"The criminal minister Yang Sheng, misheard the slander of others, and actually offended Tianwei, and now he is bound to surrender, and I hope that the Heavenly Army will not embarrass many officials and people in Banzhou!"

In the middle of the winter of the seventh year of Yongle, after more than half a month of traveling, when Song Shu passed through Nanjing Zhu wholesale, Mu Chundang even asked people to contact Yang Sheng, and told Yang Sheng the meaning of Zhu Pi and the imperial court.

It is true that Yang Sheng was indeed very angry at first, but in the past half a month, Mu Chun had already transferred more artillery from Qijiang.

At present, there are 300 artillery pieces in the 30,000-strong army under his command, and these 300 artillery pieces have been standing in front of the two military camps early, and from time to time they use the mountains as targets for training, and daily artillery bombardment to deter the constantly assembled Tusi soldiers and horses in Banzhou.

In the face of the artillery training of the Ming army, the Banzhou Tusi also lost the courage to shout at the beginning, and gradually they were inclined to surrender.

However, they also all know that after surrendering, they will have to accept the return of the land, so they are worried about the treatment of their own land after the return to the land.

In order to appease Tusi, Yang Sheng deliberately performed a topless and self-binding thorn scene in front of the battle.

As he expected, Mu Chun sent Mu Sheng to help him loose and bring him to Mu Chun.

"Yang Sheng, I won't mention the previous mistakes, hand over the official seal and Banzhou's "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas", I will allow you to keep the Banzhou Yang Mansion, and at the same time, maybe the local officials under your command will get the corresponding official rank."

"The land they handed over, the court will also make up for it with money, grain, and farmland."

Mu Chun sat on horseback and looked at Yang Sheng condescendingly.

Seeing this, Yang Sheng first glanced at the Ming army, looked at the neatly lined up Ming army with bright armor, and then glanced at the artillery not far away, and finally sighed and bowed:

"Xiaguan, Xie Guogong's grace ......"

After that, Yang Sheng was escorted back to Banzhou City by Mu Sheng led by the Ming army, and explained the conditions given by Mu Chun to many toasts in front of Mu Sheng.

Hearing this, more than 60 small and medium-sized Toasts in Banzhou breathed a sigh of relief and obediently led the soldiers and horses to evacuate Banzhou.

However, at the same time as they withdrew, the Ming army was also divided into 60 large and small troops and horses to follow them back to the station.

At this point, the Banzhou Propaganda Department accepted the change of land and returned to the stream, and the Banzhou Propaganda made Yang Sheng be deprived of his post, and his son Yang Gang and his grandson Yang Jiongping awarded General Huaiyuan from the Sanpin Sansheng rank, from the Sanpin Wuxun Light Car Captain, and gave Chengdu Mansion Xindu Zhuangtian 5,000 acres and a mansion.

Although the soldiers and horses have not yet been spread, when the news spread, the first person to get the news was the Sichuan political envoy Jian Yi, who had been sitting in Chongqing Prefecture.

At this moment, he was in the county government of Ba County, Chongqing, and when he got the news, he was still coordinating the issue of soldiers, horses, money and food, so when he heard that the Banzhou Xuanwei Division accepted the land reform and return to the stream, he still didn't believe it.

It wasn't until Xu Shuo, the magistrate, explained in detail that he nodded knowingly, and then got up and walked out of the study.

He walked inside the yamen to relieve the soreness in his waist and shoulders, and at the same time, Xu Shuo, the magistrate, also followed him all the time.

"Sir, it seems that the rebellion in Guizhou will soon be suppressed."

Xu Shuo, as a student who participated in the imperial examination in Jilin and obtained the Jinshi background, his status as a Han outside the Guanxi undoubtedly made him very smooth on the political road, so he didn't think about it carefully, but he felt that the Banzhou Yang clan had surrendered, and the Sizhou Tian clan might not make much trouble.

"Won't ......"

Jian Yi shook his head, rejecting Xu Shuo's conjecture and explaining:

"The Yang family and the Tian family can't compare, the Tian family is from the Sui Dynasty, and it was the history of the Qiandi assassination at that time, and it was a high and powerful position."

"In comparison, the Yang clan is just a small thorn in the late Tang Dynasty who was sent to defend against border troubles, and the resources or connections obtained are not comparable to the Tian clan."

"In the land of Banzhou, I think there are two prefectures at most, and Sizhou and Sinan under the rule of the Tian family are ......"

Jian Yi didn't continue, just shook his head, and sighed at the profound heritage of the Tian family.

"The Tian family is indeed profound, but in the face of the encirclement and suppression of Qianguogong, Zhenyuanhou and Cao Guogong, I am afraid it will be difficult to survive."

Although Xu Shuo didn't know how deep the Tian clan was, he knew that no matter how powerful the Tian clan was, it couldn't be stronger than the imperial court, not to mention that there were still contradictions within the Tian clan.

In his opinion, the Tian clan will be defeated if it lasts for a year at most, and the imperial court will also obtain the land and population under the Tian clan, which will greatly enhance the national strength.

"Sichuan's new policy has been stabilized, and a few days ago, news came from the East Palace, preparing to implement the new policy in Henan, Shanxi and Beizhili in one go."

Jian Yi did not continue the topic of the Tusi rebellion in Guizhou, but led the topic to the north.

"Donggong means that a group of officials will be selected from Shandong, Sichuan, and Liaodong, which are effective officials in implementing the new policy, and will be promoted to the three places of Beizhili, so as to facilitate the implementation of the new policy."

"Here in Sichuan, I elected thirty-two officials, and one of them is you."

"As long as you nod your head, you can leave for Nanjing tomorrow to report on your work and wait for promotion."

"With your achievements in implementing the new policy in Ba County, you should be promoted to the second level this time and go to the government to serve as a general judge."

The general judge is in charge of grain transportation and farmland and water conservancy, which Xu Shuo is proficient in, not to mention that he was originally a northerner from Shandong who migrated to Jilin, even if he can't return to his hometown, but it is not bad to be transferred to Henan and Beiping.

Even Jian Yi thought that Xu Shuo would nod and choose to return to the north, but Xu Shuo shook his head and said:

"The north is good, but even if you make achievements, it is only a civil rule, but you stay in the south, and the lower officials feel that there will be more opportunities."

"What do you want to say?" Jian Yi narrowed his eyes, although he knew that Xu Shuo was smart, but he didn't expect Xu Shuo to be able to guess the benefits of the southwest of the official position.

In the face of his inquiry, Xu Shuo did not hesitate to say: "The matter of Guizhou is as short as half a year and as long as a year. ”

"Once the Tusi rebellion is put down, then the next step is to fully implement the new policy and change the land."

"Compared with the three northern regions, the performance and resume of implementing the new policy in Guizhou will undoubtedly be better."

"Xiaguan feels that staying in Ba County and waiting to be transferred to Guizhou is the most important way for Xiaguan to take at the moment."

Xu Shuo respectfully told Jian Yi his thoughts truthfully, and Jian Yi bowed his head after hearing this: "You have a long-term vision, unlike your classmates." ”

"Did you win the election?" Xu Shuo was surprised, the only thing in his mouth was his childhood friend Wang Hui, and the words were only in the words.

When the Bohai Navy went south, their town was moved to Liaodong, and then to Jilin City.

Although they have been displaced for more than a year, they have also been blessed by misfortune, and Shandong students have gone to government schools nearly four years ahead of schedule.

And because of the identity of the Han people in Jilin, there are many people to take care of after becoming officials, whether it is to discuss things with the military attache of the capital department, or to discuss things with the officials of the government and the judicial department, few people will throw their faces at them.

This is not surprising, after all, there are only 160,000 people in Jilin City, and nearly forty percent of the military attaches in the imperial court are from Jilin City, and no one knows if Xu Shuo will have a duke and earl standing behind them.

"After getting the news, he set off for Nanjing, but his political performance is not as good as yours, and it is estimated that he will be promoted to the next level at most."

Jian Yi said, and at the same time looked at Xu Shuo approvingly: "It's a pity that you stay in Ba County, come back to Chengdu with me in three months." ”

"Mr. Xie promoted!" Xu Shuo returned the salute respectfully, and Jian Yi continued to walk when he saw this.

After seeing Xu Shuo follow, Jian Yi said: "It's okay for you to stay in the southwest, now that the south of the Yangtze River is muddy, the southwest is still stable." ”

"Mr. is talking about Jiangzuo and the officials of Jiangdong and Zhexi, right?" Xu Shuo got straight to the point, because he admired Jianyi, and Jianyi also intended to cultivate him as his own person, so he could be unscrupulous.

"The three factions are not easy to get along, especially after the north and south are divided, the three factions are constantly fighting, maybe when it will affect the north volume and the middle volume, especially after Guizhou sets up the three divisions, if the number of middle volumes is to increase, then the southern volume may also quarrel to increase."

Jian Yi said, slowly closed his mouth and looked at Xu Shuo: "What do you think of the temple today?" ”

He asked a little bit about the school, and Xu Shuo could naturally hear it, so after pondering for a while, he followed Jian Yi and said:

"The student has just entered the officialdom for only two years, and some words may be immature, so don't blame Mr. Wang."

After pondering deeply, Xu Shuo spoke: "The current situation in the temple is a situation that is absolutely dominated by the palace. ”

"Whether it is an official of the old or new political faction, they can only carry out activities within the bottom line set by the palace, and must not cross the red line."

"As long as the red line is touched, even if it is an official of the New Deal, the court will deal with it the same."

"Such a situation is rare, even in the Tang and Song dynasties and the Han Dynasty, there has never been such a situation, and such a situation is the centralization of power that has been increasing since the Qin Dynasty."

"The difference is that the centralization of power in the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties often refers to the emperor and a group of nobles and scholars around him, but now it is a centralized power centered on the emperor and the East Palace."

"Since the founding of Emperor Taizu Gao, all those who want to bargain with the court have all died out after a short period of rampant, especially the abolition of the prime minister system, and the emperor's power is even greater."

"However, such a political system also relies more on the emperor's personal ability."

"If the emperor is Emperor Gao, when he is a person like today's son and the East Palace in the future, there will naturally be no problem."

"However, if a very few emperors with mediocre abilities emerge in the future, then the entire temple will follow this emperor's ability and decline."

"Such a situation can be summed up in one sentence."

"If the emperor is strong, he will be strong, and if the emperor is mediocre, he will be great."

Xu Shuo said what he thought in his heart, and Jian Yi bowed his head slightly after hearing this, without making an evaluation.

After a while, Jian Yi slowly spoke:

"What you said has an opinion, the national dynasty is different from the previous dynasties, the emperors of the previous dynasties were mediocre, but they could still have the support of Zaifu, even if the dynasty was weak, it could be saved with the assistance of virtuous ministers, but the dynasty relied on the emperor's personal ability."

"I'm old, and I'm just serving the three dynasties, but you're different."

"You are the weak champion, and there is still a long way to go in the future."

"Sometimes, we must learn to judge the situation and not blindly admit death."

Jian Yi vaguely told Xu Shuo that if the emperor is strong, he will be dependent on the imperial power, and if the emperor is weak, he must have his own opinions and not do things in order to stand in line.

"Students are taught ......"

Xu Shuo heard that he claimed to be a student, and Jian Yi also stopped when he heard this, because they had already walked around the county government and returned to the door of the study.

After stopping for a moment, Jian Yi walked into the study, and Xu Shuo also followed.

The conversation between the two is not profound, it is completely Xu Shuo's personal opinion plus the point of righteousness, but even so, it still reveals a corner of the current Daming Temple.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu, their grandfather and grandson are undoubtedly one of the pinnacles of monarchy centralization among the emperors of the past 1,600 years.

When I met the three of them, it was considered that the doctors and military attachés in the early Ming Dynasty had fallen into blood mold.

This feeling is undoubtedly very profound to Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi and others at this moment.

After four months of wind and dust, they finally rushed back to Nanjing on the seventeenth day of the winter month, and hundreds of civil officials of the Northern Expedition were almost visibly thin, like a group of refugees who had fled from the grassland.

"You guys are too slow, I've been back for so long before you came back, so many government affairs have been done by me, what are the palace scholars doing?"

In the Wuying Palace, Zhu Di looked at Xie Jin's group of people, with a little anger on his face, but he smiled very happily in his heart.

"Ministers are ashamed to trust Your Majesty......"

In the face of Zhu Di's "anger", Xie Jin and others could only bow down helplessly, even if they were right, they had to admit that they had made a mistake.

Before the Northern Expedition, they had difficulty raising fair skin and well-proportioned or rounded figures.

After the end of the Northern Expedition, at this moment, their whole complexion was dark, their cheeks were sunken, and they were all covered in flesh, and the wind seemed to be able to blow them away.

Even if they were tortured by Zhu Di like this, they couldn't say anything, after all, the emperor had personally enduring hardships, what could a group of their courtiers say?

"The next imperial examination, equestrianism will be a mandatory requirement, I don't want the temple to be a group of Confucian scholars who can't even master the six arts of a gentleman."

Zhu Di was still mocking them, but they still had to accompany the smiling faces.

Looking at this scene, Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting on the side, chuckled and got up, which can be regarded as saving this group of red-faced Confucian students who were said to be red-eared.

"Your Majesty, the Banzhou Yang clan accepts the change of land and returns, which is a good thing for the imperial court, and the three divisions of Guizhou can also be established."

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Xie Jin, who was still red-faced, had to raise his head and reluctantly said:

"Your Majesty, there is one more province in the middle volume out of thin air, which will naturally lead to crowding of the number of middle rolls."

"The minister thinks that the three volumes of the North, South and Middle Schools should increase the number of Jinshi recruits."

Although he was already weak and weak, Xie Jin was still fighting for power in the future.

"There is no need to increase the number of places."

Before Zhu Di could speak, Zhu Gaoxu took the lead in saying: "The imperial court is only more than 100 prefectures, more than 100 prefectures, 1,400 counties, more than 400 guards, and more than 300 institutes. ”

"If you add one province or decrease one province, these state capitals will not change much, and the people participating in the imperial examination will still be the same group."

"If you want to increase the number of places, it will naturally have to be an increase in population and a greater competition."

"Every official in the imperial court, that one is not selected out of a thousand, and increasing the number of places will only allow some fish of uneven quality to slip through the net."

Zhu Gaoxu seemed to be speaking for the officials, but in fact he was cutting off the idea of dissolving them.

The imperial examination is their own way to go, so they will honestly take the imperial examination.

The current situation is that the grassroots officials are occupied by the New Politics students, and the middle and high-level imperial examinations still need to face the challenges of the New Politics students.

Speaking of the number of students alone, Xie Jin has already learned about them in the process of going south, and the number of New Deal students who graduated this year is more than 200,000.

If you continue to do this for the imperial court, after a few decades, I am afraid that the northern and southern volumes will not protect the students of the north and southwest, but the students of the south of the Yangtze River.

Xie Jin and the others wanted to maintain the original situation, but Zhu Gaoxu disagreed.

There are only two ways he can give them a solution, either take the initiative to accept the new deal now, or be forced to accept the new deal in the future.

Accepting the New Deal now, Jiangnan can still keep up with the footsteps of other New Deal regions, and if it is accepted in the future, then Jiangnan will have to lag behind for more than ten years.

They want to accept the New Deal is the government and the school, but what they resist is the political and economic reform of the New Deal outside the government school.

If this is a land measurement and liquidation, there may be how many officials will be implicated, and they dare not open this head.

"Since His Highness said so, let's do so for the time being."

Xie Jin didn't dare to argue with Zhu Gaoxu, mainly because he couldn't argue with Zhu Gaoxu.

Seeing that he failed to make meritorious contributions, a trace of regret flashed in Yang Shiqi's eyes on the side, and then continued to disguise his duty.

Looking at their appearance, Zhu Di also waved his hand and said: "You have just returned to Nanjing, and you are allowed to take a three-day leave to rest, and you will be on duty after three days." ”

"Thank you for your grace, the ministers will retire ......"

Xie Jin and the others bowed in return when they heard this, and then walked out of the Wuying Hall with their heads down.

At the same time as they walked out, Zhu Di also laughed: "Haha, did the second child see it, this group of old barbarians also has this ugly appearance." ”

"It's embarrassing." Zhu Gaoxu chuckled, and at the same time said to Zhu Di:

"The Banzhou Yang family accepts to change the land and return to the stream, so now there is only the Tian family left."

"If the Tian family is destroyed, most of the Song An family will accept the appeasement."

"The current situation is that after cleaning up these four, more than eighty percent of the Tusi in Guizhou will be basically cleaned up, and the remaining Qiannan Tusi will be feasible whether they are encircled and suppressed by force or appeased, in short, the problem of setting up three divisions in Guizhou is no longer big, and the problem now is to move their population out and move the people of Jiangnan in."

If you want to change the proportion of ethnic groups in Guizhou, the most direct way is to move the minority people and move into the Han people.

Unlike Bohai and Annam, Guizhou did not have many grain-producing areas, so the political and military benefits of taking it were greater than the economic ones.

Migrating the natives of Guizhou to Sichuan and Huguang must ensure that they can live comfortably, and it is indispensable to open up grain.

"Erchen is ready to move out a million people to settle in Sichuan and southern Huguang, and at the same time transfer 5 million stones of grain from Nanzhili for them to open up the wasteland."

"These five million stones, including the fixed tax grain in Sichuan and Huguang, are enough to support them to open up the wasteland for two years."

"I believe that in two years, there will be fewer rebellions in Guizhou, and at the same time, there will be more arable land in Sichuan and Huguang."

Zhu Gaoxu said his thoughts, but Zhu Di raised a new question after hearing it: "The number of mouths in Guizhou, I am afraid that it is not possible to move out of the mountains by only one million." ”

"One million is just an approximation, and the specific details can only be known until the land is changed, just like the current Westfan."

Zhu Gaoxu mentioned Xifan, and Zhu Di also looked down at his desk.

On his desk are two volumes, which are the "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" of some areas of Duogan that were changed by the Ming army and the Mu's Tusi Papaya soldiers.

Under the rule of Duogandusi, there were many Xuanwei Division, Zhaozhi Division, Wanhu Mansion and Thousand Households, among which many areas close to the post road were converted by the Ming army and returned to the river, and the population and cultivated land were counted.

However, statistics are one thing, governance is another, the Ming army can only maintain such rule in the Duogan region at the moment, and the Usizangdu Division, which goes up further, is powerless to interfere, and can only maintain the construction of post roads and hold several important cities.

"The two Propaganda Divisions and the Ten Thousand Households Government can count 120,000 people and more than 300,000 acres of cultivated land, which is indeed an unexpected joy."

Zhu Di took the "Yellow Book" and flipped through it, but after reading it, he shook his head again and said, "It's just that the output is too small." ”

Because the environment at this moment is even worse than in modern times, even in the western Sichuan region in the later generations, the yield per mu of the Duogan area in this era is only about 100 catties.

Such an output, coupled with the uncultivated land, undoubtedly gave Zhu Di a headache.

"If you migrate down to the plateau, you can leave 10,000 households." Zhu Gaoxu said.

In this era when productivity has not improved, Zhu Gaoxu has to increase the per capita arable land area if he wants to make the Duogan area a place where he can supply the army with food and grass.

Since arable land is difficult to cultivate, it is obviously not feasible to reclaim.

In this case, the only way to do this is to migrate and increase the per capita arable land area in disguise.

"Leaving 10,000 households to cultivate these more than 300,000 acres of cultivated land in the local area, and then ensuring the delivery of sugar, oil, and tea into the local area, and increasing their other food in disguise, will make it much easier to buy grain."

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di explained, and Zhu Di said after listening:

"It's a way, but it's easy for this person to move away, and it's difficult to move back."

Zhu Di still wanted to move back to the population in the future, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't think so, as far as the environment of the West was concerned, before industrialization, the local population was a burden to the Ming Dynasty.

"Maintain these populations first, and then discuss relocation when the conditions are right."

Zhu Gaoxu was not ready to discuss the population issue with Zhu Di, because he wanted to lead the topic to a good news.

"Father, you said that if the grain production in the Jiangnan region can increase by 20%, how much will the imperial court's taxes increase?"

When Zhu Di was about to pick up the teacup, Zhu Gaoxu's sudden opening made him pause.

"What did you say?" Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochu in disbelief, and Zhu Gaochu also got up and chuckled:

"Erchen said that Erchen can increase the grain production in Jiangnan by 20......"

(End of chapter)

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