"Phew-"

At the beginning of June, as time passed, the summer that had made the whole north tense was finally coming to an end.

This atmosphere is particularly striking south of the Great Wall, but for some tribes and people north of the Great Wall, especially those who are surrounded by mountains and rivers, they do not find summer so terrifying.

What really terrified the herdsmen and farmers in the north was the soldiers and horses of the Ming army who had been running for a long time since mid-May......

"Drive! ...... driving"

On the vast Horqin grassland, the well-equipped cavalry of the Ming army rode southward and ran towards the Yanshan Mountains.

Not only them, but the cavalry of Liaodong, Duoyan, Daning and other places all ran one after another, but there were not many of them, and they seemed to be the guards of important people.

When they passed by, many herdsmen who had returned to the Ming Dynasty and farmers who had migrated north looked at them deliberately without the slightest fear.

Everyone knows that the current Ming army is strictly disciplined, and the king of Qi is lenient to the people, and every year he has repeatedly reaffirmed five orders to let the army not bully the people on the ground, and the violators will be dismissed from their military posts and the military tuntian will be recovered.

Such strict military regulations made many Ming soldiers honest, of course, this is only part of the reason, the real reason is that since the four years of the Apocalypse, the imperial court has paid a lot of military salaries every year, and there is no need for soldiers to rob the people.

If the imperial court fails to pay military salaries, no matter how strict military discipline is, it will collapse in a short time.

Looking at the hundreds of cavalry marching south, two thin old peasants who were grazing their cattle couldn't help but chat.

"That seems to be the banner of Mr. Sun, right?"

"It seems to be ......"

"It's only been a few days since Chief Cao and General Guan went south, why did General Sun go south? Is it going to be a war? ”

The old Han farmer touched the goat's whiskers on his chin, while the old Mongolian farmer next to him scratched his beard:

"It's good to fight the north......"

"Huh?" The old Han peasant looked at the old Mongolian peasant with a hint of doubt, but he didn't want the other party to glare at him, so he shouted in a not very skilled official dialect:

"Lao Tzu is now a Ming man!"

"I didn't say you're not!" The old Han peasant yelled at him.

"Baa-" The sheep next to him also shouted.

"Grazing!" The angry old Mongolian farmer turned around and continued to graze, while the old Han farmer also pouted when he saw this, and followed his herd.

The relationship between the two is basically the Mongolian-Han relationship between the three prefectures of Taining.

The Ming Dynasty opened an official school for the Mongols who returned to Shun, distributed pastures, distributed cattle and sheep, and also opened an imperial shop, so that they could easily taste the sugar and silk that only the "Mongolian nobles" could eat.

For this group of Mongols, many of whom were once slaves and ordinary herdsmen, the Ming Dynasty was much more practical than the ethereal Khutuktu Khan.

Of course, among the many Mongols, the most nourishing life is the former Ulut tribe.

The Mongols of the Ulut tribe were given vast fertile land at the foot of the Yin Mountains, while their leader Tundu'er and their uncle Saihan enjoyed happiness in the capital.

For the herdsmen's taxes, the imperial court did not levy much, basically three taxes and one, and the requirements were also horses.

If the herdsman has three people, then one horse per year is enough, and if there are five people, it is one horse and two sheep.

In general, it is one person and one sheep, three people and one horse.

This seems like a lot, after all, the price of a horse ranges from five taels to twenty taels.

The problem is that the herders don't have so many channels to sell their horses, because the large livestock in the north are basically monopolized by officialdom.

They can only be sold to officialdom, and officialdom to the south, and for them, in fact, it is not difficult to raise horses.

The Ming Dynasty's grassland outside the Great Wall was roughly about two or three hundred million mu, and the imperial court gave the grassland to the herdsmen for grazing for free, and distributed the captured cattle, sheep and horses to them.

When dividing cattle and sheep, there were as many as 320,000 ordinary Mongols who submitted to the Ming Dynasty, and for them, Zhu Youzhen distributed them according to the way of five sheep, one cow, and one horse per person.

After the separation, many herdsmen finally became their own masters from slaves working under the aristocracy.

Since the fourth year of the Apocalypse, they have moved to graze under government regulations, and the number of cattle, sheep and horses has more than tripled.

The reason why they can grow so much is naturally because in winter, they can go to the Huangdian to buy grain, soybeans, and forage for their livestock to eat.

The nomads are most afraid of the white plague, and the yurt plus honeycomb coal, plus the free purchase of Huangdian grain, salt, iron, oil tea, livestock growth rate is naturally very fast.

According to the statistics of the three prefectures of Taining, there are currently more than 730,000 cattle, more than 820,000 horses, and more than 6 million sheep in the three prefectures.

The more than 2 million cattle and sheep seized by Zhu Youzhen from the Hetao and Tumut departments have now nearly tripled.

Of course, it is also difficult to raise so many cattle and sheep, and occasionally the plague will die in patches.

However, at this time, the local government will give the herdsmen who have died of cattle and sheep another time, but these need to be returned.

The reason why it is so good for herders is also because they have their own needs.

For example, hundreds of thousands of sheep on the grassland are driven south by the Huangdian every year and sold in the south of the Yangtze River at a price three to five times higher than in the north, and some inferior horses are also sold at a high price.

The herdsmen of the three prefectures of Taining directly and indirectly create wealth for the Imperial Horse Supervisor every year is close to two million taels of silver.

However, not all of this money will be put into state money, but will be used to purchase medium and fine horses, as well as some full-grown cattle.

The horses would be given to the army, and the cattle would be given to the Han Chinese who had migrated.

Han Chinese who migrated to the three provinces of Taining could choose to receive ploughing cattle to cultivate, or they could learn to herd.

If they choose to graze, the government will also distribute cattle, sheep and horses to the Han according to the number of animals issued to the Mongols, and at the same time will find a Mongolian herdsman for the Han people as a teacher.

In this way, many Mongolians learned the official language of the Ming Dynasty, and many Han people also learned Mongolian, and the two sides got along harmoniously.

Their harmony actually proves that class contradictions are the ones that really need to be resolved.

It took only six years for the Mongol and Han tribes to be called brothers, and the Mongol and Han nobles still regarded them as ants.

This is also a new type of education received by Mongolian herdsmen, who know that the distribution of cattle and sheep is ordered by Zhu Youzhen, and they are naturally grateful to Zhu Youzhen, and many people pray for Zhu Youzhen every day.

Later, the Han immigrants who imparted knowledge were also embarrassed, so they could only follow the Mongols to pray for the blessings of the two brothers, Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao.

Such a situation, strange and harmonious, put ten years ago, I am afraid that the two sides were still fighting each other.

"Drive! ...... driving"

The Mongolian and Han people in the three prefectures of Taining lived in harmony, but their years were quiet, but they were established under the background of the strict border patrol of the Ming army.

When nearly 2,000 cavalry continued to pour into Yanshan from all directions, it only took two or three days for them to arrive at Yanshan County one after another, and built a military camp outside Yanshan County, looking like they were ready to stay for a long time.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! ”

The sound of armor sounded in Dading Palace, and Sun Shoufa, who had a beard, looked around while trotting, shouting "Your Highness" in his mouth.

He shouted from the gate of Dading Palace to Changchun Palace, and finally ran into the palace, when he saw Zhu Youzhen, who had not seen him for four years, he knelt down directly and made a big salute.

"Your Highness! I'm finally seeing you again! ”

"Get up, you are also the chief soldier of a province, pay attention to some ......"

Zhu Youzhen, who was reviewing the recital, looked at Sun Shoufa's unchanged personality and appearance in the past few years, and at the same time felt helpless and had some joy and joy in his heart.

After the Qi Wang Party's rebellion, the rapid degeneration of the Yanshan faction, and the corruption and bribery of the Jinyi Guard and the Imperial Horse Supervisor, he was full of doubts about the people around him.

At this time, when he saw Sun Shoufa and these people, he was naturally happy in his heart.

"I didn't want to be released as a general soldier, it was your Highness who forced me to keep me."

Sun Shoufa muttered and stood up, rubbing his stomach at the same time, obviously he didn't eat on the road and was a little hungry.

"You are the farthest away, you came the latest, Cao Meng and Guan Fumin, as well as He Shixian and Sun Yingyuan, they are all here, we just had lunch an hour ago."

Zhu Youzhen explained, but at the end he didn't forget to say to Wang Chengen, who was standing in the corner:

"Get some food for this guy, don't wait for him to go back to Taining Mansion and say that I have treated him badly."

"Yes......" Wang Chengen responded with a smile, and Sun Shoufa moved a chair by himself, sat ten steps away from Zhu Youzhen, and said in armor:

"Your Highness, you're going to fight Jianyu this time, right?"

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhen responded to Sun Shoufa while dealing with the music, and said at the same time:

"When you eat, I'll take you to the warm pavilion to say hello to Banzai, and then talk about the matter of beating Jianyu......"

"The last general commanded" Sun Shoufa pretended to clench his fists, Zhu Youzhen shook his head, and could only sigh that this guy was still so muddy.

He dealt with the music here, and Wang Chengen quickly asked people to come to the palace with meals, and specially moved a table for Sun Shoufa.

The meal in Changchun Palace is very simple, nothing more than three vegetarian dishes with two plates of meat, a bowl of soup and a bowl of rice.

"The food in the palace is not good, you will be settled."

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the meal, which was basically the same as what he ate at noon, so he asked Sun Shoufa not to dislike it.

"Hey...... It's not that the palace can't do it, it's that His Royal Highness is used to being thrifty. Sun Shoufa smiled, and his words were amazing, which made the palace maids and eunuchs who served the food feel nervous.

However, Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen shook their heads with a smile and didn't say anything.

Sun Shoufa often asked people to write a military report to Zhu Youzhen asking for peace, one every three days when he was diligent, and one for ten days when he was busy.

Although he was stationed in Taining Mansion, he did not eat badly.

Although Taining Prefecture is a prefecture, after more than four years of relocation, there are only three counties, 15 towns and 100 village forts, less than 100,000 Han people, and 50,000 Mongolian herdsmen.

Compared with it, there are more people in Duoyan Mansion, with a population of nearly 600,000 in Menghan.

However, 100,000 people, plus the remaining group of capable people in Donglin were lost by Zhu Youzhen, so the people's livelihood naturally did not have to worry about Sun Shoufa, and he was responsible for managing the three guards and horses in his hands every day.

The three guards and horses also had nothing to do, so almost from time to time they would ask Guan Fumin, Cao Meng and others to go hunting in Harawen Mountain.

Eat bears today, eat tigers tomorrow, and the delicacies of the mountains and wild game will enter its belly.

Speaking of which, Zhu Youzhen is really inferior to him in terms of eating.

"I've been outside the customs for four years, tell me what the current situation is in Taining Mansion."

Zhu Youzhen sorted out a book of music, and asked Sun Shoufa who was moving chopsticks, and he also said while eating:

"Taining Mansion is good, the herdsmen live a nourishing life, and the people also live a nourishing ......"

"In the future, I specially asked Fan Jingwen, according to his words, there are more than 570,000 acres of cultivated land in Taining Mansion at present, and each household has two or three cultivated cattle."

"This year, Taining Mansion is about to pay the field tax, and he asked me to play Your Highness, saying that Taining Mansion can pay 150,000 stone of land this year, more than 1,600 taels of tax silver, and less than 20,000 cattle and sheep and horses in herding tax."

"One hundred and fifty thousand stones? Is the yield per acre in Taining Province very low? Zhu Youzhen was a little surprised when he heard this.

"The yield per mu is not high...... Sun Shoufa said while eating:

"The fields cultivated by the people of Taining Mansion this year are no more than one stone per mu, and the low ones are only eight buckets, and most of the people are nine buckets of wheat."

"Got fertilizer?" Zhu Youzhen frowned, while Sun Shoufa nodded:

"If you use it, if you don't use it, you don't even have seven buckets."

"......" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was slightly silent, and after the seven buckets of wheat were removed from the wheat husk, they looked like five and a half buckets, about eighty catties.

Eighty catties of wheat per mu, if you can't engage in the middle peasant economy, then once the people of Taining Mansion leave the Ming Dynasty, they won't even be able to be self-sufficient, and what Zhu Youzhen wants is for the Northeast to feed back to Guannai in the future.

According to Zhu Youzhen's plan, Daming had to go all out to promote farming outside the Guan, use tractors to reclaim cultivated land, and develop the amount of cultivated land outside the Guanxi to 200 million mu within 20 years, and increase the population outside the Guanxi to 20 million.

In the end, this is almost 10 million acres of new arable land every year, which is not fast when using tractors.

Of course, the premise is that Daming has to provide enough tractors to the people outside the customs to form a village collective to reclaim.

According to the yield of five buckets of semi-pure grain per mu, it takes at least six acres of land to feed an adult.

That is to say, under the condition that there is not enough chemical fertilizer and the mainland does not transfuse blood to Taining and Duoyan, the local 700,000 or so people need at least 5 million mu of arable land to ensure that their staple food will not be cut off.

According to the tractor's about five days to reclaim one acre of wasteland, a tractor can reclaim forty acres of land in addition to the half month of busy farming and the five-month winter period, and the rest of the time is six and a half months, less than two hundred days.

Of course, this is a plain without forests, and if there are forests, this efficiency will be greatly reduced, and basically only ten acres can be cultivated a year.

A tractor worth one hundred and thirty taels can reclaim ten to forty acres of land a year, which is not as efficient as a large machine in later generations to dry hundreds of acres in a few days, but it is definitely a cost-effective production equipment in this era.

However, this thing does not mean that you can make dozens or millions of units with silver, and the production line is an important problem that plagues Daming.

The six steam engine factories invested by Zhu Youjian have an annual output of only 6,000 agricultural steam engines, and it will take three years to reach this number.

In addition, he also had to build a supporting agricultural equipment factory, otherwise there would only be a steam engine, and there would be no place for assembly, and the steam engine would only be able to pump water.

"In the shortest possible time, let the Northeast feed back to the Ming Dynasty, but we have to ensure the local food problem."

"According to the yield per mu of nine buckets of wheat and seven buckets of pure grain after the use of fertilizer, five acres of land are required to feed one person."

"The yield per mu in Liaodong is slightly higher, but it is estimated that the north of the Great Wall will not work."

"There are more than 7.6 million people in Liaodong, Taining, and Duoyan, and it takes at least 40 million mu of cultivated land to feed them, but ......"

Zhu Youzhen calculated the accounts in his heart, and at the same time remembered the amount of cultivated land in these places with a headache.

Even if Liaodong has undergone large-scale development supported by imperial court immigrants and has been continuously developed for seven years, the amount of cultivated land in the local area is only about 32 million mu, and counting Taining and Duoyan, it is only about 34 million mu.

There are still more than 6 million acres of vacancies in the local area, and it is still necessary for Daming to continue to transfuse blood from the mainland.

"Six million acres...... 6,000 ......"

Zhu You calculated that if the factory goes well, it should be able to produce 10,000 tractors in three years, and these 10,000 tractors will most likely be able to reclaim 100,000 to 400,000 mu of cultivated land in four years.

After the factory reaches 6,000 units in the fourth year, it should be able to increase the arable land by 60,000 to 240,000 mu in the fifth year......

The growth rate of these hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land is too small for Daming.

"We still have to increase manpower to cultivate, especially the cultivated land in the Liaohe River Basin......"

Zhu Youzhen could only focus on manpower reclamation, although the speed of their reclamation was slow, but they were better than the number of people.

"Chengen......" Zhu Youzhen looked at Wang Chengen, the other party bowed down to indicate that he heard it, and he also took the opportunity to say:

"This year, a new policy was issued to Liaodong, and those who were willing to go outside the Great Wall to reclaim cultivated land were issued by the imperial court with a ploughing ox and a grain stamp of 30 stones."

Previously, Zhu Youjian had ordered to lower the grain standards for the reclamation immigrants in Liaodong, because the drought was too severe, and the Ming Dynasty did not have so much surplus grain to supply them.

At present, the drought has subsided slightly, and with the return of the two large power banks in Yingzhou and Jiugang, Zhu Youzhen can completely resume the original policy, so that the cultivated land in Northeast China will increase by 6 million, or even tens of millions of mu, in the next three years.

His speculation was not unreasonable, but because he had read some materials related to the development of Northeast China when he was in the poverty alleviation materials of his previous life.

He remembers very well that in the past 40 years, the area of cultivated land in Heilongjiang and Jilin has soared from less than 1.6 million mu to 100 million mu under the condition of using manpower alone.

Counting the cultivated land in Fengtian, there are about 150 million mu in total, of which more than 120 million mu belong to the newly cultivated land.

This is still without any official support, and belongs to the spontaneous reclamation of the people.

In the following ten years, with Zhang Zuolin's strong support, the amount of cultivated land in Northeast China increased rapidly by nearly 50 million mu.

Zhang Zuolin's policy of benefiting farmers is nothing more than the same as Zhu Youzhen's, distributing farm tools and livestock, while Zhu Youzhen's policy of distributing more grain than him includes direct distribution of grain.

Zhu Youzhen's policy was no problem, because before he did not support the resettlement and cultivated land in Liaodong, there were less than 3 million people in Liaodong and less than 10 million mu of cultivated land.

In the ninth year after he promulgated the new policy, that is, in a few years, the population of Liaodong had reached 7 million, and the cultivated land had reached 32 million mu.

The population has more than tripled, and the arable land has more than tripled.

This is still the result of lowering the grain standard for reclamation six years after the Apocalypse, but even so, the cultivated land in Liaodong is still increasing at a rate of two or three million mu per year.

However, the growth will come to an end, especially the area of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty is not large, in fact, everything that can be reclaimed is almost reclaimed.

The people were worried that it was too far beyond the Great Wall, and that the land could not be bought and sold, but could only be rented, and that there was harassment from the Jianyu outside the gate.

As long as Zhu Youzhen solves these concerns, even if there is no steam engine, Liaodong will still be able to increase millions of acres of cultivated land three years later.

"If you want to go to the Guanwai Reclamation, the imperial court will go back and forth according to the grain stamp of 20 stone per mu, and then sell it to the local people at the original price, and you can receive the annual payment."

"In addition, the imperial court will organize an army to escort them north, and plan villages and towns, and garrison troops to protect them."

"The fifteenth battalion of soldiers and horses transferred back from Yingzhou, after they are completed, they will escort the people to the north, and the Shangzhidu Governor's Mansion will also transfer troops to protect them."

Yingzhou transferred back the fifteenth battalion of soldiers and horses, which gave Liaodong enough troops, even according to the plan of "one banner guarding one village", they could protect the people of 375 villages.

Even if there are only 100,000 people in these more than 300 villages, they can reclaim more than 10 to hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land every year.

"Your Royal Highness......" Wang Chengen listened to Zhu Youzhen's words, and couldn't help reminding:

"Although there are still nearly 10 million stone of grain in various places, there is also a lot of land in the hands of the people."

"At this price, every common person has four or five acres in his hands, but if there are more than 100,000 people who want to pour out of the pass, then the imperial court can recover six or seven hundred thousand acres of land, and it has to come up with 145 million stone grain stamps......

Wang Chengen's words were extremely tactful, in fact, he knew very well that the people of Liaodong had great trust in the policies promulgated by his Royal Highness.

If this policy is promulgated, the local government will not face just a few hundred thousand people leaving the customs, but hundreds of thousands......

Hundreds of thousands of people, they have two or three million mu of arable land in their hands, and if they really recover it at the price of 20 stone per mu, the imperial court will not be able to take out 40 million stone rice and wheat.

His kind of thinking is limited to data, and Zhu Youzhen said with a smile:

"The people took the food stamps, do you think they would just exchange them all? They can't take so much food with them, and besides, it will mold in three years at most if they keep it at home. ”

"They still have a lot of rice and wheat at home, and if nothing else, they will build houses after they go to Guanwai, and then spend the winter until they run out of food next year before they can redeem their food stamps."

"Even next year, they will not redeem the grain stamps at one time, and the rice and wheat harvested in the autumn of Liaodong this year, plus the six million stone rice and wheat in Yingzhou, are enough to cope with the past."

Zhu Youzhen's words are not wrong, the people of Liaodong do have a lot of grain in their hands, and after so many years of promotion and drought, the credibility of food stamps is higher than silver.

The people of Liaodong are immigrants, and food stamps accompany them for almost all the time they take root in Liaodong.

In their opinion, when the food stamps are in their hands, no matter how corrupt officials and corrupt officials usually embezzle, as long as there are royal stores around, they will definitely be able to exchange food stamps for food.

Therefore, as long as the amount of grain in the local imperial store is maintained, and the grain is placed there to reassure the people, there will basically be no run.

In addition, with Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan, and Yuan Yingtai in charge, the rule of officials in Liaodong is relatively clear compared to other places, so the situation where the people exchange dozens of stones of grain in one breath basically does not exist.

"Your Highness taught me that it was the slave who wanted to fall ......"

Wang Chengen only understood after Zhu Youzhen's explanation.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor only needs to issue food stamps, and the amount of food stamps that he wants to print depends entirely on the Imperial Horse Supervisor himself.

At present, the Imperial Horse Supervisor does not have tens of millions of stones, rice and wheat, but as long as they print food stamps and distribute them to the people, the people will think that the Imperial Horse Supervisor has them.

At that time, as long as there is no large-scale run on the people, the grain in the hands of the Liaodong Imperial Horse Supervisor will be enough for the people to exchange it daily.

This is actually the same as banks, most banks do not have the number of deposits on paper, and basically use them to issue loans.

But as long as there is no large-scale run, it can still be taken out of a small exchange.

"Okay, then let's do it like this......" Zhu Youzhen stood up, looked at Sun Shoufa who was wiping his mouth, and said with a smile:

"Let's go, I'll take you to Banzai to say goodbye."

"Huh!" Hearing that he was going to see the emperor, Sun Shoufa wiped his mouth clean, rinsed his mouth with tea by the way, and then followed Zhu Youzhen out of Changchun Palace......

The second estimate is around 8 p.m

(End of chapter)