"Warp!"

"Kill, he really killed!"

In the Yanei of Menghuafu County, Yunnan, when the capital had decided how to deal with Sun Chuanting, Mu Yi also ran into the backyard study in a hurry.

Hong Chengchou, who was practicing calligraphy, paused and said without shock:

"Do you kill Liu Yuyou, or kill Pan Shiliang?"

"No, he killed more than 70 gentry in Chengdu Mansion!" Mu Yi ran into the study excitedly and said what Sun Chuanting did in Chengdu.

His words made Hong Chengchou's heart completely confused, and he couldn't practice words anymore.

Hong Chengchou put the pen back on the pen holder, frowned, and said, "Kill the gentry?" ”

Obviously, Hong Chengchou didn't expect that after Sun Chuanting got the Shang Fang sword, the target of his sword was actually the gentry of Sichuan.

This is of course once and for all, but this is undoubtedly a gamble on the career.

Once the capital can't bear the pressure, Sun Chuanting will be like this for the rest of his life.

In Hong Chengchou's view, this approach is undoubtedly very stupid.

His experience since he was a child told him that he was destined to be bullied if he had no money and no power, so he didn't believe that Sun Chuanting was just to vent his anger.

"He must have other intentions......" Hong Chengchou's expression was cloudy, and finally he thought about the behavior of King Qi and Emperor before squinting his eyes.

"Jing Liu, so it seems that Sun Chuanting's career has ended here, without him, only Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng will never be your opponents."

After years of training by Hong Chengchou, Mu Yi has been convinced by Hong Chengchou, and naturally hopes to follow Hong Chengchou to a high position.

Hong Chengchou has said many times before that his biggest opponent on the first aid is Sun Chuanting, so now that Sun Chuanting has destroyed his future, Hong Chengchou will be unimpeded in front of him.

"No!" Hong Chengchou picked up the brush again, continued to practice calligraphy, and explained:

"If it were someone else, or only Banzai in that position, Sun Chuanting would indeed destroy his future, but at the moment, I dare not say what others do, but there is one person who will definitely appreciate him."

"Who?" Mu Yi paused, not daring to think that there were still people who were willing to use knives against the gentry.

"I'm afraid His Royal Highness King Qi has already prepared for Sun Chuanting's resurgence in the future." Hong Chengchou responded with words, and Mu Yi was also a little speechless for a while.

If Hong Chengchou said someone else, he still had something to refute, but once it came to King Qi, then Sun Chuanting's move might really be able to please Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi.

Mu Yi knew very well that as long as King Qi didn't want Sun Chuanting to be interrupted on the way, then Sun Chuanting would not be able to cut off his own path no matter how he went.

Therefore, he originally thought that Sun Chuanting's move of destroying his future became Sun Chuanting's initiative to curry favor with King Qi for a while.

He and Hong Chengchou both thought of going together, because in the eyes of people like them, there could be no people in this world who would cut off their future for the sake of the people and the court.

Sun Chuanting is just a speculative guy......

"Jingluo, if you say so, this Sun Chuanting ......" Mu Yi said three points, and Hong Chengchou said flatly:

"At most, it is only a reduction for the people, but even if it is reduced, it is estimated that His Royal Highness the King of Qi will let him rest for a short time, and before we pacify Burma, His Highness will still arrange for him to recover Uszang."

"But in this case, he can't compare to your merits, right?" Mu Yi saw clearly that Uszang could not compare to Myanmar.

"Well......" Hong Chengchou did not show his timidity, but he had a hunch in his heart, that is, after Myanmar was cleaned up, he would most likely be transferred back to the capital.

The signs weren't obvious, but he could guess them.

At that time, he was trapped in the capital, and Sun Chuanting had been operating in the northwest for a long time, maybe after cleaning up Wusizang, Sun Chuanting would be able to recover the Western Regions and Mobei.

In this way, his merits are not as good as Sun Chuanting.

Moreover, he was trapped in the capital, and at the beginning he also served as the sixth secretary, so it was impossible for him to enter the cabinet directly.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting is still his competitor......

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou was not so eager to pacify Burma, he pretended not to care and asked:

"How's the Gunpowder Bureau preparing? How long does it take to repair the access road? ”

"According to the previous plan, the Gunpowder Bureau will be put into production in the winter months, and the road will be widened in about two years to reach Longchuan." Mu Yi couldn't help it, after all, fighting a war is to make military merits.

"Hmm......" Hong Chengchou didn't directly say that he would repair slowly, but just responded.

There are many ways to delay the construction period, and saying it directly will discourage the enthusiasm of the generals below to make military achievements and the morale of the army.

"Speed up the construction period, and count the number of people in Lijiang Prefectures in western Yunnan, and wait for Myanmar to move people from the mountainous areas to Myanmar."

"Yes! Rest assured! Mu Yi responded decisively.

As a Mu family that has been entrenched in Lijiang for hundreds of years, Mu Yi naturally knows that there are many mineral deposits in northwest Yunnan.

At this time, all the other families in western Yunnan and northwest Yunnan were moved to Myanmar, and finally the Mu family could become dominant.

He does not fight for land, he fights for mineral deposits.

This is Hong Chengchou pointing him out, because Hong Chengchou has figured out the general policy formulated by Zhu Youzhen, in short, whoever annexes more land is the first bird, as long as he is the first bird, there will always be a day when he will be beaten.

"Let's go down and do something......"

"Yes, the last will retire......"

Hong Chengchou continued to practice calligraphy, and Mu Yi returned the salute and slowly retreated when he saw this.

The conversation between the two is just a small episode in the general situation, and the real embarrassing thing is how to clean up the consequences caused by Sun Chuanting's killing of the gentry in a fit of anger.

It was already October when the news from Sichuan reached Jiangnan, and although Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen had already sent people to punish Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting's actions still made the gentry's scalp tingle.

The gentry were not good at dealing with the army, but the court needed them to collect taxes and convey news.

Therefore, the dissatisfaction of the gentry was directly manifested in the handing over of the autumn tax and field tax......

"Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and Jiangxi have suspended the payment of taxes, and many of them are still played ......by Enke officials."

On the ninth day of October, when Zhu Youzhen pushed a thick stack of music in front of him, Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan, who were standing in the study, looked particularly hesitant.

From the time Sun Chuanting killed the gentry of Chengdu Mansion, they knew that this year's autumn tax would be difficult to collect.

When they thought about this matter at that time, they felt that Zhu Youzhen would also think about it and would not embarrass them.

It's just that right now, Zhu Youzhen is pretending to be clear and deliberately asking them.

"The local gentry complained bitterly and delayed the payment of taxes on autumn grain, which was a common thing in the past, but in recent years, it has been paid on time because the local officials are serious about their work."

"This year's sluggish tax collection is inseparable from the negligence of local officials."

Gu Bingqian said the words in his heart in a very vague way.

Everyone knows that there are no officials in the current Ming Dynasty, only officials, and all the officials are preparing for Enke five days later.

This time, Enke is held together all over the world, and Enke can only become an official of the second ninth grade and receive a salary.

Therefore, what really does the truth is the more than 300,000 officials before and after Yanshan entered the officialdom.

Gu Bingqian was clearly saying that the local officials were derelict in their duties, but in fact he was saying that the officials of the Yanshan faction colluded with the local gentry to postpone the collection of taxes.

This can be seen from the fact that many Yanshan officials are negligent and help the gentry speak.

In general, Gu Bingqian is reminding Zhu Youzhen that the Yanshan officials he has cultivated have begun to appear in dissonance, not to mention the Gu Party officials?

The matter of the autumn tax is not that the people in the center of their group do not want to collect it, but that the local officials are unwilling to collect it.

The local officials were afraid of people like Sun Chuanting, and the local gentry were also afraid of people like Sun Chuanting, who were prone to killing.

All of this, to put it bluntly, is the sequelae of Sun Chuanting's killing of the gentry in Chengdu Mansion.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to use this incident to beat the gentry, but he didn't want the gentry to turn around and threaten him with local officials.

This kind of thing and means were often used by the gentry Haoqiang during the Hongwu and Yongle years, and the methods of these two emperors also told Zhu Youzhen how to deal with this situation.

"Enke is over in five days, except for the officials, this time the capital has gathered nearly 200,000 scholars from all over the country."

Zhu Youzhen did not respond directly to Gu Bingqian, but reminded the other party that there are still more than 200,000 Enke scholars in the imperial court every year, and there are more than 100,000 Yanshan students in this group of scholars.

It is true that the Yanshan students who have graduated as officials have already joined the gentry, but there is no one to win over this group of Yanshan students who are preparing to graduate.

They also have to think about themselves, whether it is the "three fires" that they take office in order to consolidate their powers after they are delegated to the localities, or they want to coerce the gentry and reap the benefits, in short, they need to give the gentry a strong dismount and give Zhu Youzhen a satisfactory answer.

With more than 200,000 people devolved, how many old people can be squeezed out? There is no need for Zhu Youzhen to say much about this.

"If you can do it, if you can't do it, get out" This is Zhu Youzhen's reply to Gu Bingqian.

Every year, more than 200,000 people are waiting for the position, and this year, Zhu Youzhen has increased the difficulty and score line of Enke, so how many of these 200,000 people can pass the selection?

If these people who have passed the selection want to be in the position, they have to come out with a practical attitude.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youzhen just wants to roll up the officialdom of Daming and let the people below give up the concept that being an official is an iron rice bowl.

Even if the gentry instigated the millions of officials and did not take the test, Zhu Youzhen still had more than 200,000 people.

He casually relaxed the score line, and immediately more than 100,000 people could help him work.

"There are indeed a lot of people participating in Enke this year, but the good and bad are mixed, and if the standards are lowered, I am afraid that it will cause chaos in the local ......"

Gu Bingqian said very openly, but Zhu Youzhen didn't care:

"The good and the bad are uneven, and we can only make a conclusion based on the results after decentralization."

Zhu Youzhen doesn't care if the other party is good or bad, what he cares about is to beat down the arrogance of the gentry first, don't think that they are great if they master the place, and the court has to be afraid of them.

The officials below are mixed, so make up for it with number and frequency.

If people can't do it, they will be replaced, anyway, some people want to squeeze their heads to become officials.

His words were not difficult to understand, and Gu Bingqian didn't know how to answer for a while, and Bi Ziyan saw that the situation was cold, so he could only stand up and say:

"Although the number of Enko is huge, it takes time to select."

"The money and food of the imperial court are already a little insufficient, and if we wait for the decentralization of the officials of Enko, I am afraid that the payment of the salaries of the hundred officials and the military salaries of the army may be ......."

Bi Ziyan didn't say it too clearly, but those present are not stupid.

It is true that there are a large number of Enko officials, but it takes time to select and decentralize, especially in the face of a dynasty as large as the Ming Dynasty, it takes one to three months just to rush to office.

Zhu Youjian can wait, but the salaries of the hundred officials and the salary of the army can't wait that long.

It's already October now, and if it drags on any longer, it will be ten years of apocalypse.

If such an inferior incident as arrears of wages occurs, it will be a big blow to the credibility of the imperial court that Zhu Youzhen has worked so hard to establish.

"Time is not a problem, the situation is not a problem, Yingzhou has another two million taels of silver, and the old port has also brought more than 1.4 million taels of gold and silver."

"Over there in the small Western Ocean, the more than 600,000 taels of gold sent by Huang Long are still there, so much silver, isn't it enough to make a fortune?"

"What's more, although the Imperial Horse Supervisor has been implicated in Sichuan corruption this year, the tax collection has not fallen, and now the tax books in Shanxi, Beizhili, Shaanxi, Liaodong and other places have been summarized, and the taxes of nearly 10 million taels have been handed over."

"With more than 20 million taels of silver, plus the surplus of state funds, it should be enough to pay military salaries, right?"

Zhu Youzhen leaned back in his chair and did not take the threat of the gentry into account.

No matter how strong the gentry is, at most they will make a fuss in the south, and the north is still the basic plate of the court, and overseas can provide a steady stream of blood for the imperial court.

The gentry and heroes in Beizhili, Shaanxi, Hexi, Liaodong, Shanxi and other places have long since died out, and although many rich peasants have become small and medium-sized landlords, their strength is limited and cannot affect the imperial court.

In addition, Sichuan suffered a blow this time, and the Tusi in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places were also exterminated, in fact, except for Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Shandong, Zhejiang and other places where there are powerful gentry and heroes, other places are under the governance of the imperial court.

Although these six provinces in the central and southeastern regions accounted for one-third of the imperial court's taxes, it did not mean that the imperial court would not be able to live without them.

If you really want to die, Zhu Youzhen can use Enkeshi and the army to trouble them in one province.

Anyway, it was only six years, and even if after six years, a new gentry grew up in other provinces, but this method still worked.

Zhu Youzhen was clearly telling Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan not to think that the gentry could threaten the imperial court.

At the moment, the court does not move them, not because they are afraid of them, but because they don't want to break the rules.

But if the gentry wants to break the rules, then Zhu Youzhen can only play with him.

If you don't pay your taxes according to the rules, then I can only convict arbitrarily without the rules.

Since no one takes "Da Ming Law" in their eyes, everyone is playing hooligans, and the imperial court can only follow the hooligans.

"Tell the officials of the six southern provinces that the imperial court should see the summary of the provinces before the end of the month about the autumn tax, and there is no need for those who are late to submit the summary to be officials in office, and they can't even figure out their own one-third of an acre, and such a person is not worthy of being an official."

Zhu Youzhen frankly ordered, he wanted to see if the group of people below were willing to throw away the black gauze hat in order to help the gentry and the powerful.

"The Decree of the Lower Commander ......"

Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan were also helpless, Zhu Youzhen's methods were indeed scoundrels and indeed effective.

It is estimated that after this news is decentralized, the local officials who are clear about the current situation can only be tough with the gentry.

The two had no choice but to retreat, and Zhu Youzhen also calmly picked up the teacup.

Facts have proved that as long as he does not treat the officials and gentry below as people, they have no way to play scoundrels with the imperial court.

However, this incident also taught him a lesson, that is, the current rule of the Ming Dynasty is still the same as that of ordinary feudal dynasties, staying in those more than 1,900 counties.

The gentry controlled most of the fields in tens of thousands of market towns and villages, and unless the imperial power was further down to the market towns, it would be difficult to solve the problem of the other party wanting to owe money and grain.

Although Zhu Youzhen can deal with it, he can't stand the other party using this trick every year.

"Basic education still has to be popularized, and government education still has to be promoted."

Zhu Youzhen muttered, and gradually felt that the more than 200,000 people a year were a little insufficient.

Although he said in front of Gu Bingqian and others that it didn't matter if the good or the bad were uneven, in fact, he still wanted to screen it.

The result of his lack of screening for many years is that the corruption of this group of students is extremely fast after they are decentralized.

With the current strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is possible to promote official education in a province, and the official education in Beizhili has been gradually completed.

Not surprisingly, hundreds of thousands of students will be enrolled in the first month of next year, but this speed is not enough for Zhu Youzhen.

Selecting 20,000 people out of 100,000 people, and 50,000 or 60,000 people out of 7.8 million people, the difference in speed, quality, and scale is too great.

"Cheng'en!"

Zhu Youzhen called at the door, and Wang Chengen hurriedly walked into the study from the door:

"Your Highness......"

He saluted respectfully, while Zhu Youzhen thought about how to say it, and then organized the language:

"Let the Ministry of Industry bring the list of government schools next year, and by the way, let people bring the yellow register of the household registration of the Ministry of Household Affairs to the three overseas provinces, three states and one division."

"Yes......" Wang Chengen responded, turned around and walked to the door to let people do errands.

This process waited for about an hour, and after Zhu Youzhen had finished handling all the notes, the six officials brought more than a dozen volumes and dozens of volumes to the Qi Palace.

Wang Chengen led people to put these books on the table in the hall, and handed over the eight books after dozens of books were collected to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen simply flipped through it, and put the eight books on the table about half an hour later.

Although he can't remember it, his memory is still far beyond ordinary people, and his reading speed is naturally fast.

After reading it, the situation of the provinces appeared in his mind.

First of all, the three overseas provinces are Jiaozhi, Yingzhou, and Jiugang, and the three southern states are Nanzhou and Dongzhou.

In the three provinces, three states and one division, 1.56 million people have been relocated in Jiaozhi, most of them are Yunnan and Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong, and a small number of people in the northwest.

There are still 3.7 million innocent natives in Jiaozhi, and in general, Han Chinese account for less than one-third of the local population.

In the five years before and after, the number of local Han Chinese has reached 3.16 million, while the number of natives is less than 5 million, nearly two-fifths.

Nanzhou and other places are also good, but there are millions of natives, and the number of Han people has reached 290,000.

The only thing that made Zhu Youzhen a little worried was Yingzhou and Xiaoxiyang Supervision Mission.

The situation in Yingzhou has suddenly become clear, and Yang Wenyue will soon be able to clean up Tokugawa Hidetada and eliminate the Tokugawa shogunate, and nearly 15 million people on the island will be liberated by then.

After so many years of war, according to Zhu Youzhen's estimates, at least three million Shogunate civilians died in the war.

However, even so, the movement of the Han Chinese was still limited to Kyushu, Shikoku, and Shimane and Osaka on the main island, and the number was no more than 600,000.

Not to mention the small Western Supervision Mission, compared with the millions of natives on the island, the scale of more than 200,000 Han Chinese is very rare.

This time Huanglong went on an expedition, many natives on the island launched a riot, but fortunately they were quelled by Lu Xiangsheng one by one, but the losses of some workshops were real.

The three prefectures of Taeyeong, Doyan, and Daning outside the customs have a total of just over 700,000 people, while the Ryukyu province has received nearly 3 million people.

Counted, if you add the three provinces of Taining and the Ryukyu Province, in the past nine years, the Ming Dynasty has migrated more than 9 million people overseas and outside the customs.

The migration of so many people in ten years is already remarkable data in the history of migration, although many of them are migrated near the Ming Dynasty, but the basic base of the Han people has been greatly expanded.

However, at present, the Ryukyu Province is saturated, and the migration of Cochin and Yingzhou can only increase slowly, and the only ones that can accommodate the migration of Han Chinese on a large scale are probably Myanmar, Jiugang, Nanzhou, and the northeast region.

The times limited the Ming Dynasty, even though the six major shipyards of the Ming Dynasty launched hundreds of cargo ships every year, the scale of official overseas migration was basically limited to between 1 million and 1.5 million people.

In order to expand, the fourth version of the steam engine had to be successfully researched and then loaded onto ships.

However, the main population of the Ming Dynasty to migrate overseas was Guangdong and Fujian, two densely populated provinces with insufficient land resources.

But now that the population of Guangdong and Fujian has plummeted by half, the local people may not be willing to move when the drought passes.

As a result, Zhu Youzhen could only set his sights on Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.

These three populous provinces, which together account for nearly half of the population of the Ming Dynasty, will be very unable to accept relocation in the face of the second stage of drought in the face of the second phase of drought in three years.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, after the great drought came, the price of rice in Jiangnan soared from 500 yuan per stone to 129 yuan of silver per stone, an increase of nearly four times.

In this case, most people have to migrate in order to survive.

Therefore, what Zhu Youzhen has to do is to take Donghu within three years, recover the Northeast, support the feudal domains to gain a firm foothold in South Asia, and win South Asia, a market with a population of hundreds of millions.

It is inevitable to expand the territory and govern, and Zhu Youzhen must deepen the governance and let the imperial power be delegated to the tens of thousands of market towns.

Even if only ten people are arranged in a market town, the demand will reach hundreds of thousands, not to mention that under the implementation of basic education, Daming needs millions of teaching.

At the current scale, the imperial court is not satisfied with this scale, and the implementation of education and laying the foundation for the Ming Dynasty in a few years is what Zhu Youzhen has to do.

The gold and silver, which are piled up in the national treasury and are worth tens of millions of taels, will also be spent through these people.

Thinking of this, he picked up the official school list planned by the Ministry of Industry.

On the list, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Hexi, Liaodong, and other six provinces will build more than 17,000 government schools next year, of which there will be only a dozen or so schools for small ones, which can only accommodate two or three hundred students, and for the larger ones, more than 100 schools will be needed, which can solve the problem of more than 1,000 students attending school.

Taken together, these more than 17,000 government schools need nearly 400,000 teachers and students, which can meet the needs of more than 5 million government students.

But in the same way, the supporting expenditure will reach 370,000 taels, and this is only a small part of the construction, and the bulk is 6 million taels of silver for teaching and learning, and food silver.

These six provinces, together with Beizhili, will spend 8 million taels on education.

In other words, Zhu Youzhen had to find a way to solve the gap of more than 8 million taels and the source of the more than 400,000 teachings.

The source of teaching is simple, and those who fail to be recruited to serve as teachers, anyway, the first stage of official learning is basic arithmetic and literacy.

As for the shortfall of more than eight million taels of silver......

Zhu Youzhen got up slowly, he set his eyes on the Iwami silver mine in Yingzhou, and slowly moved down to Jiugang, Nanzhou, then looked at the South Asian market, and finally put it on the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy who marked the gold mine in southern Levia.

"It's up to them......"