"Hey!"

"All honest and honest! You still have 14 years to go to re-education through labor! ”

"The land that is cultivated now is your future cultivated land, and if you don't cultivate it honestly, you are against yourself!"

"Bang Long—"

In late April, when Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen were on a safari in Yanshan Dading Palace, Yingzhou's development rate far exceeded the speed they knew in letters.

Ten years after entering the Apocalypse, when more than 100,000 people faced off between Huanglong and Mirza, Yang Wenyue easily dispatched three battalions of soldiers and horses to include Hokkaido in Yingzhou Province and named it Beizhou Prefecture.

As the largest island in Yingzhou other than the main island, the locals of Yingzhou call the place "Ezo Land".

The terrain is high in the middle and low on all sides, with mountains and mountains in the middle and vast flatlands around it with high forest cover.

Yang Wenyue learned about the basic climate of Beihai through the local Ainu people, and in general, in addition to the development of Yingzhou natives in the south, many other plains still maintain a wild and beautiful environment, with beautiful scenery all year round.

In terms of temperature, only May to mid-September is suitable for farming, but because the Ming army did not have cold-resistant wheat like rye, the local area was only suitable for growing potatoes, and even soybeans, corn, and sorghum could not be grown.

"After a while, this ghost place has developed and can only grow potatoes, so why spend a lot of effort to develop here, it is better to directly develop the old port."

At the head of the city of Beizhou County (Sapporo), when Cao Dingjiao exhaled a breath of hot air and came to the side of Yang Wenyue in the city head against the cold of the early morning, he complained a few words impatiently.

This is not to blame him, in Beizhou County in late April of the seventeenth century, the temperature is around fifteen to seven degrees.

For Cao Bianjiao, who grew up in the capital and traveled in the north of the Ming Dynasty, he was somewhat unaccustomed to such a temperature this month.

Compared with him, Yang Wenyue was very calm, and in the face of complaints, he stroked his beard and smiled:

"Your Highness said that cold-tolerant rice in Liaodong is being cultivated, give the Department of Agriculture some time, and the Beizhou Mansion will be able to plant rice sooner or later."

"What's more, this place is just a springboard to North Asia to Molica, so you don't have to be so harsh on it."

Yang Wenyue earnestly explained, Cao Dingjiao could only rub his nose, which was frozen red from breathing cold air, and nodded helplessly.

Seeing him like this, Yang Wenyue smiled and asked rhetorically:

"How about the extradition of prisoners? Did the ships from the north to East Nurkan (Kamchatka) return? ”

"370,000 were extradited, distributed in 23 gathering places planned by the Beizhou capital, and belonged to four counties." Cao Dingjiao responded when he heard this:

"The northern waterway, the inspection department helped to inspect it, there are six major islands, and the Yanshan officials of the political department are ready to invest 60,000 people to develop the local area."

"As long as these six islands are developed, they can go to Dongnuer in the north to do it, and the local envoy Lu Department has not gone south to pay tribute for about eighty years, I don't know if they still know about my Daming."

Cao Dingjiao's words illustrate many things, especially the exploration of the shipping lanes from Yingzhou to Kamchatka and the negotiation of local tribes in Kamchatka.

In the Ming Dynasty, the ethnic groups of Central Siberia and Eastern Siberia north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains were the Koryaks and Chukchi.

However, in history, they would have been slaughtered by the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia for the next hundred years, and only a few survived.

In the Ming Dynasty, these two races were called the deer department and the dog department, because they were good at raising reindeer and sled dogs as a means of transportation.

Yang Wenyue checked the information of the Ministry of Rites and found that these two major ministries and dozens of small ministries had not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty for nearly eighty years, so he didn't know how to treat them.

The best-case scenario is that they recognize the inspection department or the Ming Dynasty officials, and then continue to be managed and ruled by the Ming Dynasty.

If they wanted to rebel against the Ming Dynasty like the Jianzhou Jurchens, then Yang Wenyue could only wipe out the envoys in the East Nurkan region.

Thinking of this, Yang Wenyue sighed and said:

"If the local envoy deer department and the envoy dog department are willing to submit to my Daming, they can be granted official positions and let them help manage the prisoners in Yingzhou."

"By the way, how is the recruitment of the local Utari people in the northern state capital?"

Yang Wenyue talked about the Utari, the native race of Hokkaido, who were known as Ainu by the shogunate, and were the main targets of the Ming Dynasty in the development of the Hokkaido capital.

The Utari are a mixture of yellow and white races, with dark skin and facial features typical of the Europa race.

In the language of the Utari people, "Ainu" means "person", so many Utari people do not like the title "Ainu".

When the Ming Dynasty came to the Beizhou Prefecture and liberated the Utari who had been enslaved by the local Yamato, they expressed the hope that the government would call them Utari.

In their language, Utari means "partner", and Yang Wenyue is not so pretentious, and directly in the northern development troops, he gave instructions to call the locals Utari.

Yang Wenyue's idea was simple, that is, to enlist the small number of local Utari to manage the prisoners in Yingzhou.

After all, the total number of prisoners in Yingzhou was more than 2.8 million, and it was difficult to manage it with the strength of the seven battalions of the Ming army at present, and it was impossible to use the native race of Yingzhou, so the Utari people, who had a grudge against the local natives, became the target of Yang Wenyue's wooing.

The Utari people have long lived in this far north, living by fishing and hunting, with a total population of no more than 300,000.

Before the Ming army overthrew the shogunate, the Yamato people in the south gradually moved north, and there were constant disputes with the indigenous Utari people, and the contradictions continued to intensify.

Relying on the advanced weapons, the shogunate daimyo who moved north also launched many military campaigns to suppress the Utari people.

In the case of such a contradiction between the two races, using the Utari to manage the shogunate prisoners was Yang Wenyue's simplest idea.

Not only that, but he was also going to use the Lubu to manage the prisoners of Yingzhou who later moved north to the East Nuergan region, so he specially inquired about Cao Dingjiao.

Cao Dingjiao's answer was very fast, and he said directly:

"The more than 2,000 Utari people who were released earlier became our guides, and led us to find quite a few people from the local Utari tribe."

"Although most of the people of the Utari tribe resist being ruled by our Ming Dynasty, there are also many tribes who say that they can obey the government and become officials of the government, but they do not want to pay taxes."

"Don't pay taxes?" Yang Wenyue frowned, obviously a little unhappy, but Cao Dingjiao quickly explained:

"The local Utari people live by fishing and hunting, and we can give them tax exemptions on these two items, and then divide the land among them, and teach them to farm to collect the land income."

"This can be ......" Yang Wenyue didn't feel anything after listening to the explanation.

The taxes on fishing and hunting are too miscellaneous and too small, even if the Utari people are willing to pay, Yang Wenyue will not ask for them, because people are needed to organize tax collection, and there are too few Han people in Beizhou Prefecture.

It was not worth it to get out with the Utari for a little tax on fishing and hunting......

"The imperial court requires that three million taels of silver and six million stone rice and wheat be brought back every year."

Yang Wenyue suddenly opened his mouth and talked about the taxes borne by Yingzhou, and then glanced at the tens of thousands of prisoners in labor camp outside Beizhou County, turned his head and said:

"It is not enough to simply open up the Beizhou Mansion, and after supplying the imperial court, it will be difficult to supply the food for the two million prisoners in the Beizhou Mansion in the future."

"The 2.8 million prisoners, first transfer 800,000 to the Beizhou Capital to explore, and the remaining 2 million will be temporarily placed on the main island and the North Island to explore."

Hokkaido's pioneering path began with primeval forests, where prisoners needed to cut down forests, clear farmland, and open roads, all of which took time and food.

It was impossible for Yang Wenyue to force the prisoners to be forced to go through labor without giving them food, which would not only lead to a riot, but also lead to a large decrease in the number of prisoners, affecting the plan to open up North Asia to Melica.

At present, the total grain output of Yingzhou is less than 50 million stones, and the taxes are not distributed because the government still has more than 13 million mu of resettlement land in its hands, and it is supplied to the local people for cultivation, so it is estimated that it can receive about 10 million stones this year.

Needless to say, the production of three million taels of silver is not difficult for Yingzhou.

Combined with the land contributions paid by 12 million people and 600,000 Han immigrants, an additional 3 million stone rice and wheat should be collected.

In other words, after completing the imperial court target and transporting three million taels of silver and six million stone rice and wheat back to China, Yingzhou can still have about seven million stone rice and wheat.

Although it sounds like a lot, Yingzhou needs to feed these 2.8 million prisoners, as well as the more than 800,000 people who work in Yingzhou.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor is responsible for the payment of wages, and the Chief Secretary is responsible for daily food, and these more than 3.6 million people have to spend at least more than 16 million stone rice and wheat, so Yingzhou still has a shortage of 9 million stone rice and wheat.

Yang Wenyue has to solve the shortfall of 9 million stone rice and wheat, and the best way to solve the gap is to increase the intensity of gold and silver mining, or lower the food standard.

"Three catties of rice a day for prisoners is too much, and it is reduced to two catties a day, and the land in North Island Province is used to grow potatoes, and according to the yield of potatoes, the more than 300 acres of cultivated land in North Island Province should be able to produce 123 million stone potatoes next year."

"After distributing it to the tenants, the government can still get six or seven million stone potatoes."

"Although the government has lost 2 million stone of rice and wheat, the extra potatoes are enough to meet the food of 60% of these prisoners, and next year's rice and wheat can be reduced to one pound a day, plus one pound of potatoes."

"The tenants of Shikoku and Kyushu will free up half of the land to plant sweet potatoes, and 4 million acres of land can produce 30 million stone sweet potatoes, and the government will make half of the profits, and use the sweet potatoes to sell in Yingzhou."

"Fifteen million stone sweet potatoes can be sold for at least two million taels of silver, if the northern prisoners can't eat enough, they will be transferred to the north, let them eat enough, and the sweet potato vines will add vegetables to them."

With a few words, Yang Wenyue basically solved the problem of feeding the 2.8 million prisoners, and as for whether they would riot, Yang Wenyue was not worried at all.

Eating coarse grains is different from eating refined grains, coarse grains are full, as long as people are full, they will spare their lives and will be afraid of death......

"I'll do it."

Cao Dingjiao saw that after Yang Wenyue finished speaking, he immediately returned the salute, and then turned around and walked down the city.

Yang Wenyue stood behind the female wall of the city full of Ming style, looked at the Yingzhou prisoners who were working in the cultivation in the distance, stroked his beard, and said with satisfaction:

"In three years, almost seven or eight million acres of arable land can be reclaimed......

"Woohoo!"

When Yang Wenyue was satisfied, in the royal safari forest garden of Yanshan Dading Palace, accompanied by the wailing sound of the wild deer, Zhu You walked out of a bush in a hurry, skillfully pulled out the deer cutting knife at his waist, and at the same time ended the life of the wild deer, he simply peeled the skin for it.

"Brother, you're ...... I should leave it to the cooks......"

Zhu Youxiao got out from behind Zhu Youjian, and looked at his younger brother who was skinning and bleeding with an expressionless face, and felt a little bloody for a while.

"It's nothing, there are so many disgusting things on the battlefield than this."

Zhu Youzhen responded to Zhu Youxiao while cooking wild deer.

After he had disposed of the wild deer and threw the internal organs aside, the two soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Guard also stepped forward to lift the wild deer and prepare to take it back to Dading Palace for dinner in the evening.

"Just throwing the entrails aside, I'm afraid it will attract fierce beasts."

Zhu Youxiao looked at the surrounding forests with fear, but Zhu Youzhen chuckled and said:

"With me, my brother is fine."

He washed his hands with a water bladder and wiped the deer knife with a coarse cloth before picking up the bow on the ground and standing up.

"Do you want to go deeper?"

Although Zhu Youxiao likes to hunt on horseback, he is still a little afraid of the mountains and forests, and if some fierce beasts such as tigers, black bears, and leopards are pounced out of them, it is still difficult for him to deal with them personally.

If there is a beast, then it has to be talked about actual combat, and Zhu Youzhen happens to be not afraid of actual combat.

No matter how strong the so-called beast is, it can't compare to the sword.

Ever since humans could use tools, there have been few animals on the surface that can compete with humans, let alone the armor of the two brothers.

Maybe Zhu Youxiao's armor and long sword are ceremonial things, but the long knife, bow and arrow and armor on Zhu Youjian's body are all for actual combat.

Zhu Youzhen really wanted to find a tiger to kill, just enough to give the tiger skin to Sun Chuanting, who had been busy for several years.

"Kiln ......"

"Huh?"

As soon as he pinned the deer cutting knife to his waist, Zhu Youzhen heard a sound in the grass around him.

He pinned the water bladder to his waist, took out his bow and arrows, and opened his bow with ease.

The shovel-shaped heavy arrow made people's scalps numb, Zhu Youzhen listened carefully to the sound, and shot the arrow in the next second.

This process was extremely short, Zhu Youxiao just saw his younger brother stretching his bow and arrows, and the next second he shot an arrow, and then there was a "rustling" sound in the bushes, which was obviously the sound of the prey escaping from the arrow.

Zhu Youzhen heard the sound of bowing his back and drawing his knife, and rushed over in one go, and Zhu Youxiao hurriedly followed when he saw this.

Swinging a knife to cut through the bushes, no animals appeared after that, but Zhu Youzhen noticed the blood stains on the leaves on the ground, and there was a beast path next to it.

"Do you want to chase?"

After running for more than 20 steps, Zhu Youxiao was a little panting, and Zhu Youxiao looked around calmly: "You can chase." ”

After that, he took Zhu Youxiao to chase along the beast path and bloodstains.

Zhu Youxiao thought that he had shot some wild beast, but when he took Zhu Youxiao to chase a mile of mountain road, he only saw a wild boar lying on his stomach in the forest.

"Look at my ......"

When Zhu Youxiao saw that it was just a wild boar, he immediately became bolder, and he was ready to shoot the wild boar to death with a bow and arrow.

However, as soon as he raised his bow and was about to release the arrow, Zhu Youzhen heard other sounds around him, and hurriedly raised his hand to grab Zhu Youxiao's hand that was about to release the string.

"Huh?"

"Wait a minute......

Zhu Youxiao looked at his younger brother suspiciously, and Zhu Youzhen also reminded him in a low voice.

With doubts, Zhu Youxiao waited for a few seconds, and then saw a relatively small wild boar running out of the bushes, coming to the injured boar's side and spinning around in a hurry, and biting out an arrow to lick the wound of the wild boar.

"That's it......"

"My brother shoots the arrow, and I shoot the other."

Zhu Youzhen watched this scene, raised his bow and arrow, and at the same time signaled that Zhu Youxiao could prepare to shoot arrows.

But at this time, Zhu Youxiao stopped Zhu Youzhen, shook his head and said:

"Forget it......"

"I think they should also be brothers, you and I are brothers on a blind date, how can you take pleasure in shooting this brother?"

Zhu Youxiao put away the arrows and got up at the same time, while the two wild boars heard the sound and hurriedly fled and hid in the forest.

Zhu Youzhen was helpless when he saw the wild boar escaping, so he could only collect the bow and arrow:

"What my brother said is that I have shot a lot of prey on my safari today, so I can go back."

"Hmm......" Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly, his mood seemed to be a little low, and Zhu Youzhen probably guessed some things when he saw it, but he didn't make it clear.

The two of them went down the mountain along the beast road, and the journey was safe.

When they walked out of the mountain road, Wei Zhongxian and Wang Chengen, who were waiting for the two with their troops, hurriedly stepped forward and said with concern:

"Banzai (Your Highness) are tired?"

"Well, it's a little hot, let's go back to the palace." Zhu Youxiao handed the bow and arrow to Wei Zhongxian, and Zhu Youzhen also handed it to Wang Chengen.

It is already four o'clock in the afternoon (four o'clock in the afternoon), although it will not be dark until the hour (seven o'clock - nine o'clock) in this season, but since Zhu Youxiao has spoken, the two can only prepare.

They ordered horses to be brought in, and the two brothers also turned on their horses, and then led their troops on the way home.

When the two returned to Dading Palace, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, and on the square in front of Dading Palace, the accompanying imperial chef was cooking the prey hunted by Zhu Youxiao and the others in the open air.

The full prey was loaded with three carts and placed next to it, Zhu Youxiao turned his head to Wei Zhongxian with interest and asked:

"How much prey did my brother and I hunt today?"

"Long live hunting three lynxes, six deer, and three wild boars...... Wei Zhongxian said flatteringly, and then turned his head to look at Zhu Youzhen, and said politely:

"Your Highness shoots two leopards, eleven lynxes, fourteen deer, nine wolves, fourteen wild boars, six wild sheep, and four foxes......"

Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao set out from Maoshi, and except for the lunch break, the safari time was less than five hours.

In five hours, Zhu Youzhen shot sixty large and small prey, and Zhu Youxiao was only twelve, and the gap was obvious.

However, these days, Zhu Youxiao is also used to it, after all, these days, the number of his younger brother's safaris has always been several times that of his.

"The wild sheep stay, and let the palace people share the rest."

"Long Live Longen ......"

Zhu Youxiao didn't like to eat venison and wild boar meat very much, so he only left wild sheep, while Wei Zhongxian thanked the palace people.

When he thanked him, the two brothers turned over and dismounted, and Zhu Youzhen also said at the same time:

"After a few days of hunting, I only hunted two bears and more than 20 wolves and leopards, and it seems that there are some fewer prey in this Yanshan."

"Do you want someone to grab some and put them in the mountains?" Zhu Youxiao asked when he heard this, and Zhu Youzhen shook his head:

"It's time-consuming and laborious, it's better to ask my brother to wait a few years, and wait for me to sweep away the Jianyu and Beiyu for my brother, and then my two brothers will go hunting in the Haravin Mountains."

As he spoke, he walked with Zhu Youxiao to the yellow tent that had been arranged a long time ago.

"Then I'll just wait a few more years......"

With a smile, Zhu Youxiao took Zhu Youzhen into the yellow tent and sat down, the area in this tent is not large, but dozens of square meters, but there are only two brothers to eat today, but there is no need to drag the family like last time, extravagant and wasteful.

As soon as the two sat down, a palace maid brought the "crisp mountain" that was braving the cold, and while the two were eating, the sound of the imperial chefs showing their skills came from outside the tent.

Listening to the sound of pots and pans, the two brothers chatted about family life, and the basic topic was Zhu Ciran and the three of them.

"My younger brother is getting married this year, and it is estimated that he will be able to give birth to an heir next year."

"When they grow up, you and I will be old, and when the time comes, let Ran'er and them handle national affairs, and you and my brothers can also enjoy the mountains and rivers."

Zhu Youxiao leaned back in his chair and imagined the future, and said enviously:

"My brother always said that Yazhou in the south of Qiongzhou Mansion is very beautiful, but I have always been curious, I don't know what is the difference between the sea in Yazhou and the sea in Tianjin."

Zhu Youxiao has been to the farthest place in his life, that is, the Dading Palace at his feet.

The largest mountain range he has ever seen is Yanshan, and the sea he has seen with his own eyes is the sea of Tianjin.

In the past 26 years of his life, he has never left the range of 400 miles of the capital.

Compared with Zhu Youzhen, who went to Mobei to see the yellow sand, went to the Central Plains to govern the Yellow River, went to Hexi to look at Qilian Mountain, and went to Liaodong to chase after Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youxiao's living environment is too small.

For the beautiful scenery in various parts of the world, he often learned about it through the oral accounts of Zhu Youzhen and others, and his envious appearance was also seen by Zhu Youzhen.

He couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart, and at the same time explained in detail to Zhu Youxiao:

"The sea is bluer than Tianjin's, the beach is thinner, and if you say the best, in fact, many islands in Wanli Shitang and Wanli Changsha are good."

"It's a little hard to imagine what it looks like...... Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but look at the blue sky outside the yellow tent.

Zhu Youzhen followed his gaze, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

There was silence between the two for a moment, and before the next topic began, they saw Wei Zhongxian bowing at the door of the yellow tent:

"Hooray, Your Highness, dinner is ready......"

"Let's eat!" Zhu Youxiao bowed slightly, signaling Wei Zhongxian to pass on the meal.

Wei Zhongxian bowed in return, and then saw several palace maids walking into the yellow tent with plates of dishes.

Roast goose, fire ben sheep's head and feet, five-flavor steamed chicken, yuan sauce lamb bones, spicy vinegar kidney, mutton crystal dumplings, silk goose powder soup, minced pepper mutton......

The fragrant dishes should have been mouth-watering for the two brothers, but I don't know if the previous topic was too heavy, so they both chose to eat silently.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian, who was outside the tent, was puzzled, and he didn't know why the two were silent.

Individuals have personal troubles, perhaps in his opinion, power is what he is pursuing, and compared to the two brothers who have power, doing what they want may be what they are fascinated by......

The evening update is around eight o'clock

(End of chapter)