"Of the dozen pieces of information, few of them are right!"

"Why can the Ming army use firearms on horseback?"

"Also, they don't need torchsticks for their firearms!"

"More than 3,000 of my men have died in the flamerush soldiers alone!"

"Now Benjamin is still running!"

A few days passed in a flash, and when the scolding of the Taiping sounded, the Warat tribes had already migrated several times to a valley in the upper reaches of the Selenga River.

It was strange to them that the Ming army did not pursue them, but now it was not this incident that needed to be worried, but the result of this battle.

Taiping sat in the tent excitedly, roaring and saying things that made people angry when they heard it.

Sitting in the first place, Mahamu also had a gloomy face and did not say a word.

In this battle of the Selenga River, there were more than 22,000 men who were defeated and captured, and if you count the dead and wounded on the side of the Bald Polo, I am afraid it will not be less than 25,000.

Twenty-five thousand, which may not seem like much, but for Warat, it is undoubtedly half a life lost.

There were only 1230,000 men in Warat and the tribe who stayed there, and only about 60,000 were able to go on horses to fight.

Now that nearly half of them are dead at once, not to mention the peace, even Mahamu can't help but tremble his hands when he thinks about it now.

Seeing his father and Taiping like this, only thirteen-year-old Tuhuan spoke:

"Those who gave false news have been killed by me, and now what we need to care about should be how to deal with the relationship with the Han people."

Although he is only thirteen years old, Tuhuan's personality is different from Mahamu's, he is more calm and sees things more broadly.

He knew very well that Alitai in Eastern Mongolia had been bought by the Ming army, so the Ming army's enemy in Mobei would only be Warat.

In this case, the Ming army will definitely not give up the attack on Warat, so they must choose a good path.

"I'm going to send a messenger to Gong Ma to give Zhu Di a good ......"

Ma Hamu suppressed his temper and said this, although he was very reckless, but after being beaten by Zhu Di on the Selenga River, he could still see the situation clearly.

The current Ming army has sharp firearms, not to mention that Warat is not an opponent, even if Warat and Tatar join forces, they will not be opponents.

The Tatars in the east can send up to 30,000 troops, and counting their own alliances, as well as Ugqi Hashha, who has not made a move, can pull out up to 60,000 men, a total of up to 90,000.

With this amount of troops, it is estimated that even Zhu Di's 40,000 cavalry on this northern expedition cannot be defeated, not to mention that Alitai has already acted as a lackey for Zhu Di.

In addition, Ugqi Hashha will not follow him to fight the Ming Dynasty, what he wants has always been to protect his pasture, so no matter how he calculates, his alliance can only pull out more than 30,000 troops at the moment.

In such a situation, showing favor to Zhu Di is what Mahamu should do.

"You can show favor, but I won't give out a horse or a sheep."

After Taiping heard Mahamu's words, although he also knew that it was right to do so, he was reluctant to hand over his cattle and sheep to Mahamu, and Mahamu would transfer them to Zhu Di.

"I'm going to do it myself this time, but our alliance has to continue."

Ma Hamu said to Taiping: "Although the Ming army is not pursuing now, and it may even have retreated, don't forget that there are still Ugqi Hashha and Alitai in Mobei. ”

"Only when we are united can we suppress them and protect ourselves, otherwise we will only be annexed."

There is no problem with what Mahamu said, although Taiping snorted coldly, he basically recognized the current fragile alliance.

Seeing this, Ma Hamu said to Tuhuan: "You send someone to send 500 horses, 2,000 cattle, and 5,000 sheep to Zhu Di." ”

"Yes!" Tuhuan didn't think that there were a lot of things sent this time, although Warat had suffered a heavy blow, but if he wanted to make peace, he had to pay enough benefits.

Under the arrangement of Tuhuan, the 500 Warat cavalry drove the herd south, and their target was the southern Hulan Sudden Hypothermia.

The Ming army will definitely pass by there, and although they walk slowly through the river valley, they may be able to meet the Ming army.

Facts proved that there was no problem with the route that Tuhuan chose for them, and they also went south for more than ten days, and soon after they left the mountains, they encountered the Ming army's peripheral sentinels.

The 500 Wharat cavalry were disarmed and escorted to the Ming army camp in the area of Hulan and Kuanwen with their herds.

When Zhu Di learned the news, his first reaction was curiosity.

"Take them with you, and by the way, call Arutai, Alitai, and Benjamli."

Standing in the big tent, Zhu Di instructed Wang Yi, and Wang Yi summoned everyone as he thought.

Half an hour later, when the tent of the Ming army was full of generals, a nobleman from Warat was also escorted to the tent by two Ming soldiers.

The Nawarat nobles walked into the tent and hurriedly knelt down to Zhu Di and hugged his chest to show respect.

But when he looked up, he saw a gloomy and blackened face in the crowd.

"Benjamin?!"

Hongguoer looked at the guy sitting next to Arutai and Alitai in disbelief, he never dreamed that Benjamin would appear in the big tent of the Ming army.

"It's not surprising that you know each other......

Zhu Di sat on the main seat, looked at Hong Guoer and Benjamin with a smile, and said with a smile:

"Your Great Khan wants to go south with me to see the scenery of Jiangnan, and I will take him south to live for a few years this time."

"But don't worry, I have sent someone to return to Nanjing first, prepare a residence for your Great Khan, and canonize him as the Great Yuan King of the Ming Dynasty by the way."

"In the future, if he gets tired of staying in Jiangnan, then I can also send someone to protect him and return to the grassland to save his relatives."

"By the way, I remember that Benjamin's sister married Mahamu, right?"

Zhu Di asked knowingly, when Benjamin was in Samarkand, he learned official dialect and Chinese characters from Guo Ji and them, so he could communicate with Zhu Di normally, he bowed down and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it is true, but our relationship is not good......

Benjamin still can't forget that this guy Mahamu is ready to exchange himself and Da Ming for benefits, and if he can't exchange benefits, he is ready to kill himself at any time.

It is indeed a shame to be caught by Zhu Di, but what is even more shameful is to be a puppet in the hands of Ma Hamu.

But whenever he has the opportunity, he must kill Mahamu to vent his anger!

"It's normal for relatives to have a little conflict, but don't rise too much, after all, they are all relatives."

Zhu Di said this cheekily, and at the same time looked at Hong Guoer: "What did Mahamu send you for?" ”

"The Great Khan sent me to beg for surrender, hoping that His Majesty the Emperor will not be like us."

Hong Guoer can speak official language, which shows that he has read some books, so his words are relatively literary.

"Our Great Khan sent people to send 500 horses, 2,000 cattle, and 5,000 sheep to reward the Heavenly Army, hoping to defend Moxi for the Celestial Empire for generations."

"Ridiculous!" Zhu Neng habitually sang red face for Zhu Di: "You fought with us and injured thousands of my soldiers, and now you will surrender when you say surrender?" ”

"Eh......" Zhu Di opened his mouth to signal Zhu Neng to be calm, and at the same time said to the generals in the tent:

"Warat doesn't know culture, so let's not be like them."

When the words fell, Zhu Di said to Hong Guoer: "I have accepted the herd offered by Mahamu, as long as you guard Moxi for the imperial court, then I can still forgive you, and now you can go down and rest." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the Emperor, heaven's grace!" Hong Guoer didn't expect Zhu Di to be so easy to speak, so he immediately bowed to Zhu Di five times and kowtowed three times.

When he kowtowed, Zhu Di spoke: "We also suffered a lot of casualties in this battle, especially horses. ”

"This Warat will be temporarily pacified and appeased, and when there is time, or they start to make trouble again, I will personally lead the troops to calm down when the time comes."

Zhu Di did not want to continue fighting, his goal in this battle had been achieved, the battle of the Selenga River was counted, Wara killed 2,672 people, captured 3,240 people, captured more than 24,000 sets of armor, and more than 156 horses.

The results were naturally brilliant, but the losses were not small.

The Ming army lost 1,627 casualties, 3,016 seriously wounded or disabled retirements, 5,942 war horses were lost, and nearly 7,000 horses were pulled by horses.

Among them, the loss of riding horses and pulling horses is mainly on the way to the north, after all, pulling the artillery for a long time is also very demanding, which is also very demanding for the horse's physique, and it will be tired to death if you are not careful.

Although the capture of this battle and the tribute of Mahamu could not be recovered, the damage they inflicted on Warat this time will take at least a generation to heal.

I don't dare to say that I have been peaceful for 20 years, but it should not be a problem for 10 years of peace.

Of course, during this period, Zhu Di did not dare to say absolutely that he did not need to pay attention to Mobei, at least he had to maintain the daily patrol of the Ming army.

The patrol of thousands of people will not be too tossed, and it can also maintain a certain deterrent.

According to the second child's means, it is estimated that the cultivated land in Daning and Bohai will increase several times in ten years, and it will be easier to send troops from Hailaer at that time.

"Ten years...... I don't know if I'll live until 10 years from now......"

Zhu Di was a little melancholy, and at the same time couldn't help but glance at the generals, and there was a little reluctance in his eyes.

After taking a deep breath, he reinvigorated and said, "Okay, report the results of this battle back to Nanjing, and the army will return triumphantly!" ”

"Yes!"

The generals in the tent responded one after another, but only Alitai, Arutai, and Benjamin were as uncomfortable as eating, but they still had to be accompanied by smiling faces.

It was not an easy process to rush the news to the south from Hulan and Huwen Paitang.

From Zhu Di's order on June 24 to Zhu Gaoxu's receipt of the results of the Northern Expedition, the whole process took 25 days.

If it weren't for Zhu Gaoxu's construction of post roads and post stations on the route of Hailaer, Zhenyuwei, Hechengwei, Zhaozhou City, Changchun City, and Shenyang City, it would have taken more time.

"Nearly 20,000 enemies have been annihilated, and this result is enough for Wara to recuperate for more than ten years, and it is no wonder that the old man will send 800 miles to expedite."

On the 19th of July, the ...... in the Spring and Temple

Looking at the Tang newspaper in his hand, Zhu Gaoxu had a smile on his face, he really didn't expect Zhu Di's results to be so great, but after thinking about it carefully, it was mainly because he replaced the flintlock pistol and was equipped with a horse pistol.

These two newly upgraded weapons caught Mahamu by surprise and were the weapons that inflicted the most heavy losses on the Warat cavalry in the engagement.

In addition, there is another reason that Zhu Di is familiar with the climate of Mobei, and Meng Zhang, Li Shi and others dare to dismount and fight.

The whole battle was not complicated, but it was a little more difficult in terms of supply.

"It would be nice if there was a train......"

Zhu Gaoxu sighed, thinking that if there was a train, the Ming Dynasty would be able to control the Mobei region.

"Your Highness, the great victory of the Northern Expedition, is the reward waiting for Your Majesty to return to Nanjing, or is it up to you to decide?"

Standing in the Chunhe Palace, Guo Zi, the head of the household, deliberately opened his mouth, obviously seeing the general trend.

However, the general trend he saw was just what Zhu Gaoxu wanted him to see, not what Zhu Gaoxu wanted.

Let Zhu Di solve Mobei Warat and Tatar, this is only half of the result he wants, and the remaining half is the full implementation of the new policy in Jiangnan, and this difficulty is much more difficult than fighting Warat Tatar.

"How is the implementation of the new policy in Jiangdong Liufu?"

Zhu Gaoxu deliberately only summoned Guo Zi, for the only reason for this.

"Back to His Highness...... Guo Zi knew what Zhu Gaoxu wanted to hear, so he reported without a moment's delay:

"It has been a year and a half since the implementation of the new policy, and now the total number of mouths in the six prefectures is 9,926,417, and there are 36,274,000 ...... in Arida."

The data reported by Guo Zi surprised Zhu Gaoxu.

The population of Liufu in Hongwu for 14 years was about 6 million, and now that 30 years have passed, he thought that with the premature mortality rate of this era, it would be 9 million at most, but he didn't want to think that it was close to 10 million.

What is this concept, one-eighth of the population of the Ming Dynasty is concentrated in this area of less than one percent of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this dense population has led to a new level of urbanization.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's observation of the county's population of more than 2.98 million a few days ago, the urbanization rate has exceeded 25 percent, which is several points higher than his estimate.

If it is calculated according to urbanization, it can basically reach about 40%, but the market towns of this era are not much different from the countryside, and there is not much handicraft output.

With such a demographic situation, it is difficult for business to be underdeveloped.

"Of the more than 36 million acres of cultivated land, how much does mulberry land occupy?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked Guo Zi, and Guo Zi also responded in a deep voice: "Since the second year of Yongle, it has increased year by year, and now there are about 7 million mu of mulberry fields. ”

"yes, I see." Zhu Gaoxu bowed slightly, he didn't expect that the change from rice to mulberry had already started in advance in the Jiangnan region.

Once this process begins, it must be measured, otherwise it is likely to lead to the bankruptcy of many middle and lower class people.

"Have the officials from the south arrived in the capital?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Guo Zi, and Guo Zi also bowed his head and said: "40,000 officials and 30,000 teachers have gathered in the capital. ”

"In the second half of the year, a new policy will be implemented to the whole Zhili." Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth without thinking, and Guo Zi also responded respectfully.

took the six provinces of Jiangdong, and almost half of Nanzhili was taken.

Now that the new policy is implemented in Nanzhili, the resistance will not be so great.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu did not expect that the obstacle of the six prefectures in Jiangdong was so small, he originally thought that at least a few thousand people would have to die before the new policy could be implemented, but he didn't want to go from more than 30 people at the beginning to now, and the total number of people has only died a few hundred.

Counting the relatives of the wealthy families who were connected by Zhulian, there were only more than 6,000 people involved, which was much smaller than he expected, and it seemed that this group of guys in Jiangnan was really sorry for their lives.

But in this way, he is a little difficult to handle.

"This year, Nanzhili has cancelled the quota, and all taxes will be paid according to the ten taxes on the output of the acre, and the land will not be recognized."

Zhu Gaoxu said, got up and picked up the red pen, and said without raising his head: "You go down." ”

......Seeing Zhu Gaoxu like this, Guo Zi also cautiously returned the salute and withdrew from the Chunhe Palace.

After he left, Zhu Gaochi said to Yishiha, who had stood without saying a word all morning: "Xie Jin, you haven't been in peace with yourself recently, right?" ”

"No, even if I go to work, I still travel all day long." Yisha shook his head and sneered:

"The war in Guangxi is about to begin, but he doesn't care about the busyness of others, and only lives in what he does."

"Continue to indulge him, wait for him to make a big fuss, and then take him with him and clean up Jiang Zuo."

Zhu Gaoxu explained, and then lowered his head and silently dealt with the music.

After a while, he dealt with Wang Xuan's recital, and couldn't help but praise: "There are a lot of students recommended by Western Yunnan this time, and one-third of them are from students. ”

"You explain to Hu Lun, let him inspect the character of these students, if you can, let them prepare to participate in the next session of the examination, counting the middle school officials in Liaodong, there should be many imperial examination officials from middle school."

Compared with primary school, if a person who graduated from middle school can still enter a high school from the imperial examination, it is undoubtedly of good quality in all aspects.

With this group of people, it will be easier for Zhu Gaoxu to govern Jiangnan.

With the northerners ruling Jiangnan and the local garrison, Zhu Gaoxu did not believe that Jiangnan dared to default on taxes at every turn, as in history.

Of course, what is more worthy of his consideration at the moment is the matter of moving the capital.

"The construction of Beijing is almost over, and it is naturally imperative to move the capital, but Nanzhili still needs to be determined."

"After moving the capital to Beijing, the four prefectures and fourteen prefectures of the southern Zhili were unified under the direct jurisdiction of the capital, and there were no provinces."

Fragmenting Nanzhili is one thing that must be done in relocation.

The Qing Dynasty divided Jiangnan Province into two, which was nothing more than the strength of Jiangnan Province.

However, compared with the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty split more powerfully, directly splitting the Jiangdong Lianghuai into eighteen pieces.

In history, the Ming Dynasty did this, and it did a good job, and the entire Nanzhili was never united, and even the thirteen Taibao of Jiangsu in later generations also had a certain reason.

Before it was divided into 18 directly governed state capitals, there could also be the division of Jiangdong and Lianghuai.

After the split, the party was simply formed with the state capital, Zhejiang in the late Ming Dynasty was the Zhejiang Party, Shandong was the Qi Party, and Shanxi and Shaanxi were the Qin Party.

On the other hand, there has never been a unified party in Nanzhili, because there is no political envoy in the local area, and there is no chance of unity.

Whether it is the Xuan Party or the Kunming Party, they are all parties gathered together based on the state and the government, the Xuan Party started in Xuanzhou, and the Kunming Party started in Suzhou......

In addition, it is the Hongwu remnants of the nobles entrenched in Nanjing, the eunuchs and the six forces left behind.

It is difficult for broad factions such as Huaixi and Jiangdong in the early Ming Dynasty to appear, after all, there is still competition between the various prefectures.

The resources are so little, you have more and he has nothing, so naturally you can't go together.

Because of this, in the late Ming Dynasty, Nanzhili could still transport taxes to the north normally, but Zhejiang and Jiangxi were not very good.

As for the anti-tax resistance in Suzhou during the Wanli period, it can only be blamed on the uneven quality of the eunuchs sent by Wanli.

Sun Long and Chen Feng, these two eunuchs were the culprits of the Suzhou and Wuchang uprisings, respectively.

Sun Long, who was in charge of taxation in Suzhou, only levied "merchants" and not "zajia" at the beginning, mainly targeting small merchants and hawkers, not large merchants.

Therefore, for this tax method, the big businessmen are still relatively supportive, so the tax is collected smoothly, but Sun Long has more private collections.

Later, Sun Long was greedy and began to levy taxes on big merchants instead of reducing the taxes of small merchants and hawkers.

Zhu Gaoxu's memory is relatively clear, that is, "all the machine owners are all weaving, and the weavers are starving to death." Historical data.

It can be said that this method is not uncommon even in later generations, but later generations can lower the standard and change jobs, and jobs in this era are not easy to find, and food is expensive, and it is easy to starve to death.

In Zhu Gaoxu's opinion, even if the eunuchs sent by Wanli are not capable and greedy, as long as there are enough troops stationed in other places, the taxes that should be collected can still be collected.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it was not that they did not engage in forced conscription, but Jiangnan was not honest.

It will not work to use Jiangnan's soldiers to levy taxes in Jiangnan, so Zhu Gaoxu will set up the means of changing guards.

Today, the soldiers of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang have basically been transferred by Zhu Gaoxu to Shandong, Liaodong, and Beiping.

The time for this transfer is three years, which means that in the next three years, Zhu Gaoxu can use the army from other places to implement the new policy, anyway, the army has nothing to do with the local area, and he is not afraid that the army will not do anything.

Nanzhili is only the first step, and the next Zhejiang and Jiangxi are the highlights.

"Your Royal Highness, although since the time of Emperor Gao, most of the fourteen prefectures and fourteen prefectures have been directly governed by the capital, but now that the capital has been moved to Beijing, there are eight prefectures directly under the direct jurisdiction of Hebei, plus these four prefectures and fourteen prefectures, will it be too big?"

Yizha is a little worried that there are too many state capitals directly under the central government, which will lead to poor management.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care when he heard this: "It's not difficult to manage, you don't have to worry about this." ”

Although he didn't know when the steam train would appear, Zhu Gaoxu felt that no matter how difficult it was, it would not last more than 30 years.

In the final analysis, the requirements for basic materials of the steam train are not high, and the current Ming can basically meet them, and the only thing lacking is nothing more than rubber.

However, as long as the trade in the Lower East continued, and the imperial court continued to plant rubber trees in the tropics, the only missing material could be filled.

As long as the train appears, it will be much easier to govern Jiangnan.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu was also a little anxious about the implementation of middle schools, and in addition to middle schools, he was also anxious about the implementation of other schools.

"I've seen the premature mortality rate of the six prefectures in Jiangdong, which is similar to the original Bohai, and there is no progress."

"You send someone to the Tai Hospital to ask, see how many hospitals can be divided into the current major hospitals, and it is best to have one for each political envoy, so that in the future, it will gradually develop into the state capital, county and town."

"In addition, you can also go to the Ministry of Rites to ask about the middle school affairs."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished explaining, he saw that he also responded respectfully, and finally slowly withdrew from the hall.

Watching him leave, Zhu Gaoxu withdrew his gaze and put his eyes on the red pen in his hand.

After cleaning up Nanzhili this year, it will be Jiangxi's turn next year, if you want to clean up Jiangxi, you naturally have to rely on Xie Jin, who is touted by Jiangzuo literati, and only if he commits a crime, can the entire Jiangzuo literary circle be implicated.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't wait in his heart......

(End of chapter)