"The income from the picketing of the Taxation Department is in the process of being sparse, and all the cultivated land obtained has been distributed to the landless people, more than 760,000 stone of arrears of taxes have been recovered, and more than 377,000 stones have been confiscated, and about 630,000 yuan of gold, silver, calligraphy, painting, antiques and other things have been distributed."

In the Wuying Hall in October, when Zhu Di listened to the report of Hubu Shangshu Yuxin, he also bowed his head to express his satisfaction, but still asked:

"The tax department, are they all sent to Jiangbei now?"

"Back to Your Majesty, you have been sent to Jiangbei by Your Highness."

After being reminded by Zhu Di, Yao Guangxiao and others, Zhu Gaoxu also realized that he was a little proud and complacent.

Therefore, he focused the tax department mainly on the Jiangbei area of Zhili, and put on a posture of relaxation with the six prefectures of Jiangdong.

However, because of the matter of going to the West, he has never been able to pee in the same pot with the civil officials.

Zhu Di, who was originally radically opposed to the ministers of Jiangnan in history, has now become a conservative.

Seeing that Yu Xin said that Zhu Gaoxu took a step back, Zhu Di also nodded with satisfaction: "In addition, what else has changed?" ”

"The immigration rate in the three prefectures of Shandong has slowed down, and the work of sorting out the Yellow River and the canal has also been adjusted to ten years."

Yu Xin's answer can be regarded as an answer sheet handed over by Zhu Gaoxu.

Except for the two things of building Beijing and going to the West, he did not delay, and other things were slowed down without exception.

"The pace slowed down, but although he slowed down, the voice in the temple hall became louder and louder."

Zhu Di glanced at Yu Xin, and Yu Xinyan also said: "For the sake of some flies, it's normal for them to be loud." ”

Yu Xin understands very well that the two things of going to the West and building Beijing are actually not only what the prince wants to do, but even the emperor wants to do.

Because of this, the emperor has not interfered with the prince's actions, but has been easing the relationship between him and his ministers.

It's not nice to say, but the prince is a bit like helping the emperor carry the black cauldron.

Obviously, the emperor also wanted to do these things, but he pretended not to do them very much, the two fathers and sons sang with a white face and a red face, and the ministers in the temple were like monkeys, being played by these two fathers and sons.

"What happened to the tax collection of the two capitals and fourteen provinces, have they all been registered?"

Zhu Di asked about the financial situation, and Yu Xinwen said: "There are still three or five days to count it." ”

"However, in this inventory, the population of Shandong and Nanzhili has increased a lot, and the same is true for cultivated land."

The places that Yu Xin answered were exactly where Zhu Gaoxu made a big move.

Twenty-four years after Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty's "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" are a bad debt.

The provinces are basically copying the old, but only this time the cultivated land and population of Shandong, Liaodong, and Nanzhili provinces have changed greatly.

"How much?" Zhu Di squinted his eyes and asked, and Yu Xin responded without thinking about seeing this.

"In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, there were more than 5,255,000 people in Shandong, and now there are more than 360,000 immigrants, but after this inventory, there are still more than 5,246,000 people, only less than 9,000 people."

"In addition, the amount of cultivated land has also increased by about 4.2 million mu, and there are now more than 57,267,000 mu."

"Similar to Shandong, there are also Liaodong and Nanzhili, how much does it increase, and it can be sent to His Majesty in about three days."

"If you want to say roughly, it is that Shandong has 5246,000 people and more than 57 million mu of cultivated land."

"There are 1,473,000 people in Liaodong and more than 4,979,000 mu of cultivated land."

"There are more than 11,478,000 people in Nanzhili, and more than 82,370,000 mu of cultivated land."

Yu Xin said, Zhu Di had a rough idea in his heart, after all, he had read the "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu.

In terms of population, there was no increase in Shandong on paper, with a population of more than 400,000 in Liaodong and more than 700,000 in Nanzhili.

In terms of cultivated land, Shandong increased by 4.2 million mu, Liaodong increased by more than 2.4 million mu, and Zhili increased by nearly 2 million mu.

From the 24th year of Hongwu to the present, in just ten years, the population and cultivated land have increased considerably, and because Zhu Gaoxu stopped inspecting the six prefectures in Jiangdong, it is hoped that the six prefectures in Jiangdong will conceal more population and cultivated land.

"According to this situation, what should be the actual number of mouths and acres of land in other provinces?"

Zhu Di subconsciously touched his beard, and Yu Xin shook his head after hearing this: "The specific is difficult to calculate, but the actual number of mouths in the national dynasty should not be less than 64 million, and the number of acres of land should have exceeded 420 million." ”

The number given by Yu Xin is based on the national growth of Shandong, which is a means he learned from Donggong.

However, if it is really realistically estimated, he thinks that the number of Daming mouths should not be less than 70 million, and the number of acres may have reached 500 million mu.

It's just that he can't say this amount, in case Zhu Di asks him to go to Qingzhang, but he can't clear it, then things will be bad.

Qingzhang Tianmu This kind of thing is not something he can do alone.

"I know, is there anything else you want to tell me?"

Zhu Di is not as radical as Yu Xin thought, or under the backdrop of Zhu Gaoxu, he is not so radical.

Therefore, after asking what he wanted to know, Zhu Di had no other questions.

"The minister has nothing to do to disturb His Majesty, and the minister retires ......"

Seeing this, Yu Xin immediately sang and withdrew from the Wuying Palace.

After he left, Zhu Di looked at a forty-year-old military attache standing in the corner: "Ji Gang, what's going on in the East Palace lately?" ”

Ji Gang, this is the commander of Jinyiwei appointed by Zhu Di after he ascended the throne, and he controls the huge institution of Jinyiwei.

Although Zhu Di trusted Zhu Gaoxu, he did not let go of Zhu Gaoxu's surveillance.

"The East Palace has recently appointed Zuodu Governor Fu Rang, Governor Lin Su, Zhang Chun and others to lead hundreds of people into the Shenji Camp to study, in addition, it seems that the Ordnance Bureau in Liaodong has also moved, but his subordinates are incompetent and can't find out specific information."

Ji Gang responded ashamedly, but Zhu Di was satisfied after hearing this, but reassured: "It's okay to know, I will ask the second child if I know the specifics." ”

After that, he looked at Wang Yan, the eunuch who was in charge of the seal: "You send someone to tell Zheng He and ask him to send the second child to Wuying Hall to discuss matters with me." ”

"The slave and maid lead the ......" Wang Yan responded, and then sent someone to the East Palace to inform Zheng He.

Not long after, Zheng He got the news and invited Zhu Gaoxu to go to Wuying Palace.

Half a month has passed, and Zhu Gaoxu has calmed down a lot, which makes Zhu Di a little surprised and a little happy to see him.

"The minister has seen Your Majesty, Your Majesty bows to ......"

"Okay, good, a lot calmer."

Looking at the calm Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Di said happily: "I just got the news from someone else, saying that you asked Fu to let them go to the Shenji Camp to study, and they are also going to transfer things from the Ordnance Bureau. ”

"I was about to talk to my father about it." Zhu Gaoxu didn't feel strange when he heard what Zhu Di said, after all, he took the initiative to ask Zheng He to his side, just to let Zhu Di grasp his general movements, so as to feel at ease.

Therefore, after Zhu Di opened his mouth to ask, he explained the matter:

"Father should know that Annan provoked the relationship between the Tusi and the court in the southwest of my dynasty, and Annan was originally my Han place, and now the powerful minister usurped the throne and intended to provoke the relationship between the Tusi and the court, so he just had an excuse to pacify them."

"Therefore, I let Fu Rang, Lin Su, and Zhang Chun enter the Shenji Camp to study, allocate firearms to them, and prepare for them to train after returning to Guangxi, and wait for the imperial court to enter Annan."

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Zhu Di's eyes lit up.

The news he can grasp, Zhu Di can naturally grasp it, and Zhu Di has long been unhappy with Annan, so after hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, he not only did not stop it, but supported it.

"I am very relieved to see what happened to Annan, as for sending Fu to let the three of them lead the troops, this is inevitably a bit of a dominance."

Zhu Di's tone seemed to be preparing to install someone, but Zhu Gaoxu was also prepared.

"What my father said, my sons and daughters understand, that's why my sons are here, and I hope my father will send a few people to train and send troops together."

"How many soldiers and horses are you going to send to pacify Annam?" Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaoxu that he was going to send the generals of Yanfu according to the number of soldiers and horses.

"Fu Rang thinks that 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 people are enough." Zhu Gaoxu said, and added:

"However, Erchen thinks that sending 70,000 soldiers and horses and 150,000 people can be more convenient to govern after conquering Annan."

"Erchen wants to appoint the Marquis of Xiping as the general of Pingnan, Fu Rang and Yang Wen as the generals of the left and right, and then send Meng Ying, Lin Su, Zhang Fu, Zhang Chun and others to follow."

Zhu Gaoxu selected Zhang Fu and Meng Ying, two new-generation military generals, from the Yan Mansion, because these two people also did a good job in Annan, if they were stationed in Annan in the future, they would be able to better govern Annan and play a role in balancing Fu and letting them go.

"Mu Chun is good, he controls the three armies, and I am very relieved."

"You can choose Zhang Fu and Meng Ying, I think I have a good vision, so let's do as you say."

Zhu Di was very satisfied with Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement, after all, behind Meng Ying and Zhang Fu were Meng Shan and Zhang Yu, two old ministers of Yanfu, and if the two of them were sent to participate in the war to pacify Annan, the generals of Yanfu would not have any opinions.

It's just that after talking about Annan, Zhu Di brought up a new topic: "What do you think about the three declarations and six comforts?" ”

"Three Xuan and Six Consolations?" Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect Zhu Di to mention the three announcements and six comforts, but he still pondered for a moment, and then responded.

"There are plateaus, rivers, and plains in the land of three propaganda and six consolations, and the strength and ability of each propaganda department are different."

"Since the sword and Meng were leveled, the power of Luchuan has been sharply reduced, and each Xuanhui Division has its own affairs, which is a good time to split them."

The Luchuan Dynasty, although it is not very long in the history books of later generations, in fact their power cannot be ignored.

Its territory extends from Laos in the east, Chiang Mai in the south, the Manas River in India in the west, and Dali in Yunnan in the north.

They established a tributary system of their own, and the system they adopted was actually very similar to the military merit system of the Qin and Han dynasties.

In the system, the legal ownership of the territory of Luchuan is vested in the king, and every four men are a group, and each person must serve in the army for three months a year, and the four people are rotated exactly once a year.

Under normal circumstances, they would have to rotate from sixteen to fifty years old before they could be discharged from military service.

Among them, every five groups of four people are set up to be managed by a list of junior officials.

For every five junior officials, a directory of 100 officials is set up for management.

For every 10 records and 100 tubes, a directory of commanders is set up to manage.

Officials of military organizations at all levels were directly subordinate to the king, and had access to state-owned land allocation, land distribution and land awards, and a system of military merit.

The last military merit regime that posed a threat to the Central Plains Dynasty was called Goguryeo, which made the five monarchs of the Sui and Tang dynasties break their teeth.

Originally, after Zhu Yuanzhang twice smashed the rise of Luchuan, and Zhu Di split Luchuan, this Luchuan dynasty has been divided so much that it cannot be reunited.

couldn't stand Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji, the father and son, who ignored the southwest policy, which directly led to the reunion of Luchuan and buried a big thunder for Zhu Qizhen.

Of course, if it weren't for Zhu Qizhen's cuisine and unknowing, and at the same time acting against the Luchuan, Fujian rebellion and Wara, he would not have been captured and went to Mobei to study abroad.

However, Rao is like this, Zhu Qizhen's policy towards the southwest is much better than Zhu Gaochi letting the eunuchs mess around in Jiaozhi, and Zhu Zhanji gave up Jiaozhi and was ridiculed by Li Li.

Fortunately, now the boss has been canonized as a vassal in Kunming, as long as the Han Wangfu in Kunming is built, he can become a vassal of Kunming.

In the previous life, he messed with the southwest, and in this life he is in charge by himself.

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Gaoxu still thinks it's quite dramatic.

"You're getting to the point."

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu say this, Zhu Di also touched his beard and agreed: "I see that there is a problem in Naluchuan now, so I am ready to let Wang Xuan, father and son of Yongchang, move Jianwen and his ministers to Nandian, Ganya, Zhenkang and other places to sit in Shibian. ”

Zhu Di revealed the reason why he summoned Zhu Gaochu to come, to put it bluntly, he hoped to let Zhu Gaochu transfer the Wang family and his son to the southwest.

From Yongchang to Nandian, Ganya, and Zhenkang, it is equivalent to going deep into the southwest for 200 miles.

At present, although the Ming Dynasty nominally controls the entire Yunnan and Sanxuan Liuwei, the actual control of the place is only one-third of Yunnan, and the Sanxuan Liuwei can not actually control it in depth except for collecting a certain amount of gold and silver taxes.

If you can go deep into the Ganya and Nandian and Zhenkang areas, then the Yongchang, Dali, Chuxiong and Kunming prefectures in the rear will be safe.

"It's not difficult to go deep into these three places, and the land in these three places is actually very fertile, but the plains are not large."

Faced with Zhu Di's thoughts, Zhu Gaoxu gave his views based on his experience in his previous life.

He hadn't been to Zhenkang, but he had passed through Nandian and Ganya when he took the high-speed rail, which was a typical wide valley basin.

Judging from the picture in his memory, if it can be fully developed, with the current productivity, it will not be a problem to feed hundreds of thousands of people, and Nandian has also been developed by Luchuan for more than half a century, although there is no Qingzhang field, but the scale should not be small, otherwise Daogan Meng would not dare to let Nandian supply tens of thousands of troops of grain and grass with confidence.

"Nandian, the situation in Ganya is okay, I don't know much about Zhenkang, my father can write to Wang Zhao, Wang Xuan, father and son to see the situation, and the son can transfer Yizha to his father's errand."

"Good!" Zhu Di bowed his head, with Zhu Gaoxu's words, he had confidence in further analyzing Luchuan.

He said so much, in fact, he just wanted Zhu Gaoxu to express his position.

Now that Zhu Gaoxu has expressed his support, then he can plan Luchuan well.

Looking at Zhu Di's happy appearance, Zhu Gaoxu could only chuckle in his heart.

If he didn't understand Zhu Di's thoughts at the beginning, then now he understands it too well.

But even if he understood, Zhu Gaoxu was not ready to interfere.

After all, as far as history is concerned, Zhu Di does have a hand in dealing with Luchuan, and he can't think of a better way for the time being, so it's better to follow his method.

What he can do is to find a way to control the finance and population of the Ming Dynasty, and help Zhu Di consolidate the interests of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest.

"Now that my father has an idea, the minister will retire."

Zhu Gaoxu got up to make a move, but Zhu Di pointed to the table and chair on the side in surprise when he heard this: "Aren't you going to deal with the music here?" ”

"It's also troublesome to come to Wuying Hall from the East Palace every day, and it's good to stay in the East Palace." Zhu Gaoxu chuckled, and his withdrawal from the Wuying Hall undoubtedly increased Zhu Di's right to speak in the temple.

Zhu Di was surprised by his sudden concession, but Zhu Gaoxu also had his own ideas.

After the last introspection, he also thought about some things clearly.

At present, the most important thing for him is to grasp the education and military of the Northeast, and only by firmly grasping the talents produced by the Northeast can he control the finance and population of the Ming Dynasty.

He does not have the strength to send enough officials to replace the Guannai officials, so no matter how much he suppresses the Guannai officials, he still has to rely on them to govern the government.

Since this is the case, he simply let go and break the face with points.

Starting from Liaodong, Bohai, Shandong, and then to Beizhili, Shanxi, Henan......

Only in this way can he firmly grasp the finance and population of the Ming Dynasty.

"The retainers retired ......"

Zhu Gaoxu returned the salute, and then withdrew from the Wuying Palace.

After he got into the car, Zhu Di reacted and said with a sigh: "It's good to be young, it's easy to correct and learn." ”

After that, he began to set his eyes on Lu Chuan, ready to come up with a way to dissect Lu Chuan.

However, after Zhu Gaochu walked out of the car and returned to the East Palace, Zhu Gaochu immediately came to find Yishiha.

Sitting on the throne, he motioned for him to take a seat, and then spoke:

"I'm afraid my father will sometimes ask you to go to the Wuying Hall to help, if he summons you, you can do it."

"The slave takes the command." Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also asked:

"What is the situation in Bohai, and how many students have graduated this year?"

"I was about to talk to His Highness about this." When he heard this, he immediately got up and took two copies of the book from outside the Chunhe Palace.

"The former is the population and cultivated land in Bohai, Liaodong, Shandong, Daning and other places, and the latter is the number of schools opened and graduated in these four places, and the number of students enrolled."

After saying that, Zhu Gaoxu took a glance and read the ten lines.

In a year and a half of time changes, Bohai has recruited more than 76,000 Jurchens, and now after the Jurchens, the Han people have migrated, and Bohai has a total population of 326,000, of which 214,000 are Han and 112,000 are Jurchens.

The local cultivated land has also reached more than 2,797,000 mu today.

Under the condition that every household has one horse and one ox, 326,000 people can completely farm, but if this continues, it is estimated that 10 mu per capita is already the limit.

If you want to continue to reclaim the wasteland of the Bohai Sea, you must relocate the people, distribute ploughing cattle and horses.

As for the school situation in Bohai, there are currently more than 124,000 students enrolled, but the teaching environment is not good, and it has reached 50 students per school.

Fortunately, this year is the graduation year of Hongwu's 29th year, and the number of students who graduated has reached 7,427.

If this group of people are invested in the Qingzhang fields in the Guannai, it will naturally be good to manage taxes, but Zhu Gaoxu has now realized that he still has a long time, and his own strength is not enough.

Seven thousand people were put into a dynasty that managed a population of 60 million, and they could only make a few waves, but they could not stir up the waterhole.

Instead of transferring them into the customs, I should let them serve as teachers and improve the quality of teaching in Northeast China.

After reading the various situations in the Bohai Sea, Zhu Gaoxu spoke first: "Shandong's immigrants, after April next year, will migrate 100,000 people to the Bohai Sea, the speed can be slow, we must protect their environment, I don't want the death of migrants on the way to the migration." ”

"In addition, since the cultivated land and grain of the Bohai Sea are already self-sufficient, and there is still a surplus of more than 700,000 stones, then half of the surplus grain will be transferred to Hanzhou, Kaiping, Tieling and other places in eastern Liaodong every year to relieve the pressure of Cao Yun for the imperial court."

"The remaining half is also divided into two parts, one is left for emergencies, and the other is transported to Zhaozhou to prepare for the imperial court's march into Modong to take root in the future."

Zhu Gaochu said, Yizha also took a pen to write down the matter, and when Zhu Gaochu finished talking about Bohai, he stopped the record in his hand.

Not long after, Zhu Gaoxu also finished reading the situation in Daning and Liaodong.

There are more than 1,473,000 mouths in eastern Liaoning, and more than 4,979,000 mu of cultivated land, but the actual grain yield per mu is less than seven buckets, which shows that a large amount of cultivated land is still raw land, and the supporting agricultural water conservancy is not perfect, and this year's data will only be effective until next year's cultivation.

However, even if it is calculated according to the actual grain yield of seven buckets per mu, the grain self-sufficiency rate of Liaodong is only thirty and a half, and there is still a gap of more than 5 million stones.

If we add in the shortage of increasing immigration, then the imperial court should still need to maintain the transportation of sea grain of six million stone next year.

Due to the fact that when Beiping and Yongping encountered wars, many people poured into Daning to flee, so the current population of Daning has reached more than 107,000, and the amount of cultivated land has not increased much, and the reported number is 226,427 mu.

Fortunately, after the water conservancy construction of local officers and soldiers, Daning's actual grain yield per mu is stable at 7 buckets per mu, and the local fields can produce nearly 160,000 stone of grain per mu, but there is still a grain gap of more than 400,000 stones.

Schools in Liaodong and Daning were fully opened last year, and at the beginning of this year, more than 320,000 students were enrolled, but the quality of teaching was even worse than that in Bohai, and in some places it even reached the point where 80 students were crammed into one school.

It can be said that the shortage of teaching resources outside the customs is a fact that Zhu Gaoxu has to face.

"The students who graduated from Bohai will be transferred to Liaodong and Daning to serve as teachers, and the rest will serve as teachers in Bohai."

"In addition, 10,000 students with innocent family backgrounds were selected from the Guozijian and the people to go to Daning and Liaodong to serve as teachers."

"Counting the 6,000 people in Bohai and the more than 10,000 teachers in Daning and Liaodong, the proportion can almost be reduced to 50 people per school."

"As for the schools in Shandong, they will continue to be built, but they will wait for the start of the school year."

Zhu Gaoxu said, and at the same time, he also made policy requirements for outside the border.

"For students who are in school, their families must spontaneously report the number of household registrations and the situation of the cultivated land in their hands, otherwise the students will not be allowed to go to school."

He was ready to use educational resources to tie up the people, so that the people had to truthfully report the situation of their household registration and farmland.

Of course, while tying up the people, he had to let the people report without burden, so he said:

"The people who reported were henceforth abolished forced labor and miscellaneous items, and the government demanded wages for their work."

"In addition, starting next year, the taxes in Bohai, Liaodong, Daning, Shandong and other places will be changed from the current five to one."

Zhu Gaoxu reduced the proportion of land endowment, this is because now his financial pressure has improved, and there is no need to maintain the situation of five endowments and one.

Even if it is one out of ten, as long as the tax is paid honestly, Shandong can also hand over more than 6 million stone fields to pay grain.

However, the "honest payment of taxes" here refers to the squires and wealthy households.

As long as Zhu Gaoxu guaranteed that the situation in Shandong, Liaodong, and other places would not be "drenched and kicked" by the officials in the interior, and that the status of the upper, middle, and lower households would be changed, then the taxes and grain paid by Shandong would not be less than 6 million stones.

In the face of Zhu Gaoxu's policy adjustment, he also failed to respond.

Next, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Shandong's population and cultivated land, but he did not think that the more than 5 million people and more than 57 million mu of cultivated land were the real situation in Shandong.

Not to mention anything else, fifty percent of the millions of acres of cultivated land owned by the Confucian Mansion and his relatives have not been counted in the "Atlas of Fish Scales", let alone other officials, squires, and wealthy households.

However, as far as his current strength is concerned, he does not have the strength to completely clear Shandong, at least he has to wait for another year or two.

When Bohai's students graduate one after another, he will be able to do something to Shandong.

When the more than 300,000 students in Liaodong graduate, he will be able to do something to the entire north.

It only takes three or five years for him to be able to bring the power of grassroots taxation into the hands of the imperial court, and although the financial pressure will increase, the fiscal revenue will also increase.

He is still young, three or five years, and he can still afford to wait......

(End of chapter)