"Fall! Stumble! Stumble! ”

"Zhu Yujian, are you okay? If you can't, get out of the way! ”

"The body is so weak, I'm afraid that women play too much in the Tang Domain."

"Hahaha......"

In the Yanshan Military Academy, when the clans were talking and laughing, laughing and scolding, Zhu Yujian, who was on the campus of the academy, was practicing with a child of the Zhou clan.

It's just that Zhu Yujian and his father have been locked up for a few years after all, and although his body has been well recuperated for three years, he is still a little weak.

Therefore, when he was in the corner, he often couldn't throw the opposite clan disciple to the ground in one go, but had to use his skills to trip the other party.

There is no shame in this kind of trick, because the only thing taught in the military academy is victory, and not many people will remember him if he loses.

Under the boos of the clan's disciples, in the end, Zhu Yujian still tripped the other party by tricks.

He didn't care about the ridicule of the clans in the audience, but after pulling the other party up, he turned around and walked out of the ring.

But when he stepped out of the ring, Zhu Youzhen, who was in the distance, said to the person next to him:

"The body is a little weak, but the generals do not rely on the generals to rush and kill in front of the army, and the future will inevitably be the era of firearms."

"No matter how brave you are in your personal force, you are still so fragile in the face of rifle bullets."

"What His Highness said is very ......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, the main and deputy courtyards in the Military Academy responded one after another.

However, if you look closely, you can see that both of them are more or less disabled.

This is a very normal situation, there are more than 300 teachers in the Yanshan Military Academy, all of whom are more than 100 households, and they have been disabled and retired because of the war.

Although it is only a hundred households, it also has the experience and examples of commanding hundreds of people, and it is very easy to teach the clansmen.

What's more, Yanshan's military textbooks basically contradict most of the military books of this era.

Due to the lack of capacity to build aircraft, the academy was divided into army and naval sections.

The two textbooks are basically based on what Zhu Youzhen learned in his previous life, and are in line with the combat methods and types of subjects of this era.

Zhu Youzhen did not specifically divide the firearms squad into three sections, but divided the army into three sections: infantry, artillery, and cavalry, and the navy into two sections: naval troops and marines.

The reason why it is so simple is that the Ming army is not allowed to produce more types of weapons, and some means of cold weapons need to be abandoned, so it seems to be few.

"Among the students, in addition to the children of the clan, how are the children of Yanshan who graduated from the fifth year of the Apocalypse and entered the academy study?"

Zhu Youzhen watched many sect disciples speak, and the courtyard next to him also replied:

"It's almost the same as when Yanshan Academy, Cao Zongbing's sons and nephews and Li Zicheng from northern Shaanxi still dominate the academy."

"After all, they have four years of basic military theory, and they have studied by leaps and bounds after entering the academy, if it weren't for the fact that they graduated from the military academy three months later than the normal academy, maybe they have been delegated to grassroots generals."

"Hmm...... They should be able to catch up with next year's big and small battles. Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, but these words made the people around him prick up their ears.

They noticed that Zhu Youzhen did not directly talk about the battle of sweeping the captives, but about the big and small battles.

In other words, next year it is possible that the Ming Dynasty will wage war in more than one place and in more than one direction.

This move made Wang Chengen, who was standing behind Zhu Youzhen, also very curious, after all, the cash silver and the mansion sold in the three ladies' eucalyptus, plus the eucalyptus from the Jiangnan flood, the cash silver would not exceed 10 million taels of silver.

Moreover, one-third of this money has already been spent on disaster relief.

Under the condition that the food is not moving, the cash of the Ming Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Household Department, and the Internal Treasury together is only about 25 million taels, and the military salaries of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the salaries of civil officials alone can eat up these 25 million taels.

Although there were still 70 million stone of grain, more than 4 million stone were allocated for follow-up disaster relief in the north and south.

Under the guaranteed relocation policy, the grain that Daming can move is only 40 million stones.

After 40 million stones are folded, it is at most 16 million taels of silver.

With such a little silver, wanting to launch multiple battles is really a bit laughable.

However, Zhu Youzhen is very confident, and the reason is that the feudal ......

There are more than 30 large and small feudal clans, even if each feudal clan only moves 10,000 people, it needs to pay more than 3 million taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, what can a mere 10,000 people do?

For the feudal lords who enjoyed it, I am afraid that the craftsmen who built the palace alone would need to relocate thousands of people.

However, in terms of construction, it is good to say that Zhu Youjian is a craftsman in related industries such as textiles, porcelain, tea, etc., and it is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to let go.

The Ming Dynasty needed to move the population out in the year of the catastrophe to reduce the cost of disaster relief for the imperial court.

But it is also an opportunity to move from agriculture to industry.

This is not to say that Zhu Youzhen wants to let the Ming Dynasty out of agriculture, but he wants to let the Ming Dynasty move away from small agriculture and turn to medium and large agriculture.

Don't farmers make money?

I'm afraid that many people will scoff at this question, because in the industrial age, farmers really didn't make money.

In the information age, an acre of low-yield land harvests 800 yuan, while chemical fertilizers and pesticides cost more than 500 yuan, close to 600 yuan.

You can harvest 200 yuan by planting land for a year, although there are still many subsidies, but the subsidies are also very limited, far worse than going to the city to work for a month, which is why many people in later generations are reluctant to continue to be farmers.

Because in the information age, any class you can find can earn tens of thousands of yuan a year.

Although Daming said that because of the low grain output and low cost, one acre of land can harvest about 800 Wen, but the actual situation is not much better.

The social climate of the Ming Dynasty already reflected the small-scale peasant economy, in which peasants had to go to the city to work during their slack time.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen has always known that the people worked privately and did not catch the serious tax evasion.

Even if many people in Daming basically have three acres of guaranteed land at present, but in a year, excluding the cost, they can have at most two taels of silver.

But in Nanjing, Beijing, and even Yangzhou, Chengdu, Suzhou and other places, as long as you go to the city to work, the daily salary starts at 30 or 20 yuan.

Even Zhu Youzhen learned in his correspondence with Yang Lian that in a small city like Dali, which is not in the flow in this era, the wages of the people are 12 wen a day.

In the 12 months of the year, the time period of eight months of agricultural idleness, excluding the month of the New Year, in the seven months, the people of Dali City can get two or five dollars of silver when they go to the city to work.

And the harvest in the field, it was almost less than five taels of silver.

However, the Ming Dynasty was an agricultural society after all, and there were actually not so many places that needed to be employed.

Many peasants can only rely on the fields in their hands to support their families, but under the small-scale peasant economy, there is no problem in supporting themselves with an income of two taels of silver, and they can live a very nourishing life.

However, the policy of three acres of land for one person and fifteen acres for one household will slowly collapse as the population increases.

In fact, there are already signs of collapse.

Zhu Youzhen's settlement of the health post and the distribution of military tuntian actually alleviated part of the contradictions in the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the population will not be fixed, and if two people combine their families and have one child left, they will change from six acres for two people to six acres for three people, and the court will not have extra land to distribute to them.

If you regenerate one......

In fact, this fragile model of one person, three acres, only takes one generation, or even more than ten years, to be impacted by the rapid increase in population.

How to reduce the contradiction of land annexation?

It's very simple, give farmers more land and create more jobs.

This is actually an economic issue, and land annexation is actually an economic issue as well.

If they could have enough to eat in the city, then many peasants would not choose to farm, and the contradiction naturally shifted from the land to employment.

The volume of Daming cannot go through pure industrialization, because there is not so much demand and jobs, and blind transformation will only lead to industrial surplus.

What Zhu Youzhen wants to do is to change from a small-scale peasant economy of three mu per person to a medium-sized and large-scale agricultural economy of 30 mu or even hundreds of mu per person, while maintaining foreign migration.

In the future, the increase in grain yield per mu will inevitably lead to a decline in grain prices.

Planting three acres of land will gradually not be able to support a person, but planting 30 acres and hundreds of acres can definitely support a person.

Agriculture is profitable, but the premise of making money is that you must have a large number of fields and sufficiently advanced mechanized equipment in your hands.

One person only has 200 yuan of income from planting one acre, but what about ten people controlling machinery to plant 100 acres and 1,000 acres?

Giving the peasants enough land and then giving them some jobs in the cities can actually solve the problem of land contradictions and economic problems in the short and medium term.

Therefore, in the matter of overseas vassals, Zhu Youzhen wanted to leave a large number of craftsmen and send away a large number of ordinary people.

Artisans can be pooled together to create jobs one by one, while ordinary people are divided into farming.

For example, on the island of Ceylon, if only 200,000 acres of arable land are relocated, then everyone can share 100 acres of land equally.

If you can't plant that much, then the Little Western Overseer will distribute the ploughing cattle, which can be obtained from the Mughals.

As for how to get it? That's ......

Zhu Youzhen set his eyes on the children of the clans of the clans, and then spoke:

"How many troops do you think most of them can lead?"

"This ......" Yuan Zheng hesitated a little, and said after a long time: "Right now, I'm afraid it's enough to lead a small flag (12 people) alone." ”

"If it is tempered and tempered, there may be a general who leads a thousand people and a battalion."

Fighting a war requires talent, and not everyone is like Zhu Youzhen, who can lead tens of thousands of troops at a young age.

The vast majority of people actually only have the ability of 100 households, and this is still under the premise of experiencing a lot of wars.

"Conquer the south and the north, and it is time to recover Jiaozhi next year......"

Zhu Youzhen sighed, which made everyone's hearts tighten, and at the same time, he said:

"In addition, these clan disciples have not seen blood after all, and it is normal to be cowardly on the battlefield, just send them to the battlefield first, so as to avoid being embarrassed when they go to Tianzhu."

"Your Highness, this ...... Do you want to discuss it with the feudal clans? Wang Chengen couldn't help but speak, but Zhu Youzhen said:

"It's to be discussed, after all, there's still enough time."

"At present, there are only more than 2 million people in the old port, and this year Henan and Shandong have suffered major disasters, and people can be relocated south from the coastal Yellow River."

"In this old port, it is not difficult to relocate another two million people this year, plus the follow-up of Sanniangzi, it is better to move more people......

"The old port can afford to support these people, first make the old port rich, and then move people to Tianzhu in one go."

Zhu Youzhen walked with his hands behind his back thinking about the academy, preparing to look at it while walking, and Wang Chengen and the others also followed closely behind him.

"I've seen Shen Tingyang and Li Dan's recital, and the cost of moving a common person from Daming to Tianzhu is three taels of silver."

"Let's collect ten taels of silver from the feudal clans, and it's just about the same."

"To mobilize troops and horses this year, and to send troops to the princely states in the south of Tianzhu next year, how many arch guard battalions need to be mobilized? If you don't enrich the old port, how can you mobilize so many soldiers and horses? ”

"Besides, there are thirty-two tribes of all feudal clans, and even if each of them needs to mobilize a battalion of soldiers and horses to protect them, it will also need thirty-two battalions."

"Thirty-two battalions, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, Daming can't pull them out at the moment."

"If you want to pull it out, you have to start with the Southern Military Governor's Mansion and the Western Military Governor's Mansion."

"The main direction of the Southern Military Governor's Mansion is Annam, and after pacifying Annam, receiving Cham and Nanzhang, Siam and Gan Xiaozhi will become close neighbors of the Ming Dynasty."

"This Southern Military Governor's Mansion will only retain fifty battalions of troops at that time."

"These forces in Annan, it is a matter of an instant to fight down, don't think too seriously about the matter, my Daming sea strength is still strong, such as people to youth, it is the time to exercise."

"Annan can try the sea and land cooperation first this time, if it can fight well, then it is not bad to fight Tianzhu again."

When Zhu Youzhen was talking, he had already come to the rows of academies and saw some Yanshan students who were constantly learning knowledge.

"But Your Highness, if you want to fight Annam and recover Cham and Nanzhang, I am afraid that this money and food will be ......."

"There are indeed not a few ......," Zhu Youzhen replied without waiting for Wang Chengen to finish:

"I calculated the accounts, the Western Army Governor's Mansion and the Southern Army Governor's Mansion jointly sent 80 battalions, plus the six naval guards and horses, a total of more than 276,000 people."

"However, fighting in the south is not as laborious as fighting in the north, where these people need at least a million people, but only 400,000 people are enough to fight Annan."

Sea transportation is the cheapest, and it doesn't even require too many people, and the 400,000 people in Zhu Youzhen's mouth are mainly to ensure the logistics of the Ming army's land dispatch from Yunnan and Guangxi.

Once the army took the Red River Delta in northern Annam, the army would be able to feed the army with food production alone from Luzon.

When the time comes, you can also go to Siam and transport water along the Mekong River and the Chao Phraya River to the north.

The Ming Dynasty recovered the three propaganda and six comforts, just like the eastward advance of Tsarist Russia.

As long as water transportation is carried out, the logistical pressure is even only one-third of that of the north.

"276,000 troops, 400,000 people, and 6 million taels of silver, enough to defeat Annan and recover Nanzhang."

Zhu Youzhen said, and also saw Li Zicheng, Cao Bianjiao and others in an academy.

"But Your Highness, six million taels of silver is easy to come up with, but with this silver, I'm afraid you won't be able to take out the silver from the Battle of the Sweepers......"

Wang Chengen persuaded, because he knew how much pressure the household department was at the moment:

"According to the results of the Battle of Fuliao, at least about 200,000 troops will be dispatched in the battle of sweeping captives, and more than 800,000 people will be needed, plus 300,000 mules and horses."

"This man eats horses and chews, and the loss of eating it alone is as high as 300,000 taels of silver every month."

"In addition to the opening of the silver, as well as the wages of the people, as soon as the battle of sweeping the captives begins, three million taels of silver will be issued, and the wages of 800,000 people per month will be nearly 500,000 taels of silver."

"Every month is the expenditure of nearly one million taels, if this battle pursues the annihilation of all the prisoners, according to the decapitation reward of ten taels of false captives, twenty taels of northern captives, and one hundred taels of real captives, just the beheading will cost tens of millions of taels of silver......"

Wang Chengen has been busy with a lot of wars, but no matter which one it is, what he remembers the most is the Battle of Fuliao.

Not only because of the largest number of Ming troops dispatched in this battle, but also because the scale of the war was the largest.

The battle of recovering Liao was still fought in Liaodong itself, and the result was that the expenses of 20 million taels of silver were spent.

Now the battle of sweeping the captives is said to be fought at the doorstep, but in fact, everyone knows that this battle is an expedition when it is fought.

Fighting and expeditioning at the doorstep, the cost and cost are different.

The military expenditure for a battle to clean up the captives is enough for the Ming Dynasty to lay down half of Tianzhu.

"Don't worry about the silver, isn't there still 40 million stone grain right now?"

Zhu Youzhen said absent-mindedly: "When the fight starts in July next year, until October, the treasury will have silver, and then there will be another winter." ”

"If the Jianyu is swept away, the people of the Ming Dynasty will be able to cultivate in Liaodong and Liaobei with peace of mind, and in terms of reason, they will all be fought."

"But it's too anxious......" Wang Chengen showed a bitter smile, and Zhu Youzhen also patted him and said:

"The matter has been put on hold for the time being, and the fleet that went to the West in March next year will return, and now it is almost time to notify the feudal lords to come to the capital."

"Lone also wants to discuss with them about the children of the clan going to the Southern Army and the Western Army Governor's Mansion to start recovering Annam."

"Yes......" Wang Chengen had no choice but to respond, and Zhu Youzhen could only shake his head when he looked at his expression.

The recovery of Annam and the establishment of the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Department were important links in Zhu Youzhen's plan.

Not only to extend the territory of the Ming Continent to the South China Sea, but also to better control the Naval Governor's Office.

The Navy Governor's Mansion hangs overseas, which makes Zhu Youzhen a little uncomfortable, and he always feels insecure.

This time, Huang Long explored south to Australia, and Zhu Youzhen did not show any special joy, because he knew that Daming could not eat Australia for the time being.

The territory of the old port is scattered and vast, with only more than 2 million people, which is very unfavorable to the rule, and the main ethnic group in the area has not changed.

When the number of Han people in the old Hong Kong reached 10 million, that time was the time to attack Australia.

Australia's environment is not good, the eastern and southwestern coastal areas are okay, but the central and central west, the north is difficult to say.

Moving people from the north of the continent to the south, nearly 6,000 miles by sea, they could only move south step by step.

The only thing that Zhu Youzhen cares about is that this place is very suitable for animal husbandry, and there are a large number of mineral deposits.

It may become one of the few resourceful provinces in the future......

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen led the people out of the Yanshan Military Academy and did not continue to watch.

He took people back to the capital, and after dealing with Zhu Youxiao, who pretended to be ill, in the capital for a few days, he received Sun Yuanhua's note.

Sun Yuanhua came to the Qi Palace, standing in the study, while Zhu Youzhen looked at the contents of the song.

On this, Sun Yuanhua mainly calculated the input and number of employees of the fertilizer plant, and he determined the size of the fertilizer plant according to the population of the county.

There are more than 1,600 counties in the Ming Dynasty, some counties only have 10,000 or 20,000 people, and some counties are hundreds of thousands, so it is naturally impossible to follow one standard.

According to Sun Yuanhua's criteria, the fertilizer plant must be built 40 miles away from the city, and the fertilizer plant should be expanded in size and land according to the population of the county.

A county of 10,000 people needs to build a fertilizer factory covering an area of 100 acres, and needs 100 night xiangfu and 50 fertilizer workers, and 100 horses.

The cost of this was 2,000 taels of silver for pulling a horse alone, and 600 taels of silver for building a fertilizer factory.

It takes 140 taels of wages and 300 taels of raw materials to keep the fertilizer plant running every month.

This is only on the scale of 10,000 people, and if you add 10,000 people, the size needs to be doubled.

In other words, a city with a population of 1.2 million people like Beijing needs at least 10,000 night cottagers and more than 5,000 fertilizer workers, plus 10,000 horses.

To deal with the entire Ming population, the number of night fragrant people is very terrifying, at least 100,000 people and tens of thousands of fertilizer workers are needed.

Although this is considered to be a job creation, for every bag of fertilizer sold, the Department of Agriculture loses a penny, if you add the cost of eating horses.

According to Sun Yuanhua's speculation, if he really wants to promote chemical fertilizers, Zhu Youzhen will have to accept the preparation of the Agricultural Department to lose hundreds of thousands of taels every year.

"This bit of silver is nothing, mainly depends on whether the people are willing or not, after all, the price of fertilizer is not low."

"If the people are willing, you can see if the price can be lowered a little."

After Zhu Youzhen finished reading the song, he responded to Sun Yuanhua, and for the cost, Sun Yuanhua had studied it very thoroughly, and he said shamefully:

"The cost is no longer pressable, and it is basically a labor cost, unless His Highness decides not to use labor ......"

"If Your Highness uses the method of the old port, collects it with free manpower, or launches a conscription, then the cost of fertilizer can be reduced to twenty wen a bag."

After all, Sun Yuanhua was already regarded as his own person of the Qi Wang Party, and he also knew the things that the Navy Governor's Mansion did in the old port.

He understood Zhu Youzhen's idea of benefiting the people and giving the people money.

But the problem is that the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty are here, and in fact, this is a disguised compromise on the financial and conscription system of the Ming Dynasty......

His kind reminder also made Zhu Youzhen frown.

However, he frowned not because of Sun Yuanhua, but because he was thinking about the cost of labor.

He originally wanted to rely on the manure of the Ming people and livestock to achieve the regional use of chemical fertilizers, but now it seems that he has some ideals in mind.

If Da Ming had silver, he could naturally do so, but what Da Ming lacked at the moment was silver.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen could only say one thought in his heart and said:

"There are many seabird islands living in groups on the sea, and those who exaggerate can make hundreds of thousands, millions of catties of guano a year."

"In your opinion, if I use the method of the old port and let people transport guano to the coast by sea, and build a fertilizer factory on the coast, can the price of fertilizer be reduced to ten cents a bag?"

Zhu Youzhen's words made Sun Yuanhua speechless, and he paused before he said:

"This ...... Xia Guan has never heard of it, and he doesn't know if it is okay to use bird droppings, so you can try it first. ”

"Okay, I know, you first ask the Department of Agriculture to establish several fertilizer factories with an annual output of one million catties in Songjiang, Tianjin, Lushun and Denglai, Guangzhou, Beigang and other places."

"Yes...... The lower official retired ......" Seeing that Zhu Youzhen didn't say more, Sun Yingyuan also slowly retreated.

Looking at his back retreating, Zhu Youzhen also frowned and thought about the manpower problem in the old port.

"It's still too little...... It seems that we have to start with Yan Siqi......"