"King Qi is tyrannical! Disrespect the Supreme, bring disaster to the people! ”

"King Qi ......"

In September, when the news spread that the capital wanted to abolish the title of Duke of Confucius Yansheng, Confucian scholars who had studied the traditional Four Books and Five Classics immediately began to protest.

They gathered in the capital from all over the world, protesting in front of the Daming Gate every day, gathering tens of thousands of people.

However, they were limited to protesting, but if they dared to make any move against the "Da Ming Law", the soldiers and horses of the Wanping Battalion and the Daxing Battalion, who were in charge of monitoring them around them, would take action to suppress them.

As for the reputation after the repression? For a vassal king who is going to go overseas to serve a vassal in the future, Zhu Youzhen will not care about this.

Zhu Youzhen cared about what his brother would think, and he didn't expect it, after Zhu Youxiao got the cabinet's performance, what he chose to do was to send the performance to the Qi Palace.

In other words, this matter depends on what Zhu Youzhen does.

Zhu Youxiao has no opinion on this matter, so Zhu Youzhen doesn't care even more.

The votes of the officials are scheduled to begin in early September, and the more than 800,000 officials have three choices: in favor of the abolition, in favor of the abolition, or in favor of the abstention.

The three options actually correspond to the three paths.

Those who dared to agree with the abolition of the title of Yansheng Mansion were actually very disappointed in the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, and they had long been ready to pick and choose.

Those who did not agree with the abolition were basically conservative officials who had grown up under traditional Confucian education.

As for abstention, it's a wall-riding faction who wants to be a bitch and want the archway.

They are reluctant to let go of the Ming Dynasty's flower world, and they don't want to go to Qi with Zhu Youzhen, so they naturally won't agree.

But if they objected, they were afraid of being liquidated by Chengde, so they simply abstained from voting.

In this way, Zhu Youzhen can have a very clear grasp of the whereabouts of the officials.

It was also here that Gu Bingqian and others sensed Zhu Youzhen's intentions.

"What about abolishing the title of Duke of Yansheng, now it seems that His Highness is just screening officials who support him to go to Qi Country and support him to stay......"

In the Gu Mansion in Mingshifang at the beginning of October, when Gu Bingqian was lying on a chair, enjoying the heating in the house, and said Zhu Youzhen's plan, Gu Taishuo, who was standing next to him, bowed down and asked:

"Father, if so, then we should ......"

"Naturally, there is only one way to go." Gu Bingqian put his legs on the chair, and when the maid next to him saw this, she lifted her legs, sat on it herself, put Gu Bingqian's legs on her thighs, and kneaded the acupuncture points with her hands.

"Well......" Enjoying the maid's massage, Gu Bingqian bowed slightly, and Gu Taishuo next to him was also worried:

"King Qi has obviously said that he will leave in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the Apocalypse, why is he suddenly starting to screen again?"

"It's because I want to leave that I have to screen ......" Gu Bingqian opened his eyes and looked at Gu Taishuo with cloudy eyes:

"Nine years, ten years may seem like a long time, but it's not a long time for a party."

"At that time, the two parties of Huaixi and Zhedong fought for 30 years, and the Yan Party and Qingliu also fought for more than 20 years."

"In the future, the Zhejiang Party will have more than 30 years now, and this hasn't fallen yet......"

"The rise of the Yanshan faction has been less than ten years, and if you are a teenager, you are the most rebellious."

"In charge of military power, and in the temple, I want them to leave the Ming Dynasty and leave the court with peace of mind, without making arrangements in advance, how can they ......be convinced"

Gu Bingqian saw it very thoroughly, and in his opinion, if Zhu Youzhen didn't want to find a way to settle the Yanshan faction.

With the age of Chengde and the main figures of the Yanshan faction, Li Demao, Zhang Maocai and others, I am afraid that the Yanshan faction can still hold the authority of the temple for forty years.

Forty years......

How many forty years are there in a dynasty? There are few dynasties like the Ming Dynasty that have been established for 266 years, let alone the dynasty in its later years?

Forty years later, the Ming Dynasty has already broken through three hundred years, and from the perspective of dynastic stability, it is naturally good for Chengde to stay, but the question is that if they stay, the people who sit in that position can tolerate them, or whether their group of people can endure a mediocre monarch.

Zhu Youzhen can be said to be the most "amorous" person among the emperors and vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the other Zhu emperors are mean and unkind.

The examples of Yu Qian and Zhang Juzheng are still in front of them, and no one is sure whether they will become Zhang Juzheng's second.

"In that case, the title of this Holy Duke ......"

Gu Taishuo hesitated to speak, and Gu Bingqian also stroked his beard: "It seems that it can't be saved." ”

"What should we do with the tens of thousands of scholars of the Great Ming Sect?" Gu Taishuo was a little worried, but Gu Bingqian shook his head: "What can they do?" ”

"If you want the emperor to compromise with the king of Qi, one must master the taxation, such as the gentry and the strong."

"The second is to master the soldiers and horses, such as the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies."

"The third is to master the local yamen, such as Yanshan faction Chengde and others."

"None of these can be done without that, or without all three."

"What impact can the words of those scholars have on the imperial court? First, it can't raise the price of rice, second, it can't fan the people, and third, it can't cause internal worries, and what it can do is nothing more than make the people near Daming Gate feel noisy. ”

"Let them make trouble, and when they find that no one pays attention to them, they will naturally leave in ashes."

As he spoke, Gu Bingqian raised his hand and signaled that Gu Taishuo could go.

Gu Taishuo glanced at the time, and then realized that it was the time of his father's lunch break, so after bowing his head, he turned around and left the study courtyard.

At the same time as he left, compared to the Ming Dynasty, there were many old things, and the Qi country on the other side of the ocean seemed to be vibrant.

"Bell... Clang... Bell ......"

"Carefully move the machine on the ship, damage one, and the hundred acres of land you will have after the end of the labor camp!"

Obviously, it is also October, compared to the cold in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the western capital of Qi seems a little warm.

At a time when the people of the Ming Dynasty were wearing cotton jackets, many people were still busy on the docks in Xijing City in autumn clothes.

After three years of development, Xijing City has become more prosperous than last year, which can be seen from the Xijing City Wharf built with cement.

Qi Kingdom's Xijing Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) is full of ships entering and departing, with cement docks, rows of port warehouses, cranes using steam engines, and wide roads leading to Xijing.

At first glance, I thought I had come to San Francisco in 1850.

"This is the 5,000 tractors and 1,020 industrial steam engines and 600 large high-pressure steam engines delivered to Qi this year.

On the wharf of Xijing City, along with the crane to pull the tractor and steam engine off the ship, Jin Xuan, who was in charge of receiving the goods, also stamped the seal of the history of the governor of Qi after the inspection.

Standing next to the large high-pressure steam engines used in trains and ships, Kim Hyun looked up at these steam engines and exclaimed:

"With the arrival of these machinery, it is estimated that by this time next year, the cultivated land of Qi can exceed 600,000 mu."

"So fast?!" Hearing Jin Xuan's words, Yang Bingwen, who put away the paperwork, was a little surprised, and Jin Xuan also turned around and smiled: "The Xijing Plain in Xijing City is not lower than five degrees throughout the year, but it is very convenient to cultivate. ”

"Here, a tractor and manpower can barely reach the reclamation rate of 20 acres per year."

"Last month, the amount of cultivated land in Qi Country has reached 300,000 mu, and I am still thinking about when you will arrive, and I am ready for you to bring this good news to Your Highness."

Jin Xuan's words made Yang Bingwen almost bite his tongue, he really didn't expect that Qi State would be able to reclaim 300,000 mu of cultivated land in just three years.

"How is the yield per mu this year?" Yang Bingwen asked curiously, and Jin Xuan also knew everything: "With machine intensive cultivation, the land with fertilizer is almost the same as I expected, and the yield per mu is one stone and two buckets." ”

"However, the yield per mu can be reached, mainly the more than 50,000 mu of fields reclaimed in the first year, and the fields reclaimed in the second year are basically about seven buckets, as for the ones reclaimed last year, the yield per mu is less than four buckets."

"That's not bad, Yingzhou's cultivated land in Beizhou for three years is only nine buckets per mu." Yang Bingwen was a little embarrassed.

Because Yingzhou has a large number of labor reformers, it doesn't need machinery at all, but Qi needs it more.

Thinking of this, Yang Bingwen also came back to his senses and asked, "How is the yield per mu in Qi this year?" ”

Jin Xuan took Yang Bingwen to walk on the dock, and when he heard his inquiry, he replied without thinking: "Although it has broken through 300,000 mu of cultivated land, it can reach about 350,000 mu by the end of this year, but half of it was only cultivated this year, and no grain has been planted. ”

"This year, only more than 173,000 acres of grain were planted, and 140,000 stone of grain were harvested."

"By the beginning of spring next year, there should be about 380,000 mu of land that can be directly cultivated, and 2.89 million stone rice and wheat should be harvested."

Speaking of which, Kim Hyun and Yang Byung-moon got into the carriage to Xijing City, and the carriage also set off towards Xijing City, gradually moving away from the port of Xijing.

In the car, the conversation between the two seemed to be more, and Jin Xuan couldn't help but say: "According to this progress, the autumn harvest in the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse will probably harvest 500,000 stone rice and wheat." ”

"Now the soldiers, horses and people of Qi are basically one pound of rice per person every day, with two pounds of pigeon meat and bison meat."

"According to this standard, after next year's autumn harvest, the 120,000 soldiers and civilians of Qi should be able to barely support themselves."

"In the year after tomorrow, that is, in the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, it can basically meet the food and drink needs of 200,000 people."

"As for the seventeenth year, if the transportation of the machines does not stop, and the industrial areas of Qi are all put into operation, then by the end of the year, the fields of Qi should reach about 2 million mu, and the amount of grain produced in the autumn of the next year should be 2 million stones."

"Under the same standard, Qi can feed 850,000 people, and even if the rice grows from one catty a day to two catties a day, it can feed 4230,000 people."

"Therefore, I am ready to ask His Highness to organize immigration from next winter, and the first batch will be set at 50,000 people, with 30,000 Yingzhou labor reformers, reaching 200,000 military and civilian laborers."

"As for the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, it is also a winter immigration, but the Qi State can eat 200,000 people, with 100,000 labor reformers."

"In the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse, it is still a winter immigration, and the Qi country can eat 300,000 people and 200,000 labor reformers."

"Why are they all winter migrants?" Yang Bingwen asked puzzled, and Kim Hyun also explained:

"Although there is a large amount of cooked land at the end of the year, it is often only half of the previous year's field that can be planted, and the reclaimed field still needs several months of compost before it can be cultivated."

"Immigrating from Daming in winter, and by the time of Qi Kingdom, it is almost spring, and people can immediately divide the land and cultivate as soon as they arrive."

"Your idea is good, but Your Highness probably won't agree." Yang Bingwen first approved of Kim Hyun's idea, but then regretted it.

"Why?" Jin Xuan was a little puzzled, and Yang Bingwen also explained when he heard this:

"My father once looked at His Highness's immigration policy, and according to His Highness's temperament, it is estimated that the immigration division of Qi will start at 20 acres, or set at 100 acres per household."

"100 acres per household?" Kim Hyun didn't know what to say, but he quickly thought about why Zhu Youjian would set an immigration policy of 100 acres per household.

"Your Highness is preparing the people to send tractors?" Jin Xuan asked with a skeptical attitude, and Yang Bingwen nodded:

"That's probably the case, so even if next year, even if the cultivated land in Qi State breaks through to 600,000 mu, it can only support 6,000 households at most, or about 30,000 people."

"Before I set off to come to the Qi Kingdom, I heard that His Highness was preparing to conquer the Qi Kingdom in the twenty-third or twenty-fourth year of the Apocalypse."

"According to this progress, do you estimate that in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the Apocalypse, how many acres of arable land should be in the Qi Kingdom? How many people can be raised? ”

Yang Bingwen's inquiry made Kim Hyun's brain move immediately, he roughly calculated, and then replied:

"About 10 million mu in 23 years, about 12 million mu in 24 years, if it is all three years of cooked land, it can probably support 7 million people."

"However, according to what you said about 300 acres per household, then these fields will be enough to distribute to 120,000 households at most, and at most 600,000 immigrants."

Jin Xuan still didn't quite agree with Yang Bingwen's words, but Yang Bingwen was instructed a lot by Yang Wenyue, so he said very easily:

"Immigrants don't have to divide the land, not everyone has to be a farmer."

"The territory of Qi is vast, but it is impossible for everyone to be immigrants, and there must be workers."

"Let's just say that in the current Qi country, if there are no labor reformers, how many people have to become workers?"

"Labor workers don't need to spend money, but the people need to work."

"More than 600,000 people can use tractors to cultivate 12 million acres of arable land and feed 7 million people, so the rest of the people can work as soldiers and do some business."

"What's more, the king of Qi once promised to transport grain to the Tang Kingdom, the Huai Kingdom, and the Ji Kingdom, so the Qi State is also the granary of the three kingdoms in the western region of Leviya."

"The State of Qi not only needs to support its own people, but also needs to support people from the Three Kingdoms in exchange for gold and silver taxes."

"Moreover, it is impossible to grow grain on 12 million acres of land, such as cotton, vegetables and other foods, so in my opinion, it is not surprising that every 100 acres of land will benefit more than 600,000 people."

"Counting the workers and people from all walks of life, in the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse, the Qi State should have more than 2 million people."

Yang Bingwen's words woke up Kim Hyun.

A country can't be all farmers, there should be some farmers, industry and commerce, even if it is the Ming Dynasty, the people who really farm the land occupy at most eighty percent, and the rest are either craftsmen or small people living in the city.

Judging from the situation of Qi State, the workers are the people most needed by Qi State, and farmers are not so important, after all, as long as they can master the tractor, three people can cultivate 300 acres of land.

Jin Xuan learned in Yanshan that whether society is progressing or not depends mainly on the productive forces, and the productive forces of Qi can be said to have reached a level where there is no need to stabilize the country with only peasants.

"The dynasty is different from the Qi country." Yang Bingwen explained: "There are so many people in the country, and they are allowed to farm the land not because the country is short of food, but because of stability. ”

"This tractor only needs three people, and it can cultivate 300 acres of land when the farm is busy, and its capacity is better than hundreds of people."

"If the dynasty is really short of food, it only needs to drive people out, more than 900 million acres of cultivated land, which is just a few million tractors, and tens of millions of people can cultivate it."

"Like the country of Qi, more than 1,000 tractors and more than 3,000 people can cultivate more than 300,000 mu of arable land and produce food to feed more than 100,000 people."

"The Qi State can do this because there are not many people in the Qi State, but what about the dynasty?"

"If all the tractors are really used for farming, what will happen to tens of thousands of farmers? Become a homeless? ”

"I'm afraid that's why His Royal Highness King Qi doesn't allow tractors to be used in the Guannei."

"Not to mention, if the gentry and landlords of the dynasty all use tractors, then tens of millions of tenants will have to lose their status as tenants and can only become homeless."

"If the dynasty wants to implement these machines, the first thing to do is to get people out first."

"Either move the border fortress, or move the vassal country, in short, the population reduction can make the dynasty become a Qi country, so that you can use machinery unscrupulously."

Yang Bingwen's words are very thorough, and he basically says the question of why it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative in the industrial revolution.

To put it bluntly, there are too many people, and once the machinery is used, it will lead to a large number of people losing their jobs.

In this era, if the problem of unemployment is not solved, the people can only become displaced people, posing a potential threat to the country.

If you want the people to live and work in peace and contentment, you have to give them the means of production.

The means of production can be jobs or farmland, in short, they have to be busy and have something to do.

But the problem is that in this day and age, jobs are limited, and arable land is also limited.

In a country of such a size, even if only half of the population becomes workers, it is 80 million workers.

This industrial country of this size, let alone in this era, is a few hundred years later, it is also a big country with a low-end manufacturing industry.

The current Ming Dynasty and this era, let alone 80 million, is 10 million workers enough to produce the goods needed by the global population.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen could not promote industrialization in Daming was because there were too many people and too few jobs.

Even if more jobs are created, it will not be possible for no one to consume the goods.

The more than 5 million workers under the command of Huangdian have already produced enough goods for 300 million people to consume, so that the remaining 155 million people can only become farmers except for self-employment.

The reason why Britain and France fought with the Qing Dynasty in later generations was nothing more than to alleviate the trade surplus and seize the market of the 400 million people of the Qing Dynasty.

The current Ming Dynasty, in terms of commodities, has covered 200 million people under the suzerainty system, affecting 100 million people in Europe and other places.

With the world's population of only four or five billion, the progress of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty is destined not to be fast, and it can only slowly advance in the direction of developing new means of production.

The development of new means of production is nothing more than the reclamation of cultivated land in sparsely populated areas.

10 million mu of cultivated land is enough to feed the jobs of 3 million people, and as long as they can continue to create arable land and distribute it to the peasants, then they will not rebel.

Daming has no road choice, the volume is too large, and it must be a long journey to transform into an industrialized country, so at the moment it can only drill into agriculture one by one, but Qi is different, Qi is small, and there are more choices.

Not only that, but Qi also has a market of tens of millions of people on the three continents of Levia and South and North Asia, and can dump a lot of goods.

For the Ming Dynasty, even 100,000 tractors can't solve too big a problem, but for Qi, even if there are only 30,000 tractors, Qi can become the only industrial country in the world today.

Small volume has the advantage of small volume, and large volume has the benefit of large volume.

The difference between the two is nothing more than a question of the speed of industrialization.

As long as the Ming Dynasty can export the population for a long time, it can completely bring the Ming country under the clan system to a win-win situation.

When scientific and technological progress and demand increase, the Ming Dynasty will naturally transform into an industrialized country.

Of course, Yang Bingwen and Jin Xuan can't understand these truths, but they can intuitively feel the different importance of tractors to Qi and Daming.

If there is no drought, no food shortage and no food demand, Daming estimates that he will not pay attention to tractors, because the existing arable land and grain production are enough for the people to eat.

If there is no demand, then even if there is more arable land, the people will not cultivate it to grow grain, because the more land there is, the more grain there is, and the cheaper the price of rice.

The cheaper the price of rice, the higher the cost of growing grain with tractors, and the higher the cost of machinery, the gentry and powerful will use lower-cost manpower, and then slow down the pace of industrialization.

It can be said that the drought was a helper in promoting the basic industrialization of the Ming Dynasty, at least it created demand, which made the Ming anxious to reclaim arable land in other places to alleviate the internal food shortage.

However, it is foreseeable that when the drought is over and there is far more grain on the market than the population needs, the grain will be outrageously low.

How can more than 160 million people consume more than 2 billion stone rice and wheat, even if they raise livestock, the animals can't eat so much.

At that time, Daming will only have the road of economic transformation.

As for how to transform, Jin Xuan didn't know, but he knew that His Royal Highness King Qi should have thought about everything.

Thinking of this, Jin Xuan also had to sigh: "Compared to Qi State, Da Ming can really be regarded as a 'mess'." ”

"The mess depends on who's setting up the stall." Yang Bingwen shook his head: "If it is His Royal Highness, then even if it is a mess, it can be very popular." ”

"Although Qi Guo has a good stall, if there are no guests, no matter how good the stall is, it is useless."

"The Ming Dynasty and the Qi Kingdom are complementary ......"

"It's also ......" Kim Hyun bowed his head slightly, and stopped talking.

At the same time, the carriage also drove into Xijing City, and compared with last year, this year's Xijing City is more than twice as large.

"In any case, you and I are not the ones who make decisions."

Yang Bingwen glanced at Xijing City outside the window and said silently:

"The only people who can make decisions are always the ones who sit in that position."