"I hope Lao Zhu will kill harder, so that my father and I can kill less in the future......"

Sitting on the stone steps of the arrow tower, Zhu Gaoxu sighed and said his true thoughts.

In all fairness, in the north-south list case in history, Lao Zhu really didn't kill ruthlessly.

If he remembers correctly, after Zhu Yuanzhang died, although no one made the north-south list during the Jianwen period, it was because the first and second were almost surrounded by southerners.

Zhu Di has spent a lot of effort to rectify, and he has moved the capital and set up official schools in the north, in short, Zhu Di has done all the things that can increase the literary style in the north, so in the middle and late stages of his reign, the proportion of northern scholars in the number of jinshi has not been low.

However, it is still a commonplace topic, and after the reign of Zhu Gaoxu's good eldest brother and great nephew, the situation immediately began to collapse.

From Hongxi to Chongzhen, among the more than 200 mansions in the Ming Dynasty, among the top ten prefectures with the most scholars, only Xi'an and Kaifeng were on the list in the north, and the remaining eight prefectures were all from the south of the Yangtze River.

Among the more than 24,000 Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi occupied more than 13,000 places.

In such a situation, it is not an exaggeration to say that Jiangnan controls the court.

If it weren't for Jiajing to sow discord and let the southerners fall into infighting, maybe the southerners would have been controlling the court.

Although this situation is conducive to the continuation of the Ming Dynasty, it was at the end of the dynasty, not the beginning.

The unity of the literati in Jiangnan was good for the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but it was not good for the early Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty needed to continuously allocate funds from Jiangnan to support the north, and if the southerners were too strong, it would affect the recuperation of the north and the north, and then feed back the plan of the south.

"If you kill more, your grandson will be able to move the capital in the future......"

Thinking of the huddle in Jiangnan, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but sigh.

In his opinion, it was necessary to move the capital to Beiping.

In terms of geographical location, Beiping is a place near the sea, after the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, you can take the land route from Beiping to Tianjin, or you can take the waterway, the distance is not more than 300 miles.

Such a distance, closer than Paris to Le Havre, can support the country for maritime sports.

Coupled with its unique geographical location, with the Liaodong Peninsula and the Jiaodong Peninsula and the Huangcheng Islands as the frontier in the east, and Yanshan Mountain as a defensive position in the north, it can be said that whether it is from the sea or land, before the 19th century, Beiping had sufficient strategic depth.

This place, compared to Nanjing, is much safer both on land and by sea, and is more suitable to become the capital.

If geographical location and military are only two of the reasons, then politically and economically, moving the capital to Beiping is a good step.

No matter what era it was, the capital city was a golden sign to attract population and develop the economy, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception.

The establishment of the capital in Nanjing will not greatly improve the economic situation around Nanjing, but will increase the difficulty of employment.

Originally, Jiangnan was densely populated, and the capital was placed in Jiangnan, which would only allow Jiangnan to further siphon the country's talents and population.

In later generations, economically developed provinces often had to transfer payments to economically backward provinces, because this could help backward provinces improve their economies and help backward provinces.

Of course, there is also the problem that large economic provinces buy resources from backward provinces at parity or even at low prices from backward provinces to develop themselves.

The same is true in ancient times.

Modern resources are steel, manpower, food and other resources, and the same is true of ancient resources.

The literati of Jiangnan selfishly felt that they were feeding all the provinces outside Jiangnan, but without the food, steel, coal, and various resources transported by these provinces, Jiangnan would not have developed so fast.

Sitting in that position, Zhu Gaoxu had to consider balancing the economic differences between various regions, and transferring wealth from economically developed areas to economically backward areas to help them build is only the most basic point.

Allocate money and grain from Jiangnan to support the north, and the people in Jiangnan are dissatisfied for a long time, so since this is the case, it is better to simply settle in the north, especially in Beiping, an economically backward area after the Mengjin War.

In this way, not to mention that the population can be siphoned from the south of the Yangtze River, and the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River can be continuously transported to Beiping through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the form of taxes, and then the wealth of the south can be distributed to the surrounding Hebei region through Beiping, which is enough to help Hebei's economic recovery.

If Zhu Gaoxu is not mistaken, the population of Beiping City in the eighth year of Hongwu was only 140,000, but since Zhu Di moved the capital from Nanjing, with the immigration policy and the continuous migration of officials, by the late Jiajing period, the population of Beijing City had reached the level of nearly 700,000.

If we add the soldiers and their families stationed in Beijing, as well as the people who lived inside and outside the imperial city and directly served the court, the population of the capital in the later period of Jiajing basically reached 850,000.

A move to move the capital instantly transformed Beiping from a border city to a prosperous capital second only to Nanjing, and the literary style in Hebei began to flourish.

This move is undoubtedly moving for the better in the course of history.

The only point worth criticizing is that the emperors after Zhu Di, except for Chenghua, few emperors carried out large-scale reclamation and economic construction in Beizhili.

In the Ming Dynasty, because the population of Hebei was only one-fiftieth of that of later generations, the land was rich in water resources, such as Triangle Lake, Baiyangdian Lake, Wugongdian Lake and other lakes that became smaller or disappeared directly in later generations.

Many rivers that have broken their flow are also everywhere in this era.

However, it is a good cultivated land resource, except for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and Zhu Jianshen in the Ming Dynasty, there was no emperor who carried out large-scale reclamation operations.

As long as the cultivated land potential of Beizhili is developed, it can support two or three hundred thousand troops, but the cultivated land potential of Hebei has not been fully tapped until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Farming, this Zhu Gaoxu is the best at it.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu flipped through the previous "Di Bao" again.

Although the North-South List case is the top priority this year, this case will not involve Zhu Gaoxu after all.

He wanted to see if there was anything else related to him in the south, but he didn't see anything related to him, but he saw the news of Lao Zhu's migration to the rich people of the world in front of him.

When he saw this news, Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, and instantly connected this incident with the case of the North and South List that had just happened.

Relocating the rich households in the world, if you say it well, you will be rich, and if you don't say it well, you will be strong, after all, the rich households who are constant with 700 acres as the standard are not simple people.

With the current field yield, even if it is 700 mu in the north, it can produce at least 600 stones, which is equivalent to 200 yuan, after paying taxes.

In the current era when ordinary people only have eight or nine yuan a year, and more than ten times, the annual income of these two hundred yuan is enough to support a family of considerable size, not to mention that this is only the annual income of a family.

Since Qin Shi Huang moved the nobles of the six countries into the customs, all the kings who are eloquent and strategic will make corresponding sanctions against the powerful in the world.

The Lingyi system of the Western Han Dynasty and the later migration of the Sui and Tang dynasties into Guanzhong and Luoyang are all the same truth, and Lao Zhu, the emperor who likes the atmosphere of the Han and Tang Dynasties, will naturally not miss this method.

In Zhu Gaoxu's view, although Lao Zhu has carried out several means of migrating rich people before, that was before, not now.

Lao Zhu was able to smoothly migrate to the rich families in the world before, because his old team was strong enough, and the Huaixi Xungui did not deal with the literati in Jiangnan and Zhejiang.

However, with the collapse of Huaixi Xungui, the literati in Jiangnan and western Zhejiang had no enemies, and Lao Zhu was often sick in his old age, so if he did this again, some people would naturally be dissatisfied.

This principle can also be applied to the question of why Zhu Di was able to move the capital.

The former has Huaixi Xungui and the latter has Jingnan Yuan, these two political groups are the mainstays of Lao Zhu and Zhu Di's policy reforms.

The barrel of the gun can be without, but it cannot be without.

Once the barrel of the gun is out of your hand, the enemy will naturally dare to yell at you when he sees that you have no gun.

Only by putting a gun on their heads, or pinning it to their waists, so that this group of people can see it at all times, will they be honest.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the door of the arrow tower.

He also has to have this gun......

Thinking so, Zhu Gaoxu began to continue to read the "Di Bao", if he remembered correctly, in addition to the north-south list case, this year's southwest will also fall into war, and Luchuan, which was subdued by the Ming Dynasty, will break out into internal fighting, which will then affect the situation in the southwest.

If Luchuan really broke out in infighting, then it might be able to continue to contain Xu Huizu and them.

It's a pity that Zhu Gaoxu rummaged through the front newspaper and didn't see any news about Luchuan.

A large number of rebellions broke out in the southern regions of Yunnan, Gui, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Huguang, but they were all too small to reach even a single prefecture.

"That's not right......"

Touching his bare chin, Zhu Gaoxu thought that the Luchuan infighting was a very important thing, and Mu Chun of the Southwest General Star was also sick in the army shortly after the war because he contracted an illness in the process of pacifying the civil strife in Luchuan.

On the heart, Zhu Gaoxu didn't want Mu Chun to die, but on the tracks, Mu Chun didn't die, which was not good for Jing Nan.

Mu Chun is not his younger brother Mu Sheng, he is the one who grasped the military and political affairs, solved the main Tusi in the southwest in the early Ming Dynasty, and defeated Luchuan.

Even if we don't talk about military politics, there is a huge gap in the evaluation of the two brothers by contemporaries.

The military generals of the Hongwu period compared Mu Chun with Li Sheng and Li Yu in the Tang Dynasty, and evaluated Mu Sheng as a general who fought well.

Mu Chun is a person who can really command corps-level battles and win battles.

From joining the army at the age of seventeen to dying of illness at the age of thirty-six, and in the nineteenth year of Jin Ge Tiemali, he has never tasted a failure, so good that even Lao Zhu said to his ministers, "This is the child of my family."

If such a person is alive, I am afraid that the person who led the Yunnan Corps out of Yunnan to participate in the Jingjing Martyrdom would not be He Fu, but he Mu Chun.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu had a toothache, but he thought about it carefully, if Mu Chun could continue to live, then putting aside the Battle of Jingjing, it would be an excellent thing for the Ming Dynasty and his father and son.

If Mu Chun is alive, then no matter how Annan is destroyed and he goes deep into Myanmar, Mu Chun can handle it single-handedly, and he will definitely be able to fight very well, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest will go further.

In this way, Zhu Neng does not have to go south, and naturally he will not die of illness in Guangxi, and Zhu Di's subordinates will naturally have more Mesozoic generals, whether it is dealing with the north or cleaning up the northwest, they will be more comfortable.

"It's hard......"

Zhu Gaoxu had a headache when he thought of all this, and then thought of what happened to him.

He picked up the previous roster and opened it again to take a closer look.

Compared to the rush just now, this time he saw it extremely carefully.

Of the thousands of households under his command, only Wang Yi and Meng Zhang were not transferred, and the remaining few people were either transferred to Shendianwei in Guangdong with Zhang Chun, or were transferred to Kaiping Wuwei with Lin Su.

Lin Su became the commander, and the other thousands of households became the commander at the least.

In the army, many of the 17 100 households who participated in that battle were transferred to Tiannan and Haibei, and they were basically promoted to 1,000 households.

Originally, Zhu Gaoxu still had a headache, but when he saw the direction in which this group of people went, he couldn't help but have a strange expression.

"Who got this promotion and how did it ......?"

For a while, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what to say about this promotion list.

It was nothing to transfer his three thousand households, including Zhang Chun, and seven hundred households to the south, such as Fu Rang and Lin Su, and the rest of the people were transferred to Liaodong, Beiping and Daning, which was where Zhu Gaoxu could not stay.

After reading the place where they were transferred, Zhu Gaoxu felt that God was helping him.

Just a few breaths, Zhu Gaoxu not only didn't have the distress in front of him, but wanted to snicker.

He subconsciously stretched out his hand and put it on his face, but at this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside.

"Your Highness!"

With just one sound, Zhu Gaoxu heard that this was Wang Yi's voice, and he hurriedly held back his smile.

"Your Highness, I heard that the imperial court is going to transfer us to the south, is this true!"

"yes, we're not going, we've just divided the field!"

"Phew! Xu Manzi, you can't spit out good words in your mouth, what does it mean to not go until you divide the field, if Your Highness doesn't go, we won't go! ”

"Yes, yes, yes! I said the wrong thing......"

As soon as Zhu Gaochu regained his smile, Wang Yi broke into the arrow tower with a few thousand households and a dozen hundred households, and saw Zhu Gaochu sitting on the steps.

They shouted their thoughts, and Zhu Gaoxu had a complicated expression.

He wanted to laugh very much, because the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies had helped him, but in the face of everyone's righteous indignation, he knew that he couldn't laugh, but should pretend to be sad.

The two emotions were mixed, making him seem to laugh but not laugh, and cry instead of crying.

"Your Highness... You... You okay? ”

Wang Yi looked at the strange appearance of His Royal Highness, and cautiously stepped forward to ask.

It was Zhu Gaoxu, who was told by Wang Yi, immediately sniffed and pretended to be sad just now.

"Alas......" he sighed deliberately, "I don't want some of you to leave Jilin City, but this is for your future and prospects." ”

"After all, there are only 6,000 households in Jilin City, two commanders and one commander, and the position is limited."

"This time you have received credit, you should be promoted and transferred, don't be a little daughter."

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and preached, and at the same time took out the roster and handed it to Wang Yi:

"You show this to the brothers, if you want to leave, don't worry about the field, the land allocated to you will not be recovered, if you want to sell, I will recover according to the land price in Beiping, if you are not willing to sell, you are willing to leave your family here to cultivate the field, or you want to hire someone to help plant, then I will not stop it."

"Your Highness, that's not what the last general meant......" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, Xu Sheng, who had shouted about dividing the land before, explained with a red face.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "I know you don't mean that, in short, you should first see where you are transferred, and after reading it, tell me your thoughts, whether you want to sell the field or rent the land for others to plant, these are all up to you, just tell Wang Yi after thinking about it." ”

"Don't worry, you still have at least three months to think about it, and it is enough to go to Nanjing City to report at the end of the year."

After explaining everything clearly, Zhu Gaoxu also walked out of the arrow tower, and at the same time saw Yang Bin standing on the road and chatting with Yisha.

Zhu Gaoxu walked towards them, and when Yang Bin saw him, he sang from afar: "Your Highness is a thousand blessings!" ”

"Okay, don't make so much courtesy, I'd like to know more about how much you brought than congratulations."

Zhu Gaoxu raised his hand to stop him and got down to business.

He didn't feel strange about Yang Bin's appearance, because Wang Yi was the one he sent to the south to escort Yang Bin and grain north.

Wang Yidu appeared, which meant that Yang Bin and the grain team he escorted should have also arrived, so Zhu Gaoxu looked outside the city while questioning Yang Bin.

Sure enough, outside the city of Jixi Fort, thousands of carriages and thousands of soldiers of the Bohai and Liaodong armies were waiting to enter the city.

"Your Highness is wise...... Yang Bin got up with a smile, and then talked about what he brought this time:

"After the grass people returned to the south last year, they began to buy grain, and in the middle of the first month of this year, more than 200,000 grains were stored in Dengzhou and Laizhou."

"After the beginning of spring in February, the grass people hired a boat to go north, and waited for almost two months in Sanwanwei before Wang Qianhu's team came."

"This time, the 4,000 horse-drawn carriages transported a total of 3,000 stone beans, 50,000 yuan and more than 5,000 stone grains, and 427 stone of beans were eaten for the horses on the way, and the ...... arrived."

Yang Bin wanted to go on in detail, but Zhu Gaoxu raised his hand to signal that he could.

Seeing this, Yang Bin no longer made a specific report, and Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Yishuha on the side: "The horses in the office, prepare tomorrow, follow Wang Yi to the south, and transport the grain back as soon as possible." ”

"Yes" Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Yang Bin again: "How much grain is stored in Sanwanwei now, and how much is still being transported from the south, what difficulties have you encountered along the way?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked three times in a row, all of which Yang Bin expected, and he replied unhurriedly: "Back to Your Highness, 30,000 guards still have more than 374,000 stone of grain, and there are still 120,000 stone of grain in the south ready to be shipped, and there are still more than 70,000 yuan in the hands of the grain merchants below, and they are still collecting grain in the south." ”

"But the grass people have to remind Your Highness that the food may be less than expected."

When Yang Bin said this, he saw Zhu Gaoxu frowning, so he hurriedly explained:

"The reason why this grain is less than expected is mainly because the grain is transported to the north, and on the way I met a lot of officials who stopped eating cards, and I was greedy for ink by this group of officials on the road."

"In addition, since the beginning of this year, many yamen in the north have been stockpiling grain, and the grass people dare not compete with them in a big way, so they can only collect some grain at a high price in the township."

Speaking of this, Yang Bin also specifically mentioned Zhou Xing: "By the way, Your Highness, I met General Zhou when the grass people went south last year. ”

"It is precisely because General Zhou opened the border pass for the grass people that the grass people can buy grain in the mainland without attracting the attention of the imperial court."

"Mr. Zhou?" Zhu Gaoxu was surprised that Zhou Xing would actually help Yang Bin, but if you think about it carefully, it is not so much to help Yang Bin as to help him Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhou Ding's things can be big or small, he didn't poke it out, even if he gave Zhou Xing some thin noodles, Zhou Xing should repay the favor.

"Okay, I know about this, is there anything else going on in the south?"

Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses and asked Yang Bin, obviously he saw that Yang Bin was a little anxious.

Sure enough, as soon as he opened his mouth, Yang Bin said in embarrassment: "Your Highness, I'm afraid our fur business is about to be closed." ”

"Why?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned and asked, but Yang Bin said embarrassedly: "The imperial court moved the rich families from all over the world into Nanjing City, and these rich families all sold their fields and houses, and only wanted to take gold and silver to Nanjing, where is there any extra money to buy furs, so His Highness's business has also been affected." ”

After Yang Bin said this, Zhu Gaoxu knew how painful the knife was on his body.

"What I should think of ......" Zhu Gaoxu sighed, when he read the old Zhu Qianqiang in "Di Bao" before, he still felt that this had little to do with him, but now that he thinks about it, it has a lot to do with it.

High-quality fur is a rarity, and it is a luxury in the Ming Dynasty, and ordinary people cannot afford to consume it.

Now that the rich families in the world have been migrated to Nanjing by Lao Zhu, they have no source of income, so they naturally have to cut down on food and clothing, so their fur is not marketable.

Although the speed of land annexation is very fast, after the powerful people are moved, in a few years, a new group of powerful people will be born in the local area, but they have no time to wait for a few years.

"Your fur is unsalable?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Yang Bin, and he also nodded: "The speed of shipment is three or four times slower than before, and it will probably take three or four years to eat last year's batch of fur garments only with honors, clans, and officials......

"Three or four years ......" Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu's face was ugly.

He originally thought that Yang Bin would be able to settle last year's fur at the end of this year, and then transport the grain to Jilin City next year, so that he would have enough food to go south to fight the Liaodong Dusi before the Jingjing.

But now it seems that his plan can't catch up with the change after all, and now he can only find another way.

"The furs of the treasury, stop trading with each other."

In the middle of his thoughts, Zhu Gaoxu explained that he was also lost, and then looked at Yang Bin when he nodded:

"In the treasury, there are still more than 40,000 furs, and they have also been counted before, almost more than 104,000 yuan."

"You take this batch of furs to the south and wait for sale, and I will put them with you to settle the bill."

"As for this batch of money, how about you take it out of your hands first, leave 50,000 yuan for me, and still buy food for the rest?"

Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to let Yang Bin continue to take money from home to buy food for himself first, and use the goods to offset the account.

Yang Bin has been doing business with him for so many years, and he has accumulated a lot of capital, and he should be able to get this money.

"If Your Highness says anything, even if Your Highness doesn't say so, the grass people will continue to buy grain."

Yang Bin saw Zhu Gaoxu's embarrassment, not only complied with his request, but also took the initiative to say: "The tea in the hands of His Royal Highness, as well as the iron materials in Jilin City, can actually be used for business, you can take a look......"

"No need, tea is useful to me, and iron is scarce in Jilin City."

In the face of Yang Bin's kindness, Zhu Gaoxu reluctantly refused.

He didn't have much time left, and the iron materials of Jilin City could only be left to Jilin City for himself.

In addition, he also has to think about new sources of wealth, otherwise with the foundation of Jilin City, it will be difficult to win the Liaodong Dusi.

(End of chapter)