"Crackling—"

Firecrackers exploded, and the smell of the New Year was strong......

With the arrival of the New Year's Day, Zhu Gaoxu also ushered in the third New Year's Day that he spent in Daming.

Compared with the confusion of the first New Year's Day, the second New Year's Day is a different taste in my heart, and the third New Year's Day may be the one that Zhu Gaoxu has experienced the most unburdened.

The picture of cooking sheep and slaughtering pigs in front of the Bohai Royal Mansion reappeared, and many dolls who knew the taste of meat followed the taste of meat again.

In the carrying hall, the food on the table in front of Zhu Gaoxu was much richer than usual.

The ten-course New Year's banquet, including fried mutton, fried goose, pork-fried yellow cabbage, vegetarian sauce inserted in clear sauce, steamed pork trotter belly, two-cooked fried fresh fish, and oven pork, made Zhu Gaoxu rarely eat a good meal.

"Your Highness, these are bear paws and tiger paws, which were specially concocted by the ingredients sent by the Zhenbu last night."

I thought that ten dishes were already the highest standard, but I never thought that two bear and tiger paws bigger than my face were placed in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

Sitting on the chair, Zhu Gaoxu, who was wearing a scarlet robe, felt a little embarrassed.

In the previous life, let alone him, even if those powerful people, who could eat this bear's paw?

"Let's move the chopsticks."

Glancing at Yishiha and the others who were waiting to move the chopsticks, Zhu Gaoxu picked up the chopsticks first, and then began to put the chopsticks on Xiong Hupaw.

Seeing that he moved the chopsticks, Lin Su, Zhang Chun, Yishiha and others moved the chopsticks one after another, and the specifications of the twelve dishes of these four people were still a bit high.

Of course, compared to Zhu Gaoxu's uncles and uncles, his food was more shabby.

But when it comes to eating, Zhu Gaoxu is not particularly picky, and his appetite is only three or four dishes at most, so he eats two meats, one vegetable and one soup on weekdays.

There are many people today, and it is also necessary to have more dishes.

"It's been 29 years since Hongwu......"

Chewing on the bear's paw that didn't have much taste, Zhu Gaoxu only felt as if he was gnawing on a pig's trotters, and in his mind he was full of emotion for the twenty-nine years of Hongwu that had arrived.

"It's a pity that the snow is so heavy that it's not convenient to move around, otherwise we could have gone on a safari."

Zhang Chun listened to Zhu Gaoxu's sigh of time, and thought that he felt bored in Jilin City, so he echoed it.

However, Zhu Gaoxu did not continue, but asked: "What happened to those naturalized Jurchens?" ”

"Back to Your Highness...... Yishuha hurriedly took a sip of tea to swallow the food, and then explained:

"Houses have been arranged, coal and grain have been allocated to them, and the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks outside the palace will also be given to each household a catty as appropriate, and the food is much better than when they were under the old slaves, and many people are grateful to His Highness."

Although the Jurchens walked among the white mountains and black waters, they could obtain meat by hunting, but the days when they could eat meat were those dozens of days throughout the year, and the rest of the days should still be cultivated and cultivated, and grain should be handed over, and hunger is a common thing.

It is precisely because of the harsh living environment that they will have the bloody nature to fight.

In contrast, although Jilin City also needs them to work in the wasteland, they have never deducted food.

The stable days of five buckets of rice per month for adults are out of reach for them, not to mention that the soldiers and civilians of Jilin City have not lost their share of meat every time, just how much it is.

If even such a day can be regarded as a slave life, then I am afraid that most of the Jurchens outside the border will be willing to come to Jilin City to be 'slaves'.

In Jilin City, Zhu Gaoxu set the tone for their identity, that is, before the three-year labor time ended, they were laborers in Jilin City.

At the end of the three years, if they are willing to stay, then they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, their children will have books to read, and they will have their own farmland and life.

It is precisely because of Zhu Gaoxu's equality that the Jurchens who went south will be happy and convinced, and now they are not stealing and playing tricks, and they are all doing their best.

Despite the language barrier, Hermes-Epitek was able to understand what Hermes-Epitek meant by gesturing their hands and feet, so they went to work.

As long as there is enough time, the Han people's non-grudgeful character will begin to flare up, so most Jurchens are not discriminated against.

At this point, Zhu Gaoxu was still very satisfied, and the only one who couldn't stand the Jurchens was also the Bohai Navy soldiers who had participated in the battle.

Although they received Zhu Gaoxu's education, they still couldn't let go of their hatred for the time being.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu can only wait for time to dilute all this, but fortunately, the discrimination of the soldiers against the Jurchens only exists in Xiyang Habu, and the Jurchens of other tribes are still treated as usual.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The sound of the howling cold wind woke Zhu Gaoxu up, and he looked at the increasingly heavy snow, and couldn't help sighing: "I don't know when this big blizzard will stop." ”

"There are a few small tribes that can't survive and come to us, and after receiving so many people, I'm afraid that the food won't be enough for April."

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu talking about Blizzard, Yi Shuha also said what happened recently.

After the winter solstice, Fu Rang returned to Andong City on a dog sled, and Zhu Gaoxu also took the opportunity to take a look at the sled dogs of this era.

It's not much different from a husky, except it's thinner and has longer hair.

After Fu Rang led people away, the blizzard fell outside the pass, but in more than half a month, many small tribes were in danger of running out of food, so they came to Jilin City in groups.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu also asked Yizha to take all the orders, and also allocated the newly built houses for them to live in, these houses only built walls, and there were vacant plots of land inside, but this did not prevent the Jurchen tribes from returning to set up tents.

After settling them, Zhu Gaoxu appointed the heads of these small tribes as the head of the workshop, and in addition to the ration of six buckets of rice every month, he could also receive one stone of rice.

This kind of treatment makes these small tribe leaders who only have dozens or hundreds of people very useful, after all, when they are in the tribe, the grain they can harvest a year is only two or three hundred stones, and they have to take care of everyone's rations, and in fact, there is not much left.

Now that I have come to Jilin City, I don't have to live that precarious life anymore, not to mention, just by adding rations and Lulu, I can harvest nineteen or twenty stone of grain every year.

In addition, Zhu Gaoxu also promised to give them acres of land after the reclamation in the coming year, and after the beginning of spring, he would open a school with Jurchen teaching, so that their children could learn the official language and become officials in the future.

This kind of treatment made many small tribes settle down after coming to Jilin City.

If it weren't for the snowstorm that hindered the spread of the news, I am afraid that many small tribes with weak strength would have come to Jilin City.

"Are the populations of those small tribes all counted?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Yishiha with a bowl of soup, and Yizha also nodded:

"Lit, the four small tribes are all arranged in a people's square, with three hundred and twenty-one households and one thousand three hundred and twenty-seven people."

"The cattle, horses, livestock and grain they brought were confiscated, but the slaves and maidservants also told them that after the beginning of spring, the palace would still give them seeds for ploughing cattle and farming tools."

Zhu Gaoxu was basically not disappointed, especially in the arrangement of the Jurchens, his identity as a Haixi Jurchen often won the recognition and trust of other Jurchens, and made remarkable achievements for Jilin City to appease the Jurchens.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also explained to Yishuha:

"After the beginning of spring, the sixty-ninth department will also send two thousand servants and cattle, horses and livestock, and when the time comes, I will ask Lin Su to help you, and the two of you will train these two thousand people well."

"You can't treat them the same way you treat Han Chinese, it's best to let them learn the official dialect and writing for three months, and then adjust to the same routine as other soldiers."

"These two thousand people are divided into two thousand households, and you and Lin Su will each receive one."

Before the two thousand Jurchens arrived, Zhu Gaoxu had already arranged a place for them to go, but Zhang Chun said:

"Your Highness, although these two thousand Jurchens have no enmity or grudge against us, is it too fast to put them in the army in three months?"

"Although they came to Jilin City, their relatives are still in the former tribe after all, what if their tribe wants them to do something to damage the imperial court?"

Although Zhang Chun is young, he has some grudges and always has some suspicions about the Jurchens outside the Guanwai, but this is understandable.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu also raised his wine glass and said to the three of them:

"The outside of the border is very large, enough for Han Chinese and Jurchens to live and develop together."

"At the same time, the outside of the gate is also very small, and it can only accommodate people who are close to Daming and eager to integrate into Daming."

His words were very vague, but Zhang Chun understood.

In the final analysis, as long as he is close to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaochu can allow the Jurchen tribes to live in peace, but if he is not close to the Ming Dynasty and intends to oppose the Ming, then Zhu Gaoxu will have to clean up the door.

What he, the king of Bohai County, controlled was the entire Guanwai, including the Jurchen tribes living in the land outside the Guan.

Speaking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also took a sip of tea and continued: "In this place outside the pass, I don't think the Jurchen tribes will be less than three hundred. ”

"Now we have only appeased sixty-nine, and there are many of the remaining tribes, and there are many more that we have not come into contact with."

"It's like these small tribes who have come to us these days, although they are small, their strength is not weak, they just don't have enough armor and weapons."

"If we can appease all the tribes in this land outside the pass, then this land outside the pass can at least raise tens of thousands of soldiers after a few years of cultivation."

Zhu Gaoxu's words are not an exaggeration, this is a fact that he personally investigated and discovered when he attacked Xiyangha in the previous campaign.

The reason why the land in the Northeast is barren is because there is no investment, and the local Jurchen tribes cannot come up with such large materials to invest in reclamation, so naturally there is no way to develop the Northeast.

Because of the lack of productivity, the Jurchen tribes could only live scattered in the northeast, and even so, many of them were unable to support themselves.

The cooling of the Xiaoice period in the Song and Yuan dynasties and the destruction of agricultural facilities in northeast China by the Mongols determined that if you want to develop northeast China, you must have enough investment.

Why can Jilin City develop so quickly? In the final analysis, it's not because Daming keeps giving people money and food behind Jilin City.

Take Zhu Gaoxu before and after his arrival, before his arrival, the military households in Jilin City could only receive enough food to eat, and although the animal power in his hands was sufficient, the food was not enough to open up the wasteland.

But after Zhu Gaoxu arrived, he smashed down more than 100,000 stones of grain, and smashed 30,000 acres of cultivated land in Jilin City in just a few months.

In terms of input and output, the input of more than 100,000 stones will require at least ten years of output from these 30,000 acres of cultivated land to return to the cost.

If the calculation is more precise, if 30,000 mu of cultivated land is only subject to field endowments, even if it is 2 out of 10, it will take 50 or 60 years to recover the cost.

The lifespan of a dynasty is as short as more than ten years and as long as less than three hundred years.

Fifty years to recoup the cost, for many dynasties that do not have strong self-confidence, such an investment is a complete gamble.

However, for Lao Zhu, since he chose to put Zhu Gaoxu in Jilin City, how to toss it is Zhu Gaoxu's own business.

The vassal king, where to put it is not to raise, and it is the same to put Jilin City.

Lao Zhu's self-confidence allowed him to provide Zhu Gaoxu with enough food, and Zhu Gaoxu's self-confidence in history made him continue to invest in Jilin.

With the world climate and situation that the Ming Dynasty is currently facing, even Zhu Gaoxu does not dare to guarantee that he can make achievements in the northwest, so the development and consolidation of the northeast, southwest and South China is what he can do at the moment and is sure to do.

He not only had to rely on Jilin to start his business, but also use Jilin to connect the Songhua River basin.

He won't be like his eldest nephew who doesn't yet exist, and with a wave of his hand, he will withdraw to all the guards outside the gate.

What he wants to do is to turn the Northeast into a county, and he is not afraid to invest, because he is confident that he can do it well.

Even how to develop the population of the Northeast, he had already thought about it in advance, just waiting for the outbreak of the Jingjing War, Jilin City will usher in a wave of immigration.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Gaoxu will actively develop the Northeast, because as long as he seizes these opportunities, he will be able to consolidate the Northeast.

Making Jilin City self-sufficient is just the beginning, what he has to do next is to rush before the thirty-first month of Hongwu, so that Jilin City has enough arable land.

"With our current animal power, if there is no war next year, how many acres of arable land can be cultivated?"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yishiha, and Yishiha did not answer in a hurry, but only replied after thinking about it: "In terms of the current animal power and manpower, at least 100,000 mu of cultivated land can be reclaimed next year." ”

"100,000 acres?" Zhang Chun and Lin Su were a little surprised, they had participated in the reclamation of Jilin City, so they naturally knew how difficult it was to open up the wasteland in Jilin City today.

To their surprise and surprise, Yisha also explained:

"Last year, we basically opened up the land to the mountains and forests in the west, so the more we opened in, the more likely it was to encounter rocky fields and tree roots that were difficult to cultivate."

"The reason why we chose to reclaim it is because although the land of the two rivers near the Songhua River is fertile, it is easy to suffer from the disaster of river backflow during the rainy season."

"But later, Your Highness, you came up with cement, which dries quickly, is permeable, and is easy to build, so later we turned the direction of the wasteland and reclaimed it in the river bay, and the effect was remarkable, and we did not encounter the situation of river water backflow."

"Because of this, the slave maid plans to focus on a few river bays in Jilin Bay next year."

"These river bays can reclaim at least 300,000 or 400,000 mu of cultivated land, and there are not as many stones and tree roots as in the mountains, as long as the drainage problem is solved, it can be reclaimed in about three years."

"What is more difficult now is the grain ...... used in reclamation"

After opening up the wasteland for a long time, Yizha also has experience, but to put it simply, it is because Jilin City has food, there are more people who can be raised, and there are more people who work.

These reasons, coupled with the emergence of cement, have given Jilin City the means to build flood discharge and flood control in a short time.

Without these means, there would be no way to reclaim the fertile fields of the river bay, and among these means, grain is the most important.

"You don't have to worry about the grain, Yang Bin and Liaodong Dusi and my annual income are all added together, and there will be at least 300,000 stone of grain next year."

Zhu Gaoxu reassured Yishu: "Although there are nearly 20,000 people in the city at the moment, it is not difficult to provide for this number of people. ”

"What's more, I also wrote to the imperial court that there should be more grain to be shipped next year."

Despite saying this, Zhu Gaoxu had no confidence in his heart, after all, he knew very well that Lao Zhu had been controlling him.

After receiving the handwritten letter, whether Lao Zhu could approve more grain for him, Zhu Gaoxu himself was not sure.

If Lao Zhu doesn't give it, then he can only find a way to obtain food through trade, in short, no matter what means he uses, he will develop enough arable land in the Songhua River basin to live for more than 100,000 people.

Thinking that the food on the table was almost finished, Zhu Gaoxu cleaned himself up, got up and returned to his study.

In his study, there are many books on display, including ancient books from the Ming Dynasty and books compiled by himself.

After all, Zhu Gaoxu is a person from later generations, although he can't be proficient in all disciplines, but if some of the categories he is proficient in are compiled into books, he can also inspire some talented people in the future.

Astronomy, Geography, Ocean Currents, Firearms Progression, Artillery Progression, Gunpowder, Rare Metal Names and Characteristics......

Looking at the books written by himself on his bookshelf, Zhu Gaoxu felt proud from the bottom of his heart.

Although these books have not yet been written and reviewed, they will one day be printed and distributed as reading materials in the hands of students.

It was just that when he was imagining, under the high mountains more than 2,000 miles away from him, the city of Wuliang Ha Bald, which was located at the northeast foot of the Harawen Mountain (Great Khing'an Mountains), was also discussing the matter of the northeast.

Uliangha Bald City, this is an earthen city where the Uliangha tribe lives, every year in winter, it will attract the herdsmen of the Uliangha, Wengniut, Uqiyette and other tribes called Duoyan Sanwei by the Ming people.

They came here because of the proximity to the Haravan Mountains and the abundance of trees to survive a warm winter, and when the winter is over, they can grow some grains to survive the end of the year.

Although this place is only an earthen city, there is a stone palace courtyard built in the city, although it is a little simple, but it is also a remarkable building in the northeastern part of the desert.

Suffering from this year's blizzard, more than 100,000 Mongols gathered in the city of Uliang Ha at this moment, and they were tented and camped, just to be able to avoid this tragic white plague.

As long as they survive this white plague, the three Great Khans will bring back food after the beginning of spring for them to survive the green and yellow season.

In the city of Uliangha, almost all the Mongols were looking forward to the coming year's grain, but they did not know that the grain trade they had hoped for had been interrupted......

"This Xiyang Ha is a fool, thousands of people can't beat a thousand, and now he has lost the city and his life, he deserves it!"

"You can't say that, he's dead, but our food is gone, and there is no place for cattle and horses to sell."

"The headache now is not that Xiyang Hana stupid guy is dead, but that Daming wants to rebuild Zhaozhou City."

"That's right! Once the city of Zhaozhou is successfully rebuilt, we will either have to move north, or we will have to surrender. ”

"Harawu, you name a way, we listen to you!"

In the stone castle hall of Uliang Ha Bald City, the Great Khan and the nobles of the three tribes gathered here, and a bonfire burned in the hall, which dispelled a lot of cold for everyone.

As the most powerful one at the moment, the upright and prime-aged Haragu calmly listened to the noise of everyone.

It's just that in the end of their quarrel, he still needs to make a decision, and no one has an objection to this, after all, Haragu's ability is obvious to all.

At the beginning, among the three guards, Weng Niute was the strongest, followed by Uziet, and Uliangha was behind.

Later, under the leadership of Harawu, the strength of Uliangha grew rapidly, and he jumped to the top of the three.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty often referred to the three general places as Duoyan Sanwei or Wuliangha Sanwei, and the three stations were collectively referred to as "Wuliangha ground".

The Uliangha tribes were not pleasing in the Yuan dynasty and had very few access to resources, so they always acted as speculators, occasionally placing bets on the Ming or Northern Yuan.

After Nahachu was defeated, they accepted the Ming Dynasty canonization under the leadership of Haragu and became Duoyan Sanwei.

However, at that time, the former Yuan Liao King Aza Li, who was appointed to control the three divisions, was not satisfied with the arrangement of the Ming Dynasty, and later led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters and the three tribes of Wuliang Ha to the south of Koubian, but the end failed.

After that, the three Wuliangha tribes completely rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, and instead began to go south every year to plunder Daning and Liaodong, becoming the border trouble of the northeast border of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the mutiny was cool for a while, and the end was also miserable.

Since the betrayal of the Ming Dynasty, the three parts of Wuliangha have been unsustainable, ranging from small arrows to large armor and food.

In desperation, they could only support the Jurchens in the northeast, use them to transfer cattle, sheep and horses to sell to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time let them buy and sell some goods from the Ming Dynasty to support the three Wuliangha tribes.

Xiyangha was the one who took over this transit business, but the business did not last long before it was discovered by Daming, and then cut off Xiyangha's mutual market qualifications.

Because of this, Xiyang Ha has repeatedly entered the prison.

He joined the army not only for himself, but also because the Uliangha tribes behind him were constantly putting pressure on him.

It is impossible for Daming to exchange markets with the three parts of Wuliangha, but Daming can exchange markets with Xiyangha, as long as Xiyangha shows its value.

Originally, this value has been shown by Xiyang Ha through the Koubian in the past few years, I never thought that a Zhu Gaochu came to the south, and in less than half a year, he killed this important chess piece in the hands of Harawu, and according to the news report, this Zhu Gaochu will also rebuild Zhaozhou City in the Sacha River.

If Zhu Gaoxu really rebuilt the city of Zhaozhou at the mouth of the Sacha River, it would undoubtedly greatly restrict the three Wuliangha divisions.

In the near future, if the city of Zhaozhou is successfully rebuilt, it will reduce the scope of activities of the three departments of Wuliang Ha from more than 1,500 li from east to west to more than 800 li from east to west, and the three departments of Wuliang Ha will lose hundreds of thousands of acres of grassland and pasture.

In the long run, if the city of Zhaozhou is successfully rebuilt and can be maintained for a long time, it will become a bridgehead for attacking the city of Wuliang Ha, because the distance from Zhaozhou City to the city of Wuliang Ha is only more than 700 li, and 400 miles of it can be taken by water.

Although this waterway is not accessible to large boats, it is no problem to take some small boats.

Therefore, the city of Zhaozhou must not be rebuilt, and they must stop Zhu Gaoxu's crazy move.

In the midst of his thoughts, the forty-year-old Harawu also raised his head, revealing his gaze hidden under the felt hat.

He glanced at the crowd before he slowly spoke: "Zhaozhou City can't be rebuilt, and we can't sit and wait. ”

"Tomorrow, we will send sentry cavalry south to find out the news, from Daning to Zhaozhou City, all the news must be discovered."

"In addition to this, tell everyone that it is time to go south to fight the grass valley after sharpening the swords, guns and arrows in your hands......"

(End of chapter)