The major impact of the Xiaoice period on Daming can be divided into two parts: internally, productivity declines and shortages of means of production; The external influence is social unrest and frequent wars.

If [ ] from the perspective of the duration of the catastrophe and the impact caused, the harm of the peak of the Xiaoice River is no less than that of Jiannu.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao can only sigh that he is not at the right time to be a worrying emperor.

Externally, he can climb the technology tree, improve the level of weapons and equipment, strengthen the army, and resist the looting from the north.

Internally, he needs more officials like Li Jingbai who love the people and care for the people. At least, those bastards who are greedy and shameless and may be forced to rebel by the officials, the more they kill, the less harm they will do to the country and the people.

Kill a group of corrupt officials, and then top a batch, even if it is not like Li Jingbai, it will be stronger than the original. Even his family members were exiled, and he had no chance of revenge.

There are fewer and fewer enemies, and there are more and more obedient and useful people, and Zhu Youxiao feels that his situation is safer.

Moreover, beheading or exiling corrupt officials is also a blessing for many people. If the seat is not vacated, where will there be so many opportunities? Those who are selected by the ministry, those who are admitted to the imperial examination, and those who are transferred to officials, everyone is waiting and looking forward to it!

To put it bluntly, there are many people who are sad about the death of rabbits and foxes, there are many people who gloat, there are many people who hate and dislike them, and there are few people who stand up for the punished officials. Not even no, or not at all.

No matter whether he dares or not, and no matter what bad he is holding back in secret, Zhu Youxiao will not stop, let alone be polite.

This is not something that can be tolerated, and there is no need to say that the country and the nation have such a noble goal. This is a major event related to the stability of one's dragon chair and whether one's women and children can enjoy happiness.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youxiao has already regarded this as a life-and-death battle. It is the same determination and the same unshakable determination as him to destroy Jiannu.

No one understands the ruthlessness and urgency of the emperor, because no one knows the tragic scenes of history. Only the emperor knows that if he does not change, he will die.

For this, the emperor did not hesitate to kill ten times as many people. If you do the math, it's only tens of thousands, and at most it's not more than 100,000. And compared to the tragedy in history, 100,000 people is nothing.

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Jiannu has been defeated and suppressed, and it seems that it will not take long for Pingliao to succeed.

At home, the emperor's purge of officials is wave after wave, from the court to the locality, from corruption to collusion between officials and businessmen, either the whole family is exiled or beheaded and exiled, and the tense air envelops the officialdom and does not seem to have dissipated.

In such a situation, the Daming Navy Division set out from Guangzhou with more than 100 warships and thousands of officers and soldiers to easily occupy the firewood, which is not very eye-catching news, and not many people realize the importance of this overseas land.

Whether it is the current firewood stick, the future Jiading Mansion, Saigon, or called by someone's name. Only the emperor knew that this place was a flat, fertile and well-watered plain, full of development, and it was a large granary.

However, in the early stage of development, it is still necessary to invest money and manpower. In this regard, Zhu Youxiao could only take out hundreds of thousands of yuan from the internal funds as the cost of this military dispatch and use it to resettle the immigrants.

Fortunately, the climate and land were suitable for farming, and it did not take long for the settlers and garrisons to be self-sufficient for the three harvests to be harvested three times a year.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, the mobilization of people from Fujian, Anhui, and Guangxi to migrate will be 3,000 this year, 10,000 next year, and 50,000 the year after.

Conscription from immigrants, coupled with the construction of ports and permanent naval divisions, this overseas land became the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it could be defended very firmly.

Anhui often has floods, Fujian has many mountains and few lands, and the people are unbearable, so they are engaged in more maritime careers, and migrant farming gives them an extra way to make a living.

Guangxi, let me tell you a fact that is not known to many people: in the first Ming Dynasty, the rebellion of Guangxi Tusi, as well as the uprisings of Miao, Yao, and Zhuang, broke out non-stop.

Among them, there have been three times of the Datengxia Uprising, which lasted for more than 200 years. They are Han Yong, the right capital of Chenghua in the first year, Wang Shouren, the new secretary of the military department in the seventh year of Jiajing, and Cai Jing, the squire of the military department in the eighteenth year of Jiajing.

That's right, Mr. Wang Yangming, a master of psychology, led the troops to fight again and suppressed the second Datengxia Uprising.

Zhu Youxiao also wondered how Mr. Wang, who was keen on war and had never been defeated, could be molded into a philosopher by later generations.

But this is just an inconsequential matter, Zhu Youxiao is more concerned about why Guangxi is rebelling, what is the reason? There are also many local officials, why is Yunnan so much more stable.

After digging through the information and questioning the officials, the emperor finally found the reason. Quite simply, and unsurprisingly, it's a matter of land.

Guangxi has many mountains and little land, barren land and poor people, this characteristic is not unfamiliar to Zhu Youxiao, but he didn't expect it to be so acute in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, most of Guangxi's land had been occupied by local officials and Tumu, while farmers of various ethnic minorities such as Miao, Yao, Dong, and Zhuang, as well as peasants of the Han nationality, had little or no land.

The establishment of the Ming Dynasty basically did not touch the local officials in the remote areas, which was certainly conducive to rapid stability, but the social contradictions were also preserved.

With the growth of population, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the land annexation of Guangxi intensified, which gradually intensified social contradictions.

In feudal society, land was the most important means of production and the foundation of the peasants' survival. When the peasants lose their land, they are cut off from their livelihood.

Therefore, the poor peasants in Guangxi were forced to revolt for their livelihood, and they never stopped from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty basically took strong measures to suppress rebellions in various places, believing that once they showed weakness, they would cause more Tusi to follow suit, creating a worse situation.

However, one of the repressive methods adopted by the Ming Dynasty in Guangxi, the "armed seizure of land", created the seeds of the next rebellion, and the peasant uprising in Guangxi continued.

The so-called armed seizure of land means that the land of the rebellious peasants is called thief's land, and after the rebellion is put down, it is distributed to the official army or recruited native soldiers for cultivation.

In other words, the armed seizure of land means that the land of the peasants was openly assigned by the imperial court to the officers and soldiers stationed there, as well as the local officials and local officials who helped the imperial court to suppress the rebellion.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that a peasant revolt had been suppressed, and that a new uprising against the government's armed seizure of land had begun to brew.

In fact, there is another reason for the continuous rebellion in Guangxi, that is, table salt.

Since Guangxi itself does not produce salt (don't think that there is salt next to the sea), Guangxi's salt is basically transported from Guangdong.

Due to the inconvenient transportation in ancient times, coupled with the monopoly of the imperial court on salt, there was a shortage of salt in Guangxi. "There are a lot of smugglers, the price of salt is very high", and "the salt of official transportation is swirling, the soldiers are short of food and equipment, and the place is trapped".

In the first place, salt was not produced, and local officials interfered in the transportation of salt and engaged in salt dealers for illegal fishing. Salt has become a relatively serious social problem in Guangxi, and the common people are very dissatisfied with it.

"Poems of Western Guangdong" has a saying: "The deep mountain road is far from salt, and the banana leaves are burned to pickle the vegetables." This is a true portrayal of the salt shortage life of the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi at that time.

The problem of salt can be easily solved, and it is very promising to kill a group of local officials, and then implement the "ticket salt law" to break the monopoly of salt, and solve the shortage of salt and the high price through the invisible hand of the market.

And the main root cause of the endless rebellion lies in the land, Zhu Youxiao can be sure. It is not surprising that he listed Guangxi as a province for mobilizing immigrants.

Moreover, whether it is Anhui, Fujian, or Guangxi, the local people can quickly adapt to the climate of Mekong Province

That's right, the firewood sticks occupied by the Ming army now are not large, but the emperor has regarded it as a province of the Ming Dynasty and named it Mekong Province.

As for the management of Mekong Province, Zhu Youxiao did not hesitate to add the rank of governor and became a local governor of the same grade as the mainland.

In fact, from the emperor's will, it can also be seen that the emperor's attitude towards Mekong Province and his ambition for the development of Mekong Province can also be seen. The territory will become larger and larger, and the area will be closer and closer to the inland provinces.

Taichang Shaoqing Dong Yingju was appointed by Zhu Youxiao as the governor of Mekong Province because of his effective management of the affairs from Tianjin to Shanhaiguan Tuntian.

Mekong Province not only has a governor, but also a garrison commander, and the governor and the governor are juxtaposed, and the military and government are separated, which is also a precedent set by Zhu Youxiao.

As mentioned earlier, Mr. Wang Yangming, the master of Xinxue, led the troops as a literati and successively quelled the rebellion of King Ning and the Datengxia uprising, which can be called a model of Confucian generals.

However, in Zhu Youxiao's view, civilian officials leading troops and military generals obeying their orders are the main root causes of the decline of the Ming Dynasty.

Civilian officials, as the direct planner and commander of most military operations, although there are many people who practice military and are familiar with military books, rarely come directly from the military system.

Because of the principle of emphasizing civil affairs over military force and suppressing military force with civil affairs, civilian officials directly overrode military generals, so that military generals became grassroots executors.

The low status of military generals is only one thing, and it is not surprising that civilian officials who are good at talking about paper command battles, and there are more defeats and fewer victories.

Mr. Wang Yangming's victory is not universal and does not represent the true ability of civilian officials. The same is true of Yuan Keli, whose excellence cannot hide the incompetence and low military capabilities of other civilian officials.

However, it is not an easy task to achieve equal emphasis on civil and military affairs and to separate military and political affairs. The establishment of Mekong Province gave Zhu Youxiao a chance to experiment.

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From quantitative change to qualitative change, there must always be a process. Sometimes the time is short, which makes people feel intense; Sometimes it's slow, and it can be described as subtle.

For individuals, some are in it and feel more obvious; Some of them have less impact, so they don't realize that there is much change.

This also has a lot to do with the individual's position and environment.

The civil officials felt the change in the direction of the court, and felt the emperor's iron fist and determination to punish corruption; The generals had more and greater power, and they could straighten their waists in front of civilian officials, and the war became more and more hopeful of victory.

For the small people of Shengdou, they are busy keeping the family full and warm. I may also feel the spring breeze of reform and the relief of pressure, but it is not so strong and obvious.

Zhu Youxiao, who was in the palace, could not fully understand the feelings of others, and he could only unswervingly follow the path he designed.

Of course, he also has a feeling for the changes that have taken place in Daming. From the amount of financial revenue, from the victory or defeat of the war, from the secret music of the officials, and from the reports of the factory guards, he could realize that the sick body of this old empire was improving.

And his arrangement, whether it is immediate or long-term, no matter how many people can understand it, it is like falling on a chessboard, and sooner or later there will be a time to play a role.

The fastest to see the effect was the Liaodong War, the delivery of a large number of weapons and ammunition, the continuous replenishment of grain, grass and horses, so that the Ming army in Liaodong increased its combat strength at the same time, but also caused more and more pressure on Jiannu.

When the men and horses of Liao Town marched along the waterway of the Sancha River, they successively captured Niuzhuangyi and Dongchangbao; When the two mixed forces of Zhang Pan and Zhang Bang captured Yaozhouyi, Haizhou Wei was under the attack of the Ming army on both sides.

When the sailors of the Ming army gradually explored the waterway, went north along the Liao River, and appeared on the Hunhe River, possibly reaching Shenyang, Jiannu felt the embarrassment of being unable to prevent it.

Hunhe shipping began in the Yuan Dynasty and became increasingly prosperous.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the official transportation of grain and wages was usually carried from Shandong along the Bohai Bay and Liaodong Bay to the northeast, along the Liaohe River, and the grain and wages were transported to garrisons in various places along the way, of which the Shenyang section was transported through the Hunhe River.

Since then, commodity transportation has gradually emerged, and Hunhe freight has become busy.

At that time, the Ming court allowed each ship to transport eight points of official goods and two points of private goods at the same time, making the ferryman profitable, and commodities such as rice, ginseng, and fungus in the Northeast began to be sold to various places.

The Shenyang section of the Hunhe River has thus formed a fixed wharf, and large and small ships depart from Shenyang, carry passengers on board, and then return from Yingkou with goods on board.

At that time, or until the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shenyang could be regarded as a coastal city. Through the navigation of the Hunhe River, it is connected to the vast world outside.

But now, Jiannu hates the Hunhe River and hates this "golden waterway". Because the ships of the Ming army can be unblocked, and their cavalry can only look at the river and sigh.

Is it as simple as sailing, and a fool knows that a ship can carry cannons and a ship can transport troops. The Ming navy opened up the sea channel to the Hun River, which meant that Shenyang could be attacked by the Ming army's landing attack.

And the advantage of the Ming army's sailors is that Jiannu can't catch up with the horses. Because of this, Jiannu felt a huge threat.

It was necessary to block the Ming army's sailors, or to block the river, but for the turbulent Hunhe River at that time, this was obviously impossible.

Another way is to block the iron chain on the river, but this project is still a task that Jiannu cannot complete.

In other words, Jiannu had no effective way to deal with the Ming army's sailors. Closely monitoring and preventing the Ming army from tracing the river and landing and attacking seems to be the only passive way.

Regardless of whether the Ming army's naval division feints or attacks, it can contain many Jiannu troops, which may be the purpose of the Ming army; But for Jiannu, he had to concentrate on it and couldn't make the Ming army attack successful.

The situation deteriorated further, not counting the Dongjiang headquarters' step-by-step pressure on Jianzhouwei, and the threat posed by the Ming army of southern Liaoning and Liaozhen joining forces to Liaoyang.

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