"There aren't many people left......"

Almost at the same time, when Zhu Ciran was escorted by Qi Wulong to Zhongzhou, someone in the official workshop in the capital spoke softly, and several people gently bowed the table and cheered.

As the No. 2 person in the Yanshan faction who stayed in the capital, Li Demao was not as flustered as outsiders in the face of the news of the Qin family's shuangbi death.

Not only him, but it should be said that many Yanshan officials in his courtyard, they were not so flustered.

Ten Yanshan officials sat around the narrow hall, all of them were there, and no one spoke, but seemed to be waiting for someone to arrive.

It's just that, looking at the smile on the corner of their mouths, it is obvious that they are still relatively happy with the news of the Qin family's double wall death.

This is not to say that they hope that the Qin family will die, after all, they are also raised by the education of loyalty and patriotism, and they respect the Qin family, but after the death of the Qin family, the prestige of the imperial power in the army was weakened, and they were happy from the bottom of their hearts.

The emperor's capital is not much, and the capital of the king of Qi is not much......

Thinking of this, everyone in the Yanshan faction felt a lot more comfortable.

Also when they were comfortable, the door of the small courtyard was opened, and it was Chengde who was wearing a plain Taoist robe who walked in.

"......" looked at Chengde dressed plainly, and many officials looked resentful or a little sarcastic.

But these expressions suddenly disappeared when Chengde stepped into the hall.

After Chengde walked in, he nodded to Li Demao, who was sitting on the right side of the main seat, and said hello, and then sat on the left.

After he sat down, the ten officials of the Yanshan faction sat up slightly and signaled that they were listening.

Cheng De glanced at everyone, and to his surprise, the current Yanshan faction is indeed developing very rapidly.

The twelve people sitting here are all Beijing officials above the fourth grade, and it can be said that they are the twelve people with the highest official positions and the most real power in Jingyanshan.

"The death of the king of Zhongzhou and the king of Youyang, this is the misfortune of the country, and the local officials in Sichuan still have to go and mourn, after all, many children of the Qin family are more inclined to us."

As soon as Chengde opened his mouth, he expressed his opinion, and this opinion also won the applause of everyone.

The further weakening of the imperial power made them happy, but the death of the Qin family's double walls also made them regret, which was not in conflict.

"After this incident, there shouldn't be much movement in the Western Army, I heard that His Royal Highness has been evacuated and Wu Longbo and Shizhu Bo have been crowned marquis."

"The two old generals are in the field, the Qin family can't disperse, and we didn't interfere, don't get any benefits, and make a commotion."

Chengde's judgment and words are completely fine, although in the eyes of many people, the Qin family's double-wall death will cause many shocks, but for the Yanshan faction, a group of Jing officials above the fourth grade, they know very well that the Qin family's power will not disperse.

Not to mention that the older generation of Wulong Marquis Qin Minping and Shizhu Marquis Qin Liangyu are still there, just saying that there is Ma Xianglin in the second generation of the Qin family, then it will be difficult for this family to be broken up.

Although Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming, and Qin Zhongming couldn't pick up the big beams, it was no problem to fight under Ma Xianglin.

The Western Army's support for Zhu Youxiao is still there, and there will be no problems in the next thirty years at least, but this support will slowly weaken, just like the Mu family in the early Ming Dynasty.

"On the Western Army's side, it is estimated that some positions of the general soldiers and generals can be vacated this time."

"I looked at the song, Lu Qin, Yang Zhaoji and other six general soldiers are all begging for Zhishi this year."

"These are basically veterans before the first year of the Apocalypse, after they withdraw, there will be a lot of vacant positions, is there anyone in the army who is worth recommending?"

Chengde asked everyone, and everyone also discussed it one after another.

"Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Zijing and others who graduated in the sixth year of the Apocalypse are good, but it's a pity that they are already the chief soldiers of the border fortress now."

"Yang Zhan, who graduated in the tenth year of the Apocalypse, is more than seven feet long, and his tactics, marching, logistics, and strategy are all the first in the same year, and he is already a general, and he can be promoted as a general soldier."

"In this way, Zeng Ying, who graduated in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, is not bad, although he is young, but not to mention the first in the same year, he has become a garrison in the first year of his tenure, you can wait and see."

"Wang Xiang in the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse is also good, and he can fill the position of general."

"Mi Laiyin, who graduated in the thirteenth year of the Hexi Apocalypse, is good, and now he is in the position of a general, and he can be transferred to any general soldier."

"Shaanxi Gaojie in the same year is also good, and he can be transferred to serve as the chief soldier."

"And Han Jingtong in Jiangxi is also good......"

In the narrow hall, some officials recommended the generals they were paying attention to, and seeing that there were so many candidates, Chengde was not nervous, and waved his hand and said: "Make a list, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies will recommend it." ”

Chengde's words made everyone bow, and the next second he also got up and said:

"During this time, let's be stable first, and wait for the county kings of the palace to grow up."

After that, Cheng De didn't wait for everyone to speak, and walked towards the outside of the courtyard, and Li Demao and others also got up and left the venue when they saw this.

This kind of thing is not only staged in this small hall, but also in the Gu Mansion and the Shi Mansion respectively.

The governors of all the prefectures knew that the sky had changed, and they also recommended generals to the governors of the five armies one after another, and the names of these generals were also put on Zhu Youzhen's head on the 15th after being sorted out.

It's just that Zhu Youjian's state at the moment is not good.

Maybe it was because of long-term exhaustion, or because of the death of Qin Bangping and Qin Banghan, in short, not long after the news was transmitted to the capital, Zhu Youzhen contracted a cold.

He has been bedridden for the past few days from the tenth to the fifteenth day of the first month, which is why he did not go to Chungju in person, but sent Zhu Ciran.

After resting for six days, Zhu Youzhen, who was in slightly better health, sat in the carrier hall again, and the only thing to be thankful for in the entire hall may be that Zhu Youxiao ordered someone to send the music of the past few days to the Midsummer Palace after learning that Zhu Youzhen was infected with the wind and cold.

Therefore, when he sat in his place, all that was in front of him was the list of generals that had just been handed over by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Looking at this list, Zhu Youzhen didn't know what to think.

"As soon as the talent left, did you start thinking about the person who recommended you......

Holding the music in his hand, Zhu Youzhen, who was wearing a big fur, was a little uncomfortable.

Wang Chengen, who was next to him, looked at him like this, and his heart was uncomfortable, and he bowed down and comforted:

"Your Highness, all the governors are just for state affairs, don't take it too seriously."

"If it's just for state affairs, why is it not Sun Yingyuan, Man Gui, and Qi Yuangong, but Huang Fei and the governors of all provinces?"

Zhu Youzhen threw the list on the table, and Wang Chengen was also asked by him, and he didn't know how to feel.

Obviously, Sun Yingyuan and the others have feelings for Qin Bangping and others, and they can't do things like grabbing positions if people die, but they can't do it, but the people below can do it, because they are very unfamiliar with Qin Bangping and others, and Huang Fei is the same.

"Did Qi Wulong receive Ran'er?" Zhu Youzhen leaned on the table and asked, and Wang Chengen responded:

"I received it, and I have now arrived at the border of Pyongyue, and I should be able to reach Chungju within 20 days."

"That's good......" Hearing that Qi Wulong received Zhu Ciran, Zhu Youzhen was a little relieved.

"Your Highness...... Although it is not appropriate to say this, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still young, so it will not be inappropriate for him to go to mourn......"

Wang Chengen hesitated to ask, he knew very well that the "condolences" were only on the surface, in fact, Zhu Youzhen asked Zhu Ciran to win over the hearts of the Qin and Ma clans.

But Wang Chengen is worried, what if the children of the Qin and Ma clans are rebellious, or Zhu Ciran is not handled properly?

"He's almost fifteen, it's time to go through something and deal with something."

Zhu Youzhen was a little tired in his words, he only hoped that his eldest nephew could be more sensible, not seeking innovation, but seeking stability in power.

Sending him this time, Zhu Youzhen was thoughtful, and it just so happened that he also wanted to see what character, posture, and means Zhu Ciran would use to deal with this matter.

As for the so-called inappropriateness in Wang Chengen's words, Zhu Youzhen was not worried.

There is no shortage of generals who can fight in the Ming Dynasty, at least in the next twenty years.

If the descendants of the second and third generations of the Qin and Ma clans have gone too far, then Zhu Youzhen can overwhelm Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming, Qin Zhongming and others with the word "Shouxiao".

When an official's parents died, they normally had to keep filial piety for three years, but the reason why Qi Yuangong did not keep filial piety for three years was because Zhu Youzhen gave him "love".

If Zhu Youzhen doesn't give him love, then even Gu Bingqian and Shi Fenglai will be laid off and go home immediately, and they will come back to work after three years of filial piety.

Three years doesn't seem like a long time, but in a place like officialdom, three years is enough to clean up all traces of an official, not to mention that Zhu Youzhen still has official studies in his hands, and there are more than 20 million students who can be used to be officials.

Therefore, no matter how Zhu Ciran handles it, whoever wants to give him a face must be prepared to keep filial piety for three years.

Zhu Youzhen didn't think that Qin Gongming and the others would be so stupid, but he also knew that Zhu Ciran's line of work was inevitable to look at people's faces.

The Western Army and the Southern Army are not bad, if Zhu Ciran goes to the Northern Army and the Eastern Army, or the Shangzhi under the command of Zhu Youzhen, then everything depends on people's faces, and if someone's emotions are not taken care of, I am afraid that the Governor's Office of the Five Armies will be even more dissatisfied with the royal family.

The position of the emperor is not easy to sit, the seat of the king of Qi is not easy to sit, and the position of the crown prince is even more difficult to sit.

In the final analysis, the civil and military generals under the Qi Palace's mansion began to target the emperor, and it was originally after Zhu Ciran was born.

As the "culprit", it is more difficult to make the officials of the Yanshan faction and the new generation of generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies have a good face towards Zhu Ciran than if they agree to follow Zhu Youzhen and leave Daming.

The trip to Zhongzhou is just the beginning, and there are still many things that Zhu Ciran needs to solve, maybe he can solve political affairs, but the military can't solve it alone.

In the barracks, whoever has the big fist will be right.

Judging from Zhu Ciran at the moment, he obviously does not belong to the side with a big fist, so Zhu Youzhen had to find him a person with a big fist, but fortunately, he found this person more than ten years ago.

"If I remember correctly, Dingguo should be graduating soon, right?"

Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen bowed slightly when he heard this: "There are still two months to graduate." ”

"How's the result?" Zhu Youzhen picked up the hot tea and blew it, and Wang Chengen also smiled when he heard this: "Shuntian and Yingtian are the first soldiers in the two prefectures, and according to this achievement, they should be able to decentralize as a garrison." ”

"Garrison...... It's not bad to arrive. Hearing that Li Dingguo was going to be delegated as a garrison, Zhu Youzhen nodded, but then he said:

"Let's delegate the Xiao Cavalry Guards to do a hundred households first."

"This ...... 100 households? Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Wang Chengen was stunned.

The garrison is the official position of the Gongwei battalion, with 545 people, and there are only about 100 people in 100 households, which not only demotes the official position, but also reduces the number of troops.

"Transferred Cao Wenzhao to the general army, and Cao Bianjiao became the governor of the Shangzhi Governor's Mansion and the Tongzhi, and temporarily led the four cavalry guards."

Zhu Youzhen did not answer Wang Chengen, but made a series of arrangements.

Wang Chengen immediately knew about his arrangement.

The transfer of Li Dingguo to Xiao Cavalry Guard as a hundred households belongs to the bright descent and dark ascension, and the Xiao Cavalry Guard, as the upper four cavalry guards, has the most opportunities to fight.

Not only that, the Four Cavalry Guards and the Sixteenth Guards of Shangzhi all knew Li Dingguo, and they had all seen him, and many generals had hugged him.

If he goes to the Sixteenth Guard, no one will target him, but he will be taken care of.

As long as he can show his face on the battlefield, even if he doesn't have any gains, the generals below can give him military merits and let him be promoted.

just let Li Dingguo go to the battlefield, which made Wang Chengen, who had watched him grow up since he was a child, a little distressed.

"Sun Kewang of Zhen'an Town, how is he doing?"

Zhu Youzhen didn't give Wang Chengen any time to think, and asked how Sun Kewang was doing.

Hearing this, Wang Chengen responded: "It is the leader of the governance of the north this year. ”

"The leader of the Northlands? Isn't it the leader of the country? Who else can surpass him? Zhu Youzhen was very curious about who could surpass him, and Wang Chengen was also curious about him and said:

"It's not that this is exceeded, but Sun Kewang only supervised Zhen'an Town for half a year, and his merits were only half done, so he was the leader of the Northern Land."

"There is no leader of the dynasty this year, it is divided into north and south, and it is considered to be two tied for the first, and it is tied for the first place, and it is tied for the first place, and it is the plug Yinxi of Dading Town, Jiaozhi Prefecture."

"Plugging Yinxi?" Hearing this name, Zhu Youzhen was stunned, he didn't look down on Plug Yinxi, but he felt that Plug Yinxi's ability in governance seemed to be inferior to Sun Kewang.

"Yes, Your Highness." Wang Chengen replied in return, Zhu Youzhen heard that he was also coming to Sun Kewang and Gu Yinxi's merits this year.

Wen Mu was sent by the officials of the Ministry of Officials after half an hour, and Zhu Youzhen found out after comparing that Plugging Yinxi was a year's merit, while Sun Kewang was a half-year merit.

From this point of view, if Sun Kewang is allowed to be the mayor of the town for a year, then he should be the leader of this year's Guochao Town.

However, the rules are here, his term of office is half a year, and Zhu Youzhen can't cheat for personal gain to make him the leader of the merits of the market town of the national dynasty.

"Since he is tied for first place, he should also be promoted to the eighth rank official after this year, right?"

Zhu Youzhen held the hot teacup in his hand, but he didn't feel hot at all.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the Ministry of Officials is already preparing to send him to Michen County, Taining Prefecture to serve as the Cheng of Zhengbapin County." Wang Chengen flipped through the document in his hand and said the result.

"Where's Plug Yinxi?" Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea.

"Du Yinxi was transferred to Jiaozhi Cham Mansion Nanan County as a county leader." Wang Chengen flipped through the document blocking Yinxi, and then responded to Zhu Youzhen.

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen bowed his head slightly and did not make adjustments.

He can't deny that Sun Kewang and Du Yinxi are talents, but at present, they are only talents from a county, and if their abilities do not reach the same height in history, Zhu Youzhen will not reuse them.

"Has this year's tax book been sent by the Ministry of Households?"

Zhu Youzhen asked about the tax, because according to the time, this year's income of the Ming Dynasty should have been summarized and handed over to the carrier hall.

"I sent it over, but you were sick in bed for the past two days, and Banzai ordered someone to transport the music to the Midsummer Palace, but the slave maid asked people to keep a backup of the general tax book."

While explaining the reason for Zhu Youzhen's incident, Wang Chengen walked to his own table, took out a few books from them, walked back to Zhu Youzhen, put the books on the table and said:

"In addition to the books, there are also a summary of the books of the four provinces of South Kunlun and Xiaoxiyang, Qi State, Guanwai, and the four southern provinces."

"In addition, the general record of prices after the autumn harvest in Jiangnan and other places is also here."

Wang Chengen kept some of the most important documents for backup, because he knew that His Royal Highness would read them after he recovered from his illness.

Zhu Youzhen was somewhat pleased with this, and at the same time opened the general tax book handed over by the household department.

[It is a year old, the number of households in the world is 31,276,437, and the number of people is 167,974,327. 】

[The total amount of land owned by the government and the people in the world is 9,339,319 hectares and 83 acres, and the land is exempted from land of 2,326,400 acres and 32 acres. 】

[A total of 82,364,300 stone was entered into the world, and a total of commercial tax ......]

[It is the year, the land is taxed, and the income of the twelve divisions is 8,434,777 24 cents and 5 cents. 】

【Years ......】

There were too many cumbersome things, so Zhu Youzhen skipped a lot, only looked at the number of people and acres, as well as income and expenditure, and finally set his sights on the balance.

[It is a balance of 19,916,437 taels.] 】

In the year of the catastrophe, the Ming Dynasty not only did not fall down, but achieved the "feat" of nearly 20 million taels of annual net income.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen knows better than anyone who such a feat is from.

"How is the grain that is often closed selling......

Zhu Youzhen looked at the word "balance" on the paper of the general book, and only felt a hot pain on his face.

"It's almost sold, there are still 30 million stones left in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are still 90 million stones in the north."

"There are still 60 million taels of silver for the purchase of grain in the Huangdian, and I am afraid that this batch of grain needs to be sold slowly, and then the silver will be distributed to the farmers."

Wang Chengen responded to Zhu Youzhen respectfully, and Zhu Youzhen was a little silent after listening.

Stabilizing grain prices should have been what the imperial court should do, but now the imperial court is making money by stabilizing grain prices.

Although Zhu Youzhen knew that the silver he earned would be returned to the people in the form of work-for-relief, he couldn't help but sigh a little when he thought that the people would have to pay for food by themselves under the disaster.

With a simple allocation of resources, Daming has reaped so much tax revenue, and Zhu Youzhen knows better than anyone how much effort trains and ships have made.

This year is not the worst time for the catastrophe, so after seeing the transportation capacity of trains and ships, Zhu Youzhen also said to Wang Chengen:

"Let the Ministry of Industry step up the construction of railways, shipyards around the country also speed up the construction of ships, and the speed of coal mining in coal yards must also keep up."

"Yes......" Wang Chengen responded, and Zhu Youzhen also looked at other notes.

By the end of September of the 16th year of the Apocalypse, the population of the Ming Dynasty was nearly 168 million, the number of fields was nearly 934 million, and the per capita cultivated land was 5 and a half acres.

From the "per capita" of fourteen acres in the first year of the Apocalypse to the current per capita five and a half acres, this is not a decline in national strength, but a "more real" data of the Ming Dynasty after a large number of hidden households were cleared out.

Zhu Youzhen knew very well that the true population of the Ming Dynasty had not yet appeared in front of him.

Taking the current population of 168 million as an example, nearly 25 million people are former "foreigners", and the population belonging to the Ming Dynasty is only 143 million.

Looking at it this way, it seems to be very close to Zhu Youzhen's estimate of 150 million people, but the problem population will grow.

If four years before the Apocalypse, Biansai was still facing the threat of the Northern Captives and the Jianju, then since the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty has basically maintained the means of opening up and squeezing outward, and the population in the Ming Dynasty has not encountered war at all.

Tens of millions of people were supposed to starve to death, and tens of millions of people were slaughtered by the plague, so the population of the Ming Dynasty actually continued to grow.

Needless to say, how much population can be increased in ten years, for the current population of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen conservatively estimates that it is about 200 million.

If we extrapolate according to this population number, the per capita cultivated land area of the Ming Dynasty is only less than four acres and six cents.

Of course, this is paper data, and the real situation is that the number of fields that have been cut off or reduced by disasters this year is more than 230 million mu, of which cash crops still occupy more than 130 million mu, and the per capita grain of the people of Daming has only reached about 500 catties.

It seems that the per capita food supply of the late 70s will be embarrassing.

The Ming Dynasty occupies almost most of the best places in Asia, even including Australia.

However, under the great drought, the people can still barely eat, and even once the disaster expands, the people of Daming will face the situation of drinking gruel.

But in the same way, as long as we survive the drought and use the current farmland to produce more than 900 million mu of cultivated land to support the 200 million people of the Ming Dynasty, it will really not be a problem for the people to eat meat every day.

If Zhu Youzhen remembers correctly, before he crossed over, later generations barely reached 800 catties of raw grain per capita, and after the resumption of production of more than 900 million mu of cultivated land, what can be achieved is 920 catties of raw grain per capita.

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"Seven years to ......"

Thinking that there were only seven years left before the end of the drought, Zhu Youzhen seemed to rekindle his fighting spirit.

He looked at the cultivated land and population situation of the four provinces of Shanyu, Modong, Beishan, and Donghai outside Guanwai, and the four southern provinces of Luchuan, Jiaozhi, Jiugang, and Nanzhou, and nodded with great satisfaction.

"At this rate, as long as the input of tractors is not interrupted, the self-sufficiency of the four provinces outside the border should be about three years."

"At that time, the third batch of industrial zones will also be put into operation, and the fourth batch of industrial zones will also need to start preparing next year."

Imagining that Daming was moving towards industrialization step by step, Zhu Youzhen felt a sense of pride in his heart.

The level of science and technology of the Ming Dynasty may not be as good as that of the Second Industrial Revolution, or even only reached the level of the mid-nineteenth century, but in terms of scale, the scale of the Ming Dynasty far exceeded the industrial scale of various countries in the mid-nineteenth century.

It is difficult not to be proud of such a grand blueprint realized little by little in your own hands.

Zhu Youzhen's mood was rarely much happier, and he couldn't help but say to Wang Chengen:

"This year's Changping grain still needs to be purchased, and on the original grain gap in the provinces, another 120 million stones will be purchased, and all of them will be sent to Jiangnan Changping."

"The slave and maid receive the order...... "On the Changping grain, Wang Chengen no longer asks his Royal Highness the reason.

Judging from the arrangements of His Royal Highness this year, it is simply a stroke of genius to store grain in the north and south of the Yangtze River.

Thinking that His Highness knew that the "Xiaoice River" could also observe the stars, Wang Chengen had already regarded Zhu Youjian as a god who could pinch and calculate.

Not only him, but many ministers think that Zhu Youzhen may have the ability to pinch and calculate in the script, otherwise why can he know so clearly where the disaster will be every time and can prevent it in advance?

It's just a pity that they may never know how many lives it took to obtain these news by Zhu Youzhen.