"The ship in front of me let go, the official ship is coming!"

"Beep-"

On the second day of the seventh month, when Zhu Di led Zhu Gaoxu and his ministers and military attaches to stand on the Jiangdongmen Wharf in Nanjing, the prosperity of the Jiangdong Wharf made people have to sigh that time is a good thing.

The wharf, which was deserted by war a month and a half ago, is now lined with thousands of sails, and thousands of merchants have come to do business.

The mighty Yangtze River, hundreds of small boats go back and forth between the harbors in an orderly manner, and the shouts of the boatmen and the sound of the oars hitting the hull are intertwined, which is particularly noisy.

The tall wooden warehouses on both sides of the wharf look heavy and powerful, like a solid fortress guarding the city's water gates.

The vendors outside the dock are desperately selling their goods, and the noise is so loud that even the officials waiting to greet them can hear it.

Zhu Di did not order the clearance, perhaps because he didn't want to disturb the people's livelihood in the capital, which was finally restored.

As a result, bustling crowds came and went around the docks, and many boatmen watched cautiously.

"Beep-"

A crisp whistle came from afar, rippling through the early morning air, making everyone feel extremely refreshed.

Standing on the deck, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui looked ahead, and the unreachable Imperial City reappeared in front of them.

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

Looking at the hundreds of officials on the dock, as well as the yellow and red figures of the leader, standing on the deck, Zhu Gaochi, who was already wearing the prince's python robe, was too bitter in his heart.

He couldn't figure out whether the second child wanted to die by himself or live by himself, he wanted to let himself die, and he didn't make any moves.

If he wants to let himself live, he just gave himself the title of King Yan.

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

Zhu Gaochi felt aggrieved, compared to the capital, he would rather go to a remote place to stay.

Compared with him, Zhu Gaosui was very excited.

"I finally returned to the capital, and Beiping is not prosperous, I don't know why my father is nostalgic for that side, and he still makes Beiping a line in Beijing."

Zhu Gaosui has no mouth to cover, if it were ordinary, Zhu Gaochi would still persuade him, but today Zhu Gaochi is a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and it is difficult to protect himself, where can he still have the heart to educate him.

The official ship approached slowly and stopped in the harbor after a short time.

After the innermost of the thirteen official ships docked, Yan Fu and Bohai Jingqi immediately rushed forward to hug each other, and when the boat ladder was lowered, everyone turned around to avoid.

Xu appeared with Guo Yan and Zhang, while Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui disembarked with sadness and joy.

The big chariot, the golden chariot, and the elephant chariot appeared separately, and the five people each got into the car on behalf of their identity.

When they got into the car, the car also drove in front of the ministers, Zhu Di was impatient to get on the chariot, and Zhu Gaoxu got on the golden chariot.

In the elephant chariot behind, seeing Zhu Gaosui on the golden bridle, Zhu Gaosui's eyes showed envy.

Not long after, the chariots and horses of the ministers followed the four chariots of the royal family back to the palace, and Zhu Gaoxu, who had been on the golden chariot, had not yet sat down, when he saw Guo Yan kneeling down.

"Before the concubine went south, she had heard about what Grandpa had done, and His Royal Highness Xie was magnanimous."

"Get up, I'm still waiting for Marquis Wu Dinghou to go to the university to help me teach the children of military attachés." Zhu Gaoxu raised his hand to signal Guo Yan to get up, and Guo Yan slowly got up and sat next to Zhu Gaoxu when he heard the words.

As the crown prince, there is no shortage of women around Zhu Gaoxu, and he has been dealing with state affairs for more than a month, and there are times when he needs to vent.

There are many female officials in the palace, and there is no need to say much about their appearance, from Han people to Xifan people, to Semu people and Koreans...... As long as Zhu Gaoxu wanted to, these female officials would climb into his bed.

So for Guo Yan's arrival, Zhu Gaoxu didn't have too many physical desires.

For Guo Yan's arrival, he hoped that Guo Yan would be a bridge between him and Hongwu's old ministers.

Li Jinglong, Wu Gao, Guo Ying, Wu Jie, Xu Kai and others can all communicate through Guo Ying alone, Guo Ying is dead and Guo Yong is still there.

In short, Zhu Gaoxu has to make good use of this power, which is why he can forgive Guo Ying.

Otherwise, with his character, he doesn't care about the relationship between Guo Yan and Guo Ying, even if Guo Yan is popular in Bohai, it is not impossible to abolish the concubine, after all, Guo Yan has nothing to do yet.

After all, he is a pillow person, Guo Yan can clearly feel the changes in Zhu Gaoxu this year, so he has become a little cautious when speaking.

"After entering the East Palace, you can rest for a few days, and then go back to the Hou Mansion to save your relatives."

Zhu Gaoxu lowered his head and explained to Guo Yan, and then glanced left and right: "Is Yi Lost Ha coming?" ”

"Here, on the official ship behind, you should be able to catch up with the car in a little bit." Guo Yan responded.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu stopped talking about the scene anymore and began to talk to Guo Yan about this year's family life.

Of course, it is more important to ask about the recovery of Shenyang and the relocation of the people of the three provinces in Shandong.

As far as Guo Yan's answer is concerned, the reconstruction of Shenyang has been basically completed, and the city is larger than the original one, which can accommodate more than 200,000 people.

Not only Shenyang, but also other cities.

In addition, in the east of Dingliao Prefecture, Dingliao, Changhai, Zhuanghe, Dongning and other places have also built cities, more than 300,000 people have moved to the local area, and more than 100,000 acres of cultivated land have been opened up.

Before going south, Guo Yan knew that Zhu Gaoxu would ask about the situation in Bohai and Liaodong, so she wrote these down in advance and explained them to Zhu Gaoxu.

After a year of war, Liaodong's population has surged from more than 400,000 before the war to more than 1.2 million now, and it is still increasing with the arrival of immigrants from Shandong.

The local cultivated land has increased from more than 2 million mu at the beginning to more than 4.26 million mu today, with 2,987 Kaitang weirs, 392 river channels, 3,148 piqu embankments, and more than 760 li of canals......

As a result of these water conservancy projects, nearly 2 million mu of cultivated land in Liaoning have been irrigated, and the problem of seawater irrigation will no longer be encountered.

It is foreseeable that at least the yield per mu of these 2 million mu of cultivated land will be increased, and as for the remaining 2 million mu of newly reclaimed cultivated land, it will take time to improve water conservancy and agriculture.

"4.26 million mu of cultivated land, as long as it can produce six buckets of solid grain, it can meet the food ration of more than 1.2 million people in Liaoning for three and a half months."

After Guo Yan finished saying this last sentence, he could clearly feel Zhu Gaoxu's interest increased.

"Yisha and Sun Cheng did a good job."

Faced with the results of the first year of Liaoning's development, Zhu Gaoxu was very satisfied.

He is in a hurry to meet him now, but after all, the Xu family is in front of him, and he still has to go to the Qianqing Palace for a family banquet before he can return to the East Palace.

Thinking of this, he forcibly suppressed the intensity in his heart, and stayed up until Cheyu entered the palace and sent them to the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

helped Guo Yan get out of the car, and soon Zhu Gaoxu saw Zhu Gaochi and Zhang, who had already gotten out of the car, as well as Zhu Gaosui, who was alone, and Zhu Di, who helped Xu get out of the car, for fear that Xu would bump into him.

"The second child is so tall? It's almost the same as the Vajra Bodhisattva in the temple. ”

It was the first time Zhang had seen Zhu Gaoxu, so he couldn't help but be surprised by his appearance.

"Or I said that killing me is the same as killing a little chick."

Although Zhu Gaochi was already panicking, he still pretended to be calm and joked with Zhang.

"Gao Xu, come over here."

Xu's voice sounded, and Zhu Gaoxu also took Guo Yan forward when he heard the words, and made a fuss to Xu.

As Xu Da's eldest daughter, Xu was carefully raised by Xu Da and his wife since she was a child, not only reading poetry and books, but also participating in the military and defending the city in armor.

Because of her outstanding talent, she is also known as "female students" in Huaixi, which shows her ability.

In terms of appearance alone, Xu's is not particularly outstanding, but he is also delicate and dignified with white willow eyebrows.

"You've grown so tall."

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu walking in front of him, Xu stepped forward and touched Zhu Gaoxu's shoulder, feeling a little regretful that he had missed Zhu Gaoxu's growth for so many years.

"Did you go south to fight and get wounded?"

Xu's face was full of worry, and Zhu Gaoxu could only barely squeeze out a smile when he saw this: "Mother, you are worried, after all, I am the commander of the three armies, commanding tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, how can I personally go into battle to kill the enemy, and how can I be injured?" ”

"That's not necessarily ......" Xu shook his head lightly, and glanced at Zhu Di who was smiling awkwardly next to him.

Obviously, Zhu Di has done this kind of thing less, otherwise he would not be embarrassed to laugh.

"I talked a lot with Yan'er on the road, and I am already familiar with each other, but I haven't seen you for a few years, and I miss it tightly."

"Today's family dinner, you and I have a good talk about the endless things in the letter."

Xu really wanted to know what happened to Zhu Gaoxu, because she could feel the difference between Zhu Gaoxu and walking out of Beiping.

But compared to the Xu family, Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to talk about the past.

"Then the mother has to hurry up, there are still many things going on in the East Palace."

Zhu Gaoxu responded with a smile, and then followed Xu to the Qianqing Palace.

She is very familiar with this place, but this is not surprising, after all, she was valued by Queen Ma when she was very young and kept by her side, otherwise Xu Da's cabbage would not have been arched by Zhu Di.

The Xu family knows even more about the inner court than the Lu family.

"Lu Shi and that little child, how did you arrange it?"

As soon as he walked into the Qianqing Palace, he sat down, and Xu asked about Zhu Di.

After Zhu Di heard this, he hurriedly spoke: "I removed her name as the queen mother, and now I will call her Princess Yiwen again, and arrange for her to live next to the eldest brother's mausoleum with Wen Kui'er." ”

"What about the three of them?" Xu frowned and asked, but Zhu Di didn't look good when he heard this: "Waste as a concubine, and ban Fengyang." ”

"Let's save my life." Xu sighed: "Anyway, you and Gao Xu are in power, they can't make trouble." ”

At this moment, no one said that what Xu said was wrong, after all, if Zhu Di really made Zhu Biao's lineage extinct, then I am afraid that the history books will be written in the future.

Anyway, now that the situation is stable, and Zhu Gaoxu is younger than Zhu Yunxi, they don't need to worry at all.

In this case, it is better to spare their lives and honestly ban Fengyang.

"That's right." Xu Shi looked at Zhu Gaochi, and then his gaze swept to Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochu.

"I didn't want to say anything else, it's just that your father and son are competing for position, don't involve Gao Chi in the same way, he can't help but scare you."

"......" Hearing this, Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu silently, and his eyes seemed to say that he didn't carry this pot.

It's just that Zhu Gaoxu saw it, and he took the first step to speak: "The matter of the eldest brother, I told my father, it is better to change the eldest brother to the king of Han, canonize to Kunming, 30,000 stone per year, 2,000 guan, 3,000 silk and satin cloth, and 12,000 guards of the palace." ”

"Huh?" Hearing that his lines were finished by Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Di's eyes widened, thinking that you, a boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also have so many eyes.

"Kunming is good... Kunming is a good ......" Hearing that he was canonized to Kunming, Zhu Gaochi was not sad because of the remoteness, but rejoiced.

The more remote the fiefdom, the safer it is, and Kunming has been reclaimed by Mu Ying and Mu Chun father and son, and now it is considered an important town in the southwest, not a difficult place.

And judging from the words of the second child, his own salary is quite high, and there are 12,000 palace guards, this deal is not a loss, it is better than Li Jiancheng losing his head.

"Mother, the second brother doesn't have to say anything to me, the second brother, the eldest brother will give you a glass first."

Zhu Gaochi got up and raised a glass to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu also raised a glass and touched him when he saw this.

Seeing the two brothers clinking glasses, Xu was also relieved.

She naturally knew that Zhu Gaochi was safe, but she was not only worried about Zhu Gaochi, but also Zhu Gaosui.

"The fiefdom of the third child, have you thought about it?"

The Xu family knew that Zhu Gaosui was a restless person, especially very self-conscious, and just wanted him to go out early, so as not to stay in the capital and cause any trouble.

"I'm not going, I'll let me go as soon as I arrive in the capital?"

Sure enough, as soon as Xu finished speaking, Zhu Gaosui immediately protested.

It's just that his protest is completely useless to Zhu Gaochu, and after knowing Zhu Gaosui's character of liking to make trouble, Zhu Gaochu thought of a place for him to migrate.

"The cave barbarians in the southwest of Huguang have been making trouble, grandpa wanted to set up a vassal king in Changsha when he was in power, and now the king of Xiang has self-immolated and died, it is better to canonize the third child as the king of Zhao, how about Changsha?"

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Zhu Gaosui immediately refused to accept it, and got up and shouted: "Why did you get me to that kind of place where birds don't?" ”

"Sit down!" Zhu Gaoxu glared at him, the air around him instantly froze, and Zhu Gaosui remembered the memory of being suppressed by Zhu Gaoxu, and sat back in his position unwillingly.

Seeing the two brothers quarreling, Zhu Di sneered: "Changsha is not bad, it is richer than Kunming." ”

The meaning of his words is obvious, that is, to approve Zhu Gaoxu's proposal, after all, he can't understand what kind of character Zhu Gaosui is, as a father.

He can forgive Zhu Gaosui, but once Zhu Gaosui steps on Zhu Gaosui's red line, then he may not be able to save Zhu Gaosui.

In this way, Zhu Gaosui's protest was ruthlessly suppressed by Zhu Gaoxu, and no one in the family supported him.

Zhu Di even set Zhu Gaosui's treatment after laughing.

The annual salary is 25,000 stones, the money is 1,500 yuan, the silk cloth is 2,500 horses, the salt and tea are 1,000 each, and the construction of the Zhao Wangfu is allocated by the household department to allocate money and grain, and the cost is controlled within 100,000 yuan.

After doing all this, the meal was also served, but the family was not able to finish the meal happily because of Zhu Gaosui's matter.

After the end, Zhu Gaochu left the scene with Guo Yan, Zhu Gaochi also took the Zhang family to live in the previous Yanwang Mansion, and Zhu Gaosui was arranged to live in the former Xiangwang Mansion.

Although they had not yet set a time for the establishment of the capital, they all knew that they would not stay in the capital for long, because the current situation in the capital was complicated enough.

"It's a good family, fighting like this......"

Looking at the desertion after leaving, Xu sighed, and Zhu Di didn't say a word when he heard this, and continued to eat the food on the table.

In fact, he also knew that it was right to let Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui become vassals as soon as possible, but he was also a little reluctant to have two sons in his heart.

Just leaving them, he really didn't know what these two sons would trigger.

Thinking of this, even he hoped that Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui would leave quickly, so he looked up at Wang Yan: "Dog, let the household department and the Ministry of Industry build the Han Wangfu and Zhao Wangfu as soon as possible." ”

"The slave and maid take the order......" Wang Yan should leave when he saw this, and the Xu family did not continue to discuss the matter of the domain, but talked to Zhu Di about the trivial matters of the past few months.

Compared with them, Zhu Gaoxu seems to be a little busy.

After returning to the Chunhe Hall with Guo Yan, he let Guo Yan rest, and he himself summoned Yishiha and Zheng He.

The two met for the first time, and after Zhu Gaoxu's introduction, they became acquainted.

After taking his seat, Zhu Gaoxu did not hide it, but went straight to the point.

"The 60,000 horses in the six prefectures and two prefectures began to migrate north in two days, and if you want to raise horses well, you have to feed them well."

"Shandong's Juntun field has been changed to private land, but the imperial court also has requirements for what to plant in the local fields."

"Seventy percent of the local Juntian fields are chosen by the Jurchen people and ordinary people who are assigned to the fields, and the remaining thirty percent must be designated as bean fields."

"I've calculated, Sanchengtian is 4 million mu, and 4 million mu of soybean field can produce 1.5 million stone horse fodder dry beans."

"Since this is the case, the imperial court has set a place to buy horse feed and dried beans in Deng, Lai, and Qingdao every year to transport them to Liaodong and Bohai, and give them to the horse farm."

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth, it was 4 million mu of bean feed.

After hearing this, he immediately spoke: "According to the price of beans in Shandong, the four million mu of soybean fields produce about 4.5 million stone beans, if you follow the Bohai five-for-one, that is, 900,000 stones, 3.6 million stones in your hands, and the price is about 1.1 million yuan." ”

"These 4.5 million stones are made into horse feed dry beans, that is, 1.5 million stones, but do the horse farms outside the gate need so much bean material?"

After all, according to normal military horses, it is only three catties of dried beans per day, and they occasionally have to be consumed, at most seven stones a year.

1.5 million stone horse fodder dried beans, which can raise more than 200,000 military horses, and the people and horses can't eat so much.

The way of raising people and horses is that at most one pound of beans and ten pounds of grass is enough every day, and at most two stones, five buckets of beans and thirty bunches of grass a year.

In this way, Zhu Gaoxu's 1.5 million stone horse fodder and dried beans are enough to feed 600,000 people's horses.

"Counting these 60,000 people's horses, how many people's horses and military horses do we have outside the customs?"

Zhu Gaoxu did not answer the question, but asked a new question for Yishiha.

"After the death of Haragu, every month Uliangha people went south to join us, and we kept their flocks, but the herds of cattle and horses were collected by slaves and maids, and placed in pastures in Jilin, Changchun, Zhaozhou, Hanzhou and other places according to your instructions."

"At present, there are 15 horse farms in these four pastures, more than 7,800 military horses, and more than 37,600 civilian horses, which is close to 100,000 horses in the six prefectures and two states."

"In addition, there are more than 44,000 cattle herds."

"These herds of horses and cattle can increase by about 30% every year, and if you follow the method of raising your highness with sufficient ration of bean feed, at most five years, the number of people and horses will be no less than 350,000, the herd of cattle will be no less than 150,000, and the number of military horses will be no less than 30,000."

"Of course, the rate of growth that the slaves and maids are talking about is that they are all stocked in pastures and horse farms."

"If you still have to choose horses and cattle to participate in land reclamation and farming, it will definitely not reach so much."

Compared with Zhu Di's method of handing over horses to the people and handing over the risks to the people, Zhu Gaoxu, a special institution like Zhu Gaoxu, is undoubtedly faster and raises better horses, but the shortcomings are also obvious, that is, it costs more.

"What if you count the horses and cattle that have already been sent out?"

Zhu Gaoxu spoke again, but after hearing it, he hesitated: "That speed will be faster, but doing so will delay the speed of clearing the wasteland." ”

He also thought that Zhu Gaochu wanted to recycle the cattle and horses that were sent out, but Zhu Gaochu meant to include the people's cattle and horses.

"Counting the rations of folk cattle and horses, let them give birth to calves and foals and give them to the pasture, will this increase the speed and how much will the cost increase?"

Zhu Gaoxu said his thoughts, but after hearing this, he could only take out the small abacus he carried with him from his sleeve and beat it.

After a while, he said: "If this is the case, then in five years, the number of civilian horses will probably not be less than 600,000, the herd will not be less than 500,000, and the number of military horses should still be about 30,000." ”

The people in the Northeast have the most cattle in their hands, followed by the people and horses, so if the people are also counted, then whether it is a herd of horses or cattle, the increase in numbers will be very amazing.

"But in this way, I'm afraid the follow-up bean feed will not be enough......"

If there are really nearly a million horses and cattle in the northeast, then the productivity they bring is enough to meet the reclamation of more than 10 million mu of cultivated land, which is more than 20 million mu including manpower.

If there are really 20 million mu of cultivated land in Northeast China, then even if there are six buckets of actual grain per mu, it will be able to feed more than 2 million people in five years, and send hundreds of thousands of stone grains to Beiping.

What's more, if the number of cattle and horses can reach one million, then their subsequent growth rate will be faster, which is self-evidently important for the economic recovery of the north.

Zhu Gaoxu remembers well, in the first year of Yongle in history, there were less than 40,000 military and civilian horses, and Zhu Di asked the people to take the risk themselves, and it only took 19 years to exceed one million.

The current approach in the Northeast is that the government bears the primary risk, and the horse household bears the secondary risk.

According to the previous efficiency of horse breeding in Jilin Horse Farm, such an efficiency is much higher than that of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's method, which is costly.

But the money can be earned back in the future.

Right now, he has to spend ten years challenging what Zhu Di took 19 years to do in history.

"Whether it is one million or two million, as long as the people of the north can live and work in peace and contentment, and every family has its own horse and cattle, then the court's contribution is worth it."

Zhu Gaoxu faced Yisha's worries, opened his mouth without burden, and explained to Zheng He:

"Today, you will tell the household department and the official department, and set up Jilin, Hanzhou, Changchun, and Zhaozhou to go around the Taifu Temple to raise herds."

"Slave and maid teach!" Zheng He responded, and Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Yi Shuha: "You let Sun Cheng do this thing, and let him train people well, the capital also needs him, cultivate talents as soon as possible, and he can return to the capital as soon as possible to help me." ”

"Slave and maid to teach." He also went down, and then saw Zhu Gaoxu waving his hand and signaling them to retreat.

Not long after, there were only a few eunuchs left in the entire Chunhe Hall who served Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu opened the "Map of the World" painted by himself by himself.

This map is almost a copy of the world map of later generations, although it is flawed, but it is much better than Zhu Di's abstract map.

Zhu Gaoxu's gaze went from Japan to Korea, and then to the Bohai Sea, Modong, Mobei, and Western Regions......

From east to west, from north to south, all the way from the South Ocean in the south to southern Africa, and finally back to the easternmost continent of the Americas.

The full name of this picture is also called "General Map of the Four Yi Binfu in the World......

"Ming Taizong Record": "July 癸卯: The emperor and queen led the king of Han and the king of Zhao to Beijing, and set up a family banquet in the Qianqing Palace, but the words and deeds of King Zhao were frivolous, and the king of Han was weak, and he reprimanded King Zhao, and the prince was comforted, and he heard that 'those who settle down in my family, the prince is also'." ”

(End of chapter)