"If Brother Yan and Brother Jiong are canonized as the kings of Wu and Yue, and then migrate to the tombs, then they may not be able to suppress the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River."

On the ninth day of the second month, when Zhu Youjian's handwritten letter was sent to Nanjing, Zhu Youxiao's first comment after reading it was that Zhu Cijian and Zhu Cijiong could not suppress the Jiangnan gentry.

His younger brother had a good idea, and he canonized Wu and Yue to Gabaldia (northern Caucasus) and Bechin (Kazan), and then moved the Jiangnan gentry to the local area.

The number of gentry in Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces, if calculated by the three clans, can move at least 500,000 people.

But the problem is that there are hundreds of thousands of gentry and their three clans in Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces alone, so can Zhu Ciji and Zhu Cijiong suppress so many people?

In the eyes of Zhu Youxiao's father, they can't ......

Zhu Youxiao also has selfish intentions, he doesn't want his son to be messed with.

In his opinion, the only people who can suppress the hundreds of thousands of gentry in Jiangnan are himself and his younger brother.

"Write back to my brother......"

Zhu Youxiao was in the hall with his hands on his back, and hesitated for a few seconds before saying to Wei Zhongxian:

"With the internal money, 200,000 taels of silver are paid in Changping every year to repair the mausoleum and build the mausoleum."

"If my younger brother thinks it's okay, he will move the gentry of the three provinces south of the Yangtze River to the north of Changping and migrate to the tomb."

After Zhu Youxiao's words were finished, Wei Zhongxian knew that once this matter was announced, it would be a big mess in the world.

There are not many gentry in the world, but there are many characters involved with them.

Although it shows that the army is brave, if there is real chaos in the place, it will take a lot of time to calm down.

However, this matter has nothing to do with him Wei Zhongxian, and he feels that as long as King Qi is here, those gentry and heroes will not be able to turn the sky.

Therefore, after receiving Zhu Youxiao's instructions, he immediately sent his cronies to cautiously bring Zhu Youxiao's intentions to the capital.

After his arrangement, Zhu Youxiao also sat on the main seat of the Qianqing Palace, opened the recital of the migration division on the table and glanced at it, and couldn't help nodding:

"Brother Ran is still doing well, in two and a half months, 470,000 people from one capital and five provinces in the north have been relocated, and 260,000 people in Nanzhili and southern provinces have also participated in the migration, which is ......"

Zhu Youxiao wanted to say something, but he saw the annotation at the back.

[More than 263,600 immigrants from Qi Country last year, and more than 39,000 immigrants in the first month of this year......]

There are more and more immigrants in Qi, especially after Zhu Ciran decreed that the government will no longer be responsible for immigration expenses after June, many people who do not know the policy have accelerated the pace of immigration to Qi.

Obviously, there is no shortage of far-sighted people among the people, and they all feel that the prosperous era of the Apocalypse was created by the King of Qi, so they are all ready to go to the Qi country.

In fact, the immigrants of Qi did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, because the cost of relocation was paid by Qi.

However, the speed of Qi Guo's development did shock Zhu Youxiao.

After Xu Xiake returned to his hometown in Jiangyin, Zhu Youxiao summoned him to inquire about the situation in Qi State.

In Xu Xiake's answer, Qi alone mines no less than 40,000 taels of gold, no less than 1 million taels of silver, and no less than 500,000 catties of copper ingots every year.

That's it, the annual income of Qi has reached 1.5 million taels.

Counting the two million taels supported by the internal treasury, the annual income of the Qi State has reached three and a half million taels.

That's not all, because this 1.5 million taels is only the mining capacity of Qi State, not the weight of Qi State's gold and silver reserves.

Xu Xiake told Zhu Youxiao that the colony of Franji in the south of North Asia and Merica can mine nearly 150,000 taels of gold and more than 6 million taels of silver every year.

This wealth was also the reason why Spain was reluctant to give up its colonies.

If Qi can annex Spain's territory there, then even if the internal money is no longer imported into Qi, Qi's annual income can reach more than 8 million taels.

However, Zhu Youxiao read a lot of economic books written by his younger brother, and he also knew that if there was no corresponding industry and commerce, only a bunch of precious metals, it would only lead to national inflation.

From the perspective of Qi's industrial strength, Qi still needs to rely on the national strength and population of the Ming Dynasty to develop itself in the future, so gold and silver can basically only flow into the Ming Dynasty.

This is a good thing for Daming, at least in terms of current demographic trends.

Last year, the Ming Dynasty had a total of 5.26 million new births, and the population of the vassal states that migrated abroad was about 410,000.

In just one year, Qi has emigrated 260,000, and this year it may exceed 400,000.

The other vassal states were not very attractive to the people of the Ming Dynasty, mainly because of the many things they did back then, which made the people very disgusted.

The immigration speed of Qi is somewhat fast, although it does not affect the Ming Dynasty, but one day it needs to be restricted.

Zhu Youxiao will not be restricted, after all, he feels that he owes Zhu Youzhen too much.

Not to mention the population, it was his chair, which his younger brother reinforced him little by little and helped him sit up.

But he also understood that he was indulging the Qi Kingdom by doing so, just as his imperial grandfather indulged King Lu and King Fu back then.

"I only hope that future generations will not blame me......"

Zhu Youxiao sighed and put the book away.

Then he turned around and walked out of the Qianqing Palace, ready to go to the outer court to see how the restoration of the three major halls was doing.

Compared to him, when his intention was sent to the capital, Zhu Youzhen frowned tightly.

"Since the imperial brother doesn't want to, let's prepare for the construction of the mausoleum for the time being."

"In addition, a Changling Guard was specially set up to defend the Changping Imperial Mausoleum, and the other soldiers and horses were withdrawn, and the city also claimed to be the Changling Guard."

Standing on a tall building in the Qi Palace, Zhu Youzhen turned his back to Wang Chengen, holding the news sent by the eunuch in his hand, and only after thinking about it did he make the following arrangements.

There is no shortage of smart people in Daming, and everyone knows that Zhu Youzhen will have a fight with the gentry before leaving.

If the construction of Zhu Youxiao's imperial mausoleum starts now, and the city is overhauled, it is difficult not to think of the Yiling system in the early Han Dynasty.

Even if Zhu Youzhen can use Changlingwei to deceive the gentry of the world for a while, he will not be able to deceive him for a long time.

But the problem is that the gentry of the Ming Dynasty are just people with knowledge and culture and a certain influence in local clans and officialdom.

They are not the nobles of the pre-Qin Dynasty, they are not the family lords of the Han Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it is impossible for them to rebel.

Zhu Youzhen has read some information in the past life and the late Ming Dynasty, and he has also wondered why the Jiangnan gentry did not resist the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that when he saw it, he found that most of the gentry in the late Ming Dynasty didn't want to resist the Qing Dynasty at all.

Before the Qing army entered the customs, many workers and tenants in Jiangnan began to rebel, and due to the lack of strength in the guards, the gentry had long recruited the people to start "quelling the rebellion".

As a result, this group of workers and tenants with hoes forcibly wiped out the militia recruited by the gentry in waves.

During the Southern Ming Dynasty, this situation was not uncommon, but the south of the Yangtze River was densely populated, and the gentry could join forces to fight more and less.

When the Qing army entered the customs, the "mob" who dared to resist were slaughtered, although they needed to pay more taxes, but at least the Qing army would not think about cutting off the heads of the gentry like the "mob".

This is why later historians commented that "the ease of entry into the customs of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was due to the active alliance of some reactionary landlord classes".

In order to be the master for the rest of their lives, the gentry landlords were willing to be dogs for the Qing army to exterminate the peasant army.

It can also be seen that the power of the gentry was already very weak by the end of the Ming Dynasty, and after Zhu Youzhen's continuous attacks in the past 20 years, the gentry's voice in the court and the local area has been very light.

For him, as long as he speaks and the army does not have problems, the so-called gentry and heroes will be relocated.

He understood what Zhu Youxiao meant, he thought he could suppress the gentry, but Zhu Youzhen didn't think so.

What his brother is like, Zhu Youzhen knows very well.

Even if he can suppress the gentry and power, he is afraid that he will be attacked when he is old.

On the contrary, Zhu Youzhen himself, originally he was still unknown, and he could not move the gentry to the Qi State.

But if the Yiling system is detected by the gentry and the powerful, they rebel.

Then Zhu Youzhen can take the opportunity to engage in a counterinsurgency, and then exile them all to the Qi State.

For the hundreds of thousands of people of the gentry and Haoqiang, he is still very greedy.

He is not afraid that the gentry will rebel against him, after all, the property of their generations has disappeared all at once, what can he do to himself?

Even if they are ahead of ordinary people, it will take several generations to multiply before they can save a family business in the Qi country.

Generations...... It is a question whether Da Ming and Qi can survive until that time.

Thinking like this, Zhu Youzhen also relaxed his mentality.

He turned around and went down the tall building, but when he went downstairs, he saw Chengde who had been waiting downstairs for a long time.

"What's wrong?"

"Your Highness......"

Seeing Chengde, Zhu Youzhen first asked, and Chengde first saluted.

After the ceremony, Cheng Decai replied: "Recently, Yanshan has been very dissatisfied with the new policy of supervising the country, especially the matter of sending a large number of officials to Anxi and Beiting provinces. ”

The Yanshan faction couldn't get used to Zhu Ciran for a long time, and since he was only two or three years old, the officials of the Yanshan faction were eager to send someone to kill him.

It's just that they didn't have the strength at that time, and after they had the strength, the power of King Qi was even greater, so they were suppressed all the time.

Originally, most of the Yanshan faction only felt aggrieved and incomprehensible, but Zhu Ciran's move this time, the move of sending more than 14,000 Yanshan officials in one fell swoop, immediately made the Yanshan faction ready to give this prisoner a dismissal.

When Chengde came, he told Zhu Youzhen that the Yanshan faction had this intention.

If it was in the past, Zhu Youzhen would definitely send people to reprimand the high-ranking officials at all levels of the Yanshan faction, but this time, ......

"Let's go up, now he is a prisoner, not me."

Zhu Youzhen said, left the tall building directly, and walked towards the carrier hall.

Chengde was stunned by his words, and didn't react for a while.

By the time he reacted, Zhu Youzhen had already walked away, and he hurriedly saluted Zhu Youzhen's background.

He knew that Zhu Youzhen was preparing to let Zhu Ciran experience the experience of being coerced by hundreds of officials, and let him know that his new policy could be implemented because there were people behind him, not because the officials were afraid of him.

If he thinks that it is because the hundred officials are afraid of him, then once Zhu Youzhen is not there, when Zhu Ciran does it again, he will only experience what is called frustration.

Zhu Youzhen wanted Zhu Ciran to recognize himself in advance and where his power and majesty came from.

Otherwise, continue to let him go on like this, and when Zhu Youzhen leaves, he will soon be counterattacked by the officials of the Yanshan faction.

It was impossible for Zhu Youzhen to take away all the officials of the Yanshan faction, after all, there were hundreds of thousands of them, and most of them were the backbone of the Ming army and the local yamen.

Facing them, even Zhu Youzhen will feel very powerless at some times.

"It's finally ......"

When Zhu Youzhen made arrangements for Zhu Ciran's growth, Sun Kewang, who went to Shanshan County to take up his post under Zhu Ciran's arrangement, also successfully arrived in Shanshan County after a 28-day trek.

In fact, they have not yet arrived at the county seat, but they have already seen the large oases and grasslands ahead.

Shanshan County, as the land of Loulan in the Qin and Han dynasties, was once a place with abundant water and grass.

Even in the Song Dynasty, tens of thousands of people still lived here.

However, with the low temperature period that began at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, coupled with the massacre of the Mongol Empire's westward expedition, the entire Western Regions was emptied, and it was soon occupied by the Hui people.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the end of the river and the Shanshan River, on which Shanshan County depended, decreased rapidly, and the number of people living here began to decrease.

And with the abandonment of the Silk Road, desertification became more and more serious, and the number of people here was only a few thousand by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, these thousands of people were also relocated by Lin Dan Khan, and this place was completely taken over by the Ming Dynasty.

As the second strategic passage from the Central Plains to Central Asia and the Western Regions to the Central Plains, Shanshan was also the only route of the ancient "Silk Road".

The whole Shanshan County is interspersed with high mountains and basins, and the terrain is diverse, with the Tarim Basin and the North Mountain part of the East Tianshan Mountains in the north, and the Kunlun Mountains and Altun Mountains in the southeast and south.

Relying on the end of the river and the fourteen rivers flowing down from the Kunlun Mountains, Shanshan County can be preserved in this era of serious desertification.

At this moment, Sun Kewang and his party were dusty, and after twenty-eight days of travel, everyone was a lot darker, and they ate a stomach full of wind and sand.

Some people became more and more desperate as they walked, some offered to go elsewhere, and some even fled in the middle of the night with water and food.

In short, when Sun Kewang led people to the oasis in front of him, there were only 572 people left of the original 800 people, and 20 of them were soldiers and guides who guarded them.

Fortunately, the appearance of this oasis has made the people who have suffered these days relaxed, and many of them almost thought that they would have to eat yellow sand in the northwest for the rest of their lives, and even felt that they had been deceived by the imperial court.

"This oasis is not Shanshan City yet, Shanshan City is still a hundred miles ahead, and there is a bigger oasis in front of it, and there is."

"This is the pasture of the former Mongols, and it can raise thousands of horses."

Heshuote's guide said to Sun Kewang and the people around him, which made the people see hope.

At present, this oasis is flat, not to mention, the area is at least tens of thousands of acres, most of which can be reclaimed as cultivated land, which is much better than the cultivated land seen by their group of people living in Taiyuan Mansion and Datong Mansion in Shanxi.

If Shanshan County is better than here, then they have come to the right place this time.

Thinking of this, many people began to be glad that they didn't run away, and they didn't think about the idea that they regretted not running early last night.

"Today we are camping here, and tomorrow we will continue to Shanshan County."

Sun Kewang announced his arrangements to everyone, and at the same time led people to light a fire to boil water, filling many empty wooden barrels with cold boiling water.

They camped here for the night, and apart from being careful with some wild animals, they didn't have to fear horse bandits and bandits.

Although the Western Regions are large, the most suitable places to live are some plains and hills along the river.

Under the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry of the early Ming army, the horse bandits and bandits in the entire Western Regions have long been empty.

As for those so-called beasts, in the face of the firing guns in the hands of twenty cavalrymen, unless a pack of wolves appears, there are no creatures in the entire Western Regions that can threaten them.

This night, smelling the fragrance of green grass, Sun Kewang and the people slept very sweetly.

At dawn the next day, many people were reluctant to leave, wanting to reclaim their fields here.

Fortunately, Sun Kewang's persuasion was useful, and the group of them once again embarked on the road to Shanshan County.

I walked for another two days, and although there was no oasis during this time, it was not as desolate as before.

It wasn't until the third day that they saw the oasis and the grassland again, and it was a large area of oases and grasslands.

Under the guide's explanation, they knew that they were less than twenty miles away from Shanshan County.

Everyone began to speed up, and after two or three hours, Sun Kewang heard the sound of the tractor working.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he walked a mile forward, and then saw an acre of fields in the distance, as well as the Ming soldiers working in the fields and wearing mandarin duck battle jackets.

Dozens of soldiers were using more than a dozen tractors to reclaim the fields, and when they saw the arrival of Sun Kewang and others, everyone happily put down the farm tools in their hands and turned off the tractors.

The arrival of Sun Kewang and the people also means that they can suspend the work of the military camp.

Soon after, a general flag officer riding a horse brought people to come, and the chief flag officer led people to guide the way, and on the way he was very enthusiastic and Sun Kewang introduced the situation in Shanshan County.

The county seat of Shanshan County has been repaired by the Ming army with rammed earth, the city is not large, the circumference is only three miles, and more than 10,000 people live at most.

The city is not so arid, there are woods and meadows around the city, but there are sandstorms in some seasons of the year.

In addition, the land is no different from Shanxi, if you want to use less water, you can grow wheat, and if you feel that you are not used to eating it, you can grow rice, but it uses a bit more.

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Sun Kewang and the chief flag officer went into the city to take a look, and the city was full of Huihui style buildings, which made Sun Kewang a little disliked.

"These houses are not very good, and when the cement factory in Luntai County is opened, cement can be transported to rebuild the houses."

The chief flag officer smiled and spoke, and then said:

"Since you have come, we will not stay long, and we will return to Khotan tomorrow."

"There are still 1,200 stone of grain in the treasury in the city, all of which are leftovers from the harvest of the military tun last year."

"It's good here, and one stone of wheat per acre of land is not a problem."

The chief flag officer explained over and over again, and Sun Kewang also replied after listening to it:

"In this case, then Sun will stay for a short time, there are too many things, and when Sun goes to Khotanese to report on his work, he will invite his brother to drink."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say......" The chief flag officer responded with a smile, but obviously didn't take Sun Kewang's words seriously.

In his opinion, Shanshan County is good, but the population is too small, and Sun Kewang estimates that he can only live on food, and he has no spare money to eat.

It must be known that the price of goods in Anxi is very expensive at the moment, even if it is Zhengqipinzhi County, I dare not say that there is meat to eat.

Unless Sun Kewang can restore production in Shanshan County, he will lead the people to cultivate more fields.

"Gone!" The chief flag officer said hello and left with his brother.

After they left, the people standing on the street all looked at Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang opened the map of the city left by the chief flag officer, and then said:

"Sun Ji, you take the people to the county, in the past, the Mongols lived near the Qianhu, and in the future, the Qianhu will be the county government of Shanshan County."

"Everyone have a good rest, tomorrow I will distribute food and tractors to everyone, everyone will work together, and live the life of eating meat every day for the people of Sichuan and Yunnan as soon as possible!"

"Huh-"

Listening to Sun Kewang's words, all the people responded with satisfaction.

Along the way, they have heard Sun Kewang talk about what the prince saw and heard along the way when he traveled south.

Although Sun Kewang didn't go, he didn't feel that Zhu Ciran was not like a big talker.

At present, the people of Sichuan, Yunnan and other places are afraid that they will not lose to Jiangnan.

Since these places can live a good life by immigrating to the fields, there is no reason why Shanshan County cannot.

Sun Kewang asked people to settle the people, and he walked to the Yamen of the former Yarkand Khanate.

The full Mongolian style, the Huifeng building, made Sun Kewang seem to feel that this place was not clean because of the psychological effect when he walked into the door.

When he saw that the courtyard was actually a vacant field with yurts, he laughed instead.

"It's good to move, and I don't have to work hard to dismantle ......"

As he spoke, Sun Kewang and an entourage hung a wooden plaque they had made from Dunhuang on the door of the Thousand Households.

The earthen walls, the tattered wooden doors, the empty open space in the courtyard, and the wooden plaques that seemed to blow off with a gust of wind.

Whoever looks at this scene feels more like ruins.

It's just that in Sun Kewang's eyes, this is the first step for him to move towards the political center of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as he can make merits here, even the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will not be able to impeach him.

What he wants to do is not to be an official who is in power, he wants that real merit to block those insects in the capital who only know how to talk about it!