Zhang Juzheng's purpose in writing the first volume of class theory was to explain his own policies and make the decrees gain the approval and consensus of the Ming Dynasty.

The second volume is not advocated for public printing, mass circulation, and transmission everywhere, the first volume is completely sufficient for the current Ming Dynasty, and the first volume makes people aware of the existence of class and its injustice.

Zhang Juzheng's opposition to returning to Tian Shu was also based on the first volume, but after writing the second volume of distribution, Zhang Juzheng actually looked forward to the implementation of the return of Tian Shu.

The gradual improvement of the engineer regiment battalion system made Zhang Juzheng gradually realize that maybe Huantian Shu can really be implemented, even if it can be implemented, it can be regarded as accumulating heritage.

And Wang Chonggu, who was in charge of this matter, showed his impatience, if it weren't for the emperor and Taifu pulling, Wang Chonggu would now immediately implement the engineer regiment battalion across the country to form the Ming Dynasty's box army and settle the displaced people.

"Wang Cifu, Daming still needs some time, and we have enough time, at present, more than eighty percent of Dingkou in Daming are farmers, although the proportion of commercial tax has exceeded fifty percent, but eighty percent of commercial tax is from overseas plantations, city divisions, official factories and regiments, not from the countryside." Zhu Yijun persuaded Wang Chonggu to calm down, not to let him cool down, but to talk about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun further said: "The Ming Dynasty is still dominated by the small peasant economy, iron plough ox farming, intensive farming, farming and the handiwork of each household occupy ninety percent of the output, and the rest is the output of the manual workshop, which only occupies one percent, and the small peasant economy is based on each household as a unit, which is scattered, and any wind and grass may make small households come to naught." ”

"Wang Cifu, what do you say?"

"I owe it to you." Wang Chonggu gradually calmed down and realized that things were not so simple.

The engineer regiment battalion is not omnipotent, just like the original military cantonment guardhouse, so it is necessary to sum up experience in practice.

Superstition to believe that a certain proposition, a certain policy, can solve all problems once and for all is itself an illusion and naivety.

The engineer battalion of the Ming Dynasty is destructive, it is a contradictory unity, he can produce, but also destroy, Zhang Juzheng is worried about the chaos in the world is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will be an arrogant posture, destroying the current stable production relations of the Ming Dynasty, which will inevitably produce labor pains, so that this labor pain, as much as possible to the Ming Dynasty, can bear the point, this is the Ming Gong must think about the problem.

"It is true that the regimental construction method of the engineer regiment battalion is more centralized than that of the smaller peasants, and the production mode with a larger scale and stronger output circulation is fatal to the small peasants. Wang Chonggu said from the bottom of his heart that he realized the terrible harm of promoting it right now.

The Ming farmers are eighty percent of the total Dingkou, and the goods produced by the farmers are not worth mentioning in the face of large-scale collective construction.

This is true of any decree, and if you take too big a step, there will be huge problems.

At present, the small peasant economy of Daming is still the main body, and how to gradually change in the continuation is in line with the current economic situation of Daming.

The concept of the unity of contradictions is not complicated, and there are a wide range of such production relations in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, homesteaders, tenant farmers, and hired farmers, most of them control a small number of acres or no acres, and must be strongly attached to the village gentry, obtain acres of land to cultivate, and maintain survival, excessive land rent leads to too low labor remuneration, so that the poor coolies can not survive, and the village sage and gentry themselves do not have so many people to cultivate, and the land waste is also a waste for the village gentry.

The small peasants and the landlords, then, are contradictory, interdependent, and closely linked over grain rent.

For example, if the old men in the city hire short-term workers and long-term workers, the wages are contradictory, but the interdependence is unity.

This unity of contradictions, like contradictions, is widespread.

The engineer regiment battalion set off, there were only three regimental battalions starting from Beidaying, only 36,000 people, these three regiments and battalions built four gallop roads, and the remaining three regiments and battalions built the Jingyun (Datong) gallop road, because the Jingyun gallop road is the most difficult to construct, the most complex working conditions, and the largest altitude difference in the gallop road, so three regiments and battalions are required to be divided into three sections of construction.

There are a total of 100,000 people in the Beijing camp, a total of three cavalry battalions, 12 car battalions, and 18 infantry battalions, and each cavalry battalion, four car battalions, and six infantry battalions constitute a regimental battalion.

For example, in the actual campaign, Li Rusong is the vanguard and will be in charge of all the cavalry battalions, while Qi Jiguang's Chinese army is mainly the infantry battalion, and Magui, who is in charge of the palace, is mostly the car battalion.

At present, the six engineer regiment battalions also have their own separate military numbers, which are Yongzi regimental battalions, which are Zhong, Lie, Yi, Xiang, Colonel, and Yan, and the first to third engineer regiment battalions are building a gallop road from Datong Mansion to Naturalization City.

Zhu Yijun watched them leave in Wuying Building.

Pan Ji tamed in the Naturalization City, and he thought differently, the Naturalization City is not the pearl of the grassland outside the Saiwai, on the contrary, it is really simple and dilapidated, the city wall is not a brick and stone city wall, but adobe, and the quality of the adobe is very poor, resulting in the city wall potholes, and the city wall is not more than ten miles, and the city is not a square one by one, but messy border people live in the middle, and there are not even decent streets.

If the Ming Dynasty is a small peasant economy, then the grassland is a natural economy that is completely dependent on nature, and the natural economy of death is extremely fragile.

After Pan Jitao beheaded 1,300 people from the Skinning Gang of the Huma Bandits, he gained universal recognition.

Sanniangzi, the political envoy, has been trying to ask Pan Jitao some questions, but she didn't find it, Pan Jitao has been in the city for more than ten days, not in the city, to go to various tribes, these small tribes, in fact, and the villages of the Ming Dynasty are very similar, compared to the calculation, the tribe is more fragile, a snow disaster, a drought, a plague will disappear without a trace.

Pan Jitao sprouted greenery in the grassland, and returned to the Governor's Mansion in Naturalization City in early March, saying that it was the Governor's Palace, but it was just a two-in-out house, but this was also a rare brick building in the entire Naturalization City, and it was also a yamen built after the surrender of Naturalization City.

"Governor Pan really practices it, admires and admires." The third lady only admires Pan Jitao, and the courtiers of the Wenhua Hall of the Ming Dynasty do not sit, and go to the outside of the plug to eat sand, this behavior looks like a stupid brain with a lack of strings, but Pan Jitao's ability, even in the Ming Dynasty, is one of the best, not avoiding the pain of the wind and dust, and observing the people's feelings, it really makes the third lady embarrassed.

"I asked Mrs. Zhongshun, and Mrs. Zhongshun didn't know anything, so I had to go and see it myself." Pan Jitao wanted to arrange work directly, but the three ladies didn't know how many people there were in a certain tribe, how many livestock they had, where the pasture was, and where it was in winter.

The third lady said a little helplessly: "I don't know, and Altan Khan doesn't know either... The steppes have always been like this. ”

The grassland is feudal, and the county system of the Ming Dynasty is completely different, Altan Khan manages only five ten thousand households that go to Bansheng every year, and the understanding of the various tribes under the jurisdiction of ten thousand households is not as detailed as that of the Ming Dynasty.

The stability of the completely natural economy is far weaker than that of the small-scale peasant economy, the output is insufficient, and the main contradiction of the entire grassland is survival.

Pan Jitao took off his mask and said with a strange expression: "Mrs. Zhongshun thinks that if Daming didn't attack Bansheng, what would the grassland become?" ”

The third lady shook her head in confusion and said, "I haven't thought about it, I don't know where the next meal is, how can I have the time to think about those problems." ”

The future is a very luxurious word, only the Ming is qualified to consider the long-term strategy, and the grassland mainly considers whether the sun can rise tomorrow as usual.

"Temples are devil's caves, at least on the grasslands." Pan Jitao said with confidence: "If the Ming Dynasty does not have the result of Wanghua grassland, it is a male thief and a female prostitute, you may not be convinced, but it will definitely be so, because the grassland is overgrazing." ”

Pan Jitao explained his logic in great detail, the complete instability of the natural economy led to the grassland tribes would attack each other for survival resources, and in order to be able to win in the competition, overgrazing became inevitable, whether it was war horses, weapons, or in exchange for Ming goods, livestock were needed.

Overgrazing further exacerbates the instability of the natural economy, because the grasslands are slowly disappearing, the grasslands are desertifying, and the grasslands are getting colder and colder, and the natural output is decreasing.

Flower willow disease will definitely spread in the grassland, especially in the tantric temples where people gather, and the flower willow disease will spread to the entire grassland through these demon caves.

This is the fate of the grassland, the reality of Pan Jitao's practice, and the end of what he saw.

It is not that Changshengtian is angry because of the treachery of the grassland people who have taken refuge in Buddhism, and the great degradation of the grassland is related to human production activities.

Pan Jitao took out a codex, which was an observation of his practice, on which there were observations of the proportion of land owned by people and animals, the ownership of pastures, the size of the tribe, captive management, handicraft shearing and rough processing, markets, loans, taxes, and so on, all of which were observations that grassland meat eaters would never have.

The third lady looked at the contents of the codex, although it was a little messy, but she could still find the main vein.

"Are all Ming officials so powerful?" The third lady said in a daze, Pan Jitao is much stronger than Wu Dui and Fang Fengshi, are the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty so strong? are all so strong, Daming still only has two capitals and 14 provinces?

Pan Jitao shook his head and said, "It's not humble, it's actually not much. ”

Sanniangzi This is a typical survivor bias, Pan Ji should have been a young Sima, there are a total of more than a dozen Shao Sima and above in the Ming Dynasty, if the three ladies stay in the Jingtang for a long time, you will know that the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty are mostly lowly Confucians, and sometimes, those words that are said, the scalp of people who look at them is numb.

Your Majesty is such a magnanimous man, often dizzy from the anger of stupid speech.

Pan Jitao took back the codex and said: "The scale of livestock is expanding, the grassland is shrinking, there are more and more deserts and Gobi, the border people of the grassland, three out of ten women suffer from willow disease, and seven out of ten men have been horse bandits, the situation in the grassland is not optimistic." ”

"In the land under the jurisdiction of the Naturalization Prefecture, captivity should be completed as soon as possible, no more random grazing, mainly sheep raising, the land should be cultivated and planted with pasture, perennial pasture grass should be planted at the edge of the pasture for division, and captive manure should be collected and composted."

The third lady was a little unconvinced, she actually wanted to say, don't blame the grassland people, the Ming Dynasty has been embargoed for more than 200 years, and the grassland can't even find an iron pot, and the Central Plains iron pot is extremely expensive, a bite is one or two seven dollars of silver, a big bag of one hundred and twenty pounds of wool, and it is only one or two seven dollars, and the reconciliation faction has become the main force in the grassland, and it is not groundless to want to naturalize the Ming Dynasty.

A few years ago, you Daming was not much better!

But the third lady didn't know how to refute, Pan Jitao said the truth, the grassland was indeed erosive, shook his head and said, "Then what to burn?" ”

"Coal." Pan Jitao took out the map and said: "Before this winter, the coal from the Datongfu coal yard will be transported to Guihua City for distribution, you have to be ready, I will go to Shengzhou (Ordos) tomorrow to supervise the Shengzhou coal yard and Chidao." ”

The cycle of the grassland is destroyed, the manure of livestock is the nutrient, and the cultivation of pasture grass after composting can form a cycle, because the grassland burns cow dung, the compost is not sufficient, the cycle is destroyed, there can be no captivity, and the grassland people are not stupid.

Coal is the key.

Without firewood, there is no way to settle down and live, and migration has become the main theme of the grassland people.

"The conflict between Daming and Beiyu makes it impossible to mine coal in Datong Mansion, which is harmful to Daming and the grassland." Pan Jitao looked at the third lady and said: "I hope that Mrs. Zhongshun can continue to maintain her own ideas, Daming has the sincerity and ability to transform the grassland, a stable frontier is also of great significance to Daming, and a stable life is what the grassland people look forward to." ”

As early as the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Book of Water" has been described in detail about the mining and utilization of Datong coal mine, and even recorded the magnificent landscape of spontaneous combustion of coal seams, in the Tang Dynasty, the coal of Datong Mansion has been transported to Guanzhong and Luoyang along the official road post road, and is widely used in iron smelting, coinage, sulfur smelting, lime burning, brick burning, ceramics burning, winemaking, pharmaceuticals, smelting alum and so on.

However, with the division of the Tang Dynasty's feudal towns, wars broke out, the mining and transportation of Datong coal was interrupted by the war, Song, Liao, Jinmeng, there is no record of large-scale mining of Datong coal, and Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures lost 480 years later, Yunzhong County Datong finally returned to the hands of the Han people, but the long-term war, resulting in the mining and transportation of coal has not been able to fully develop.

Because Datong Province is a war zone.

This is bad news for the Ming Dynasty and the grassland.

"As it should be." The third lady nodded and said, it is her long-cherished wish for the grassland people to live a stable life, and she only has this long-cherished wish, Altan Khan was beheaded, and the children who passed to her name were killed together, and now she relies on this long-cherished wish to survive.

She plans to adopt two more children, which can be regarded as an explanation for herself.

"Shengzhou open-pit coal yard, Altan Khan doesn't know? He can't mine the coal in Datong Mansion, why not mine the coal in Shengzhou? Pan Jitao asked the question he wanted to ask.

The third lady shook her head and said: "I don't know, it's not that I don't mine, this kind of thing is still too difficult for us grassland people." ”

Did Altan Khan not want to? He didn't know at all, how to pick it?

Many things that are taken for granted for the Ming Dynasty, for the grassland people, it is all a fantasy, looking for the dragon and dividing the gold, looking for Miao Yin from the topography and geology of the veins and hydrology, and then finding the mineral dragon through Miao Yin, it is easy to say, that is easy for the Ming Dynasty.

The grasslands don't have any professionals in that area.

Qi Jiguang's descendants are miners, all of whom are old craftsmen, and during the conquest, they will feel that there are big goods in this mountain, but for the grassland people, they are all mountains, and mountains are no different from mountains.

The Songjiang school talks about scale, vertical scale and horizontal scale, and Sanniangzi has also heard of it and paid attention to it, after all, Di Bao and miscellaneous reports can still buy her as the top meat eater of the grassland, and for the grassland, there is no scale of prospecting at all.

Pan Ji tamed.

"I saw that the gate of Guihua City has no name yet, and the gate to the east is called Tonghe Gate." Pan Jitao sorted out his codex and talked about the name of the gate of the Naturalized City.

"Tonghemen?" The third lady asked suspiciously.

"The Tonghe of the Tonghe Palace." Pan Jitao nodded and said.

The third lady's eyes widened, she was stunned for a moment, and squeezed out two words from between her teeth: "!" ”

Tonghe Palace's Tonghe, on the ability to pat on the back, the grassland is not necessarily the opponent of the Central Plains for thousands of years, this is simply a hand, natural, simple sentence, full of loyalty!

If you want to discuss the vertical and horizontal scale of patting horses, it is difficult for the grassland to be an opponent, after all, there are many people in the Central Plains dynasties, so there are many people who pat horses, and the kung fu of slapping sycophants is very strong.

Pan Jitao began to communicate with the officials of the Ministry of Industry to naturalize the Chi Road in Datong, this section of the road is not difficult to repair, three engineer regiment battalions, more than 30,000 people, about to be completed in early June, after arranging major events, Pan Jitao packed up his things, ready to go to Shengzhou in Shuofang Mansion, he was ready to visit in person.

At the same time that he personally visited and investigated, he also sent commanders and generals to lead the army and soldiers to explore and learn in detail about Suiyuan's population, education, religion, customs, transportation, farms and pastures, tenant rents, types of agricultural and animal husbandry products, compost, fruits, family handicrafts, agricultural products trading, markets, and so on.

It's a very, very tedious job.

Pan Jitao's work is already very troublesome, so Qi Jiguang is actually even more troublesome, during this time, the Beijing camp soldiers spread out in the entire Suiyuan, and they did one thing, that is, to suppress bandits, it is really very difficult to suppress bandits, this is not that the strength of the Ming Jingying soldiers is not enough, but a problem of marching.

For example, on rainy days, there is no sun, before the Ming Dynasty began to imitate the small clock 'Nuremberg Egg' in the precision manufacturing of Taixi, the timing of the march used the counting bead timing method, that is, counting two strings of beads, with two strings of beads, counting 6225, is an hour.

Every ten miles, raise the horn and cannon, that is, stand at the feet. Sound the gong and sit for a moment or two.

That is to say, the Ming army has to rest for two quarters of an hour every ten miles, how to calculate? How do I count steps? How to count beads? It's applied mathematics.

The plan involves rest, the timing involves life and cooking, and the most important thing on the march is to set up camp.

Later, with the measuring scooter and the Daming tube table invented by the Royal Gewuwu, it became much simpler.

Even a single time is so troublesome, and I am even more afraid of others, the cumbersomeness of Rong Zheng is not weaker than the general affairs, and because it is the most fierce conflict, it is more difficult to solve.

But these things, in the hands of the Ming historian, became a few words, Jiguang led the Beijing Yingping Departments to suppress bandits and, and shocked the grassland.

Qi Jiguang doesn't care about this, no matter how busy Rong Zheng is, it's better than having no war to fight, these tedious work, there is no need to write it in the history books, it should be done, compared to the cumbersome Rong Zheng, Qi Jiguang is even more disgusted with people's hearts and ghosts, which is meaningless internal friction.

Qi Jiguang, who was in Wuyuan Mansion, turned a huge number of prisoners of war into slave camps and sent them to Shengzhou and Womagang to open mines.

In the process of suppressing bandits, it was not smooth in the early stage, and the losses were huge, and after the conquest of the Hetao, the Ming Jing Battalion attacked everywhere with 100 teams and lost more than 100 sharp soldiers, this loss made Qi Jiguang very heartbroken, mainly because the environment outside the fortress and the hinterland were completely different.

The bandits in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty are mainly composed of poor coolies who can't survive, and many of them are part-time, at the end of the year, the landlord's family comes to collect the debts, and they don't want their children to pay the account, so they can only face the grass and fall into the grass, but the horse bandits in this place of the grassland are professional bandits, and the entire Yinshan Mountain Range can be described as no mountains and no villages, no villages and no bandits, and they are soldiers and bandits, many of these bandits are perennial to loot for a living.

In the early days, the suppression of bandits was mainly based on pacification, but soon, the strategy was adjusted and changed to suppression, which made the work of suppressing bandits go smoothly, and the problem was that there were more than 20,000 prisoners, and these prisoners, Qi Jiguang did not waste them, and they were all new forces in mining and mining.

After nearly half a year of suppressing bandits, Hetao finally regained some peace, for the stubborn resistance to the end, all with fire guns and artillery treatment, in this process, Qi Jiguang gradually found that the tiger squat cannon is extremely easy to use, it can be said that the medicine to get rid of the disease.

The nine-pound artillery is very powerful, but it is installed on the side compartment chariot, the car battalion can not travel on the rugged path, and it is not easy to enter the mountain, and a person can carry the tiger squat cannon, which has become a sharp weapon in the suppression of bandits, the hundred-man team has ten tiger squat cannons, encountering the cottage, lined up, after several consecutive bombardments, the firecrackers line up forward, the killing efficiency is extremely high, and the battle can be ended in half an hour.

Ma Gui led the Zhenwu regiment and battalion, which once swept through 17 villages in one day, capturing more than 2,700 people.

"Your Majesty has sent another 100,000 catties of gunpowder..."Liang Menglong walked into the big tent, His Majesty the Emperor's gunpowder in the Beijing camp was not enough, and transferred 150,000 catties of gunpowder from the Beijing division along the Chi Road, of which 50,000 catties were handed over to Wu Baipeng, the governor of Xuanda, and the remaining 100,000 catties had all arrived in Wuyuan Mansion.

"The 200,000 catties of gunpowder last winter haven't been used up yet." Qi Jiguang raised his forehead, the 100,000 catties of gunpowder will cost at least 50,000 silver, and it will be transported to the front line, and the silver will be at least 55,000 taels of silver.

Liang Menglong said with a smile on his face: "The large-scale suppression of bandits has come to an end, and these 100,000 catties of gunpowder will be used to open mountains and mines." ”

Gunpowder is needed to open mountains and build roads, especially in some rugged places, and gunpowder is also needed for mining, and gunpowder is extremely widely used, and there is no possibility that it cannot be used, it can only be said that His Majesty has never been stingy with Beijing.

"Pan Butang went to Shengzhou and didn't come to Wuyuan Mansion." Liang Menglong asked in a low voice, "Is Pan Butang deliberately avoiding meeting Qi Shuai?" ”

"When both men have received the decree to act cheaply, who will listen to whom? I simply don't see it. Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "As for this matter of suppressing bandits, he is a scholar and has the kindness of a woman, but it is troublesome, so it's okay not to come." ”

"Pan Butang beheaded 1,300 prisoners in Naturalization City a few days ago." Liang Menglong smacked his lips, this Pan Jitao is really ruthless.

"Huh?"

Qi Jiguang also just received this news, is this scholar so murderous? Just out of the plug, there is such a big movement, who is the martial artist?

Qi Jiguang beheaded the 5,000 people in Bansheng, an outlaw who took advantage of the military disaster to rob everywhere, in order to deter the grassland, and after that, most of the captives became slave camps to open mines.

Liang Menglong explained in detail, and Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "I see, then it should be killed, if you don't kill it, you can't convince the public, then the prisoners on our side can be handed over to Pan Butang with confidence, Ci is not in charge of the troops, if he is a gentle person, then he has to beware of the captives gathering and causing chaos." ”

Saiwai is not a hinterland, let alone a comfortable nest, and Rouren here is harmful.

"Bad news from Jingshi." Qi Jiguang sighed and handed His Majesty's letter to Liang Menglong.

"I knew this was the case, Pan Butang was a very small number of people after all." Liang Menglong finished reading the letter in his hand and said with an extremely embarrassed face.

Emperor Daming issued an edict to order people with meritorious names to sign up to come to Suiyuan as officials, and gave generous treatment, as well as a promise of three-year promotion, just like the original recruitment of meritorious people to Luzon, no one unveiled the list.

No one wants to come to this bitter cold place, the Beijing camp has been defeated, the suppression of bandits has come to an end, and even the trilateral military guards have begun to move out of the Hetao, but there is a lack of civilian officials.

"Gutsless rats! Shame on it! Liang Menglong slapped the table and said indignantly, the reputation of scholars has been lowered by these stupid pigs.

(End of chapter)