"Drive! ...... driving"

"Your Highness! Dading Palace Urgent! ”

"Appeal ......"

In April, when Zhu Youzhen, who was riding south with more than 100 cavalry, was stopped by Tang cavalry in the Horqin grassland, he immediately grabbed the urgent report and began to read it.

Under his glance and ten lines, the causes and consequences of Lin Danhan's entry into the Kou were all taken into account, and Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran's worry-free worries made Zhu Youzhen breathe a sigh of relief.

"Whew...... It's okay. Exhaling a breath of turbidity, General Zhu Youzhen closed his feelings, turned the horse's head in the green grassland, and looked around the grassland while spinning in place.

The Horqin grassland in front of him is incomparably vast, and the colorful and varied wildflowers are dotted on the grassland, like a colorful carpet.

Being in this wide grassland, he felt that his more than 100 cavalry were just a few small boats in the vast green sea, insignificant.

"Your Highness, long live the urgent edict for you to go to Dading Palace."

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen had no follow-up, Tang Qi hurriedly said the emperor's message, but Zhu Youzhen raised his hand holding the horsewhip and signaled that he knew.

"Tell long live, I will rush back to Dading Palace on the fifteenth day of Ding Mao."

Zhu Youzhen responded to Tang Qi, and then continued to stop his horse in the same place and spin.

His move puzzled Wei Shichun, Liu Xiaozu and others who followed the retreat to the south, and Li Dingguo even stepped forward immediately:

"Your Highness, why don't you go south directly?"

"I acted in a hurry this time, I haven't carefully explained the situation in the four northeastern provinces to Xiong Tingbi, at least I have to explain it before going south." Zhu Youzhen responded to Li Dingguo, and educated Li Dingguo and Liu Bingwen while explaining:

"It is not difficult to fight a war, but it is more difficult to deal with the lost land after the war."

"The four northeastern provinces have a population of nearly 8 million, but less than 40 million arable land. How to make the people have food? All of this needs to be imagined by you as you fight wars in the future. ”

Zhu Youjian pointed to the vast grassland with a horsewhip and said: "This vast grassland is very flat, but not everywhere can be cultivated for arable land. ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Youzhen talked about some ecological knowledge, such as arable land needs to consume a lot of water, and planting crops is consuming nutrients in the land, if there is no water irrigation for a long time, then dry land will become saline-alkali land, affecting grain production.

As far as the four northeastern provinces controlled by the Ming Dynasty are concerned, the area is far larger than the three eastern provinces in later generations, and the cultivated land that can be cultivated is also more than that of the three eastern provinces in later generations.

Although Zhu Youzhen did not personally visit the entire four northeastern provinces, as far as he could grasp the situation of later generations, the four eastern provinces of the Ming Dynasty could reclaim at least one billion mu of cultivated land, and if they were to reclaim at least 600 million mu according to their protective properties.

In later generations, the Northeast has not been able to reclaim one billion mu, so it is even more impossible for Zhu Youzhen's side.

He estimated that at least 400 million mu would be reclaimed to ensure that 20 mu per capita in the northeast region would be relocated, that is, on the basis of the original population of the four eastern provinces, another 12 million people would be relocated to the four northeastern provinces.

However, because it is a white field, Zhu Youzhen can completely free up his hands to work, so he has to do everything well.

Steel and coal are abundant in the Northeast, so in urban construction, Zhu Youjian has moved the architectural concept of modern energy to Daming.

Collective heating, sewerage, neighborhood divisions, sidewalks, highways, horse paths, etc. are all scored.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen was always grateful to Chongzhen for the painting memories he left.

"Let's go to Jilin Mansion first."

Zhu Youzhen looked around, and then rushed to Jilin Mansion, which was more than 100 miles away in the southeast, with more than 100 cavalry.

At the same time as he was hurrying, thousands of miles away at the Dongji Port of Beibeizhou Prefecture in Yingzhou, a team that Yang Wenyue and others had been away from for a long time was also ushered in.

"Jingle bell—"

There was still a chill in the port of Dongji in April, but this coolness was dispersed by the lively crowd after the arrival of a fleet.

The North Asian Merica expedition finally returned to Daming after nearly a year of absence, and Yang Wenyue, who was in the crowd, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw his own son, Yang Bingwen.

No one knows how Yang Bingwen returned to Daming, but compared to the fleet and number of people when they went out, only about one-third of the people came back.

"Daddy......"

Yang Bingwen got off the boat and came to Yang Wenyue, and Yang Wenyue also bowed slightly, with a smile in his eyes:

"Let's go home first."

Worried about Yang Bingwen, Yang Wenyue temporarily moved his political secretary's yamen to the vicinity of Dongji Port, because this is the closest Yingzhou port to North Asia.

After waiting for nearly a year, he finally waited for his son to return, Yang Wenyue is a reserved person, like traditional Han parents, who is not smiling and not good at expressing himself.

But even so, he reached out and patted Yang Bingwen on the shoulder, and then got into the carriage with him.

The father and son in the carriage chatted about some parents, which was nothing more than Yang Bingwen's sudden disappearance, which made Yang's mother angry and sad, so that Yang Wenyue was scolded by a letter from his wife from his hometown every month.

When he said this, Yang Wenyue could only show a helpless wry smile, and Yang Bingwen also smiled and comforted his father.

After a short time in such a family, the two took a car back to the temporary yamen of Dongji Port and walked into the study and sat down.

The sensible servant had already poured the tea, and Yang Wenyue took the lead in taking a sip of the teacup, and then put it down and chatted about business:

"Let's talk about it, is it suitable for North Asia Melica to establish a vassal state?"

Yang Wenyue's words made Yang Bingwen pause, he organized what he saw and heard in his mind, and then said:

"North Asia Melica has good and bad compared to India, the advantage is that the local population is about the same as the people of the country, and the land is vast, but the disadvantage is that it is too barren."

Yang Bingwen described the barrenness he saw in North Asia:

"In the west, where we landed, thousands of miles to the north were dense forests, snow, rivers, lakes and swamps."

"To the east is a large mountain range that runs through the north and south, and the only thing that can live is the hilly plains at the foot of the mountain range, which is not more than 10,000 miles, and at most it can feed 10 million people self-sufficiently, and no more."

"But the situation in the south is good, and the officials of the Siyi Pavilion in our city disguised themselves as local natives went south to look at the city-state of the Great Franco (Spain), where the terrain is flat, very suitable for the development of agriculture, and it is not a problem to feed forty or five thousand people."

"In addition, our people have inquired there, and according to the local Grand Frangis, South Asia is basically plains and dense forests, while the eastern part of North Asia is wet, but there are also many swamps and rivers."

"How is it better than Liaoze?" Yang Wenyue interrupted Yang Bingwen and asked him about it, but Yang Bingwen didn't think twice: "It's easier to reclaim than Liaoze, as long as there are enough people, you can reclaim fertile land." ”

"However, the central part of North Asia is flat and arid, and according to the Great Buddha and the local natives, it is almost impossible to cultivate here, and there is a period of wind and snow every year, and the crops planted will die quickly."

"In short, as far as the kid has seen, North Asia Merica can establish a state on the throne, and it can even accommodate tens of millions of people to migrate and survive."

"Farther away in South Asia Melica, because the food on the ship is not enough to eat, and the large purchase of food is easy to be detected by the big Franco, so the kid did not bring people there, but prepared enough food, and took some people back to Yingzhou first."

"The soldiers and horses left in the local area are enough to resist the natives, and it is estimated that by the time the kid brings people back this year, hundreds of acres of fields have been reclaimed there and several villages have been established."

Yang Bingwen made it clear what he could know about North Asian Melica, but Yang Wenyue stroked his beard when he heard this:

"You came just in time, Your Highness has written to me some things about the Armaments Institute, if nothing else, I will organize the relocation from the age of two today and tomorrow."

As he spoke, Yang Wenyue told Yang Bingwen about the steamships, trains, tractors and other objects mentioned in the letter, but Yang Bingwen's eyes widened after hearing it.

"In that case, wouldn't it only take a month to cross the Great and Small Oriental Oceans (Pacific Ocean)?"

"It's not difficult to cross the big and small East Oceans, but what my father cares more about is the tractor." Yang Wenyue stroked his beard:

"The Imperial Horse Supervisor has prepared a large number of tractors ready to be transported to North Asia Melica, and it is estimated that when the news of your return and the news you provide are delivered to the King of Qi, the King of Qi will order the organization of immigrants to the local area."

"As long as there is coal in the local area, then only 1,000 tractors need to be transported, and tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of arable land can be cultivated within a year, and the people who have migrated there in the coming year can be multiplied by 10 times."

Speaking of which, Yang Wenyue also has to sigh at the ingenuity of these "strange and obscene skills":

"If His Royal Highness doesn't let go, then it is estimated that before he becomes a vassal, the dynasty will be able to transport tens of thousands of tractors to the Qi country every year, and within fifty years, the Qi country may surpass the Ming ......."

After Yang Wenyue's words were finished, Yang Bingwen did not refute it, because as far as these situations and Tiangong Machinery were mentioned in Zhu Youzhen's letter, the Ming Dynasty had transfused blood to the Qi State for fifty years, and it was not difficult for the Qi State to surpass the Ming Dynasty.

"However, His Highness probably won't do that."

Yang Wenyue shook his head again, which made Yang Bingwen puzzled: "The kid is puzzled. ”

In Yang Bingwen's view, the current Ming Dynasty can almost be said to be Zhu Youzhen's Yiyantang, Zhu Youxiao looks like the emperor, but in fact he is a mascot, but his needs as a mascot will be met, and no one dares to say about him.

If you really want to compare, it can be said that Zhu Youxiao is the Liu Chan of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen is the Zhuge Liang of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the difference between them is that from the perspective of the legal system, if Zhu Youxiao's vein is cut off, then the emperor will definitely be Zhu Youzhen, and he will not be able to do it properly.

In Yang Bingwen's view, the current brothers, friends and brothers are nothing more than that the two are still young, and most of the king's brothers can be safe and sound when they are young, but when the two are older......

Yang Bingwen's eyes flickered a few times, but Yang Wenyue took a sip of tea calmly:

"His Royal Highness hopes that all the people in the world can eat comfortably, and he built the Qi Kingdom for his own heirs in the future, but in his opinion, the people are in front of the heirs."

"Of course, Daming wants to give blood transfusions to Qi State, but Qi State also wants to help Daming solve the land problem."

"At present, although the Ming Dynasty has alleviated many contradictions through His Royal Highness's many changes and innovations, the contradictions of land annexation are very slow to be alleviated."

"Your Highness mentioned in the letter to me that after the fall of Jianyu, the northeast can support 20 million people, and the southwest can also support 10 million people."

"It's just that you can only support the people like this, it's still too little."

"At present, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces almost do not produce grain, and the tens of millions of people above all rely on the imperial court for relief."

"If there are no natural disasters, it is better to say that these tens of millions of people are not enough to fill the land of slaves in the northeast."

"According to His Royal Highness's writing in the book "Weather Diagrams" in the Shuntian Guanxue and Yingtianguanxue, the current Guoguo Dynasty is in the same Xiaoice period as the late Han and Tang dynasties."

"I read the history books for my father, and I probably looked at it, and I felt that what His Highness said should be true, and the natural disasters will continue."

"It's just that it's good that it affects the north, the population of one capital and six provinces in the north is only more than 50 million, and a place where slaves can accommodate most of the people."

"But if the land south of the Yangtze River is affected, according to the current population counted in the yellow book, there will be at least 30 million victims in the country."

Speaking of this, Yang Wenyue stroked his beard, and Yang Bingwen also thought of one thing in hindsight.

The route of immigrating to Qi is from Nanzhili, and Nanzhili is the most populous place in the Ming Dynasty, which means that Zhu Youzhen is ready to use Qi to help the victims.

It can not only immigrate, but also relocate the victims, relieving the existing population pressure for the Ming Dynasty.

However, all this has to be built on the disaster of the Nanzhili Society.

Thinking of this, Yang Bingwen thought about the situation in North Asia Melica, and then hesitated:

"If this is the case, then His Highness only needs to relocate 90,000 people and release 30,000 tractors, and then he can reclaim more than 300,000 mu of cultivated land in that year.

Yang Bingwen's words were somewhat idealistic, so Yang Wenyue, who heard the words, shook his head:

"It depends on whether the Armaments Institute can come up with so many tractors, and besides, His Highness will not give all the tractors to the Qi State, and the land of Nuergan that is about to be recovered needs tractors even more."

Naturally, when their father and son were talking, footsteps came from outside the door, and when they looked at the door, Cao Dingjiao, who was dressed in a round-necked robe, walked into the courtyard with a copy of military information.

When he saw Yang Wenyue and Yang Bingwen, he immediately saluted and said, "Political envoy, General Yang." ”

"General Cao Bingbing...... Yang Bingwen returned the salute, while Yang Wenyue looked at the military situation in his hand: "Is there anything big?" ”

"Jianyu was destroyed, the land of Nuergan was taken, and His Highness set up three provinces outside the Guanwai, and the four northeastern provinces were united with Liaodong." Cao Dingjiao explained while handing over the military information to Yang Wenyue.

Due to the transmission of news, Yingzhou at this moment only got the news of the collapse of Jianyu, and did not know about the affairs of the capital.

Yang Wenyue glanced at it, and after reading it, he couldn't help but sigh: "Although the old slave is strong, in the hands of His Highness, it is difficult to escape destruction." ”

"If you can hold on for thirteen years, it's not bad to build a captive." Yang Bingwen's sense of Jianyu is average, and he can't talk about good or bad, he only thinks that ordinary rebels have been destroyed.

However, Yang Wenyue looked at the military situation, and then turned to Yang Bingwen and said:

"The land of Nuergan has been taken, and His Royal Highness has set up three new provinces, and it is estimated that the next step is to immigrate to Shibian and strengthen the rule of the imperial court over the three provinces."

"Over there in Qi State, I estimate that after the news is reported, His Highness will first send a group of machinery and soldiers and horses, and the person who leads the troops is either me or Huanglong, but there is a high probability that it will be Huanglong."

Yang Wenyue's analysis is good, Zhu Youzhen does favor Yang Wenyue, because he governs Yingzhou very well, but Huanglong has too many uneasy factors about the Ming Dynasty, and sending Huanglong to Qi is more suitable for Zhu Youzhen to govern the Ming Dynasty, and it is also more suitable for Zhu Youzhen to become a vassal in the future.

There is no one in Qi to restrain Huang Long, and he is loyal and will not oppose Zhu Youzhen's policy, and he knows the army, with his ability to deal with Huang Taiji and Nurhachi, it may not be possible, but against the Europeans in North and South Asia, it can be said to be crushing.

As for Yang Wenyue, Zhu Youzhen preferred to let him maintain the Nanzhili to Yingzhou immigration route, as an important transit point for Ming immigrants to Qi.

"Okay, you can write down what you have seen and heard to Your Highness in the past two days, and your father will not disturb your rest."

Yang Wenyue gave an eviction order, and Yang Bingwen knew that his father had something to say to Cao Dingjiao, so he didn't stay, but got up and saluted and left the study.

Sure enough, after he left, Yang Wenyue asked Cao Dingjiao: "How many of those laborers are left?" ”

"Since the beginning of this year, 17 rebellions have been suppressed, and the number of workers has plummeted to 2.32 million." Cao Dingjiao responded, but also explained:

"After the autumn harvest, the food is basically enough, and it is estimated that the rebellion can be stopped."

"Hmm...... What about immigration? "Yang Wenyue has the intention to cultivate Cao Dingjiao, no matter whether Cao Dingjiao stays in Daming or goes to Qi in the future, it will be beneficial to their Yang family, especially this time Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao shine in Beishan, and it is destined that the Cao family will become the new nobles of the Apocalypse Dynasty.

"In the three months since the beginning of spring, more than 96,000 people have been relocated to the South Island Province, so it is estimated that there will be less than 400,000 immigrants this year."

Cao Dingjiao has begun to learn government management, and Yang Wenyue bowed slightly after hearing this:

"There are no major natural or man-made disasters in the south of the country this year, and it is normal for the migration population to be small."

"Although Wen'er is back, judging from the news he brought back, His Highness should not organize the relocation of the people this year, but will move some soldiers and horses to North Asia Melica, but it is estimated that the number will not be large, and it should not exceed one guard and horse."

"But from next year, or the year after, His Highness should continue to move people to the Qi country."

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"The development of Beizhou Prefecture has to speed up, and the amount of cultivated land in Yingzhou needs to reach 50 million mu of cultivated land before the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse."

"Yes!" Hearing Yang Wenyue's words, Cao Dingjiao nodded in response, and Yang Wenyue also picked up the teacup and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

He was serving tea and asking, if Cao Dingjiao had nothing to do, then he could leave.

However, in the face of his question, Cao Dingjiao hesitated for a moment before saying:

"Recently, there have been a lot of local men in Yingzhou attacking the immigrant men of the country, and the people below have checked it, and it is basically because of women."

"Because of women?" Yang Wenyue was stunned, Cao Dingjiao also nodded, and then explained.

It's not complicated, it's not complicated, it's not simple.

To put it bluntly, when Ming men with an average of more than five feet and two inches per capita moved to Yingzhou, due to Mu Qiang's reasons and their appearance and height, many local women in Yingzhou threw themselves into the arms of immigrants.

Since the immigrants are basically men, nearly 700,000 men in Yingzhou have basically found local women in Yingzhou as wives after settling down.

In this way, the local men in Yingzhou are unbalanced, so the two sides often quarrel when the language is not understood, and finally develop into hands-on.

The men of Yingzhou, who are four feet five or six inches, naturally can't beat the immigrants who are five feet two, so they often attack with sharp weapons in anger after failure, so they have caused a lot of bloodshed.

In this regard, Cao Dingjiao wanted to ask Yang Wenyue's attitude and how to punish these hurtful people.

Hearing this, Yang Wenyue said without thinking:

"The two sides who do it will be fined one tael of silver, but if it rises to a sharp weapon, the person who holds the sharp weapon will be fined ten taels of silver, and those who can't pay the fine will be sent to the Beizhou Government for labor reform, and they will be repaid according to the daily wage of ten yuan, and they will not be released until the fine is full!"

Yang Wenyue's words seem to be impartial, but the problem is that most of the local men in Yingzhou can't immigrate alone, let alone fines.

Immigrant men basically have 20 acres of arable land per capita, work for a year, and have an income of nearly seven taels of silver after paying taxes, while the local people in Yingzhou have one mu per person, and only three or four hundred wen after paying taxes.

In terms of basic income, a fine of one or two for a fight is at most that Daming immigrants can't afford to eat meat for a few months this year, but for local men in Yingzhou, they can only fight after four years without eating or drinking.

As for the rise to the sharp weapon, let alone the Yingzhou man, even if he works every year except for the busy farming time, he will not save more than three taels of silver a year, and the Ming man will go to work after farming, and he can easily earn more than ten taels a year.

In other words, when it comes to the fine of sharp weapons, the Ming men at most agree to pay the fine, but the local men in Yingzhou have to come to the Beizhou capital to do at least three years of labor reform.

"The political envoy is high, then the next official will let people release it."

When Cao Dingjiao heard this, he immediately felt that this method was good, but Yang Wenyue stopped him and continued:

"Those people who marry Yingzhou women are exempted from one year's field tax, and those who marry Yingzhou men are also exempted from one year's field tax."

Yang Wenyue's words seemed to be impartial, and even Ming men would feel angry when they heard it, but the problem is that immigrants need immigration certificates, and Daming's immigration to Yingzhou is only for men.

That is to say, except for some Han families who had taken root in Yingzhou before the Ming Dynasty conquered Yingzhou, there were actually few Han family girls in the entire Yingzhou.

This policy seems fair, but in fact it encourages Han men and Yingzhou women to intermarry.

Under the patriarchal society, a woman marries a man of any nationality, and the child she gives birth to is basically a man of that nationality, especially Zheng Chenggong.

Therefore, according to the current situation in Yingzhou, as long as three or four million Han men are relocated, then Yingzhou men can basically only be singles for a lifetime.

Yang Wenyue has been impartial in policy, but whether there is bias or not, the government personnel who have mastered Yingzhou's data are clear......