The ancient road in Shuzhong has been difficult to walk since ancient times.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Cao Zhen, Marquis of Jingchuan, deeply felt that it was difficult to build this post station in Yunnan from Jianchangwei, and the mountain road was difficult to walk, so he suggested taking the ancient plank road from Leshan and Emei, which was adopted by the imperial court.

Today, hundreds of large ships are on the Minjiang River.

"Ahead is Guan County."

Zheng He looked at the geography ahead and said to Zhu Xiongying.

Zheng He's family was captured that year, and Zheng He had been to Chengdu with Mu Ying to fight against the barbarian rebellions in Sichuan and Guizhou, and he was familiar with this place.

And Zhu Xiongying is also full of emotion, in his previous life, he grew up, and the only big city he has been to is Chengdu.

He grew up in an orphanage, likes to listen to folk songs, and has heard a song called Chengdu countless times.

Now, on another plane, he's here again.

"Zheng He, Dujiangyan in Guan County, can the officials here repair it?"

Zhu Xiongying asked.

He clearly remembered that after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the previous life, Chengdu still flooded every year after the construction of many reservoirs, and places such as Jintang in the downstream were not flooded all year round.

Zheng He said: "Your Highness, the spies of the National Security Division have come to report, and now His Royal Highness the King of Shu attaches great importance to civil, and most local officials give priority to civil. ”

Zhu Xiongying snorted.

Zhu Chun is indeed a good vassal king, and it is also very suitable for Sichuan and Shu, the natural environment here is actually very good, and a little governance can make the people eat their stomachs.

Now that he wants to open the middle volume of the imperial examination here, he will take Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Burma Annam scholars, so he naturally has to be extra careful.

At this time, Southeast Asia was not like the previous life when it developed its own script, Burma, Siam, Annam, these places all speak Chinese characters, and Sichuan dialect, strictly speaking, is the southwestern official dialect at this time.

This remark can be passed in the southwest, and most of the southwest barbarians and people can understand it.

If you want to determine the southeast, you must govern Sichuan.

If you want to govern Sichuan, you must first grasp the water conservancy of the Chengdu Plain.

As long as the Ming Dynasty does a good job in Sichuan's water conservancy, the granary will become half.

In the Central Plains of Henan and other places, the mess at the end of the Yuan Dynasty has not yet been cleaned up, and it is necessary to pass through Shaanxi and Gansu, and it is necessary to continuously transport grain from Chengdu.

According to Zhu Xiongying's plan, more cassava, rice, and sugarcane should be planted here, and a large granary in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty should be built, focusing on the development of meat rabbits and greenhouse technology.

The climate of the Chengdu Plain is also very suitable for growing all kinds of mushrooms.

Due to the Diaoyutai War, the fierce resistance of the Sichuan people led to the slaughter of Sichuan in the Yuan Dynasty, the population from more than 10 million in the Southern Song Dynasty, sharply reduced to more than 1 million, and the rest also fled to the mountains, there is no family on the Chengdu Plain, the resistance to governance is small, the land is reclaimed at will, Ji'an Hou Lu Zhongheng and Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of military tuntian in this place.

If the fertilizer problem is solved.

Sichuan and Shu are ripe, and the northwest is full.

"I have to go to my father to talk, Sichuan and Shu are heavy, we must put a few important ministers who are good at agriculture and people's livelihood, as well as water control, to do a good job of the flood here, the Sichuan and Shu Plain is not afraid of anything, but this flood costs people's lives, Daming is really strange, Shaanxi has a drought these days, but Sichuan has launched a big flood."

During the Yuan Dynasty, because of the continuous floods, the Yuan Dynasty was very good at water control, and there were many famous ministers for water control, such as Guo Shoujing, a famous water conservancy expert.

Guo Shoujing still has a legacy of writing.

Zhu Xiongying looked at the big water in the Min River and began to ponder about the big things.

……

The other side.

Several young Confucian students were curiously looking at the scenery of Sichuan.

Wu Zhong, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu, all four of them are here.

After studying in Taixue for two years, it was time for them to practice, and this time they came to study in the land of Sichuan and Shu as the companion of Zhu Xiongying, the eldest grandson of the emperor.

"I didn't expect Sichuan Shu to have so many fertile fields."

Yang Rong said with emotion.

"It's a pity that the Guangyuan Ancient Plank Road is difficult to walk, otherwise I can rule this place in the Ming Dynasty."

Yang Shiqi also agreed.

These four people are all top-notch among the Taixue students.

Therefore, they were all brought by Zhu Xiongying to Sichuan and Yunnan for internships.

Start with a junior officer, make practical achievements, and then distribute them after the assessment.

Wu Zhong said: "At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there was no city wall here, if it was a county with my Chengdu Prefecture, I would be able to reproduce the wealth of Yizhou." ”

Yang Rong was a young man, and laughed: "Oh, Wuzhong, you are so confident, then I also want to show His Royal Highness the Emperor of Ming, and ask to stay in Shuzhong, for a county in Shuzhong, and compare with you!" ”

Yang Shiqi rolled his eyes and said, "You wait for qualifications, it's enough to be a grain chief......

Scholars like them, Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiong brought hundreds of people this time.

Zhu Biao and others came over, and also brought a large number of immigrants from Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi to Sichuan on official ships, among which there were many outstanding scholars and students recommended by local government schools in the north.

Most of these outstanding scholars are talented, and then cooperate with the Ming government to do outstanding work in immigration and tax collection, all of them are real officials, not boastful people.

This Zhu Biao's northern tour is of far-reaching significance to the Ming Dynasty, especially the contradiction between the north and the south.

The focus is on the rule of officials.

When he went to Beiping, he transferred many Guozijian and Tai Bachelors.

From Beiping to Shanxi, it is from Shandong and Hebei to transfer scholars.

When he arrived in Shaanxi, he used the scholars of Nanjing, Shanxi and Henan, and then transferred the outstanding students of Shaanxi's government schools and the outstanding students who collected taxes from the grain chief to Chengdu and other places in the southwest as officials.

In fact, there was already an official avoidance system in the Ming Dynasty, and they generally did not serve as parents in their birthplace, but it was the first time that such a large-scale appointment of southerners as northern officials and northerners as southern officials began to be replaced from the grassroots officials.

There are advantages and disadvantages to employing people in this way.

The advantage is that the officials sent in the past will not be the same as Shandong, Jiangnan and other places, the officials and the squires are either of the same clan and the same clan, or before the official obtains the official status, the merchant squire will give him more financial support to help him become famous and have an exchange of interests.

Fifteen years before Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty did not hold the imperial examination for about ten years, mainly relying on the recommendation system.

This opened an opening for the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and the squires, who built up a reputation for their favored "talents", funded money to hold poetry meetings, etc., to provide convenience for the rise of talents.

As a result, in the ten years after the Ming Dynasty stopped the imperial examination, a large number of officials entered the imperial court and relied on relationships to enter the imperial court, especially in the Nanzhili Mansion.

In the time and space of the previous life, Guo Hengyu, who broke out in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, was not so much about officialdom fraud and tax fraud.

It is better to say that it is because the Ming Dynasty has not held the imperial examination for ten years, which led to the township officials recommended by the southern Ming Dynasty, the county magistrates, and the big landlord class who can pay taxes colluded with the big landlord class who could pay taxes and did not pay the grain tax.

Appointing northerners as southern officials can provide much less protection and levy grain for the imperial court.

This time, because Fang Xiaoru was in charge of the middle volume of the Ming Dynasty and was in charge of the examination of children in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, a few people in Wu Zhong stayed in Shuzhong and could also be taken care of by Fang Xiaoru.

The other side.

"Daddy."

Zhu Xiongying entered Zhu Biao's cabin, where Zhu Biao was dealing with local officials on government affairs.

Mainly, it is to focus on things such as household registration and Huang Ce's title deed.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols deliberately did not rule Sichuan, because the common people here were very anti-Yuan.

After they invaded, they burned down the city, demolished the city walls, and carried them with them, and the household registration and tax forms of Chengdu Prefecture were all gone.

And Ming Yuzhen's entry into Sichuan and Shu is only for pleasure, mainly ruling around the city of Chengdu, not to mention any household registration tax register. What Daming accepted was a black-eyed southwest region, even inferior to Gansu, because Gansu was located on the Silk Road, and Dayuan also made statistics on household registration.

Now, after so many years of measurement and statistics, Daming has preliminarily completed the household registration tax statistics in Sichuan and Shu.

"See His Royal Highness Taisun."

The local officials in Sichuan and Shu hurriedly visited.

And Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen, Ji'an Hou Lu Zhongheng, and Sichuan teacher Fang Xiaoru arrived in Hanzhong early to greet the crown prince Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiongying, who were also in the cabin at this time.

"No courtesy."

Zhu Xiongying waved his hand, he sat on the side and listened, Fang Xiaoru saw that all the ministers were surrounding Zhu Biao, and he couldn't interject, so he took a few steps back, leaned on Zhu Xiongying's side, and said in a low voice: "Your Royal Highness, there is a good thing." ”

"What's good?"

"According to the drawings of His Royal Highness Taisun, my country's security division discovered the copper mine in southern Yunnan, which produces a lot of copper, and I have a cornucopia."

"What's that good thing about?"

Zhu Xiongying shook his head.

Shanxi has also discovered a large number of coal mines, the Ming Nine Frontier Guards, in the future, there will not be so much shortage of firewood, you can drink hot soup.

But......

Zhu Xiongying suddenly remembered something.

yes, how did I forget that.