"Daddy!!"

"You don't know what I've been doing here, they're bullying me!"

is obviously almost twenty years old, but Zhu Gaosui cried like a child, which made Zhu Di very distressed.

"Good ......" Zhu Di just wanted to agree, but subconsciously looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

Seeing his actions, the crying Zhu Gaosui also hurriedly looked at Zhu Gaoxu, and continued to cry: "Second brother, I really know it's wrong, you let me out!" ”

"It's only been a long time, and you can't stand it anymore?" Zhu Gaoxu laughed at Zhu Gaosui like a nobody, and taught himself:

"Aren't you going to rebel? You can see the firearms and artillery in this great church, continue to train here, and when you can hold a soldier and horse in your hand, you will be able to rebel at that time. ”

"I don't dare! I didn't think so! ”

Zhu Gaosui flatly denied it, he admitted that he did have that idea at first, but later he realized that he couldn't win over the soldiers in the Great Sect at all.

They seem to have only identified one person, and that is their second brother Zhu Gaoxu.

This situation directly shattered Zhu Gaosui's thoughts, and he was also tortured to the point of being unhuman in his future training.

Now he is like a frightened bird, if Zhu Gaoxu is willing to let him go, even if the Zhao Wangfu in Changsha has not been repaired, he is willing to live in it, as long as he can stay away from the capital.

"Dad, what do you think?"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Di with a smile, and was ready for Zhu Di to let Zhu Gaosui go.

Just to his surprise, Zhu Di listened to Zhu Gaosui's words, and actually didn't answer Zhu Gaosui's question, but asked Zhu Gaosui: "What did you learn in this big teaching field?" ”

"Military formations, firearms and the like, anyway, my son doesn't want to stay here anymore." Zhu Gaosui wiped the tears and snot on his face, he thought that after he said this, his father would let him leave, but he didn't want his father to smile brightly:

"You've finally learned a little bit about what you can and can't do."

Zhu Gaosui was stunned by Zhu Di's words, but he still echoed the vine: "Yes, my son has learned a lot of things, and now he can go out." ”

"No, you stay here." Zhu Di's words shattered Zhu Gaosui's thoughts.

"You spare your son!" Zhu Gaosui knelt down directly, looking like he was about to cry again, but Zhu Di turned over and dismounted to help him up, and said bitterly:

"If you want to establish a vassal in Changsha in the future, you will have to deal with the cave barbarians, and it is also good to learn some art of war."

"In the future, I can just send you to suppress it."

"Huh?" Zhu Gaosui was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that his father was even more ruthless than his second brother, and he actually wanted to let himself go to the battlefield.

These days, he has not talked about his second brother's southern and northern battles outside the Guan, and he is very resistant to the battlefield in his heart.

He just wants to eat, drink and be merry, and going to war is not something he can do.

"Dad, Erchen doesn't have that ability......"

Zhu Gaosui was about to cry, but Zhu Di grinned and said, "I know, that's why I let you continue to stay in this big teaching field and learn some skills." ”

"Huh? I... I ......"

Zhu Gaosui was speechless, but Zhu Gaoxu next to him saw Zhu Di's thoughts, and could only hold his forehead and sigh:

"Dad, don't embarrass the third child, let him fight against the cave man, don't you let him lead the troops to die......"

"Yes, yes, yes!!" Zhu Gaosui hurriedly agreed, he had never seen Zhu Gaoxu so pleasing to the eye.

"What's not to do?" Zhu Di patted Zhu Gaosui on the shoulder: "Third brother, if your second brother can do it, you can do it too." ”

"Erchen really can't do it!" Zhu Gaosui's voice was crying, and Zhu Di could only be disappointed after hearing it: "Forget it, it seems that you are still the same as before." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Gaosui nodded frantically, and Zhu Di could only shake his head and turn over his horse, and explained to Zhu Gaoxu: "Let people put him back in the palace, if he commits it again in the future, let him come to this big church to continue studying." ”

"Erchen Leader" Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head, and then said to Zhu Gaosui: "Go and talk to your hundred household officials, and say that your training is over." ”

"Good! Good! I'll go now! ”

Zhu Gaosui nodded frequently, turned around and trotted all the way to the playground.

After he walked away, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Di on the side with a wry smile: "Why are you scared of him?" ”

"You're so much more scared than I am." The disappointment on Zhu Di's face was gone, only a smile remained: "What you said is right, the third child is indeed a lot obedient." ”

"It's just that after this time, I don't know if he will continue to commit crimes."

"Even if you commit a crime, you should be restrained." Zhu Gaoxu echoed, and couldn't help sighing at Zhu Di's thoughts.

Zhu Di is the same as Lao Zhu, they all know what their sons do right and what they do wrong, but they just can't bother to clean them up.

Zhu Gaosui is still young and can be corrected, but some of Zhu Gaoxu's uncles have grown up, and the bastards they committed are enough to disgust Zhu Gaoxu.

"Let's go ahead and see your horses."

Zhu Di shook the reins of the horse, and Zhu Gaoxu followed when he heard this, and at the same time corrected: "It's Your Majesty's soldiers and horses." ”

"Say whatever you want." Zhu Di was too lazy to argue with Zhu Gaoxu, because he found that he really couldn't argue with this second child.

"Line up!"

"Beep-"

When they saw Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu riding horses, and Zhu Gaosui trotting excitedly, Li Shi and Li Qi, who were responsible for commanding the nearly 10,000 people, blew the wooden whistle.

"Li Loss, my second brother said that my training is over!"

Zhu Gaosui ran excitedly, without his previous arrogance, only excitement and happiness.

"In that case, let's go change your clothes."

Li lost hearing that he didn't say much, and responded plainly, as if Zhu Gaosui was a dispensable person.

Such a reaction made Zhu Gaosui not know why, and his heart was empty.

It's just that when he thought that he could go back to the palace and continue to be his own King Zhao, he still ran in the direction of the house of the Great Sect with oil on the soles of his feet.

Not long after he left, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu also came to Li Shi and Li Qi.

"Long live Your Majesty, Your Highness Chitose......"

The two took the lead in singing, and then the wooden whistle sounded, and nearly 10,000 soldiers sang one after another.

"Good!"

Zhu Di turned over and dismounted, walked to a young soldier of eighteen or nineteen years old in the front row, and patted him on the shoulder: "What is your name, which Jurchen is it?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, my Han name is Wu Meng, and my previous name is Mo Rigen, and I am a person from the Beishan Envoy Lu Department."

The young soldier spoke in an official dialect that was not too proficient, and Zhu Di knew that he was a soldier who had just been transferred to the capital not long ago, and when he saw this, he also asked curiously: "Do you make the people of the deer department really train deer, raise deer, and use deer to ride?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, we train deer and raise deer, but deer are only used to pull carts in winter." Wu Meng replied, and Zhu Di nodded when he heard the words, and pinched his arm.

"Okay, strong enough."

He was very satisfied with a source of soldiers like Wu Meng, but Zhu Gaoxu turned over and dismounted and stepped forward to ask: "How are the days of the Beishan tribes now, have they all moved out?" ”

"Back to His Highness......" Seeing Zhu Gaoxu, Wu Meng seemed a little excited, and the whole person stood a lot straighter.

"Many tribes in Beishan have gone south to accept the appeasement, and the Duke of Liao (Meng Zhang) placed us in the water post between Zhaozhou City and Andong City and Heishui City, and relied on the water post to build houses for us."

"If there is a tribe willing to open up land for farming, he will bring us craftsmen and cement so that we can build water conservancy and cultivate some slopes."

"If you don't want to open up the wasteland and farm, or want to continue hunting as before, then continue to hunt, but the family has to have a man to serve as a soldier, but our food will be sent home, so that the family will not go hungry even if they can't hunt, and the military salary is left for us to spend."

"When I went south, I heard that many tribes in Beishan and Donghai had sent people to accept the appeasement, and there were more than 100 walled forts from Zhaozhou to Heishui City, with 80,000 or 90,000 people."

The military salary of the soldiers and horses outside the border and Shandong is 20 stone rice plus 8 guan money, 20 stone rice is transported home, which is enough for a family of five to eat round belly, and 8 guan money is also enough for soldiers like Wu Meng and them to live a comfortable life in an ordinary city.

I have to say that Meng Zhang has been in contact with the Jurchens for a long time, and he is still very clear about their needs.

"Is the money enough in the capital?" Zhu Gaoxu tidied up Wu Meng's collar, and Wu Meng also replied nervously: "The food and accommodation are all in the big teaching field, and there is nothing to spend money on." ”

"Many of the brothers in the big church bought cotton and white cloth after taking the money and wages, and transported them back to their hometowns in the post station."

"How much is a pound of cotton, and what about white cloth?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Wu Meng, and Wu Meng replied without thinking: "Sixty wen a pound of cotton, two hundred wen a horse of white cloth." ”

"Well, the white cloth is fine, but the cotton is too expensive." Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and couldn't help but sigh that cotton was a little expensive, but he could understand it.

The yield of cotton per mu in Jiangnan and other places is only about 150 catties, and even in Beiping and Shandong in the northern region, the yield per mu is only more than 200 catties.

During the Hongwu period, Shandong was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to plant cotton and soybeans to supply Liaodong.

After Zhu Gaoxu took charge of Shandong, he planned to increase the planting area of soybeans and cotton, but to this day, the price of cotton remains high.

Fortunately, with the opening of land in eastern Liaodong, a lot of land suitable for growing cotton has also been planted with cotton.

Without Liaodong, a large cotton demander, the price of cotton in the customs may gradually decline with the promotion in the future.

"Are all the market towns built with ondols, fire walls, and sewers?"

Zhu Gaoxu continued to ask Wu Meng, and Wu Meng also relaxed a lot, and replied honestly: "All of them have been built, not only these, but also concrete pavement, and you can't step on the mud when you walk in the market town." ”

"That's good." Zhu Gaoxu nodded, then turned around and walked behind Zhu Di.

The conversation between him and Wu Meng was heard by Zhu Di, Zhu Di looked at him and made Wu Meng stand up straight in a few words, and couldn't help but think that this kid really has a way of buying people's hearts.

However, from the conversation between the two, Zhu Di also heard a lot of news, especially the news that a large number of Jurchens accepted the appeasement.

"How many people are there in Bohai now?"

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochu on the side, and Zhu Gaochu also replied honestly: "There are more than 446,000 mouths, of which more than 240,000 are Jurchens, but many of them will move into Liaodong and Shandong next year, and it is estimated that there will only be about 150,000 by this time next year." ”

The Jurchens moved inward, the Han people moved out, this was a means of assimilation, and the Ming Dynasty was not a small clan like the Manchus, but a large clan, Ling Xiao, so there was no need to worry about being assimilated in the north.

Even if the population of the entire Northeast, Monan, Mobei and Western Regions is counted, it is only more than 2 million.

The northern lands with a population of more than 16 million people were very sparse, so Zhu Gaoxu basically did not worry about any assimilation problems for the Ming Dynasty's expansion to the northeast.

However, compared to the north, the south side is a little more difficult to do.

Whether it is Luchuan, Siam, Khmer, or Annam, the population of these countries is mostly in the millions, and the population is less than a million, but the assimilation of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest is insufficient, and once it goes deep into the interior, there is a risk of assimilation.

In places like Annan, where there is a long coastal line and can be immigrated by sea, Zhu Gaoxu can be sure that he can rely on time to continue to immigrate and assimilate the local area, and it will be much more difficult to do so in the southwest and Sanxuan Liuwei.

"440,000 people, planting more than 5 million acres of land?"

Zhu Gaoxu's report made Zhu Di think of the cultivated area of the Bohai Sea, and couldn't help but sigh at the speed of development and the wealth of the Bohai Sea.

In his opinion, only Bohai, where horses are pulled and cattle are abundant, can manage more than ten acres of land by one person.

Zhu Gaoxu also explained: "The winter period outside the Guanxi is long, and the yield of grain per mu is only eight or nine buckets per mu. ”

"You can do this yourself, and I'm more curious about what has changed in this year's "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" of the household department."

Zhu Di mentioned the document of the Ministry of Households, and due to Shandong's policies such as clearing the zhang and spreading the land into the mu, and binding the admission qualification to the hukou, Shandong's cultivated land and population have been improved.

In addition, the population has been migrating into Liaodong, regardless of the clearing of the Liaodong region, which is also changing from time to time.

In addition to Shandong and Liaodong, the population and cultivated land of Yunnan and Sichuan have changed greatly.

Since the end of the Jingyan Campaign, more than 400,000 people have poured into Yunnan and Sichuan one after another, and many of them have already settled down and cleared up the land in the first half of the year.

As the emperor, Zhu Di can only understand these situations through the documents of the household department, but the household department has not yet finished counting.

"You should be clear about the situation in Shandong and Liaodong, right?"

Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaoxu, after all, Zhu Gaochu had arranged a large number of grassroots officials in Liaodong and Shandong, and it was definitely faster to collect data than the household department.

"Nature......" Zhu Gaoxu stepped aside, and Zhu Di also followed, away from the military formation.

"From Liaodong and Bohai to the first day of the lunar month, there are 1,977,600 people and more than 13.4 million mu of cultivated land."

"From the first day of the lunar month to the first day of the lunar month, Shandong has a population of more than 4,827,000 and more than 59,940,000 mu of cultivated land."

Zhu Gaoxu made a simple report, and Zhu Di thought of the amount of Hongwu for 30 years, and then stroked his beard: "The population of Shandong and Liaodong in Hongwu for 30 years is only 5.25 million, and now four years have passed, adding up to more than 6.8 million. ”

"Even if you subtract the more than 300,000 people in Daning, it is 1.25 million more than the original population."

"At the beginning, the cultivated land was only 60 million yuan, but now it has more than 70 million mu, and Shandong Province alone has increased by more than 3 million mu."

"This group of squires, I really want to grab all the population and land in their hands."

Zhu Di was a little anxious, after all, judging from the situation in Shandong, the population of the Ming Dynasty was definitely more than 650,000 in the 30th year of Hongwu.

However, he was also a little conservative: "Will the people below you overreport, this is a bit too much." ”

"It's normal to increase." Zhu Gaoxu first gave the answer, and then explained in detail:

"In the 14th year of Hongwu, there were 5.2 million people in Shandong, and now 20 years have passed, it is normal to increase 1.2 million, and the same is true for cultivated land, even more than what is measured now."

"From Erchen's point of view, the cultivated land under the imperial court may not be restored to the Xifeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, or even exceeded, and the population may not be less than 70 million."

"It's just how to measure the acres of land and check the population, or we have to see how the pilot policy in Shandong is promoted."

Zhu Gaoxu's statement is reasonable and well-founded, after all, the Ming Dynasty in the 14th year of Hongwu had more than 360 million mu of cultivated land and a population of more than 5,980 million.

Now, 20 years later, the population has increased by more than 1 million, and the cultivated land has only increased by more than 30 million mu.

If Daming really only has 60 million people, then cultivating 400 million mu of cultivated land is also in line with efficiency, after all, the limit of human cultivation is only five acres, counting the world's cultivated land, it is not surprising that six acres per capita are cultivated.

But the population of the Ming Dynasty has only grown by one million in 20 years, which is simply a bit humiliating.

Even in the late Qianlong period, when people's livelihood was corrupted, it increased from 310 million to 360 million in 18 years, and this is still when cultivated land has been difficult to develop.

On the other hand, at present, the population has only increased by one million in 20 years, but the tax rate is not half of that of the Qianlong period.

As for cultivated land, there were more than 460 million mu of cultivated land during the Xifeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, but there were more than 40 million men corresponding to it, and I am afraid that there were no less than 80 million women if they were counted.

The gap between the production efficiency in the Northern Song Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty was not very large, and six acres of cultivated land per capita was regarded as the standard of cultivation efficiency in ancient times.

If the Ming Dynasty has 460 million mu of cultivated land, and the population is at least close to 80 million, this is the estimated population in Zhu Gaoxu's heart.

The use of admission qualifications to settle the number of people is the main reason why Zhu Gaoxu was able to find out so many people from Shandong and Liaodong, and the apportionment of the land to the mu is secondary.

It's just that this method can't be expanded, because Daming doesn't have so many teaching resources, and it can't support hundreds of thousands of teachers who are only responsible for teaching, unless productivity increases.

"According to what you say, the population of this year's inventory will probably not be less than 66 million, and the cultivated land will not be less than 430 million."

Zhu Di was thoughtful, and at the same time felt that it was the most correct thing to do to make Zhu Gaoxu the crown prince.

After only a year and a half in power, Zhu Gaoxu increased the population on the account of the Ming Dynasty by 10%, and increased the cultivated land by 50 million mu.

If Lao Zhu Quanxia knows, maybe after he goes down in the future, he can fight a little lighter.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu, his eyes were a little hungry, and Zhu Gaoxu was a little hairy.

"You're ......"

"Dick!"

Before Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he saw Zhu Di with one hand on his shoulder: "This world still has to be governed by our two masters." ”

"You work hard, and when I am in my fifties in a few years, I will hand over this position to you."

"......" Hearing Zhu Di say that he couldn't do anything in his fifties, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how to answer him for a while.

More than 50 people can't do government affairs, and 65 go on horses to kill the enemy, and you really have yours.

"You'd better be telling the truth." As soon as Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Zhu Di's expression froze.

He's just polite, how can this kid still take it seriously.

Just thinking about it carefully, Zhu Di seems to think that it is nothing, after all, the three brothers in front of him have only lived for thirty or forty, and he is now forty and two, and he is not young, I don't know how long he can live.

When I have been working for more than ten years, I will be in my fifties by then, and I should not be able to do it, and the position of transmission is normal.

Zhu Di thought like this, and nodded quickly: "Of course, when did I lie to you?" ”

"Yes......" Zhu Gaoxu thought of the former crockpot chicken, but still nodded, and then inspected all parts of the big church with Zhu Di.

After half an hour, Zhu Di reluctantly walked out of the big church and saw Zhu Gaosui, who had been waiting next to the big chariot for a long time.

Seeing that he didn't get on the big rut, Zhu Di was a little surprised, and said to Zhu Gaoxu from afar: "Your method works, he has a lot of rules now." ”

"My son said a long time ago that it is good for him to practice more." Zhu Gaosui chuckled, as far as his training requirements for Bohai were concerned, if Zhu Gaosui's temper did not change at all, then he felt that Zhu Gaosui was really hopeless.

He was originally a spoiled child, not only him, but even his predecessor Zhu Gaoxu behaved like this in history.

Zhu Di's personal ability is not to be said, but he is a bit biased in raising children, and he is too spoiled.

"Dad, second brother......"

Seeing Zhu Di and them come out, Zhu Gaosui immediately stepped forward to greet him, but now Zhu Di doesn't know if he pretended to be or if he was really trained.

"It's good to know a few rules, get in the car."

Zhu Di was very satisfied with Zhu Gaosui's approach, and nodded to signal him to go up.

However, as soon as these words came out, Zhu Gaosui hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, and wanted to cry without tears.

If there was anything terrible he had experienced in the Great Sect Field, it was not physical training, but mental torture, especially when he accidentally heard some Bohai soldiers say that Zhu Gaochi and him Zhu Gaosui were an eyesore, he was worried that someone in the Great Sect would harm him almost every day.

Even in his sleep, he could dream that Li Shi led a group of people to find him and ask him if he really felt that he was a genius.

Regardless of whether the answer is yes or no, anyway, after asking, Li Shi will lead someone to kill him with a knife, and he will also be awakened from his sleep.

Although he knew that there was no need for Li Shi to kill himself, this dream still left a psychological shadow on him.

Now he finally came out, but his father still let him sit on the chariot that the Son of Heaven can only sit on, doesn't this mean that he wants half his life.

"Dad, you and your second brother can sit, I like to ride horses now."

Zhu Gaosui had a hint of crying in his voice, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochu looked at each other, and at the end Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochu walked on the big road, and from time to time they turned back one step at a time.

It wasn't until he got into the car that Zhu Di said cautiously: "The third child was scared by you, he won't fall ill, right?" ”

"This ......"

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu himself glanced at Zhu Gaosui who turned over the horse outside the car window with some apprehension, and hesitated: "It should be ...... No way? ”

"Ming Taizong Record": "Layue Xin Chou, Shang and the prince looked at the big teaching field, and the prince said negligently, "King Zhao has been introspecting for a long time, and it can be forgiven." Hearing the prince's words, King Zhao pardoned, and said: "If there is no brother, the brother is afraid of death." ”

"Bohai Chronicle": "At the end of the month, the emperor and Shang went to the great church, and the emperor heard that King Zhao was introspective and pardoned. ”

(End of chapter)