"At present, the Yellow River has been dredged, and the water and sand flushing have also been effective, and the Yellow River has never broken since the second year of Jianwen, so it is possible to immigrate to Zhangde, Weihui, Kaifeng, and Guide."

"In the case of Beiping, considering the issue of moving the capital, the immigrants are mainly in Baoding and Zhending in the Taihang Mountains, and the two sides of the canal are left to the Jiangnan immigrants in the future."

In the Chunhe Palace, Sun Cheng and Zhu Gaoxu talked about what he saw and heard along the way, as well as the situation in Henan and Beiping.

While listening to Zhu Gaoxu, he asked people to find the sand table of the Ming Dynasty.

On the sand table, it can be seen that the counties of Henan and Beiping in the early Ming Dynasty were far away and not as dense as those in the south of the Yangtze River.

When Yongle opened the dynasty, Zhu Gaochu once ordered someone to recompile the "History of the Yuan", and this "History of the Yuan" took four years and was successfully compiled in the winter of the fourth year of Yongle, and Zhu Gaochu read it at that time.

In the records of the "History of the Yuan Dynasty" to the Zheng period, in the twenty-eighth year of the Zheng Dynasty, Henan suffered seventeen disasters, plus wars, and seven or eight of the residents died, so that "Huai to the north of the bow for the grass", most of the area is deserted.

Due to the drastic decline in population, after Zhu Yuanzhang took Henan, he changed 12 prefectures into counties and merged 60 counties for management.

In contrast, Shanxi, which was less affected by wars, fewer floods and droughts, and had a concentrated population, became the first choice for outward immigration, followed by Shandong.

However, because Shandong has supported the immigration of the northeast region, and the new policy has begun to be implemented, the people of Shandong live and work in peace and contentment, and it is easy to cause accidents if they disturb it, and Shanxi is too densely populated, and the people are overburdened, so the imperial court must reasonably adjust the structure of local means of production.

"Taiyuan Prefecture, Pingyang Prefecture and the five prefectures of Lu, Ze, Liao, Qin and Fen are densely populated and have convenient transportation, and it is completely possible to migrate millions of people from Shanxi to Beiping and Henan."

"The minister estimates that it is about necessary to transfer 50,000 domesticated farming cattle, 150,000 horses, and 5 million stone rations from Jiangnan every year."

"If this is maintained for two years, the migrants will be able to reclaim no less than 5 million acres of arable land."

The so-called five million mu, this is still Sun Cheng to say less, after all, Shanxi's wasteland has been fertile cultivated land for a hundred years, as long as the weeds are treated, it is completely good cultivated land, the first year of reclamation, a batch of insect eggs frozen to death in winter, and crops can be sown in the next year.

With the help of oxen and horses, it only takes two years for them to resume production.

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to move so much in one go."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the terrain and said in a deep voice: "In this way, this year and next year, the Tianfu and Juntun of Henan and Beizhili will stay for themselves. ”

"After April, when the students arrived in various places, the new policy began to mobilize the people to emigrate."

"At first, encourage them to take the initiative to emigrate, send military escorts, and then force them to emigrate if it doesn't work well."

"In addition, it is not only Shanxi that needs immigrants, but also other places."

"I have read the "Yellow Book" in the land of Longxi in Guanzhong, and the people of Semu account for sixty percent of the local population, which is too much, and it is not easy to manage."

"This immigration allowed the Shaanxi Buzheng Department to forcibly relocate 200,000 people from Longxi to live in Henan, and the imperial court distributed ploughing cattle and horses, farm tools and rations."

"You select some people, send capable helpers to bring 400,000 yuan from the mint to the local area, buy fields and livestock from them, and at the same time let the Shaanxi Buzheng Department move people from Xi'an, Yan'an, Fengxiang and other prefectures into Longxi and settle them on the spot."

Zhu Gaoxu remembered the hardships of the people in Yan'an, due to the lack of water, it was also the place where the most uprisings broke out in the late Ming Dynasty.

The migration of people from Xi'an, Yan'an, and Fengxiang to Longxi can not only change the local ethnic structure, but also reduce the burden on Yan'an, which is also a great good governance.

"Yes!"

Sun Cheng responded respectfully, and Zhu Gaoxu also mentioned the matter of Guizhou when he saw this.

"Have you heard about the things in Guizhou above the temple today, do you understand?"

"I heard it, the minister has been communicating with the students in Sichuan all these years, and when His Majesty intended to set up three divisions in Guizhou last year, the minister was already concerned about Guizhou." Sun Cheng replied.

"The courtiers said that there were no less than four million people in Guizhou, and the imperial court was going to move the people of Guizhou out."

"I think it's easy to move out, but it's hard to move in." Sun Cheng continued:

"It's easy to migrate people from the mountainous areas of Guizhou to Sichuan to reclaim the wasteland of the Two Song Dynasty, but that's not enough to change the situation in Guizhou."

"The situation in Guizhou is still that there are few people and many Han people, and there are not enough Han people to support the local health center."

"Therefore, the minister thinks that what His Royal Highness wants to say is not to move the people into Guizhou?"

Sun Cheng paid attention to the immigration policy of his Royal Highness very early, especially the expansion of Jingnan's criminal ministers and the relocation of Yunnan to the western Yunnan region, which was a clever move by Zhu Gaoxu's immigration methods.

In the sub-volumes of the North and South List, why are there fewer people who oppose the middle volume, and most of them oppose the northern volume?

In the final analysis, isn't it because of the group of Jingjing criminals in western Yunnan?

Zhu Gaoxu gave this group of criminal ministers the opportunity for the imperial examination, and most of these criminal ministers are related to the current ministers in the temple, so it can be said that the middle scroll is completely beneficial to this group of criminal people in western Yunnan.

In fact, in the last imperial examination, among the 30 jinshi in the middle examination, 14 were from Yunnan, 10 were from Sichuan, and Jiaozhi and Guangxi each had 3.

Among the sixteen jinshi in Yunnan, 12 were divided equally among the four prefectures of Dali, Yongchang, Nandian and Longchuan.

If you investigate carefully, these twelve people are basically the descendants of the guilty ministers.

After they were admitted to the Jinshi, the whole family was freed from their crimes, and now they have settled in Nanjing.

However, the crime is not so easy to get rid of, and Zhu Gaoxu's exoneration is only limited to parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, and nephews.

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, this has included a family, but in the family-based era of the Ming Dynasty, most of the people who were assigned were distributed in the form of families.

In other words, if a family wants to get away with it, it must have at least a dozen or even dozens of jinshi.

Of course, in addition to this way of exoneration, Zhu Gaoxu also gave other ways for local criminals to get rid of their crimes.

For example, if a private school is opened and one jinshi is taught, then the entire jinshi can help one teacher and the whole family get rid of sin.

The establishment of this policy has increased the number of private schools in western Yunnan from the original seven to 92 in the past eight years, and the literary style has flourished.

It is precisely because of this background that Yunnan was able to occupy the top spot in the imperial examination.

Yunnan's immigration policy is worth learning from Guizhou, Guangxi, and Jiaozhi, after all, the three places are all regions with less Han and more land like Yunnan.

Cochin can not be in a hurry, but Guizhou must go further, so that it can influence Guangxi and then affect Cochin together with Yunnan.

Sun Cheng understands Zhu Gaoxu's approach, but now he does not have so many major crimes, and he has no chance to get hundreds of thousands of literate people to be assigned to Guizhou.

"Ji Gang, Hu Lun, and Chen Ying are already in charge, although it can't be as many as before, but it won't be a problem to affect tens of thousands."

"In addition to this, the issue of taxation and household registration is also a problem."

Zhu Gaoxu spoke slowly, and Sun Cheng's eyes lit up.

There were many officials under his command who went to the tax department, and in the correspondence, he also learned about the problems of taxation and household registration in Jiangnan.

These questions can be taken out to make a fuss.

If His Royal Highness is ruthless, it will not be a problem to affect hundreds of thousands of people, but in that case, His Royal Highness will probably be targeted by Confucian scholars all over the world.

"In what direction is Your Highness going to start?"

"Salt Tea Iron Lesson." Zhu Gaoxu responded to Sun Cheng without thinking, and his eyes also looked at the palace gate.

He heard familiar footsteps, and the next second there was a singing voice at the door of the hall: "Your Highness, Xia Yuanji, the official secretary Xia Yuanji asks to see you." ”

"Xuan!"

Zhu Gaoxu responded, and Yishu hurriedly motioned to the eunuchs in the hall to bring chairs.

After just a few breaths, Xia Yuanji, who had changed into the official's regular clothes, walked into the hall and sat down after bowing with Zhu Gaoxu.

When you come to the Spring and Harmony Hall, you can take a seat, which is already something that the officials of the six ministries know.

Compared with those emperors who like to make people kneel, Zhu Gaoxu at least respects most officials in action.

"I invite you to come this time, mainly because I want to inspect the salt and iron tea classes, and at the same time clean them up and the coastal private salt."

Zhu Gaoxu got straight to the point, and Xia Yuanji also frowned and nodded after hearing this, as if he felt that this matter was a little tricky.

During the Hongwu period, the salt tax accounted for at least half of the monetary tax system in the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue.

Since the people have to use salt, this kind of goods never have to worry about sales, so in all dynasties have implemented strong control over this commodity, and there are clear regulations on the production of salt to the final sale, and the Ming Dynasty is no exception.

As early as the Zhizheng period, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the salt law to increase taxes, so as to obtain sufficient military pay to support himself in the fight for the world.

Zhu Yuanzhang has a stove household specializing in the production of salt, in order to ensure the output of salt, the Ming Dynasty is very strict with the management of these stove households, once naturalized, future generations are not allowed to leave the household registration, each generation must go out of a household to specialize in the production of salt.

The salt they produced could only be sold to the government, and it was strictly forbidden to buy and sell it privately, and as for the treatment, it gradually decreased over time.

In the early days of Hongwu, the treatment of stove households was relatively good, and at the beginning of the production of salt (400 catties) to rice and stone.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the capital of the rice was converted into two banknotes, and the price of banknotes dropped sharply, and the stove households could not make ends meet.

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, because Zhu Gaoxu suggested that the issuance of treasure banknotes be suspended and recycled, the treatment of Zaohumen was changed back to sending rice and one stone, and he was exempted from miscellaneous labor.

This alternative management system has ensured the production of salt to a certain extent, but it has brought a heavy burden to the stove households, and it has also seriously hit the production enthusiasm of these stove households.

After all, it takes a lot of coal, charcoal, and firewood to make a guide to salt, and these things are very expensive in Jiangnan, and the price of a stone of rice is simply not enough to support the production of a lead salt.

In Zhu Gaoxu's view, Lao Zhu's salt class and salt transportation system are very good, and it is enough to make slight changes and continue to retain the Kaizhong method.

"I want to take over the Salt Division and the Salt Transportation Department first, and then change the household to a private household, and recruit salt workers to produce salt."

Zhu Gaoxu wants to grasp the source of production, as long as he masters the salt factory, knows how much salt is produced each year, and then intensifies the crackdown on illegal salt, then the salt tax revenue will continue to increase.

"The salt introduction system is good, but the number has to be changed, and the number of people today will be increased as appropriate."

Zhu Gaoxu said his opinion, and Xia Yuanji said after hearing it: "If this is the case, then I am afraid that there will be no less than 50,000 workers to be hired. ”

"50,000 people scattered on the ground is not much, but the place where salt is produced has to be carefully chosen." 朱高腦 says:

"Salt production is mainly based on dried salt, which can be done along the coast, if it is boiled, then coal must be used in the north, and salt can be made from firewood in the south."

"This matter, you and Sun Cheng handed it over, and now the provinces of the new policy will take the lead in implementing it."

When his voice fell, he was about to wave his hand, but Xia Yuanji said, "Your Highness, the minister has something to tell you." ”

"Say it." Zhu Gaoxu was curious about what Xia Yuanji would say, but he never thought that Xia Yuanji would speak: "Now the number of teachers, officials, officials, lieutenants, and grain chiefs in the New Deal area has reached more than 376,000 people, and the annual expenditure is more than 8.7 million guan, while the imperial court is only more than 29 million guan a year. ”

"This year, the new policy will be implemented in the three provinces in one go, and the ministers and household officials have calculated that the expenditure will further reach more than 1,280,000 yuan, accounting for 40% of the tax paid by the imperial court."

"If this treatment continues, the minister thinks that the new policy will be implemented at most Shaanxi and Shaanxi Xingdu, and then it will not be able to be implemented, after all, the world's soldiers and horses are about 9 million yuan, and the rest of the regions are about 5 million yuan."

Although Xia Yuanji is the secretary of the ministry, he also helps him to handle many things in the household department, so he can understand the situation of the household department so well, so he will come to remind Zhu Gaoxu for Guo Zi.

However, in the face of his statement, Zhu Gaoxu chuckled and said: "I didn't say that I want to make these 200,000 people become officials. ”

"What do you mean......" Xia Yuanji asked cautiously, and Zhu Gaoxu also spoke: "If you really recruit these 200,000 people, then there will be at least 50,000 officials in each province, do you think that the imperial court needs so many officials and teachers?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and continued:

"Among the more than 200,000 people, the imperial court only needs 100,000, of which 80,000 are responsible for the new policies in the four regions, and the remaining 20,000 are responsible for inspecting the salt department, the salt transportation department, and taking over the control of the salt works."

After saying the results, Zhu Gaoxu also said helplessly: "There is no pressure, most students feel that they will have a wide sky after graduation, and they can eat and wait for death." ”

"It's good if it's just like that, but judging from last year's impeachment and interrogation by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the number of new government officials and teachers who were disposed of last year was as high as more than 4,600."

"Does this mean that they don't value this hard-won errand at all?"

"Give them some motivation, and then change the rules of the officials and teaching."

"From now on, after the end of the three-year term of office of the officials, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will carry out a Beijing inspection to evaluate and inspect the new government officials in the world."

"Those who are capable will go up, make exceptions and be promoted to officials, and the weak will be eliminated, and if they want to continue to serve as officials, they will return to their places of origin to participate in the make-up examination of official schools."

"As for those who committed crimes and bent the law for bribes during their tenure, they were assigned to slaves in Gancheng, Heishui City and other places together with their families."

"In addition, starting next year, only those with a grade of B or above can serve as officials and teachers, and the first class will enter Taixue research."

Zhu Gaoxu set the rules for the students of the New Politics, and this rule is not difficult.

Taking the results of the graduation examination as an example, of the more than 246,000 candidates who graduated a few days ago, less than 30,000 achieved the second grade, and only more than 2,700 were first-class.

Such a difficulty is no worse than the imperial examination.

"What should the students of C and D do?"

Sun Cheng knew very well how large the number of this group of people was, so he nervously asked Zhu Gaoxu.

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he looked at Yishiha, and Yishiha also took the initiative to speak:

"Joining the army is also a way out, after all, after the implementation of the new policy this time, the guard will be eliminated, and only the establishment will be retained, and the military tuntian and military status will not be retained."

"At present, there are as many as 200,000 Tuntian soldiers in Beizhili, Henan, and Shanxi, and there are only 100,000 soldiers."

"After the 200,000 Tuntian soldiers are eliminated, 80,000 soldiers need to be recruited in each province, 20,000 in Henan, and 30,000 in Shanxi and Beiping."

"These 80,000 soldiers, His Royal Highness is ready to recruit from among the students, and they will join the army for at least three years, and after three years, they can decide to stay on their own."

"If you want to leave the army, the army will pay you three times as much as you pay according to your official position."

After saying that, Sun Cheng nodded, feeling relieved.

He didn't think that the New Deal students would feel ashamed of being a soldier, after all, with the continuous improvement of the treatment of soldiers over the years, soldiers are almost a glorious errand for their families.

Although there is no enlistment field and pension field now, the enlistment fee of ten times and the pension of one hundred times are considered a lot of wealth.

The officers and students have three classes in the morning and afternoon every day, of which the last two classes in the afternoon are equestrian, mounted archery, and short-range training, so their skills are not bad.

In the last imperial examination, the students outside the Guanxi basically scored good scores in riding and archery and lifting stones, but the results of the students in Jiangnan were not ideal.

Because of this, the price of horses in Jiangnan has soared in the past two years, and many private schools and wealthy families are buying horses for their students and children to practice riding and archery.

"In addition to joining the army, there are also soldiers and horses who can get them employed."

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to remind Sun Cheng, and said to Xia Yuanji: "The model of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division can be moved to more than 1,400 counties below, and each county has a number of soldiers ranging from 100 to 1,000. ”

"Except for the fact that the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division are not equipped with arquebuses, the rest are equipped as standard as the soldiers."

However, with the implementation of the new policy, in addition to the need for troops in the frontier and areas with a large number of people, there is no need for troops in the interior at all.

"The minister needs to go back and calculate to know." Xia Yuanji did not rashly agree to the implementation of the Terracotta Division, but was ready to see if Daming could support enough Soldiers and Horses in the mainland after canceling the garrison in the mainland.

"Specifically, the two of you will discuss it together, it's not early, if I don't go to the Qianqing Palace, the Qianqing Palace will have to send someone to urge me."

Zhu Gaochu got up to see off the guests, and Xia Yuanji and the others also got up one after another, and followed Zhu Gaochu out of the East Palace.

After Zhu Gaoxu took Yishiha to the golden bridle, Xia Yuanji said to Sun Cheng: "If Sun Shilang has no matter, why don't you go to the house with me to discuss the affairs of the household department and the official department?" ”

"Xie Xia Shangshu invites ......" Sun Cheng knew that Xia Yuanji was from the East Palace, so naturally he would not resist anything.

Soon, the two of them walked out of the palace, and Zhu Gaoxu also arrived at the Qianqing Palace in a golden chariot.

Two hours had passed since the end of the Great Dynasty Meeting, and he didn't seem to have been in the Spring Peace Hall for long, but in fact, it was already past lunchtime.

"You're late."

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu from afar, Zhu Di leaned back in his chair and greeted him dissatisfied.

Zhu Gaoxu ignored the old man, and kept his eyes on the person beside Zhu Di.

It was Queen Xu, but now she looks very thin, and she probably doesn't even weigh seventy pounds.

Even though she was just sitting, Zhu Gaoxu could feel her exhaustion and weakness.

Before he entered the hall, Zhu Gaoxu asked softly: "Is there any progress in Annan?" ”

"No ......" Yisha replied in a low voice, his voice revealing a kind of desperation.

"Got it."

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes dimmed a little, and his voice also revealed a sense of loss.

He walked into the hall and said to Zhu Di and Queen Xu, who were the lords of the hall: "The son is late, I hope my father and mother will forgive my sins." ”

"Come and take a seat, it's not a coincidence that you're here, Gao Sui has just left the palace."

Empress Xu was very thin, but her eyes were still kind, and her voice was hoarse but gentle.

Listening to her voice, Zhu Gaoxu's mind will always appear in the picture of his predecessor being taken care of by her, and his own communication with her in the Bohai Sea, and his nose is sour.

"Yes......" His voice suddenly became hoarse, and Zhu Di immediately coughed when he saw this:

"Okay, okay, let the music class perform two songs, there is not even a little New Year's atmosphere in this hall."

"Yes!" When Wang Yan heard this, he hurriedly summoned the music class.

Soon, as the orchestra entered the hall, the tunes composed by Zhu Gaoxu also began to be played.

Guo Yan took Zhu Zhanyan's hand and walked out of the side hall, followed by a concubine holding a three- or four-year-old child, with a beautiful appearance and charming eyes.

It was Zhang Fengyi, who had been with Zhu Gaoxu for a while, and the four-year-old Zhu Zhanqi was in her arms.

Speaking of which, Zhu Gaochu hasn't seen her for more than a year, and he should talk to her at this time, but after what happened just now, Zhu Gaochu is really not in the mood to exchange feelings with her.

He kept his eyes calm for a long time and didn't speak, and from time to time he looked at Zhu Di and Queen Xu who were talking and laughing together, and also thought of Zhu Gaochi's family in Yunnan.

After a while, he turned back to Guo Yan and said, "Write a letter to your sister-in-law, saying that the war in Guizhou will end soon, and let her and her eldest brother take Zhan Ji and them to Nanjing." ”

Hearing this, Guo Yan was stunned, but quickly set his eyes on the emaciated Empress Xu, and then turned around and nodded while looking at Zhu Gaoxu: "Good ......"

(End of chapter)

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