"I look at the ancient and modern virtuous people who meet the king slowly, the name has the succession, when the luck is uneven, and the strength and decline are coming......"

"The scholars of the Huangji Palace are self-strict, and the scholars of the Zhongji Palace, Zhu Xieyuan, are the pillars of the country, and they are high in this year, so they are awarded Bi Ziyan as the Taishi, and Zhu Xieyuan as the Taibao."

"In the future, I will retire at home, and I will go to Qinzai ......"

On October 22, on the way home of Bi Ziyan and Zhu Xieyuan, Jinyiwei from Nanjing stopped them and read out Zhu Youxiao's holy decree.

Zhu Youxiao didn't kill the two, maybe he thought the two were right, or maybe he was afraid that killing the two would make the old school of old ministers fall apart, in short, he not only didn't kill the two, but also awarded the two the false title of "Three Orphans".

Although Zhu You corrected his upright prime, it was impossible for the two of them to assist Zhu Ciran in the future as three orphans, but with this official position and the previous false title, the life of the two of them after becoming a prince was fully guaranteed.

In the face of this holy decree, Bi Ziyan and Zhu Xieyuan got off the car on the way back to their hometowns to pick them up, their expressions were calm, as if they had long known that the emperor would do this.

They dare to do this, and they can hide for so many years, first of all, because of their status and means.

Not to mention that Zhu Youzhen destroyed a large amount of evidence, the identity of the two of them as the pillars of the old school alone doomed Zhu Youxiao not to kill them.

However, it's one thing that Zhu Youxiao can't kill him, and it's another thing whether he wants to kill him.

If he wants to kill, he can question Zhu Youzhen.

It's just that in the end, he still pretended to be okay and gave Bi Ziyan and the two the highest honor as Wenchen.

Without too many words, the brocade guards and eunuchs who had sent the holy decree left after that.

Also on the way home are Bi Ziyan and Zhu Xieyuan.

The day after the incident, Lu Wenzhao reported the incident to Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen only bowed his head and said that he knew, and did not say anything about the matter.

He just turned to look at Cao Huachun, sighed and said:

"Your godfather is rushing head-on with the imperial brother this time, and in the celebrant supervisor, I'm afraid it's not easy to do things."

His words made Cao Huachun salute back: "The godfather replied to the slave and maid, and Banzai did not anger him, and he was not allowed to hand over his resignation." ”

"If the slave wants to come, it should be fine."

Cao Huachun explained, and Zhu Youzhen in the carrier hall also turned his head to look at Lu Wenzhao when he heard this:

"That child of yours, with the prince now, can have a good path in the future, you don't have to worry."

"The prince is benevolent, and he is not worried about his humble position." Lu Wenzhao smiled awkwardly and returned the salute, obviously he was very helpless about what his own son had done, and he was also very glad that Zhu Youzhen corrected his character.

He is not in the capital all the year round, and he doesn't know the heart of the children at home, if it weren't for Zhu Youzhen, I'm afraid Lu Yuangao would become a mercenary person.

Thinking of this, Lu Wenzhao couldn't help but feel ashamed.

"The emigration of Qi continued, and Huang Long's letter can basically express the attitude of most of the generals and officials."

Zhu Youzhen walked back to his position and sat down, and said to the three people standing in the hall:

"Not to mention them, even the three of you."

"The more people in the Qi country, the more blessed you will be in the past."

"This year, the major shipyards have launched another 40 steamships, although they can't all be used for immigration, but it's still okay to take out 20."

"At present, there are 60 ships participating in the migration of Qi country, each of which can run back and forth six times a year, and the number of immigrants can be no less than 250,000 every year."

"If the enthusiasm of the people in Jiangnan has subsided, then it is okay to open up the people of various provinces to immigrate to the country."

"Whether it is a Han Chinese or a young people in the southwest, immigrants to Qi are citizens of Qi country."

Zhu Youzhen wanted to speed up the immigration of Qi State, because the amount of land cultivated by the tractors of Qi State at the moment was enough to feed millions of Qi people.

In addition, Qi is also increasing millions of acres of cultivated land every year, which is also the biggest advantage of Qi leading other countries.

In addition, relocating the young people in the southwest and reducing the proportion of young people in the Ming Dynasty is also what Zhu Youzhen needs to do.

He can guarantee that he can suppress the young people, but he can't guarantee that after he leaves, the local officials will not exploit them and let them riot.

"Slave and maid (lowly duty) command!"

Lu Wenzhao and the three of them responded, and Zhu Youzhen also waved his hand when he saw this, signaling that they could retreat.

The three of them stepped back to do the things that Zhu Youzhen explained, and then Zhu Youzhen himself checked the affairs of the Western Regions.

Five months have passed since the recovery of the Western Regions.

The heavy transfer of grain and grass is almost the same, and the attitude of the people of the provinces towards the Western Regions can also be seen.

Five months have passed, and even Hexi Province, which is closest to Anxi and Beiting provinces, has only relocated more than 14,000 people.

The other northern and southern provinces together have less than 15,000 migrants.

That is, in the past five months, Daming has only managed to move less than 6,000 people per month, and only more than 2,000 immigrants per month in each province on average.

This situation is slower than the migration of the four northeastern provinces and the four southern provinces, except for the southern Kunlun, Lingbei, and Xiaoxiyang, and the three provinces of Danyu, Beiting, and Anxi are the slowest migrating.

Even in places like Nanzhou, the Migration Division can also move 5,000 people every month.

It can only be said that the reputation of the inland provinces and the border provinces is somewhat bad, which delays the plan of immigrating to the real border in the Western Regions.

The problem in Anxi and Beiting provinces is not whether there is enough arable land, but a serious shortage of population.

According to the relocation policy of 20 acres per person and one tractor per household, it does not attract many people, and Zhu Youzhen has not much to do.

The 36,000 tractors he allocated to the two provinces were not even enough to call them at the moment, so they could only be temporarily used by the soldiers, horses, and civilians of the Northern Army.

The soldiers were paid 40 wen a day, and the people were 20 wen, and the daily expenses were a lot of money.

Let them plant land there for a year, and the imperial court will have to send out more than 800,000 taels of wages alone.

Zhu Youzhen was also very anxious in his heart, it happened that this year's prisoners were exiled to Lingbei early, and there was no one available at all.

For this reason, he could only frown, put down the document in his hand, and slightly rubbed his somewhat stiff eyebrows.

At this time, Wang Chengen took the lead in returning from finishing things, and at the same time moved a lot of documents.

"Your Highness, the document from Nanzhou has been sent."

Wang Chengen carried Nanzhou's document to his table, then picked it up, walked to Zhu Youzhen, and handed it out with both hands.

"This year, the population of Nanzhou has exceeded 780,000, and the cultivated land has 2.06 million mu."

"The secretary of Nanzhou is sparse, saying that he will be able to pay the first amount of field grain in Nanzhou during the autumn harvest next year."

Wang Chengen said, Zhu Youzhen looked at it, the content was roughly the same, but the tractor was also mentioned in the summary note.

Nanzhou Yamen hopes that the imperial court can send more tractors to the past, and the number of tractors at present is indeed insufficient.

"The matter of transporting tractors to the Western Regions can be stopped, and the 36,000 units will be digested first and then discussed later."

"At present, the annual output of tractors in the country is 50,000 units, right?" Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen also bowed slightly and said yes.

"In this case, the 20,000 units of Qi will continue to be transported, and the remaining 30,000 units will be equally divided among the six provinces of Luchuan, Jiaozhi, Donghai, Shanyu, Nanzhou, and Modong."

The high-tech content of Daming's tractor is not high, to put it bluntly, it is the same as a pulling machine, and the speed of reclamation has not been improved.

Tractors still have to use internal combustion engines in order to fully exploit their capabilities in agriculture.

It's just that at present, the research on the internal combustion engine by the Armaments Institute has been delayed, and Zhu Youzhen sees it in his eyes and is anxious in his heart, but he is helpless.

"Next year will be the year when the third batch of industrial zones will be put into operation, and the fourth batch of industrial zones will also be ready, and you can start to choose the site."

Zhu Youzhen explained to Wang Chengen that according to the speed of a batch of industrial zones in three years, he hopes to complete the fourth batch of industrial zones in Daming before he leaves, and open the fifth batch at the same time.

"Your Highness, now the scale of the industrial zone is getting bigger and bigger, and the cost is getting higher and higher."

Wang Chengen reported to Zhu Youjian the problem of the scale of the industrial zone: "Putting aside the steam engine for the time being, the annual output of bicycles has reached 300,000, and the speed of selling things is no longer good." ”

"Therefore, the slave maid wants to ask His Highness, do you want to stop the construction of the bicycle factory?"

"If you stop, you don't have to stop." Zhu Youzhen shook his head and replied: "The equipment is produced as usual and sold to Qi Guo at the price." ”

"Daming's bicycles are abundant, but Qi Guo is not good."

"The slave and maid receive the order......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen say this, Wang Chengen responded, and then the master and servant continued to deal with other matters.

After a few days, the matter between Bi Ziyan and Zhu Xieyuan did not ferment, and not too many people even noticed it.

Even Zhu Ciran, who was in the East Palace, didn't know about it, and just took his East Palace team to deal with the big and small matters of the Ming Dynasty every day.

Time passed little by little, Hong Chengchou did not return to the capital in the nineteenth year of the Apocalypse, but Shangshu said that he had not returned home for many years, and then went to Nan'an, Fujian by boat.

Zhu Youzhen didn't urge him, he knew that Hong Chengchou was still waiting.

Since he wants to wait and see, let him wait and see, and when he settles down, he will be able to better serve as the first assistant.

However, at the same time, the affairs of the Western Regions also came to an end with the westward migration of Lin Dan Khan and the competition for pastures between the two khanates of Bukhara and Kazakhstan.

It seems that Lin Dan Khan is determined to run away and is not ready to fight the Ming army, which is very consistent with his character in facing Huang Taiji in history.

"Now that the affairs of the Western Regions have been decided, then we can also reward meritorious deeds."

In the East Palace, Zhu Ciran sat on a chair and rubbed his wrists and stiff muscles, and talked eloquently in front of the cabinet team brought by Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong, who is the first assistant to the cabinet, also said in his chair when he heard this:

"In this battle, our army did not fight with the Northern Captives, but since the recovery of the Western Regions that has been lost for nearly 800 years is also a great achievement."

"According to the old minister's opinion, the commander Man Gui can be knighted, and the rest of the commanders of the soldiers and horses can be awarded the pillar country, and the generals can also be awarded the rank of five or more, and the soldiers can be given an additional year of salary."

Sun Chengzong's words are not faulty, although there were not many beheadings in this battle, but many horse bandits and bandits were eliminated, and some Mongolian rangers were killed, but the recovery of the Western Regions was also a credit.

The generals were knighted, and the rest were given scattered ranks, and the soldiers who did not have too much silver were given an additional year, and each was rewarded from top to bottom.

However, Zhu Ciran added after he finished speaking:

"It is appropriate for Man Gui to be knighted, I am ready to confer him as the Marquis of Xuanhua, and in addition, Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng of the upper straight, and Cao Bianjiao of the middle road, these three people can all be knighted, and they already have them."

"How about giving Sun the law-abiding Changping Bo, Cao Menghe Bo, and Cao Bianjiao Shuo Fang Bo?"

"In addition, in this battle, I see that Zhu Fuju and Li Dingguo are both meritorious, and one of them is stationed in Luntai and the other is stationed in Broken Leaves.

"How about promoting Li Dingguo to the chief soldier of the Broken Leaf Mansion, and Zhu Fuju to the chief soldier of the Tingzhou Mansion?"

Zhu Ciran said his thoughts, in which his relationship with Li Dingguo has long been known.

There is nothing wrong with the prince using his own people, not to mention that Li Dingguo is also equivalent to the adopted son of King Qi, his performance in this battle is decent, and he is still capable of serving as the chief soldier.

It is...... Younger.

"The old minister thinks it......'s appropriate," Sun Chengzong thought for a moment, and then responded to Zhu Ciran's idea.

In this way, the first battle of the Western Expedition was canonized with four titles, one marquis, three counts, and two general soldiers.

In addition, nearly 42,000 people who participated in the Western Expedition received a year's worth of silver.

The holy decree of more than 800,000 taels of silver was quickly issued, but after doing this, Zhu Ciran said:

"I have already read the "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" of various provinces, and the land south of the Yangtze River is densely populated and needs to be relocated urgently."

"The land of Jiangbei has suffered from drought since last year, and now it has been more than two years, and the people are unwilling to stay away from their homeland, is there anything the cabinet can do?"

Zhu Ciran led the topic to the population issue in Jiangnan, which made the cabinet ministers a little speechless, and even Sun Chuanting couldn't help frowning.

The problem in Jiangnan can be said to be from top to bottom.

The officials at the top did not want the people to move, the gentry and the powerful at the middle level did not want them to leave, and the people at the bottom would rather work as laborers in Jiangnan than go elsewhere to be homesteaders.

For the people who are accustomed to working hard, it is really difficult for them to let them farm.

As for the tenants who actually farmed the land, they were either afraid of being deceived, or they had the power in the hands of the landlords.

"The cultivated land in the three provinces is only 170 million mu, but there are more than 70 million people, and every time each province encounters drought, the grain prices in the three provinces have skyrocketed."

"In the fifty-seven years of Hongwu and Yongle, the population of the south of the Yangtze River was moved to fill the southwestern provinces."

"When I toured the southwest, I saw many people whose ancestors migrated from Gaoshikan in Liushuwan, Nanjing."

"If you could have migrated in the first place, why can't you now?"

Zhu Ciran knew what the problem was, but he still insisted on asking, obviously he was very dissatisfied with the immigration ability of the officials of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

In his opinion, these officials did not publicize it at all, otherwise no matter how rich and prosperous Jiangnan was, as soon as the drought came, the yeoman farmers should be wailing all over the land and actively relocate.

Two years after the drought broke out, the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have relocated less than one million people in the past three years, thanks to trains and ships.

At this rate, I am afraid that by the year of Zhu Ciran's death, Jiangnan will still occupy the top three places in terms of population in the Ming provinces.

"There is no mistake in sending the decree that all the affected provinces in the south and north of the Jiangbei must relocate 20,000 peasant households with less than five acres of land to Sichuan and Yunnan."

Seeing that the crowd did not speak, Zhu Ciran had no choice but to take it upon himself to ask the officials of various provinces to "force" the migrant farmers to go to Sichuan and Yunnan.

At present, the population of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces is only more than 5.8 million, while there are five prefectures and two prefectures in the south and north of the Yangtze River, and even if 20,000 households are relocated from each place, there are only 140,000 households, or 7.8 million people.

Compared with the more than 7 million people in the "Yellow Book" in these five prefectures and two prefectures, the migration of one-tenth of them can make the local people live a better life.

Zhu Ciran knew how much land the people could live on and how much land they could eat meat.

Sichuan and Yunnan are too sparsely populated, and Zhu Ciran has seen the situation there and knows that there are still large areas of undeveloped raw land.

If all of them are developed, there will probably be no less than 80 million cultivated land in the two provinces.

At present, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces have only developed less than 50 million mu of cultivated land, and there are still more than 30 million mu undeveloped.

As long as those fields can be developed, it will not be a big problem to move 700,000 people.

However, this matter still needs to be discussed with Zhu Youzhen, because Zhu Ciran needs enough tractors to help these 700,000 people reclaim farmland.

Therefore, after Zhu Ciran explained, he said to Sun Kewang next to him:

"You go to the Qi Wangfu, tell Uncle Qi my opinion, and ask how many tractors Uncle Qi can allocate to the victims at the moment."

"The minister has an order, ......" Sun Kewang heard this, and immediately withdrew from the East Palace, leaving Zhu Ciran and Sun Chengzong and a group of old ministers to chat about other state affairs.

It took half an hour for Sun Kewang to rush from the East Palace to the gate of the Qi Wangfu in Baiwangfang.

After being passed on, Sun Kewang was summoned by Zhu Youzhen.

This was Sun Kewang's first time coming to the Qi Palace, and it was also the first time he had met the King of Qi.

Walking in the Qi Palace, he sighed at the scale of the Qi Palace, and at the same time couldn't help but be curious about the emperor who built this palace with his own hands.

After walking through the steps, Sun Kewang appeared in the Heart Cultivation Hall of the Carrier Palace.

After he entered the palace and saw Zhu Youzhen, who was "the watch of the sky and the appearance of the dragon and the phoenix", he was stunned at first, he didn't expect King Qi to be so young and good-looking, and then immediately lowered his head and said:

"The lord of the Xiaguan Zhan Mansion Bo Sun Kewang, was instructed by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come to worship His Royal Highness the King of Qi, His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

"Get up."

Zhu Youzhen put down the "Xu Xiake's Travels" in his hand and glanced at Sun Kewang himself.

His appearance is not outstanding, he can only be said to be relatively clean and old, and his figure is not tall, about five feet two or three inches, which is the height of a normal man born during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

The height of the Han people is already very high, and the material gradually increased during the Apocalypse period, and the meat, eggs and milk were replenished in time, so the children born in the Apocalypse were generally taller than those in the Wanli period.

Zhu Youzhen estimates that this phenomenon will continue, and in twenty or thirty years, I am afraid that the average man will be a man of five feet five or six inches.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also asked about Sun Kewang's intentions.

After Sun Kewang told him, Zhu Youzhen said:

"The amount of this year's tractor has already been allocated, and the amount of this year's Mingfa has also been set."

"At present, the last factories of the third batch of industrial zones are gradually being completed."

"If the prison country is not in a hurry, it can ask local officials to relocate the population after the spring of next year."

"At that time, there should be 10,000 tractors, which can be divided equally among the 140,000 rural households."

Zhu Youzhen explained, and Sun Kewang said honestly after listening to it: "In this way, then the lower official will return to the East Palace." ”

"Hmm...... Go ahead. Zhu Youzhen picked up "Xu Xiake's Travels" again, and Sun Kewang also slowly withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Palace.

After walking out of the Heart Cultivation Hall and the Carrier Palace, he recalled Zhu Youzhen, and never thought that the King of Qi, who was afraid of hundreds of officials like a tiger, would be so easy to speak.

Relieving his nervousness, Sun Kewang took a deep breath and then began to return to the East Palace.

This process took another half an hour, so when he returned to the East Palace, many of the ministers were already sitting impatiently.

Finally waited for him to finish finishing King Qi's reply, and Zhou Yanru, the waiter of the Criminal Department, also said:

"Jianguo, with the current situation of the armament institute, it seems unrealistic to relocate 140,000 households at once, it is better to move 10,000 households first, which is exactly the same as the number of tractors."

Zhou Yanru wanted to delay time, after all, he was an official in Jiangbei, but it was a pity that Zhu Ciran didn't give him a chance.

"What? With a tractor, I don't know how to call the ploughing ox? ”

Zhu Ciran asked Zhou Yanru rhetorically, and then glanced at the ministers and said:

"Tractors are insufficient, but there are still more than 30,000 ploughing cattle and more than 10,000 large horses in the officialdom of Sichuan and Yunnan."

"According to the distribution of one head per household, it is enough for 40,000 people, so why blindly pursue a tractor?"

Zhu Ciran knew that this group of people had to make inch, so he didn't leave the slightest room for concession.

He turned his head to look at Li Yongzhen, the eunuch of the East Palace: "How many oxen and horses are there in the officialdom in the three provinces of Huguang, Guizhou, and Guangxi?" Have you ever asked Wang Daban a few days ago? ”

"Back to His Royal Highness...... Li Yongzhen, a eunuch, was not afraid of offending the people of Jiangnan, so he boldly replied: "About 80,000 heads, counting Yunnan and Sichuan, close to 130,000." ”

Zhu Ciran and Li Yongzhen asked and answered, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren immediately understood that they were prepared to co-author Zhu Ciran.

In addition to the tractor, he had already sent someone to ask about the number of cattle and horses in other officialdoms, so he set the standard of 20,000 peasant households in each of the five prefectures and two prefectures in Jiangbei.

"The household department, the military department, and the official department ......" Zhu Ciran opened his mouth after hearing this, and Li Changgeng, Chen Qiyu, and Sun Chengzong had to make a decision: "The minister is in the ......"

"Since there is enough animal power, let's arrange the immigration as early as possible, and as for the tractor, it will be distributed last." Zhu Ciran sat on the throne of the prison country with a golden knife:

"After all, it's 140,000 households, and it will take a lot of time to move."

"In addition, if there is another drought in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, one-tenth of the number of local farmers should be relocated."

Zhu Ciran's words made Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren feel a toothache instantly.

It seems that not only the king of Qi wants to target them in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, but even the prince will also follow.

They thought of everything, but they didn't expect that "the son is not like the father", although Zhu Ciran has a playful heart, his sense of responsibility for the government is much greater than that of Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Ciran is not like Zhu Youxiao, but like Zhu Youzhen, which makes the Jiangnan officials who originally hoped to get rid of Zhu Youzhen and usher in "peace" uncomfortable.

Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren had even thought about how many letters the gentry in Jiangnan would send to them after this holy decree was issued.

Thinking of the end, the two could only put their hope on God in the end:

"I just hope that Jiangnan will not suffer from drought again......"