"Flowing ......"

In April, when summer arrives, Minami Naoli is greeted by the first drizzle of summer.

The sound of the rain hit the tiles, dissipating a lot of the summer heat, and making the people on both sides of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili happy.

The light rain fell for several days, causing the water level of the Yangtze River to increase, further rejuvenating tens of millions of acres of fields on both sides of the river.

The light rain is gentle, the frogs in the fields are chirping, the people of Nanjing are celebrating, and the world is too safe and healthy.

It's just that I don't know how much filth is hidden in this so-called safe and healthy situation......

For the people of Houhu behind the Jiming Temple in Nanjing, today is just a very ordinary day.

Although the news of the nationwide exemption of land in the "Daming Daily" a month ago made the people carnival, the atmosphere of celebration has long passed, and people's lives will not be affected by the part-time jobs they should work and the farms they should do.

It's just that when the people were wandering the streets, a group of brocade guards wearing crimson round-necked robes rushed to this place with rifles on their backs.

The people on both sides of the street looked at the Jinyi guards curiously, and the Jinyi guards poured directly into an alley in Houhufang under the eyes of the people.

"Surround the back door!" The leading Jinyi Guard Banner Officer instructed the people under his command.

More than fifty brocade guards surrounded a mansion that covered an area of less than half an acre under his command.

Wow!

"Open the door!" The chief flag officer knocked on the main door of the house under the left and right guards, but there was no movement in the house.

"Total ......"

"Bang !!"

"Jin Yiwei handles the case! Be honest with me! ”

Without waiting for the subordinates next to him to speak, the grumpy chief flag officer kicked on the wooden door, and the bolt of the wooden door was kicked several times, and more than 20 brocade guards immediately poured into the small courtyard.

In the alley, onlookers also began to flood the place, and when the chief flag officer led people to rush into the courtyard, he happened to see an old man wearing a Taoist robe with gray hair burning paper in a hurry.

"Take it!" Seeing that the white paper was burned, the chief flag officer hurriedly ran forward and kicked the old man to the ground, and buckled the burning iron basin to the ground, and the flames in the basin were all extinguished in just a few seconds.

"You trespass!! The old man who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth was still opening his mouth to quibble, but a large number of brocade guards found all the evidence of his guilt in just ten minutes.

Dozens of letters with the interests of officials, as well as poems that ridiculed the emperor, the king of Qi, and the prison state, were found, and the chief flag officer with the content directly took the Yanling knife with a scabbard and knocked the old man to the ground.

The old man lying on the ground had a bloody mouth, his mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't speak at all.

When the little flag officer next to him saw the contents of the letter, he was even more angry than the chief flag officer, and immediately gave this guy a kick, and scolded angrily:

"Insulting His Highness and bribing officials is really going to be imprisoned!"

"What nonsense! Arrest people according to the letters, and transfer troops and horses to take people! The chief flag officer scolded, and then left the alley with the half-dead old man.

Such a scene is just a microcosm of the entire Ming Dynasty, from March to now, nearly 120,000 Jinyi guards in the north and south towns and towns started from Liangjing, and went down to check the towns and villages of Fu County, and found out more than 30,000 small and medium-sized landlords and gentry related to Yanshan.

Some of them divided the land left by the relocated people with the local Yanshan officials, and did not distribute it to the people who remained there.

Others, as local government officials, used their power in the yamen to illegally sell Changping grain and eat kickbacks from migrant workers' wages in lieu of work.

In addition, in their capacity as officials, they contracted the work-for-relief projects to local small and medium-sized landlords, and together with the small and medium-sized landlords, they lowered the wages given by the imperial court to the migrant workers, and then divided the savings of the Ministry of Labor in equal shares.

Yanshan fell, and countless corrupt officials were reported, resulting in a shortage of Jinyi guards, so that the soldiers and horses and officials were mobilized to help investigate the case.

At present, Nanjing City is just a microcosm, but this microcosm is seen by Zhu Youxiao.

Shortly after the brocade guards left, a horse-drawn carriage parked on the side of the road was driven towards the Imperial City.

In the car, Zhu Youxiao put down the curtains, picked up a copy of the table and read it, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Kneeling opposite was Liu Ruoyu, who was making tea, and in the face of the cup of hot tea handed over by Liu Ruoyu, Zhu Youxiao took it and drank it in front of his surprised face, regardless of the heat.

The hot tea entered his stomach, and Zhu Youxiao also knew in his heart that the last stone that stopped his younger brother from taking the vassal was also dug out.

Next, he only needs his son to fill in the hole, and he can leave with confidence.

Thinking of this, he exhaled the hot breath from a sip of tea, closed his eyes and muttered:

"Yanshan is powerful, but in front of my younger brother, he is like a chicken."

"If you are foolish, you say, who can stop him."

Zhu Youxiao's voice fell, and Liu Ruoyu looked at him and hesitated to speak:

"The slave and maid are humble in their opinion, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness the King of Qi has no one to stop him."

......Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao was silent for a long time, and it was not until the carriage stopped that he got off the carriage with Liu Ruoyu's support.

"Pack up, and return to Shuntianfu in twenty."

"Slave and maid receive ......"

On the palace road back to the palace, with Zhu Youxiao opening, the master and servant also walked into the palace.

When Zhu Youxiao also made up his mind to return to the capital, the "Daming Daily" on the second day brought the news that Zhu Youzhen had solved the financial problems caused by the Daming Dynasty's exemption from land taxation.

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers! Banks issue treasury bonds, which can be bought and sold regardless of power, identity, and people, with an annual interest of five cents. ”

"Selling newspapers and selling newspapers, banks issue treasury bonds, ......"

On the second day of April, when Yanshan officials were arrested and convicted, the introduction of treasury bonds made many businessmen and forces look sideways.

Many people bought the newspaper, but the newsboys and the newspaper sellers of the royal store were mostly gimmicks and would not give the whole story.

Therefore, when the people bought the newspaper, they found out that the so-called national debt meant this.

However, when they saw that the treasury bonds issued by the imperial court this time were only for two years, that is, no matter whether they were held for three or four years, they would only pay interest for two years in the end.

Even so, the 5% interest rate is still very appealing to many people.

It is important to know that throughout the ages, no matter what era it is, wealth has been held by some people, and the same is true for the way to make money.

In addition to lending, there are really few businesses in the Ming Dynasty that are risk-free and can make 10% of the business in two years.

For many people with families, the national debt is undoubtedly unfamiliar territory, and they are reluctant to take risks.

However, for many people who have some savings and do not know how to do business, the treasury debt seems to be a sure thing to do.

Therefore, when the news of the treasury bonds spread, some people appeared in the banks around the country to buy the treasury bonds.

However, many people are still suffering from drought, so there are not many people who are willing to buy government bonds.

"Rub—"

When the sound of the sand being shoveled out of a small pit came out, the panting Zhu Cihong didn't care whether it was dirty or not, and sat directly on the Gobi Desert.

"Tired?"

When Zhu Cihong was tired and stretched out his tongue and panting, an umbrella hit the top of his head, and when he looked up, he saw that it was indeed Xia Wanchun, his best playmate during this time.

"Brother Xia, Dad obviously said that he came to take us to play, this kind of tree is not fun at all!"

Looking at Xia Wanchun, Zhu Cihong, who had been tired for a long time, began to complain.

As he spoke, the boy pointed to the five brothers who were lying on the ground tiredly.

They had been planting trees for three days, and among their five brothers, the eldest Zhu Cihong was only ten years old, and the youngest Zhu Cican was only four years old.

At this age, other children are playing, but they were deceived by Zhu Youzhen into planting trees in Kaiping Mansion in Modong Province with the words of looking at the scenery of the northern country, and they also exercised in the name of it.

"Hehe......" Regarding Zhu Cihong's complaints, Xia Wanchun smiled and said:

"The yellow sand of Kaiping Mansion continues to erode to the sky, and planting trees here can effectively prevent wind and sand, which can be described as a great achievement."

"If you don't want this merit, then I'll take it myself."

Xia Wanchun said, and reached out to grab the shovel on the ground, which frightened Zhu Cihong and hurriedly grabbed the shovel and held the shovel tightly in his arms.

"I plant! Where did I say I don't plant anymore! ”

Zhu Cihong said, and then kicked Zhu Cixiong, who was lying on the side and pretending to be dead, and the two brothers cooperated to continue to plant saplings.

Their move was watched by Zhu Youzhen, who was planting trees in the distance.

He smiled and wiped the sweat from his forehead, but Zhu Ciran's voice of work came from the side:

"Whew...... Uncle, you say that this kind of tree can really cure sand? And the desert grass lattice that I saw a few days ago can really fix sand. ”

Zhu Ciran didn't dare to ask Zhu Youzhen imaginatively, but the movements at hand never stopped.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen also smiled: "Wind prevention and sand control, grass grid sand fixation, these are naturally useful." ”

"However, manpower is manpower after all, and although we can control the desert and even push the desert deeper, we cannot completely eradicate the desert."

"To plant a tree, you have to have water, and even you and I can't plant a tree without water."

"As long as there is water and trees are planted, over time it will rain in these places, and the number of trees will increase."

"If you have been to Shaanxi, you should also know the large sandy land north of northern Shaanxi, south of the Yellow River, and west of Ningxia, right?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Zhu Ciran, and Zhu Ciran nodded when he heard this.

"Before the Song Dynasty, that area was all great pastures, overgrown with meadows, but now there is only yellow sand left."

"The yellow sand there, the yellow sand in the Western Regions, and the yellow sand in the north of the desert invade the Central Plains every year in summer."

"But if we plant trees in Qingyang Mansion, Pingliang Mansion, Datong Mansion, Kaiping Mansion, and Shuofang Mansion to form forests, then the land of Guanzhong and Gyeonggi will no longer suffer from wind and sand."

"However, we also have to start from a few places in the Western Regions, Mobei, and Monan, and plant trees little by little."

"If you hurry up and plant a forest in Datong, Shuofang, and Kaiping within ten years, then the sandstorm in Beizhili can be eliminated."

Zhu Youzhen said, and also lifted a shovel to plant saplings on the Gobi Desert.

In the distance, there are many migrant workers who are building canals, and they do not know the identities of Zhu Youzhen and his party, but only think that they are officials who have come here to plant trees.

There are still more trees outside the pass in the Ming Dynasty, this place of Kaiping Mansion is located in the north of Zhangjiakou in the later generations, south of the Xilin Gol League, from the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, this place is the nomadic land of the Mongolians, and the natural ecological environment basically maintains the original state.

With the passage of time, due to the corruption of officials and financial decadence, a large number of people came here to settle the land, and then the local forest vegetation was destroyed.

In just half a century, the local grassland has disappeared, and the local grassland has completely degenerated into the Gobi barren hills, presenting a desolate scene of "birds without perching trees, and yellow sand covering the sky".

However, in the current era, the natural environment of grasslands and small forests is still maintained, and only the Gobi Desert Hills are located in the northwest.

If it is treated in time, it may allow Hebei to avoid the suffering of yellow sand hundreds of years in advance.

At the end of Zhu Youzhen's Second Northern Expedition and after he took the three prefectures of Taining, he ordered that the local herdsmen and people should not cut down local trees and forests to build houses, but let people cut down trees from the Yanshan Mountains and transport them here to build houses for the people.

Not only that, Kaiping Mansion also has to plant trees during the spring and summer exchanges every year, for which the imperial court also has a special allocation of silver.

As for how to plant trees, the Kaiping officials had a very simple solution, that is, they paid ten wen a day, and then hired a large number of people to plant trees near the water source to connect the woods in Kaiping Province.

At the beginning, this did not achieve much effect, because until the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the population of Kaiping Mansion was not very large.

However, with the recovery of Mobei and the Western Regions, the number of people who moved to Kaiping Mansion began to increase, and by now, there are no less than 400,000 people in Kaiping Mansion.

Every year, after the autumn harvest, the Kaiping Mansion will organize at least 30,000 people to come to the northwest of Kaiping Mansion to build canals and build covered dark rivers.

Trees are planted around the river, and when it's time to plant trees, people only need to open the manhole cover and pump water from the river with a machine.

Although Zhu Youzhen and the others are now standing on the Gobi Desert, behind them are actually small saplings that are more than three feet high, and they are gradually getting taller and bigger from the outside to the inside.

The sand control in Kaiping Province has lasted for 15 years, although Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shaanxi have suffered from many years of severe drought, but here has been lucky, stable little rain, but stable rain.

Up to now, in 15 years, 324,327 acres of artificial forests have been planted here, although it is not yet able to resist all the wind and sand for Beizhili, but I believe that it will be able to do so in the future.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen put aside all the negative emotions accumulated in his mind during this time, and buried himself in planting small saplings.

While he took Zhu Ciran to plant trees, the capital was governed by Sun Chengzong.

However, Sun Chengzong was alone, and many of his ideas were difficult to implement, so he only opened a regular dynasty as usual, and announced the dispersal of the dynasty after making sure that nothing was going on with the hundred officials.

Chang Chao dispersed, some people returned to the yamen to do business, some stayed on duty in the outer court, and some Mu Xiu returned home to rest.

It seems that the fall of the old Yanshan faction is a thing of the past for everyone.

The new Yanshan officials were encircled by Yan Yinshao and Kim Xuan, and there was no big problem.

Many Yanshan village officials, who had been in the village for many years, were promoted, but they were promoted overseas.

With a tick of Kim Hyun's pen, 60,000 Yanshan village and town officials were promoted overseas, and all of them were promoted to the next level, and Kim Hyun impressed them with his official position.

However, this is only a part of the old people of Yanshan in the past, after all, not everyone is willing to go overseas and serve in the vassal states.

For officials who were reluctant to be transferred, Kim Hyun verbally asked the officials below to reassure them and make them wait for the end of October Eunko.

At that time, more than 100,000 students will pour into the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty, and many Yanshan officials will naturally be promoted.

Zhu Youzhen left the problem to Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao, and took Zhu Ciran to Kaiping Mansion to plant trees.

However, the two have no objection to this, but work diligently in their office.

It's just that after doing too many things, my heart is inevitably a little tired, not to mention that I am still facing these insects in the Daming Temple.

Holding a book and carrying a three-tiered food box, Jin Xuan walked into the edict in front of the two brocade guards.

Entering the prison, a smell of rotten wood and rust rushed into Kim Hyun's brain.

It was not the first time he had come to the Imperial Prison, once upon a time, he was also imprisoned in the Imperial Prison by Zhu Youxiao because of his direct advice.

Now that I think about it, it can be regarded as a revisit.

With this in mind, he walked to a cell closed by a sealed iron door.

Jin Yiwei opened the cell, and Kim Hyun also calmly walked in.

There was only one place in the cell where light could be seen, and that was a brick-sized window.

The sunlight poured in, and it was already towards the door, and it was sprinkled on Kim Hyun who was blocking the door.

He shielded his hands from the dazzling sunlight, and also saw Chengde sitting in a straw pile meditating.

His hair was disheveled, and although his clothes were fairly clean, Kim Hyun could smell the smell of him who hadn't taken a bath in a long time.

"Yuansheng, I've come to see you."

Kim Hyun's words sounded, the prison door behind him slowly closed, and Sung Deok, who was meditating, slowly opened his eyes.

He saw Kim Hyun standing in the sun, Kim Hyun was wearing a gray robe, wearing a square scarf and a net scarf on his head, and he was not rich in clothes, but he was better than clean.

On the other hand, he was dressed in a dusty prison uniform, his hair was scattered, and he sat in the shadows, like a villain.

Sung-deok didn't speak, but Kim Hyun found a clean haystack to sit down.

The four or five square meters of narrow cells sat down, and the two of them did not look crowded.

Kim Hyun handed the book in his hand to Sungdeok, and then opened the food box he brought.

A pot of "Tai Hip Bai", two plates of meat dishes, one plate of vegetarian dishes, and finally two bowls of rice with white flowers.

"The wine was given by His Royal Highness, and the food was made by my mother."

"I have told her all about your distress, and my mother asked you to go to the house for a light meal after you get out of the prison."

Kim Hyun poured wine for Sung-deok while telling him some trivial things about himself.

After listening to this, Sung-deok also felt a little more energetic, he looked at the document in his hand, and instead of opening it, he handed it back to Kim Hyun.

"Since I'm already white, this book is not something I can read."

As he spoke, he put the book in Kim Hyun's arms, picked up the wine glass and drank it down, breathing a deep sigh of relief.

With the orders of the king of Qi, although he can't live or sleep in this prison, at least he won't starve.

As for the wine, meat and rice ordered by King Qi, there were also a lot of food, but Chengde didn't use chopsticks, but often used a bowl of rice to eat, barely hanging on to this life.

Jin Xuan will come, first, he wants to come, and second, Lu Wenzhao sees that Chengde is not a way to do this, and is afraid that he will starve to death in prison, so he specially asked Jin Xuan to come.

"Threatening His Highness with Yanshan externally, threatening His Highness with a hunger strike internally, you make it difficult for Your Highness to do this......"

Kim Hyun filled Sungdeok's glass with wine and handed him chopsticks.

Facing the wine glass, Chengde took it and drank it all, but in the face of the chopsticks, Chengde did not take it, but looked at Jin Hyun after drinking, and said lightly:

"Only His Highness can save the Ming ......"

"Save Daming?" Jin Xuan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The current Da Ming no longer needs His Highness." ”

"It's too old to stand the toss."

"What it needs is gradual, and what it needs is an emperor who can expand his territory while keeping it."

"Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qi State needs His Royal Highness more, and the faster the Qi State progresses, the faster the Ming Dynasty progresses."

"As far as the country of Qi is concerned, this is the way to take trouble." Cheng De interrupted Jin Xuan's words, he didn't think that Zhu Youzhen went to the Qi Congress to make Daming progress.

He admitted that it was precisely because of the old Ming Dynasty that Zhu Youzhen needed to sit in the center, so that this old-thinking dynasty could adapt to his strong body step by step.

As far as the country of Qi is concerned, it is not to give the Ming an answer to emulate, but to cultivate a future opponent of the Ming Dynasty.

The geographical environment of Qi is unique, as long as there is a strong navy, it can almost be invincible.

With such an existence, even if Zhu Youzhen can't pass, the development of Qi will definitely not slow down, let alone Zhu Youzhen's past.

Zhu Youzhen is not a vassal domain, and with Zhu Ciran, the Ming Dynasty can at least stabilize the century-old national ancestry.

But if Zhu Youzhen insists on being a vassal, no one can know how long the Ming Dynasty's national glory will last.

"The clan is one...... "Jin Hyun couldn't help but say, but was interrupted by Sungdeok: "Do you believe it?" ”

"......" Sung-deok's words made Kim Hyun slightly silent.

After a while, he continued to answer Chengde's question: "At least for now, for decades to come." ”

"But what about ...... decades later" Chengde asked Kim Hyun and moved out of "Yanshan Textbook":

"What is the center of the sixth chapter of Yanshan politics? Do you remember? ”

Sung-deok didn't give Kim Hyun a chance to answer, and replied preemptively: "Don't leave the difficulties to the successor." ”

"Now that there is an opportunity to create a century-old work, why covet decades of peace?"

"Restricting the imperial power, I took the lead in this matter, in order to take care of His Highness's face."

Cheng De was shocked, and continued: "Your Highness values love and righteousness, and is unwilling to seize the throne, so the throne will be given to them." ”

"Stay, be a solitary minister, and let the people of Daming enjoy another hundred years of peace, why not?"

"It's just for the so-called brotherly love, let the people be dusted, this is not His Highness in my heart."

"But His Highness is His Highness!" Jin Hyun interrupted and looked directly at Chengdeok: "I support His Highness!" ”

"......" Kim Hyun's words made Sung Deok speechless for a while, and the cell fell silent, so much so that the Jinyi guard who was guarding the door a few minutes later couldn't help but knock on the door.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

The knock on the door broke the dead silence between the two, and Kim Hyun took the lead in softening: "I don't talk about political affairs today, just eat and talk about the past." ”

"You used your authority to enter here, but you said that you don't talk about political affairs, don't you think it's ridiculous......" Sung Deok suffocated Kim Hyun here.

Indeed, it was impossible for Kim Hyun to use his authority to visit his friends in such a place, what he would do in the past was just to blindly neglect and distinguish between public and private.

But now......

"You've changed, let's go......" Sung-deok took one last sip of wine, then lay down on the haystack and turned sideways to not look at Kim Hyun.

Kim Hyun looked at his back lying on his side, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say.

After a long time, he took away the food box he had brought and left the food behind.

Looking at Sung Deok's back, Jin Xuan's eyes were complicated, and he could only explain when he turned around:

"The meal is my mother's heart, eat it, I'll come to see you another day......"

After the words fell, he walked to the iron door and knocked on the iron door, and the Jinyi guard outside the door took a look at the condition of Sungdeok in the cell before letting Kim Hyun go.

After a few seconds, the sound of the iron door closing sounded, and Kim Hyun's footsteps became farther and farther away.

In the end, Cheng De was the only one left in this small cell......