"This grain collection and grain purchase, as long as you look at one result, the process or something, it doesn't matter......"

Fengyang Mansion, on the edge of Luohe Town under the rule of the Imperial Horse Supervisor Nanchang, when a eunuch opened his mouth stupidly, more than ten merchants around him nodded and said:

"If it weren't for Zhang Lishi, where would everyone in Luohe Town grow sweet potatoes and potatoes?"

"Yes, yes, if Cao Bingbi of the South Field learns about Zhang Lishi's hard work, I am afraid that Zhang Lishi will also be promoted to a secretary."

"Thanks to Zhang Lishi, otherwise how can I be proficient in the method of planting sweet potatoes?"

The flattery and boasting of everyone made Zhang Shu, who was only a wrestler in his thirties, a little fluttery.

Since the reorganization of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the internal official positions of the Imperial Horse Supervisor have changed from high to low to eight levels: palm print, admiral, prime minister, management, supervision, secretary, wrestler, and carry-on.

The palm seal is responsible for the management of the entire Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the Admiral is divided into the North Governor and the South Commander, respectively administering the six provinces of one capital and three prefectures in the north and one capital and one prefecture and ten provinces in the south.

The prime eunuch is responsible for the land of a province, the eunuch in charge of the management of a government, the inspector eunuch is in charge of inspection, and the eunuch is in charge of a county, and the eunuch is a town.

Zhang Lishi is the wrestler eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor in Luohe Town, and there are ten eunuchs under him to help with errands.

Although it is only a town, Luohe Town has 5,000 acres of sweet potato fields.

There are no officials at the first level of the town in the Ming Dynasty, and they almost rely on the soldiers and horses of the soldiers and horses and the Xu officials of the county government to manage, but now the soldiers are gradually withdrawing from people's field of vision, and the Xu officials of the county government cannot compete with the wrestler eunuchs of the imperial horse supervisor.

Because of this, Zhang Shu became the soil emperor of Luohe Town, and the indicators of the sweet potato field brought him endless benefits.

The land in Luohe Town is fertile, which is used to grow rice, with an annual output of about three stones, and the price of rice purchased by Huangzhuang is 300 Wen.

If it were in previous years, these businessmen and local tycoons would definitely not nod to Zhang Shu.

But since the price of sweet potatoes and potatoes has risen this year, they have begun to think crookedly.

In Luohe Town, about 5,000 acres of land are military tun fields, which are distributed to more than 300 households to plant, and the remaining 10,000 acres are all land for the local gentry and the powerful.

The target of 5,000 acres of sweet potato fields actually ensures that it can benefit more than 300 households and more than 1,000 people.

However, the increase in the price of sweet potatoes and potatoes, coupled with the fertile land in the southern field of the Imperial Horse Prison, produced more sweet potatoes and potatoes than in the north.

Therefore, even though the price of rice was still high, in order to save trouble and to reduce the number of tenants by planting sweet potatoes, the gentry and powerful began to bribe Zhang Shu.

In the end, they transferred all the sweet potato field indicators that originally belonged to the people of Juntuntian to themselves, and Zhang Shu gained a lot of silver.

In just one year, Zhang Shu harvested more than 100 taels of silver, which was a lot of money that he could earn in 15 years.

With so much silver, it stands to reason that the gentry would lose money, but things are not so simple.

When planting rice, three to five acres can be planted in spring without ploughing cattle, and eight or nine acres can be sown when planting sweet potatoes.

In other words, one person can do the work of two people, and 5,000 acres of land can save at least half of the manpower.

The manpower saved is all silver in vain.

Recruit a tenant in Fengyang Mansion, you can take four-tenths of the yield per mu a year, five acres of land is sixteen stone sweet potatoes, and selling it to Huangzhuang is one or six dollars of silver.

After switching to sweet potatoes, the number of tenants on 5,000 acres of land immediately dropped from more than 1,400 to more than 700, and the savings were nearly 1,000 taels of silver.

Some people may think that even if only 700 people are used, 700 people are still tenants, and they still have to take four-tenths of the yield per mu of the land.

But the problem is that when the gentry cut off a large number of tenants, when it was proposed that only three-tenths or even two-tenths of the mu should be left, a new kind of involution arose.

As a result, in the end, the gentry not only reduced their numbers to more than 700 men, but also reduced the amount of food that the tenants needed to take to two-tenths.

Nearly 1,000 taels of silver were saved in this way, and in the final analysis, the tenants took the initiative to reduce their share, also because there was no land to plant.

The military tuntian has indeed divided the fields and blessed tens of millions of people, and the relocation has indeed blessed tens of millions of people.

However, compared with the huge population base of the Ming Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty, the gentry occupy nearly seventy percent of the resources of thirteen of the provinces, and the lack of land to plant is the survival situation of the majority of the people.

However, this situation will naturally be broken with further reforms, such as ......

"This year, the imperial court wants to establish breweries, fertilizer farms, and textile farms in various places, and you had better be better for your tenants......

Zhang Shuhu's opening made many gentry and heroes suddenly speechless.

Opening......

This is the favorite thing of the imperial court since the first year of Taichang, or Zhu Youzhen's favorite thing to do.

The establishment of each textile factory, fertilizer factory, and brewery will attract hundreds of local people to work in the factory.

Although this kind of establishment appeared in the form of one government and one county, the scale of this form will increase dramatically as Zhu Youzhen gradually expands his basic market.

For example, in the first year of the Apocalypse, there were only about 120,000 workers in the hands of the Imperial Horse Warden.

But now, in April of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there are already Huangdian, Huangzhuang, Salt Farm, Tea Farm, Textile Farm, and Officialdom under the Imperial Horse Supervisor......

If you add the brewery and fertilizer farm, the number of direct or indirect workers in the Imperial Horse Supervisor is actually as high as more than 800,000.

The wages of more than 800,000 people range from 7 taels to 11 taels per year, and it is not only the individuals who are blessed, but also the families behind the individuals.

The establishment of factories was in fact a competition with the feudal landlord class, which needed tenants and factories needed workers.

However, on this issue, Zhu Youzhen added another problem, that is, the landlord class still needs to compete with the imperial court.

When the imperial court offered relocation awards of three, five, ten, or even twenty acres.

The material attraction that the landlord can give to the tenants is greatly reduced, and when there are two better options for relocation and factory than tenants, the tenants will not be stupid enough to continue farming.

Zhang Shu's words were reminding the gentry, and the gentry also showed cold sweat on their foreheads when they heard this.

Compared with the wages of the factory for twenty wen a day and seven taels of silver a year, the wages of the tenants are simply outrageously low.

If the imperial court really wants to increase its efforts to build factories, then they will definitely not be able to grab the imperial court.

Thinking of this, a gentleman stepped forward and said:

"What Zhang Lishi reminds us is that we will take care of the following things."

The so-called following things are nothing more than readjustment and adjustment and the sharing of tenants.

However, if they want to make money, they naturally won't adjust the share too high, Zhang Shu understands this truth very well, so he just glanced at it and said:

"Whatever you want, don't worry if we don't remind you when the time comes......"

After that, Zhang Shu turned around and was about to leave, but before he could walk back to Luohe Town, three young men on horses appeared on the road leading to Luohe Town, which made Zhang Shu vigilant.

In the small Luohe Town, it is not ordinary people who can ride horses, this group of guys has a face, he doesn't know it at all, and it is obviously not from Luohe Town.

Sure enough, when the three horses came to Zhang Shu, the first one of them immediately took out the token from his arms, raised his hand and said:

"Liu Ji, the chief flag officer of the Fengyang Hundred Households Office of the Fusi of Nanzhen, Zhang Shu, a wrestler, please come with us."

"Let's pack up our things......" Zhang Shu cautiously tentatively, but Liu Ji grinned:

"You don't have to clean it up, there are things in the hundred households for you to use."

As soon as the sentence came out, Zhang Shu only felt that his legs were weak, and before he could slump to the ground, the two brocade guards turned over and dismounted, tied him with ropes, and led him towards Luohe Town.

Such a scene did not only happen in Luohe Town, but was staged in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places.

However, when the matter was being staged, at the gate of the Taimiao Temple in Beijing, many princes and county kings dressed in regular clothes also entered the Taimiao under the arrangement of Honglu Temple.

"Hey!"

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live ......"

Pushing the gold mountain and pouring the jade pillar, the feudal clans knelt down and saluted, and in front of the Taimiao was sitting Zhu Youxiao, and the feudal clans were sitting under the Taimiao.

In front of Zhu Youxiao, there was still Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the household department, but Bi Ziyan was very helpless at the moment.

Originally, the assembly of the feudal domains was about to be held, but he didn't want the emperor to suddenly propose to observe.

As a result, his appearance disrupted Bi Ziyan's arrangement, and he could only temporarily arrange for the vassals to salute the emperor.

However, the appearance of Zhu Youxiao made many weak feudal clans breathe a sigh of relief.

Everyone knows that this meeting of the feudal domains is a conference of land division, and if the emperor is here, then the strong feudal lords will not dare to bully the weak too much.

Therefore, the singing salute of the weak feudal clans is willing, while in comparison, the strong feudal clans are somewhat unwilling.

Among them, especially the Fu King Zhu Changxun, his face is even more ugly, and he can be thrown to the south as a Kunlun slave.

"From—"

"Smack!"

The net whip exploded, and the feudal clans slowly got up in the singing of the Honglu Temple.

"Class!"

With a sound of entering the class, all the feudal clans took their seats one after another, and Bi Ziyan also turned around and saluted Zhu Youxiao, and only turned around and said after Zhu Youxiao bowed his head:

"The Taimiao court meeting this time is mainly to divide the overseas feudal territories of the feudal domains, as well as to adjust the number of people to be relocated and the number of troops and horses requested."

"Before the start of the court meeting, there is one thing that needs to be announced......"

"After the adjustment of His Royal Highness King Qi, the twelve guards of the navy will no longer transfer troops, and in the ranks of troops, only the Western Army Governor's Mansion, the Southern Army Governor's Mansion, and the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion will participate."

"There are 3,000 and 31 guards in each battalion, 50 Yanshan five-pound cannons, 5 ten-pound cannons, one cavalry sentry, two infantrymen, one sentry for sword players, and one sentry for gunners."

"The salary of each battalion is 200,000 taels of silver a year, 40,000 taels for one sentry, and one person killed in battle needs to be paid a pension of 200 taels of silver by the vassal king."

"Two hundred taels?!" Hearing Bi Ziyan's words, as Zhu Youzhen expected, many county kings began to whisper.

After all, the prince is a subordinate descendant of the prince, and the property he owns naturally cannot be compared with the prince.

For now, the richest county kings under the powerful clans such as Qin, Chu, Zhou, and Zhao are only more than 100,000 taels for the rich, and only a few thousand taels for the poor.

There were less than 600 people in the Gongwei battalion, and the cost of hiring them for a year was 40,000 taels, and the average expenditure for each person was close to 70 taels of silver.

While such a fee made the county kings staggered, what was even more surprising was the pension of two hundred taels of silver per person.

If the whole army of one outpost is destroyed, the pension silver will be close to 120,000 taels of silver......

Not to mention the county king, even many princes can't take out so much.

However, after a few days of discussion, Zhu Youzhen and Bi Ziyan also came up with a plan.

"After discussions between the household department and His Royal Highness the King of Qi, the treasury will evaluate the assets of some vassal kings, and then propose a loan of five times the assets of the vassal kings who are particularly difficult."

"The interest rate of the loan is fifty times fifty-one a year, of course, only for the vassal king whose assets are less than 100,000 taels of silver."

Fifty times fifty-one, which is equivalent to borrowing 500,000 taels and repaying 510,000 taels a year later, which is not much, at least in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, many county kings also breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the news.

No matter how poor the county king is, a palace and thousands of acres of land can still be taken out.

According to the current market price, these assets fixed in the Ming Dynasty and cannot be taken away are at least 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver, and if you provide a loan according to five times the assets, you can borrow close to 150,000 taels of silver.

In this way, it is completely possible to hire two sentinels to guard the camp at the same time, and keep tens of thousands of taels of silver for the subsequent relocation of the people.

This policy was basically aimed at the weak domains, so after the policy was proposed, the financial resources of the weak domains increased fivefold, and similarly, the number of mercenaries and horses also increased, and the threat to the strong domains also became greater.

Therefore, the faces of many strong clans are not good-looking, but Zhu Youxiao looks at the scene in front of him and thinks it is very interesting.

"The silver of the relocated people is still paid to the imperial court at the price of ten taels of silver for one person, and the vassal king needs to ask the officials of the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Department to inspect the domain and check the acres of land when the people are relocated."

"The domain has 20 acres of cooked land and a ploughing cow, and you can apply for the relocation of one person......"

Bi Ziyan continued, but the content made many people frown.

Twenty acres for one person, a family of five needs at least 100 acres, although they all know that there are tens of thousands of developed cooked land in Tianzhu, but according to this standard, even if there are 10,000 acres of cooked land in the domain, it can only move 500 people.

"Isn't twenty acres a lot for one person? Besides, there are too many ploughing cattle for one person......"

Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, couldn't help but speak, and this also won the support of many vassal kings.

Regarding their coaxing, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, while Bi Ziyan said unhurriedly:

"This standard is calculated by His Royal Highness King Qi according to the speed of land annexation, if twenty acres of land per person are guaranteed, it will take at least sixty years for the land to reach the upper limit."

"In other words, this criterion was actually established to maintain the rule of the feudal domains overseas."

Twenty acres per person, this is an amount obtained by Bi Ziyan and Zhu Youzhen according to the military system of the Tang Dynasty and the military household system of the Ming Dynasty.

One ploughing ox per person, twenty acres of land, this is already the limit of individual productivity, and it can ensure that they can carry out the policy of fallow in the local area.

That is to say, twenty acres of land, one-third of the field is fallow every year, so as to ensure that the land will not be salinized.

For the feudal clans, they couldn't understand this, but when they heard that it was Zhu Youzhen's policy, they were still a little afraid of Zhu Youzhen personally, so even if they were dissatisfied, they still endured it.

Zhu Youzhen is like a timed dynamite, he stayed in the Ming Dynasty, the civil and military officials were afraid of him, and his identity and ability as a vassal king made the vassal lords afraid of him.

To put it bluntly, if Zhu Youzhen chooses to be a vassal of Tianzhu, the combined vassals are not enough for him to fight alone.

What the feudal clans are afraid of now is to provoke Zhu Youzhen, this guy directly announced that he was going to be a feudal Tianzhu, then he would have nothing to play.

The premise of their agreement that the feudal domains would go to Tianzhu was that Zhu Youzhen had already said that he would not go to Tianzhu to join the domain, and if Zhu Youzhen also wanted to go to Tianzhu, the feudal domains would probably prefer to stay in Daming.

Therefore, they chose to shut up and not provoke Zhu Youzhen, and Bi Ziyan continued when he saw this:

"In the rules of land division, it is necessary to ensure that each feudal domain has ports, minerals, and arable land."

"After successfully gaining a foothold in the feudal domain, the fleet of the Emperor Daming will go to the feudal domains to migrate the people to the past, and buy minerals locally for mutual benefit, so that the feudal domains can collect taxes."

"In terms of crops, some spices and precious trees are also on the trade list, and in addition to this, the vassals need to abide by the Great Ming Law and not reduce the price of saltpeter ore to the Europa people without permission."

"The price of saltpeter ore needs to be consistent with the price of the small Western Supervision Mission."

"As for the profit of saltpeter mines, you already have detailed information on your desk."

"If it is confirmed that there is no problem, then the feudal domains will choose the feudal land according to the land planned by His Royal Highness the King of Qi."

"If the domain is not in line with the wishes of the vassals, you can also not participate in the vassals, wait for the second voyage to the Western Ocean, and become vassals after exploring the Levian continent."

"The unsuccessful land will be auctioned by the vassal king who chose Tianzhu in the second round of bidding."

"This time, the selection will be made in the form of bidding, and the starting price of the area ranges from 500 taels to 10,000 taels."

"The feudal domains that do not participate in the auction will be divided by lottery according to the unsuccessful feudal domains."

Bi Ziyan said the first step for Zhu Youzhen to salvage the silver, that is, the land that has not yet been laid actually needs to be auctioned.

This method made many feudal kings who were drinking tea cough, and then they saw a famous Han general distribute the map one by one.

The map shows the entire region of South Asia, and the coastal area is divided into more than 100 large and small places.

The most odious thing is that this map also marks where there are mineral deposits, where there is arable land, as well as the local topography, population, and city size......

In short, if you look at it from the perspective of the afterlife, it is the same as choosing a house.

"After a cup of tea, there will be a bidding from one to one hundred and forty-five pieces of land, and the feudal lord who needs to bid can prepare."

After Bi Ziyan finished speaking, he turned around and walked up to the Taimiao, standing beside Zhu Youxiao, leaving the feudal clans whose faces were getting darker and darker looking at the map.

In ancient times, the economy was mainly supported by agriculture and handicrafts, including farming, textiles, and mining.

As for how to rule a vassal country, in fact, most vassal kings are blind, after all, they can't even manage their own palace, let alone manage a vassal country.

However, if you don't manage it yourself, they can copy it.

1 For them, the best copy answer is the Ming Dynasty, especially the Ming Dynasty after Zhu Youzhen's initial reform.

Zhu Youzhen put salt, tea and wine into three official businesses, which means that these three industries must make money, but they can't touch tea, so salt and wine are the biggest income they can get.

It's just that these two things are consumables, and consumables need people to consume, so there have to be people to consume these things.

Most of the population of Tianzhu is located in the coastal plain and the plain of the Qianga River, so the northeastern area of Tianzhu at the mouth of the Qianga River is particularly important.

The population of the area is estimated at 10 million, and the area is divided into three large parcels, each with a starting price of 10,000 taels of silver.

"Zhu Youzhen ......"

Looking at those three places, Zhu Changxun, Zhu Suqin and others were about to crush their teeth, and they only felt that Zhu Youzhen would really make money.

This is not the case with strong vassals, not to mention many weak vassals, especially county kings.

Before the start of the auction, nearly half of the county kings had already given up the first round of bidding, ready to compete for some domains that the strong feudal clan did not want.

As for some vassal kings, they are more Buddhist, so they simply choose not to go to Tianzhu, and now the Ming Dynasty honestly receives the county king's silver, and then goes to the domain when the silver is enough.

After all, people have brains, and no matter how stupid they are, they have their own careful thoughts.

At present, the first time the competition for the domain is bound to be very fierce, even if the competition is obtained, the future Tianzhu is probably not much better than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

If a weak feudal clan with insufficient strength is forcibly relocated, I am afraid that the feudal kingdom will be destroyed in a few decades.

It's just that although I didn't go, looking at Tianzhu, which was depicted with a huge amount of cultivated land, many county kings couldn't help but drool.

As a place where the cultivated land area is not inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty, or even surpassed, Tianzhu is indeed very attractive to the Han people, a nation who hides the attributes of farming in their bones.

But I like it, I like it, and the silver is not enough to make many county kings still put down the map.

Compared with them, the thirty-two vassal kings such as Qin, Chu, Jin, and Zhao were seriously observing the map.

It's just that among them, even King Rui, King Hui, and King Gui, who are not strong, are also involved.

It is said that the strength is not good, and it is just not as good as the strong domain, but compared to the weak domain, their strength is still relatively sufficient.

When Wanli was in power, the three of them made a lot of silver, and after the reform of Zhu Youzhen, he gave these three uncles 10,000 taels of money every year, in fact, they accumulated a lot of silver.

This time, they don't have the luxury of fighting for any rich land, as long as they win a lot of land.

In such a situation, the prince and the strong prince were studying, and after they studied a cup of tea, Bi Zi said solemnly:

"When the time comes, let's start the bidding for the first, second, and third domains in the east of Tianzhu!"

No. 123 land, this is the land that Zhu Changxun and they want the most, no one thought that Bi Ziyan would bid for this kind of domain as soon as he came up, so the feudal clans also raised their signs......