"The governor's mansion of the five armies is sparse, and the total number of immigrants in Hezhong and Taixi provinces has only increased by more than 34,600 this year, so please find a way to increase immigrants to ensure the supply of 60,000 garrisons in the two provinces......"

In the Wenhua Palace, when Sun Kewang read out the recital of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies as the fourth rank of Zhan Shifu and the Shao Zhan Shi, the important ministers sitting in the hall were absent-minded.

Although Zhu Ciran took away some important ministers, the configuration left behind was still luxurious.

Yongwang Zhu Cijiong, Dingwang Zhu Cijiong sat on the main seat, and the first was the first assistant of the cabinet, Hong Chengchou, the second assistant, Sun Chuanting, and the cabinet minister Jin Xuan and the cabinet minister Li Changgeng.

Since the cabinet has been separated from the Sixth Ministry and the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, only the four members of the cabinet and Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cijiong can participate in the highest deliberations.

Sun Kewang is an official of the East Palace to explain all kinds of things that need to be handled.

However, although he was explaining the recital, the six people sitting in the seat had their own thoughts, and they didn't put their minds on it.

They were all waiting, waiting for news from the south to come back.

It's just that the news hasn't waited yet, so they have to deal with the current matter first.

"The disaster in the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Central Plains has subsided, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, so it is natural that they are reluctant to move, so it is inevitable that the number of people who will migrate will decline."

"In addition, the railway has only just arrived in Anxi City, so the fact that 40,000 or 50,000 people can move to Hezhong and Taixi every year is already the result of the best efforts of the Ministry of Households and the Relocation Division."

"This year, the amount of relocation in the two capitals and 31 provinces within the national dynasty is only more than 976,000."

Li Chang Gung spoke as a cabinet minister in the cabinet superintendent to explain why this year's immigration is so difficult.

The migration was indeed as he said, but it was slowed down by the fact that the disaster had subsided and the land had been sparsely populated.

If you want to migrate in peacetime, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Even if there was forced immigration during the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, the retention rate was less than sixty percent, not to mention that the immigration policy of the Apocalypse Dynasty was still independent immigration.

"At present, although there are still more than 110 million people in the 13 provinces of the Central Plains, the amount of cultivated land is 820 million mu."

"After the disaster subsided, the people were given a share of the land by the imperial court, and one person could get more than seven acres, while only nearly three of the people became young and could not farm."

"Therefore, of the more than 800 million acres of land, only 80 million people are actually farming, 10 acres for each person, and 20 for a family, and 50 or 60 for a family."

"With such a number, why should the people leave their homes and move to other places?"

Although Li Changgeng is more traditional in his thinking, he is still relatively clear about the specific difficulties of the people.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is very similar to that of the Hongwu period.

During the Hongwu period, 60 million people divided more than 500 million mu of cultivated land equally, and they were still rich, and many people could not plant the land in their hometowns, so how could they covet the so-called foreign land.

At present, although Hezhong and Taixi have issued the slogan of dividing 50 acres of land per person, they have left their hometowns for the sake of the extra 10 acres of land, which is not in line with the local concept of the people in this era.

In the past, they were willing to move because it didn't rain, and it was useless to have fields in their hometown, and they couldn't grow food without rain.

But now that the disaster has passed, it is difficult to say that the wind and rain are smooth, but you can live after all.

The average amount of 820 million mu of cultivated land divided equally between 110 million people is already a lot, not to mention that there are more than 30 million children and young children.

It can be said that these lands need to be cultivated by their parents, so almost every adult has to cultivate ten acres of land.

In the intensive cultivation of the Ming Dynasty, with only manpower, a spring planting season can be up to five acres of land, if there are cattle, it can be increased to ten acres.

It's just that even if there was officialdom early on, and there was the Ming Dynasty in the entire East Asian steppe, the actual situation could not get 20 million cultivated cattle, let alone 80 million cultivated cattle that needed to cultivate more than 800 million arable land.

This time the resumption of farming in Shanxi was basically achieved by relying on tractors issued by the imperial court to achieve rapid recultivation.

The real situation of the Ming Dynasty is that most of the provinces south of the Great Wall were cultivated by manpower.

The man pulls the plow, the woman supports the plow, and the husband and wife will plow two or three points of land in a day of fatigue.

Not to mention the fifty or sixty acres in Li Changgeng's mouth, the more than ten acres of land of the husband and wife alone also require them to work together from the winter solstice to spring planting.

In this way, the husband and wife still could not cultivate intensively, but could only use extensive sowing methods.

This is the reason for the difficulties of immigration in the early Ming Dynasty, and it is also the difficulty encountered by the Ming Dynasty at present.

"If you want to migrate as much as possible, you must first liberate the productive forces so that the people can grow more land, otherwise the people will not be willing to move."

As an official who received a new type of education and practiced in the Qi State, Kim Hyun was well aware of the reasons why the people were willing to move.

To put it bluntly, the people nowadays are exhausted just by taking care of the dozen acres of land at home, and at this time, you don't want to give him dozens of acres, even a few hundred acres is useless.

The people can't plant it, and they can't take care of it, not to mention that most of these lands are still wasteland, and the people need to reclaim it themselves to become cooked land in order to produce something.

Therefore, liberating the productive forces is the most important thing for Daming to do now.

It just so happened that the King of Qi had laid the foundation for the Ming Dynasty, and there were no so-called big landlords in the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining small and medium-sized landlords could not resist the central court that controlled most of the means of production.

In other words, the Central Plains, Beijing, and 13 provinces have been able to fully promote tractors.

"Now is a good time to promote tractors in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and the imperial court can promote the production team method of the provinces outside the Great Wall to Guannai."

"With ten households as a production team, each team will distribute a tractor to gradually promote tractors from north to south, liberate productivity, so that people do not have to spend too much time on the land."

Kim Hyun put forward his own opinion, and this is also the practice of Qi State.

In this regard, Yongwang Zhu Ciyan looked at Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and both of them nodded absentmindedly.

Seeing this, Zhu Ciyan set his eyes on Li Changgeng:

"If you calculate it according to the way of the Golden Cabinet Minister, how long will it take for the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Central Plains to implement the matter?"

His question was raised, and Li Changgeng acted unhurriedly:

"If it's from north to south, then based on the output of imperial tractors and the number of households in the north, next year will be the first year......"

Li Changgeng thought for a while, and then said:

"In the first year alone, we can organize the villages of Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shaanxi to meet the needs of more than 3 million households in the three places."

The output of tractors in Daming has exceeded 300,000 units, and there are more than 800,000 households in the three provinces, and the tractors have been used early.

Therefore, while meeting the needs of the Qi State, the Ming Dynasty can also take this opportunity to complete the mechanization promotion of one Beijing and two provinces.

"However, at present, the imperial court still lacks 750,000 tractors from the provinces outside the Guanxi Province, so the mechanization of the two capitals and thirteen provinces may need to be postponed for four years before it can be carried out."

Li Changgeng expressed the "debt" owed by immigrants in the Ming Dynasty over the years.

The immigrants of the Ming Dynasty were either given out cattle or tractors.

However, the output of tractors has only come up in the past two years, and in the past ten years, the distribution of tractors in the Ming Dynasty has been very slow compared with the speed of immigration.

There are still 750,000 production teams waiting for the distribution of tractors, and behind them are more than 6.5 million households and more than 30 million people.

In this regard, Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cijiong had already learned about it when they accompanied their eldest brother to deal with government affairs in the past year, and at the same time, Zhu Cijiong also said at the same time as Li Changgeng spoke:

"The production of tractors has been improving, and 750,000 units is a lot, but three years is enough."

"However, although there are still more than 48 million households in the dynasty that have not directly benefited from tractors, according to the model of the production team, it will take at most 15 years to meet the needs of all the production teams of the dynasty."

"If the industrial zone has been expanding in a disorderly manner, and there is no demand at that time, what does the tractor factory need to do?"

"Of course, I'm not denying Uncle Qi's merits and policies, but we must make preparations and arrangements in advance, and we can't wait until there is no demand to think about the livelihood of the workers."

The idea put forward by Zhu Cijiong made the ministers frown, and even Zhu Cijiong also frowned, and then said:

"The population of the dynasty is always growing, the land is being cultivated, and the demand is bound to increase......

"I need to worry about what my brother said, but this will not affect the investment and construction of the two batches of industrial zones in the future."

"Specifically, let's wait for my father and eldest brother to return to Beijing before making plans."

"But my brother's words reminded me, if the tractor is promoted, will it cause grain cheapness and hurt farmers at that time?"

Zhu Ciyun put the afterglow on Kim Hyun, because only he could give this answer.

In this regard, Kim Hyun pondered for a moment, and finally spoke:

"It's a real issue that needs to be discussed, but it's not something to worry about."

"King Qi once said that the current world is already integrated, and domestic food prices may be reduced, but that is because the country has tractors."

"Judging from the current situation, as long as there is no major disaster, in fact, the food of the national dynasty is only barely enough."

"The total grain produced by the national dynasty was about 1.5 billion stones, and the basic rations of the common people alone reached 700 million stones."

"Most of the extra 800 million stones have to be used for livestock captivity, adding meat to increase the needs of the people."

"These seem to be a lot, but they are far from enough, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty, as the co-lord of the world, still needs to make up for the food gap of the vassal country."

"If the minister remembers correctly, it has been calculated in the nineteenth year of the Apocalypse during the period when King Qi was in charge of the country, and the grain of the dynasty must reach two billion stones to meet the food gap of the dynasty and the vassals."

"This does not include the issue of grain trade in Europe and West Asia, and the use of grain trade to control Europe economically is also a strategic means set during the period of King Qi's supervision."

"At present, the amount of grain exported under the suzerainty system of the national dynasty accounts for only about 2% of Europe."

"If you want to achieve this goal, you have to increase it to at least 30%."

"Therefore, at the current rate, there is no need to worry about the problem of grain cheapness hurting farmers in the next ten years."

"The details of everything should still have to be discussed when Banzai and the prison country return."

Kim Hyun interrupted the next questions because, in his opinion, these issues obviously could not be discussed in the absence of the emperor and the crown prince.

Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cijiong also understood, so they didn't ask, but said to Li Changgeng:

"In this case, the construction of the seventh and eighth phases of the industrial zone will also continue until the emperor calls a halt."

"The minister orders ......," Li Changgeng responded.

"As for the issue of immigration in Hezhong and Taixi, this is a long-term problem, and the financial situation of the dynasty is very good, and the relocation of the people is still mainly guided for the time being, and the cabinet will tell the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Sixth Ministry."

After Zhu Ciyan finished speaking, he glanced at the pendulum clock time in the Wenhua Palace, and when he was about to get up, hurried footsteps sounded outside the hall.

At this moment, everyone's hearts hung in the air, and when the footsteps came to the door, the appearance of a crimson round-necked robe also made everyone hold their breath......

"The flying pigeon of the thousand households of Nanzhili has passed the book, His Royal Highness the King of Qi has boarded the ship to the Qi country in less than four minutes, and I am afraid that he has left the sea area of Songjiang Mansion now!"

“……”

For a while, the entire Wenhua Hall was quiet, and the seven people in the hall finally waited for the news, but they didn't know how to behave for a while.

"Stand down......"

Zhu Ciyan waved his hand with a complicated expression, and Jinyi Wei also got up and slowly withdrew from the Wenhua Hall when he heard this.

After he left, Zhu Ciji and Zhu Cijiong glanced at the four ministers, and when they saw that they didn't speak, they got up and explained: "Let's break the meeting......

After that, Zhu Ciji and Zhu Cijiong got up and left the Wenhua Hall one after another, and Sun Kewang also left the place after him.

The remaining four ministers with "complicated" expressions also got up and left one after another after a while.

Since it is now time to end the shift, except for Li Changgeng, who is on duty today, the other three have left the outer court.

Kim Hyun went straight to the Imperial Prison, while Hong Seungchou and Sun Chuanting returned to their respective homes.

Since the Imperial Prison is very close to the Forbidden City, Kim Hyun is the first to reach his target.

After a short inspection, Kim Hyun came to the familiar iron door as he wished.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

He knocked lightly on the iron door, and then motioned for the brocade guard to open the prison door.

As the iron door opened, Kim Hyun walked into the dimly lit prison and saw Sung-deok facing a wall.

Light entered the prison through the brick-sized windows, shining on the scratched walls.

"Today...... It's the day when His Highness will become a vassal...... Right? ”

Sung-deok turned his back to Kim Hyun and asked, just listening to the footsteps, he knew that it was Kim Hyun.

"His Royal Highness has already left, and now it is estimated that he has left the sea area of Songjiang Prefecture......"

Kim Hyun's tone seemed to be relieved, but Sung-deok, who heard his words, stiffened his back:

"Let's go......"

He seemed to be a little older, and Kim Hyun wanted to comfort him, but he waved his hand: "You go, I'll be alone ...... quietly"

"Good ......" Kim Hyun knows that he can't enlighten Chengde, and this matter can only be enlightened by himself.

He turned around and left the prison, and only Chengde was left facing the wall in the cell.

Also when Chengde was thinking about it, Sun Chuanting was the first to arrive at his home.

He went back to the study and sat down, leaned back in his chair, and looked at the clean and tidy desk in front of him.

He resisted the idea, but his hand unconsciously clenched the armrest of the chair, as if he wanted to crush the armrest.

Compared with him, the study of Yongwangfu in Baiwangfang also walked into the figures of Zhu Cizhuo and Zhu Cijiong.

Zhu Cijiong couldn't wait to sit down, so he clenched his fists and squeezed out between his teeth: "Uncle Qi is gone, I don't know what they will do now......

"The most noteworthy thing is Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and Yang Wenyue, all of whom have their own cronies in the army."

"On the contrary, it is Jin Xuan, not to mention that he is the teacher of the eldest brother, just because Uncle Qi Wang took away a large number of backbone generals who graduated from Yanshan, Jin Xuan has become the safest person."

"I have to get my eldest brother and dad back as soon as possible!"

Zhu Cijiong could feel that the hundred officials were not at ease, but they were just afraid of the King of Qi and were at ease.

Now that King Qi is gone, who knows if they will be as careless as wild horses on the loose?

"Don't worry about them ......"

Compared with Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cijiong sees it more openly:

"Uncle Qi has already arranged everything, as long as the current situation in the cabinet and the Governor's Mansion of the Six Ministries and the Five Armies is maintained, the people below will not be in chaos."

"As for Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue, don't worry, they are used to check and balance Hong Chengchou."

"The development of imperial power is like this, it is no longer something that can be controlled by a single faction, they have some small actions at most, but if they dare to cross the line, Dad and eldest brother will naturally clean them up."

Zhu Ciyan narrowed his eyes: "I want to see how many heads of this group of people can be cut off!" ”

"Gurgle ......"

While Zhu Ciyan was getting ready, Hong Chengchou's carriage stopped at the door of the mansion.

Compared with Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou does not hide his financial resources, after all, the source of his silver can be found.

Therefore, he specially purchased a house covering an area of 25 acres in the capital.

He was perhaps the richest of the many ministers.

He alone has supervised the local government for so many years, and this is only a salary, and the bulk of his income is still the commander of the army.

He destroyed Jiaozhi, Luchuan, and Mughals......

The bounty involved in these battles was nearly 10 million taels, and as the commander, he personally took half of it.

This half achievement alone has an income of 500,000 taels, plus various counterinsurgency, his wealth is not inferior to that of some vassal kings.

It's just that money is something outside of his body for him, and power and fame are what he is pursuing.

His power can be said to have reached the point of being a supreme minister, but even so, he still can't control his own life.

His life and death are in the hands of that person, and that person is finally gone now!

Hong Chengchou walked in the courtyard, and he could feel that many eyes were staring at him.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was not uncommon for people to hide brocade guards in the mansion.

Hong Chengchou knows very well what he should do now.

He stopped, looked up at the cloudy snowy sky, sighed and exhaled:

"Eventful......"

After that, he hid his face and wept, and he shook his shoulders when he was over fifty years old, which also attracted the attention of the head of the Hong Mansion.

"Elder Ge, you ......"

The head of the Hong Mansion didn't know why, but Hong Chengchou howled: "Your Highness is leaving, I don't know who else in the court dares to trust me." ”

"You write a letter for me and submit your resignation to Banzai."

"This ...... It doesn't have to be that way, right? The head of the Hong Mansion was taken aback by his own elder, but Hong Chengchou shook his head and said:

"Only in this way can we save my life......"

He walked into the study with tears in his eyes, and sighed the moment he closed the door: "You go and do it......"

"Yes......" When the head of the Hong Mansion heard this, he didn't realize how old he was, and he staggered out of the courtyard after making a move.

Hong Chengchou also borrowed the door of the study and felt some eyes disappear.

He turned around and leaned against the doorway, his face complicated.

His eyes were still teary, but the corners of his mouth were already smiling to the highest.

Afraid of laughing, he covered his face with his hands, and even because he was too happy to laugh, he couldn't help but pause to keep himself from laughing.

After enduring this for more than ten seconds, he put away his smile, walked to the desk that he could see outside the window, sat down, and continued to deal with the music in secret tears.

Just looking at the sparse part, he still couldn't help but dance with his pen and ink:

"King Qi, King Qi... You're finally gone! ”

(End of chapter)