It's almost the New Year, and Zhu Zhen is still in Shandong.

In fact, he planned to return to Beijing with the team escorting Lao Qi, but he couldn't resist the pleading of the Shandong officials, and the old thief also wrote a letter to keep him in Shandong for a few more months.

It is clear from top to bottom that only when he is in Shandong Town, the Confucian and Meng families will be honest, and the new policies of the imperial court can be implemented smoothly.

Zhu Zhen had no choice but to agree. In fact, he is also to compensate for the debts of the old seven and ten to the people of Shandong.

Fortunately, the ability of the New Deal officials, who were mainly college students, was far from being comparable to that of the original time in Jiangxi, and they completed the compilation of the province's yellow books in only three months after the September rebellion.

Of course, this also has something to do with the small population of Shandong......

After nearly 20 years of recuperation, Boss Zhu immigrated to Shandong from Shanxi and other places five times, and now the province has recovered to 700,000 households, with a population of nearly 5 million.

Moreover, nearly half of them are under the age of 18 'people of this dynasty', which shows that Boss Zhu's measures to restore the population are still quite effective.

"Lord Wang, what the hell is going on? Why don't you give us a thorough understanding and let us turn ourselves in without saying anything?" Zhu Neng Qiufu said with a bitter face:

It's really vibrant, and everything is competing!

Zhu Zhen also reported to Boss Zhu that he and his two brothers planned to end their trip to Shandong after the field survey was completed, and strive to return to Beijing for the New Year.

As a result, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were only 380,000 households and 1.26 million people left in Shandong...... The phrase "one out of ten" is not enough to describe its tragedy.

Zhu Zhen ordered everyone to go to the ground to assist Qingzhang, and the army also went into battle together, striving to complete all the field measurement work in one go before the Chinese New Year.

A few people said that they were broken, so that the prince heard it, and followed in with trepidation.

How could Zhu Zhen not agree to this kind of thing?

The group made a difficult trek through this snowy world. Fortunately, the newly built official road was straight and smooth, so that they would not get lost, and there were post stations for them to rest every sixty miles. They did not miss the trip, and on the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, they arrived in Tongzhou......

As for the acres of land, at the beginning of the country, the whole of Shandong was mostly uninhabited, and Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously took measures to reward land reclamation, giving seeds to ploughing cattle, and whoever planted it was counted as whom.

Princess Yan took care of her father day and night, and Zhu Di sat in the General's Mansion and took care of the affairs of the army for her father-in-law.

"We don't know what to do?"

The people of Shandong are industrious and willing to endure hardships, catch up with the good times, and naturally burst out with infinite strength, after nearly 20 years of reclamation, basically the land abandoned by war and famine has been reclaimed.

As for the follow-up review work and the compilation of the fish scale atlas, it can be left behind for the next year.

He also spent huge sums of money to build water conservancy, opening thousands of pond weirs in Shandong every year, dredging hundreds of rivers, and building hundreds of canal embankments, and the amount of work far exceeded that of previous dynasties.

After several years of tempering, Zhu Di has already grown into a general who can take charge of himself. Since taking up the post of acting general, he has always handled things in an orderly manner and has not been alarmed, and has won praise from officers and men.

The snow never stopped along the way, sometimes fragmented and scattered, and it was impossible to see when it fell on the body; From time to time, they are all fluttering and sprinkling, making people unable to see clearly in front of them. The heavens and the earth are covered in silver, white and vast, and the mountains and rivers cannot be distinguished, all of which have become a seamless snowfield.

"It feels like the prince is going to surrender."

Eleven and Twelve said that their father had been following the sixth brother before asking them to take up the domain, and they didn't want to leave him.

Zhu Zhen was actually reluctant to let these two boys go, so he took them with him to see the cold in the north.

"No, no......" Everyone shook their heads and said, "Under the noses of the prince and the general, how dare we mess around?"

Boss Zhu quickly replied, agreeing to his request in principle, and just asked him to go to Beiping by the way - although Beiping is in the northeast of the mountain,

And Nanjing is in the southeast of Shandong, which is not a way in any way, but Zhu Zhen can't refuse.

"This king has already said it! After following this king to Beiping, all the lawless things you have done!" Zhu Di said with a glare.

"Don't talk nonsense." Qiu Fu's eyes were sharp, and when he saw the prince coming out of the festival hall with a black face, he hurriedly told everyone to shut up.

He asked Eleventh and Twelfth to return to Beijing first, and he hurried north.

Because Boss Zhu told Zhu Zhen that his father-in-law Xu Da was seriously ill, he ordered him to visit Beiping on his behalf, and if he could, take Xu Da back to Nanjing for treatment.

"What's wrong with the prince?" A few people couldn't help but mutter, "How did you open all your old accounts?"

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The promotion of the new deal is like a bamboo, and when it enters the lunar month, the work of compiling Lijia has also been completed, and only the work of clearing the acres of land is still being completed.

The Tongzhou battalion was also the location of the Chinese army that captured the army. After King Yan became a vassal, in order to keep his son-in-law from living in his shadow, Xu Da moved his conquest general's mansion to Tongzhou.

However, after he fell ill, Yan Wang and his wife also moved over.

Although in history, Shandong has long been the most densely populated, economically developed and culturally advanced region in the country, with a population of 3.9 million households in the Western Han Dynasty, more than 17 million, accounting for one-third of the country.

"Come here." Zhu Di glanced at them coldly, turned around and went in again.

"I don't know." Everyone shook their heads and said, "The prince also let us think about it for ourselves that day, what illegal things have we done."

The three of them rode their horses towards Beiping against the howling north wind.

But since a few days ago, he suddenly became a little flustered, and from time to time he was alone. Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu's cronies can occasionally hear one or two mouths, as if they are self-examining the mistakes they have made over the years......

"Don't say you haven't done this kind of thing, even if you do, you can't admit it."

But after the ravages of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, Shandong has long been dying. Especially in the later period of the Yuan Dynasty, the battle of the clans, the Red Turban Uprising, and Shandong were the main battlefields. While being ravaged by military disasters, it has also become a yellow flood area, and floods, droughts, and locust plagues are still frequent.

After preliminary measurements, the cultivated land area of the province has reached 60 million mu, twice that of the Song Dynasty, not to mention the Yuan Dynasty......

It is no wonder that Boss Zhu was not worried about turning into a rebellion after hearing about the Shandong civil uprising. How can ordinary people put a good life and rebel against others?

Some people say that the two vassal kings didn't torture the common people badly? But the common people are all from the Yuan Dynasty, and compared with the princes and nobles of the Yuan Dynasty, they can only be regarded as insignificant......

After entering the festival hall, Zhu Di signaled to close the door, and then said angrily to everyone: "This king has been telling you for a few days, why hasn't anyone come to me to turn myself in? Do you have to let this king go back to his old business and check you one by one?!"

Zhu Di didn't believe it, and said sharply:

"I tell you, my sixth brother will be here in two days! Do not harm this king! Now admit it, I can wipe your butts for you. If he comes, don't blame me for being ruthless with you, and I will definitely not protect you!"

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