"Flowing ......"

In the early morning, as the sun rises, buckets and buckets of water resound on the plains where green grass is bubbling up.

In this greenery, a village that is being built around the stone fort is undoubtedly very abrupt.

It is already the middle of February, and with a month of labor, a cement courtyard wall made of river sand and river stones has appeared on the once white ground.

Eighty-eight courtyards stand outside the stone fort, and the hunting and hunting "朙" character flag on the stone fort is waving in the wind, declaring the sovereignty of this land to the people of the four directions.

Outside the stone fort, families began to get up and work.

The women went outside the village to dig a ravine, while the men used the sand and stones piled up in front of the houses on the main road of the village to build their houses with cement.

Some people have many families, and the main house has been built, so they need to be capped with beams.

Some people have few families, so they first build the ear house to rest, and then slowly build the main house and the cow, horse and pigsty in the backyard.

There is no doubt that Lu Yu's family does not belong to the two, because although there are many people, they are all children, and their strength is not great, because they still live in tents.

Seeing their pity, Liu Quan rarely asked his family to follow the group to dig drainage ditches and ravines.

After all, they are all orphans, and no one chews the root of their tongues.

"Big brother, give!"

On the ground, two twelve or thirteen-year-old boys put the mixed concrete in a wooden barrel and handed it to Lu Yu, who held a shovel in one hand and took the wooden barrel in the other, and skillfully poured the concrete into the wooden plank inserted in the foundation.

The planks were tightly fitted, and two feet were inserted into the earth, and one foot came out.

Due to the lack of cement, this concrete is mostly river sand and gravel, and the strength is not too high, so it needs to be built on a wooden frame in key places.

"It would be nice if there were bricks......"

One of the young men sighed, Lu Yu nodded when he heard this, but shook his head again and said: "That thing is very expensive, I asked Liu Lichang, each brick is three yuan, we can't afford it." ”

Saying that, Lu Yu continued to build his own house, although this strength of concrete is not good, but it is still much more reliable than rammed earth walls.

Now that they have poured out the walls of the main house, they will only have to wait for the planks to be erected tomorrow when the roof planks will be topped out.

Thinking of this, Lu Yue was full of energy, and at this time, there was a noise outside the house.

The courtyard door of the Lu family was pushed open, and Liu Quan, who was holding the booklet, stood at the door with several men, and said to Lu Yu, who was working:

"Luzon City sent tiles, 1,000 per household, bring your brother to move."

"Yes!" Hearing that there was actually a free tile collar, Lu Yu immediately jumped down from the ladder and moved the tiles into the courtyard with a few little brothers who were able to do manual work.

Looking at the situation in their courtyard, Liu Quan nodded and said, "Don't change the drainage outlet and other things in the courtyard without authorization, so as not to trouble everyone." ”

"Yes, thank you, Mr. Ry!" Lu Yue gratefully, Liu Quan didn't say anything, nodded and turned to leave.

For him, as long as Donghetun can be built as quickly as possible, then he can also apply for the Luzon City assessment as soon as possible, and after the inspection is correct, he can hand over Donghetun to the next lieutenant chief, return to Luzon with the first-class assessment results, and continue to wait for his next immigration team.

Overseas, in addition to the basic salary, the officials also have a subsidy to evaluate their merits.

The first class is subsidized ten times, the second class is five times, the third class is not subsidized, and the D class has a demerit, and if there are three demerits, the official status will be deprived.

Normally, it takes a year to bring out a team of immigrants, and this year can basically allow the entire team to own a house, build the most basic water conservancy canals, and reach a per capita land reclamation situation of two acres.

As long as you can meet these requirements, you can get a first-class assessment and get a large amount of ten subsidies.

Ten yuan is enough for Liu Quan to buy two acres of cultivated land in his hometown, and after ten years of working like this, counting the basic income, even if he does not have the status of a servant, he can go home and live the life of a small landlord.

This year he is in his twenties, and he has won three consecutive first class results in Luzon.

can get such results, and it is inseparable from his hard work.

After giving all the orders, he led people out of Donghetun and continued to build the water conservancy gully outside the village.

As long as the canal is done, it will be easier to open up the cultivated land in the future, and the yield will be very high, enough for the assessment officials to remember him.

"That's a lot of tiles!"

"I really didn't expect that we could live in a tiled house in Luzon!"

In the hospital, Lu Yu's younger brothers and sisters chattered non-stop and were very excited.

Seeing this, Lu Yu also wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the main house without a ceiling, his eyes revealed hope, and he seemed to have seen what it would look like after it was completed.

People like them are not a few in Luzon, and the better they live, the more relatives and friends they will call, and the more people there are, the greater the merits of Xu Chailao as Luzon's consolation envoy.

"Three hundred and fifty-six taels, this year's mining situation is good......

In the yamen of the Xuanwei Division of Luzon City, Xu Chai Lao weighed the gold in the bag on the table, nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at a military attache sitting in the first place on his left.

"How many natives are there in the mining area now, and can they speed up?"

Xu Chai asked the military attaché, and this military attache was Jiang Gui, the commander of the Nanhai Guard.

Not only was Jiang Gui responsible for managing maritime affairs, but he also had to intervene in the mining areas of northern Luzon, after all, the gold mines of Luzon were the reason why no civilian official had impeached Luzon for a long time.

"Three hundred and fifty-six taels in two months is already good, twice the output at this time last year."

Jiang Gui frowned, after all, gold is not easy to mine, especially in the early stage of mining.

"Hehe, I know, I'm not trying to gag the temple officials, lest they impeach us."

Xu Chai Lao was a maritime merchant after all, and he knew that he had to come up with enough benefits to make the temple courtiers take notice of the development of Luzon, so over the past three years, he joined forces with Jiang Gui to defeat many small tribes and capture them as prisoners of war to work in the mines to the north.

In the first half of last year, Luzon produced 600 taels of gold, and this year, after the increase in miners, the output can faintly reach more than 2,000 taels per year.

More than 2,000 taels of gold is not a small amount, and there are more than 20,000 yuan of copper coins.

If you include the commercial tax in Luzon and the land tax collected this year, it will probably reach about 50,000 yuan, and it can be squeezed into the top 300 in more than 1,400 counties in the mainland.

However, this alone is not enough to meet the requirements of Xu Chai Lao's promotion.

"I calculated the booklet, nearly 200,000 mu of cultivated land will start to pay taxes this year, and according to the tax and grain policy, at most 60,000 stone can be collected, and the color is 20,000 yuan."

"Counting commercial taxes and gold mining, it's only 50,000 yuan."

"This merit, let alone let you be promoted, even let me be promoted is not enough."

"Commander Jiang, can you see if there are more pits in the mining area?"

Xu Chai Lao doesn't want much power, he just wants to return to his hometown, after all, as a giant businessman in Nanyang, he has already earned enough money or something, and now he wants to be able to keep his identity with this money, such as a hereditary Sanjie and Wuxun.

"If you really want to open it, you can open it, but most of the natives have escaped into the mountains, and it is very difficult to capture them."

Jiang Gui frowned and replied, and Xu Chai also said when he heard this: "The north is difficult, then we can move to the south." ”

"Zheng Zheng and the imperial court didn't let us move towards the south......" Jiang Gui interrupted Xu Chailao's words, and in his place, the imperial court's order was still the supreme order.

"Outside, the military order is not subject to it." Xu Chai Lao smiled and said:

"If not, then burn the mountains and sell some grass fertilizer to increase taxes."

"Burn the mountain, and drive out some natives." Jiang Gui bowed his head, and all actions were carried out within the scope permitted by the imperial court.

Seeing him like this, Xu Chai Lao also picked up the teacup, took a sip and said: "Now there are more than 98,700 people in Luzon, and more than 376,000 acres of cultivated land. ”

"Although 30,000 or 40,000 people migrate here every year, the pace of migration in Fujian has gradually slowed down."

"I heard that in the past nine years, 460,000 people have migrated from Fujian to Annam alone."

"If you count the old port and us, it is estimated that many people in Fujian will no longer be able to cultivate the fields, and the number of our immigrants will gradually decline."

As a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, Xu Chai Lao knows very well why there are so many people in Nanyang Fujian and Guangdong, in the final analysis, it is because the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty did not affect the local area, resulting in fewer people in the local area, and in order to survive, many people had to go to the sea to beg for a living.

Nowadays, Fujian has undergone a large number of immigrants organized by the imperial court, and the population may not have fallen as much as at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the contradictions in the province have decreased sharply, and the difficulty of immigration has naturally increased.

Xu Chai Lao knows very well that the size of Luzon is at most a county.

If he wants to be promoted to obtain hereditary loose ranks and martial honors, he must raise the size of Luzon to the level of a prefecture.

Without a population of 200,000 and a tax revenue of more than 100,000 yuan, his request is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

"What are you going to do?"

Jiang Gui asked Xu Chai, and Xu Chailao also said: "People are profit-seeking, as long as we give enough profit, I don't believe that no one will come." ”

"For example......" Jiang Gui asked rhetorically, and Xu Chai also said:

"Capture enough natives and let them mine for us in the north, making cement, tiles and bricks, and we'll be able to give the people enough things."

"I've heard that the Old Port to the south is doing the same, which is why it has been able to attract nearly 100,000 immigrants in the last three years."

The distance between the Old Port and Luzon is even farther away, and it stands to reason that the number of immigrants in the area cannot exceed that of Luzon, so when Xu Chai Lao learned about the situation in the Old Port, he began to investigate the immigration policy of the Old Port.

I don't know if I don't know this, but after I understand it, Xu Chai Lao immediately opened up.

The Old Port can do it, why can't they?

"If you do this, you will be easily impeached by the literati above the temple." Jiang Gui was a little jealous of civil officials, but Xu Chai didn't care:

"As long as they bring enough benefits to the imperial court, what are these literati?"

"Don't forget, we are all members of His Majesty and His Highness, not of this group of literati."

"If you are worried, then we can ask Your Highness if we can capture the natives to the south."

Xu Chai talked for a long time, just to pull Jiang Gui together and ask Zhu Gaoxu if they could go south to arrest the natives.

Jiang Gui was very hesitant, but thinking that he had been sitting in the position of commander for so many years, he finally nodded: "Okay!" ”

Seeing that Jiang Gui agreed, Xu Chai Lao dragged him with him to join the Shangshu, and their music was also sent to Guangzhou through the maritime immigration trade route, and then rushed to Nanjing in early March after 800 miles.

"This Xu Chai guy is a good wonderful person, but Jiang Gui is a little anxious."

Outside the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Gaoxu took the music sent urgently, even though his face was not very good-looking, he still reluctantly praised it.

Of course, he also saw that Xu Chai was using Jiang Gui, and it was no wonder that Xu Chai was too anxious.

Jiang Gui is only twenty-nine years old at the moment, and he is already young and promising as the commander of the two guards.

If he goes up, it is estimated that he will take over Cui Jun's position, or serve as a commander in the mainland.

Although his ability is sufficient, in terms of this character, Zhu Gaoxu is still ready to polish him again.

"How many military immigrants are there in Annam and the Old Port?"

Zhu Gaoxu closed the music and handed it to Yishiha beside him, and Yizha said when he heard this: "There are about 700,000 mouths in Annan, and about 190,000 mouths in the old port. ”

"The former accounts for 20% of the land, and the latter accounts for 30%."

After saying that, he looked at Zhu Gaochu nervously, and Zhu Gaochu did not open his mouth to answer when he heard this, but asked about other things.

"Tell me everything about Guizhou, Donghai, Modong and Timur."

"Yes......" took a deep breath, and Yizha said all the news he had compiled in the past few days:

"Except for the Song clan who was destroyed, the other three clans of the four major Tusi in Guizhou handed over their land and were moved to Chengdu Mansion to live."

"The 100,000 Southwest Yi in southern Qiannan are still being surrounded and suppressed by the Duke of Qianguo and Cao Guogong, and a rebellion broke out in the Datengxia area of Guangxi, but the scale is not large, only more than 10,000 people."

"Cao Guogong sent Sheng Yong and Liu Zhen to quell the rebellion, and the territory of Yunnan was relatively stable, and nothing major happened."

"The Hello in the Great Snow Mountain in Sichuan has been suppressed, but the Marquis of Jianchang (Qu Neng) said that there are many Hello in the Great Snow Mountain, and he is ready to go deep into the encirclement and suppression, and ask the imperial court to allocate money and grain."

"On the side of Donghae Province, North Korea has withdrawn all the soldiers and civilians, but because the heavy snow has hindered the progress of road construction, Chen Chang has not yet built the road from Dingliao to Donghae Province."

"Fudaha Shangshu, saying that Brother Meng's Timur is constantly strengthening Haiyang City, and if the imperial court needs it, he can take the lead in sending troops to surround Haiyang City."

"On the side of Whale Haiwei, the commander Zheng Jun has sent troops and horses to take over Shuangcheng and Helan Mansion, and in addition, there has been an undercurrent in Japan recently, and the envoys sent by the imperial court have not been received by Ashikaga Yoshitomo."

"The situation in Modong is not bad, the number of migrant military households in Sanwei has reached 120,000, and more than 470,000 mu of cultivated land have been cultivated, which can supply 300,000 stone grain to Hailaer, but it also needs Bohai to supply 600,000 stone grain to Sanwei."

"Shen Guogong (Wang Yi) is sparse, and is ready to lead five thousand elite horsemen to patrol Hulan and lose temperature after the beginning of spring, and deter Wara Mahamu and other captive chieftains."

After explaining these things that happened in the southwest and northwest of the country, Yisha breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to explain:

"There is no military information from Timur's side, and it is estimated that Shaharu has not finished the war in the river."

"However, Zheng He came with the news that he had captured millions of gold and silver in the land of Persia, and even captured thousands of fine horse breeds, but he didn't know how to transport them back to China."

After saying that, Zhu Gaoxu also squinted his eyes.

In this era, it was very difficult to transport thousands of horses from Central Asia to East Asia, whether by sea or land, and there was no good way to do it yourself.

"Tell Zheng He, let him think of a way by himself, whether it is by land or sea, and how much he can transport back."

"In addition......"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the Qianqing Palace, where a female doctor was hurrying out, making his heart hang, and at the same time, he couldn't help but speed up his speech: "How is the establishment of the three divisions in Guizhou, and are all the officials in place?" ”

"It's all in place." Yisha nodded and said: "More than 30,000 officials and 20,000 teachers have entered Guizhou, except for Qiannan, which cannot go deep, the rest of the places have begun to change the land and return to the stream. ”

"In addition to the south, the implementation of the new policy in the north has also begun to bear fruit."

Yishiha handed the booklet in the hand of the eunuch next to him to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu opened it after taking it, while listening to Yishaha's introduction in his ear.

"In the past six months or so, with the officials in place, the population and field statistics in various places have achieved initial results, although the progress has not yet reached 50%, but the situation that can be found is already staggering."

As soon as his words fell, Zhu Gaoxu saw the current situation of the population and cultivated land in the three places.

[Henan 2,54,627 mouths, more than 2,650,000 acres]

[Shanxi 4,269,030 mouths, 4,000,300,605 acres and three points]

[North Zhili 2,276,500 mouths, 17,546,327 acres and nine points]

"I see it." Zhu Gaoxu interrupted Yishiha, and after scanning the contents of this booklet, he came to the results of the work in the three places in the past six months.

However, in terms of population, Henan has nearly 600,000 more people and more than 4 million more cultivated land than the one copied in the 14th year of Hongwu, of course, 300,000 of whom are all due to Zhu Gaoxu's immigration policy.

However, as far as the current progress is concerned, when the new policies of the three places are fully implemented, and the measurement of land and the registered population are all over, then Henan's population will not exceed 3 million, and the problem of cultivated land should not be very big, because the current situation is similar to that of the household department last year.

The main problem in the three places is that the population has changed, and the cultivated land is almost the same as that registered by the household department, but there are more than a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of mu.

During this period of active reclamation in the three places, it is not surprising that there are so many acres of cultivated land in half a year.

"From this point of view, even if Shanxi has resettled Beiping and Henan, the number of people in its territory is still close to about 5 million."

"As for Henan and Beizhili, it is estimated that they are also around three million."

"This result is not much different from my estimate."

Zhu Gaoxu gave his own evaluation, after all, according to the time of copying the old, the population of the three places had a population of nearly 8 million as early as the 14th year of Hongwu, and now that 28 years have passed, how can the population still stay in the early 8 million.

Now that I checked, the number of 11 million is considered low, and in Zhu Gaoxu's psychological expectations, the population of the three places should be about 12 million.

It can only be said that the neonatal mortality rate in this era is still too high, and the hospital has to continue to promote it.

"Can hospitals around the world be split out of the branches?"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the document book and asked Yishiha, who was stunned when he heard this: "You have to go back and check it to know, but in terms of the number of medical students who graduated last year, it should be no problem, at least twenty schools can be separated." ”

"The number of doctors is too small." Zhu Gaoxu frowned and said: "The government students who have graduated can be recruited as students, after all, the doctor's salary is not low, they should be interested." ”

Zhu Gaoxu's words are indeed that the Yu Lu he gave to doctors is 30 guan per Chinese New Year's Eve for ordinary doctors, 50 guan for the head of the library department, and 100 guan for the dean.

For the families of most government students, this is definitely a high-paying job, more than the officials earn.

Previously, everyone went to the examination because they felt that the future of the officials was bright, and maybe they could become officials.

Now that the government has higher requirements for the admission of officials, and many people have nowhere to go, doctors with relatively high salaries will naturally become the first choice.

Zhu Gaoxu has seen last year's performance of the Tai Hospital, and there are 54 hospitals outside the Guanxi and 97 hospitals inside the Guan, with a total of more than 16,000 in-service doctors.

Among them, the number of surgeons and gynecologists is the largest, mainly due to Zhu Gaoxu's focus on obstetrics and gynecology from the beginning, and the demand for surgeons in the military.

"Let Tai Hospital open its own hospitals in Shanxi, Beizhili, Susong, Henan and other places, and the proportion of surgery and obstetrics and gynecology should be high.

After saying all this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't wait to close the book, handed it to Yishiha, and ran towards the Qianqing Palace.

He saw more than a dozen doctors trotting into the Qianqing Palace, and this was enough to explain Empress Xu's situation.

"Stop the bleeding first!"

Walking into the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Gaochu heard heart-wrenching words, Zhu Gaochi and others, who were already nervous, and Zhu Di, who put his hands together and seemed to be praying to God and Buddha.

It's not surgery, it's Queen Xu's breast cancer ruptured and bleeding this morning.

"Your Highness, a blood type test is required!"

A female doctor trotted out of the side hall, and her words made Zhu Gaoxu's heart cold.

"Lose!"

"Is the blood transfusion technology mature? Are you sure? ”

Zhu Di didn't understand the difficulty of blood transfusion, thinking that anyone could do it, so he immediately stood up, while Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly asked.

"As long as there is no problem with blood type, there will be no problem, and the eucommia gum of the needle can isolate the air and prevent it from entering the blood vessels."

The female doctors were transferred from Annan by Zhu Gaoxu, and they performed hundreds of breast cancer resection and blood transfusion surgeries in Annan.

"Draw ours and see whose blood type can match."

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth in a deep voice when he heard this, and when the female doctor saw this, she began to poke everyone's fingertips with a needle, and took a microscope to blend with Queen Xu's blood to observe.

Fortunately, Empress Xu's blood type is type A (A), while Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Yueying are both type A, but although Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Di have the same blood type, they are type C (O) blood.

Seeing the female doctor draw blood from Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Yueying, Zhu Di walked back and forth a little anxiously: "Why can't I!" ”

Zhu Di was crossing, but Zhu Gaoxu calmly said to the eunuch on duty beside him: "Write down the blood type of everyone in our family, so that it will be convenient for surgery and blood transfusion in the future." ”

"Yes......" The eunuch responded, and communicated with the preparatory doctors next to him.

Not long after, with the female doctor Eucommia ulmoides glue-sealed needle sterilized and the blood was withdrawn, they entered the side hall without resting and transfused the blood to Queen Xu.

Fortunately, there was no problem with Queen Xu's blood clotting function, and after the blood transfusion, her condition was stabilized.

When the female doctors came out to announce the news, Zhu Di immediately rushed into the side hall with Zhu Gaosui and a few people, leaving only Zhu Gaochi, who was lying on the chair with a pale face, and Zhu Gaoxu, who was standing in place and staring at the female doctors.

From their eyes, Zhu Gaoxu had already guessed the result.

"Tell me, what's going on with my mother......"

As soon as he spoke, Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting in the chair, turned a little paler, as smart as him, how could he not know the meaning of his second brother's words.

Like Zhu Gaoxu, he looked directly at many female doctors, and the female doctors looked at each other when they heard this, and they were nervous and didn't know how to explain the situation to Zhu Gaoxu.

After a few breaths, the female doctor who was finally in charge of the main surgery knelt on the ground and bowed heavily.

"Her Royal Highness the Queen's situation is already difficult to treat......

Her words made Zhu Gaochu feel like a fish in his throat, and Zhu Gaochi swayed directly from the chair and sat down on the ground.

At this moment, the mood of the two brothers was undoubtedly the same, and Zhu Di, who unconsciously walked to the door of the side hall, also heard this.

In just a moment, the father and son felt a sour nose and blurred their eyes......

(End of chapter)