"Jingle bell—"

"Moo......"

Every year in July, it is the most difficult period in Beizhili, even in the capital, the air is filled with the smell of dampness.

For the people who walked and came, the unbearable weather seemed to put people in the sauna, which was very uncomfortable.

In this season, Yanshan County in the Yanshan Mountains looks cool, even if you wear brown cloth clothes for farm work, you don't feel tired pulling weeds between the ridges.

"Dingguo, be careful, that cow doesn't know you, it's a little wild."

"Huh! Dad, don't worry. ”

Outside a small village under the jurisdiction of Yanshan County, Li Dashou in the field wore a hat and a cloth coat, and beckoned Li Dingguo, who was driving oxen to plow the land on the wasteland not far away, while pulling weeds.

Li Dingguo responded to his father's concern, and then continued to drive the ploughing cattle to reclaim the wasteland.

This "little master" of the Qi Palace, when he went to the field, also restored the nature of a peasant child.

Time passed, half an hour passed quickly, Li Dashou stood up with his waist up, wiped his sweat with the coarse cloth around his neck, walked to the edge of the ridge and sat down, and at the same time greeted Li Dingguo:

"Okay, the cow is tired and panting, you don't gasp, let it eat some grass next to it, your mother should send food quickly."

"Huh!" Hearing his father's words, Li Dingguo stopped, and then helped the panting old scalper to lift the yoke, and the old scalper also understood human nature and walked to the side to eat grass.

Li Dingguo followed, then walked to the forest next to him, broke off a wild grass with relatively large leaves, and then rolled it up and put the water from the water hyacinth into it.

Then he walked to the side of the scalper, and when the scalper smelled the water, he quickly turned his head and drank the water in three or two times.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo could only add more, and soon the gourd that could hold three catties of water was emptied, and when the scalper saw that there was no water, he also lowered his head and continued to eat the grass on the ground.

Li Dingguo pinned the gourd, and then walked to Li Dashou and sat on the ridge next to him.

During this period, Li Dashou kept looking at Li Dingguo with a smile, and Li Dingguo also asked curiously:

"Dad, how long have you been working on this land?"

"It took two years to cut down trees, cut roots, remove stones, etc." When Li Dashou heard his son talk about this place, he immediately talked endlessly.

As he spoke, Li Dingguo listened, and behind them were thousands of acres of golden wheat fields.

The wheat field is very spectacular at a glance, and the houses in the distant villages are white walls and tiles, and the rows are scattered, and under the background of the wheat field, it is easy for people to mistakenly think that they have arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, but they feel that they are better than the south of the Yangtze River, and they are beautiful.

The noon sun was hot, the two fathers and sons chatted for a while, and then Li Dingguo looked at the village behind him and said curiously:

"There seem to be a lot more people in the village."

"More than a dozen households." In addition to answering, Li Dashou couldn't help sighing:

"When I first moved here, there were only seven or eight families in this valley, and thousands of acres of land were wasteland."

"After four or five years, the wasteland has been reclaimed, and there are more than 80 families in the village."

"There is no choice but to cut down the forest and clear the wasteland."

Saying that, he looked at Li Dingguo, and secretly explained in a whisper: "Counting these two acres of wasteland in our family, there are almost fifty acres of land, and most of the people in the village only have more than twenty acres. ”

"My family saved 200 stone of wheat last year, and you took 100 stone with you when you left."

"No need...... Li Dingguo said helplessly: "All the food in the palace is rice, except for occasional noodles, wheat is not used at other times." ”

"Isn't this different...... Li Dashou complained a little:

"The wheat and rice in that house were grown by others, and the ones grown by others were not as delicious as those grown by the family."

"Besides, how can rice be as good as wheat?"

Li Dashou said in a hurry, and his words were official and dialectal, and Li Dingguo couldn't help laughing:

"Then I'll take three stones away, except for me, everyone else in the house likes to eat rice, and I can't finish eating it if I bring more."

"Three stones, you don't have enough to eat alone, you grow your body, take five stones with you." Li Dashou stubbornly pulled:

"You can also take some pigs and sheep from the backyard, and your mother is going to let you bring some eggs and duck eggs back."

"I really don't need so many ......" Li Dingguo couldn't cry or laugh:

"The food in the house is all tribute rice, and I like to eat too much, didn't I bring you five buckets when I came back this time? You eat it and see if it's delicious, and when I get home, I'll ask someone to send it back. ”

"That tribute rice is too expensive, I can't get used to it with your mother." As soon as he heard Gongmi, Li Dashou gasped.

He couldn't imagine that the price of the same rice was thirty times that of ordinary rice.

The five buckets of tribute rice can be exchanged for fifteen stone rice.

"What are you talking about?!"

The father and son were still talking about Gongmi, but a woman's voice came from not far behind them.

The stout Li Zhang, dressed in a maroon cloth coat and carrying a basket on his back, walked from the ridge.

Seeing this, the two fathers and sons got up one after another, glared at her and walked over, and then helped put down the basket.

Li Dingguo lifted the coarse cloth on the back basket, revealing several large bowls stacked up and two large water hyacinths.

The big bowl was as big as Li Dingguo's face, there were three of them, and there was a small iron pot at the bottom.

Li Dashou put the water hyacinth aside, took out a large bowl, and opened the bowl covered with meat, revealing the wide noodles covered with meat dishes.

The meat dishes are quite rich, but the production method is very simple, basically stir-fried chicken with green chilies, and some ordinary leek eggs and fried cabbage.

Under the meat dish is pressed the wide noodles with oil and spicy seeds, and this bowl weighs three catties.

Li Dingguo looked at his father's bowl, and then opened his own bowl.

His bowl was richer than Li Dashou's, fried pork, fried chicken, leek eggs, tomato eggs, fried cabbage and two steamed buns.

The rice in the bowl was so rich that it was impossible to see whether there was rice or pasta pressed underneath, so that Li Dashou was stunned when he saw it, and the pasta he wanted to send to his mouth was not fragrant.

"Mother, I can't eat so much."

Li Dingguo felt that there was at least four catties of rice in his hand, and he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, while Li Zhang's "snorted" and said dissatisfied:

"What's not to eat? You're growing your body now, and you can't eat it anymore and give it to your father. ”

As he spoke, Li Zhang's also took out his own bowl, the food was basically the same as Li Dashou's, and a small pot of chicken soup was placed at the bottom.

Li Zhang opened the lid and motioned to them to drink and who to serve.

The family of three sat on the ridge, and Li Dingguo was eating and eating, only to find that the bottom of the bowl was the tribute rice he brought home, and he was moved and a little embarrassed at the same time.

"It's not as good as the palace, right? Are you used to it? ”

Li Zhang kept looking at his son, while Li Dingguo shook his head: "Each has its own taste, the food in the palace is delicious, but it is not as fragrant as my mother's cooking." ”

"Where can my craftsmanship be compared with the palace......" Although Li Zhang's mouth was modest, the smile on his face couldn't be hidden at all.

Li Dashou watched the conversation between mother and son, smiling while eating.

The mother and son chatted for a long time, and after half a while, Li Zhang's said:

"When I came here just now, I saw a notice from the village magistrate in the village, saying that in the future, our village will no longer move into new households, and we will move to the village in the north."

"It's good not to move, and there is no wasteland for them when they move." Li Dashou spoke, and Li Zhang nodded slightly in agreement.

Compared with the two, Li Dingguo thought about the words of the chief flag officer of Tiance Wei that day, and then thought about his father's words just now, and felt that it was estimated that the per capita land in the south was saturated, so he moved north.

In the Qi Palace, it was very simple for Li Dingguo to see some music, because Zhu Youzhen had never asked anyone to stop him.

Therefore, Li Dingguo has seen a lot of notes, and one of the ones he remembers the most is the notes written by Zhu Youzhen to the emperor.

[Move Haoqiang and go overseas, stay in the real farmer and return to the country, all the land is suitable for the land, and the ...... of Kenong is greatly developed]

This is a sentence from the president, as for how to move Haoqiang overseas? Where to go overseas? Zhu Youzhen did not write it, and Li Dingguo did not know it.

However, after seeing so many pieces of Zhu Youzhen, he can probably still guess something in his heart.

The migration of Haoqiang should be to places like South Asia and Leviia, not places like Nanzhou and Old Port.

Because many of Zhu Youzhen's policies are similar to Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty, especially for Haoqiang.

In ancient times, there were actually no more than two kinds of migrations for Haoqiang.

One is to concentrate Haoqiang to guard the mausoleum of the former emperor like the Han Dynasty, and the other is to move Haoqiang to remote areas that are not easy to manage, like the Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, so that they can serve the imperial court.

Because of this, there are so many Tusi left over from the Tang Dynasty in Guizhou, and the facts have also proved that no matter how barbarian these Han Tusi are, they are still relatively obedient in the face of Zhao'an of the Central Plains Dynasty, which is in line with the idea of "frontier bondage" to calm the border people that most dynasties think.

Li Dingguo wants to know how his Royal Highness wants to immigrate, so he has to know Zhu Yuanzhang's immigration policy in the early Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, he deliberately read a large number of historical materials, and finally got a relatively complete immigration policy in the early Ming Dynasty.

The reasons for Zhu Yuanzhang's immigration are complex, but they are mainly divided into two reasons, one is economic reasons, and the other is political reasons.

Li Dingguo once analyzed one by one that the so-called economic and political reasons of the Ming Dynasty at that time were actually related to the situation of war and chaos in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and the local waste was waiting to be rebuilt.

The immigration policy of the early Ming Dynasty may have been brutal from an individual point of view, but it was undoubtedly positive from a national point of view.

Because the entire Central Plains experienced a protracted war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the population withered, so that in the early Ming Dynasty, it has been filling in the big hole of shortage of population resources.

The dragon and phoenix regime in the north and the Yuan Dynasty were inseparable, and although the south was also fighting with the Yuan army in the early stage, it gradually began to tend to infighting in the later period.

When the Ming Dynasty unified the world, there were not even 60 million people in the whole world, and there were only 1.89 million people in the entire land of Hebei.

There are only 2.15 million in the whole of Shaanxi, especially in Hexi and Ningxia, and only about 80,000 in Liaodong.

Shandong and Shanxi had 5.2 million and 4 million respectively, but even so, in such a large area as the north in the early Ming Dynasty, the total number of people was only about 11 million.

This is only the population, if we talk about arable land, then the arable land in the north is only tens of millions of acres, and the rest is grassland wasteland.

Not to mention the southwest, south of Yunnan, Guizhou and Dongting Lake, and south of the Chengdu Plain, the Han people account for less than one-tenth of the local area.

Lack of arable land and withering people's livelihood......

This is the norm except for the Jiangnan and Jiangbei regions, and at this time, there are dangers all around the Ming Dynasty.

The Yao people rioted in Huguang, the Yao riot in Liangguang, and the Dali Miao, Gu, Yi and other people in Yunnan-Guichuan.

In addition, the Northern Yuan Khan Court in the desert was also quite powerful, and often harassed the northern border of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang has always had a headache about this matter, so much so that he even wrote in a letter to Zhu Di, the king of Yan:

"If you encounter Huma's hundreds of thousands of koubian, it is not suitable to fight. or in the fortress, or in the valley and in the dangerous place, and the infantry in a deep ambush waiting for him, and when he sees that I am not fighting, he will plunder in all directions, and scatter his ranks in a lazy and unstrict manner. ”

Therefore, it is inevitable to transfer human resources from provinces with relatively abundant population resources to fill the provinces with relatively short population resources.

In addition, at that time, the only provinces with large reading, population and economy were Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, so the military tun and immigrants in the early Ming Dynasty were basically based on these three provinces, plus Fujian, Shandong, and Shanxi as auxiliaries.

Because most of the rich people were concentrated in the Jiangnan area at that time, and there were many rich people here, they were particularly dissatisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, so Jiangnan was also the area that Zhu Yuanzhang focused on.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose in migrating was mainly to "immigrate to the real border", and secondly, to dissolve the wealth of the rich and eliminate the collusion between power and wealth, so as to make the court stable and the world peaceful.

This situation is actually similar to the current situation.

The Ming territories north of the Great Wall and overseas are underpopulated and their strength is empty, so they not only cannot supply blood to the Ming Dynasty, but also let the Ming have blood transfusions.

In this case, Zhu Yuanzhang's policy was the most in line with the policy of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang's target migrants were mainly wealthy households, criminals, and displaced people.

Of these three groups, the hit on the wealthy is the hardest, because criminals and displaced people are landless and unidentified people in the first place.

No matter where they are moved, this kind of person is actually about the same or slightly better off than before, but the rich are different.

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Because the wealthy people lived a very generous life before, and they also intersected with many Ming magnates, they had a great influence in the local area.

Compared with the wealthy, in fact, the treasury situation of the Ming Dynasty at that time was not good, because in terms of immigration, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Youzhen experienced the same problem...... Grain!

There is a lot of grain among the people, but Zhu Yuanzhang can't grab it, and he chooses to use treasure money and silver to buy grain, stimulate the agricultural economy at the same time, and prepare for immigration.

It's just that the treasure banknote depreciated sharply due to credit problems not long after, so Zhu Yuanzhang set his sights on the rich.

These wealthy families were implicated through the "Four Great Eucalyptus of Hongwu", all their family properties were confiscated, and the nine ethnic groups were relocated.

Therefore, the reason why Jiangnan in the Zhu Yuanzhang period was not as strong as in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was mainly because they were moved to a new place.

Due to the unfamiliarity of life, many families will hold together, so many local toasts are afraid.

However, in the process, there were also outbreaks and conflicts with Toast, and the family quickly declined.

Under the interference of external forces, even if they moved to the local area, it was difficult for these wealthy families to rise again, ensuring that no gentry and wealthy households in the world could control the government during the early Ming Dynasty.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, this series of policies was all aimed at consolidating the political power and the frontier.

Zhu Yuanzhang, a peasant, was very good at considering the rich and the poor, and his immigration policy was unprecedented in ancient times.

The Tang Dynasty basically relied on the conscious migration of the family, while the Ming Dynasty relied on the violent migration of the imperial court, and the nature of the two was different.

Although the violent migration caused many people to spend a period of "poverty and humiliation", the migration policy brought stability to the Ming Dynasty.

As the number of wealthy households decreased, the corresponding amount of corruption continued to decrease, so the immigration policy was conducive to rectifying corruption in the imperial court.

For the relocated areas, a large number of labor forces have been added, a lot of wasteland has been reclaimed, and productivity has been improved, and at the same time, the flow of people has also absorbed and integrated many minority cultures, so that most of the young people are culturally similar to the Han Chinese.

In general, it is to relocate wealthy households to stabilize the interior, strengthen the Han people in the frontiers, and use the cultural advantages of the Han people to assimilate each other, thereby reducing corruption and creating a more clean regime.

Zhu Yuanzhang's relocation of wealthy households, displaced people, and prisoners allowed the Ming Dynasty to basically not break out in the 81 years of Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, and Orthodoxy.

Even the "Tang Sayer Uprising", which was praised by later generations, was actually a religious demagoguery, and the number of people ranged from thousands to 10,000.

Compared with the uprisings of various dynasties and generations, except for the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were only three uprisings of more than 10,000 people in the Ming Dynasty.

For Zhu Youzhen, this policy is worth learning from, and through Zhu Yuanzhang's policy, coupled with his understanding of His Royal Highness, Li Dingguo can probably know what His Royal Highness's policy is.

To put it bluntly, it is "suppressing the rich and equalizing" and "immigrating to the real side".

Suppressing the rich does not mean cracking down on all the rich households, but cracking down on the rich households who collude too deeply with the court, such as those gentry and powerful people in Sichuan who colluded with various yamen to resell the military tuntian, which are the targets that need to be cracked down.

The land occupied by the gentry is the vast majority, and if one family is relocated, hundreds of families can be rich.

For example, at present, Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, as well as Yunnan, Guizhou, Duogan, Guangxi, and Liaodong are all through the suppression of Haoqiang and the relocation of Haoqiang, so that the imperial court has obtained tens of millions of acres of arable land, and the rich and poor have been given to most of the common people.

The heroes who are implicated are often tens or even hundreds or thousands of people in a household.

Move them to Cochin, Jiugang, and Nanzhou, which is the best solid edge.

In Li Dingguo's view, His Royal Highness may have to intensify the blow to the gentry and the powerful until there is no gentry and strong to control the officialdom.

"Can you really do it......

Thinking about what Zhu Youzhen was doing, Li Dingguo couldn't help but feel a little dreamy, or unrealistic.

He remembers very well that the teaching and study of government and political science once said that "it is never possible to equalize the wealth and the poor."

The textbook was written by His Royal Highness, but the content on it was contrary to what His Highness did......

With Li Dingguo's age, he really didn't understand why His Royal Highness would do such a contradictory thing.

"Contradictory?"

"Contradictory ......"

Just as Li Dingguo was thinking about things on the ridge with food, Zhu Youzhen, who was in Dading Palace, also asked Zhu Youxiao next to him, and Zhu Youxiao's answer was the same as what Li Dingguo thought.

The Theory of Equal Wealth and Poverty

This is a book in Zhu Youxiao's hand and compiled by Zhu Youzhen, and the content of this book makes Zhu Youxiao feel very contradictory.

"My brother said that it is never possible to be rich and poor, and if you want to maintain the permanence of a dynasty, you need to be rich and poor, doesn't that mean that no dynasty can exist permanently?"

Zhu Youxiao closed the book and asked Zhu Youzhen with doubts, but Zhu Youzhen did not answer in a hurry, but said after being silent for a long time:

"The disadvantage of the dynasty is that in the whole world, our Zhu family is the biggest gentry and powerful, because we hold the power."

"Tie the dynasty to one person, this burden is really too heavy, and many people can't pick it up."

"We can't expect everyone to be Emperor Taizu Gao, if there is another Yingzong during the period, then can my Ming Dynasty still exist? Will there be someone like Emperor Jing who has the ability to turn the tide? ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't care about evaluating his "ancestors", although he thought that Zhu Qizhen did a good job before the Tumubao Change, especially in the third and fourth expeditions to Luchuan after the death of the Empress Dowager Zhang, so that the southwestern frontier of the Ming Dynasty could be stable for a hundred years, but this still could not wash away the fact that the fourth Northern Expedition "Tumubao Change" in the orthodox years was a fiasco.

When it comes to Ming Yingzong, even Zhu Youxiao is a little embarrassed to refute, after all, his ancestor is really not good.

"According to my brother's words, then I will ...... Ming" Zhu Youxiao hesitated and asked, while Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and said:

"The great unified dynasty that has lasted for three hundred years has never appeared, and if our dynasty continues according to the old system, it will also follow the old path of other dynasties."

"Maybe the dynasty can cross the 300-year mark, but can it cross the 400-year, 500-year mark?"

"Reusing civilians after official education, this is what the dynasty has to do."

"As long as the civilians who have grown up in official education come to the cabinet, then it will not be a problem for me to extend the Ming Dynasty for another hundred years."

Zhu Youzhen cares very much about the civilians cultivated by official education, although there is an example of Yanshan, he also knows that officials from official education can also be corrupted, but the difference is the problem of teaching materials.

No matter how corrupt Yanshan and the officials of the official school are, the bottom line is always higher than that of the officials under feudal education, which Zhu Youzhen has carefully studied.

In the five years since the Apocalypse, most of the officials arrested in Yanshan were involved in corruption and acquiesced in the gentry to sell the military tuntian, but they did not dare to disobey the government in some projects and political affairs.

On the other hand, the Ming officials under the old system were not uncommon, from cutting corners in construction projects to smuggling ordnance, and then to all kinds of examples of disobedience and disobedience.

The officials of the Yanshan faction knew very well that if the Ming Dynasty collapsed, their treatment would not be much better, and they would all face purge in the end.

This is different from the later generations who thought that "it doesn't matter if the emperor is dead, anyway, whoever is a courtier is a pawn".

The officials used in the early Ming Dynasty were actually officials who surrendered from the Yuan Dynasty, and most of them were implicated by Zhu Yuanzhang with various "eucalyptus", and the last to take the stage was the protégé of Guozijian personally trained by Zhu Yuanzhang, an emerging interest group belonging to the Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Qing did not do a bad job in this regard, so this has nothing to do with the nation, but with the class.

Even the subsequent regimes have done a lot of purging of former officials.

This essentially represents what happened to the civilian officials after the fall of the dynasty after the demise of the Tang and Song dynasty families.

In Yanshan textbooks, Zhu Youzhen often used the example of how the Ming Dynasty purged the group of corrupt officials after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty to warn Yanshan officials, and he did not shy away from it at all.

Therefore, whether it is officials or other classes, if a dynasty falls, the new dynasty will not always treat them well, because there is a new class that wants to squeeze out their interests, and therefore they must be purged.

When the Ming Dynasty is here, the interests of Yanshan officials and government officials will be there.

Therefore, most of the corruption scandals of Yanshan officials are using bad rules to obtain illegal income.

Even if they also resell disaster relief food, Yanshan officials can at least keep the victims alive, but the corrupt officials of the old system don't care.

This cannot be said that the corrupt officials in Yanshan are good, but it shows that their education actually affects them.

Zhu Youzhen wants to fall the "gentry", even if he rises again after falling, but at least he has done this, and for him, he has no regrets......