Rustle of falling leaves, snow and rain......

March 3, as the more important Shangji Festival of the Han people, is a sunny day in the season.

Perhaps because he felt a little tired of overworking in the house, Zhu Youzhen gave himself a rare day of vacation, and took the family of Qi Wangfu to Yanshan County by train.

He did not go to Dading Palace, but just enjoyed the cool in the mountains in the south of Yanshan County.

The sound of the flowing stream was pleasant, and Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting on the bluestone next to the stream, took Yuan Xi's concubine and stretched his legs into the stream.

The water of the stream is not high, about a foot or more, but the water is quite wide, about two feet......

The stream flowed slowly, and three-year-old Zhu Cihong saw that the stream was cool, so he took off his clothes clumsily and jumped into the stream naked.

As soon as she entered the water, the cold mountain stream immediately made Zhu Cihong tremble and scream, Zhou Sujie hurriedly scooped her up from the water, and Zhu Youzhen, who was looking at the shore, couldn't stop laughing:

"The mountain stream is cold, I told him a long time ago, but he still went down, it's really not freezing and not remembering for a long time......"

Zhu Youzhen laughed at his son while looking at the green mountains and green waters in the distance, and Yuan Xifei next to him couldn't help but laugh when she heard it.

The history of the festival has a long history, in ancient times has become a large-scale folk festival, spring and Jingming, people out of the house, gathered at the water's edge, held a removal of ominous ritual ceremony.

In this activity, bluegrass is used as a spiritual object.

Orchid grass has the characteristics of fragrant people, and the ancients had to fast before holding major ceremonies to worship the gods, including the best bathing method at that time - orchid bathing.

The difference between bathing with orchid soup is that bathing in orchid soup is an individual act, mostly indoors, and can be implemented at any time, while purification is a collective activity, which must be held on the riverside and must be held regularly.

No, when Zhu Youzhen was playing in the stream, some of the female officials who accompanied them also threw some of the picked bluegrass into the stream, which can be regarded as bathing......

As if to adapt to the coldness, Zhu Cihong went into the water with his bare butt again and swam around in the water.

Zhu Youzhen, who was on the shore, felt a little hungry, so he greeted Zhu Cihong in the water: "The hot water is cold, ready to go ashore, and go back to the city to eat "Peach Blossom Yu"~"

"Eat peach blossoms~~~"

Children are the most playful, the most greedy, as soon as they heard that they could eat "Peach Blossom Yu" cold, Zhu Cihong immediately went ashore with his bare buttocks.

Seeing this, Zhou Sujie and the female officials hurriedly wiped his body to avoid catching a cold.

"Let's leave for Yanshan County." After Zhu Youzhen got up and put on his shoes under the service of the female officer, he helped Yuan Xifei ashore, and then got into a relatively simple carriage.

There are four people in their family who came out today, and the other four concubines are either taking care of children or in confinement, and they can't get out.

Although there were only four people, they were also guarded by more than 100 brocade-clothed guards and more than 40 female officials.

The child was making a fuss, and Zhu Youzhen arranged Zhu Cihong, Yuan Xifei, and Zhou Sujie in the back car, and he himself sat in the front car.

Today, in order to accompany his family, he didn't even approve the recital.

At this time, I can take advantage of the return to the city, just enough time to spare some time to review the recital.

No, as soon as the four-wheeled carriage started smoothly, Zhu Youzhen insisted on the wolf pen stained with Zhu Mo and began to review it.

The first note was sent by the Nanzhou Yamen, mainly about immigration.

It has been seven years since Daming discovered Nanzhou, and in the past seven years, Nanzhou's population, arable land, and pastures have also increased dramatically.

In the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen remembered that there were only three counties in Nanzhou Yamen, with a population of no more than 300,000.

But in today's recital, the population of Nanzhou has increased to 560,000, and this time the Nanzhou governor Liu Chengsi sent a recital, which is a request to open a prefecture and set up a county.

Now Nanyang is a state, three counties, twelve towns and sixty villages, and the population limit is almost the same, and it is indeed possible to upgrade to a prefecture.

Thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen replied to Nanyang, and roughly agreed to agree that the three counties of Nanzhou would be promoted to three prefectures, and the twelve market towns would be set up as counties, and sixty villages would be set up as market towns, and then three hundred rural gathering places would be opened.

As a result, it seems that the administrative team of Nanzhou has increased a lot, and it is a little crowded, but in fact, the counties, towns and villages in Nanzhou are very far away.

Because the topography of Nanzhou is very distinctive, belonging to the eastern subtropical mountains, the central tropical Gobi Desert, the southern Mediterranean climate and temperate marine climate, so the population concentration of the Ming Dynasty in Nanzhou is actually similar to the situation in later generations, and the population is mainly concentrated in the eastern and southern coastal areas, as well as the southwest region.

More than 500,000 people are divided into thousands of miles of coastline, and the distance between each village and village is measured in days, and if you want to go to the market town, you have to take several days by boat, and the population is very sparse.

In terms of the local situation, according to the current standards of the Ming Dynasty, honest development can carry more than 20 million people, but there are not many natives in Nanzhou, and the scale of nearly 2 million people in the three prefectures and twelve counties is enough to help the Ming control the local area, and there is no need to continue to go deeper.

What really needs large-scale immigration is Luchuan, Jiaozhi and Yingzhou.

Especially in Yingzhou, the complicated situation has led to Zhu Youzhen not daring to transfer Yang Wenyue back to the capital.

The nature of the people of Yingzhou is engraved in their bones, but the local Han people only have 2 million people after a few years of migration, accounting for less than one-sixth of the total population of Yingzhou.

Although Zhu Youzhen used the cultivated land of the Indian Governor and the Southern Kunlun Supervision Department as bait to attract the people of Yingzhou to relocate, he barely managed to control the population of Yingzhou at about 10 million in a few years.

With Yang Wenyue's reclamation in Hokkaido (Hokkaido) exceeding 9 million mu, Yingzhou's cultivated land has also exceeded 45 million mu.

When the fields moved south of Hokkaido were completed, Yang Wenyue resolutely distributed Hokkaido's cultivated land to the people of Yingzhou in Kyushu, Shikoku, and the main island in the form of three acres per person.

For the people of Yingzhou, who only have one acre of hands, this temptation is extremely moving, and many people in Yingzhou have returned their arable land to the government and dragged their families north to Beizhou Mansion.

In this way, about 3 million people will hand over their farmland to Beizhou, and the 3 million mu of farmland they hand over will attract 150,000 Han people to migrate on the condition of 20 mu per person.

Although Yang Wenyue did this, Zhu Youzhen knew that this was just intensifying Yingzhou's internal contradictions.

When the gap between the rich and the poor between the Han and Yingzhou people reaches a threshold, the Yingzhou people will be restless and make waves again.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen issued an order to the Governor's Office of the Eastern Army, and asked Sun Yingyuan to transfer five battalions of soldiers and horses to Yingzhou, so that Yingzhou could maintain twelve battalions of soldiers and horses to guard against local rebellions.

For Yang Wenyue, Zhu Youzhen also wrote a receipt, that is, if there was a rebellion in Yingzhou, after suppression, the main and secondary masterminds would be killed, the accomplice would be demoted to a labor camper, and the cultivated land distributed would be returned to the political envoy.

Although Zhu Youzhen felt that even if he didn't write like this, Yang Wenyue would do it, but just in case, Zhu Youzhen still wrote it.

According to later generations, Yingzhou's cultivated land could be developed to a maximum of 96 million mu, but that was at the end of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Judging from the fact that the Ming Dynasty is still stuck in the middle of the first industrial revolution, the manpower development of Yingzhou will be very slow, and if the population is not controlled, Yingzhou's arable land will not be able to keep up with the population growth.

How to control the population, I believe that Zhu Youzhen will not say it, and Yang Wenyue will also know what to do.

Closing the note, continue to deal with the next one, and this one is submitted by the Armaments Institute, mainly explaining the degree of scientific and technological completion at this stage.

What Zhu Youzhen himself is more concerned about is actually scientific and technological research on people's livelihood, but except for Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing, the Armaments Institute is only good at military research, so there has been no movement in people's livelihood research.

Not surprisingly, the research played by the Academy of Sciences this time was mainly the study of rear-loading artillery and collision shells.

The research difficulty of the rear-loading artillery is not great, the iron-smelting technology of the Ming Dynasty has reached the standard of producing the rear-loading artillery, and the wedge gun latch to ensure the tightness is being studied and produced, and the difficulty coefficient is not large.

However, compared to artillery, the study of artillery shells is a headache.

Breech guns and standard shells in history were invented and applied around the fifties of the nineteenth century, but compared with guns, the research progress of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was relatively slow, and the strength of gunpowder was not enough, so it seemed a little illusory to want the shell to explode.

The Armaments Institute can only say that it is studying this, and by the way, I would like to ask Zhu Youzhen's opinion.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen may have seen the appearance and structure of guns when he visited the Military Museum, but he himself was confused about gunpowder.

He only knew that smokeless gunpowder was invented at the end of the 19th century, but how to make gunpowder smokeless was his blind spot in knowledge.

Therefore, he could only say that he did not know about the Armaments Institute's inquiry.

"I hate that I didn't read the military industry back then......"

Rubbing his eyebrows, Zhu Youzhen continued to look at other notes.

Zhu Youzhen was skeptical about whether the Armaments Institute could solve the problem of artillery impact and explosion.

However, even if it can't succeed, it won't affect Daming's current world hegemony.

Of course, it is best if it can succeed, after all, with the blessing of breech artillery, Daming can maintain a leading position in military equipment.

After that, we will get the steam train of the logistics piece up, not to mention that it is no problem to dominate the world, at least it is no problem to maintain the leading position of the empire for a hundred years.

It's just that judging from the current Western countries vigorously learning the tactics and firearms of the Ming army, if the Ming Dynasty does not have some sense of urgency, it will be caught up by the West sooner or later, and it is not a good thing for Yelang to be arrogant.

If the Ming Dynasty had rested on its laurels and let the Westerners take the lead in researching breech guns and breech guns, the situation would have been different.

As long as Da Ming weakens a little, this group of guys will repeat the appearance of the jackals in their previous lives.

It's hard to write homework, but it's easy to copy it.

The Ming Dynasty's thinking on armaments was correct under the influence of Zhu Youzhen, but the Europeans were also right under the influence of the Ming Dynasty.

The scientific and technological competition between the two still has to rely on mathematics, physics and chemistry in the end, and mathematics, physics and chemistry are Zhu Youzhen's weaknesses, so they are also the weaknesses of Daming.

Zhu Youzhen's frenzied promotion of official learning is to find out some geniuses with whimsical ideas from the more than 160 million people of the Ming Dynasty.

In the case of the right way of thinking, Easterners are no worse than Westerners, at least Zhu Youzhen thinks so.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at the official school submitted by Chengde and looked at it.

In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty had begun to promote official education in Jiangxi, and the remaining three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Yingzhou did not promote official education.

As long as these two provinces also promote official education, then the Ming Dynasty will complete the most basic five-year basic education.

It's just that although the current promotion of government schools has brought more than 14 million government students to Daming, it has also brought huge financial pressure to Daming.

As of February 28, the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the number of people in the Department of Government and Education had reached 600,000, the basic expenditure of government and education had reached 2.8 million taels, and the expenditure on teaching and learning had reached 7.4 million taels, totaling about 10.3 million taels.

According to the situation of the Ming Dynasty last year, the imperial court's fiscal revenue was only 84 million taels, and the expenditure on education accounted for one-eighth of the fiscal expenditure.

If we add 16 million taels of military expenditures, 39 million taels of administrative expenditures, and 20 million taels of "work-for-relief" expenditures fixed by the Ministry of Industry, then the current Ming Dynasty is already eating its old capital.

With an annual deficit of nearly 4 million taels, it only takes 20 years to hollow out the gold and silver that Zhu Youzhen has accumulated from overseas over the years.

Although overseas gold and silver are also being transported continuously, once the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Yingzhou are included in the government education system, I am afraid that the number of students will suddenly increase to 20 million, and the expenditure will increase by 5 million taels in an instant.

Five million taels plus four million taels is a deficit of nine million taels, which is another three salaries.

"Spread into acres ......"

Zhu Youzhen kneaded his brows, at present, even he can't find a way to make up for the nine million taels deficit for the time being.

It seems that the only way is to maintain the official school, and wait until the first batch of students from the provincial government school, and the largest number of students, graduate, so that it is possible to reduce the cost of education.

However, even if it is reduced, it will not be reduced too much, after all, it is impossible to abolish official education and teaching.

Even if a third of the students will suddenly graduate, the population of Daming is still growing, and it is better to maintain the scale of teaching to increase the quality of education than to cut down on teaching.

A teacher teaching 30 people and teaching 20 people are two different things, and it is also a good thing that the quality of teaching has improved, and the bad thing is whether the Ming Dynasty can afford to teach a million people.

It is difficult to answer this question, and for this reason, Zhu Youzhen can only think of opening up new sources of wealth, or issuing treasury bonds, and then allowing time to increase the wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

The growth of Daming's wealth is certain, and the reason why it has encountered financial difficulties is that Daming has not yet turned a large amount of raw land into financial revenue.

If Daming can develop 600 million mu of cultivated land in the northeast, and 400 million mu of cultivated land in Indochina Peninsula, Nanzhou, Jiugang and other places, then even if the price of grain is as low as one penny and one catty, Daming can increase taxes by tens of millions of taels.

However, even the United States in the fifties of the nineteenth century took a full fifty years to get there.

Although the Ming Dynasty had tractor technology twenty years earlier than the United States at that time, it would take twenty or thirty years to achieve this achievement.

Zhu Youzhen didn't have twenty or thirty years to spend here, and the gold and silver treasury of the Ming Dynasty was only enough to maintain a deficit of nine million taels for fifteen years.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen raised his head and asked Wang Chengen, who was handling official business with him in the car: "How is the output of the industrial zone?" ”

"The annual output of tractors has reached 12,000 units, and it is expected to reach 18,000 units by the end of the year, and 24,000 units by the end of next year.

Wang Chengen reported the situation without thinking about it, and seemed to know what Zhu Youzhen was going to ask next, so he reported directly:

"At present, a total of 9,000 tractors have been distributed in Beishan Province, 9,000 in the old port, and 12,000 in Qi."

"The number of industrial machinery in the country has reached more than 14,000, the number of locomotives is 1,200, and the number of steamships under construction is 230, which is expected to be completed between the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse and the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse."

"Well......" Listening to the growing industrial ratio, Zhu Youzhen was very pleased, but at the same time, he was also concerned about the situation in Qi State.

He dug through the letter of state of Qi presented by Yingzhou's political envoy, on which Jin Xuan recorded various circumstances of the situation, among which the situation of cultivated land developed the most rapidly.

The letter of state was written by Jin Xuan on the 30th day of the 13th month of the Apocalypse, and it was delivered to the Qi Palace.

Generally speaking, after more than two years of development, the number of military, civilian, and labor personnel has reached more than 126,000, and the amount of cultivated land has reached 170,000 mu.

However, when Jin Xuan wrote this note, the latest delivery of 4,000 tractors had not yet been applied, so calculating the time, I am afraid that the amount of cultivated land in Qi should have exceeded 200,000 mu today.

Zhu Youzhen paid attention to it and continued to look at other situations in the national book, among which Zhu Youzhen was most concerned about the grain yield per mu.

After more than two years, the first batch of cultivated land reclaimed by Qi State reached a good situation of seven buckets per mu in last year's harvest, Jin Xuan wrote this part very carefully, and believed that Qi State's grain yield per mu can reach one stone in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and it can reach the level of one stone and seven or eight buckets next year.

In other words, the quality of arable land on the west coast is actually similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, and even better than that of some areas.

If the low temperature period of the Xiaoice River passes after ninety years, then the yield of cultivated land in the Qi country should reach the level of two stones.

In any case, according to such a situation, under the situation of ensuring that firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and meat are drunk, Qi only needs three acres of land to feed a common people.

Zhu Youzhen's idea of relocating two million people to Qi will be realized in the next ten years with the continuous import of tractors.

"Finally there's some good news."

Looking at the joy revealed between the lines of Jin Xuan's words, Zhu Youzhen was glad that he chose Jin Xuan to go to Qi State, if he chose a few ambitious ones, I am afraid that he would try to secede later.

"By the way, has Huang Long made any recent moves to the Qi Kingdom?"

Zhu Youzhen closed the national letter of Qi and asked about Huanglong's recent situation, but in this regard, Wang Chengen shook his head and said:

"Huang Dudu can see the national letter of Qi every year, but he doesn't seem to have the intention of going, probably because he thinks that the current small country of Qi is less than interesting."

"That's right...... Hehe......" Zhu Youzhen smiled, and didn't feel that Huang Long was wrong for doing this.

As later generations have said that the frontier is important, but if they really want to move from the rich to the frontier, and the wealth will not grow, then how many of them are willing to go?

It is natural that Huang Long does not want to go, he still has millions of taels of silver in his hand, compared to the fledgling Qi State, Daming is his ideal state.

With his temper and strength, he can honestly not make trouble, Zhu Youzhen is already very satisfied, and it is impossible to ask him to go to Qi State.

is still the same sentence, if you want the generals to go to Qi State willingly, unless Zhu Youzhen develops Qi State to the same level as Jiangnan.

If he can really do it, then the generals will flock to him without him opening his mouth.

The problem now is that the generals are in the bitter cold and have not enjoyed a good life for a few days.

Finally they can enjoy it, Zhu Youzhen wants them to go to the Qi country, which is more bitter and cold than the Ming Frontier, which is somewhat unsatisfactory.

If they were allowed to go to the country of Qi to enjoy, they would definitely go, but now going to the country of Qi is to be a coolie, a coolie who is more bitter than in Daming.

This kind of drudgery can only be done by a hard bone like Kim Hyun.

Fortunately, he did a good job, which made Zhu Youzhen worry a lot.

"What have Ran'er, Yan'er, and Jiong'er been doing lately?"

Zhu Youzhen continued to deal with the music, but he was also concerned about the recent situation of his three nephews.

In this regard, Wang Chengen thought for a while before saying: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been watching and studying in the Metropolitan Procuratorate recently, and the two Royal Highnesses King Huai and King Yong are studying at the official school in Mingshifang in the inner city, and they will graduate in two years. ”

Fourteen years after the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen's elder brother Zhu Youxiao canonized Zhu Cijiong as the king of Huai, Zhu Cijiong as the king of Yong, and Zhu Ciwei as the king of Ding.

Although Zhu Youxiao has been married for 14 years, he still has only eight children, four boys and four girls.

However, although Zhu Youzhen has been married for less than four years, he already has six heirs, four boys and two girls at the same time, Zhou Sujie has recently become pregnant again, and it is estimated that she will give birth in September, and he will have seven heirs by then.

"Brother Hong, Brother Xuan, Brother Jiong, and Brother Can, when they reach the age of seven, it is better to study in Daming."

Hearing that Zhu Youxiao asked Zhu Cizhuo and Zhu Cijiong to study in the official school, Zhu Youzhen was a little relieved, and at the same time explained to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen bowed his head slightly after hearing this, but asked again: "Is it to study in the first school, or is the first school to study with the middle school?" ”

"......" Wang Chengen's words made Zhu Youzhen frown, which also made Wang Chengen realize that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly explained: "The slave just wants to make arrangements as soon as possible. ”

"Well......" Zhu Youzhen felt a little uncomfortable, but still responded: "Let's finish the beginner's school first, as for the middle school, Qi Guo will also have it." ”

His words basically said the time when he left Daming, the current Zhu Cihong is three years old, and the minimum standard for studying in the official school is seven years old.

Five years of schooling, so nine years are added up.

In this way, Zhu Youzhen is preparing to leave the Ming Dynasty in the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse or the twenty-fourth year of the Apocalypse, and he will be in the Qi Kingdom.

Understanding this meaning, Wang Chengen bowed his hand, indicating that he should go, and then bowed his head to deal with the music.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he bowed his head and said at the same time: "If you want to tell others, just tell it, and it can be regarded as the ...... of their hearts."

"......" Wang Chengen paused, and after coming back to his senses, he could only whisper "yes", and then stopped speaking.

After that, apart from the sound of the wheels of the carriage pressing against the prefectural road, only the sound of birds chirping in the mountains and streams remained.