"Smash! Smash it all for me! ”

On the fourteenth day of the first month, when Zhu Di hurriedly went north to prepare for the northern expedition.

Thousands of weavers in Changzhou, Zhenjiang, and Yangzhou took to the streets, surrounding the tax department, preparing to smash it clean.

"Beep-"

"I see who is impatient and dares to do it!"

Dozens of soldiers in front of the Ya in Jurong County raised their guns one after another when they heard the whistle, and aimed their faces at the hundreds of weavers who tried to smash them.

Standing in front of the Jurong County Ya, a hundred household officials glanced at everyone with a cold face, and many weavers hesitated for a while.

"Do it, I'll see who they ......"

"Smack!"

Before a rich man in silk could finish speaking, he was hit by the sound of a gunshot and his fat body, and a wailing pig screamed.

"It hurts! It hurts me! My leg! ”

The rich man suddenly collapsed on the ground, and at this moment, the magistrate of Jurong County also came out to understand the situation, and immediately shouted with the weavers.

"Don't fall for this villain, the imperial court implemented a new policy, mainly to collect taxes from private machine owners, not to raise taxes on weavers."

"In the past, the imperial court had never paid high taxes on Jiangnan, and it was all because of the existence of these villains that the original dozens of catties of land were pushed to hundreds of catties."

"If you are worried that without these bad machines, you will have no source of income, you can rest assured."

"The imperial court has set up a machine household yamen in each county of the six prefectures in Jiangdong, and private weavers can find a machine household yamen to borrow a loom, and then return it with silk and cloth!"

Jurong Zhixian explained to hundreds of weavers, and at the same time pointed out to them the location of the Yamen of the machine household.

These hundreds of weavers were already afraid of the dozens of Ming soldiers in front of the yamen, but now that they saw the guidance of the magistrate, they did not mention the smashing, and walked towards the yamen in the distance.

A man-made instigated riot was invisible under the deterrence of the Ming army and the explanations of the New Deal officials, and such scenes also took place in the other four prefectures and counties of Jiangdong.

Except for a few county officials, who were beaten by weavers and farmers because the Ming army was slow to help, most of the riots were resolved.

"Thirty-three counties, nineteen counties rioted, three counties succeeded, they are really generous."

In the Chunhe Palace, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the riots after the comprehensive new policy in the six prefectures of Jiangdong in the past few days, and the expression on his face was not angry, but happy.

"Your Highness, there are so many riots, and more than 30 people have died, is this worth rejoicing?"

Standing beside Zhu Gaoxu, Guo Yan rubbed Zhu Gaoxu's shoulders and asked him suspiciously.

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu pointed out: "Riots are normal, and the new policy of the imperial court has touched the interests of many private machine owners, and they will naturally incite the crowd in order to protect their own interests. ”

"But I had long expected this, so I mobilized 60,000 soldiers and horses to disperse in the six provinces of Jiangdong."

"If this wave of pressure continues, they will never get up again."

"Not only that, but the more than 200 machine owners who instigated these things also contributed more than 30,000 looms to the imperial court, as well as raw materials worth more than 800,000 guan."

"Of course, more importantly, this incident is the beginning of the imperial court's killing of chickens and monkeys."

"No matter who it is, no matter what the reason, if it hinders the implementation of the imperial court's policies, it should pay the corresponding price."

"These 30 weavers are indeed unjustly killed, but it is a fact that they smashed the county government."

Zhu Gaoxu said, looked sideways at Yishuha who was standing not far away, pointed to Song Shu and said: "Let the local county government compensate these 30 weavers for 20 yuan, and if there are other weavers in the family, each household will send a loom." ”

......Seeing this, Guo Yan also shifted his hand from his shoulders to his temples and kneaded it.

Feeling the comfortable taste, Zhu Gaoxu also leaned back in his chair and said: "Dad went north with soldiers and horses, and when he comes back, the new policy of Nanzhili is estimated to be over." ”

"It is estimated that he will not interfere in the implementation of the new policies in Zhejiang and Jiangxi, he is really ......"

Zhu Gaoxu showed a little helplessness, and just wanted to say that Zhu Di had lived too much in this life.

"Your Highness, the head of the household department Guo Zi asks to see you."

At the gate of the palace, the eunuch on duty opened his mouth to sing, Guo Yan let go of his hand when he heard this, walked to the back of the screen not far away and sat down.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about this, but just bowed his head and signaled: "Let him in." ”

At this time, Guo Zi arrived, obviously with the results of the implementation of the New Deal.

The six prefectures of Jiangdong are at the foot of the capital, and since the implementation of the new policy on the seventh day of the first lunar month, the documents of the "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" have been sent to the household department in various parts of the six prefectures, and the household department has also sorted out overnight.

Although you can't find a lot in seven days, you should pay attention to the places that need to be paid attention to.

"The Ministry of Ministers and Households, Guo Zi, see His Royal Highness......"

"Flat, give a seat!"

Zhu Gaoxu, as always, gave seats to the officials who came to the Chunhe Palace, and Guo Zi also brought the three books to Yishiha, and then took a seat.

He put the three volumes in front of Zhu Gaoxu's case, and Zhu Gaoxu was wondering why there were three volumes, and when he opened them, he saw the contents of them.

"Your Royal Highness, these three albums are the number of counties in the six prefectures of Jiangdong, as well as the situation of the loom borrowed by the Yamen of the machine household, and the last side is the content of the Qi people of the Xifan Wusi Zang and Duogan Prefectures."

Guo Zi's words made Zhu Gaoxu smile on his face.

In the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Qi people were compiled, which was not done by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties except for the Tubo Dynasty and later generations.

Mongolia's Qi people are relatively loose, and they let the Tibetan ministries report on their own, so they are not counted among them.

In comparison, the Qi Min household of the Ming Dynasty is full of weight.

This time, it has been the eighth year since Hou Xian led the army into Tibet.

Under the inspection of the Ming army, the Wusi Zangdu Division and the Duogandu Division began to check the number of households and mouths of those thousands and thousands of households, and it has only been eight years since they made a rough investigation.

Zhu Gaoxu did not first look at the number of mouths of the Jiangnan New Deal and the document of the Jihu Yamen, but opened the contents of the guards of the two capitals of the Western Fan.

In the early years, Zhu Yuanzhang's plan for the land of the West was to command the envoys of Wusizang and Duogan, and to command the envoys of Longda.

The second is Duogan, Dong Bu Hanhu, Changhe Xiyu Tongning and other Xuanwei envoys.

Far recruit Si Duo Gansi, Duo Gan Longda, Duo Gandan, Duo Gan Cang Wei, Duo Ganchuan, Mo'er Kan and other recruitment divisions.

Shaerke, Naizhu, Luo Siduan, Besima and other 10,000 households.

Dogansi, Sorazong, Soriga, Changhexi, Soduo Basansun, Sojiaba, Sozhaori, Nazhu, Lunda, Guoyu, Sharikohahudi, Porigas, Sarita, Sambulang, Rachoya, Chuliba, Runzelusun, and other thousand households.

This system seems to be sound, but it is actually complicated.

Now, after the Qi people of the Ming army stationed in Tibet, the land of Xifan is divided into the command of the Wusi Tibetan capital and the command of the embassy of Duogandu.

The two commanded the envoys under the jurisdiction of 12 guards, as well as 21,000 households and 15600 households under their direct jurisdiction, totaling 103,257 military households and 479,032 people.

Of course, only the tribes along the post road that the Ming army could control are mainly counted here, and there are no statistics in areas such as Ali, Ladakh and Qiangtang in later generations.

However, even if these places are added, the number of people in the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will not exceed 700,000.

Compared with the millions of people in the heyday of Tibet, as the temperature drops, the environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau also begins to deteriorate, and the population begins to decrease.

It is not bad to have 700,000 people now, after all, it was only a little more than a million in the early days of liberation.

"Your Royal Highness, Hou Xian, Li Ying, Mu Tu, and Liu Zhao all think that the horse endowment is too heavy, please reduce it as appropriate, you see ......"

Guo Zi is still relatively unconfident in the face of Zhu Gaoxu, after all, he is Zhu Di's person, not Zhu Gaoxu's person.

"Five households and one horse, and also give a hundred catties of dry tea, this is still harsh?"

Zhu Gaoxu frowned when he heard this, you must know that the Ming Dynasty's horse endowment in the West is not so much a one-sided tax as a two-sided trade.

It is true that the cost of 100 catties of dry tea is only three or four guan, and if the western passion horse is transported to the mainland, it will often cost seven or eight or even more than ten guan.

But if you include the freight of transporting tea, in fact, a horse Daming can't make much, and the horses collected in the land of the West are basically put into the army.

"Tea is good, but what is more lacking in the West at the moment is food ......"

Guo Zi replied cautiously, and continued: "If it weren't for the imperial court that migrated the people of the West from Duogan and other places to Sichuan to reclaim and graze, I'm afraid the local people would have complained a long time ago. ”

"How many acres of arable land are there in the land of Xifan?" Zhu Gaoxu asked, and Guo Zi also replied:

"Duogan and Wusizang, with a total of less than 2.4 million mu, the output is average per mu, and only eight buckets of barley can be produced, and at least four acres of land can feed one person."

"However, the imperial court will also buy grain in the local area with dry tea every year to supplement the military rations, and usually buy seventy or eighty thousand stone barley in a year."

After Guo Zi answered, Zhu Gaoxu touched his mustache, and then spoke:

"How much do you think the imperial court can migrate to Sichuan if it moves the population of Xifan to Sichuan?"

Zhu Gaoxu still thought of the old method, that is, to migrate the population into the interior, so that the local people could maintain self-sufficiency in arable land and grain production, and at the same time supply part of the army.

"If you want to migrate, you can only move about 27,000 households, 2700 households, and about 20,000 households in Nagqu, Longbu, Sumang, and other places."

"After migrating them, we can let the herdsmen of Lasa, Sanzhujie, Qamdo, and Derge take over the land."

"But in this way, there will be 100,000 fewer people in this western land, and the horse tax will be reduced by at least 20,000 in the coming year."

"You don't have to move them all." Hearing Guo Zi's words, Zhu Gaoxu interrupted:

"10,000 households migrated from Nagqu, Longbu, and Sumang into Long'an, Sichuan, and then moved from Lasa, Sanzhujie, Qamdo, Dege and other places to the border grazing, and 10,000 households moved to Sichuan and Yunnan as appropriate."

"With 20,000 fewer households, local people can immediately take over local arable land for cultivation, reducing the time spent on wasteland."

"According to this, the people in these places can have a lot of arable land in their hands, and the only thing they need to care about is how to appease and govern these 20,000 households of Xifan after they move inward."

"Sichuan has Jianyi, Yunnan has Muchun, they are good at governance, I am very relieved."

The discussion between Zhu Gaoxu and Guo Zi immediately caused the population of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to drop by more than 100,000.

But it doesn't matter, at present, the Ming Dynasty has no enemies in Qinghai-Tibet, and more than 300,000 people raise 7,000 troops, and the burden is not very large.

Compared with the life of serfs in the past, the life of the people of Xifan is good enough.

I have to say that Zhu Gaoxu can be regarded as having eaten the dividends of the times.

The current Qinghai-Tibet is undoubtedly the weakest period since the Qin and Han dynasties, and even the Pamu Druba family, which once ruled the Sakya Palace, is difficult to pull out thousands of troops to confront the Ming army.

This fragmented Qinghai-Tibet made it very easy for the Ming army to organize their households, and they almost didn't encounter any trouble.

Occasionally, a few Tusi tried to resist, but they were also educated by the field artillery of the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also asked about the post road: "Has the post road been repaired?" ”

"It has already been repaired, so the minister wants to ask His Highness, is it necessary to build a post road to the Marshal of the Oris Military and Civilian Mansion?"

The post road that Guo Zi replied to was a post road that was not opened up in the Ming and Qing dynasties in history.

Because of this, this place was easily occupied by the Mughals in history.

Of course, although there is no post road in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there is indeed a local road from Lhasa and Sanzhujie to Leh and Segar, but it is not easy to walk.

"How much will this post road cost if it is calculated according to the cost of building the post road before?"

Daming has money, but this money will always be spent, because compared to Zhu Gaoxu's plan, the savings of more than 20 million guan are too little.

Therefore, he had to ask about the cost of the post road before deciding whether to build it.

"I'm afraid it's not less than a million."

Guo Zi replied stubbornly, and this also made Zhu Gaoxu weigh it.

It is true that the place in the military and civilian marshal's palace is important, but that is the afterlife, not the present.

Secondly, the local population is tens of thousands, and if there is a conflict with the Ming army, the supply line of the Ming army will be at least 9,000 miles from Chengdu, Sichuan.

Although it was possible to recruit the people of the West along the way, the cost would be too great, and there was no local output, and the hand of the Ming Dynasty could not reach out to Central Asia to supply them.

It is undoubtedly very difficult to garrison troops in the local area.

"Let's build this post road little by little, and transport 100,000 stones from Chengdu every year, take your time."

Zhu Gaoxu is not ready to complete the construction in one go, according to the annual shipment of 100,000 stone rice, it will take at least 40 years to build this post road, but this does not put much pressure on Sichuan and Xifan.

If the Ming Dynasty could recover the Western Regions after forty years and reclaim supplies in the Kashgar area, it would be relatively easy for the Ming army to gain a firm foothold in the local area.

"Yes......"

Guo Zi replied simply, and Zhu Gaoxu also opened the two books of the six prefectures in Jiangdong.

According to the booklet, there are more than 606,000 households and more than 2.95 million people in the counties in the 33 counties of the six prefectures in Jiangdong.

If we follow the data of more than 6 million people in the six prefectures in the 14th year of Hongwu, the urbanization rate of the six prefectures in Jiangdong may have exceeded 40 percent......

Of course, such a situation is naturally impossible, so it can only mean that compared with the county seat, there are more hidden people in the countryside.

How much can six million people grow in 30 years?

Even if the premature mortality rate was high in ancient times, there is probably no problem with a population growth of 50%.

Looking at the entire Nanzhili from the perspective of the six prefectures in Jiangdong, the population of Nanzhili is estimated to have exceeded 18 million long ago, while the population of the six prefectures in Jiangdong is at least 9 million.

The land of the six prefectures is the population of other provinces and even provinces except Jiangnan.

How much has been hidden in the past 30 years, Zhu Gaoxu also wants to know.

"The population situation continues to be poor, and under these policies of apportioning the land to the mu, abolishing forced labor, and involving government and education in household registration, the population of the six prefectures in Jiangdong can be found out in one year at the earliest."

"This year, we will do a good job, and next year we will transfer tens of thousands of officials to Nanzhili, and comprehensively implement the new policy for Nanzhili."

Zhu Gaoxu said while Guo Zi remembered.

After talking about the population, Zhu Gaoxu set his eyes on the book of the Yamen of the machine household.

In the booklet, all the more than 50,000 looms of the machine household yamen were loaned.

A loom is worth hundreds of pieces, and it can weave hundreds of horses every year, which is worth 40 times.

According to the fact that the imperial court only charged five cents of interest on the loom, the weavers had to weave at least two and a half years of white cloth to settle the accounts.

However, this is the time when the raw materials are not counted, and if the cost of the raw materials is counted, the weavers will have to go without food or drink for seven or eight years to settle the accounts.

After the accounts are settled, they earn at least 40 yuan a year, and they can earn more than 10 yuan after removing materials.

If you are more skilled and weave some silk and satin, your income can be doubled.

After one year of hard work, you can buy three or four acres of high-quality paddy fields outside the city, or after three years of hard work, you can buy a three-in, three-out yard in the inner city, and become a rich peasant from then on.

This means that the imperial court is willing to directly loom and exchange it for those rich families in the past, at most they will only rent looms, and the interest is much higher than that charged by the imperial court.

In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, "machine households contributed capital, weavers contributed" was regarded as a capitalist employment relationship, but in fact, weavers made ends meet, and lived slightly better than ordinary farmers who farmed land.

Similar to the imperial court, an annual interest rate of only five cents, that is an existence that cannot be found with a lantern.

It is precisely because of this that the loom of the machine household yamen will be borrowed in such a short period of time.

Seven or eight years later, the imperial court made a profit of thirty or forty yuan per loom, and in addition, it was able to trade in the ocean with the white cloth of the flat account, and earn enough trade from Dongzhou and Japan.

This deal, no matter how you calculate it, will not lose.

The only ones who will lose money are those rich people who rent looms at high interest rates, so the reaction of the six prefectures in Jiangdong will be so big this time.

Without the imperial court, the loom in their hands could make tens of millions of dollars just by eating interest, and now that the imperial court has inserted a bar, they have to make a fortune in another way.

"The rich families involved at the moment have been assigned to Luzon for three generations."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished reading the recital of the Yamen of the machine households, he immediately expanded the scope of the more than 200 wealthy households to three generations, and if nothing else, Luzon would gain a population of several thousand.

"Yes......"

Hearing that it was only three generations of Zhulian, Guo Zi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

If the nine clans and the three clans are connected, then these more than 200 people may be able to involve tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and he really offended the Jiangdong gentry completely.

"Since there is nothing to do, the minister will retire ......"

"Let's go"

Guo Zi got up and was about to leave, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't stop him.

Seeing him leave, Guo Yan behind the screen got up and walked out.

She walked back to Zhu Gaoyu's side, seemed to remember something, and said to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Dad took away his mother's Zigong on this northern expedition, do you think Dad really let it go?"

"Nope." Hearing Guo Yan's words, Zhu Gaoxu shook his head, and quickly thought of Guo Yan's thoughts: "Do you want to persuade your father to be elected?" ”

"It's not that I want to, but the concubines in the harem are fighting openly and secretly, making a miasma." Guo Yan had no choice but to tell the truth, but Zhu Gaoxu shook his head after hearing it and said:

"You can tell him about these things when your father comes back, and you don't have to interfere."

"Dad has a very deep affection for his mother, and Zigong has been parked for more than a year, during which he often goes to a few banquets to see it."

"In the end, it is estimated that it will be the same as my grandparents, the position of queen is vacant, and you are the one who was handed over to manage the harem before your mother's death."

"Dad may ordainate concubines and give them the position that concubines deserve, but he will not establish a queen."

Zhu Gaoxu remembered very well that before Queen Xu's death, Zhu Di did not give any harem concubines a name.

It was Empress Xu who died, and it was only a year after her death that Zhu Di began to canonize the concubines and gave them their titles.

But even so, it was still his good sister-in-law Zhang who was in charge of the harem, and Zhu Di did not leave any heirs with other concubines.

Moreover, in history, all the officials and admonishments were secretly poked and poked by Zhu Di and instructed Chen Ying and Ji Gang to kill a few people, and this topic was taboo in Zhu Di after the establishment, so Zhu Gaoxu asked Guo Yan not to mention this matter.

Guo Yan also made it clear, and when she saw her husband say this, she no longer discussed this matter, but only led the topic to Zhu Zhanqi and Zhu Zhanqi.

"Yan'er always takes his younger brothers out of the palace to play these days, and I'm worried that the situation in Jiangnan is too chaotic and will affect them."

"Don't worry." Hearing that Guo Yan was worried about this, Zhu Gaoxu took her hand and comforted: "There are people from the West Factory around them, and there will be no accidents." ”

"In addition, he is getting older, and he can't go to primary school because of the mix, but he can still go to middle school."

"I plan to let him go out for a few years after he reaches middle school, and when he comes back, he can also assist me in managing politics."

Zhu Gaochu said his arrangements for Zhu Zhanyu, and when Guo Yan saw Zhu Gaoxu say this, he couldn't help but look forward to it: "Let him lead the troops to the battle, or inspect and govern the place?" ”

"Huh?" Hearing Guo Yan's words, Zhu Gaoxu was embarrassed, and Guo Yan also said tentatively when he saw this: "You are ......?"

"I'm going to let him be a teacher, or a clerk, and if he likes it, the big soldier can do it."

Zhu Gaoxu was embarrassed to touch the mustache, this time it was not only him embarrassed, but the entire Chunhe Hall was embarrassed.

Since ancient times, in addition to being exiled, there has never been a prince and grandson who have mixed up with the virtue that Zhu Gaoxu said.

Even if he is exiled, he will not have to worry about food and clothing, how can he say that he should be a soldier.

"Your Highness, you ...... Think again. ”

Guo Yan was not very happy to let Zhu Zhanyan become a clerk, but Zhu Gaoxu touched his beard: "I have made up my mind, and I estimate that he will be quite happy at that time, and he will not be uncomfortable." ”

"Yan'er, people say that mothers are more defeated, and boys have to hone hard."

"Besides, at his age, by the time he comes out of middle school, he will be almost seventeen or eighteen years old."

"After going out to practice for two or three years, I will be able to govern after returning to the crown without delaying anything."

"What about taking a wife and having children?" Guo Yan was a little worried: "It's a little too late for him to marry a wife and have children, right?" ”

"You and I are not early." Zhu Gaoxu smiled heartily, making Guo Yanqiao's face flush.

The advantage of getting married early is that the two have been husband and wife for seventeen years, but Guo Yan hasn't even celebrated his thirtieth birthday, which is when the young woman is rich.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu coughed and lowered his voice: "I'll go to the back bedroom to rest tonight." ”

Guo Yan's face was ruddy, and he didn't want to say anything, just saluted and said, "The concubine will go back first and let people pack up and prepare." ”

After that, Guo Yan turned around and walked out of the hall, and Zhu Gaoxu also handled the music happily.

(End of chapter)