied, the grain yield per mu is one or six points higher than that of the useful ones."

One into six, that is, 16%, although this is not up to 20% ~ 30% of the peak of soil fertilizer, but it is enough.

"The royal horse supervisor allocates the silver, the royal store starts, and the Ministry of Industry cooperates."

"By the order of the Qi Palace, the Ministry of Industry set up a new Department of Agriculture, and the night incense husbands in the countryside of Tianxia County were all included in the Department of Agriculture, and the night incense of all the people and livestock was unified outside the local county."

"Appointed Sun Yuan to be the head of the agricultural department to start the construction of the world's fertilizer factory, the imperial horse supervisor allocated three million taels of silver, and the night fragrant man was paid thirty wen a day."

"Tell Sun Yuanhua that within a year, Gu needs to see that there are fertilizer factories in 1,627 counties in Daming."

"All the chemical fertilizers produced by the fertilizer factory were handed over to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and all the sweet potato fields in the Tuntian of the Imperial Horse Supervisor were set up as disaster relief fields, and all the chemical fertilizers were used in them."

"The surplus is distributed to other crops, or sold to the people around Beizhili."

"I remember that the cost of fertilizer for one acre of land is 24 Wen, and the freight is 31 Wen, so sell it to the people according to 30 Wen."

"It is a little subsidy and benefit ...... from the imperial court to the people"

Zhu Youjian hastily set up the Department of Agriculture, which caught Wang Chengen off guard.

What caught him off guard even more was that His Royal Highness did not invest such a valuable fertilizer in rice and wheat, but instead invested it in sweet potatoes with a very high yield per mu.

In this way, it seems that there is a kind of excesses that have been frightened by the severe drought for many years.

However, Wang Chengen didn't say anything about this, but after making a response, he retreated and began to operate.

It's just that after he retreated, Zhu Youzhen held his forehead again, looked at the table full of papers, frowned, and didn't know what he was thinking.

After a while, his ears suddenly moved, and he heard some familiar footsteps, so he reluctantly spoke:

"Since my brother is here, don't hide at the door and watch......"

"Why don't I hear that I mean it right?"

Zhu Youxiao was exposed, and he didn't hide it, and walked into the study of King Qi's mansion with his hands behind his back, followed by Liu Ruoyu.

He walked into the study, looked here, touched there, and seemed to be looking at the furniture work he had completed.

After watching it for a long time, he nodded with some satisfaction, as if to say, "It is worthy of my work, that is, it is durable."

"How's my tone?" Zhu Youzhen raised his feet and stepped on the chair, holding his forehead with his hand, and sat still.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao only smiled when he saw it:

"With three points of complaining, four points of grievance, two points of anger, and one point of helplessness......"

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Zhu Youzhen was suddenly speechless, and for a while he was thinking, "You are embarrassed to say this."

He raised his hand and put it on the table, frowned at Zhu Youxiao and said:

"If my brother wasn't lazy, my brother should have dealt with these things."

"Ahem...... Recently, the wind and snow have been heavy, and it is not good to be infected with the wind and cold. Zhu Youxiao pretended to cough, and at this time, a tall and low figure walked in from outside the door.

"See Hooray......"

The people who walked in were Yang Yuanai and Yang Ai, who were preparing lunch for Zhu Youzhen, and behind them was Li Dingguo, who had finished his morning class.

Six-year-old Li Dingguo was a little ignorant, and when he saw Yang Yuanai and Yang Ai kneeling, he was still standing stupidly.

It wasn't until he was pulled by Yang Yuanai that Li Dingguo knelt on the ground, but he still raised his head to look at Zhu Youxiao, not afraid of life at all.

"This kid is interesting, my brother brought it from Yan'an?"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Li Dingguo, who was looking directly at him, turned his head to ask Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen also sighed:

"Country boy, let him ...... will"

Eight simple words can be regarded as enough to say that Zhu Youzhen is partial and tolerant of Li Dingguo.

"Let's be flat." When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he also motioned for the three of them to be flat, and asked Li Dingguo after the three of them got up:

"What did you learn today?"

"I learned some Yanshan's textbooks, but I can't understand them!" Li Dingguo is right.

"Hahahaha......" Hearing Li Dingguo's words, Zhu Youxiao was amused all of a sudden, and Zhu Youzhen also looked at Li Dingguo and said:

"Where's the soldier's textbook?"

"I understand those, but Your Highness, these things are the same as the methods I used to play with my hometown and fellow villagers, so it's not difficult."

As soon as Li Dingguo heard Zhu Youzhen call himself, he didn't care about Zhu Youxiao, trotted all the way to the table, padded his feet, and lay on the table with his hands.

Yang Yuanai and Yang Ai could only glance at each other when they saw this, then put the dishes on the table in the study hall, and then pulled chairs for Zhu Youxiao and Liu Ruoyu, and poured tribute tea.

However, during this period, Zhu Youzhen looked at Yang Ai and asked:

"If so, what about you?"

If so, this is the name that Zhu Youzhen changed for Yang Ai after returning from this northern expedition, because her name is too similar to Yang Yuanai, so Zhu Youzhen changed her name to Yang Rusi.

Although not as graceful as Liu Ruis, as long as you know that it is a person.

Zhu Youzhen paid attention to the affairs of Jiangnan, but in Jiangnan, where famous prostitutes rose, Liu Ru is person was as if he was missing.

In addition, Yang Ruyi's real name is the same as Liu Ruyi, Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to think about it, and she is Liu Ruyi.

"Recently, I have learned some poetry, calligraphy and painting, but the slave doesn't like to learn the poetry of the Southern Song Dynasty, so I was taught a lesson."

Yang Ru is nine years old, and her sharp personality and attitude make her unbearable, and she tells Zhu Youzhen everything and wants Zhu Youzhen to call the shots for her.

However, before Zhu Youzhen heard this, Zhu Youxiao was curious: "Why don't you learn the poetry of the Southern Song Dynasty?" ”

"Except for a few parts, most of the poems are less temperamental, and I don't want to learn ......"

For Zhu Youzhen, Yang Ru can still be sharp, but for Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, Yang Ru can only bow his head and answer honestly.

"Spirit? It's kind of interesting. Hearing that Yang Ru actually used a woman's body to say the poetry of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao showed a very interested look.

He looked at Zhu Youzhen, but said to Yang Ru: "Then you have to study hard from your Royal Highness, he originally composed a poem for Old Madam Qin, and said that Old Madam Qin was full of spirit......"

Zhu Youxiao's words refer to Zhu Youzhen's painting and gift poems to Qin Liangyu.

It looks like he's praising Zhu Youzhen, but it's actually a bit like complaining.

It seems that he complained that his brother wrote a good poem, but he didn't give him a poem.

Zhu Youzhen can naturally understand the words, but he is indeed a half-witted person in poetry.

In history, Chongzhen was able to write and martial arts, not only to open a three-stone bow, but also to paint and chant poems.

When he came to Zhu Youzhen, he could try the three-stone bow, and painting was not a problem, but it was a little difficult for him to chant poetry.

However, he couldn't stand Zhu Youxiao's complaining eyes, Zhu Youzhen could only sigh and say:

"I write poems in general, but this time I heard a poem when I went north, which is very suitable for my brother."

"Let's listen to it......" Zhu Youxiao was a little interested, and Zhu Youzhen could only bite the bullet and say:

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow."

"Mountain Dance Silver ......"

Zhu Youzhen stubbornly read out the song Qinyuan Spring that he thought had the imperial spirit, although the word style did not match that of the Ming Dynasty, but the artistic conception was there.

"I cherish the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, and slightly lose the literary talent; Tang Zong and Song Zu, slightly less coquettish"

"A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the wither."

"Look at the past, count the romantic characters, and look at the ...... of the present"

"Good!" Hearing that his younger brother compared himself with Emperor Qin, Han Wu, Tang Sect and Song Zu, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but stiffen his back.

He didn't dare to say anything else, but if it was just from the perspective of territory and martial arts, the current Ming would definitely not lose to the above figures.

Before his death, Genghis Khan had only conquered the Mongolian steppes and Western Xia, as well as the Western Regions and Central Asia, as well as the northern region of the Yellow River, and had not yet been able to destroy the Jin State.

Although the territory of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was large, the Ming Dynasty's evaluation of the Tang Dynasty was not high.

As far as territory is concerned, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty all considered themselves to be "too much of the Song Dynasty, the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, and not the same as the Han Dynasty." ”

The reason for this may be because the Ming Dynasty restrained the Tubo Plateau and directly ruled Yungui, as well as the reason for the three Xuan and six comforts.

Although in Zhu Youzhen's view, in terms of fetters, the largest territory of the Han people was still in the Tang Dynasty.

But this is also his opinion, in the eyes of Zhu Youxiao, a typical Ming Dynasty person, he is most happy in this poem is that he can be compared with the Qin Emperor Han Wu.

"If you are foolish, copy this word by hand and put it in the Heart Nourishing Palace, and I will copy it night after night in the future."

"The slave takes the command."

Zhu Youxiao instructed Liu Ruoyu, but he didn't know that he had stepped into his brother's trap.

"Ahem...... Zhu Youzhen coughed for a moment, and then spoke:

"Although this word is suitable for my brother, but if my brother wants to achieve the level of words, he still needs to work hard, don't say anything else, just say that this is ......"

"Ahem, ahem! cough cough cough cough ......"

Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao began to cough violently, Liu Ruoyu hurriedly went to help him, but Zhu Youxiao coughed:

"The wind and snow are too big, so it's better to warm up the Heart Palace."

"My brother has been tired recently, I'll go back to the Heart Nourishing Hall first, and ask Wang An to send you some bear's paw shark fin to replenish your body, cough cough cough cough ......"

After that, Zhu Youxiao coughed and walked out of the study, and Liu Ruoyu and the brocade guard at the door also hurriedly put on a big fur for him and escorted him with an umbrella.

Before Zhu Youzhen could react when he sat in his position, Zhu Youxiao took people away.

After a long time, Li Dingguo said: "Your Highness, if you don't eat again, the food will be cold......

"Huh?" Zhu Youzhen looked down and saw that Li Dingguo looked weak, as if he had been starved.

"Okay, eat...... After eating, I have to deal with these ......," Zhu Youzhen got up with a helpless tone.

It's just that he just sat down in the position and ate a mouthful of mutton in the basin, but Wang Chengen walked into the study with a piece of music.

"Your Highness, the news of going to Nanyang is back, you can take a look."

Wang Chengen sent a recital, but he didn't want Zhu Youxiao to leave, so Yang Ru said sharply:

"When can't you watch it, Your Highness hasn't eaten for two hours, and you can't eat enough, what ......else to deal with?"

"You little girl...... Wang Chengen showed a helpless expression when Yang said it, while Zhu Youzhen shook his head with a smile, and took the song to see it.

"Your Highness, let's watch and eat at the same time."

Yang Yuanai couldn't help but speak, obviously she couldn't get used to seeing Zhu Youzhen dealing with music all day long, and wanted him to rest and rest.

"It's okay, national affairs, how can I stop because I'm alone?"

Zhu Youzhen appeased Yang Yuanai, then opened the song and looked at it.

This note was sent north by Li Dan in September, which included information on Ceylon Island, as well as news and intelligence on the return of the Western fleet.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at it, and was very satisfied with Huang Fei's arrangement to guard Ceylon Island, and also had thoughts about the news and intelligence that he was about to return to the Western Ocean.

Daming is short of money and food at the moment, but the vassal king has money and food.

If you can knock on the bamboo poles of the feudal domains before the return of the Western fleet next year, the silver knocked out is enough for Daming to spend more than half a year.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen remembered the group of clan disciples in the Yanshan Military Academy, and turned to Wang Chengen and said:

"Let someone prepare the car, and send me to the Military Academy after eating."

"I want to go too!"

Hearing that he was going to the Military Academy, Li Dingguo stopped eating and stood up suddenly.

"Go, go, go! Just know to go! You can't stop your mouth even if you eat, and you don't know if you can't go far without something in your stomach? ”

Yang Ru opened his mouth to reprimand Li Dingguo, acting like a sister, but the meaning of those words was obviously urging Zhu Youzhen to put down his music and eat quickly.

"Hehe......" smiled helplessly, and Zhu Youzhen handed the song to Wang Chengen:

"Go ahead, if I don't eat this meal again, I'm afraid someone will overturn the table."

"Yes......" Wang Chengen also glanced at the sharp-toothed Yang Rus, and shook his head helplessly and walked out of the study.

But after he left, Yang Ru finally shut up and stopped sarcastic......