"Since the King of Qin didn't have it, let Shang Bing attack the lord to guard Xi'an."

"The Minister's Command......"

In the Wuying Palace, with Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions to Ren Hengtai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Jixi, Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Shangbing also walked into the hall one after another.

They saluted Zhu Yuanzhang as usual, but this time Zhu Yuanzhang called Zhu Shangbingdao:

"Since your father is dead, then you should also pack up and go to Xi'an to leave the town in three days."

"Minister, the ...... of the command" Hearing that he was finally able to get out of the town, Zhu Shangbing respectfully thanked him, but he was happy in his heart.

This news did not surprise everyone, but when it really came, Zhu Yunwen was still a little disappointed.

In his opinion, since his grandfather also knew that he was going to cut the domain, he should help him keep Zhu Shangbing.

However, Zhu Yunwen at the moment also understands that the most important thing at the moment is not the matter of Zhu Shangbing's attack on the lord, but the gold, silver and copper mines in southern Sichuan.

He cleaned up his mood and was ready to find an opportunity to talk to Zhu Yuanzhang about this matter after sitting down for a while.

But when he was cleaning up his mood, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes kept on Zhu Shangbing.

Looking at him, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the brutal Zhu Zhang, so he couldn't help reminding:

"Don't learn from your father after you leave the town, but show mercy to the people of Guanzhong, so that the people of Guanzhong can be convinced."

"In addition, don't be as hostile as your father, since they have entered the Ming Dynasty, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they cannot be punished without guilt."

"Remember." Zhu Shangbing was able to attack the knighthood, and he was happy at the moment, so he was naturally very obedient to Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

Looking at his well-behaved appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang can only hope that he really remembers, instead of being like his father.

"Go back to the house, and prepare for the attack on the lord."

"The ministers and grandsons retired, and the emperor's grandfather was blessed and healthy......"

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, Zhu Shangbing bowed again and thanked him, then got up and slowly withdrew from the Wuying Palace.

Looking at his back as he withdrew, Zhu Jixi and Zhu Gaochi both showed envious looks, and at the same time, Zhu Gaochi also thought of Zhu Gaochu who was far away in Jilin City.

"I don't know how the second child is doing......"

He suddenly became sad, and then entered the seat with Zhu Yunwen one after another.

Looking at the music on the table, he regained his mood and began to deal with it.

There are also Zhu Jixi who behave like him, but it does not include Zhu Yunxi.

Although Zhu Yunwen was dealing with the slack, his mind was on how to find an opportunity to discuss the Liufu mine in southern Sichuan with his grandfather.

It's a pity that since Xu Huizu pacified Nong Zhenyou, there has been no need for Lao Zhu to personally ask about it in the southwest, so Zhu Yunwen thought about it for a long time, but he didn't find any news.

An hour passed slowly, and Zhu Yunwen didn't wait for the opportunity he wanted, but waited for the military attache who was always with Lao Zhu.

Seeing the military attache appear at the palace gate, Zhu Yuanzhang slowly got up, and the three grandsons also tried to get up one after another, but were stopped by him:

"You deal with yours, I'll go out for a walk......"

When the words fell, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't give anyone a chance, and walked out of the side hall with his legs raised.

Zhu Jixi and Zhu Gaochi were very peaceful, and after Lao Zhu left, as he ordered, he continued to bow his head to deal with the music.

However, Zhu Yunwen frowned slightly, just because he smelled something wrong.

In the past, when this military attache performed things, his grandfather basically would not choose to avoid himself, but this time, he ......

Zhu Yunwen was puzzled in his heart, and he kept guessing the reason in his mind.

It's just that compared to his conjecture, Lao Zhu has already gone to another side hall of the Wuying Hall with the military attaché.

"Say it......"

Lao Zhu sat steadily on a chair in the side hall, and the military attache also replied when he saw this:

"The snow in the north is thawing, and the brothers in Jilin City have also sent news."

"It's just that His Highness has done too much and too much miscellaneous things in the past few months, and the minister doesn't know what is important and what is not, so he can only write and present it to His Majesty."

As he spoke, the military attache took out a thick note from his arms.

In this regard, Lao Zhu was also slightly surprised to take it from him.

He knew the person in front of him very well, otherwise he would not have chosen him to take charge of the brocade guards hidden in the shadows.

Over the years, he has gone through many large and small cases in his hands, and it is impossible not to know what is important and what is not important according to common sense.

The reason why he said this was probably because none of the things that Gao Xu's kid did were up to him......

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's brows furrowed into the Sichuan character, and he opened the song with his hand.

[February Ding Mao, the crowd and the king of the Bohai Sea go to ......]

The content of the intelligence began on February 20, and Zhu Yuanzhang calculated the time, and it happened that when Zhu Gaoxu and the others went out of the 30,000 Wei Realm, they picked up the content of the information he had read a few months ago.

Sensing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was satisfied, and quickly sank into it.

In this note, the Jinyi guard who recorded the information will record how Zhu Gaoxu approached, what adjustments the northbound team made every day, and what he heard Zhu Gaoxu say with his own ears are all recorded.

On this journey north, Zhu Gaoxu talked about the problem of Liaodong the most, and Zhu Gaoxu's perspective on the problem was often the same as that of Zhu Yuanzhang, so he was also able to understand through these angles what the state of Liaodong was in which the whole territory had been recovered for seven years.

In Jinyiwei's records, Zhu Gaoxu believes that the reason why Liaodong needs Shandong to supply grain and grass is mainly because the Yuan Dynasty did not properly govern Liaodong, and the subsequent turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty led to the destruction of many water conservancy facilities in the Liaojin period.

This is the reason for the hardship of Liaodong, and after the Ming Dynasty ruled Liaodong, except for the four prefectures of Gai, Hai, Fu and Jin, there was no normal administration in the rest of the places, so that Liaodong could only be built through the emperor's personal wishes and ideas in the temple.

Although under Zhu Yuanzhang's will, the military households of the local guard post also carried out projects such as dredging rivers and building locks, but mainly from a military point of view, in order to ensure the smooth passage of the Liao River and the Songhua River, so as to ensure the supply of materials to the army, rather than from the perspective of agricultural irrigation.

As a result, Liaodong's own agriculture is very lacking in the ability to resist floods and droughts.

In addition, Liaodong could not produce cotton locally, all craftsmen served the army, and the local area often suffered disasters and famines due to insufficient water conservancy facilities, so the development of Liaodong could not keep up with the speed of the inland provinces.

In Zhu Gaoxu's view, the military households in Liaodong are now quite rich because of Lao Zhu's policy of "granting 50 mu of land to each person", but once the military attaché of the guard station begins to oppress the military households, the burden on the military households in Liaodong will be heavier than that of the ordinary people in the interior, and they will become slaves imprisoned in the land.

Once the military households are barren, then they can only start to try their best to flee south, and once the phenomenon of military households fleeing south appears, it will be difficult to recover the situation, and Liaodong's armament will inevitably go to ruin.

As long as Liaodong's armaments are slackened to a certain extent, the Mongols and Jurchens will continue to plunder southward and destroy the local livelihood in Liaodong.

Liaodong's agricultural and handicraft production capacity is already low, the speed of wealth accumulation is very slow, and it takes a few years to recover if it is robbed once, and if it is robbed every year, it will only get worse, and finally become a wound of the Ming Dynasty, which will continue to bleed, and then increase the burden on the people of Shandong and Hebei......

"This kid ......" Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's evaluation of Liaodong belittled along the way, Lao Zhu himself couldn't help but look a little angry.

Fortunately, he had already gotten used to Zhu Gaoxu's evaluation method of suppressing first and then raising last year, so he forced his temper and continued to look down.

The follow-up content was not what he expected, and after Zhu Gaoxu belittled him, he also began to praise Lao Zhu.

He believes that Lao Zhu is not wrong at all to set up the Liaodong Metropolitan Division and implement military management over Liaodong, because the current Liaodong is not able to withstand too many immigrants, and if there are not enough immigrants, Liaodong will naturally not be able to build so many water conservancy facilities in terms of people's livelihood.

Under such conditions, the best way to control a border fortress like Liaodong, where various ethnic groups live together, is to be sent to the military camp.

If you want to manage and assimilate a large number of local people of different ethnic groups, and even many labor prisoners who have been exiled from the hinterland, there is really no way to do it without militarized management.

If Lao Zhu doesn't do this, then the place of Liaodong will be directly divided equally by the three ethnic groups of Mongolia, Jurchen, and Goryeo in this place.

The only thing Lao Zhu did was that he did not continue to expand the counties in the southeastern part of Liaoning, and should not be limited to the four prefectures in southern Liaoning, but should turn his attention to the western Liaoning region, where millions of acres of cultivated land can be reclaimed as long as there are people.

"It's a pity ......" Looking at Zhu Gaoxu's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang did learn the true situation of Liaodong from it, but he also felt that it was a pity.

It's not that he doesn't want to move the population to Liaodong, but he really can't tell that many people.

Although Shandong still has a population of more than 5.3 million, Hebei, Guanzhong, Hexi, Henan and other places need Shandong and Shanxi to fill them with population.

At present, Liaodong is relatively stable, but rebellions have repeatedly broken out in towns such as Guanzhong and Gansu in the Hexi Corridor.

Hundreds of thousands of young people in Liaodong have been relocated to Hebei by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the hundreds of thousands of Semu and Mongols in the Hexi Corridor are not enough Han people to suppress them.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with either of them, but Zhu Yuanzhang is standing in the position of the emperor and looking at the world, while Zhu Gaoxu only sees Liaodong when he looks at Liaodong.

"If he were to sit in my place, he might have ...... like me."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, quickly pressed down this idea that should not exist, and continued to look down.

In the following intelligence content, the Jinyi guard recorded all of Zhu Gaoxu's policies towards the soldiers and the people, and when Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, his brows barely stretched.

Zhu Gaoxu's treatment of soldiers is highly regulated, which Zhu Yuanzhang has some opinions, but not much.

In comparison, Zhu Gaoxu's monthly distribution of six buckets of rice to everyone except the soldiers made him a little unhappy.

Zhu Yuanzhang went from a beggar to the throne, and he knew better than anyone how much an adult's monthly ration was.

Only five buckets of grain are needed, and one person can eat very well.

Six buckets of grain, this is the life of some small rich peasants.

"This kid raises people like this, I'm afraid he will raise this group of people ......"

Before the thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's criticism arose, his eyes saw the various methods after Zhu Gaoxu announced these policies.

First, he called on the people to build academies, tidy up the roads in the city, and build houses......

Then it was Zhu Gaochu who was kind enough to go out of the fort and do business in Futijin City.

Although the brocade guard did not find out what business Zhu Gaoxu wanted to do with these Jurchens, Zhu Yuanzhang could guess that it was probably a trade in furs and livestock.

Zhu Yuanzhang has a conservative attitude towards Zhu Gaoxu's approach, because he has to see where this kid invests the money he earns before he chooses to be angry or happy.

He continued to look down and saw Fu Rang and others arrive in Jilin City, and then Jilin City began to teach soldiers and children to read for free, and the civilians of the city participated in the desertification movement, built canals, discovered coal and iron ore, and mined them.

It can be said that in Zhu Gaoxu's governance, Jilin City is not like a fief of a county king, but a somewhat primitive and simple life.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that the military households in Jilin City could live so comfortably because Zhu Gaoxu exempted them from taxes and was willing to give them the grain in the treasury to share it equally.

Not only that, but the Liaodong Metropolitan Division also transported enough grain for Zhu Gaoxu to lie down for the military households in Jilin City.

The current situation is that Zhu Gaoxu uses his palace treasury to raise soldiers and the grain of Liaodong Dusi to feed the people.

He did not oppress the people, but chose to exchange labor for food.

He gave the people the bulk of the grain in the general's tuntian, and only took the small head himself.

Although he himself could not enjoy the treatment of a county king, he enjoyed it.

Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang felt between the lines that Jin Yiwei, who recorded these things, was a little happy in the process of recording, because his words were getting smoother and smoother.

The information he writes about has changed from being official at the beginning to being immersed in it later......

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang understood why the military attache wanted to hand over this performance to himself.

"Let this kid go on like this, I'm afraid it won't be long before the dozen brocade guards you sent won't be recruiting themselves......"

Zhu Yuanzhang closed the note and glanced at the military attache at the same time.

In this regard, the military attache could only bow his head: "I didn't expect them to be so tempted to resist ......"

"Temptation?" Zhu Yuanzhang leaned forward: "What did King Bohai tempt them for?" ”

"This ...... Naturally, it was the military salary and the ......" The military attache wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it.

If you talk about military salaries, Zhu Gaoxu's annual salary for his soldiers is indeed very high, but it is still not as good as the salary given to these people by Jinyiwei.

The military attache didn't know what to say, because he found out that Zhu Gaoxu really didn't seem to have given these brocade guards anything except for military salaries.

But even so, these brocade guards still unconsciously said all the good things for Zhu Gaoxu.

"Your Majesty, the minister will transfer them back." The military attache could not speak, so he could only kneel and kowtow.

"What ...... do you do to transfer back" Zhu Yuanzhang put Song Shu on the table next to him: "Transfer them back, doesn't that kid know who is spying on him?" ”

"What's more, if he can subdue these people you sent by such means, can you guarantee that the other people sent will be able to resist his methods?"

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up Song Shu and threw it in front of the military attaché: "Continue to keep them, as long as the general news is not wrong, nothing else." ”

He's confident, but that's how it should be.

The reason why Zhu Gaoxu can make Jilin City burst out with so much potential now is not because of how outstanding his personal ability is, but because the money and grain mountains of the Ming Dynasty are opening the way for him.

Without the money and food of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and without the annual income from the Zongren Mansion and the Household Department, all these things established by Zhu Gaoxu would fall apart in an instant.

Regarding the current situation, Zhu Yuanzhang is happy about it, and even wants Zhu Gaoxu to continue like this.

If Zhu Gaoxu wants to maintain the current situation, he must be tightly tied to the Ming court, and if he is tied too deeply, he will never be able to make any trouble.

Although in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the more than 7,000 people in Jilin City can't make any trouble, it is always good to be vigilant.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the exchange of markets between His Highness and the Jurchens ......"

The military attache lowered his head and cautiously opened his mouth to test, but Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted without waiting for him to finish:

"Find out what they have in the market, and what is the situation of that kid in the iron mine and coal mine, and let people find out."

Iron ore and coal mines are both tense things for any force, Zhu Gaoxu can find these two things Zhu Yuanzhang is not surprised, but he wants to know whether his grandson's two mines are just simple mining, or they are operating some shady business in private.

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted his eyes, but at this moment, there was a knock on the door of the side hall.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

"Grandpa, the people below have a note, and the ministers and grandsons can't make up their minds, I don't know if they can come in?"

Zhu Yunwen's voice sounded behind the door, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think much about it after hearing it, just glanced at the military attaché: "Go and do your business, and let the grandson come in by the way." ”

"Yes...... The military attache got up and left, and Zhu Yunwen also walked into the side hall after a while.

He held a note in his hand, and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang with both hands before and after he walked up, and Lao Zhu also took it.

After Soshu took it, he glanced at the person who played it, but he never thought that it was actually Yuxin of the Household Shangshu.

Seeing Yu Xin's name, Lao Zhu knew that this song was probably related to the affairs of the southwest, and then looked at it at a glance.

As he expected, the content of the song is about the mines in southern Sichuan and Yunnan, and Yu Xin explained in the note that many courtiers in the temple are thinking about mining gold, silver and copper mines in Yunnan and southern Sichuan at the same time, but Yu Xin believes that the current Ming Dynasty cannot immigrate to southern Sichuan and Yunnan at the same time.

The relationship between Yunnan and Sichuan is different from the relationship between Yunnan and other places.

Immigrants from the north and immigrants from the south are two groups, and Yunnan and Sichuan belong to the same southwest, so on the issue of immigration, the two will inevitably collide with the issue of distribution.

In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang's efforts to immigrate from Yunnan were greater than those of Sichuan, not only because there were more than 2 million Han people in Sichuan itself, but also because in order to protect Sichuan, it was necessary to defend Yunnan.

It's just that at present, Yunnan and Sichuan are colliding, and both have enough mines, which are also urgently needed by the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, there are three voices in the temple, namely the mining of Sichuan and the mining of Yunnan, and the mining of the two together.

Officials mining Sichuan believe that the number of gold, silver and copper mines in southern Sichuan is not small, and because it is backed by the Chengdu Plain and close to the Yangtze River system, it is possible to subtract transportation problems after mining.

Not only that, but they believed that if the six southern Sichuan provinces were pacified and emigrated with them, the situation of "Sichuan defense in Chengdu" that had been formed since the Sui and Tang dynasties could be improved.

When this situation is improved, the southern plain of Chengdu can be better developed, and even connect with the Anning River valley in the south.

As for the officials who spent Yunnan on Yunnan, they thought that the southwest should be defended in Yunnan, and the number of Tusi and local people in Yunnan was five or six times that of the Han Chinese, and the development of Yunnan mines could better resettle the real border and protect the southwestern border of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang is listening to the voices of both of them, because what the officials are fighting for is ostensibly population, but in fact it is the positioning and development of the two provinces in the future.

In this regard, Zhu Yuanzhang himself is inclined to Yunnan, after all, there is an example of the former Yuan Dynasty destroying the Song Dynasty, and he knows very well what Yunnan means to the southwest and even the Ming Dynasty.

Now that there are so many gold, silver and copper mines, it is a good time to immigrate to Yunnan.

Once these gold, silver and copper mines were mined, many merchants would flock to the area, and the Yunnan trade route would be opened, bringing more people and trade.

Emigration of more than 100,000 people to southern Sichuan is the icing on the cake for Sichuan as a whole, but it is a relief for the Ming Dynasty's rule in Yunnan, and Zhu Yuanzhang understands this truth better than anyone else.

Compared with the first two, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the third voice is not very good.

The first two are from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court, but the third is simply stupid or bad.

Who is above the temple who can't see that the Ming Dynasty can't go hand in hand in the southwest?

The reason why they want to send troops to defend southern Sichuan and Yunnan at the same time is to mine the gold, silver and copper mines in southern Sichuan and Yunnan, and then continue the policy of deducting taxes with banknotes.

They don't care what the consequences of doing this are, all they want is for them to profit as quickly as possible.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced up at Zhu Yunwen, his eyes were calm and scary.

"Do you think it is to mine Yunnan or Sichuan......

"Grandson ......" came to his lips, but Zhu Yunwen couldn't say it, because he felt his grandfather's unhappiness.

"My grandson thinks that it is better to mine Yunnan first, and according to this year's law, more than 20,000 households will be arranged to go to Yunnan every year for three to four guards."

"According to the current situation of gold, silver and copper mines in Yunnan, at least 72 thousand households should be added, and they will be divided into 10 according to the region."

The Ming military guards were not fixed at 5,000 households per guard, and generally there were three to five in the interior except for Nanzhili, and the number of places with serious military conditions could range from five to twelve.

Therefore, Zhu Yunwen proposed to divide the seventy-two thousand households into ten guards.

However, in any case, 72 thousand households are needed at least 72,000 military households, and the escape rate of military households in Yunnan can reach 40% after relocation, so if you want to leave 72,000 military households in Yunnan, you must at least move more than 100,000 households, and you can only do more, not less.

More than 100,000 households may not sound like much, but if you look at the number of mouths, it is 500,000 or 600,000.

For example, among the provinces today, even the two most populous provinces, Nanzhili and Zhejiang, each have only 10 million people, and it is needless to say that it is difficult to move 500,000 or 600,000 people to Yunnan......

"If the immigrants can be more stable in Yunnan, then the gold, silver and copper mines in Yunnan can also be put into storage, maybe they can catch up with the autumn tax, and the pressure of using money to offset taxes will be lighter."

After Zhu Yunwen gave Zhu Yuanzhang a satisfactory answer, he took the opportunity to hand over this task to Zhu Yunwen.

"Grandson leads the ......" Zhu Yunwen responded, he knew better than anyone else what his grandfather did.

It's not so much about letting yourself do this, it's better to let the people of the six prefectures of Jiangdong who are eager to make a profit do it.

He heard it very clearly, his grandfather mentioned this year's autumn tax and the use of banknotes to offset taxes, and the use of banknotes to offset taxes has benefited the most from the six provinces in Jiangdong.

The imperial court wants to emigrate, but it cannot be facilitated by a simple sentence, but it can only be achieved with the cooperation of local officials and officials.

Whether the use of banknotes to offset taxes can continue is no longer to see the gold, silver and copper mines in Yunnan, but to see whether the officials from the six prefectures in Jiangdong cooperate with the immigration.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yunwen slowly withdrew from the side hall, and then disappeared at the corner of the hall gate.

Looking at his departing back, Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a cup of tea next to him and took a sip......

(End of chapter)