"Bang-"

In the second month of the lunar month, accompanied by the sound of rifles in the vast grassland, a wild deer that was still running fell in response.

Shortly after it fell, a dense sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance.

Zhu Youxiao, who was dressed in a yellow Tuanlong narrow-sleeved round-necked robe and a red cross-collared robe, rode a tall Arab war horse and brought more than a dozen brocade guards to the side of the fallen wild deer.

Zhu Youxiao turned over and dismounted with difficulty, walked to the carcass of the wild deer and looked at the bullet port, just as soon as he saw it, he picked up the Apocalypse Eleven in his hand and looked at it.

"This rifle is really a divine soldier, no wonder it can kill tens of thousands of Jianyu in one battle."

"Long live, the Apocalypse Eleven rifle is indeed a divine weapon, with this divine weapon, more than 700,000 soldiers and horses of the National Dynasty are enough to sweep the four seas!"

In the crowd, Wei Liangqing, who was the leader, echoed Zhu Youxiao's words, but as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao had no shortage of people around him.

He threw the gun to Wei Liangqing, put his hands on the jade belt around his waist, crossed the carcass of the wild deer, and looked at the vast prairie.

"The grass and water in this Modong grassland are fertile and beautiful, and I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of military horses will be able to gallop on the grass in the coming year."

"That's right......" Zhu Youxiao sighed, turned to Wei Liangqing and said: "After Mobei is annexed, has my younger brother ever set up a prefecture and county?" ”

"Long live Hui...... Wei Liangqing returned the salute first, and then explained:

"A few days ago, it was just discussed that we were going to set the northern and southern desert regions as a single province, with three prefectures and twelve counties."

"However, at present, among the three major ministries in Mobei, there are still Zasaktu departments that have not moved westward and have not been annexed, so three prefectures and eight counties are temporarily set up."

"As for the matter of immigration, His Royal Highness means that a railway will be built from the capital to connect the Liaomo Railway, and then a railway will be built from the Kaiping Mansion section to the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and the Shan Yu City will be built at the original site of Hulan and Huwen."

"Hmm...... It is enough to have a province. Zhu Youxiao didn't interfere in any state affairs, after Wei Liangqing's report was over, he returned to the war horse, and after the difficulty of getting on the horse, he rode the horse to the east of Duolun County to set out on the return journey.

Since the Chechen Department of Mobei moved south, and the Gunbu of the Tushetu Department moved westward, only the Zasaktu Department in the east of Hangai Mountain remained of the three major departments of Mobei.

The annexation of most of Mobei has made the original Modong safer, and Modong, which used to be a side stopper, has now become Zhu Youxiao's favorite hunting ground.

Sometimes, he would go to the northern Haravin Mountains to hunt, where there were more and more abundant prey than the Yanshan Mountains.

Although there is no palace in the north, Zhu Youxiao once built a bell tower for Zhu Youwei at the southern foot of Haravan Mountain.

The building near the bell tower could be used as his temporary residence, and he was not worried about the last time Lin Dan Khan hit the grass valley.

From Hangai Mountain to Harawen Mountain, it is more than 2,000 miles, and Lin Dan Khan's 50,000 cavalry could not catch him at his peak, not to mention that now Lin Dan Khan has run to the Western Regions, and there is only one Zasaktu Department in the west of Mobei.

Moreover, the three guards of the Imperial City who followed him were all equipped with Apocalypse Eleven rifles, and whoever dared to come would be sent to death.

Taking the carcass of wild deer and other hunted prey, Zhu Youxiao returned to Duolun County.

Almost at the same time, at the same time that Zhu Youxiao returned to Duolun County, Zhu Ciran also crossed the Chengdu Plain and arrived at the Jianchang Mansion of the "former Sichuan Xingdu Division".

Sichuan Xingdu Division is located in the later Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, the Yuan Dynasty once set this place as the Xuanwei Division, incorporated into Yunnan.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, after the Ming army recovered Yunnan, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the local Xuanwei Division.

However, because it is located in Daliang Mountain, there are too many young people, and there are almost no Han people, so in the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set the local area as the Sichuan Xingdu Division in September of that year, and the seat of governance was Jianchangwei.

The entire capital division led the five guards, eight institutes, and four chief lawsuits, which administratively belonged to Sichuan and belonged to the Right Army Governor's Office.

More than 200 years have passed, and the Ming army has been suppressing the local Tusi who are trying to divide the territory, but they have never been able to completely rule the local area.

It was not until the outbreak of the Lu'an Rebellion and the end of the Battle of Fuliao that the Ming army had the spare strength to open up the area.

After Zhu Youzhen assigned Hong Chengchou to pass through the southwest, Hong Chengchou immediately dismissed the Sichuan Xingdu Division and set up Jianchang Mansion.

After Zhu Youzhen agreed, Hong Chengchou led troops to change the land and return to the local area.

The Tusi who were willing to accept were all appointed to official positions by Hong Chengchou, confiscated military power, and sent them to serve as liuguan in various parts of the southwest, and their descendants enjoyed the ranks.

The Tusi who were unwilling to accept it were all pacified by Hong Chengchou with troops.

In June of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Hong Chengchou basically completed the transformation of Jianchang Mansion and returned to the river, and at the same time, the population of Jianchang Mansion in the tenth year of the Apocalypse was more than 426,300 people, of which about 60,000 were Han Chinese and about 360,000 were young people.

In order to consolidate the local area, Hong Chengchou relocated 300,000 young people south to Jiaozhi, distributed the land according to the migration rules of the Ming people, and then left the 100,000 people in the eastern Sichuan area in Jianchang Mansion while emigrating south from Sichuan.

As a result, the ethnic ratio of Jianchang Mansion has changed from the original six to thirty-six to sixteen to six.

Therefore, when Zhu Ciran entered Jianchang Mansion, the buildings and villages he saw in Jianchang Mansion were basically Han architectural style, with only a small number of Shaomin style buildings.

However, it is not appropriate to say that Shaomin is not appropriate, because in the "Document of Announcing the World" in the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao unanimously recognized the united front ideology of "razing into China for China".

Therefore, as long as the Ming Dynasty opened an official school, it must be learned in official dialect and used in Chinese characters.

Not only that, but even the school uniforms issued by the school are all round-necked robes.

If the young people in the southwest want to divide the land, they must first admit that they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and then they can obtain the migration fields according to the standards of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Although there is Daliang Mountain in Jianchang Province and has a population of 220,000, this does not mean that they have few resources per capita.

The Anning River Valley in Jianchang Province is the second largest plain in Sichuan Province after the Chengdu Plain, and Hong Chengchou used labor reformers to cultivate many fields in the area, so the number of local fields has reached more than 2.65 million mu.

The people who moved here and those who stayed here were often given ten acres of self-cultivated land according to the rules.

Therefore, among the repeated immigration, more than 4.2 million people in Sichuan gathered in four places at this time: the Chengdu Plain, the Yuechi Plain, the Anning River Valley Plain, and the Jiangzhang Plain.

These four plains account for more than 70% of Sichuan's population, and the remaining 30% live in the hilly areas of eastern Sichuan.

In the seventeenth century, whether a place was rich or not was not developed or developed did not depend on what technology and various kinds of things it was, but mainly on the cultivated land and the number of people in the hands of the people.

Zhu Ciran traveled around Sichuan and found that the cultivated land in Sichuan is basically six or seven mu per capita, and in some areas it can reach ten mu per capita.

Among the representatives is the Chengdu Plain and the Anning River Valley Plain, and the most developed Sichuan is still Chengdu Prefecture, not only because of the large population, but also because the cultivated land in the hands of the people can basically be maintained at about ten acres per capita.

Although Jianchang Mansion has an Anning River Valley Plain, it can also reach the standard of ten mu per capita, but the population is too sparse.

For example, right now, Zhu Ciran is riding south along the provincial road, and all he sees along the way are vast fields and sparse farmers.

Three or five peasants scattered over several thousand square meters of cultivated land, harnessing their oxen and ploughing the land in preparation for the next year's spring planting.

Everyone was so busy that Zhu Ciran couldn't find anyone when he stopped in a village to fetch water, so he had to go to the village official's office to fetch water and continue to ride south.

"It's okay to work hard, it's good to be busy, and when you wait for the autumn harvest next year, you can have a good year again."

Riding on the car, Zhu Ciran looked at the people working in the fields, and his mood was also a lot happier.

If Shanxi let him see what it was like to encounter natural disasters when the population was densely populated, Shaanxi let him see what it was like to encounter natural disasters after retiring the population, and Hexi let him see what the Ming frontier was like, then Sichuan let Zhu Ciran see what it was like to be a place where there were no natural disasters and man-made disasters and the new policies were promulgated.

If you want to compare it with dynasties, then Shanxi is the Three Kingdoms of the late Han Dynasty where the plague was rampant in the north after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Shaanxi was the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the people urgently needed a stable Wude period.

Hexi is the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, when the national strength was prosperous and the people still had burdens.

When I arrived in Sichuan, here is the Han Wenjing and the Tang Zhenguan.

Although it is only separated by the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain, the people of Sichuan have never worried about the situation of not having food to eat.

Even if the eastern Sichuan region is experiencing drought at present, even in eastern Sichuan, which is experiencing drought, the price of rice is only 400 wen per stone.

The same drought and the same flat grain prices, Shanxi is 800 wen per stone, but the price of rice in eastern Sichuan is only half of that of Shanxi.

Shanxi is still eating boiled vegetables, but every household in Sichuan has raised livestock and poultry.

Even though most places in Sichuan can't eat meat every day like Nanxi Village, it's still no problem to eat some meat every once in a while.

This is the result of using 30 million mu of cultivated land to raise more than 4.2 million people, and such a scene makes Zhu Ciran more curious about Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other places where migration is more thorough.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Ministry of Households estimated that Yunnan had a population of more than 2 million, Guizhou nearly 3 million, Guangxi nearly 4 million, Guangdong nearly 7 million, and Fujian nearly 10 million.

The registered arable land in the five provinces is 2 million, 5 million, 12 million, 26 million and 18 million respectively.

By the time of the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the population of the five provinces was more than 1.6 million in Yunnan, more than 1.5 million in Guizhou, more than 2.8 million in Guangxi, more than 3.2 million in Guangdong, and more than 4 million in Fujian.

The population of each province has declined or even halved, and the population that has disappeared has migrated to Lucheon, Cochin, Jiugang, and Ryukyu Prefecture.

In ten years, nearly 13 million people were relocated from the Ming Dynasty, but the farmland in the five provinces gradually surfaced in the inventory.

More than 8.6 million mu in Yunnan, more than 7.5 million mu in Guizhou, more than 16.7 million mu in Guangxi, more than 29 million mu in Guangdong, and more than 22 million mu in Fujian.

In the Yellow Book of the Imperial Court, the population of the five provinces was reduced from 26 million to 13 million in ten years.

In terms of cultivated land, the number of fields that had been fooled for many years has finally come to light, from 63 million mu on paper to 82 million mu in real life.

Of course, many of these 82 million mu of cultivated land have only been reclaimed in recent years, but even so, there are at least 75 million mu of actual cultivated land.

75 million mu to support 26 million people, even if it yields two stones per mu, it will only allow the people to eat enough, and by the way, it will only bring more than 100 catties of grain.

But the problem is that in the past, most of these lands belonged to the landlords, and less than forty percent belonged to the common people.

For example, in Sichuan, if it weren't for Sun Chuanting's accusation that a large number of gentry were strong and powerful, then not to mention that he now eats meat at two ends in three days, that is, he can eat once a month to accumulate virtue by himself.

A large number of gentry and powerful people were relocated to Luchuan, Jiaozhi, and the old port, and those who remained were basically rich peasants, small landlords, and commoners.

In this way, when 82 million mu of land is divided equally among 13 million people, even if the small landlords and rich peasants occupy a part of the land, the others will be able to occupy four or five mu per capita.

Zhu Ciran asked the people that in this southern land, as long as there are two acres of cultivated land to feed one person, three acres to raise poultry, and four acres or more can be increased according to one pig per mu.

Therefore, if you want the people to have enough food and eat a meal of meat every day, you must have at least five acres of land.

This is true in the south, and the standard is higher in the north, requiring six acres of land.

"If the people live and work in peace and contentment, there will be fewer things, and if there are fewer things, Your Highness will not be so hard-working."

Liu Shun, who was riding a bicycle side by side with Zhu Ciran, said with a smile, compared with half a month ago, he has become darker and thinner.

Behind them, the two chubby brocade guards also became thin and panting on their bicycles.

After entering the boundary of Jianchang Mansion, it was uphill all the way, and the two masters in front could rest and step on it, but the two of them couldn't.

"At present, the tractor production of the national dynasty is increasing day by day, and if according to what my uncle said, hundreds of millions of acres of arable land can be reclaimed outside the border, then the good days of the people in the north will come."

Zhu Ciran listened to Liu Shun's words and smiled and spoke, but in the end he added: "But we have to wait for the drought to pass." ”

"I heard that more than one million people have migrated from Shanxi this year, but unfortunately there is not much time, so I can't go back to see them."

"Otherwise, when I go back to see them next year, I can know whether they are doing better or worse than this year."

Zhu Ciran has always been worried about the people of Shanxi, just because the people of Shanxi are the only place where people have starved to death along the way.

Whether it was because of long-term hunger and death caused by illness, or starvation to death, as the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, he was obliged to bear the consequences.

After watching this way, he gradually knew the burden on his shoulders, but at the same time, he also complained about Zhu Youxiao, who had been playing.

In his opinion, his father can't save the people under natural disasters, but at least he can help deal with some government affairs in the capital and not make his uncle so tired.

He knows best what his father's life is like.

The six parts sent to the Dading Palace were only one-third of those sent to the Qi Palace.

It took his father up to four hours a day to deal with them, while his uncle took seven hours to deal with them.

A day is only twelve hours, and the delay is only seven hours, counting eating and sleeping, my uncle's day is basically spent in dealing with government affairs.

"After I go back this time, although I can't share much for my uncle, I can still share one or two yamen songs."

"I share one or two yamen, and my uncle can rest for an hour or two."

The bicycle reached the top of the slope and ushered in more than ten miles of downhill, blowing a cold wind, Zhu Ciran smiled and spoke, and his words were also recorded by Jinyiwei and sent to the capital.

His journey to the south continued, and Zhu Youzhen was also very happy when he saw the content of this day's travelogue.

"My eldest nephew knows how to share my worries, but his father is too ignorant, hahaha......"

On the 28th of the lunar month, sitting in the carrying hall of the Qi Palace, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but smile happily when he looked at the letter in his hand.

His words made Cao Huachun and the three of them look at each other and didn't dare to answer, but after a while, Wang Chengen still said:

"Your Highness, if the crown prince really grows up, why don't you let him come to Beijing to take over things?"

"Hmm...... It's going to take over, but he's not done it yet. Zhu Youzhen nodded slightly, but then shook his head:

"The north and southwest are the provinces where the new policy has been implemented best, but there is a drought in the north and not in the southwest."

"It's especially important for him to look at the situation under the drought of the New Deal, and the situation without drought."

"When he arrives in Liangguang, he will basically be able to see it clearly."

"The rest of the land south of the Yangtze River is to let him see the most prosperous places in the Ming Dynasty, so that he can know how big the gap between the lives of the people is."

Zhu Youzhen put down Zhu Ciran's handwriting, he leaned back in his chair, and talked about his arrangements.

To put it bluntly, he just wanted Zhu Ciran to see how big the gap between the rich and the poor in Daming was.

As long as Zhu Ciran can understand the people's livelihood, then his concept and policy of "equal wealth and poverty" will always be implemented.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran, the education received by the two fathers and sons is different.

Zhu Youxiao is a traditional imperial education, and the means adopted to govern the country are the five techniques of controlling the people.

However, with the progress of the times and the coming of the industrial age, the traditional five techniques of controlling the people can only maintain stability, not make the Ming Dynasty rich and strong.

At this time, Zhu Ciran, who has received a traditional imperial education and a new type of education, can make the Ming Dynasty rich and strong while maintaining stability.

This prosperity is not only the Ming Dynasty itself, but also the suzerainty system under the dynasty system.

Unless the scientific and technological level of the Ming Dynasty is improved to the point that one acre of land can produce a person to eat and drink, and can also eat meat food, otherwise immigration will always be necessary.

"In Brother Ran's letter, what I care about most is the difference between "four acres of land" and "five acres of land" that the people say. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the handwritten book on the table, and said to Lu Wenzhao, Cao Huachun, and Wang Chengen:

"If there is no disaster in the south, four acres of land can raise pigs, and five acres of land can eat meat every day."

"It's the same in the north, but you need five acres of land to raise pigs and six acres to eat meat every day."

"If this is the case, if the people have ten acres of land, will they be able to eat meat and get a new coat every year?"

"The people understand this truth, why is it never mentioned in the recital of the local officials?"

"What standards do the people need to live in order to live, and will they not know this kind of thing, as local parents?"

Zhu Youzhen's words turned to criticize local officials, and Lu Wenzhao, as a person who has been investigating cases in the local area for many years, naturally knows the answer Zhu Youzhen wants.

Therefore, he said to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Highness, the officials actually know it, but ......"

He paused, and it wasn't until Zhu Youzhen looked at him that he continued:

"However, many officials need to steal at various checkpoints, and once the people move too much, the imperial court will invest less in the local area, and once the investment becomes less, the officials can steal less."

Lu Wenzhao's words are almost provocative, in the context of the infrastructure construction of the Ming Dynasty's "work for relief", there are not a few people who rely on "work for relief" to be corrupt.

For them, the more people they govern, the greater the investment of the imperial court in the locality, the greater the investment, the more projects, and the more places where they can make money.

In fact, everyone knows about this kind of thing, including Zhu Youzhen.

If officials are not corrupt, it is more difficult than the Xiaoice River drought disappearing.

It is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to arrest all the corrupt officials, because he cannot finish the arrest.

What he wants is for officials to do more serious things while being corrupt, as long as they don't go too far, he will naturally not embarrass them.

But if he really went too far, then he would have to invite the Jinyi Guard to raid his house and exile him.

"There must be no mistakes in the Atlas of Fish Scales and the Yellow Book, and the local government must not prevent the people from immigrating."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to Lu Wenzhao, which was regarded as his bottom line, and Lu Wenzhao responded when he heard this, and at the same time replied:

"News came from the Western Regions, on the fifth day of the first month of October, a conflict broke out between the Great Khan of Wara Gushi (Gushi Khan) and Huduntu, and the two sides fought in Beishibali."

"On the ninth day of the first month of October, Taiji of the Junggar Department led 20,000 iron cavalry of the Warat tribes to join the melee, and the Warat side was defeated, Hudun Rabbit occupied Beshibali, and Warat retreated to the Huangcaobo in the west."

"Here, Gushi and Tuhun have a disagreement, Gushi is ready to go east to Jiayuguan to submit to my Ming Dynasty, and Tuhun is ready to go north to form an alliance with the Rakshasa Kingdom to fight against Hutudun together."

"In mid-October, after Gushi led 40,000 troops to prepare to go south, he went to Hami in Turpan and rushed to Jiayuguan."

"Lead the rest of the tribes, establish themselves as the Dzungar Khanate, and go north to nomadize in the area of Zaisangbo in the northwest of Jinshan."

"According to the time, the lonely stone should arrive at Jiayuguan in a month, Your Highness...... Do you want to send someone with troops to meet them? ”

After Lu Wenzhao's words were finished, Zhu Youzhen also got up with great interest and looked at the map behind him.

Dzungaria went north, and Zhaisangbo should be the northwest area of Altay in later generations, while Gushi Khan, who originally established Qinghai-Tibet and Shuote Khanate, is now going to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, and Lin Dan Khan, who died of illness in Qinghai, has now gained a firm foothold in the Western Regions.

The changes in history made Zhu Youzhen very interested, and as for Gushi Khan's refuge, he naturally accepted it gladly.

"Send General Jiayuguan to send a letter to Hami, asking Hami to let Gushi come to Jiayuguan, and in addition, long live Shangshu, canonize Gushi as Jin Manbo, and grant his son the fourth rank of General Mingwei."

"His subordinates moved to the Qinghai area to be nomadic, and Gushi was placed in Xi'an Mansion, please long live the palace of Baoan County for him to live in."

"Then inform the local political secretary and government that there is no discrimination or bias in the Jinmanbo Mansion, and that it is treated as an ordinary official."

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Lu Wenzhao hurriedly responded: "Humble and orderly......"

For the first sweat of the subdued solidification, Zhu Youzhen is still quite satisfied.

If the Ming army wants to recover the Western Regions, it must need a person to lead the way, and the Heshute tribesmen and Gushi Khan are the people who lead the way......

Afternoon update around six o'clock

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