"Two more ...... households of 1,000 households"

October came as scheduled, and when Zhu Yunwen in the Chunhe Hall learned the news that Jilin Wei had added two thousand households, his first reaction was to frown.

From last year to this year, he has been busy disintegrating Zhu Li's power in the government and the opposition, but he can't stand Zhu Li's restlessness.

For example, right now, on Zhu Yunwen's table, there is a rice seedling that is much larger than the normal Ming Dynasty rice seedling.

This is the rice that Zhu Li sent to the horse after the autumn harvest this year, and this rice has one stem and nine ears, and each ear has more than 100 grains of rice.

Such rice is called "Jiahe", which translates to auspicious rice.

It deserves such praise, after all, if the rice in Shanxi can reach this level, it means that Shanxi's rice yield per mu has reached an average yield of two stones and three per mu.

This is still in Shanxi, if it is put in the south of the Yangtze River with sufficient water conservancy facilities, it can reach at least four stones.

If all the rice in the world can be like this, then the people of the Ming Dynasty will be comfortable.

Lao Zhu pays attention to agricultural affairs, and Zhu Li is looking for such rice, undoubtedly wanting to return to Lao Zhu's eyes.

"Your Highness, this rice... Is it still planted? ”

Li Quan, the eunuch of the East Palace, cautiously asked Zhu Yunwen, but Zhu Yunwen grabbed the rice and looked at it carefully, squinting his eyes: "Plant, naturally you have to plant ......"

In response, Zhu Yunwen looked at another book on the table, which contained specific regulations on the reduction of the clan's fortunes.

Originally, the prince was scheduled to use 50,000 stone of rice for each year, but after this cut, the prince only had 10,000 stone left for Lu rice in the year, and the prince of the county only had 2,000 stones, and the rest of the generals and lieutenants of Zhenguo, Fengguo and other generals were all reduced.

Although among them, the king of Bohai and the king of Jingjiang were characterized as princes, but in any case, this reduction in the annual salary was a means to weaken the vassal king.

Zhu Gaoxu's 20,000 Lu rice was halved, and the other princes were cut off eighty percent.

Such a result made Zhu Yunwen very happy.

The reason for the reduction of the rice was that it was difficult for the vassal kings to raise soldiers and horses, so they could only rely on the imperial court, and then reduced their control over the soldiers and horses, but ......

Zhu Yunwen looked down at the ear of rice in his hand, he knew very well that such a method would have no effect on Qin, Jin, Yan, Zhou and other powerful vassals, because their means of collecting wealth were not limited to Yulu.

They are like this, and so is Zhu Gaoxu.

"Jiangnan's fur business, he is doing well."

Zhu Yunwen put down the ears of rice and touched the fox fur on his neck, and Li Quan, who heard the words, also bowed down and said: "Come to think of it, it is through this road that the king of Bohai County was able to raise an army of 6,000." ”

"It's eight thousand in the coming year." Zhu Yunwen meant something, but he didn't care.

Eight thousand people, what can they do?

Compared with him, Zhu Li, Zhu Di, and Zhu Hu are the objects that he Zhu Yunwen needs to deal with.

Among them, the first to bear the brunt is still Zhu Li.

"The war in the southwest is speeding up, otherwise the people below will panic, and the lonely heart will not be at ease."

"You sent someone to tell Wei Guogong that immigrants to the southwest need money and grain, and the imperial court has been unable to make ends meet all these years, so it can only live by eating the previous stored grain."

"If he continues to be so slow, I'm afraid that the imperial court will sit and eat empty......"

Zhu Yunwen said so, but the content of his words was too exaggerated.

Zhu Yuanzhang has been recuperating for several years, and the accumulated grain is not a small amount, as long as Zhu Yuanzhang is willing to use the standing and water secondary warehouses and reserve warehouses in various places, even if the imperial court cannot make ends meet every year, these grains can be maintained for more than ten years.

But this is limited to the situation of not carrying out the situation of 'tax deduction with banknotes', and once the 'tax deduction with banknotes' continues, Zhu Yunwen must find ways to generate income for Daming.

The Southwest Gold, Silver and Copper Mine was what he wanted, and the reality was that it did meet his needs.

"The gold, silver and copper mines that have been included in the treasury this year, how many are they?"

Zhu Yunwen sat back in his position, and Li Quan also cautiously replied: "According to the official report of the household department, the gold, silver and bronze are added together and folded, which is about 927,000 yuan. ”

"Not bad...... Zhu Yunwen was very satisfied with this amount, after all, this is only the second year of the Southwest Mine.

If nothing else, next year's southwest mine will be able to mine millions of gold, silver and copper ore, and then next year's 'tax deduction' can continue in the autumn.

In three years, under the policy of using banknotes to offset taxes in the two provinces of Susong, the value of the treasure banknotes of the six provinces in Jiangdong has stabilized at about 700 wen per bank, and the rest of the provinces can also maintain between 500 and 600 wen.

Under the beating of Zhu Yunwen, the squires and wealthy families of Susong Erfu also understood what it meant to 'put a long line to catch big fish'.

Take this year's tax deduction with banknotes as an example, Susong Erfu's 3.8 million stone of field grain was only offset by treasure banknotes, and the remaining 1.8 million stone was still paid for field grain.

The knowledge of the rich squires of the second mansion also made Zhu Yunwen no longer embarrassed them, and at the same time reduced the pressure on the household.

A deficit of 2 million stone a year is much better than a deficit of nearly 4 million stone, and according to the price of the recovered treasure banknotes, the real deficit is only 600,000 stone.

This hole can still be filled by the household.

As long as the gold and silver mines in the southwest are successfully mined, the second province can be expanded into six provinces, and even Huzhou, Hangzhou and other western Zhejiang provinces.

Tie the people of these eight mansions to his side, and his third uncle will no longer have the ability to fight for himself......

Turning his gaze to the book involving Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Yunwen squinted slightly: "You can only stop here." ”

"It's so warm!"

When Zhu Yunwen no longer took Zhu Gaoxu in his eyes, Jilin City also entered the winter moon (November) with the passage of time, and the whole city began to enjoy heating.

Firewood began to be added to the boiler in each village, and there was something like a manual water press next to it, which constantly pumped water from the ground to a copper furnace that resembled a boiler on the side.

The boiling water turned into water vapor and drifted through the pitch-black fire.

They poured into the fire channels and fire walls of the houses, and after touching the top of the fire walls, they gathered into water, and flowed along the fire channels to the east, passing through the military camps and seedling fields, and gradually cooling into the Songhua River.

For the first time in their lives, many people have used luxury goods such as fire walls and fire tunnels, so it is very novel.

The cement walls are painted with white lime and special brushes, which can effectively prevent water vapor from escaping, so the walls are warm and warm, and many people put their hands on the wall.

Different from the novelty of the people, Guo Yan and Yishiha, who have enjoyed the wall of fire and the path of fire in the south, are very calm, but they are still relatively satisfied with being able to enjoy the wall of fire in Jilin City.

The only one who is dissatisfied with the fire wall and fire path may be Zhu Gaoxu alone.

"Still not warm enough......"

In the heart hall of the Bohai Palace, Zhu Gaoxu touched the floor tiles with his hands, and his face was slightly dissatisfied.

Although there is no thermometer, measured by body temperature alone, the temperature in the heart hall is estimated to be twelve or thirteen degrees, which is not warm.

"It's already good, Your Highness."

Guo Yan was embroidering, and when she heard Zhu Gaoxu's words, she smiled and comforted Zhu Gaoxu.

After Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he could only nod helplessly, after all, compared with the waterproof and thermal insulation methods of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between them and later generations was too big, and it was indeed quite good to be able to do this.

"We have to increase the mining of coal, otherwise in seven or eight years, many trees on the mountains will have to be cut down."

Zhu Gaoxu sat back in his position, and he was standing next to him.

He asked him to sit down, but he wanted to stand, and he couldn't force him.

"Let's expand the mine holes in the coal mine after the beginning of spring." Seeing Zhu Gaoxu speak, he also said: "If you transfer another 2,000 people to mine coal mines, you should be able to mine 20,000 catties a day." ”

"Okay, remember to be safe." Zhu Gaoxu nodded in response, and at the same time asked Yishuha:

"By the way, is Juntian over in the city?"

"Last night just ended, 257,967 acres, first divided the pension field and appreciation field, and then according to the number of people who participated in the reclamation this year and last year, more than 40,000 people received the field, each of them about four acres and two cents."

Yisha replied with a smile, and Zhu Gaoxu also showed a smile on his face after hearing this:

"Four acres and two cents, even according to this year's corn yield, can grow two stones of grain, although not enough for self-sufficiency, but at least half of the ration can be solved."

"In the coming year, at least 24,000 people will be fed, and it will be up to us to see if we can become self-sufficient next year."

Self-sufficiency is a prerequisite for determining whether or not Zhu Gaoxu can participate in the Jingjing Rebellion, and in what way he can participate in the Jingjing Rebellion.

If he has enough food and grass, then he can slowly transfer troops, steadily attack Liaodong with his father, and get a stable rear after taking Liaodong, and then solve Daning.

As long as Daning and Liaodong are resolved, then Zhu Di will have more mobile troops than in the Battle of Jingyan.

In this way, at least before Li Jinglong took command, Zhu Di did not need his own help at all, and he could concentrate on dealing with Yang Wen, Wu Gao and Ping'an in Liaodong, and after defeating them, he took the twenty-five guards of Liaodong, used the snowball training of soldiers and horses in his hands, and at the same time built a warship, crossed the sea to take Dengzhou, and contained Li Jinglong from the rear.

"Soldiers are expensive, but they must also be ...... enough"

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes flickered, and Guo Yan and Yishaha on the side thought that he was happy that he was happy for the people to divide the land, but they didn't want Zhu Gaochu to think about the later things.

"The matter of brothers and their children in the army studying must not be slackened."

Zhu Gaoxu looked up at Yishiha, and explained to him, and Yishiha also remembered this: "Your Highness, rest assured, in the past two years, in addition to going to war, the brothers in the army have been studying carefully and learning official language. ”

"Now that I have been studying for more than a year, many of my brothers are able to write, write, and do arithmetic."

It is very difficult to read and write, but it can't stand to study every day, among the soldiers in Jilin City today, the oldest group of soldiers can basically write, although they can't write articles, but with the basic ninety-nine multiplication table, they can still do some simple accounts.

This kind of study is only the first step, and then Zhu Gaoxu wants them to continue to strengthen their study.

When they have learned most of the basic knowledge, the "Practical Exercises in Military Training" compiled by themselves will become an indispensable reading material for all of them.

The current "Practical Operation" is already the existence of Zhu Gaoxu after many changes, he combined the experience of pacifying Xiyangha and the experience of Hu Bing's entry into the army this time, deleted some of the training methods that could not be used, and left enough practical basic training and training and leading essentials.

For example, the recruits are taught how to use various types of weapons, how to read maps, read military documents, search for targets and transmit information, and how to use the terrain to build fortifications, as well as simple contents such as military discipline, army thinking, army common sense, command structure, and general health care.

The use of "Practical Training in Military Training" to train officers is broken down into 516 courses, with two to three sessions a day for 172 days.

During these 172 days, nearly half of the training time was spent on field drills, learning how to perform various tasks in the field, including high-intensity marching training.

For example, after completing basic training in the barracks, one must also be able to walk thirty miles with armor and weapons on his back, deploy vanguards and guards at the same time, and carry out reconnaissance missions in the infantry pond.

Zhu Gaoxu's set of officer training does not require officers to be better than ordinary soldiers in terms of physical fitness, but requires that their minds must be very sharp.

If one-third of the soldiers of the Bohai Navy could pass this final training, then Zhu Gaoxu was sure that after defeating the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, he would use these backbone officers to train ten times as many soldiers and horses as he did on the spot.

Today's Bohai Navy has only 6,000 people, but even so, ten times as many as one-third, it can reach 20,000 people, not to mention that 6,000 people is just the beginning......

"Soon after the spring ploughing in April, I have to take the sailors and soldiers and horses to Kulawan City to crusade against Ataiwailan, and I will leave Yishaha in the mansion at that time, you don't have to worry."

Zhu Gaoxu explained to Guo Yan while playing with the hand-warming copper stove in his hand that would not fall out of the charcoal fire no matter how he turned.

When Guo Yan heard this, the movements in his hands paused, and his face was slightly worried: "Another war?" ”

"Don't worry......" Zhu Gaoxu comforted: "Atai Wailan is much weaker than Hu Bing, and he is at the level of ordinary mountain bandits, I guess if he gets the news, he will either surrender or flee north." ”

"That's ......," Guo Yan groaned, but he didn't know what to say.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't wait for his words, but waited for a pure army.

The sound of footsteps came, and a pure soldier walked into the hall from outside the hall, and bowed down and said: "Your Highness, Zhang Yan asked His Highness to discuss the matter, I don't know ......"

Jingjun looked at Zhu Gaoxu, as if he wanted to ask where Zhu Gaoxu was entertaining.

It's not that he's looking for a sense of existence, but that the outer mansion of the palace has been demolished, and it seems that only the inner mansion can entertain guests now.

"I'll go to the ear room to embroider, you can talk about things."

At the critical moment, Guo Yan gave up the Cunxin Palace, and Zhu Gaoxu also asked the Jingjun to bring people when he saw this.

Not long after, Guo Yan left, and Zhang Chun also walked into the hall with a Jurchen dressed in animal skins and shaved in the shape of a Mediterranean head.

When the Jurchen saw Zhu Gaoxu, he knelt on the ground without thinking, muttering something that Zhu Gaoxu couldn't understand.

Seeing this, Zhang Chun did not wait for the translation, so he opened his mouth and said: "Your Highness, this person is a messenger sent by the head of the seven tribes in the north, saying that he wants to surrender to us. ”

"Surrender?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yishaha, and when he saw that he also nodded, he said to the savage with a smile:

"You people, didn't you still rob Xiyangha before? How do you know about surrender now? ”

Yisha translated Zhu Gaoxu's words, and the savage also explained:

"Your Highness, we didn't intend to rebel against the Celestial Empire, it's just that the mountains are too hard to plunder in the south."

"Heh......" Listening to Yisha's translation, Zhu Gaoxu sneered:

"If Lone hadn't killed Xiyangha and hadn't severely damaged Wuliangha, would you still surrender honestly?"

For the seven Jurchens on the ground of Azhemi, Zhu Gaoxu has already understood thoroughly in the year and a half since he came to Jilin City.

This group of people is not good, it is just grass on the wall, and they will pour it in whichever way they give benefits.

When Xiyangha was destroyed before, they did not surrender immediately, but continued to cats in the Azhemi Mountains, ready to send troops to attack at any time.

Now that I came to surrender, it is estimated that I only knew the news that Uliangha had been hit hard, and I was worried that I would be surrounded and suppressed in the spring of the next year, so I honestly came to surrender.

Without giving the savage a chance to speak, Zhu Gaoxu said impatiently: "Where is the sincerity of surrender?" ”

"We are willing to return the cattle and sheep that we plundered before, and we are also willing to be the vanguard for His Highness to attack Ataiwailan."

The savage hurriedly expressed his loyalty, and Yisha also translated his words to Zhu Gaoxu.

However, Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about this, after all, when the spring came, he would have at least four or five thousand armor soldiers under his command, and just one Atai Wailan, but it would be destroyed in a few hands.

The head of the seven departments wants to bind themselves with such small interests, so as not to be whimsical.

"Atai Wailan doesn't need you to be a pawn, after the lonely spring, he will naturally destroy the city of Kulawin......" Zhu Gaoxu said contemptuously:

"What you want is that you come up with real sincerity to apologize."

"That'...... What does His Highness want? The wild man asked weakly, but Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhang Chun when he saw this.

Zhang Chun understood in his heart, he had the deepest enmity with his soldiers and the Seven Divisions of the Lost One, if he opened his mouth to let the Seven Divisions compensate, then the brothers below could also accept it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chuncai opened his mouth and said: "After the beginning of spring, three hundred cattle, three hundred horses and two thousand sheep will be handed over, and two hundred households will be immigrated to Andong City as hoarding slaves. ”

Zhang Chun knows the family background of the Seven Divisions, and knows that although they are numerous, they are not wealthy, so he is mainly people.

Each department has 200 households, and even if it is a small household, seven departments can make up 1,400 households, no less than 3,000 people.

Now Andong City is short of people, if you get these manpower and animal power, then the speed of Andong City's self-sufficiency will definitely increase.

"It's... Too much......"

The savage listened to the conditions translated by Yisha, and his face was very embarrassed, but Zhu Gaoxu said:

"If you are willing to reconcile, you can open a mutual market in Andong City in the future, and allow you to exchange furs, cattle and sheep for grain."

"Xiaomin is willing to go back and convince the head of the seven departments!" Hearing that Zhu Gaoxu was willing to open a mutual market, the savage's eyes brightened a lot.

Grain is outside the customs, it is a more useful material than gold and silver, if you can get food through the mutual market, there is no need for the seven departments to be enemies with the Ming army, it is enough to raise cattle and sheep in the mountains and hunt some furs.

Although the requirements of 300 cattle and horses, 1,400 slaves, and 2,000 sheep are a bit harsh, gritting their teeth, the seven can still be made.

"Let's go down."

Zhu Gaoxu no longer looked at him, and the savage also left happily under the translation of Yishaha.

"Your Highness, why did you give them the grace of the mutual market?"

Zhang Chun was a little helpless, and seemed to feel that the grace of opening the mutual market was too great.

However, Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about this, but asked Zhang Chun: "During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guanzi used trade to make the four countries of Luliang and Laiju have no food and surrender, why can't we do this now?" ”

"But ......" Zhang Chun had naturally watched "Spring and Autumn", so he was also worried: "But if they have food, then multiply, and finally plunder the border plugs, what should we do?" ”

"Only they will multiply, won't we?" Zhu Gaoxu was amused by Zhang Chun's question, and Zhang Chun's bronzed face was also red.

Looking at his appearance, Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to Yishiha and asked:

"How many babies are born in the city this year?"

"The day before yesterday, the slave and maid saw that by the day before yesterday, two thousand one hundred and forty-five babies had been born." Yisha responded, and this matter was also explained by Zhu Gaoxu's concern to him.

"After the hospital's Nursery Handbook spread, how many babies died?"

Zhu Gaoxu continued to ask, and Yizha also smiled and said: "Since His Highness's "Nursery Handbook" was handed over to the hospital and the nursery hall was set up in the hospital, there have only been twenty-four babies who have died due to congenital deficiencies. ”

Yishiha mentioned the "Parenting Manual", which is a summary made by Zhu Gaoxu based on some of the parenting manuals he had read when he helped his sister take care of the children in his previous life, and also added some parenting experiences that he remembered.

The premature death of babies is a problem that is unavoidable in many countries and times before the popularization of modern medicine.

"Less than half of every 100 babies born live to be 20 years old, and about one in five babies die before their first birthday."

This sentence is a record of the life expectancy of Europeans at the end of the Middle Ages in modern European history, and the Ming Dynasty at the same time, although there were many medical skills and nursery rhymes for baby rearing, but infant death was still a common thing.

The main reason why children were prone to early death in ancient times was that the level of medical care at that time was very low and the scope of popularity was limited.

Diseases that would seem small in later generations, such as colds and typhoid, chickenpox, and toothaches, were basically difficult to treat at this time.

In addition, the resistance of infants and children is very poor, and the environment in some places is not up to standard, so it is very easy to cause infants to get sick.

Under the current medical conditions, once you get sick, you can basically only resign yourself to your fate and wait for the verdict of Hades.

Zhu Gaochu wants to expand the territory, the necessary population is indispensable, and the book "Nursery Handbook" was also specially written because Zhu Gaochu learned about the infant mortality rate in Jilin City last year.

Last year, 427 babies were born in Jilin City, and 47 died in just one year, and the terrifying death rate is still difficult for him to forget.

Because of this, while printing the "Nursery Handbook", Zhu Gaoxu also added a nursery hall to the original hospital, and selected some healthy women, so that the doctors and craftsmen in Jilin City could first understand the manual and then teach it.

These methods, combined with the centralized treatment of feces and garbage in Jilin City, and the fact that most of the city's doctors and craftsmen were good doctors brought by Zhu Gaoxu from the south, led to a decline in the infant mortality rate in Jilin City, until it is rarely seen today.

Similar to the kind of congenital deficiency baby, Zhu Gaoxu can't save it.

However, babies with normal physique, as long as the nutrition keeps up, pays attention to the means of raising the baby and maintains hygiene, it is still easy to survive.

Of course, the most important thing to pay attention to is to avoid contact with most relatives during the period when the baby is more vulnerable.

After all, no one knows how many of these relatives are contaminated with some viruses that are deadly to babies.

One simple cold is enough to kill many babies.

Of course, this can easily make the people in the city dissatisfied, so although too many people are not allowed to enter the nursery, the parents of the children can still go in to see their children, but they need to wear masks before entering the nursery, and they cannot take off the whole process, and they can not take their children home until a month later.

Masks, a small thing, can isolate most of the infectious diseases of this era.

Zhu Gaoxu is not too familiar with wearing a mask in his previous life, and he never had a cold during the days when he wore a mask honestly.

The only thing that is not so good is that it is still a little difficult to get masks in this era, coarse cotton masks are luxuries, except for Sanchang and Jilin City hospitals, other places really can't afford to use them, and even the masks in these places have to be disinfected with boiling water to be used repeatedly.

Thinking of these, Zhu Gaoxu could only lament the backwardness of productivity, and at the same time did not forget to explain to Yizha:

"The matter of the nursery hall will be difficult for some Jurchen people who have just migrated over to understand, so we must pay attention to publicity."

"Your Highness, rest assured, the slave and maid know." He also lost his jaw.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also played with the copper stove in his hand, thinking about what else he could change for this era......

(End of chapter)