"This Yan Siqi, there is a lot of careful thinking, but thinking that Yang Wenyue and the four of them have already arrived, and there are Lu Jianxing and Jin Xuan to supervise him, he can't afford to make any waves......"

On 25 March, when Zhu Youzhen received two letters from Yingzhou that had been sent to the capital from Busan, North Korea, he immediately sneered.

The two letters were written by Jin Xuan and Yan Siqi respectively, although the content is similar, but it can be seen from the handwriting and the words that Yan Siqi has signs of stealing and playing tricks.

His cleverness, Zhu Youzhen saw through it at a glance.

A straight person like Kim Hyun is suitable for supervision, and he is not Yan Siqi's opponent when he plays with his heart.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen only needs him to supervise and operate Yingzhou, as for playing with the heart eye, Lu Jianxing, Yang Wenyue, and Wu Aheng accompany Yan Siqi to play.

Putting the letter aside, Zhu Youzhen stood up from the study, and sat in front of him on the left and right, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, who handled the administrative affairs of the imperial horse, and Lu Wenzhao of Jinyiwei, as well as the two radish heads who were doing their homework.

"Dingguo, Ran'er, you go out for a walk first, relax and relax, combine work and rest, and come back to do your homework after half an hour."

Zhu Youzhen spoke to Li Dingguo and Zhu Ciran, who were doing their homework, Zhu Ciran heard this, and the original bitter face instantly smiled, and Li Dingguo knew that His Royal Highness was going to talk about business, so he got up and walked out.

When Zhu Ciran saw Li Dingguo leaving, he followed behind his ass and jumped out.

"Alas......"

Looking at Zhu Ciran's back, Zhu Youzhen always felt that his eldest nephew didn't seem to be very serious.

He thought of his brother's love for carpenters, his father's love for drugs, his emperor's grandfather's love for his house, his emperor's great-grandfather's love for cultivating immortals, and ......

In short, when he thought of what his ancestors did, Zhu Youzhen always felt that Zhu Ciran would be crooked.

Although he has been quite honest and responsible at other times in the past few months of studying under him, except for being a little naughty, Zhu Youzhen still feels uneasy.

As if to see his uneasiness, Cao Huachun soothed with a smile:

"Your Royal Highness, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is young, and it is normal to be playful, when Dingguo is the same age as His Royal Highness the Prince, isn't it the same playful?"

"They are not the same......" Zhu Youzhen shook his head.

"Although Dingguo is only two years older than Ran'er, he has experienced the suffering of the people after all, and I observe Ran'er, when Ran'er sees the suffering of the people, it is often not an experience, but a gesture of pity from above."

"This kind of posture is not a good thing, and it often does bad things with good intentions......"

"That being said, at least he is good in nature, and at least he is a king." Cao Huachun was so bold that he even said the "King of Shoucheng".

However, the four people sitting there were not taboo about this, and even if Zhu Youxiao knew, at most he would laugh it off.

Zhu Youzhen listened to Cao Huachun's comforting words, and no longer thought about it, but asked the three of them:

"What happened to the state-run gold, silver and copper mines?"

"At present, it is not bad, the miners in Shanxi are very honest, and some who are unwilling to sell the ore are also willing to accept the imperial court for exploration and pay taxes normally." Cao Huachun opened his mouth with a smile, but Lu Wenzhao interrupted:

"The north side is not bad, but there are changes in the two provinces of South Zhili and Fujian and Zhejiang."

"Huh?" Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly, and Lu Wenzhao also said:

"Recently, some people in these three places have been spreading rumors, saying that the imperial court has confiscated gold, silver and copper mines, which is essentially a forced purchase and sale, and the fixed tax is also too high."

"Humph!" Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly:

"Forced to buy and sell? They deceived the imperial court of mineral production, and evaded taxes and silver, but now the imperial court recovers according to the output they reported, but they pretend to be good. ”

"Besides, the tax is too high, and I don't look at how much the mining tax of the previous dynasties is, whether the mining tax of the five taxes and one of the five taxes of the imperial court is high, they themselves know!"

Zhu Youzhen has long been disappointed in the gentry Haoqiang, and Lu Wenzhao knows it very well.

That being said...... But if these news are spread too much, it will also affect the credibility of the imperial court in the hearts of the people, should you take action to stop it? ”

Lu Wenzhao opened his mouth to suggest, and Zhu Youzhen also lowered his head and continued to deal with the music, and instructed while dealing with it:

"Find out these rumor-mongers, and then find out other crimes, it just so happens that the small Western Supervision Department needs a large number of immigrants, and I am worried that there are not enough people."

"Find some big crimes, confiscate the homes, and distribute them to the people for farming."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao nodded in response, obviously knowing what to do, after all, it was not the first time he had done this.

"Has there been a change in the number of people affected by the drought in the north and south?"

Zhu Youzhen mentioned what he was most concerned about, and Cao Huachun's words reassured him a little.

"Although the north is still going on, the drought has always decreased, and many people have migrated from the past two years, so many places can barely support themselves."

"Although the three prefectures of Xining in Hexi are affected by drought, Juyan, Xihai, Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou and other prefectures can still cultivate normally with the help of the snow-melted rivers of the Qilian Mountains."

"The slaves and maids and the household department have the right situation, and under the condition that the drought does not expand, after the land of these five prefectures pays the land tax, it will probably be able to stabilize the grain prices of the three prefectures in Xining."

"Even if there is a shortage, only the imperial court needs to allocate 300,000 taels of silver, and 600,000 stone grains can be bought locally to continue disaster relief."

"As for Shaanxi, although there are all the major droughts except for Xi'an and Fengxiang Mansions, the millions of immigrants in the Hetao land themselves have food stamps, and the land endowment in the Guanzhong Plain accounts for two-fifths of Shaanxi, and only Nanyang Mansion in Henan has been affected by the disaster this year, so it can be transferred from Henan to support Guanzhong, which can ensure that more than 3 million victims in Guanzhong are worry-free."

"Although there is a great drought in Taiyuan and Datong in Shanxi, Pingyang and Lu'an in the south, as well as the four prefectures, have been reduced by drought, and the grain of the two prefectures and four prefectures in the south can probably stabilize the grain prices of Taiyuan and Datong."

"In the case of Beizhili, although seven of the nine prefectures and two prefectures have suffered from a major drought, the water network in the south is dense, and since the beginning of the year, there have been six rains in total, and the river is abundant, so it is not a big problem, and it is only necessary to adjust grain in Shuntianfu to stabilize the grain prices in Xuanfu and Baoan Prefecture and Yanqing Prefecture."

"It's not optimistic in the south......" Cao Huachun breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Zhu Youzhen's controllable expression, and then cautiously continued:

"After the administrative change of Sichuan, from the former 12 prefectures, 6 prefectures, 4 divisions, 1 guard, and 1 family, it became the land of 21 prefectures in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and now, the land of the nine prefectures in eastern Sichuan has suffered a major drought again, which is more widespread than the great drought in Sichuan in the seventh year of the Apocalypse."

"The household department has calculated that it has affected about 2 million people on paper, and it may be difficult to stabilize grain prices in Chengdu and other 11 prefectures alone, so it is urgent to transfer grain from Guizhou to stabilize grain prices and provide relief through work."

"In the land of the fourteen prefectures and six prefectures of Huguang, at present, all the nine prefectures that produce grain in the north have been affected, and only the five prefectures and six prefectures in the south of Huguang cannot stabilize grain prices at all."

"In addition, all the provinces of Guangdong except Qiongzhou have suffered from severe drought, and the grain of Guangxi and Fujian is barely stable in the drought-stricken two provinces in their own provinces, so Jiangxi can only choose one of Huguang and Guangdong for help."

"As for the three prefectures and two prefectures in Nanzhili, which are affected by drought, they are enough to stabilize the price of grain, and there is no need for the imperial court to relieve disasters and transfer grain......"

Cao Huachun's words, in general, there is only one problem that is difficult to solve, that is, to whom Jiangxi's grain should be transferred, and how the big provinces that have not received grain transfer should survive the great drought.

This question Zhu Youzhen didn't have to think about it and said directly:

"Jiangxi's grain has been transferred to Huguang to stabilize grain prices, and if I'm not mistaken, there should still be three or four million people on paper in Guangdong, right?"

"In this case, hundreds of thousands of people will be relocated to Jiaozhi, Jiugang, Xiaoxiyang and Nanzhou."

"In addition, grain will be transferred from the Ryukyu Prefecture and Luzon Prefecture to stabilize the grain price in Guangdong, control it within 500 Wen, and at the same time increase the scale of work-for-relief."

The reason why he wanted to move to Guangdong was not because the imperial court was incapable of disaster relief in Guangdong, but to prepare for the national migration in the future.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, then the drought in Guangdong will end from next year, and although there will be recurrences since then, it will not be as big as the current impact on one province.

On the other hand, Jiangxi, a province with a large population, will suffer a severe drought, and a province with a population of more than 15 million on paper, such as Jiangxi, will have to mobilize resources from several provinces to stabilize local food prices.

But the problem is that in the second wave of drought, the three populous provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang will all suffer from drought.

If this place, which accounts for three-fifths of the population of the Ming Dynasty, suffers from drought, it will be difficult to control even if the national grain and overseas grain are mobilized.

The people in the south of the Yangtze River have silver, and when the time comes, the people in the north will all starve to death, which is why the tide of uprisings in the north cannot be stopped in the nine years of Chongzhen in history.

In Zhu Youzhen's vision, once there is a major drought in Jiangxi, the population will immediately move to Liangguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Huguang and other places.

As for Nanzhili and Zhejiang, which are close to the sea, they moved to Yingzhou and the old port.

However, to ensure that the migration is fast enough, it is necessary to have a steam engine ship.

At present, although the 9,000 merchant ships and cargo ships of the Ming Dynasty can move thousands of people in one breath, they can travel to Yingzhou six times a year at most, and Luzon four times from north to south.

Although the number of ships can guarantee millions of immigrants per year, if there are steam engine ships, even if only a version of the steam engine ship such as the "Archimedes" is studied, the number of migrations can be increased to the extent that it can travel to and from Yingzhou twelve times and to Luzon eight times.

The number of million immigrants can be raised to the number of 1.5 million immigrants.

Although the technology of the Ming Dynasty was not as good as that of European countries in the late nineteenth century, it was better than having more people and more ships.

In the sixties of the eighteenth century, when there were no steam engine ships, European countries still maintained more than 300,000 population migrations every year when they spent a lot of energy on wars, and the Ming Dynasty could not be worse than them.

They only migrated people who were too destitute to get along in Europe, and the Ming Dynasty was going to migrate the victims who were already starving to death.

In this case, it is not to see whether the people can leave, but whether the money and food of your court are enough for the people to eat, and whether the ships are enough to transport the people overseas.

In the short term, the matter of migrating people is itself a loss-making business.

For example, the Ming Dynasty migrated nearly 4 million people to Xiaoxiyang, Jiugang, Nanzhou and other places, which took nearly four years, and consumed nearly 150 million stones, rice and wheat, more than 200,000 ploughing cattle, and more than 500,000 mules and horses.

However, it was not until this year that the old port officially paid taxes, and according to the budget of the Ministry of Households, it would take at least thirteen years for the old port to pay off the imperial court's investment in it.

This is still to master Malacca and the old port of Malacca, which already has tens of millions of acres of arable land and millions of taels of gold and silver mines imported every year, and it is even more difficult to change it to other places.

According to the statistics of the officials of the Ministry of Households, the investment in Nanzhou is the largest, and to relocate a common people, it takes the people to pay taxes honestly for thirty years in order to repay the investment of the imperial court in him.

followed by Hetao, Liaodong, Hexi and other places......

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't care, after all, although there were a lot of 150 million stone rice and wheat, it could only ensure that the more than 20 million people who suffered from the severe drought could eat for six or seven years.

After the relocation, some provinces that suffered from severe drought reduced the imperial court's investment in disaster relief in disguised form because of the increase in land per capita.

For example, Henan, Shanxi, and Beizhili are all benchmarks.

If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty to move two million Henan victims to Liaodong, the current people of Henan would definitely not have enough food to support themselves.

Even though the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Nanzhili, and Beizhili, which surrounded Henan, all suffered famine, Henan's grain prices remained stable at the price of 460 wen and one stone.

Even though the imperial court bought millions of stone rice and wheat from Henan many times, Henan's grain prices were still unaffected.

To put it bluntly, although Henan's population on paper has been increasing, since the migration of the people in the second year of the Apocalypse, the local Yellow Book has not exceeded 6 million people.

Xu Hongru's rebellion ravaged Henan, solving a large number of gentry and power, and Zhu Youzhen solved the guard station and released the land of the vassal king, resulting in the distribution of nearly 30 million mu of arable land by the imperial court.

The rural people in Henan can say that each household has thirty or forty acres of land, and each person has five or six acres of land.

If there is a grain self-sufficiency rate in this era, Henan is definitely the place where the people have the highest grain holdings.

However, this does not mean that Zhu Youzhen can buy grain from Henan with all his might, because Henan still has an upper limit after all.

The annual outflow of 10 million stone rice and wheat is the upper limit of Henan, and any more will affect the local grain price.

What Zhu Youzhen wants to do is actually to build each province of Daming into the current Henan.

The people in the countryside can live a nourishing life by farming alone, while the people in the cities have jobs because of the factories that bloom everywhere.

The royal store is responsible for selling goods and making the economy circulate, forming a virtuous circle.

In this way, the imperial court only needs to pay attention to ensuring the arable land of the rural people and the employment of the urban population.

However, in order to play this way, it is necessary to let some poor areas of the provinces with large populations move out as much as possible.

As long as each province is self-sufficient, this Xiaoice drought will not be a problem.

Therefore, the places that need to be cared about are actually the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang.

"Prepare in the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang, and let Sun Chuanting lead people to patrol the three provinces of Beijing, grasp what should be caught, and spread the affected ones, move people out, copy the land and distribute it to the tenants."

Zhu Youzhen looked at Lu Wenzhao and explained emphatically, and Lu Wenzhao also understood and responded.

In general, this year's Daming is still implementing the three-board axe policy.

The first is to implement state-run and collect evasion taxes that the gentry used to evade.

The second is to fight and migrate outward, so that Daming, an "old man" who was crumbling by land annexation, can regain his youth little by little.

The third is to do a good job in the economy, whether it is external or internal, in short, to solve the problem of silver tightening in the Ming Dynasty.

These problems are solved step by step, and Da Ming will be able to burst out of his size sooner or later.

Perhaps, in the eyes of Meneses, Peterson and others, being able to put hundreds of thousands of people into India in one go is already an unprecedented capacity that only an unprecedented empire can have.

But for the Ming Dynasty, two hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty only had a population of more than 60 million, and when the country was also in ruins, it could support tens of thousands of people to arrive in Africa.

Today, more than 200 years later, if the Ming Dynasty can only burst out with such potential, then it will live more and more.

What the Ming Dynasty wants is not revival, but to embark on a prosperous road beyond the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

If Zhu Youzhen can restore the contradiction of land annexation step by step to the level of the Hongwu period, then the Ming Dynasty can prosper for another hundred years.

That's what he thinks, that's what he does, and the policy of migrating people overseas, these more than 4 million people are just a prologue at the moment, and the real beginning is the war of the feudal domains......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen flashed his eyes and instructed Cao Huachun:

"All the prisoners of the dynasty from this year, except for those approved by me, will all be relocated to the Cham house in Cochin."

"Tell the local county government that none of these prisoners can die, and the court still expects them to contribute to the court."

"The slave understands." Cao Huachun knew very well why Zhu Youzhen cared so much about the life and death of prisoners.

To put it bluntly, even if they are prisoners, they are prisoners of the Ming Dynasty and Han Chinese.

As long as it is a Han Chinese, then it can be migrated to the feudal domains.

Counting the time, it won't be long before the war between the feudal clans will start, and each prisoner will be ten taels of silver at that time.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen and others didn't know that the war of the feudal domains had actually started, not only had it started, but Huanglong had also taken a province.

Therefore, after Zhu Youzhen responded to Cao Huachun, he also said to Lu Wenzhao:

"The vassal kings who are going to move Tianzhu have all gathered in the capital, right?"

"Almost, it's basically all there, and some are on the way, but it's expected to arrive in the capital in April." Lu Wenzhao nodded, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly.

"Tianzhu is divided, and the next thing is to divide Levia, but Levia is not as good as Tianzhu, and it is not easy to manage, not to mention the local environment."

"You send a message to the kings of the domain who have not taken pictures, and ask them to arrive in the capital before September, and I will ask Xu Xiake to introduce them to Levia, and let them consider whether to become a vassal themselves."

Zhu Youzhen is not prepared to deceive the feudal domains to ruin the credibility of the imperial court, whether Levia is good or bad, what is good and what is bad, he will make it clear.

If the vassals are unwilling, then the Ming can still attack Persia.

After all, with Persia's attitude towards Xu Xiake and others, he would not be so guilty when he started.

In the case of Levia, the biggest concern was the disease and the land.

The problem of land, the Ming Dynasty has a land law to improve the land, although it is slow and consumes a lot of manpower, but it is Levia, and people everywhere are waiting for the vassals.

As for how the feudal clans use them, what does it matter to him Zhu Youzhen, he just let the feudal domains become vassals, but he didn't let the feudal clans do anything else, don't splash dirty water on him, and besides, he is not the emperor, and he should also scold the emperor......

Thinking of his brother, Zhu Youzhen brought a smile on the corner of his mouth.

But after laughing, he continued to explain to Lu Wenzhao:

"Pay attention to Yingzhou, and by the way, let Lu Jianxing tell Yan Siqi to make the scope of the impact larger, as long as it is big enough, the court will not mind giving him a knighthood to return to Beijing for retirement."

Yan Siqi is a person who is not good at the top or below, but this is also his advantage.

Zhu Youzhen just needs a person who carries the black cauldron, and Yan Siqi is also willing to carry this black cauldron, since this is the case, it doesn't hurt to give him a knighthood.

As long as enough people can be involved, the black cauldron of the Ming army in Yingzhou is detained on Yan Siqi's head, and Jin Xuan comes to power again, then the matter of Qi will be much simpler.

If it weren't for Yan Siqi's battle loss ratio, which made Zhu Youzhen a little dissatisfied, he would not have sent Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng.

After the end of this battle, Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng can almost climb to the virtual title of Zhengyipin, and then as long as the country is a little calmer, and then use troops against Jianyu, several of them can be awarded a knighthood.

"By the way, Your Highness, Director Xu will land in Tianjin on March 30, and then enter Beijing on the first day of April to make a pilgrimage to report on his work."

Cao Huachun suddenly spoke, and Zhu Youzhen also came back to his senses.

Thinking of this first traveler in the late Ming Dynasty, he gradually looked forward to it......

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"Tuk Tuk!"

"Come in"

While Zhu Youzhen was looking forward to it, in the Dengzhou military camp on the island of the Imperial City of the Bohai Sea, a knock on the door sounded in Xu Xiake's house, and Xu Xiake answered without raising his head.

Sunlight poured into the room through the window, and Xu Xiake was holding the completed "Journey to the West" for final correction.

He originally thought that the person who came was his friend, Wang Zhaoxiong Wang Muzhi, but he never thought that when he heard the sound of the person stepping on the wooden plank, he slowly looked up at the person.

I saw that the person who appeared in the house was the Siamese boy who came with food, and Xu Xiake also showed a kind smile when he saw the other party:

"Song Mu Ticha ......"

On the three-month journey back, Xu Xiake and Song Mu Titsa often communicated when they got off the ship, because Xu Xiake wanted to learn Siamese and experience the customs and scenery of Siam by himself when he visited Siam in the future.

came and went, and the two naturally became friends for the year.

Later, when he basically got off the boat, Song Mu Ticha became Xu Xiake's attendant, and Xu Xiake calculated the time, and it was almost time for lunch.

Therefore, after calling the other party's name, he waved his hand and said:

"Come, let's ...... together"

"Principal!"

"What are you doing here?"

What Xu Xiake didn't expect happened, Song Mu Ticha knelt directly in front of him, and still performed a big salute.

His move made Xu Xiake first startled, and then frowned.

He thought that Song Muticha knew that he would arrive in the capital in a few days, so he was reluctant to express his gratitude, but he never thought that in the next second, Song Muticha suddenly raised his head and said:

"Please the chief and Daming save the Siam ......"