"Jingle ......"

"Moo~~~"

"Okay, don't scream, I'll feed you."

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, when the war broke out in India and the Indochina Peninsula, the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty was unusually quiet.

Ningxia in the winter moon was already below zero, and it was also very cold in the cowshed in Yuanguan, Ningxia County, but when Zhu Fuju threw a briquette into the fireplace that was about to go out, the temperature in the cowshed quickly rose.

The Ningxia battalion is responsible for guarding Ningxia Mansion, and Zhu Fuju, who was transferred to the Ningxia battalion, currently serves as the quartermaster of Yuanguan Town, Ningxia Fu Town.

The system of the Gongwei battalion is based on five banners as a sentry, and there are 545 people at one outpost, one guard for the sixth grade, two deputy garrisons for the seventh rank, and one quartermaster officer for the eighth rank and one scribe officer from the eighth grade.

Although he was only a quartermaster, Zhu Fuju still had ninety quartermaster flag soldiers under him.

What the quartermaster flag needs to do is to be responsible for the food of the whole outpost, as well as the livestock in the barracks, so that the whole army can ensure that they can eat enough, and at the same time, they must also count the things that are requisitioned together with the scribes, and make up for the deficiencies in advance.

Although the things to do are very boring, Zhu Fuju enjoys it.

No, although it was snowing heavily in Ningxia, Zhu Fuju still got up early in the morning and began to add briquettes and forage to the cowshed and horse shed.

After finishing this, he walked out of the cowshed, and he was greeted by the snow and the soldiers who got up to train.

Compared with the soldiers of the Five Banners, the soldiers of the Quartermaster Banner are generally busy with the work at hand, and then go to training at noon.

Although Zhenyuan Pass has become an inner pass, for the food of the whole outpost, the work here is no less than that in other places.

With the collapse of Hetao Mongolia and Ningxia Mongolia, a small town of Yuanguan, a place that was once avoided by the common people, has become a rare "rich" place in Shaanxi.

Of course, "rich" here does not refer to gold and silver, but to rivers and water veins.

Because it is close to the Yellow River, and next to Helan Mountain on the left, Zhenyuanguan is not short of water, naturally, when Shaanxi suffered a major drought, Zhenyuanguan, which has been safe, has also become a place for hungry people in northern Shaanxi to take refuge.

Zhenyuanguan, which used to have only more than 500 soldiers and horses and seven or eight hundred residents, has reached this point with more than 1,000 households and five or six thousand people, and more than 20,000 acres of cultivated land have been reclaimed outside the city.

"Quartermaster Zhu, the pigs have been fed!"

Zhu Fuju was still lamenting the environmental changes in Ningxia, but a team not far away shouted at him.

When Zhu Fuju heard this, he also walked to the pig farm, then opened the door and walked in to have a look.

The pig farm in Zhenyuanguan is not small, a full half acre, and the pigs raised in it are the local Bamei pigs in Guanzhong.

The head of the eight-eyebrow pig is narrower and long, the ears are big and drooping, and the forehead has longitudinal lines of "eight" wrinkles, so it is called the eight-eyebrow, its coat color is black, according to the body shape and appearance and production characteristics, it is divided into three types: big eight-eyebrow, two-eight-eyebrow and small guy pig.

Zhenyuan Guan raises a young man's pig, this kind of pig is precocious and easy to fatten, and is deeply liked by the people in Guanzhong, but this kind of pig is generally only about 130 catties when it is slaughtered, and after removing some bones and internal organs that cannot be eaten, there are only less than 80 catties of meat.

Therefore, in order to satisfy the appetite of the whole outpost, the previous quartermaster raised a whole hundred pigs.

The 100 pigs were set aside in three captive plots, and Zhu Fuju saw that this was the largest pig house, with a total of 40 young pigs in it.

Although there are 100 heads, it is actually enough for Zhenyuan Post to eat for two months in a row, so most of the time the soldiers of Zhenyuan Post basically feed on chicken, duck and goose meat, followed by mutton, and finally pork.

Since the Ming Dynasty changed to the recruitment system of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the food of the soldiers could not eat meat at once as in the previous Zhigong Guard Camp, but only had meat in the afternoon every day.

To feed an army of more than 800,000 people, although officialdom can freely allocate land to build breeding farms, such a thing as plague has always been the natural enemy of officialdom.

In the entire Ningxia Prefecture, there are only three officialdoms of the Imperial Horse Supervisors, and they are mainly responsible for sixty percent of the meat of the local army, and the remaining forty percent are self-sufficient by military quartermasters.

The breakfast of the guards in Zhenyuan is often two steamed buns and two eggs, and the lunch is three dishes with tofu, eggs and other protein-rich ingredients as dishes, and meat can only be eaten in the afternoon.

But even so, many people who came to join the army were satisfied.

Therefore, Zhu Fuju was very concerned about the livestock raised in captivity by the military quartermaster flag, and he looked at the forty pigs one by one, and made sure that none of them had problems, and after the pig barn was cleaned, he left satisfied.

"Has the sheep house outside the gate been cleaned up?"

Walking out of the pig house, Zhu Fuju asked, and the team next to him nodded: "It's all cleaned up, and it's all counted, three hundred and fifty-seven sheep, not one less." ”

"Hmm......" exhaled a mouthful of white mist, Zhu Fuju nodded: "Wait for the beginning of spring, let the herdsmen help with stocking, it is estimated that there will be four or five hundred in the coming year, and then you can occasionally open two meals of meat." ”

"This ...... Doesn't seem to be in line with the rules, right? The team hesitated, but Zhu Fuju waved his hand:

"What are the rules? Feeding the brothers is the biggest rule. ”

"There is a good point! Or Zhu Junjun is knowledgeable. Hearing this, the team smiled, but Zhu Fuju shook his head:

"This is not what I said, this is what I said when I was in Shangzhi, and the veterans of Shangzhi listened to His Highness."

"Your Highness? His Royal Highness King Qi?! Hearing the word "His Royal Highness", the team next to him was shining brightly, and the other soldiers heard the words "His Royal Highness King Qi", and they all looked at Zhu Fuju.

They all knew that their own Zhu military quartermaster was a person who had participated in the bloody battle of Beishan, and he was born in the Shangzhi Guard, so he might have seen His Royal Highness the King of Qi.

"Zhu Junjie, have you seen His Royal Highness King Qi?"

"Zhu Junjian, what does His Royal Highness King Qi look like?"

Since the people under Zhu Fuju were all eighteen or nineteen-year-old new pawns, they were very adored and curious about King Qi.

They saw with their own eyes that they became rich, and they also saw with their own eyes how King Qi pacified the captives and divided the land to the people, so they naturally had different feelings for King Qi in their hearts.

"His Royal Highness King Qi ......" Zhu Fuju pondered for a few seconds, and then shook his head: "I haven't seen it either." ”

"However, some of the old pawns have seen His Royal Highness King Qi when they were in Tengxiang Siwei."

"According to their words, Your Highness has a heavenly watch, which is unspeakably precious."

Saying that, Zhu Fuju laughed: "However, they are probably also nonsense, after all, His Highness is very busy." ”

Although he had seen the cruelty of war, this did not prevent Zhu Fuju from respecting Zhu Youzhen.

If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen, his family would still be a tenant in the Qin Palace, and he could only eat brown rice every day, and he could only taste a little meat during the New Year, and he was crowded in a narrow room with adobe walls and straw roofs on weekdays.

It was Zhu Youzhen who gave them land, so that they got rid of the status of tenants in the palace and were able to freely join the army, engage in business, and pursue a career in office.

Thinking of this, Zhu Fuju also sighed a little, curious if the appearance of His Royal Highness the King of Qi was really as the veterans said......

"Ah...... Autumn!

！ ”

"What? Caught in the cold? ”

When Zhu Fuju and the soldiers guessed the appearance of His Royal Highness King Qi, Li Dingguo, who was sitting in the carrier hall, suddenly sneezed, and Zhu Youzhen, who was not far away, also raised his head and said a word of concern.

"No, it's just a little itchy in the nose."

Li Dingguo rubbed his nose, and Zhu Youzhen also said to Wang Chengen when he saw this: "Let people open the heating valve of the carrier hall wider." ”

"Yes......" Wang Chengen nodded in response, and ordered a scribe next to him to make arrangements.

After the time entered the winter moon, Zhu Youxiao took Zhu Ciran and them to Fangshan to avoid the winter, while Zhu Youzhen stayed in the capital to deal with official business because of his busy state affairs.

Of course, with his ability, hundreds of books are just things that can be dealt with with at his fingertips, and what really makes him unable to leave is the financial department and government schools, household registration, as well as industrial areas and immigration.

For example, right now, he is holding the coinage of the Financial Department that Li Changgeng sent to him.

It has been almost a year since the fourth version of the steam engine was used in the mint, and in this year's time, the mint has minted more than 42,760,000 coins with a denomination of more than 74,000,000 taels, of which copper coins account for the vast majority.

It seems that such a quantity can be put into the market at once, and Zhu Youzhen also plans to do so.

However, he is not ready to put it on the market immediately, but is ready to wait until June next year to put Tianqi Tongbao on the market.

The reason why he needed these six months was because he needed Hong Chengchou to completely pacify the Luchuan region before June of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and at the same time, the local bank would also be opened to issue the Ming Apocalypse Tongbao.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen first dealt with the first thing about the five things he needed to be busy with:

"Summons an order to Li Changgeng to continue minting coins, and at the same time escort all the coins that have been minted to local banks according to the proportion of the population of each county and town, from far to near."

"In addition, let him prepare people to go to Luchuan, and together with the people of the Ministry of Industry, prepare a bank in the county and town of Luchuan."

"On June 15, the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the banks in Daming officially issued the Apocalypse Tongbao."

"In addition, he ordered the household department to be strict with himself, and began to census the population of all provinces in the country from the sixteenth day of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and registered with Li Changgeng of the Financial Department to print the household registration book for the people."

"Starting from the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the people who do not have a household registration book are not allowed to study in the official school."

After that, Zhu Youzhen didn't think there were enough things, so he got up directly and walked to the windowsill, looked at the goose feathers and snow in the capital, and said calmly:

"After the Financial Department issues the Apocalypse Tongbao, the national dynasty will use the Apocalypse Tongbao to issue it, and all the taxes paid by the local government will be escorted to the local bank, and no other places will be escorted privately."

"In addition, after June 15, Yumajian invested another 8 million taels of industrial zones to expand production, and built eight new industrial zones in Shanxi, North Zhili, Shandong, and South Zhili."

"The matter of household registration must be completed before the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the industrial zone must also be put into operation before the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse."

"In four years, I want to see that the dynasty will produce at least 40,000 tractors a year, and the number of industrial steam engines and large high-pressure steam engines must also meet the standard."

"In addition, starting from the end of next year, non-commissioned officers over the age of 45 in the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces will be transferred, and the targets of the transfer will be railway soldiers, government officials, soldiers and horses, and local officials."

"If you are unwilling to change jobs, then the Governor's Office of the Five Armies will buy land in the local area according to their military age, and grant land to retire."

"Those who have joined the army for three years will be awarded 10 acres of retired fields, and for every year of military age, the retired fields will increase by 10 acres, and there will be no upper limit."

"As for the veterans who are willing to move to Luchuan, Guanwai Province, Nanzhou, Jiugang and other places after being discharged from the army, they will still be granted land according to their military age."

"Those who have been granted more than three years of land are granted 100 acres, and for each year of military age, the retired land will also increase by 100 acres, and the land granted to the veterans will be selected by the veterans themselves, and the local imperial horse supervisor will be responsible for distributing tractors."

Zhu Youzhen was determined to disarm, and the target of the dismissal was the same as he had originally decided, a veteran over the age of 45.

However, even if it was disarmed, Zhu Youzhen still gave the veterans the treatment they deserved after they were discharged from the army.

Among them, especially the treatment of overseas dischargers is the most generous.

If a soldier with 20 years of military service chooses to retire overseas, then he will immediately receive 2,000 acres of unowned land, and the Imperial Horse Warden will also issue a tractor to his family.

You must know that this is different from the tractor of the village collective, the tractor of the village collective is from the imperial court, and the tractor in the hands of the veteran is his own.

In addition to the fact that it cannot be bought and sold, and the Imperial Horse Warden has to regularly inspect the door, how to use this tractor is decided by the soldiers themselves.

To put it bluntly, it is an immigrant in disguise, but this immigrant has changed from distributing cattle to distributing tractors.

As for the output of tractors, Zhu Youzhen is not worried.

It will be disarmed at the end of next year, when the first batch of industrial zones has been successfully put into operation, the second batch of industrial zones has also begun to be established, and the third batch of industrial zones has also begun to be cleared.

By the time the year after next and the retired soldiers decided where to go, the output of tractors had risen to four or five thousand, and when they went to Luchuan, Guanwai Province and Nanzhou, it was estimated that it would be the end of the year.

Then choose the land, build a house and have to be half a year smaller, come and go on the apocalypse 14 years, when the second batch of industrial zones have been put into production half, that is, the Ming Dynasty has at least tens of thousands of tractors per year.

At this time, when the retired soldiers apply for tractors, the Imperial Horse Supervisor will naturally be able to readily approve and agree.

The retirement of the soldiers will not delay the semi-mechanical agriculture of the Ming Dynasty, but will promote the semi-mechanical agriculture of the Ming Dynasty.

With their group of people as the object to the people of Luchuan, Guanwai Province, Nanzhou, and Jiugang, other people will naturally know the benefits of tractors, and more and more people will naturally migrate.

Now, after half a year of migration, the population of the three provinces outside the Guanxi Province has risen from 1.1 million at the beginning to more than 1.3 million now.

He needs to make the three provinces outside the Guanwai self-sufficient before the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, and let the three provinces outside the Guanwai be able to feed back to the Guannai before the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, otherwise the next big drought will still make the Ming Dynasty busy.

In a short period of time, it is not realistic to rely only on tractors, and manpower is the best means to develop the three provinces outside the border in a short period of time.

If nothing else, just look at Liaodong to know.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, there were only a million people in Liaodong, and the cultivated land was only a few million mu.

But by the tenth year of the Apocalypse, the population of Liaodong had skyrocketed to 8 million people, and the cultivated land was more than 30 million mu.

In ten years, the cultivated land in eastern Liaoning has skyrocketed eightfold, and these are the results of the hard work of the hungry people in various places.

If the five provinces of Liaodong, Shanxi, Beizhili, Shandong, and Henan each relocate half of their population to the three provinces outside the Guanxi Province, then in five years, the amount of cultivated land in the three provinces outside the Guanxi Province will increase from 3 million mu to 10 million mu.

In addition, within five years, Daming's tractors can make up 30,000 or 40,000 units to develop outside the customs, which is 5.6 million mu of mechanical land reclamation every year, plus more than 1 million mu of manpower land reclamation.

This adds up to at least 2 million acres of land per year, and it will continue to increase in the future.

However, this is just a matter of thinking, after all, if nothing else, the life of the people of Henan is very nourishing at the moment.

Of the more than 50 million mu of cultivated land, more than 40 million mu of cultivated land are in the hands of 6 million people, with an average of more than 6 mu per person and an annual output of 12 stone rice.

After leaving five stones, they could easily sell seven stone rice, earning three taels of silver per person, and a dozen taels per household.

Because of this, the people of Henan are the least concerned about the relocation, and Zhu Youzhen has no way to deal with them.

It was impossible for him to forcibly relocate, because without a sufficient number of ploughing oxen to be distributed, six acres of land per capita was already the maximum amount that one person could cultivate.

In other words, the peasants in Henan are the most stable part of the peasants in the original two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

If they are relocated, they must be given ploughing cattle to the people who remain, otherwise the people will not be able to plant so much land, and if they are not relocated, let it go on like this, and wait for forty or fifty years of population growth, it is estimated that the people of Henan will become poor households in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen could only encourage the people of Henan to relocate, so as to move tens of thousands of people every year, and postpone the outbreak of local land annexation.

Thinking of these, Zhu Youzhen had a headache, and the most important thing for him at the moment was to call on the people in the north to move to the three provinces outside the Guanwai, and then call on the people in the south to move to Luchuan, Jiugang and Nanzhou.

Among them, especially the land in the Old Port and Nanzhou is the most wasteful.

If the land of the Old Port, especially the land of Nanhai Province (Java), had been developed and equipped with tractors, it would have been able to feed at least 20 million people at the rate of production per acre of land in this era.

Counting the rest of the world, it would have been easy for the Old Port to feed a population of 30 million.

However, the urban population of the three most densely populated provinces in the south of the Yangtze River has no intention of migrating at all, and they have long been accustomed to working to earn money, and asking them to go back to farming is simply killing them.

As for the remaining eighty percent of the agricultural population, they are basically used to raising mulberry and selling silk, and they don't want to go to the old port.

Therefore, the population of at least 50 million in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River has become Zhu Youzhen's biggest headache.

Leave them alone, and wait for the drought in the south of the Yangtze River in the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, then he is ready to wait to raise at least 30 million mouths.

And it's not just these 30 million mouths, there are hungry people waiting to be fed elsewhere.

Anyway, no matter how he calculated, he had to take out enough food to eat at least 50 million people, and that food would be for several years.

Thinking about it this way, it is not unreasonable for Zhu Youzhen to have a headache, and forcibly relocating the people of Jiangnan is more difficult than letting him implement "apportionment into the mu and the gentry pay grain in one piece" now.

He overhauled trains and operated the Northeast and the old port, to put it bluntly, he wanted to allow a steady stream of grain from the mainland and overseas to be transported to the three provinces south of the Yangtze River.

Among them, overseas grain is the most important.

If the steam ships are successfully built, then the high-quality grain of India can supply the old port, and the grain of the old port can supply Jiangnan.

India is more than 6,000 miles away from the old port and the old port is more than 6,000 miles away from the south of the Yangtze River, and the speed at which the ships can travel 60 miles per hour when they are fully loaded, after deducting the refueling and resting events, it is basically only ten days each way.

Nine thousand steam ships can carry 30,000 stone of goods, and 100 ships are 3 million stones, and the grain of the old port is ......

"Cheng'en, what is the number of acres of old port land this year?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen hurriedly rummaged through the booklet when he heard this, and finally found the booklet a few minutes later, and saw the recital of Shen Tingyang in the old port.

"The old port is now more than 37.26 million mu of land, and more than 2,460,000 stone of land has been handed over."

Wang Chengen read out the Tian Fu of the Old Port, and the Tian Fu of the Old Port also unknowingly accounted for one-third of the Daming Tian Fu.

However, Zhu Youzhen knew very well that the reason why the old Gangtian paid so much was because the local tax was paid by the military tuntian.

However, starting from next year, the land endowment of the dynasty will be uniformly adjusted to 1 out of ten, which also means that the field endowment of the old port will be reduced to more than 8 million stones.

"In the recital of the household department, how many acres of land are there in the country? How many Tian Fu are there this year? ”

Zhu Youzhen kept asking, Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun also rummaged through the notes of the household, and finally found and read:

"It is the year of the country, the number of acres of land is 876,376,253 mu and 4 cents, and the annual income of the field is 98,326,937 stone and six catties."

Daming's Tian Fu hit a new high, but Wang Chengen's number was a bit funny.

According to the traditional land endowment of 30 endowments in the Ming Dynasty, it seems that more than 900 million mu of cultivated land, in the case of an average yield of one and a half stones per mu in the north and south, at least more than 43 million stone must be paid.

Looking at it this way, it seems that there is no problem, and there are more fields.

However, the problem lies in the fact that among the more than 900 million mu of land, except for Shanxi and Shaanxi, which are exempt from paying the field endowment, the other northern and overseas provinces all pay the field endowment according to the rules of the three and two of the ten levies divided into the military tun law area.

The fields in these provinces are about 500 million mu, and in addition to the more than 30 million mu of wasteland that cannot be taxed, according to the records of previous years and the military tun law, they should pay at least 120 million stone fields for rice and wheat.

This rice and wheat of nearly 120 million stones, after removing the rice husk and fire consumption, can basically be stored in about 80 million stones, so the problem arises.

In addition to the two provinces that are exempted from the province and the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Jiaojiao, which are in charge of armaments in the southwest, it stands to reason that the amount of cultivated land in the remaining six provinces of Beijing, namely Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, is as much as more than 230 million mu.

Under the circumstance that the other provinces have already paid 80 million stones, how can the six provinces, which occupy 230 million mu, only pay more than 18 million stones?

It is necessary to know that among them, there are also more than 20 million mu of military tun fields, and more than 20 million mu of military tun fields have paid at least 10 million stone of field taxes.

In other words, of the remaining 200 million mu of cultivated land, only 8 million stone fields were paid, and the amount of land taxes they should have paid should be 13 million stones......

Therefore, this year, one of the six provinces in the south of Beijing has underpaid at least 4 million stone rice and wheat......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen's face turned pale:

"Tell Bi Ziyan to come and see me!"