On the 24th day of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, Fengguo Gong Qi Jin died of illness in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion in Guangzhou at the age of 77.

In his life, he followed his uncle Qi Jiguang and Qi Jimei to annihilate the Japanese in a bloody battle, honored Fujian and Zhejiang, and was a strong captive, looking at Youyan, even if Qi Jiguang and Qi Jimei encountered suspicion later, he still made repeated military exploits, entered the dynasty to resist the Japanese, and led the troops of the Qi family army to the generals and ascended to Hancheng.

After the defeat of Salhu, he sold his property and volunteered to go to the battlefield, and under the turbulent situation in the first year of the Apocalypse, he resisted the offensive of the Later Jin Dynasty for the Ming Dynasty, so that Zhu Youzhen had the opportunity to launch the battle of recovering Liao.

It can be said that without him, Zhu Youzhen would have to postpone Houjin for a few years if he wanted to destroy Houjin.

It was he, Qin Bangping and others who defended Liaodong, and the Ming Dynasty had time for Zhongxing.

Therefore, when the news of his death reached Beizhili, Zhu Youxiao ordered him to be buried with the gift of the prince, and posthumously presented him as the king of Fengzhou, nicknamed Wuxiang.

It's just that Zhu Youxiao was indifferent to Qi Jin's last request before his death.

The Jizhou Mutiny can be said to be the most reluctant to mention in the history of the Ming Dynasty, except for the Tumubao Incident, from the emperor to the officials and even the soldiers.

In order to cover up the person responsible for this incident, the ministers could only blame the "historical grievances" of the emperor and the so-called "contradictions" between the northern and southern armies.

To make it clear, the Jizhou mutiny was directly suppressed by Wang Bao, the chief soldier of Jizhou, and the supporter was Shangshu Shixing of the Ministry of War.

The so-called Qi family army, in fact, before and after the Korean battle, was already collectively referred to as the southern soldiers, and the one who supported the use of the southern soldiers was Song Yingchang, the right attendant of the military department.

For the process of the Jizhou Mutiny, the record of this incident at that time in the Wanli period was still divided into two completely different directions. The "Records of Mingshenzong", which represents the views of the central court of the Ming Dynasty on the Jizhou mutiny, has criticized the general soldier Wang Bao for "wanting to make a big deal and hope to invite rewards", and even described this incident as "although the killing of Changping Xin'an was not excessive".

In the eyes of the cabinet and the Wanli Emperor himself, the Jizhou Mutiny was a massacre of a terrible nature, and as another perspective of the incident, Sun Kuang, the governor of Jiliao at the time, and Yingxuan, the military garrison who participated in the suppression, seemed to have handled the matter reasonably.

In their writings, they also tried to negotiate with the southern soldiers, but they broke up unhappily because the southern soldiers insisted on begging for military salaries.

After that, the familiar Wang Bao deceived the southern soldiers, and then ordered the slaughter of the southern soldiers.

After killing hundreds of unarmed southern soldiers, Wang Bao dismissed the rest of the southern soldiers, and the southern soldiers only received half of the military salaries promised to them by the imperial court that year.

In this matter, there is a big discrepancy between the records of the officials of Jizhen and the records of the central court of the imperial court.

Combined with the political situation of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the main reason for such a big disagreement is likely to be caused by the dispute between Sun Kuang, the governor of Jiliao at that time, and Shi Xing, the secretary of the military department, around whether the imperial court negotiated peace and paid tribute to Japan.

In a nutshell, for the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the truth of the matter is not important, but the party struggle.

Shi Xing, who was the secretary of the military department at the time, out of consideration for the interests of the Ming Dynasty itself and his own understanding of the Japanese forces in Korea and the situation in Korea, Shi Xing, who had a positive attitude when sending troops to aid Korea, turned against the past at this time and opposed continuing to fight in Korea and Japan.

Shi Xing believed that instead of continuing to consume the national strength of the Ming Dynasty in Korea, it was better for the Ming Dynasty to take a step back on the issue of relations between the two sides, and to negotiate peace with tribute in exchange for Japan's promise that it would not invade Korea again.

However, compared to Shi Xing, the other ministers in the court advocated resolute resistance to the Japanese, so the two sides broke up unhappily.

Therefore, when Shi Xing received the news of Nanbing's troubles, he did not deal with it immediately, but dealt with it with a delaying attitude.

In this way, the affairs of the southern soldiers were entrusted, until Wang Bao deceived the southern soldiers, and then led the troops to suppress them.

In terms of cause and effect, this matter is the fault of the imperial court, but in this era, there can be nothing wrong with the imperial court, so even if the southern soldiers are owed wages, they cannot make trouble.

As long as they make a fuss, it is a mutiny, and it can be suppressed.

The purpose of suppressing them is to make an example of the monkeys, so that the officials who activated the southern soldiers and supported the main battle will be deflated.

To put it bluntly, the southern soldiers were the victims of party struggle, not the victims of the views of the northern and southern soldiers.

In short, this matter involves a party struggle from decades ago, and the matter of decades ago is too distant and too deeply involved, even if you want to investigate, you can't find anything.

Because then again, Shi Xing, the mastermind in this eucalyptus, was imprisoned by Emperor Wanli in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli and died of illness in prison two years later.

Wang Bao, the chief soldier who mainly suppressed the southern soldiers in this incident, also died of illness after the Jizhou Mutiny.

As for the other soldiers and generals who participated in the suppression, in fact, they were also southern soldiers, but their bloodlines were not suppressed by this one.

It's too difficult to pull such a lake account clearly.

Not to mention that after this incident, Emperor Wanli himself was also semi-acquiescing.

Qi Jin should know this, the reason why he asked Zhu Youxiao to investigate thoroughly was to put it bluntly, he still wanted to rehabilitate the southern soldiers who mutined in Jizhou.

But this matter is too deeply involved, and Zhu Youxiao wants to rehabilitate the southern soldiers, which is to slap the face of Emperor Wanli.

Besides, if you don't make an example of this kind of thing, then someone will deliberately follow suit in the future, so can the emperor govern the Ming Dynasty well?

Therefore, in the face of Qi Jin's request, Zhu Youxiao chose to remain silent.

It's just that his silence made the Qi family disciples of the Southern Military Governor's Mansion dissatisfied.

Fortunately, after Zhu Youxiao noticed it, he still made a holy decree, that is, to posthumously crown the 156 soldiers who were killed in the Jizhou Mutiny as the captain of Zhengliupin Zhaoxin, and then posthumously confer the descendants of the disbanded southern soldiers as the captain of Congliupin Zhongxian, so as to calm the dissatisfaction of the Qi family's children.

During this whole process, Zhu Youzhen didn't help at all, even though he knew that as long as he opened his mouth, the Qi family would be honest in an instant, but he didn't do it.

He knew very well that he could no longer blindly be regent and regent.

Although Zhu Youxiao's political ability is not top-notch, he is not good among emperors, and his military vision is acceptable.

In this incident, Zhu Youxiao did not help him, I am afraid that he just wanted to prove to the officials that even if there was no Zhu Youzhen, he was still the emperor of the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty.

He did a good job, which made Zhu Youzhen know that it was time for him to hand over power little by little.

Therefore, when the news of Qi Jin's death spread, the first thing Zhu Youzhen did was to let Shen Tingyang, the director of the city, step down and let him concentrate on being his political envoy to the old Hong Kong.

As for the vacancy of the city envoy, he gave Zhu You a note and asked Zhu Youxiao to fill it.

When this note was handed over to Zhu Youxiao, it was September 30 in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse.

Zhu Youxiao was on his way to Fangshan Nuan Pavilion in the south by train.

Looking at the music in his hand and looking at his younger brother's handwriting on it, Zhu Youxiao lowered his eyes and was silent.

According to the custom of the Ming Dynasty, he is twenty-nine years old this year, and he has also become the father of seven children.

Like him, the younger brother Zhu Youzhen, who was once inseparable from him, is also twenty-three years old at the moment and is about to become the father of six children.

"Alas......"

Sitting on the train to Fangshan, Zhu Youxiao exhaled, he was sitting alone in a carriage, and no one knew what he was thinking.

If he wants to take over the power, this is a good opportunity, because the current city department has to receive nearly four million taels of tax silver at sea every year.

Coupled with his internal funds, he can hold eight million taels of wealth at once, accounting for one-tenth of the Ming Dynasty's finances.

If he wanted to, he just had to put pen to paper and write down the name of an official he could trust, but he didn't.

He put the song on the table, and after half an hour, as the train stopped, Wei Zhongxian cautiously opened the carriage door, and only then did he get up and explain to Wei Zhongxian expressionlessly:

"Song Shu returned to the Qi Palace, and said that everything in the court and China will be supervised by the King of Qi."

After that, Zhu Youxiao left the carriage, while Wei Zhongxian looked at the sparseness and felt itchy in his heart.

"That's the city's ......."

Wei Zhongxian had a toothache, and when he thought of Zhu Youzhen, he immediately felt the feeling of being suppressed by someone's momentum, and the careful thoughts in his heart could only be put away unwillingly.

With this note, when he walked out of the carriage, Zhu Youxiao, Zhang Yan and others had already gotten off the train and were about to take the carriage to the warm pavilion of the Midsummer Palace.

However, after Wei Zhongxian got out of the car, he handed the song to Wei Liangqing with a painful face.

"Send this music back to the palace of the king of Qi, and say long live the dictatorship "Everything in the court and the middle of the country will be supervised by the king of Qi"

"This ......" Wei Liangqing was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the emperor, who seemed to be about to take power, could actually refuse after thinking about it when faced with the temptation of the City Division.

Therefore, after he came back to his senses, he could only bow down and answer: "Yes......"

According to the emperor's will, Wei Liangqing asked people to hurry up and bring back the songs.

When these words were transmitted back to the Qi Palace, Zhu Youzhen, like Zhu Youxiao, only felt confused.

He sat in the hall for a long time and did not speak, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen withdrew from the hall because of this, and the thirteen-year-old Li Dingguo also walked out of the hall with Zhu Cihong in his arms, giving Zhu Youzhen a space alone.

The three of them stood in the main hall of the carrier hall, looking at the doors and windows of the side hall that had been closed, Li Dingguo frowned:

"His Royal Highness has no intention of being in Daming, and Long Live is unwilling to return to Beijing, this time His Royal Highness handed over power, and Long Live did not accept it, why is this?"

Thirteen-year-old Li Dingguo had some opinions of his own, but in the face of his words, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen sighed and shook their heads.

Anyone can see that the King of Qi has the heart to give power, but Long Live has no intention of taking power.

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao didn't return to the capital, because he felt that his safety was not guaranteed, but Zhu Youxiao refused to accept it, so people couldn't understand what these two people wanted to do.

If the emperor really wants power, then take it happily.

If you don't want power, then don't interfere too much in the government affairs of the Qi Palace.

Now the emperor doesn't want power, but wants to interfere in the government affairs of the Qi Palace, which makes people scratch their heads.

"Long live the retreat, even His Royal Highness has no choice, he can't wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to tie his hair, and then let him supervise the country, right?"

Wang Chengen's face was worried, and the age of his hair was fifteen years old, and Zhu Ciran was only eleven at the moment, and even if he turned the year, he was only twelve.

There are still three full years before he ties his hair, is it possible that Zhu Youxiao has to go back and forth between Fangshan and Yanshan outside the capital for three years?

Seriously, Cao Huachun and others feel that this is useless work.

If someone wants to kill Zhu Youxiao, then no matter if he is in Fangshan or Yanshan, he can't escape.

On the contrary, if he was in the capital, as long as Zhu Youzhen was there, then no one would be able to hurt him.

Now he is doing this, not like guarding against others, but like guarding against Zhu Youzhen.

The emperor guards against the king of Qi......

If this kind of thing is said, I am afraid that the people of the Ming Dynasty will spit when they hear it.

In the eyes of the people, the Emperor of the Apocalypse and His Royal Highness the King of Qi are very affectionate, how can they be suspicious of each other?

It's not just the people, it's Cao Huachun, who thinks the same.

"Dingguo, you come in......"

Suddenly, Zhu Youzhen's voice sounded from the side hall, and Cao Huachun and others heard the words, and looked at Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo was also stunned, but soon hugged Zhu Cihong, who was sitting on his arm, to Wang Chengen, walked to the side hall, and closed the door after that.

He turned around and saw Zhu Youzhen sitting under the "General Map of Daming Kunyu".

Since the time has reached October, the sky in the capital in winter is mostly gloomy, so the atmosphere in the whole hall is a little bleak.

Zhu Youzhen sat on the chair and looked at Li Dingguo directly, which made Li Dingguo's heart furious, and he couldn't help but step forward and walked to a distance of only about three steps from Zhu Youzhen.

"Go up a little further......"

Zhu Youzhen raised his hand and motioned him to go further, and Li Dingguo took two steps forward when he heard this.

In this way, there was only a table left between him and Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen also took a good look at Li Dingguo.

Although he was only thirteen years old, Li Dingguo was already five feet three inches (170 cm) tall, and he was good at riding horses and archery in the government, and he was busy with farm work when he returned home, so his figure was somewhat strong.

The northerner's tall nose bridge, thick eyebrows and big eyes are all very well presented on his body, and he also deserves a praise of "majestic appearance".

"There are still two months to go, and I will graduate from the official school, have you ever thought about which school to go to?"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Dingguo, who was raised by himself, and was full of emotion.

"Your Highness, I want to go to the Shuntian Soldier's Mansion to study."

Li Dingguo's answer did not meet Zhu Youzhen's expectations, the Shuntian Military Academy in his mouth, that is, the former Yanshan Military Academy, is currently the only military official school in the Ming Dynasty.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen felt gratified, after all, at present, the generals of the Ming Dynasty are gradually aging.

On Wenchen's side, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, Shen Tingyang, Lu Xiangsheng and others can still support a Chengping cabinet for more than ten years, but the military generals can't say for sure.

Without the tempering of so many wars, it is difficult to say how many of those generals in history in the late Ming Dynasty can emerge.

As for Li Dingguo, judging from the ability he has shown so far, he does not dare to surpass himself in history in the military, but he can definitely crush himself in history in politics.

"The military family is very good, but you should know that I want you to be a person who goes out of the picture."

Zhu Youzhen has great expectations for Li Dingguo, and he is also a child raised by himself.

"The kid may not be up to the ......"

Zhu Youzhen's words made Li Dingguo lower his head, which was not surprising, after all, he was only a thirteen-year-old boy.

However, in this regard, Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "Being closer to Ran'er will be good for you in the future." ”

"Your Royal Highness......" Zhu Youzhen's words made Li Dingguo's mood sink to the bottom.

He has always wanted to go to Qi with Zhu Youzhen, but at the moment, Zhu Youzhen's intention is to keep him in Daming and support Zhu Ciran.

"Alas......" Zhu Youzhen sighed, leaned back in the chair and waved his hand: "Forget it, it's too early to say this, you should study hard." ”

"Yes......" Seeing that Zhu Youzhen stopped the topic, Li Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to return the salute.

"Call Hwa Chun and Seung Eun in."

Zhu Youzhen explained to Li Dingguo, and Li Dingguo slowly withdrew from the side hall when he heard the words, and called Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun in.

"Your Highness......"

The two entered the side hall and immediately saluted, but Zhu Youzhen went straight to the point: "How is the matter in the industrial zone?" ”

"Two of the 12 industrial zones have been put into production, and the third is almost halfway through, with an annual output of more than 8,000 tractors." Cao Huachun hurriedly responded when he heard this, and explained where the tractor went.

"By September 15, the Armaments Institute sent 3,000 tractors to Qi State, Beishan sent 2,000 units, and the remaining 3,000 units should be sent to Beishan and Jiugang respectively, and Nanzhou also received 500 units."

"After the lunar month of this year, the country's tractors should be able to produce 9,000 units."

"As for the number of places, there are 2,000 in Jiugang at the moment, 4,000 in Beishan, and 8,000 in Qi."

Cao Huachun succinctly said the number of steam tractors in various places, and Zhu Youzhen also relaxed a lot when he heard this, and asked, "What about other production capacity?" ”

"The output of cement, steel, bicycles, clocks and watches, textiles, minerals, feed, and chemical fertilizers has increased by more than 30 percent, and the Agricultural Research Institute has made out the phosphate and potash fertilizers you mentioned by Your Highness."

"Three fertilizer factories in Yunnan have been built, with as many as 1,200 pieces of machinery installed, and it is estimated that after it is put into operation in April next year, the annual production capacity will reach 60,000 tons, which can be used for 20 million mu of cultivated land."

"The local factory director said that in about three years, the output will reach 240,000 tons, which can use 80 million acres of arable land."

Cao Huachun smiled and explained to Zhu Youzhen, as if congratulating.

However, this news is indeed congratulations, after all, chemical fertilizer can play an extra role in one acre of land, and Daming's grain can be forty or fifty catties more.

If 80 million mu of land is used with chemical fertilizer, counting the soil and chemical fertilizer in other cities, nearly 150 million mu of cultivated land in Daming can be used with chemical fertilizer, and the output will increase by two to three percent.

It doesn't sound like much, but if the output of this 550 million mu increases by two to three percent, it will be able to produce an additional 50 or 60 million stone rice and wheat, and it can feed tens of millions of people.

"God bless the ......"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after he probably knew that the Yunnan fertilizer factory was put into operation and his exploits to Daming.

However, after relieving himself, he also asked the question of the railway: "How is the construction of the Kunzhan Railway?" ”

Although Yunnan is suitable for the construction of fertilizer factories, transportation is a big problem, and although Hong Chengchou has more than 3 million labor reformers, Zhu Youzhen is still worried that the fertilizer will not be shipped after it is manufactured.

"Yunnan has a lot of mountainous areas, although Hong Jingluo has vigorously operated the southwest before, but the Kunzhan Railway is only from Kunming to Beihe County, Beihe Prefecture, and it will take about eight months to repair Jiaozhi Port."

"As for the Cham from Cochin to the south, it will take about five years."

Cao Huachun knew what Zhu Youzhen was worried about, but he also quickly said the traffic between Yunnan and Jiaozhi, signaling Zhu Youzhen not to worry.

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly, and by the way, he also thought of how to use this batch of fertilizers.

Needless to say, as long as this batch of fertilizers can be transported, Zhu Youzhen would rather use them in Jiaozhi and Northeast China.

The reason why I didn't choose the two capitals and thirteen provinces was mainly because the next Ming Dynasty except for Yunnan, basically every province suffered one or two droughts, and it was a waste to use Yunnan's chemical fertilizers in the two capitals and thirteen provinces.

In contrast, there is no drought, and the Northeast has become the two major granaries of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

After the cultivated land in Jiaozhi was developed by the labor reform workers, it has approached 40 million mu of cultivated land, and under the condition of feeding more than 3 million local Han people and more than 5 million local people, these 40 million mu of cultivated land can be transported with chemical fertilizers to transport 40 million stone rice.

Not to mention whether it can help the people in Jiangnan, it is also a merit to be able to help Liangguang and Fujian alone.

If these three provinces can eat Jiaozhi rice to their heart's content, then the 60 or 70 million rice wheat grown on the 50 million mu of land in the three provinces can be transported to Jiangnan as the ration of tens of millions of people for the people of Jiangnan to live.

As for the remaining 40 million mu quota, it will definitely be handed over to the four northeastern provinces.

Liaodong's cultivated land is now more than 39 million mu, which is not a problem compared to 40 million mu in three years.

As for the other three provinces, according to the current situation of reclamation, the people should be basically self-sufficient in three years' time.

As long as the Central Plains survives for another year or two on the basis of three years, the three provinces outside the Guanxi will be able to feed back to the north, and the construction of the railway in the northeast will have been preliminarily completed by then, so the famine in the north will be stopped.

As for the densely populated South......

"So far, what about immigrants from the south?"

Zhu Youzhen stretched his brows, and Cao Huachun also returned the salute respectfully when he heard this:

"As expected, after the drought in Nanzhili, Huguang and Zhejiang stopped, many hungry people returned to the fields to continue to plan, refusing to move again."

"Only Jiangxi, two consecutive years of severe drought, more than 20 million mu of disaster, more than 8 million mu of harvest, so that many more people have asked to relocate."

"How many people?" Zhu Youzhen became interested, and Wang Chengen also interjected and smiled: "Back to Your Highness, there are more than three million more people!" ”

After Wang Chengen finished speaking, he explained, in short, before this drought, Jiangxi's population on the Yellow Book was more than 10.6 million, but after two consecutive years of severe drought caused many landlords and gentry to go bankrupt and could not afford to support tenants, they had no choice but to release the tenants.

With the release of the gentry and landlords, coupled with the people who took the initiative to hide, Jiangxi's population increased by more than 3 million people, reaching more than 14 million.

Many of the more than 3 million tenants affected by the disaster requested to relocate, and in just half a year, Jiangxi's relocation iron plate was issued with a full 720,000 yuan.

720,000 people asked to relocate, with the shipping strength of the Ming Dynasty, although it can be done, but it will take time.

Therefore, since the second half of the year, Huangdian's ships have been escorting the migration, moving more than 100,000 people every month, and constantly taking people from Jiangxi to Yingzhou, Jiugang, Luchuan, Jiaozhi and other places.

Because of this, the population is booming everywhere.

By September, the Han population in Jiugang and Cochin provinces had exceeded 3 million, and the Han population in Luchuan had exceeded 400,000.

Counting Nanzhou, in the whole of Southeast Asia, the Han population of the Ming Dynasty has reached more than 6.7 million, and it can be said that they are migrating at a rate of more than 400,000 every year.

At present, the entire Jiugang and Nanzhou have been sinicized, and if Luchuan and Jiaozhi can be maintained, it will only take 20 years to make the proportion of local Han people reach sixty percent or more.

In the past 20 years, Zhu Youzhen will be in power for most of the time, that is, even if it is not possible to sinicize the local area on a large scale, the Han people can be regarded as the main ethnic group in the local area.

Counting the Northeast region, it will only take ten years, and the standard of the Han Dynasty will probably be raised to two capitals and twenty-four provinces, far exceeding the area of the Yuan and Qing dynasties.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen was also in a much better mood, and waved his hand to Wang Chengen: "Let's pass the meal." ”

"Yes!" Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen smiled one after another when they saw Zhu Youzhen's meal, and the stones in their hearts settled down a lot......