"Jingle bells......"

"Moo......

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, compared with Zhu Youxiao, who was inconspicuous, Zhu Ciran's special one-day curfew made many people happy from the bottom of their hearts and praised him.

Of course, the people are more concerned about their own lives than his approach.

Around the time of the autumn harvest, the king of Qi ordered that the fields in various parts of the country should be exempted from drought this year, and this news was published in the "Daming Daily" and on the notice board of the imperial store.

This made many people's hearts flutter, so they couldn't help but be happier even with the speed of their work.

In addition to exempting the land from the tax, the work of transporting grain to some major grain provinces has not stopped.

Although there was no drought in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces this year, as well as the areas south of the Yellow River in Nanzhili, the imperial court continued to hoard grain in these three places. Scoop

By the first day of the ninth month, more than 120 million stones of grain had been hoarded in the south of the Yangtze River, and about 200 million stones of grain had been hoarded in the north.

South of the Great Wall, north of the Yellow River, except for the Hexi Corridor in Liaodong and Hexi, and the Taishan area in Shandong, the rest of the place is full of drought.

Even though the autumn harvest was imminent, in order to prevent many people from rushing to harvest in advance, Zhu Youzhen still signaled that more than 10 million stones of rice and wheat would be released in various places that were suffering from drought to stabilize grain prices.

This grain does not mean to curb food prices, but Zhu Youzhen does not want to curb food prices.

The autumn harvest is the time when the grain is at its most, and the increase in grain prices at this time is a good thing for farmers.

What the imperial court should do is not to take advantage of the abundance of grain to earn at a low price, but to earn at a high price, so that the people can have savings, and then sell grain at a low price to stabilize grain prices when food prices soar in winter and summer.

In many cases, Zhu Youzhen also thought about implementing the rationing system, but with the national conditions, territorial territory, and information transmission means of the Ming Dynasty, the rationing system could only cultivate a large group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Scoop

Listening to the mooing of cattle in the fields outside the carriage, Zhu Youzhen, Bi Ziyan, and Cao Huachun watched the golden wheat fields in the carriage, and at the same time dealt with some matters that needed to be negotiated.

"The price of rice and wheat in the provinces on August 20 this year is here, and the lower officials mean that on the basis of the original grain price, the price of grain purchased by the people in the southern provinces will be increased by 10%."

"In addition, in view of the fact that there are already more than 80 steamships, and the old port and Yingzhou can produce about 40 million more stone rice and wheat, the two provinces can already start to buy grain and stock up on grain, and then hand it over to Huangdian's steamships to transport it to Shandong, Liaodong, Beizhili, and Nanzhili."

"With the capacity of more than 80 steamships and more than 5,000 sail cargo ships in Huangdian, it should not be a problem to transport 40 million stone rice and wheat."

"As for the mainland, given that the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and the Beijing-Hangzhou Railway were opened to traffic at the end of the year, and the Beijing-Long Railway, Yunlu Railway and Beijing-Jiajia Railway can only be completed by a few hundred miles of railways, land capacity should not be a problem."

"Sichuan, Huguang, Yunnan, Jiaozhi, Luchuan and other five provinces should be able to produce 60 million stone rice and wheat."

"This inside and outside, saving 100 million stone of rice and wheat is not a problem, if you count the two Guangzhou, it can reach about 120 million stone." Scoop

Bi Ziyan checked the accounts for Zhu You, and it can be said that under the condition that the two capitals and six provinces of Daming suffered from drought, the amount of grain that could be allocated in Daming was greatly reduced compared with the previous two years.

The only good news is that the advent of steamships and trains has reduced much of what was previously lost on land and allowed more food to be transported to relief sites.

"The population of the north and south of the Yangtze River will be further reduced."

Zhu Youzhen looked at the grain prices in the provinces in his hand, and couldn't help frowning.

"People in the cities and towns can not move, but the countryside must move."

"You can't forcibly move, you have to let the people do it their own free will."

"This year's drought has come so quickly that it will definitely not subside for a while, so we must be prepared for a protracted war." Scoop

"According to the population and the number of paddy fields and irrigated fields in the Yellow Book and the Atlas of Fish Scales, there should be a food shortage of about 60 million stone in the two capitals and five provinces."

"Even if the grain of these 100 million stone provinces is transferred to the provinces north of the Yellow River and south of the Great Wall, the provinces often close their positions and hoard

At most, the grain will remain at about 250 million stones."

"We can't let up just because we have enough to eat for three years, and no one knows how many more years this drought will last."

Zhu Youzhen's words were very loud for Cao Huachun and Bi Ziyan, after all, this drought has not stopped since the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

Who knows if it will last until seventeen years, or twenty-seven years.

Although no dynasty has experienced such a major drought since ancient times, no one can say that the Ming Dynasty will not experience it.

Preparing for a rainy day is what these officials should do. Scoop

At the same time as the conversation, the autumn wind blew through the wheat field, and the sound of rustling in the wheat field kept coming, which was extremely pleasing to the eye at a glance.

"In mid-October, the imperial brother will go to Nanjing to preside over the renovation of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and Yiluan Wei will go south to take over the defense of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and at the same time lay off a number of palace maids in Nanjing."

"Not only Nanjing, but even the palace maids in Beijing will also be abolished."

"As for the eunuchs, if they are dismissed and go home, most of them will be ridiculed, so let them live well in the palace."

"I have discussed with the imperial brother that in the future, except for those who are eunuchs who can cut off the roots of their troubles and enter the palace, the rest of the people who are eunuchs will not be allowed to enter the palace."

"Even if it is a palace maid, those over the age of thirteen enter the palace, and when they are twenty years old, they will be released from the palace to marry."

Zhu Youzhen talked about the matter of eunuchs and palace maids, he discussed it seriously, and felt that the palace maids and eunuchs in Liangjing and Fengyang Palace were inevitably too much, and they had to consume more than 600,000 taels of silver every year. Scoop

There are more than 40,000 palace maids and eunuchs in the Sanjing Imperial Palace, and it is more appropriate to release more than 10,000 palace maids in one go, and keep 20,000 eunuchs and 10,000 palace maids.

However, as soon as the rules of the heavenly eunuchs are released, the number of eunuchs may plummet to thousands in the future, but it is not excluded that some people will pretend to be the people of the heavenly eunuchs to enter the palace.

Zhu Youzhen's original intention was to directly abolish the eunuch system, but Zhu Youxiao did not agree, so the two brothers chose this compromise method.

This kind of thing does not have much to do with the household department, because now the internal treasury and the treasury have been separated, except for the repair of the palace and the outer court, the household department needs to pay for other royal projects, and the emperor pays for the other royal projects.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen told Bi Ziyan was that he wanted him to serve as the first assistant of the cabinet and play a propaganda role for officials in various prefectures and counties.

Speaking of this, Cao Huachun next to him couldn't help but feel a little sad, and Zhu Youzhen also realized that he had talked about the sore spot of his own Cao Daban, so he changed the topic:

"The number of Han Chinese in Wusizang is almost the same, and Hong Chengchou's side is also preparing to send troops to attack and harass the southern captives." Scoop

"In this case, from now on, once a prisoner from all over the world violates the "Famous Law" in the "Da Ming Law", all those who are sentenced to death, exile, and death will be exiled to Lingbei Province, except for Ling Chi and the Ten Evils."

The "Law of Famous Cases" is the program of the "Da Ming Law", with a total of 47 articles.

It lays down the basic principles for sentencing for different levels and different criminal acts.

Among them, the "five punishments" stipulate that there are five types of punishments, namely, flogging, rod, imprisonment, exile, and death.

In the specific provisions of the "Six Laws", there are punishments such as Ling Chi being executed, being confiscated into the army in remote areas, being relocated, and being tattooed.

The "Ten Evils" stipulate the ten so-called "forgiveness" of serious crimes, such as rebellion, rebellion, rebellion, rebellion, injustice, disrespect, filial piety, disharmony, injustice, and civil strife.

In general, small sins are whipped, big sins are punished, and all small sins are exiled. Scoop

As far as Daming's current situation is concerned, the people who suffer from Ling Chi are basically human traffickers and ***, fornication, murder of husbands, wives and daughters, and parents.

Even if it is a corrupt official, at most it is beheaded or exiled, and even Ling Chi is not worthy of it.

Because the law was made very harshly, ordinary people who killed, provoked, and gathered to fight were often sentenced to exile, and not one person, but one family.

These strict laws and the stationing of local guard camps have made even the clans in Jiangnan, Fujian, Liangguang, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places more honest.

Because once a clan fight is provoked,

That would be a situation of exile for both races.

This kind of atmosphere has been curbed since the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and this phenomenon is still present in the seventeenth year of the weather.

This year, just over eight months later, there have already been three clan fights, and they have also been exiled to Nanzhou, Wusizang and other places, with more than 30,000 people. Scoop

Since they were exiled, and they were exiled to one place for the entire clan, the exile did not affect their unity.

After being exiled to a place, they can still be united, and because there is no exile, when they arrive in the place, if anyone bullies them, they will take revenge and fight again.

Zhu Youzhen was also very helpless about their fighting in the penal colony, so after thinking about it, he was ready to revise this law.

He wants to change the clan fighting from internal fighting to external fighting, and use it to consolidate the frontier of the Ming Dynasty.

"In the future, the clan's weapons will no longer be exiled to Lingbei, Wusizang, and Nanzhou, but will be exiled to at least densely populated places."

Zhu Youzhen spoke to Bi Ziyan, and Bi Ziyan was only stunned for a second, and reacted the next second.

"Your Highness's move can be regarded as driving the tiger and devouring the wolf." Scoop

"They are not tigers, and the local people are not wolves, they are just stabilizing the territory." Zhu Youzhen said lightly, and drank a cup of tea at the same time.

Since the time was in the afternoon, Qiu Laohu was a little powerful, so Zhu Youzhen also spoke:

"Let's almost go back to the city, the autumn harvest situation around the capital is not a big problem, so don't worry."

He looked out the window, and Bi Ziyan and the others also nodded.

In the final analysis, there are many large lakes and rivers in Hebei in this era, especially the triangle lake with a circumference of 200 li, which accepts water from the upper reaches of Hebei's Xilai waterway and connects dozens of prefectures and counties upstream and downstream.

In addition to the triangular lake, Baiyangdian Lake and Wugongdian Lake are also extremely famous, and the river network in Hebei is not less than that in the south.

The reason why these great lakes will disappear is directly related to the population growth in later generations. Scoop

Even at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were 30 million people in Hebei, and in later generations it was as high as 100 million.

On the other hand, the current Ming Dynasty, although Yanshan County is missing, but even so, there is still less than 6.8 million people on the Hebei Plain.

This four-to-ten-fold gap represents the gap between the per capita water resources of the people of Hebei in the Ming Dynasty and the per capita water resources of Hebei in later generations.

If the per capita capita of Hebei in later generations only had three tons of water a year, then the people of the Ming Dynasty would have more than 50 tons.

Even if this water is used for agriculture, with the arable land in the north of the Daming River, it will not be able to consume so much water.

Therefore, large lakes and large lakes naturally abound, especially when Zhu Youzhen was still continuously reducing the population of Beizhili, and the area of the local large lakes and large rivers not only did not shrink due to drought, but expanded.

However, Zhu Youzhen will not let the people of Beizhili be reduced to too much, and five million is a relatively reasonable amount. Scoop

Among the five million people, as long as 3 million people are engaged in agricultural production, then Beizhili can meet the extravagant expectation of 10 mu of cultivated land per capita.

Zhu Youzhen wants to immigrate to Shibian, but this does not mean that he wants to reverse urbanization, and it is impossible for him to pull all the Ming people to farm.

Urbanization is certain, and so is agriculture.

In areas with dense peasant populations, either let the peasants go to the cities and provide them with jobs, or they can move and give them enough land to become rich.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a market that 160 million workers could afford, nor did it have the land that 160 million peasants could afford, but he could make some people become workers and some people continue to be farmers.

On the way back to the carriage, a lot of information flashed in Zhu Youzhen's mind.

A simple urban population can illustrate the urbanization of the Ming Dynasty. Scoop

Although the gentry and officials in Jiangnan are currently resisting the census of the Ming Dynasty and the "Yellow Book" of the Ming Dynasty, they cannot hide the general urban population.

Even if they wanted to hide, they had to ask the people if they wanted to.

In the case of the popularization of government education, local children who want to study government schools need to register their entire family registration before they are eligible to study.

Unless the gentry tenants in Jiangnan can meet the education problems of hundreds or tens of millions of children, they will not be able to resist the census.

There are more than 168 million people in the Ming Dynasty, more than 18 million people live in the county seats, and more than 9 million people live in market towns.

The sum of the two is more than 27 million, which also means that the urbanization rate of Daming is about 16%.

This is to look at the whole Ming Dynasty, but if you look at a local province, such as a province like Beizhili, the urbanization rate will be higher. Scoop

At present, there are more than 6.8 million people living in Beizhili, with more than 2.2 million people living in the county seat and more than 800,000 people living in the market town.

Of the 3 million people concentrated in the cities and towns, less than 300,000 are engaged in agricultural production, and the urbanization rate is close to 40 percent, including the 3.8 million population in the rural areas, or 4.1 million.

This ratio is relatively healthy, and if every province can reach this level, Daming can be called a semi-industrialized country.

Even with the current cultivated land area, if only 60% of the population of the Ming Dynasty is engaged in agricultural production, it can still achieve 10 mu of cultivated land per capita.

If we want the peasants to become rich, we must reclaim cultivated land, and we must also do resettlement, but we must also promote urbanization.

Zhu Youzhen's thinking has been liberalized a lot, retaining the urban population and relocating the rural population to get rich collectively.

While he was thinking this, the carriage had already arrived at Andingmen, in the north of the capital. Scoop

As the three of them returned to Beijing, Zhu Ciran, who was dealing with the music in the East Palace at the moment, was also dealing with the music in a bitter way.

One by one, they were laid down in front of him, then processed, and then handed down.

In this process, Zhang Xiu and Liu Shun have been involved, but Li Yongzhen, who should have been close to Zhu Ciran, was left aside.

Looking at this posture, Li Yongzhen also seemed to understand that His Royal Highness didn't like eunuchs to interfere in politics, so he could only do some logistics work on the side of serving tea and water.

[Qin Tianjian played: It is the moon, and the sky is red and yellow every morning and dusk. Zhan said that "the main soldier of the Japanese air", and those who know it are worried. 】

"Nonsense! Can you not be the main soldier? The north and the north have been defeated, what are you farting here!"

In the Chunhe Palace, Zhu Ciran's scolding and scolding voices came from time to time. Scoop

Liu Shun, Zhang Xiu and others next to him were already accustomed to the habit of their Royal Highness dealing with swear words, and Li Yongzhen next to him was not moved at all.

Zhu Ciran dealt with the sparseness, and it was considered civilized if he didn't scold a hundred sentences every day.

In front of them, Zhu Ciran finished handling most of the notes, and then picked up the notes of the military department.

[In September, the world's soldiers and horses should buy 564,327 sets of winter clothes, please send 200,000 taels. 】

"Shouldn't winter clothes be ready in the summer? Is the squire of the Soldiers and Horses Division of the Ministry of War a fool? I don't know if it's cheaper to buy cotton in the summer?!"

Zhu Ciran scolded and scolded and replied with a Zhu pen:

[Although I am the prince, I also know that cotton is cheap in summer, how can you not know as a parent official? ] Soup

[Besides, it is cold in September outside the gate, and you wait for September to prepare winter clothes, and January is enough? 】

[From the age of next year, winter clothes will be purchased in June, and the soldiers and horses must be sent out before September. 】

Zhu Ciran used his self-proclaimed self-proclaimed me, but this is nothing, after all, there are not a few Ming Dynasty emperors like him.

Even Ming Muzong Zhu Zaijun, who did not have a strong sense of existence in later generations, would sometimes reply to Gao Gong with words like "someone bullied me", which frightened the old man Gao and hurriedly ran into the palace.

As a result, after looking at it, I found that when Zhu Zaikun was pulling with the minister, the minister's nails were too long and scratched his hand.

Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, whether it is written or spoken, most of the self-proclaimed claims are mainly "me" anyway.

For Zhu Ciran, who is used to wandering around the village, he likes this self-proclaimed self-proclaimed one very much

, I always feel very domineering, so I use it. Scoop

Meng Chengguang said that one of the several things he disrespects the etiquette system is that he likes to call himself me, not lonely.

However, Zhu Ciran didn't care about them, and still went his own way.

After reviewing a book of the Ministry of War, Zhu Ciran put it aside and continued to pick up a book of the Ministry of War to deal with it.

[The soldiers and horses of the old port made Ma Shiying slight: in August, the natives of the old port plundered the peasants, and the ministers and the Gongwei battalion joined forces to quell the rebellion]

[Zhu Ciran: It's a good job]

[Nanzhili's soldiers and horses made Zhang Jianyan sparse: Nanzhili arrested seventy-two thieves this decade]

[Zhu Ciran: Well done] 義

[Shandong soldiers and horses make Ruan Dacheng sparse: 12 thieves who steal fruits and vegetables are caught this decade]

[Zhu Ciran: Ask if it's because of hunger or something else, if it's hunger, deal with it as appropriate]

[Jiangxi soldiers and horses make Kong Ying sparse: Long live the saint bow]

[Zhu Ciran: My father is very good, just find something to do if he has nothing to do]

Zhu Ciran replied in a big vernacular, and Li Yongzhen next to him couldn't help but shake his head.

Although I have been watching it for several months, my Royal Highness's straightforward reply makes me feel a toothache every time I look back.

"By the way, how is Li Dingguo in Yanran City?" Scoop

Before Shen Shi (15 o'clock), Zhu Ciran finally completed all the approval work, and after processing, he asked about Li Dingguo as soon as possible.

"I heard that it has done well, and it has been promoted from thousands of households to thousands of households." Li Yongzhen replied with a smile, and Zhu Ciran couldn't help but sigh:

"Why did he become a general? There are so many generals in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no shortage of him, how good is it for him to come to me to be the East Palace Zhan Shi......

"This is what His Royal Highness King Qi and Li Dingguo themselves meant, Your Highness, don't be too uncomfortable." Li Yongzhen still wanted to comfort a few words, but Zhu Ciran said loudly:

"How could I not be uncomfortable? With so many notes, who will deal with who will not be uncomfortable?"

Zhu Ciran looked at the music in front of him, and couldn't wait to beat his chest to express how uncomfortable he was.

It's just that when he was eager to beat his chest, he was separated from him by a few walls, and in the Qianqing Palace, a few hundred steps, Zhu Youxiao faced a large piece of wood and carefully chiseled it with a chisel. Scoop

He was making a model of the Imperial Palace in Nanjing, so that he could set the size and regulations of the palaces when he arrived in Nanjing in October.

As for his own more than 100 books, he had already finished disposing of them in the morning, and he had spent the whole afternoon playing with wood and taking time to take a nap.

He was playing with wood, and Zhang Yan, who was sitting next to him, looked at him with interest.

"That's it, it's just sports......

Thinking of Wang Kentang asking Zhu Youxiao to exercise more, Zhang Yan could only sigh and comfort herself.

"Hooray!"

At this critical moment, Wei Zhongxian walked into the main hall of the Qianqing Palace with a flattering face, walked in with a handwritten letter, and presented it with both hands

"Long live, Jiugang, Jiaozhi and other places have already begun to harvest timber, and more than 500,000 golden silk nan saplings have been planted in the golden silk nan forests in Yunnan and Guizhou this year."

"Huh? That's good news......" Zhu Youxiao didn't take it, just glanced at it.

In Yungui, the golden silk nanmu saplings were planted, which was suggested by Zhu Youzhen when Zhu Youxiao wanted to build the three major halls in the fourth year of the Apocalypse.

It takes 100 to 150 years for the natural golden silk to become a material, but it only takes 50 or 60 years for the artificial one.

Anyway, there are millions of labor campers in the southwest, and it is not certain that the palace will need golden silk nanmu for repairs in the future, so it has become a tradition to plant saplings every year.

However, the things in fifty or sixty years are too long, and it is not easy to say, so Zhu Youxiao does not pay much attention.

As for the logging of timber in the old port and Jiaozhi, Zhu Youxiao was quite happy after hearing about it. Scoop

According to the time, he arrived in Nanjing in mid-October, then observed, planned, and began to demolish the ruins, clean the site, and then slowly start construction.

In order to play in Jiangnan for a while, Zhu Youxiao "sympathized with the people"

For this reason, he only planned to recruit 1,000 people, plus 600 craftsmen who accompanied the city of Beijing to the south.

These 1,600 people want to repair the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and it is impossible to repair it in a year and a half.

A year and a half is enough for Zhu Youxiao to get tired of playing Jiangnan.

Thinking of this, he lowered his head and dealt with his model of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, ignoring Zhu Ciran's life and death on the other side of the East Palace......