"This time it's dangerous, but fortunately, this kid has lived up to my expectations of him."

Spring went to autumn, and on the sixth day of the fifth month, in the Forbidden City of Yingtianfu, Zhu Yuanzhang received a note from the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.

On this belated note, it is clearly written how Zhu Gaoxu defended Jixi Fort and how he waited for Zhu Di's reinforcements.

Although this battle seemed to Lao Zhu to be aggrieved, when he saw that the siege of Jilin was lifted, he was still happy from the bottom of his heart.

After relieving the siege of Jilin City and severely invading Wuliangha, Zhu Di only stayed for one night and left Jilin City the next day, which was very pleasing to him.

Of course, what made him even more happy was the results of this northern tour.

Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Bohai, beheaded 7,000 Wuliang Hahu soldiers and captured thousands of cattle, sheep and horses.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, pursued and beheaded more than 8,000 Wuliang Hahu soldiers, and captured nearly 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses.

Although the Ming army paid the price of nearly 2,000 people, but compared with it, the price paid by Uliangha was even greater, all three suffered heavy losses, and at least 20% of the tribesmen's men died, and they were unable to go south to disturb the border for at least three or five years.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with this result, and at the same time, Zhu Gaochi, who was looking forward to it in the Wuying Palace, also cautiously stepped forward and handed out the note sent by the Bohai Palace.

"Grandpa, more than 2,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and injured in Jilin City this time, do you want to relocate some military households to make up for the shortage of military households in Jilin City......

As soon as Zhu Gaochi's words spoke, Zhu Yunwen, who was sitting not far away, became a little unhappy.

As a result of this northern tour, if Zhu Yuanzhang is the happiest, no one dares to have two thoughts, but if it is said that he is the second happy, then I am afraid it will be Zhu Yunwen.

After this battle, the Jilin Wei suffered more than 1,600 casualties, of which nearly 900 were lost, which can be said to have greatly weakened Zhu Gaoxu's strength.

Although it was inconvenient for the Ming to rule Guanwai, for the Ming Dynasty, there seemed to be nothing worth ruling outside the Guanwai.

It is enough to maintain the status quo and keep the Jurchens from chaotic, and the amount of troops after the damage to Jilin City can still complete this task.

Therefore, maintaining the current situation is the situation that Zhu Yunwen wants.

So in the face of Zhu Gaochi's initiative to stand up, he was very unhappy in his heart, but he didn't stand up to refute it, just looked at his grandfather and wanted to see what he did.

"Jixi, do you think I should make up for him?"

Contrary to everyone's expectations, Zhu Yuanzhang did not directly answer Zhu Gaochi's words, but asked Zhu Jixi, another prince in the palace.

Zhu Jixi didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang to ask him this question, but he still got up and responded:

"Sun Er thinks that this year, the imperial court has decided to relocate more than 30,000 military households to Kaiping and Yunnan, and if another 2,000 military households are added to Jilin, it will be too big, and the household side may not be able to afford it."

"However, if a single army and horses are not mobilized, it is not good, after all, Jilin City has been hit so hard, it is inevitable that Ataiwailan in the land of Kulawan will have a bad heart, and if Andong City is lost again because of the shortage of troops, it will be more than worth the loss."

"Therefore, Sun Er thought, why don't you transfer 2,000 single soldiers from Shandong, Zhili and other places to Jilin City."

"In this way, there is no need to drag the family with you, the marching speed can be faster, the money and food spent to maintain the soldiers and horses can also be reduced, Jilin City and Andong City have also been stabilized, and Zhaozhou City can also be built."

Zhu Jixi gave a more pertinent answer, Zhu Gaochi breathed a sigh of relief, and although Zhu Yunxi was unhappy, he could accept it.

Although there were many soldiers of 2,000, they had no family members, so after going to Jilin City, they could only rely on Jilin City for support.

In this way, it increased the grain demand of Jilin City and increased Jilin City's dependence on the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, which was very in line with Zhu Yunwen's idea of controlling Zhu Gaoxu.

However, what made Zhu Yunwen more concerned than this matter was why his grandfather asked Zhu Jixi this question.

Zhu Jixi was originally the son of the Jin dynasty, even if the Jin domain is weakened now, Zhu Jixi has the biggest identity, that is, the eldest grandson among the grandchildren.

This identity makes Zhu Yunwen quite jealous, and even now it still lingers.

His grandfather asked Zhu Jixi again, did he want to appoint the Jin Mansion to do something to let him return to Taiyuan from Dongsheng's place?

Zhu Yunwen was still guessing, but Zhu Yuanzhang had already bowed his head and said: "What you said is good, let's draft the purpose according to this method......"

"In addition, he urged Gao Xu to build a city in Zhaozhou, and rewarded him with 3,000 horses of cloth, 5,000 catties of cotton, and 100 horses of silk and satin to show his reward."

After he finished speaking, the celebrant and eunuch on the side responded and walked to the desk in the corner.

Not long after, he drafted a holy decree, handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang to make sure it was correct, and Zhu Yuanzhang stamped and issued it.

After the holy decree was taken away, this little episode ended, and the four grandchildren in the hall continued to deal with the government affairs.

For them, the matter of Jilin City can only be regarded as a trivial matter, and the major event of the Ming Dynasty at the moment is whether this year's autumn tax should be 'deducted from taxes with money', and how the southwest counterinsurgency is going.

That's right, twenty-nine years after the time entered Hongwu, Yunnan and Sichuan Xingdu Si and other places successively had Tusi rebellions.

Guizhou commanded the envoy to gather 4,000 people in the village, and the barbarians such as Dongshui rebelled, and killed their local officials, Wang Yingming.

Pu Xi rebelled in Weilong Prefecture, Sichuan, and Nabu, Xue Bu, Ren Chang and other Zhai Fankou in Songpan rebelled and killed more than 100 local officials and soldiers.

Yunnan Golden Tooth Mangkuan rebelled and attacked the Ming Dynasty's mine in Golden Tooth.

These rebellions are only some of the many rebellions, and most of them are being quelled by Zhu Chun, the king of Shu in the southwest, Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, Gu Cheng, He Fu, Qu Neng, and others.

Although it may sound like a situation of chaos in the southwest, in fact the scale of these rebellions was far less serious than the previous rebellion of the Three Tusi.

However, this situation also tells the dissatisfaction of the Southwest Tusi with the Ming Dynasty.

The best way is to give some of the mining rights of the gold and silver mines to the local Tusi, but if Zhu Yuanzhang really does this, then the nobles and the ministers will definitely end up with a piece of the pie.

In this way, the simple situation is complicated.

Therefore, in the face of repeated rebellions in the southwest, Zhu Yuanzhang's choice was to pacify by force, even if he would pay a lot of casualties, he would never compromise with Tusi.

The situation in the south is very complicated, but for Zhu Gaoxu, who is far away in Jilin City, it cannot attract his attention at all.

Right now, he is relieved that a large amount of grain has arrived one after another.

"In two and a half months, more than 144,300 stone grain, 50,000 yuan of money, and more than 32,000 stone beans have arrived."

"In addition, there are still 200,000 stone of grain for 30,000 Wei that have not yet arrived."

"Among them, the Liaodong Metropolitan Division still owes 60,000 stones, and Yang Shanren still has 140,000 stones."

On the ninth day of the seventh month, with the arrival of the last grain escorted by 3,000 soldiers and civilians, the grain that had been going for many days was finally delivered to Jilin City, although there were still 200,000 stones that had not yet arrived, but the current grain was enough for Jilin City to survive until winter.

In the carrying hall, after Yizha said these words, Yang Bin, who was standing beside him, also said:

"Without His Highness's opinion, the grass people took the salt and replaced it with grain and bean feed without authorization, and asked His Highness to surrender his guilt."

In the direction facing the two, Zhu Gaoxu sat on the main seat, holding the grain book in his hand, with a smile on his face, obviously in a good mood.

Regarding Yang Bin's words, Zhu Gaoxu also raised his head to look.

Yang Bin has lost a lot of weight compared to last year, since he learned that Jilin City was surrounded, he used all the money and grain obtained from the salt introduction of the Bohai Wangfu in his hand to buy grain and bean materials, and continued to buy grain from Shandong to 30,000 Wei, waiting for Jilin City to be relieved.

Because of this, the amount of grain that has not arrived has increased by more than 20,000 stones.

is reasonable, Zhu Gaoxu should not criticize him, but should thank him.

"You've done a good job of these things, and you've worked hard."

Compared with two months ago, Zhu Gaoxu was more mature, he raised his hand and motioned for Yang Bin and Yishuha to sit down, and then asked the two:

"The entry of Uliangha into the Kou has damaged the true strength of the women of the Haixi tribes, and there are many tribes that have asked for grain from each other recently, and the demand is also very great."

"Since the beginning of the summer, twelve tribes have joined my Jilin City on the ground of Haixi Harawin, resulting in an increase in the population of Jilin City.

"In addition, the East China Sea tribes in Haidong have also learned that our people have also increased, and in the past two months, there have been very many fur sellers, and the mutual market is huge."

"The fur in the treasury, I think you have also seen Yang Bin, do you have the strength to eat it?"

Zhu Gaoxu recounted the changes outside the border in the past two months, and the changes were nothing more than the destruction of the grain fields of many tribes due to the entry of Wuliangha, which in turn made it impossible to harvest ripe grain before the winter.

As a result, the yield per mu has declined, and the fields that could have supported one person need two mu to feed one person, and there has been a shortage of grain in all departments.

Some tribes still have some strength, and after selling some cattle, sheep and horses, they can also buy some grain from Jilin City to survive.

However, many small and medium-sized tribes, including the six tribes that originally walked out of Jilin City, returned to Jilin City because of their lack of strength and chose to join Jilin City.

In just two months, Jilin City received twelve small and medium-sized tribes, including three savage tribes in the east.

The arrival of these tribes greatly increased the manpower of Jilin City, and at the same time, the livestock they brought also made Jilin City a veritable prosperous city in Haidong.

Secondly, as the reputation of Jilin City for repelling the invasion of Wuliangha spread, the savage Jurchen tribes of the East China Sea tribes also learned about Jilin City, a place where the mutual market was opened, under the propaganda of Fudaha and others.

Many savage tribes carried the backlog of furs in their hands to Jilin City in exchange for enough food for the tribe to survive the winter and left.

It is true that this situation has made the city of Jilin strong, but the number of furs, as well as the number of people in the city, has also increased.

Whether Jilin City can feed so many people depends on whether Yang Bin can eat so many furs.

In this regard, after listening to these words, Yizha did not speak first, but looked at Yang Bin, and Yang Bin also said shamefully:

"Your Highness, to be honest, the amount of furs in the treasury this time is indeed too much, and the furs bought by the grass people last year have not been sold until now."

"This batch of furs and herbs, the grass people and Yizhang have calculated, if according to the previous price, the share of the grass people, Jilin City can get at least 300,000 yuan."

"It's easy to eat it, but if you want to sell it, it takes a long time, even if you only collect this batch this year, it will take two years to finish it."

Yang Bin said the current predicament, to put it bluntly, the demand for fur by the mainland elite has begun to saturate.

If you don't want to reduce the price, then you can only sell slowly, and this sales time has to be pulled back, and the speed of recovering money will slow down.

Yang Bin can eat it, but this time he will definitely not get the money as fast as before.

If he were a different person, he would definitely think that Yang Bin was hypocritical, but Zhu Gaoxu knew some market economy after all, so he didn't criticize him, but just said to Yang Bin:

"You take the furs and medicinal herbs to the south, this time the 300,000 guan, you send people to transport 50,000 guan to Jilin City, and the rest will be used to buy food, and it will be sent in April next year."

"250,000 yuan to buy grain?" Yang Binleng stayed where he was, after all, according to the current grain price, 250,000 yuan could buy at least 750,000 stone of grain.

With such a large amount of grain, it was already very difficult for him to safely transport it out of the mainland, let alone the Liaodong Metropolitan Division that stopped in front of Jilin City.

However, in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu reassured: "You don't have to worry about the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, I will send Wang Yi to bring five hundred brothers to the south with you this time, and he will take care of the affairs of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division." ”

......Hearing this, Yang Bin still said the second question: "With so much grain, it takes at least 200,000 people to transport the grain to Jilin City." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, you can transport tens of thousands of stone of grain every month, and I will send Zhang Chun to lead the army and civilians to drive the carriage to 30,000 Weila to transport it back to Jilin City." Zhu Gaoxu appeased again.

"In addition, this time Wang Yi will go south with a thousand people and a thousand carriages to transport grain with you."

Today's Jilin City, although many brothers were killed and injured by the Uliangha's invasion, but this time the Uliangha's entry into the Kou also caused heavy casualties to the Jurchen tribes, and they had to exchange cattle, sheep and horses to Jilin City in exchange for food.

The number of horses in Jilin City has already reached 9,000.

As long as Zhu Gaoxu wanted to, these 9,000 horses could be temporarily independent from the movement of Jilin City's wasteland reclamation, and it would take half a month to go to 30,000 guards to transport back 30,000 or 40,000 stone of grain.

It is precisely because of such a large team of horses that Zhu Gaoxu dared to let Yang Bin buy so much grain.

Due to the shortage of animal power and manpower, although Yang Bin still has 140,000 stone of grain in Sanwanwei, he wants to transport all of them to Liaodong, and at the current speed, it will not be completed until at least before winter.

Because of this, Zhu Gaoxu asked Wang Yi to take a thousand carriages south, hoping to transport all the grain back to Jilin City as soon as possible.

"If that's the case, then the grass people can give it a try." Yang Bin breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhu Gaoxu also bowed his head when he saw this:

"Thank you very much."

"Doing things for His Highness is a blessing for the grass people." Yang Bin was polite for a moment, and then saw that Zhu Gaoxu had the intention of sending off the guest, so he didn't stay for long, and got up and said:

"The grass people have to return tomorrow to transport 30,000 grains, so they will stay soon, I wish His Highness a thousand blessings and good health."

"Go......" Zhu Gaoxu didn't leave him, but watched him walk out of the palace, and then looked at Yishuha:

"If these 340,000 stone grains are all transported to Jilin City, how long can we last?"

It seems that he had long known that Zhu Gaoxu would ask this, but he did not hesitate, and subconsciously said:

"The pension money and grain that were owed before have been fully allocated this time, and there are still more than 26,000 yuan of money in the treasury, more than 56,000 stones of grain, and more than 21,000 stones of bean material."

50,000 yuan, 140,000 stone grain, and more than 32,000 stone bean material, just two months to be transported and consumed at the same time, Jilin City's expenses can be seen.

Zhu Gaoxu was still sighing, but he frowned and said: "After the twelve departments joined Jilin City, the number of soldiers and civilians in the city has reached 9,432, with a population of 53,169 people. ”

"Counting the military salaries and horse feed of the three thousand soldiers in the city, it is necessary to spend 29,000 yuan of money and more than 372,000 stone of grain every year."

"Your Highness, if we don't cut the grain for reclamation, we really won't be able to survive."

Yisha looked worried, after all, they have been spending on the people of Jilin City at the moment, and there is basically no return.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu asked very calmly: "Since April, how much arable land has been cleared?" ”

"More than 94,600 acres." Speaking of the amount of cultivated land that has been cleared, he breathed a sigh of relief, obviously very proud.

In the face of his pride, Zhu Gaoxu also said indifferently: "Without this expenditure, we would not be able to cultivate so many fields." ”

"What's more, it's only been two months now, and in winter, I'm afraid I can open up 200,000 acres of arable land."

In addition to 3,000 soldiers and horses and 14,000 underage children, Jilin City has a total of more than 36,000 strong laborers, both men and women, in addition to more than 9,000 horses, and more than 7,400 ploughing cattle.

These are all the labor forces in Jilin City at the moment, and what they are doing is to constantly reclaim wasteland and turn wasteland into arable land for means of production.

At present, Jilin City already has nearly 140,000 mu of new and old cultivated land, and according to the rate of reclamation of more than 94,000 mu in two and a half months, by the beginning of winter, Jilin City's cultivated land may reach 2.34 million mu.

In the coming year, it is estimated that it will be able to maintain the rate of reclamation of 200,000 mu per year.

It is now the 29th year of Hongwu, that is to say, before Lao Zhu died of illness in May of the 31st year of Hongwu, Jilin City can have at least 4.56 million mu of cultivated land.

However, if the increase is only arable land, this is not enough to make Zhu Gaoxu relax, and what he has to keep an eye on is food.

"Are the rice fields outside the city alright?" Zhu Gaoxu changed the topic and asked about the situation in the rice fields.

Hearing this, Yisha also nodded happily: "The growth is good, according to the current rice ears, as long as there are no problems, these two thousand acres of rice fields can harvest at least two thousand stone of grain." ”

The yield of one stone per mu is nothing to the people in Guannei, but for Daning, Liaodong and Jilin City north of Shanhaiguan, this is the output that can save countless people.

"One stone per mu yields...... Zhu Gaoxu also showed a smile on his face, although he did not cultivate cold-resistant rice, but the method of raising seedlings first and then transplanting seedlings did give Guanwai another way to improve grain production.

In the face of Yishaha's words, Zhu Gaoxu earnestly instructed: "If you can really produce a stone of grain, stop clearing the wasteland after the autumn harvest is over, and pick out 1,000 acres of land from the old land to build a seedling field." ”

"A thousand acres?" Yishuha's face was embarrassed: "Your Highness, with so many seedling fields, I am afraid that the coal and firewood consumed are not a few. ”

"It's better than relying on the court all the time." Zhu Gaoxu didn't know that the cost of seedling cultivation was high, but he had no choice.

"In the future, Xintian will plant millet and wheat in the first year, and rice in the next year."

Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath and ordered, and at the same time said to Yisha: "My fifth uncle is said to have a lot of gentlemen who are familiar with agriculture, can you see if we can also find some such gentlemen to come to Jilin City?" ”

Although he said that he was asking, his tone was unquestionable, and Yisha also understood his thoughts, and immediately responded: "The slave maid will go and talk to Yang Shanren about this matter in a while." ”

"Well......" Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head, and when he saw this, he also got up and retired.

After he left, Zhu Gaoxu did not leave, but waited quietly.

After a quarter of an hour, the sound of dense footsteps sounded on the wall of the palace.

Fu Rang, Lin Su, Zhang Chun, and Wang Yi walked out from behind the wall one after another, and saw Zhu Gaoxu sitting in the carrier hall from afar.

The four of them talked and laughed, and when they entered the carrier hall, they successively said: "Your Highness......

"Let's sit down first." Zhu Gaoxu commanded, and then the four of them sat on both sides according to their official positions

When they sat down, Fu Rang took the lead in speaking: "I have only been back to Andong City for less than a month, and I was summoned by you again. ”

"There are a lot of things going on over there, if you are fine, then I will be miserable by you."

Fu Rang's identity in Jilin City is the most special, in terms of seniority, he is a generation higher than Zhu Gaoxu, in terms of identity, but he is also the son of Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo.

Although after Fu Youde's death, Lao Zhu did not let anyone inherit his title, but Fu Rang's identity is still here.

For him, Zhu Gaochu also tried his best to be tolerant, so after he asked, Zhu Gaochu replied:

"News came from the south that the imperial court had transferred two thousand single military households from Shandong and Nanzhili to the north, I mean divide this batch of soldiers and horses."

There was no politeness, Zhu Gaoxu said the reason for passing on them.

Since the left army of Shenyang has left, Jilin City, which has suffered losses, has inevitably entered an embarrassing period of emptiness of strength.

Before the war, the Jilin Guard, which had 1,507 people, counted the 100 people in Andong City and Sanchang, only 1,131 remained.

Therefore, after the war, after the Liaodong Metropolitan Division sent the remaining military households approved by Lao Zhu last year to Jilin City, Zhu Gaoxu selected many suitable men from among them and the Jurchen Hu to join the army, and gathered 3,000 people.

After that, Zhu Gaoxu transferred them to Andong City, where they retained 1,000 households, Jixi Fort 1,000 households, and 300 households in each of the three fields.

As a result, there were only 700 soldiers and horses left in Jilin City.

This time, Lao Zhu sent another 2,000 people to Jilin City, and Zhu Gaoxu needed to discuss with Fu them the question of the ownership of these 2,000 people, as well as his own ideas.

In front of Fu Rang, Zhu Gaoxu said: "The city must be built over there in Zhaozhou, otherwise in the future, Wuliangha will enter the city again, and Jilin City will have to become a battlefield." ”

"But this time, I am going to let Lin Su go to Andong City to supervise it, and Fu will let you personally take these two thousand people and one thousand people from Jixi Fort to Zhaozhou to build a city."

"In addition, I am also going to recruit a thousand soldiers from the Jurchens who joined Jilin City, enough to gather six thousand households in Jilin Wei."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished talking about his arrangement, he immediately glanced at the four of them, and none of them objected, only Fu Rang asked rhetorically after bowing his head:

"I don't have an opinion on the actual amount of 6,000 soldiers and horses, but how are you going to configure it?"

"Besides, there are so many people in the city, are you sure you can support these 6,000 soldiers and horses?"

Fu Rang calmly asked two questions that everyone was concerned about, but Zhu Gaoxu already had a draft for this.

"The seven hundred people in Jilin City are armored cavalry, and another thousand households are arranged as horse troops, and the three hundred households in the three fields are not moving, and the remaining four thousand households are pikemen.

"As for raising soldiers, you don't have to worry, everything is with me and I."

Zhu Gaoxu said his thoughts, but Fu Rang couldn't help but be speechless after hearing it: "You are willing to pay the capital." ”

Seven hundred armored horsemen and one thousand light horsemen, plus four thousand horsemen and infantry......

If the configuration mentioned by Zhu Gaoxu can be achieved, it is estimated that it will become an elite soldier and horse second only to the Hezhou Guard and the Leopard Taowei in front of the palace.

For Fu Rang's admiration, Zhu Gaoxu was not modest, but smiled:

"My Bohai Navy should be so ......"

"Ming Taizu Record": In May Xinyou, Shangwen Yan Wang and Bohai King Poyuan will be Ha Rawu in Jilin, very happy, feasting the ministers in Fengtianmen.

"Fengtian Jing Difficult Record": In May Xinyou, when I heard that the king of Yan Poyuan was the general Harawu, he was very happy and summoned the ministers to discuss the prince again.

The emperor said that the emperor's grandson was weak, and the king of Yan was in the country, and he was quiet and undisturbed, and he won the hearts of the army and the people, and the people said that he was a king.

Liu Sanwu, a bachelor of Hanlin, said, "King Liyan, where is the King of Jin?" And the emperor's grandson is older and can be inherited. ”

Smell it, just do it.

(End of chapter)