"Woo woo woo ......"

In mid-March, when the call was anxious, Jiangdongmen Wharf ushered in a busy situation again.

Standing on the pier, the dragon boat representing the Son of Heaven and the Huang Luo umbrella are moored and stand on the shore.

The wharf was filled with pictures of horses boarding ships and soldiers boarding ships, and there were more than 20,000 soldiers and thousands of civil officials on the entire wharf.

On Zhu Di's northern expedition, as always, he will not lack the company of Wenchen, whether he is reluctant to power, or wants this group of Jiangnan Wenchen to see the difficult environment in the north, in short, for the emperor, there is nothing wrong with him.

However, in this way, the first guarantee is that one's own strength can overshadow the other party, and even defeat the other party with ease, otherwise it will be like a certain student, not only will he be captured, but most of the two scholars of the military department and the household department, as well as the cabinet scholars and the six ministers.

If it weren't for the fact that the foreign students didn't take away the old ministers of the Five Dynasties, Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the king of the Ministry of Households, then Beijing would really be in danger, and Yu Qian, a soldier alone, would not be able to control the scene at all.

"I'll leave you with the six Shangshu, and I'll take the left attendant of the six departments and the scholars of the palace to the north."

"While you stay in the south to supervise the country, don't forget to take good care of your mother."

Under the umbrella of Huang Luogai, Zhu Di, who was wearing a yellow gown, explained Zhu Gaochu in every detail, and Zhu Gaochu also responded to every sentence.

"The people, grain and grass in the north have been requisitioned, as long as you don't think about fighting Arutai and then going to fight Mahamu and Taiping."

"In addition, Erchen thinks that in this battle, it is best for you to directly destroy Arutai, otherwise with the character of the Mongols, as long as Arutai suffers this heavy blow, he will definitely avoid you in the future."

"There is no way for the Uliangha, they can't escape from Modong back to Mobei with a large number of livestock, but Tatar and Warat are different."

"Once you've been hit hard, you won't want to find their main force in the future."

Zhu Gaoxu's words are based on his knowledge of the Mongols and his clear understanding of history.

In history, since the Tatars and Warat were beaten twice by Zhu Di respectively, the Tatars immediately fled every time they heard of Zhu Di's northern expedition.

However, it was precisely because Wara was directly a minister that he did not take them to heart after Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

Thinking of these, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but complain about his eldest nephew every day.

During Zhu Di's death from illness in the Northern Expedition, Dehuan, the son of Mahamu, killed Taiping on the way back from tributary Beijing, and killed Bald Polo at the end of the same year.

So far, among the three major departments of Warat, Tuhuan is the dominant family.

Zhu Zhanji did not support the other two departments, and only nominally canonized the son of Taiping, Pinch Lie Hu Xijue, as the king of Xianyi, but Tuhuan directly sent troops to conquer the Turghut special department, and waited anxiously for a few months.

It wasn't until he found out that Zhu Zhanji didn't care about his conquest of the Turks at all, that he immediately realized that the opportunity had come, and in the next ten years, he began a war to unify Mongolia.

When Zhu Zhanji died, the situation left to Zhu Qizhen was a situation in which all the other tribes in Mongolia except for Atai Khan were subordinate to Warat.

Less than three years after Zhu Qizhen came to power, Atai Khan was attacked and killed, and under the unification of the whole Mongolia, Zhu Zhanji successfully raised a Mongol regime no less than that of Wang Baobao's period.

Regarding this external strategic arrangement, Zhu Gaoxu really doesn't know how to boast about the so-called "rule of benevolence".

The population did not grow much, the scale of the people's rebellion was even larger than during the Yongle period, and the external situation was eroded.

In the north, a warat that can pull out 90,000 soldiers and horses has been raised, and in the south, a Luchuan that can pull out more than 100,000 soldiers and horses......

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Gaoxu felt that it was his destiny to replace the boss.

At the very least, Warat and Luchuan don't want to rise while they are alive, and if they can't be destroyed, they will be hit hard, leaving their children and grandchildren to be peaceful for ten or twenty years.

"What do you want?"

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu without speaking, with a suspicious expression.

"It's nothing, it's just a matter of government affairs." Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses and could only tell a lie, after all, he couldn't tell the good things that the boss's family had done.

The boss is counting backwards, except for Zhu Jianshen and Zhu Houzhao, who are doing a good job, and Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Zaikun are mediocre, the others are simply sparse.

As for the things they did, Zhu Gaoxu was afraid that after he told Zhu Di, Zhu Di would be sent back to the Qianqing Palace with high blood pressure to be with Queen Xu.

"Hmmm......"

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu obviously had something to do but didn't want to say it, Zhu Dihu responded suspiciously, and then looked at the military generals and soldiers who were on the boat.

"This time, I took the three guards of Yulin and the two guards of Zhaozhou to the north, counting the two guards of Zhaozhou and Jilin under the jurisdiction of Meng Zhang, the Yanshanwei and Ulzhou Wei of Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu, and the Daning Wei of Wang Yi, a total of ten guards and 56,000 people."

"Thirty-four thousand cavalry and twenty-two thousand horse infantry, hehe......"

Zhu Di stroked his beard, and the happiness on his face could not be concealed.

Once upon a time, when he toured north with an army of more than 200,000, the cavalry under his command was only seven or eight thousand.

Now twelve or thirteen years have passed, and he can easily pull out more than 30,000 cavalry.

If you count the side cavalry of the northwest, southwest, and west, then the Ming Dynasty also has nearly 70,000 cavalry.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di couldn't help but look in the direction of the Purple Mountain, as if he was reporting to Lao Zhu in the filial piety tomb.

"By the way, second brother, how did you do Ma Zheng?"

Zhu Di came back to his senses and asked about Ma Zheng.

Although when Yongle opened the dynasty, Zhu Di was not at ease to hand over Ma Zheng to Zhu Gaochu to manage alone, so he divided Ma Zheng into two, but as these seven years passed, Zhu Di was very satisfied with Zhu Gaoxu, so almost all the affairs of the court were handed over to him.

Because of this, Zhu Di doesn't need to ask about many things, and Zhu Gaoxu can do it very well, even exceeding Zhu Di's expectations.

"At present, there are more than 70,000 ungelding military horses under the Taifu Temple of the imperial court, and there are about 220,000 military horses that have been gelding."

"In addition, there are 150,000 ungelding horses, and 260,000 geldings."

"In addition to military horses and riding horses, the ranch also has nearly 300,000 horses and more than 300,000 cattle."

Under Zhu Gaoxu's report, the number of herds directly controlled by the Taifu Temple and the army was nearly 1 million horses and more than 300,000 cattle.

This data is the achievement of Zhu Di in the nineteenth year of Yongle in history, but due to Zhu Gaoxu's indiscriminate entry, the Ming Dynasty destroyed Wuliangha in advance, and obtained a large number of herds, plus the Bohai Sea grassland is sufficient, and the beans are sufficient, so such results are obtained.

These horses and cattle in the hands of the imperial court are real productive forces, and if they are invested in a certain province, they can quickly increase the amount of arable land in a province.

Of course, the prerequisite is to provide the people with enough beans and grain, so that they can open up the land without any scruples.

"Who are you going to transfer these horses and ploughing cattle to?"

Zhu Di naturally understood the importance of pulling horses and ploughing cattle to agriculture, so he asked Zhu Gaoxu.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu replied without thinking: "Although there are more than 600,000 ploughing cattle and horses, only more than 100,000 can be slaughtered and engaged in agricultural production. ”

"These ploughing cattle and horses are raised in Modong Sanwei and distributed to the local people on the spot, and strive to let the local people have more than ten acres of land per person after three years."

"As for the rest, Erchen is ready to be transferred to Beizhili, Shandong and Henan."

Beizhili, Shandong, and Henan, these three provinces are all large agricultural provinces in any period, but due to the two Song, Liao, Jin, and Sanyi Hui rivers and the Yellow River since the Yuan Dynasty, the people living in the land of these three provinces at this time are only more than 9 million, and the cultivated land is less than 80 million mu.

Needless to say, the cultivated land potential of these three provinces is too much, and if there are supporting ploughing cattle and horses, a family can completely cultivate nearly 100 acres of cultivated land extensively.

According to the calculation of more than 1.5 million households in the three provinces, even if they do not emigrate, these people can further cultivate and extensively cultivate 1560 million mu of cultivated land.

If the cultivated land potential of these three provinces is calculated according to later generations, it is a full 300 million mu, and even if the Yellow River is not diverted and fails to impact the large area of Dongying, it will not be less.

In fact, Zhu Gaoxu really wanted to develop a large-scale farm-style production mode in the north, that is, an economic form in which more than 2 million households in the north reclaimed and cultivated hundreds of millions of mu of cultivated land, but the productive forces did not allow him to do so.

Before industrialization, a peasant cultivated a maximum of five acres by pure manpower, and a family of five did not exceed 30 acres at most, and even if it was extensive, it was only 50 acres.

The end of the extensive type is inevitably that the yield per mu is not as high as that of intensive cultivation, which has been tried by the experimental field of Taixue.

In the south of the Yangtze River, intensive cultivation of one acre of land can produce two and a half stones or even three stones, extensive cultivation at most two stones, and even some only one stone, seven or eight buckets.

Therefore, even if the north cultivates extensively, it will not exceed the current output.

If we want to break through the existing output, we must increase productivity, and in addition to scientific and technological progress, the only way to improve productivity is to distribute ploughing cattle and horses as productivity.

If more than 100,000 ploughed cattle and horses are put into one province, it will be able to directly increase the cultivated land of this province by several million mu without the inflow of population under the condition that the rations are guaranteed.

Therefore, these more than 100,000 ploughing cattle and horses are the icing on the cake for the south of the Yangtze River, but they are a charcoal in the snow for the northern provinces.

Zhu Di was very satisfied with Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement, but still suggested: "It is best to arrange it for Beizhili, and it will be closer to Beizhili than Henan in the future." ”

Because Zhu Di built Tianjin Wei in the east of Beizhili on his return trip from the last northern expedition, the grain of Beizhili can also be transported to the Liaohe River in Liaodong through Tianjin, and after arriving in Kaiping all the way, it can be transported to Hechengwei by Songyuan in the north of Changchun for 400 miles to the north.

This route will not take more than 20 days, and the loss will not exceed 40%.

"Then first meet the needs of the people who moved into Henan, and then hand them over to the people of Shuntian Mansion, Yongping Mansion and Hejian Mansion."

Zhu Gaoxu made arrangements, and Zhu Di also looked at the team on the ship after bowing his head.

After determining that it would take a while, Zhu Di also explained to Zhu Gaoxu: "Don't check the affairs of Ouning Palace." ”

"Erchen didn't check." Hearing Zhu Di talk about the Ouning Palace, Zhu Gaoxu lowered his eyes and bowed his head.

Seeing this, Zhu Di breathed a sigh of relief: "I have already settled this matter, you don't have to interfere, this time you are in charge of the country, no one will make trouble for you." ”

"Yes......" Zhu Gaoxu nodded, and at the same time did not forget to explain to Zhu Di:

"Father's northern expedition, if he can capture more cattle and horses to the south, he can directly entrust them to Meng Zhang and Wang Yi to herd and domesticate these cattle and horses in Daning and Bohai respectively."

Mongolian cattle do not know how to farm, and in order for them to learn to farm, they must be tampered with and domesticated by hand.

This time can be as short as a few months or as long as a few years, and if it cannot be domesticated, it will be kept as a herding breed, waiting for the calf to be born, and then the calf will be domesticated for cultivation by hand.

Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Di to hand over the herd to Meng Zhang because Bohai, Daning, Liaodong and other places already had a mature domestication system.

Zhu Di naturally knew, so he didn't bargain like before, but nodded and repeated the order: "Remember to take care of your mother, I will come back to see her well." ”

"Don't worry......" Zhu Gaoxu bowed, and Zhu Di also beckoned Wang Yan to prepare for boarding with him.

Watching them go away and get on the boat, Zhu Gaoxu had mixed feelings in his heart.

The river wind blew him for a long time before he sighed and turned away.

After returning to the vicinity of Jinlu, Zhu Gaoxu saw Yishiha, who was anxiously waiting in place.

"What's wrong?"

"Sichuan has a popular uprising......

Yisha's answer made Zhu Gaoxu frown: "Get in the car and say." ”

"Yes!" Yisha opened the door for Zhu Gaoxu, followed Zhu Gaochu after he got into the car, and ordered Jin Lu and the guards to return to the palace.

After doing all this, Yizha took out the recital of the Sichuan political envoy Jian Yi from his sleeve.

After taking the ten lines at a glance, Zhu Gaoxu roughly figured out what was going on.

It is a fact that Sichuan is sparsely populated, so in the process of Li Jinglong, Sheng Yong, Mu Chun and others changing their land and returning to the river and quelling the rebellion of Southwest Yi, the captured local people were not resettled on the spot, but migrated to Sichuan, Huguang and other places for resettlement.

The places chosen by the imperial court for resettlement were usually hilly or plain areas, rather than mountainous areas that were easy to separat.

From the point of view of the natives, it is a great joy to move from the mountains to the hills and plains.

Moreover, with the launch of the Sichuan New Deal, the imperial court began to provide a certain amount of rations to the local people and the people of Sichuan, so that they could rest assured that they could cultivate the wasteland, which was a good thing.

At the beginning, the place where the imperial court settled the local people was the southwestern hilly plains of Tongchuan, Zizhou and Shunqing Province personally selected by Zhu Gaoxu.

Because of this, he never worried that the local natives would rebel.

At this moment, in the note in his hand, Jian Yi briefly reported the cause and situation of the rebellion of the local people.

To put it simply, since the Tusi in Guizhou in southeast Sichuan returned to the local area from Nanjing, many people have taken the initiative to choose to accept the land change and return to the stream.

For the Tusi who accepted the land reversion, the imperial court's practice was to relocate half of the local people to the two prefectures and one prefecture, allocate rations, distribute agricultural tools, and command them to build their own houses and reclaim the surrounding wasteland.

There is nothing wrong with all this, at least in Jianyi's view, this is simply benevolent in this era.

However, as the number of native people migrating to the two prefectures and one state increased, it was inevitable that some other big toasts would be mixed in.

They instigated the local people on a daily basis, but under the benevolent government of the imperial court to allocate rations, distribute farm tools, and build houses, not many of the local people chose to trust this group of people.

Even so, there were quite a few stubborn natives gathered around them.

At first, Jian Yi didn't take it to heart, but felt that as long as the imperial court was open and honest and helped them live and work in peace and contentment in the local area, they would not mutiny.

But it turns out that Jian Yi still underestimated the stubbornness of this group of people, and this civil uprising occurred in Xichong County under the rule of Shunqing Prefecture, because of a heavy rain that delayed the grain escorted by the imperial court to the local people of Xichong County.

In fact, the delay was not long, but only five days, and the county magistrate of Xichong County had already investigated the situation of the local people under his rule, and his family had at least half a month's surplus grain, so after a brief explanation, he didn't pay attention to it.

However, after the departure of the Imperial Court's Soldiers and Horses Division and the County Cheng, some local people with bad intentions began to bewitch the surrounding villagers, saying that they had eaten too much food but had not produced, and the Imperial Court had decided to recruit soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress them.

This kind of lie full of loopholes is so ridiculous in the eyes of the local county magistrate and even Jianyi, and even Zhu Gaoxu, but it is very common for the local people who have been exploited by the Tusi all the year round and hunted down by officers and soldiers.

On February 24, the natives of Xichong County rebelled, but fortunately they were not well prepared and failed to capture Xichong County.

With the release of carrier pigeons in Xichong County to send the news, the guards of the Xichong Institute began to deploy troops to quell the rebellion.

Due to the restructuring of the Sichuan Health Office, the soldiers of the Xichong Thousand Households Office are full of 1,000 people.

When these 1,000 people appeared in Xichong, the Turkish rebels, which numbered less than 10,000 people, began to rout only in the interval between the confrontations.

For the officers and soldiers of the Xichong Thousand Households, as long as the local people rebelled, they were rebels, so they naturally did not show mercy to their subordinates.

After half a day of fighting, the corpses of thousands of local rebels were separated, and less than 4,000 people were appeased by the Xichongzhi County and the county Cheng.

An ordinary suppression originally ended here, but with the fermentation of well-intentioned people, many local people in the two prefectures and one state listened to rumors, thinking that this was the beginning of the imperial court's massacre of the local people.

Because of this, in the past half a month or so, more than a dozen local rebellions have broken out in the two prefectures and one prefecture, ranging in scale from hundreds to thousands.

"A bunch of mongrels!"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the content of the song and scolded, he was not scolding the people who were bewitched, but the people who caused the people to be bewitched.

He didn't have to think about this matter to know that it was the four major toasts in Guizhou in southeast Sichuan who were doing something.

Among the three major toasts in Yunnan, the Mu family has taken over the transformation of the land and returned to the stream, and the other two toasts are too far away from Sichuan.

The three major toasts in Guangxi do not have such long hands, so they can only be the four major toasts in Guizhou.

"Has Yang Wen entered Sichuan?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked Yishiha, and Yishaha nodded: "He has already quelled the rebellion in Zizhou." ”

"Tell him that the main thing is to appease, and then to mobilize troops." Zhu Gaoxu reminded:

"Also, tell the local people about it so they know who the enemy is."

After that, Zhu Gaoxu thought of the layout of the southwest, and then continued: "After the end of this rebellion, we will immediately start recruiting and training, and firearms will be sent to Sichuan as soon as possible. ”

"Before June, we must realize the encirclement of the four major Tusi, and the local guard posts will build high cities, accumulate grain, and honestly wait for reinforcements."

"In addition, let the Tusi of the West Factory in the southeast of Sichuan conduct an investigation to see what they have been doing recently."

After arranging everything, Zhu Gaoxu watched Yi Shiha write all this down in a book.

After he finished writing, Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his eyebrows, and Yizha was also worried: "Your Highness, will it be too frequent to mobilize troops against Mobei and Southwest at the same time." ”

"When it is decided, it will be decided, while the court has soldiers and money, and use thunderbolt means to let them know who is the co-master of the world."

Zhu Gaoxu answered without hesitation, he never regarded the group of Tusi who tried to resist the imperial court as normal people, they were also careerists after all.

If you don't take advantage of this time to solve them, it will be another Banshu battle and a rebellion of luxury in the future generations.

Anyway, the imperial court now has money, food and people, and the four major toasts have just learned that the imperial court is going to start a comprehensive reform of Guizhou.

Judging by their speed and the materials they could use, they could not build siege artillery to withstand the Southwest Legion.

In that case, why didn't you catch them off guard.

"This group of guys has been entrenched in the local area for hundreds of thousands of years, and the money, grain, arable land, and population accumulated in their hands are not a few."

"Coupled with what they did in Annan before, the goods and people they plundered, and the things they seized after taking them, even if they can't cover the military spending, it won't make the military spending as big as imagined."

Zhu Gaoxu made an analysis and explained to Yizha: "Although I don't take them seriously, judging from their familiarity with the local area, this war should last for a year or two. ”

"Seize this time to let some students who graduated from Shandong, Bohai, Liaodong and other places learn the local dialect of the local people, which will facilitate us to directly manage the local area in the future."

Zhu Gaoxu explained that he was also lost, but he also lost Ha and said with a smile:

"Your Highness, rest assured, you have arranged this matter before, and some of the graduating students have been studying for more than two years."

"I arranged it before?" Zhu Gaoxu also smiled embarrassedly when he heard this: "I was busy and forgot, but now it can come in handy." ”

"Since this is the case, let them study quickly, it is estimated that in a year at most, the imperial court will need to send people to some parts of the local area to manage."

"Yes!" Yisha nodded in return, and at this moment, the golden chariot also drove into the palace and stopped at the gate of the East Palace.

Zhu Gaoxu got out of the car with the help of Yishiha, and after entering the Chunhe Palace, he seemed to think of something, and looked back at Yishaha:

"By the way, help me check if there is one of the Jinshi in the imperial examination in the past two years called Wang Jibei Zhili Jinshi."

"Slave maid to receive the order" Yi Shuha nodded, although he didn't know why Zhu Gaoxu was looking for this person, but he always acted according to his intentions.

Seeing Yishuha go away to do this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but look at the clear sky, covered his eyebrows with his hands, and whispered:

"Jiang Gui and Chen Mao have it, and now that Wang Ji is gathered, the Ming Dynasty can prosper for another forty years......"

(End of chapter)