"Li Dingguo, you order!"

"Hurry up, hurry up ......"

"What's the hurry, whoever of you talks a lot!"

In front of the door of the Qianqing Palace, when Zhu Ciran urged Li Dingguo loudly, Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Shu'e, Zhu Shuchang and other younger brothers and sisters who followed him were not afraid of the big thing.

The impatient Li Dingguo stood in front of a string of fiery firecrackers, lit a long incense stick in his hand, and hesitantly "tried it" in front of the firecrackers.

His movements seemed to be about to run away in the next second.

Not far away, Wang An, Wei Zhongxian, Wang Tiqian, Liu Ruoyu and other four eunuchs took many palace maids and eunuchs, and everyone looked at this scene with smiles.

"My brother took this kid with him, did he think that this kid would be able to become a capable minister in the future?"

Standing in front of the guardrail of white marble, Zhu Youxiao looked at this warm scene, asked with a smile on his face, and Zhu Youzhen, who was standing next to him, looked at Li Dingguo, who was "eager to try", and said calmly:

"I don't know, but Dingguo's research on side affairs is good, and I plan to send him to Yanshan Academy to study the year after tomorrow."

"Don't bring it with you?" Zhu Youxiao looked back in surprise, obviously in his opinion, Li Dingguo could learn more by Zhu Youzhen's side.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen knows very well that some things are not relied on, and some people are born with higher talent in some things.

Li Dingguo was delayed in history, but after he studied at ease in Sichuan, he did not show strong governance ability in Yungui.

Maybe it's because the learning time is too short, or maybe there is really no talent for governance.

In short, Li Dingguo's administrative ability is indeed very average in the current Zhu Youzhen's view, but his military talent is not bad.

If he can reach the military ability of the thirty-one-year-old two famous kings at the age of twenty, then there will be another Dinghai Divine Needle in the side affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the face of his brother's inquiry, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"The tiger will only become a domestic cat in the family, and only by releasing it can the tiger roar in the mountains and forests."

"He will go whatever other Yanshan students do."

"Twenty years later, the Ming Dynasty has him in border affairs, and he can ensure peace in a place for at least fifty years."

Zhu Youzhen gave Li Dingguo a high evaluation, and Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly when he heard this.

Obviously, he heard that his younger brother was training helpers for Zhu Ciran, or preparing for him to become a vassal.

Twenty years later, it is obvious that Qi Jin, Qin Bangping and others are gone, and Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others are also over fifty years old, so the twenty-nine-year-old Li Dingguo will undoubtedly become the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty at that time.

It's just that this Great Wall can only protect the home country, how to run the family, this still needs to be screened......

"Does my brother have any courtiers he likes?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Zhu Youzhen again, because he knew that what the Ming Dynasty needed was not a famous general, but a famous minister.

"There are some, but I haven't decided yet......"

Zhu Youzhen was silent, he naturally knew what Da Ming lacked, and he had been looking for this kind of person for a long time.

In general, the current political group of the Ming Dynasty is very mature.

There are Gu Bingqian, Bi Ziyan, Li Changgeng, Dong Yingju, Sun Chengzong, Zhu Xieyuan, and Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, Shen Tingyang, Yang Wenyue, and Wu Aheng.

It can be said that the latter is the substitute for the former, and once someone has a problem with the former, the latter will immediately replace him.

In addition, most of the latter are both civil and military figures, and they are not weak and bullying externally, and in terms of strategic vision, they can be said to be world-class.

The only embarrassment is that the former are basically all fifty or sixty-year-old ministers, and the youngest Li Changgeng is also seventy or fifty.

As for the latter, he is not young, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are both thirty-six years old, Wu Aheng, Yang Wenyue, and Shen Tingyang are also thirty-four or five years old, and the youngest is Lu Xiangsheng, but he is also twenty-nine years old.

Whether the former can survive for ten years is still a problem, and although the latter can guarantee peace for twenty years, it will also become a problem after thirty years.

At present, Zhu Youzhen has paid a little attention to Wang Jiazhen, who temporarily replaced the left servant of the military department, Fan Jingwen in Wen Xuanlang, and Yan Yingyuan, who was paid attention to by him, as well as Ni Yuanlu, Huang Daozhou, Qu Shiyun and others compiled in the Hanlin Academy.

Of course, these people are also relatively old, basically in their thirties, so Zhu Youzhen mainly cares about Du Yinxi, Zhang Huangyan, and ...... who have not appeared

Sun Kewang ......

"......" Thinking of Sun Kewang, Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly, and there was some silence.

I have to say that in terms of political ability alone, if Sun Kewang is a little impetuous, he will undoubtedly be a first-class existence in the late Ming Dynasty.

In Yunnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, before the Great Western Army entered Yunnan, like the rest of the country, military disasters, famines, and famines came together and were endless.

After the outbreak of the Shadingzhou Rebellion, the people of Yunnan went into exile, starved everywhere, and completely collapsed the social economy.

At the beginning of Sun Kewang's governance of Yunnan, he was faced with a mess of "the people digging grass and trees for food", "starvation and disease, eight or nine dead", "natural disasters are epidemic, five or six out of ten deaths, the sick look at each other on their pillows, the coffins are exhausted, the dead are wrapped in mats, and buried in the wilderness is a great blessing".

But after Sun Kewang took over, production resumed quickly that year, not only feeding the armies of the Great Western Army and Mu Tianbo and others, but also making Yungui a bumper harvest.

Not only that, but when he fed tens of thousands of troops with three or four million people, he still had the spare strength to open a warehouse to help the people.

It took only one year for Sun Kewang to restore Yunnan's economy from general bankruptcy to the point of "abundant wealth and abundance of people", and "one year's endowment of local products and wealth is sufficient to support the needs of the soldiers."

Later, on the basis of two consecutive years of bumper harvest, Sun Kewang lifted the "peasant ban" in the sixth year of Shunzhi, and put out lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and the scene even surpassed the heyday of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also in this year that Sun Kewang began to carry out the reform of the cantonment system, adjusting some of the overly idealistic regulations in the camp system, and adjusting the industrial and commercial policies and the rule of officials, thus ushering in another bumper year.

The soldiers and civilians of Yunnan "sweated like rain, the people were rich and the soldiers were strong", the cultivators had their fields, and the fighters had their food, making Yunnan one of the places with the best economic conditions in the country at that time, comparable to the south of the Yangtze River.

Even Sun Kewang's successful governance in Yunnan had a huge impact and attraction on the regions and people under the rule of the Qing court.

In the tenth year of Shunzhi, Ding Daren, a staff member of the Qing army's Biyuan governor, heard in Hunan that "the people of central Yunnan are happy to work, and the people of Yunnan are prosperous, if you don't know that there are soldiers."

Even the south of the Yangtze River, which is far away from Yunnan and rich in the world, also spreads that "southern Yunnan, the world is a paradise, and its people are isolated from the mountains and seas, and now they are still living with crowns".

Until Sun Kewang was jealous of Li Dingguo and surrendered to the Qing army, Yunnan was still a prosperous situation of "grain and grass accumulation" and "surplus money and grain".

If it weren't for Sun Kewang's surrender, the Qing army's entry into Yunnan interrupted the rapid economic development of Yunnan, and massacred the people, causing serious damage to Yunnan's agricultural production, and Yunnan might have been one of the wealthier provinces in the early Qing Dynasty.

Such a person, if he is a little impetuous, he can completely replace Hong Chengchou and become an outstanding cabinet assistant of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen asked Jinyiwei to go to Mizhi County to inquire about Sun Kewang's whereabouts, but perhaps because of the relocation of the people, Sun Kewang's family moved, and Jinyiwei did not find Sun Kewang.

However, he is still confident, because at Sun Kewang's age, values have basically been cultivated, and now there are ways for scribes all over the world to rise, even if he does not go to the army, he will join the army.

No matter what, unless he is unlucky enough to go to the battlefield and be hacked to death, Zhu Youzhen will always be able to see him......

"Crackling—"

"It's ringing!"

The sound of firecrackers being lit woke up Zhu Youzhen, he concentrated his attention, looked at Li Dingguo who ran away with a puff of smoke, and Zhu Ciran and others who were clapping their hands next to him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He didn't know if his eldest nephew could be used.

If he, like Zhu Di, cultivated a loser Zhu Zhanji, he would probably die of anger on the other side of the ocean.

"Don't play, come in and eat."

Zhang Yan's voice sounded, and Zhu Ciran, who was playing, heard this, and immediately trotted into the Qianqing Palace, and Li Dingguo also ran to Zhu Youzhen's side.

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand and put it on his shoulder, and then walked into the Qianqing Palace with Zhu Youxiao.

Around the big round table in the palace, many concubines were already standing in front of their positions, and not surprisingly, Zhu Youzhen was still sitting in the first place on the left, Zhu Ciran was arranged in the first place on his left, Li Dingguo was next to Zhu Ciran, followed by Zhu Ciyan and Zhu Cijiong.

Zhu Youxiao sat in the main seat, and the first person on the right was Zhang Yan, followed by Zhu Shu'e and Zhu Shuchang.

Further back, it is Princess Zhu Huiyan of Ningde, Princess Zhu Huijing of Suiping, and Princess Zhu Huishi of Le'an.

Chongzhen used to be very close to his three younger sisters, but since Zhu Youzhen came, he has slowly alienated these three sisters and sisters.

It's not that he is deliberately distant, but he is really busy, and he really doesn't have time to play with them.

What's more, with his two lives, he is basically nearly fifty years old, and he really can't play with them.

As he grew older, he even lacked topics with his royal brother Zhu Youxiao.

Whenever Zhu Youxiao looked for him and wanted to show some posture as an elder brother, he would always be unconsciously ignored by Zhu Youzhen.

Maybe he's too old mentally to talk.

went to the table, because it was a family banquet, Zhu Youzhen didn't pay so much attention to the rules, he lowered his head to eat with vegetables, and Zhu Youxiao smiled when he saw this, and said to everyone:

"Let's get moving......"

"Yes......" everyone replied, and then began to move quickly.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao will hold this kind of banquet several times a month, and every time it is lively.

It's just that every time Zhu Youzhen appears, the atmosphere is always a little cold.

The concubines were afraid of him, and Princess Ningde didn't know how to communicate with her younger brother and brother.

This family banquet was a little depressing, there was no laughter and laughter in the past, there seemed to be only the sound of eating with your head down.

Zhu Youzhen's mind was full of things that needed to be dealt with, and he didn't care about the atmosphere at the dinner table, but Zhu Youxiao had the heart to adjust the atmosphere and took the initiative to say:

"Recently, the British Duke and other princes have been asking when his younger brother will choose a concubine to marry, and on the cabinet side, Gu Bingqian, Han Yi, and Sun Chengzong have also asked."

"Siam, Nanzhang, Gan Xiaozhi, Sulu, Bo Ni and other countries outside the country are also interested, and North Korea has already selected 3,000 beautiful women in the country, and is ready to select 72 of them to send them, and has been preparing for several years."

"I don't mean to force my younger brother to choose a concubine, it's just that my younger brother is almost at the age when he should be crowned after all, and it's not a good thing to drag it out like this."

This year's forced marriage did not occur between Zhang Yan and Zhu Youzhen, but between Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen.

After all, the princes of the Ming Dynasty basically chose concubines at the age of sixteen to marry, like Zhu Youzhen, who was already the "oldest leftover man" among the princes.

Zhu Youxiao's inquiry was an inquiry without a hint of political atmosphere, but when Zhu Youzhen heard it, he raised his head very calmly and said:

"When it comes to choosing a concubine, my brother just has an idea."

"Any requirements? Family, or physiognomy or something? Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised by the speed at which Zhu Youzhen agreed, but Zhu Youzhen said when he heard this:

"Feel free to ......"

His answer made Zhu Youxiao silent for a few seconds, and he could see that Zhu Youzhen really didn't care about choosing a concubine.

The Son of Heaven and the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, except for the first and second generations who needed to marry because of the strength of the Xungui group, basically chose commoner women as concubines.

Of course, this is not exactly a civilian, to be precise, it should be some petty officials and officials, or women from the families of military generals in the guards.

Zhu Youzhen doesn't need to compromise anything, and he doesn't think he has the right to "free love".

Not to mention whether there is time or not, the so-called relationship between men and women alone is just a drop in the ocean compared to what he has to do.

Unless Zhu Youxiao and the group of guys in the cabinet chose a woman who was so ugly that he couldn't bear to look at Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen was not interested in who his princess was at all.

"Yang Yuanai and Yang Ru in your house have taken care of you for so many years, and you don't have any thoughts about them?"

Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth curiously, and these words also attracted everyone at the family banquet to listen.

Normally speaking, whether it is the royal family, the minister of civil and military affairs, or the relatives of the nobles, as long as the family is slightly richer, most of the men in the family have opened meat in their teens, and the objects of their actions are all characters such as maids and maidservants.

Although Zhang Yan and the others knew that Zhu Youzhen was very busy, they were still curious about whether Zhu Youzhen had done anything to the two beautiful maids in the family, especially Yang Yuanai.

This pair of aunts and nephews look better than many show girls, and if they are placed next to normal men, they will have been eaten a long time ago, regardless of their age.

However, to their disappointment, in the face of this answer, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"What can I think of them, most of them are family members?"

"That's not right, I don't think they think of you like Uncle Five." Zhang Yan opened his mouth with a hint of a smile, while Zhu Youzhen shook his head when he heard this.

"Let it be......"

"Well......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhang Yan knew that there was a play, so she persuaded Zhu Youxiao:

"Why don't you wait for the fifth uncle and the crown before the draft?"

"It's okay......" Zhu Youxiao thought about it and bowed slightly, but Zhu Youzhen was indifferent throughout the whole process.

seemed to see that Zhu Youzhen was a little tired, and Zhu Youxiao did not force him to stay to watch dance music, but tasted tea with him after the family banquet, and then let Zhu Youzhen leave.

Zhu Youzhen left with Li Dingguo, this kid followed Zhu Youzhen in a hurry, clinging closely, and others looked at him, for fear that Zhu Youzhen's steps would be too big and kick him over.

When the two walked out of the gate of the Qianqing Palace, the elephant wheel of the Qi Wangfu had been waiting for a long time.

Without any distractions, Zhu You checked into the car, and hundreds of books were already stacked on the eucalyptus in the car.

These are all notes that he needs to deal with, so after sitting down, Zhu Youzhen said to Li Dingguo:

"Don't Move, Don't Disturb ......"

"Eun!" Li Dingguo nodded hurriedly, and then sat down on the left side of the side, put his hands on the table, supported his chin with one hand, and looked at Zhu Youzhen quietly.

Zhu Youzhen had already opened the urgent recital, and the content of the recital was also the one he saw before today's court meeting.

When he saw this note in the daytime, he had already thought of how to reply, but it was delayed because his brother invited the family banquet.

Therefore, after opening the song, he picked up the pen and replied:

"The affairs of the military must not be contaminated by outsiders, even the soldiers and horses are also needed, and the children of the Han family are also required to enlist in the army."

"The people of Yingzhou can be used as officials, auxiliaries, and craftsmen, but they can't be contaminated with the affairs of the soldiers......"

Zhu Youzhen controlled the military power more strictly than anyone else, because he knew very well what kind of hidden threat to the rule of the Ming Dynasty would be after the Japanese in Yingzhou were contaminated with military power.

Zhu Youzhen will not allow this kind of threat to exist.

As for what Yan Siqi said about the life of Japanese peasants in the song, Zhu Youzhen also knew very well that if he wanted the Japanese to honestly submit to the Ming Dynasty, he had to assimilate them to put it bluntly.

How to assimilate? It's very simple, it's nothing more than food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

Zhu Youzhen replied a lot to Yan Siqi, including the opening of the imperial store in Yingzhou by the imperial court, and the sale of white cloth, honeycomb coal and other things at a reasonable price.

Not only that, he was kind by nature, and with a stroke of the pen, he also promised that the imperial court would establish a hundred cement yards in Yingzhou, and in addition to the Han people needed to manage the cement yards, the recruiters could only recruit farmers during the slack time to increase the income of the farmers in Yingzhou.

This also means that the cement yards in Yingzhou, except for those where the prisoners serve, and which are exclusively used for the work of farmers, will only be opened every year during the eight months from May to August, and from winter to February.

For the remaining four months, when it comes to farming, the factory closes completely.

From this point of view, it seems to be a waste of resources, but who made Zhu Youzhen "kind-hearted......

As for the wages of these factories, Zhu Youzhen also increased from 10 wen a day to 15 wen a day, and he thought that tens of millions of farmers in Japan would be grateful to him after learning about it.

Not only that, but there are also mines, ironworks, and fertilizer farms, and other factories, and Zhu Youzhen also allows Yingzhou farmers to work during their slack time, and the salary is also 15 wen.

In the end, after the comprehensive recovery of Yingzhou, the Imperial Horse Supervisor will build more than 400 workshops of various sizes, which can accommodate more than 600,000 jobs.

The income from these workshops, together with the one acre of land given to each person by the imperial court and the harvest of the rented land from the government, after this series of income was converted into grain, each peasant would increase from 300 catties of coarse grain per capita during the reign of the shogunate to 700 catties of grain per capita during the reign of the Ming Dynasty.

This proportion has basically reached the level of the 80s of the 20th century.

To reach this level, it does not mean that Daming has developed science and technology, but that Daming has more arable land resources.

Although the current yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty is only 2890 catties, and the yield per mu in the 80s in the later generations is more than 340 catties, the cultivated land resources of the two are different.

After the recovery of Yingzhou, the cultivated land area of the Ming Dynasty will reach 860 million mu, and the number of people who need to be fed is only 167 million, with an average of 5 mu of cultivated land per capita.

On the other hand, in the 80s of the later generations, 1.6 billion mu of cultivated land had to feed 1 billion people, and the per capita was only one mu and six cents.

With a large amount of cultivated land per capita, even if the productivity is insufficient, the people can still be fed and clothed.

Of course, this premise is that the group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials will not secretly exploit the people behind Zhu Youjian's back, and the people will not encounter the current Xiaoice River drought.

The Xiaoice River drought has basically destroyed nearly three-tenths of Daming's cultivated land, causing the people of Daming, who originally had an average ration of more than 1,400 jin, to the extent that they have fallen to only 1,000 jin.

It doesn't seem like much of a problem, but it's just the beginning.

In the future, more and more cultivated land will be affected by natural disasters, and it will be about ten years away, and there will be two capitals and 11 provinces in the original two capitals and 13 provinces.

Of the more than 860 million mu of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty, nearly 200 million mu will be directly wiped out by drought, and the remaining 300 million mu will have a reduced grain output.

The only places that can be relied on are Jiugang, Jiaozhi, and Yingzhou, as well as some hundreds of millions of acres of grain near the big rivers in the three provinces of Liangjing and Thirteen Provinces.

By that time, the per capita food ration will fall to only about 600 catties per person.

If there were no places such as Yingzhou, Jiugang, and Jiaozhi, and there would have been no immigrants to Liaodong and Hexi, the rations of the people of the Ming Dynasty would be the same as in history, only less than 400 catties, and they would be starving all over the wilderness......

Therefore, in order to resist drought and protect the people, the Ming Dynasty had to stabilize Jiaozhi and Yingzhou, which already had cultural characteristics, and also strengthen the control of the feudal domains over South Asia.

If you want to do this, you must eliminate the people of the other party, enrich the spirit and body of the other party, and finally corrupt and assimilate them.

In this era, the only good thing is that the Ming army will sweep away all the local aristocratic classes, and their disappearance represents the extinction of culture.

Civilians, especially those like Yingzhou, who don't even deserve their own surnames, talk about and inherit culture.

Zhu Youzhen not only wanted to keep them fed, but also to let them have books to read.

Learn Chinese characters and speak Chinese......

This is the next change he will make, but it will require a lot of people who can teach and educate people.

He is preparing for this, and it will take a lot of time.

In short, after his series of arrangements, if there are still peasants in Yingzhou who will miss life under the shogunate, it will not be a fool, but a fool.

"Your Highness, it's time to ......"

A voice sounded outside the elephant's wheel, and Zhu Youzhen also came back to his senses.

He looked at the last point to be dealt with, and after the silence, he wrote the names of Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, and Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao.

"Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng have rested long enough, let them join forces to command, just exercise Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao."

After bowing slightly, Zhu Youzhen put the music together, and then took the music and walked out of the carriage and handed it to the Jinyi Weidao next to him:

"Leave the song to the Ministry of Officials and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to deal with, and tell Gu Bingqian that if Jin Xuan is released, he can be sent to Yingzhou to be his prefect of the South Island."

"Yes......" Jinyi Wei responded, then took the song and turned to leave.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen also turned around and walked towards the Qi Palace, while Li Dingguo, who had just jumped out of the car behind him, followed him into the Qi Palace......