The three of them recalled the hard days of the year, were kicked out of Guangzhou by the Qing Tartars, and then fled for their lives in Nanyang.

That's really precarious.

Zhu Daohua sighed: "In fact, this Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the time of destruction, but I have mastered more advanced science and technology and social organization forms, so I have defeated the Qing Dynasty." We have to learn the lesson of the fall of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Speaking of which, Zhu Daohua finally began to care about Sichuan.

"Wan Qing, what's the situation in Sichuan?"

Gu Song said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the prefectures and counties of Sichuan are all locals as officials, and they have no reason to be loyal to the Qing Tartars. ”

"Looking at the wind" Zhu Daohua nodded, although Sichuan was relaxed, it also meant that Sichuan's original social structure had not been broken, which was equivalent to not being "revolutionized".

However, the Ming Dynasty was originally a semi-feudal and semi-capitalist empire with incomplete revolution.

In Nanyang, Guangdong, Fujian, and Liangjiang, it is already running into capitalism.

But in Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan, it is still the original economic and social structure.

The reason is not complicated, because the process of getting these places is too easy, and the old social order has not been washed by iron and fire.

Therefore, while these territories were easily obtained, the price was to preserve the social structure and contradictions of these regions.

The landlord is still the landlord.

Peasants are still peasants.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

The establishment of the Ming Dynasty was, in fact, only "capitalized" in a few areas, and in most places, it remained in the local structure of the Qing Dynasty.

The braids were gone, and the clothes were changed.

But it's just a change of soup and not a change of medicine.

But fortunately, the guide of the Ming Empire, Zhu Daohua, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is still very young.

With him, the founding emperor, the direction of the Ming Empire's giant ship will not sway from side to side.

Moreover, his prestige can overpower all forces, and can make this gradual reform continue to advance.

It's a big deal, just a few more rounds of the south and north or something.

However, now the Ming Empire has also entered the "deep water area of reform".

So now Emperor Zhu's footsteps have also become cautious.

For Emperor Zhu, any social contradiction is nothing more than two aspects: the first is that the per capita resources are too small, and the second is the unfair distribution.

Emperor Zhu felt that if he engaged in distribution at his own level, he was afraid that this matter would get worse and worse.

The first rich lead the later rich, at least Emperor Zhu feels that the first to get rich is afraid that he is not willing to drive the later rich

How to divide the cake is a problem all over the world.

But how to expand the cake.

At least at this point in time, there is a lot to be done!

How can the dozen or so developed countries in Europe and the United States in later generations live so well?

Is it because the cake is well shared?

It's someone's cake plate that's big enough!

And now Emperor Zhu's method is to expand the cake as much as possible, and transfer the contradiction of "sharing the cake" to the driving force of "expanding the cake".

However, how should a super-large country like the Ming Empire engage in colonization, how to carry out expansion, and how to get enough benefits from colonial expansion to bring about this virtuous circle of foreign expansion.

It's really a new topic in human history.

The expansion of the Europa was really a horse race, because they didn't actually have much of a population to colonize.

And the colonization of the Ming Empire really wanted to colonize the "people".

Since the national conditions of the two sides are different, it is naturally impossible to rigidly copy each other's methods, otherwise they will have committed the mistake of dogmatism.

Emperor Zhu felt that it was still necessary to follow the teachings of the great man, to adapt measures to local conditions, to seek truth from facts, and to have a colonial method with Ming characteristics.

In this way, the fundamental contradiction of having more people and less land in the Han Dynasty can be alleviated, so that his Ming Dynasty can have long-term peace and stability.

Emperor Zhu temporarily suppressed what he was thinking in his heart and began to think about the things in front of him.

The ministers were about to enter the palace and wait for a symbolic court meeting to end.

Emperor Zhu is about to convene his important ministers to begin discussing several major matters in the next stage.

The first is to urge the king of Pingxi to advance westward, the governor of the Western Regions Province of the Qing court, Le Bao, refused to surrender, and also scattered the banners and the people of the Han Dynasty, rebuilt the Eight Banners, occupied the Western Regions Province, and put on a posture of "resisting reunification by force".

Now there is not a single Midi making trouble in the northeast, and no Seventh Fleet has entered the strait.

Therefore, of course, Emperor Zhu will not tolerate Le Bao openly wanting to engage in separatism.

Therefore, he had to urge the king of Pingxi to advance westward as soon as possible, pioneer Lebao, occupy the Western Regions Province, and then use this as a springboard to enter the Ferghana Basin, and use it as his home, as a support for the future conquest of Central Asia and Tsarist Russia in the Ming Dynasty.

The second is that Tsarist Russia has increased its troops in Irkutsk.

And not the Cossacks, but the regular army of the Tsarist Empire!

It is likely that there were twenty or thirty thousand men, and some of the indigenous tribes of Western Lea were also hired and gathered as servants.

This is an intention to threaten Da Ming with force.

So it needs to be beaten a little bit too.

And the one responsible for beating Tsarist Russia is, of course, the capital of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to the west.

In fact, even if Tsarist Russia did not increase its troops in Irkutsk, the Ming would retaliate against Tsarist Russia - daring to send troops deep into Liaodi, the Ming must retaliate!

Therefore, these days, the capital division of the expedition to the west has mobilized a large number of elite staff officers of the Ming army, formed the general staff of the capital division, and also deployed some Ming army officers with the theme of Manchu and Mongolian warriors, and sent the leading officers of the original Manchu and Mongolian to the military academy for further study.

Build on that.

Ten brigades were formed subordinate to the battalion of the expedition to the west.

And the Ten Guards of Zhengxi were also formed.

The basic structure of the battalion division-brigade-guard has been formed, with the brigade responsible for conquest and the guard responsible for managing the people and providing logistics.

Through the nomadic way, it can greatly reduce the difficulty of logistics supply for the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Tsarist Russia.

Ten brigades of 50,000 people, 30,000 people can be drawn to fight at any time.

It can be regarded as the pillar of force of the Ming Dynasty in the direction of the grassland.

In addition to a docile king and general Jin Sanxin of the expedition to the west, the following is in charge of the military is the General Staff Department of the Metropolitan Division, and in charge of civil affairs is Yanshenggong Kong Qingrong, Dong Huan, Wang Jie, Liu Yong, Wang Dingjia, Fang Ke and several other Han political envoys.

It can be said that this camp capital division has basically just become a Liaodong Reclamation Division with greater autonomy.

Basically, it is already a force that the Ming Dynasty can firmly control.

Moreover, the civil and military officials of the camp capital division can be promoted in the bureaucratic and military system within the Ming court.

After a few years, the system of the Ming Dynasty will be able to completely absorb and digest this seemingly independent system of the expedition to the west.

"Qi Lin, the king of Pingxi, is still shrinking in Guanzhong and refuses to move, so he ordered Luo Dingshan to take two brigades to enter Guanzhong and station, without putting any pressure on Qi Lin, it seems that he doesn't want to be in Guanzhong immediately."

In the renovated Imperial Study.

It was decorated in the style that Emperor Zhu liked.

On a huge desk cut from oak in one piece, Zhu Daohua sat on the chair in front of the table, and more than a dozen ministers of civil and military affairs were lined up left and right.

The great court meeting was basically a formality, and it was impossible for Emperor Zhu to put things that had not been decided into the court meeting to talk about it.

Basically, as it was said at the court meeting, the ministers were responsible for applauding and raising their hands.

And the matter of decision-making was discussed privately by Emperor Zhu and a group of important ministers.

"Your Majesty, Qi Lin has been reaching out for food and weapons now, but he refuses to move his nest, he has to beat him."

Luo Fangbo said.

"But now the situation in the northern provinces is also very serious, although it is said that wheat and sweet potatoes are being planted in various places, but it will take four or five months until the autumn harvest. If the imperial court does not carry out disaster relief, I am afraid that many people will starve to death. ”

Since the war was fought from August last year to the end of March this year.

Last year's autumn harvest was greatly affected, and at the same time, most of the people had no food reserves, and how to survive this long few months was a great test for the people of the northern provinces.

If the Ming court didn't care, I am afraid that millions of people would have to starve to death this summer, and the tragedy of cannibalism would also be staged in the Central Plains.

"The imperial court has allocated more than 3 million Ming yuan and hired a large number of merchant ships to transport rice from the South Seas to the north, but it is not easy to deliver rice and grain to the hands of the people, and to eliminate corruption as much as possible." Pan Youdu, a secretary of the Ministry of Finance, said.

"We can increase the budget, and we must get the people of the north through this summer's crisis." Zhu Daohua said as he flipped through the land and population statistics of the northern provinces that had been sent from various places in the past month or so.

The five provinces of Anhui, Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong, with a total population of nearly 100 million, have a higher per capita land occupation than Jiangnan and Lianghu.

However, due to the serious flooding of the Yellow River, the land fertility loss and salinization in various parts of the Central Plains have been serious, resulting in a serious reduction in land yield in the North China Plain, and the hydrothermal conditions are not as good as those in the south, resulting in a very low yield per mu.

So much so that the contradiction between man and land is actually more acute than in the south!

If the southern provinces and the Ming Dynasty maintain the status quo, they can still make do with it for more than a hundred years.

And if the situation in the northern provinces is left unchecked, a large-scale civil uprising could occur at any time.

"But this summer's crisis has passed, what about next year, the year after next? The five provinces of the Central Plains, plus Shaanxi and Gansu in Guanzhong, have such a barren land and such a large population, and the current disaster relief is only a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. ”

Zhu Daohua closed the summary report on the land and population of the Central Plains.

Said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, the Central Plains, after thousands of years of cultivation, the fertility has almost been lost, the higher the Yellow River bed, the higher the embankment, the more sediment, and the more floods, this is the destiny of heaven, and it is difficult to fight."

The one who was speaking was Lin Shizhong, a water conservancy expert who served as the minister of Huang in the former Qing Dynasty.

"Destiny?" Zhu Daohua shook his head and said: "The many problems are nothing more than too many people and too little land, if the people of the Central Plains can be migrated to Liaobei as much as possible, then the trouble of the Central Plains and the trouble of the Yellow River can be fundamentally solved."

(End of chapter)