"The virtue of God, good life is great, people are the king, and love people is the foundation. The vastness of the four seas cannot be ruled by one person alone, but the merit must be chosen and governed together......"

On May 22, the third year of Yongle, before Zhu Di left the fortress, he did not forget to write a holy decree, preparing to announce his concept of governing the country to the ministers, so as to show that although he was far away from the temple, he still paid attention to every move of the temple.

Under the canopy umbrella in front of the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Gaoxu listened to everything after Honglu Siqing finished speaking, and then stood in front of the golden platform and said:

"Your Majesty is far away in Modong, but he still does not forget the government, and when you are in the capital, you should manage the government, and don't do dirty things like villains."

"Recently, many officials have been accused of corruption and bribery, and Gu Wanger and others are innocent people and innocent people."

"Even if you are not innocent, you can correct it early to avoid jail time."

"Obey the Teachings ......"

After Zhu Gaoxu said that, the ministers saluted one after another, and he continued:

"The six ministries are ready to draft, and from now on, they will migrate to Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other landless people to Henan, Annam and other places to open up wasteland."

"The household department approves the slips, exempts the displaced people from paying taxes for one year, and can use the slips issued by the imperial court to open up barren rations in the local county government, or receive cooked land."

"If it is a wasteland, each person can exchange four buckets of wasteland rations per month with the slivers."

"In addition, 1,000 tax langs from the tax department were transferred to Henan to verify and maintain this policy, and all those who harbored corruption were exiled to Zhaozhou."

Since the work of remigrating people from Annam has not been going very smoothly, Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to start forcibly remishing the people.

This policy was issued, and even if the yamen in various places whose names were mentioned were reluctant, in order to avoid the tax department sending people to investigate, they still had to forcibly recruit some people to go south to Annan and north to Henan.

Such a policy was unfair to the landless people who lived and worked in peace and contentment, but they could not have both, and their sacrifice could only be compensated for by the rations of the imperial court.

Maintaining the matter of land reclamation rations has become the top priority in restoring the people's livelihood in Henan.

As for Annam, although there has not yet been a specific "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" sent there, the amount of unowned arable land in the local area is probably too large to be planted.

Most of the people who migrated to Annam lived in developed towns and cities, and there was no risk of contracting malaria and epidemics.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Gaoxu said that he would be exempted from paying taxes for one year, because immigrants used to have ripe land to cultivate, and because of the climate problems in Annam, immigrants did not have to endure any cold winters, and could plant three crops a year, which was incomparable to the north.

If the three granaries of Jiaozhi, Henan, and Liaodong can be developed, then the burden of moving the capital to Beijing will not be too great for the south, and the burden on Shaanxi and Yunnan will also be reduced.

Historically, the Ming Dynasty only developed a granary in Henan, and as a result, the real land strength of Henan could not be obtained because of the measurement problems in the middle and late periods.

Also in the face of drought, Shaanxi in the northwest survived for less than a year before the people changed, and Henan is still living a comfortable life with dozens of texts.

If it weren't for the great drought in Chongzhen's three years, which was too big, followed by locust plagues and displaced people, Henan might have gritted its teeth and survived.

At present, Zhu Gaoxu is vigorously building dams, weirs, and sluices, in order to ensure that the Yellow River does not break in peace.

As long as the Yellow River does not break through, Henan's land reclamation work will certainly be very smooth, after all, Henan's problem now is that there are not enough people, not enough land.

Moreover, these lands have been intensively cultivated for thousands of years, and the abandonment is only a matter of one or two hundred years.

In terms of land reclamation, they are much easier than Bohai and Liaodong.

Without tree roots, stones, and other things that get in the way, a skilled hand can reclaim an acre of ripe land in a month, turn over the soil before winter, and cultivate it the next year.

As long as there are enough people, most of Henan's land can be restored, and a small number of people only need to rebuild water conservancy facilities to restore the situation of the Song and Song dynasties.

No matter what era people are in, they represent a resource, and what Henan lacks is this resource.

Like it, there is Beiping, and as for Shaanxi, the land carrying capacity has to be considered.

Since the Tang Dynasty began to cool down worldwide, the precipitation line began to retreat to the east.

The land carrying capacity of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty was far inferior to that of the Two Song Dynasty, and even less than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

In the Tang Dynasty, the population of Shaanxi reached more than 4.6 million during the Tianbao period, but this was only the registered paper population, and at that time, there was still a burden of Chang'an City, a population of one million.

After the absence of Chang'an, even if there was no Hetao, the Yongxing Military Road and Qinfeng Road at the peak of the Northern Song Dynasty reached more than 7 million.

The area of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty was larger than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, but the temperature dropped slightly, but even so, according to the late Ming literati who said that the real population of each place was three times that recorded in the "Yellow Book", Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty also fed no less than seven million people.

Before the drought broke out during the Apocalypse, there was already a situation in Shaanxi where the people were struggling to make a living, and the grain prices were only relatively low in the neighboring areas of Henan and Sichuan, and the grain prices in the rest of the places were much higher than those in the Kanto region.

The Ming Dynasty had more than 2.3 million people in Shaanxi and Gansu, but this data was recorded in the 26th year of Hongwu, and it has been 11 years since then.

In 11 years, no one knows how many people there are in Shaanxi and Gansu.

The only thing that can be determined is that the ethnic ratio of the population of Shaanxi and Gansu is extremely unreasonable.

In the three years since Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di ruled the Ming Dynasty, 26 rebellions of Tartar officials and Semu officials broke out in Shaanxi and Gansu.

This is still the number of times it can be presented in front of them, and I am afraid that it is even more in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Semu and the Mongols occupy half of the northwest is considered conservative, and the real situation is probably even more.

Migrating the people of the northwest and the Mongols to the Kanto and even the south of the Yangtze River, and then migrating the Han people to the local area, this can slowly solve the local problems.

"In addition, people such as Semu and Mongolia migrated to Shanxi, Huguang, Shandong and other places."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished adding, he didn't wait for the ministers to speak, and directly signaled Honglu Siqing to retreat from the court.

"Retreat—"

"His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

The ministers seem to have long been accustomed to Zhu Gaoxu's arbitrary and independent way of meeting in the court, and no one will say that he is not, because the person who said him has been dealt with by Zhu Gaochu using Chen Ying and Ji Gang.

The old smell of the four major cases in the Hongwu period seems to be wafting in the air of Nanjing again.

Riding the golden chariot, Zhu Gaoxu returned to the Chunhe Palace, and the courtiers gathered in groups of three or five.

Some of them went out of the palace to the yamen to do business, and some went to the Wenhua Palace on duty, in short, they didn't want to stand on the square of the Fengtian Temple.

The atmosphere of the temple made them uncomfortable, and they couldn't help but miss the period when Zhu Di was in charge of the court.

At this moment, there are more and more officials who hope that Zhu Di will end his northern expedition as soon as possible and return to Jiangnan.

Without mentioning their thoughts, Zhu Gaoxu, who returned to the Chunhe Palace, threw himself into handling government affairs.

It took his energy to read more than 160 books, and he needed to see the wars, disaster relief, and exemptions that had occurred in various places.

"Miao Yao's rebellions in Guizhou are becoming more and more frequent, and it seems that they are addicted to grabbing, and they don't know the power of the firearms of the Heavenly Empire."

After Zhu approved a book of the Guizhou Yaomiao Rebellion, Zhu Gaoxu ridiculed and said to Yisha:

"Let Gu Cheng lead his troops to Guizhou to suppress the rebellion, and train ten artillery battalions in Bohai and Liaodong."

"Your Highness, is ten too many?" Yizha asked Zhu Gaoxu, after all, there are 3,000 people in one battalion, and 30,000 people in ten battalions.

Nowadays, although there are more than 2 million people outside the border, there are only more than 900,000 men, and 30,000 people are recruited at once, which is indeed too much.

"Not much, just enough for ten." Zhu Gaoxu shook his head, and asked Yizha to allocate money and food to Guanwai.

"On the Hubu side, after the tax collection and summary in the autumn of this year, eight million stone tax grains will be transferred to Liaodong in Shandong and Beiping."

"If Yu Xin says too much, then tell him that the imperial court will move the population to enrich Modong next year, and most of this money and grain will be prepared for Modong."

"Secondly, after the expulsion of Uliangha, the city of Uliangha was renamed and set up as the Daning Metropolitan Office, and three more mansions and three guards."

"After the military households of the guard station are enriched, the rest of the local land will be opened up for the people."

"The name of the guard and the mansion, if Your Majesty is interested, let him choose the name, if you are not interested, I will get it."

After that, Zhu Gaoxu turned the page on the matter and continued to deal with it.

Under the watchful eye of Yishiha, the more than 160 pieces of music did not embarrass Zhu Gaoxu for too long, from the hour (7 o'clock) to the unitary hour (17 o'clock) in the afternoon, all the notes were dealt with, which made Yishiha react.

"Your Highness, did you send it to the north?"

"I can't dictate the dynasty, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and it is reasonable to deal with it."

After he finished speaking, Zhu Gaoxu stood up and stretched: "Go and bring the red donkey, I'll practice equestrianism." ”

"Yes......" Hearing this, Yiha smiled bitterly and was speechless, while at the same time, Zhu Di, who was thousands of miles away, doubted life.

"Why are there so many recitals today?"

In the city of Wuliang Ha, Zhu Di looked at the more than 90 notes that had been processed, as well as the more than 20 notes that had not yet been processed, and couldn't help but question the officials who sent the notes.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is set by the prince, and the concerts of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beiping, and Henan provinces are all here."

"Ridiculous!" When Zhu Di heard this, he immediately threw the Zhu pen at the official, and said directly: "Shaanxi and Shaanxi Xingdu Division's Song Shu were sent to Nanjing, and so were those from Henan. ”

"In the future, I will only accept the music of Shanxi and Beiping!"

"Commandment." The official prostrate down, and then picked up the red pen and handed it to Wang Yan.

Wang Yan took the red pen to the little eunuch next to him to clean, and he changed it to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, Your Highness's move is also to reassure you." ”

"I'm fighting now, I shouldn't play too much, he sent me so many songs, how can I fight?"

As soon as Wang Yan persuaded him, Zhu Di became even more angry, and couldn't help but say: "Do you still use this between father and son? ”

"I just want to be lazy!"

Zhu Di shouted and scolded angrily, and the scolding also spread to the temporary palace next to the wooden house, and was heard clearly by Xie Jin and the others.

When Xie Jin and the others heard his scolding, they couldn't help but feel that the brushes in their hands were much lighter.

But just as they were about to continue listening, there was a noisy sound of horses' hooves outside the hut.

Everyone looked out, but Zhu Di got up and walked out of his wooden house directly.

"Your Majesty, the first batch of 50,000 stone grain and 5,000 stone bean feed has arrived!"

Li Lost, who was in charge of liaison with Meng Zhang, took the lead in bringing 1,000 cavalry to escort 20,000 people and 20,000 horses to transport grain to the city of Wuliangha.

Zhu Di stepped forward to help him up, and then asked: "How much grain and bean feed have been lost by going to the Wenjiang River water transportation and then turning to the land here?" ”

"The grain is less than 10,000 stones, and the beans are less than 800 stones." Li Di's unthinking answer made Zhu Di smile immediately.

"Okay, good, the waterway chosen by the second child is good, and the choice is good!"

Zhu Di, who was still scolding Zhu Gaochu a second ago, praised Zhu Gaochu again at this moment.

You must know that in the past, they went to Daning to send troops to the north to patrol Modong, and the food lost on the road alone was fifty percent.

Of the ten stone of grain, only five stone can be transported to the city of Uliang Ha Vulture, and further north it will have to be more.

Now with the Bohai Sea Division and the water transportation of the Nuwen River, this loss has been reduced to less than 20%, and the three stone grain saved is enough for a soldier to eat for four months.

"Wang Yan, have Li Yuan and Zengshou found the main force of Wuliangha?!"

Zhu Di turned around and shouted to Wang Yan at the door of the wooden house, and Wang Yan hurriedly walked out: "Your Majesty, I haven't found it yet, I think I came to Na Lu Kucha'er to go to a place further north." ”

"No matter what, prepare to load the army rations, and the army will set off three days later, and search north along the Haravin Mountains (Great Khing'an Mountains)."

Zhu Di opened his mouth to give an order, and then walked back to the wooden house.

At his command, the horse infantry began to cut down the trees at the foot of the Haragu Mountains, which were still lush and green, even though the trees had been cut down by the Uliangha people for many years.

In order to avoid eating cold food, each small flag had to prepare its own firewood, and the Ming army, which got the news, also began to act.

In just one day and one night, hundreds of acres of woods at the foot of the Haravan Mountains were cut down to the west of the city of Uryanha, leaving tens of thousands of stumps behind.

Li Shi was assigned by Zhu Di to continue cutting firewood so that the army could calmly move south when it triumphed.

In the next two days, Gan Yue and Li Qi each transported two batches of grain to Wuliang Ha Bald City, and Zhu Di asked the whole army to make grain into military rations.

Under the hands of the 30,000 army, 150,000 stone grain was made into 15,000 stone military grain to carry, and it was not until the third day when Meng Zhang led the people to transport the fourth batch of grain that Zhu Di let the three armies eat a mouthful of white rice.

On May 26, with Zhu Di's order, 30,000 horse infantry and 4,000 cavalry began to search north, and the 2,000 cavalry left behind were responsible for transporting grain to 80,000 people.

On the second day of the sixth month, after a march of 600 miles, Zhu Di led the army to arrive at Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain.

As a sacrificial mountain where the Uliangha people gathered, only a pile of burned ruins remained here.

Zhu Di turned over and dismounted, and after taking a look at the burned house, he judged: "They should have been gone for almost a month, is there any news from the east and west?" ”

"Not yet, all traces of the herd have been washed away by the heavy rain of the previous days." Wang Yan, who was following him, replied, and at the same time, Meng Zhang also said to Zhu Di:

"Your Majesty, to the north of the Wuliang Habald Mountain, the northeast border ministers have sent sentinels to go there, and there are many Ze land, and the Hu soldiers will never go to the north and northeast."

"When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led the troops, he said that the Haravin Mountains can be crossed, as long as you find the right place, so the minister thinks that our army should put the direction of the search in the northwest."

Meng Zhang, as the third person of the Bohai faction, his words still carry a lot of weight, and Zhu Di has to pay attention to it, but at the same time, he also speaks of his own experience.

"The reason why Toru Khuchaer did not defect to the Tatars and Warat after the defeat of the Kharakü was because he did not want to get involved in their infighting."

"Although we put pressure on them to go north this time, he will not flee west because of this."

"I guess that Naturu Kuchaer is hiding in a col with his men at the moment, preparing to wait for us to retreat before they go south."

"You lead Zengshou, Li Yuan, and Li Loss to each lead a thousand horsemen, and search all the way to the northern foot of Harawen Mountain, and you will definitely have a harvest."

Zhu Di said, and Meng Zhang responded without thinking.

Soon, 4,000 cavalry were dispatched by him to search from the Uliang Havuld Mountains to the northeastern foothills of the Haragu Mountains.

Facts proved that Zhu Di and Meng Zhang pointed out the right direction, and the four thousand cavalry only traveled more than 100 miles before finding a small tribe with a size of four or five hundred people, and captured them one after another.

Meng Zhang asked Li to take them south to Wuliang Habald Mountain, while he continued to explore the road with Xu Zengshou and Li Yuan.

On the fourth day of the sixth month, Li lost and returned to Wuliang Havulshan with the captured leaders of the small tribe, where the Ming army had already cut down trees and built a military camp.

"Hurry up!"

Looking at the bare Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain, the little man lowered his head in frustration and was led into the camp by Li Shi.

His hands were tied, like a horse being led.

Here, he could feel the burning gaze coming from all around.

If Li lost permission, he had no doubt that his head would be cut off by the group of soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets in the next second.

"It's here, get on your knees!"

Li lost a forceful pull, and the little man staggered to his knees on the grass, looked up in a hurry, and saw a big tent, and the familiar face that came out of the big tent.

"Your Majesty, this is a small tribe leader captured by my army more than 100 miles in the northwest."

Li made a report, and Zhu Di walked out with Xie Jin and other ministers with a smile, and his smile became even stronger after seeing the little man.

"I've seen you, you're Haragu's nephew, aren't you?"

"Shu'er Che of the Wuliang Habu, see His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" Hearing that Zhu Di recognized his identity, this little man did not hide it, and directly exposed his identity.

Seeing that he was honest, Zhu Di also crossed his hands on his waist: "Untie the rope for him." ”

"Yes!" Hearing this, Li got up without thinking and drew his knife, cutting the rope on Shu'er's wrist.

"His Majesty Emperor Xie Daming!"

After all, Shu'er Che is also a nobleman, and he still understands a little bit of official language, so he expressed his gratitude.

"Li Lost, when you captured him, how many troops did he have?"

Zhu Di looked at Shu'er Che, but the question was asked to Li Loss.

"Less than five hundred!" Li Shi replied honestly, Zhu Di also smiled heartily, and said to Shu'er: "I remember that when you fought with your uncle, there were at least a few thousand troops under your command, why are there only so many people now?" ”

Zhu Di is very familiar with all the Mongolian branches, and even the background of a small person like Shu'er Che is very clear.

"I was defeated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in Daning, and after returning to the tribe, I was eaten up by other gangsters, so I waited for His Majesty the Emperor to arrive more than 100 miles northwest of Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain."

Shu'er Che didn't have any brains, but after all, he had been with Hara Wu for so many years, so he also saw that the Wu Liang Ha tribes were at the end of their rope, so he didn't choose to go too far north.

After all, if Zhu Di really chased after Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain, then unless they took refuge in Arutai in the Tatar Department, they would definitely have no way to live and go.

"I know what you're thinking, but you're right, and if I can say something better, I'll give you a hereditary command."

Shu'er Che's careful thinking was difficult to hide in front of Zhu Di, but Zhu Di didn't expose it too thoroughly, but gave Shu'er Che a chance.

"When they heard that His Majesty was coming, they went to the northeast foot of Mount Hara more than four hundred miles away, and the direction in which the Heavenly Army was searching was the direction in which they were hiding."

"If His Majesty the Emperor needs it, the minister can lead the way for His Majesty the Emperor!"

Shu'er Che did not hesitate to betray Tulu Kucha'er and them, after all, Tulu Kucha'er did not have the people to protect Shu'er Che, and Shu'er Che naturally did not need to leave them a way to live.

"How many armoured soldiers, how many soldiers and horses, how many troops, and how many cattle and sheep do they have?"

Zhu Di did not rashly agree, but wanted to obtain more information, and Shu'er Che also knew Zhu Di's concerns, so after he asked, he continued to answer:

"More than 16,000 armored soldiers, more than 10,000 light cavalry, more than 60,000 troops, hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep."

"Okay." Zhu Di bowed his head, and then instructed Wang Yan beside him: "Arrange a tent for him, slaughter a yellow sheep to fill his stomach, and place his troops not far from the military camp, leaving a hundred households to guard." ”

"Tomorrow's army will depart, and he will be the guide."

After Zhu Di gave the order, he also promised Shu'er Che: "After this battle, I will grant you a hereditary guard commander, but the premise is to meet the main force of the Wuliangha tribes." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor!" Hearing this, Shu'er hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, while Zhu Di returned to his big tent.

Not long after, Li Lost left with Shu'er Che, and Xie Jin and the others also took the opportunity to stay away from the big tent and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I can finally go back."

As soon as Xie Jin's words came out, whether it was Yang Shiqi, Hu Guang and others, they all bowed their heads, and at the same time, Yang Shiqi also spoke:

"Your Majesty took me and others to the north, just to let me and others understand the importance of Modong to the imperial court."

"After going south this time, whenever Your Majesty speaks in the temple, it is better for us to agree."

Yang Shiqi knew very well that Xie Jin and they all had complaints about the Northern Expedition, even himself.

However, he also knows very well that it is okay to complain, but it must not be spoken.

Even if Modong's output is barren, then don't export to hinder the investment of the heavenly father and son in Modong, otherwise I am afraid that I will have to bring them with me on the next northern expedition.

Yang Shiqi didn't want to suffer such a crime a second time.

Seeing him say this, even Xie Jin, who had always been arrogant, couldn't help but nod with a gloomy face, obviously this time he had suffered a lot.

Seeing that they all knew the general situation, Yang Shiqi also breathed a sigh of relief, and then returned to the big tent under the leadership of Xie Jin.

Zhu Di just glanced at the word when they disappeared and didn't say anything, but what he thought in his heart, only he knew.

I've encountered a little tricky things these days.,The second update will be a little later.,It's estimated that it will be updated at one o'clock in the afternoon today.。

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