"Beep-beep-"

In the cold winter season, with the continuous sound of the piercing whistle, unlike the peace expected in the south, the north of the Ming Dynasty also encountered an unimagined war.

"Come into town!!"

Pond riders galloped along the dirt road, and they kept calling for ordinary people who walked back and forth in the fields, inspecting their fields.

When the ordinary people heard this, they also ran to the dirt road, mounted their horses, and ran into the city.

In just two quarters of an hour, the people around the city ran into the city of Hailar.

After a long time, there was a scene of a large group of cavalry running on the western side of the sky.

"Your Highness, what should you do with these people?"

arranged for Alitai to rest, and Wang Rong sent the news to the capital, while waiting for Mahamu's arrival.

"Let's get the succession done first, if Alitai is really invincible, then my old man will also go north to clean up the old dog Mahamu."

After sorting out his mood a little, Lu Yu continued to observe the soldiers of the Ming army who entered and exited Jianshui City.

"The price of the people outside the customs is 40 wen per day, and the court only counts the past and does not count the return, so the 200,000 people are about 480,000 yuan."

About two quarters of an hour, Zhu Gaoxu arrived at the Chunhe Hall and saw Guo Zi, who was waiting inside.

"Xuan!" Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his eyebrows, only feeling that there were too many things.

"Flat!" Zhu Gaoxu answered, and then walked back to his position and sat down:

"Let's talk about the situation in Daning, Bohai, and Liaodong, and see if we can mobilize enough food to go to Hailaer."

Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head when he heard this, but he was a little helpless: "You have to learn after all, besides, this time to deal with Mahamu alone, with Taiping and the character of Bald Polo, it is unlikely that they will help Mahamu, they have been beaten last time." ”

"Your Highness will ascend the throne in two days, let's hurry up, we can exterminate a few more toasts, and we can eliminate a few more, which can be regarded as a gift to Your Highness."

Lu Yu showed a puzzled look, and couldn't help but worry about his going to work in the car.

Zhu Gaoxu said, and Yizha also hurriedly asked people to speed up the pace to send him back to the Spring and Palace, and at the same time sent someone to summon Guo Zi, the head of the household department.

Wang Rong could only let Alitai migrate over to protect them from being annexed.

Such a scorching hot weather made the soldiers and horses coming from Cochin very miserable, not to mention the soldiers and horses from other places.

After a short time, Song Li and Xia Yuanji walked into the hall and saluted as always, and then Song Li took the lead in speaking:

He had prepared for the Jianshui Festival to be hotter than Luzon, but when he came here, he found that even in winter, the temperature here was cooler than that of Nanjing and Beijing in summer, and it was not stuffy.

got the information he wanted to know, Zhu Gaoxu dismissed Guo Zi, Guo Zi didn't dare to stay longer when he heard this, got up and left the palace.

"His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

"The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials selected four era names, namely Qiansheng, Taixing, Xianjia, and Hongxi."

Thinking of this, Zhu Di couldn't help but be a little happy, and Zhu Gaoxu also saw the old man's happiness, and couldn't help but say:

"Your Highness, the day of your accession to the throne is only two days, and since the era name has been promulgated, this minister has come to ask His Highness for his opinion on the year name."

"In addition, the railway survey in the northwest has basically finalized the route from Beijing East to Fengxiang, but the next is the more difficult Longshan section and Longyou section, and the speed may be slower."

"I've already notified, don't worry." Zhang Chun responded, and at the same time sat down and said in a low voice:

"Do you think Your Majesty can abdicate so willingly?"

"On the Bohai Dusi side, there are now more than 186,000 households and more than 880,000 people."

"The price of soybeans and grain is more than 964,000 guan, totaling more than 1,444,000 guan."

Guo Zijiang calculated this account, and at the same time added: "This does not include military salaries and silver rewards......

"Military salaries and bounties don't need to be counted." Zhu Gaoxu interrupted: "The military salary must be paid anyway, and the reward must be killed until the enemy can be done." ”

Besides, not to mention confrontation now, even self-preservation is a problem.

"Forget it, these things have nothing to do with us, remember what I taught you, don't buy acres, don't compete with the people for land, work hard to keep your own one-third of an acre, and don't marry other generals......"

"I guess exile."

Xia Yuanji responded, and Zhu Gaoxu looked at him when he saw this, as if he was asking what else was going on.

For more than 30 years, it has not been very peaceful.

After he left, Zhu Gaoxu relaxed a little, and almost prepared lunch for them.

Zhang Chun shouted, and at the same time said to the soldiers at the door: "Let's see if there is a well, I don't believe that the water in the well is still so hot." ”

Standing in the hall, Zhu Gaoxu was also a little uncomfortable.

There are still more than 400,000 people in the land of Xifan, and this time there are thousands of rich officials involved, and at least 20,000 or 30,000 people can be involved.

Guo Zi explained everything he knew, and Zhu Gaoxu also said:

"Is this year's income higher than last year?"

"It was so hot that many of the brothers could not stand it, either suffering from heat stroke or contracting malaria."

"In addition, how the railway was built in the imperial court, Ling Ke asked Huang Fu."

"Having said that, it also depends on Mahamu's attitude towards the imperial court."

Bands of soldiers and horses went into the city to buy necessary supplies, and at the same time recruited the people of the surrounding villages and towns as men to transport supplies for the army.

Guo Zi explained the logistics problem clearly, and Zhu Gaoxu also bowed his head after hearing it: "I have already thought about these things, you just need to tell me, how many of these millions of bean grain can be transported to Hailaer?" ”

"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Yisha was very puzzled, and Zhu Gaoxu also told him about Mobei when he saw this.

It was surrounded by toasts, and often used the front lines of war to transport people and supplies to the army, and it is no exception today.

"What about Taixing?" Song Lizuo said: "Tai is peace, tranquility, prosperity is prosperity, meaning peace and prosperity." ”

The local literary style prevailed, second only to Longchuan and Yongchang, which were exiled by Zhu Gaoxu in large numbers of literati.

Zhu Di urged Zhu Gaoxu, for fear that he would regret and disagree.

Fu Rang picked up the water bladder and took a sip, wiped his mouth and said comfortably:

"I've hit these river valleys, and although it's still hot and stuffy in the back, it's not as terrifying as here."

From the 20th year of Hongwu to the present, the population from the south of the Yangtze River has lived here for more than 30 years.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu could only reluctantly walk out of the Wuying Palace, and at the same time said to Yisha, who was waiting outside the hall:

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's inquiry, Xia Yuanji decisively chose to leave.

As a river valley area with an extreme climate, even in the early winter of the Ming Dynasty, which is historically low, these valleys that are hundreds of miles long can maintain a high temperature of 356 degrees.

"But before that, we still have to calculate how much manpower and material resources it will take to mobilize 500,000 beans and 400,000 grains to reach Hailar."

Although Zhu Di was indeed angry, he couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart.

Wang Rong did not rush to open the city gate, but asked the hundreds of horsemen outside the city who were cramped and restless.

Seven years is not a long time for a tribe of more than 200,000 people, and it is very difficult to recover from the injuries suffered last time.

"It's okay......" Hearing this result, Zhu Gaoxu breathed a sigh of relief.

The 40,000 iron horses in his hand are the result of the support of the imperial court, and now he has reimbursed nearly half of them, so what else can he use to fight against Mahamu.

"Idiot!" Hearing the words of the sentinel Qianhu, Wang Rong inevitably scolded Alitai.

"Okay," Fu Rang interrupted, "Don't drink the water from the well for the time being, to avoid poisoning these guys." ”

Standing outside the Chaoyang Gate of Jianshui, looking at the Ming soldiers who came and went and ran until their feet did not touch the ground, Lu Yu in the tea shed cast an admiring gaze.

"You can win over the Taiping and put the Bald Polo, many of them some benefits."

"The Daning Division, the Bohai Division, and the Liaodong Division are abundant, and the Daning Division alone has 200,000 stone beans and 70,000 stones of wheat."

"According to the time you said, recruit the people to escort the grain and grass to the north of Shanghai La'er, you calculate how much it costs."

"The south side has been repaired to Renqiu, and the north side has been repaired to Fengrun."

Jianshui County, Lin'an Prefecture, as a place where the city has been built since the Nanzhao period, since the Ming army captured this place and rebuilt it from a rammed earth city to a brick city, this place is the southernmost gathering place of the Han people in Yunnan.

Anyway, here in Zhu Gaoxu, he has given this group of people many chances, but their inferior nature makes them commit them again and again, and he is not ready to forgive them.

"I'm only going out for four months this time, and by the way, you can also ask Zhan Yan and Zhan Ji to go with me, and let me teach them how to fight in person."

It's no wonder that this Alitai is not well-known in the Tatar Ministry as an elder brother, and his ability is indeed too much worse than that of Arutai.

It's just that when he thinks of the environment in Luzon, he survives, and it seems that there is nothing in this car.

"Well, I'll order 20,000 cavalry, 40,000 horsemen, 20,000 auxiliaries, and 40,000 horses."

They hurried towards Hailar City, and under the watchful eyes of the defenders, hundreds of sentry cavalry flocked to the city gate, and Wang Rong, who was the commander of Yan Randu, also put on his military uniform in the whistle in the city and walked to the head of Hailar City.

Not long after, someone handed the abacus to Guo Zi, and after Guo Zi knocked it several times, he came up with the result.

"I looked at the situation in Mobei, if there is no Mahamu, Taiping and Bald Polo will be on the same level as Alitai."

"Okay, okay, you can go quickly."

Song Li's voice fell, and Zhu Gaoxu frowned slightly: "Dry for the sky, the saint dares to be safe?" ”

Of course, in addition to extreme weather, ten more deadly extreme weather brings malaria and miasma.

Sitting in the tea shed, he couldn't believe that just two or three hundred miles away, the weather in the south would be even hotter than Cochin.

Fu Rang's word of poisoning immediately made Zhang Chunxiao stop.

"The minister retired."

He glanced at the embarrassed Alitai, and then arranged for them to rest in the grassland to the north.

"It's really infuriating to make such a thing happen at this juncture."

Wang Rong put on armor and led more than 3,000 cavalry out of the city, and joined 4,000 cavalry with hundreds of cavalry from Tangcai.

"Without them, how can the world be stable ......?"

As for how many of these people involved can survive after going to Qamdo, it can only depend on fate.

Song Li responded respectfully, and Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand when he saw this: "Is there anything else?" ”

"But the terrain to the south is a rainforest, you have to prepare antimalarial powder, you send a message to the people behind you to prepare, don't wait for the myrrh to be recruited."

In the Wuying Palace, Zhu Di held the music in his hand, and couldn't help but be a little angry.

"Your Majesty is no different from the Emperor Taishang over the years, His Royal Highness is making the decision on major matters, and His Majesty is only responsible for the Northern Expedition and sending Ji Gang to do some dirty things."

"It's likely that this time will be futile, but keeping Mahamu busy running for his life and delaying their grazing in the coming year will undoubtedly weaken him."

While he was eating lunch, the southwest land reform was still in full swing.

But unlike what he felt in Luzon and Fujian, Yunnan's climate was different from most of the places he had visited.

Zhu Gaoxu's analysis is reasonable, Mahamu is not a fool, and the last time he fought Zhu Di was because he felt that no matter how strong the Ming army's combat strength was, it would not be possible to inflict heavy damage on the Warat Division.

"It can transport about 600,000 stone of bean feed and 800,000 stone of grain." Guo Zi replied.

Truckloads of antimalarial powder arrived in Jianshui County, where they were then taken away by the army.

"This ......" Guo Zi glanced at Yi Shiha, and Yi Shiha also gestured to a eunuch who was a celebrant eunuch.

But even so, Mahamu recovered from his injuries and dealt a heavy blow to Alitai.

"But once Your Highness sits on the throne, I'm afraid that he will be the first to take Ji Gang to open the knife, but I don't know if this knife will see blood."

It's just that after the last battle, the Warat people completely lost the confidence to start a war with the Ming army in a short period of time, so if they learned that Zhu Di was preparing to go north this time, Mahamu would definitely run away in advance, just like Arutai in history.

"Decree of the Minister."

"The materials are definitely sufficient, but the environment is not very allowed." Guo Zi explained:

"Nearly 500,000 stone beans in Liaodong Dusi, nearly 700,000 stone for rice, wheat and millet in Shu."

Originally, he thought that he would wait for the Northeast Railway to reach Songyuan, and then carry out his own northern expedition.

"However, in this way, it will take at least two months to transport grain, which means that the dispatch of troops is estimated to be postponed to July, and Mobei and Mobei have already entered winter in September."

"Is there an era name chosen by the Ministry of Rites?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Song Li, and when Song Li heard this, he presented the music in his hand, and Yisha stepped forward to take it and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu.

Moreover, it was not only Mahamu who thought so at that time, but also Taiping, Kang Polo and others.

"What's going on?"

"In terms of materials, the three places are very abundant, and in terms of manpower, in the past few years, the number of immigrants in Daning Dusi has gradually increased, and now there are more than 42,000 households and more than 246,000 people."

Now it seems that he is simply sleepy and sent pillows, the war between Mahamu and Alitai forced Daming to end, and this person who ended up naturally had to focus on himself.

"Over there, you send someone to ask how your study progress."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment before saying, "Erchen needs to go back and calculate to know, and give you an answer before lunch tomorrow." ”

Zhang Chun, who walked into the cottage with Fu Rang, picked up the water bladder and took a sip, frowning.

After hearing this, Yisha also nodded and said, "Since there is no possibility of fighting, it is indeed a good opportunity to learn. ”

"Huang Shangshu has estimated that it will probably not be until the end of next year to complete the route of the Northwest Railway."

The four months mentioned by Zhu Di are obviously counted from Hailaer's departure, and the grain and beans are also counted from Hailaer.

In the middle of the team, the familiar sentinel rode out of the horse, looking up as a gesture:

"Wait, Alitai, the Taishi of the Tatar Department, led 20,000 cavalry to attack the Taiping of the Warat Department, and was defeated by Mahamu and the Bald Polo and the Taiping Ambush and Encirclement and Suppression."

In the face of Song Li's proposal, Zhu Gaoxu muttered: "The matter of the year name is not in the way for the time being, can the matter of enthronement be arranged the day after tomorrow?" ”

Moreover, in his opinion, this kind of news is no secret, even Ji Gang himself seems to smell something wrong, and since he solved the case, he seems to have disappeared in a low-key manner.

The soldiers and horses stationed here are from the Jiaozhi Division, and the one who controls them is the current Ying Guo Gong Fu Rang.

"It seems that Your Highness, you also support this northern expedition to weaken Mahamu." Yizha smiled and looked at Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting on the foot.

"Besides, Mahamu was heavily damaged by our army before, and even if he goes out of the fortress this time, I am afraid that he will avoid fighting and not fight with our army."

The speed at which Mahamu came was not fast, so before Wang Rong could send the latest news, the news of Mahamu and Alitai arrived in the capital.

Alitai's incompetence exceeded Zhu Gaoxu's imagination.

"That's right, but ......" Fu Rang's brows didn't stretch, and he finally took a sip of water before saying:

After they integrated with the local ethnic minorities, they created the Jianshui culture with Han culture as the main body and minority culture as the auxiliary.

"The minister is gone." Song Li made a gesture, and then sang and withdrew from the Chunhe Palace.

"Liaodong has the largest population, with 730,000 households and more than 3.72 million people."

He had just left, but the eunuch on duty sang again: "Song Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, ask to see him!" ”

It is wetter than Beijing and cooler than Nanjing, which is very unharmonious.

Zhang Chun said without thinking: "If you kill Ji Gang, it will indeed please the Jiangnan literati, but you don't know who His Royal Highness is, keep Ji Gang, or hang a knife above their heads, and no one knows when this knife will fall." ”

"Is it really that hot?"

Fu Rang had led more than 30,000 troops to attack the valleys of the Lancang River, Yuanjiang and other places.

Since the Ming army advanced into the Yuanjiang River Valley, he was the first to march south to Jianshui County to rest and recuperate, trying to adapt to the local climate.

"Now that you've settled the accounts, let's go back and make arrangements."

A month and a half has passed, which is a drop in the bucket for the entire project, but it can benefit more than 100,000 people.

"Without Mahamu, Mobei is a three-legged stand, which is conducive to the control of the imperial court."

After Wang Rong ordered martial law, he returned to the yamen in the city to rest and wait quietly for the news to come.

Out of his reach, Fu Rang strode into a cottage, took off his armor with the help of his entourage, and gasped: "This Yuanjiang Valley really deserves its name, no wonder His Highness asked me to be careful." ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, everything has been arranged, and the internal and external vassals have all arrived, except for Warat and Tatar."

When the news came, it was the 28th day of the lunar month, only two days before Zhu Di abdicated and Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne.

"Therefore, if you want to produce men, Daning can forcibly recruit at least 40,000 to 80,000, Bohai at least 200,000, and Liaodong is completely sufficient."

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Zhu Di's thinking was still very clear, and he also expected that Mahamu might escape, so he said his thoughts:

He inquired in detail about Alitai's incident, and learned that it was indeed Alitai who took the initiative to attack Taiping, but even he felt a little tricky.

"The water in the bladder is warm, this place ...... the hell"

He couldn't imagine with his toes how 20,000 and 40,000 could fight the result of the annihilation of the entire army, even if he was defeated, he would lose more than 10,000 people at most.

After he left, Zhu Gaoxu set his eyes on Xia Yuanji, and Xia Yuanji said:

"News came from the Third Division of Yunnan that Longchuan Mansion was inspected by the Political Division, and there were 264 wealthy squires who violated the law, 727 officials, and 32 officials."

When the pond cavalry outside the city heard this, they immediately turned back to the grassland.

"Okay, I see, you can step down."

"It's just that it's winter, and the east of the Haravan Mountains is covered with snow, so it's not easy to cross, and you won't have to wait until April until the snow melts."

"On the contrary, he killed Ji Gang, and when he needs to use someone, he has to find someone to use it temporarily, after all, he can't let Hu Lun do dirty things, right?"

After all, Fu Rang and Zhang Chun are old comrades-in-arms for more than 20 years, and there is nothing that cannot be said.

"Bohai Dusi has 360,000 stone of bean feed, and more than 500,000 stone of rice and wheat."

"Implicated in three services, exiled to Qamdo, and moved 50,000 people to Dali, Menghua and other mansions."

Under Zhu Gaoxu's gaze, Xia Yuan Jizuo withdrew from the Spring and Harmony Palace.

Every hour of delay can result in dozens of people dying without treatment.

Zhu Gaoxu replied without thinking, which was also the arrangement he made in order to change the demographic structure of the domain.

"If you calculate this, if you have to send troops next year, then I'm afraid the time available for conquest will not exceed two and a half months......

"Kiln ......"

"These millions of stones, beans and grain, about 200,000 horse-drawn wagons and people need to be dispatched."

After learning that the logistics could be guaranteed, Zhu Gaoxu was concerned about the cost of the expedition.

"Yes" Guo Zi said without hesitation: "The domestic field endowment of the national dynasty has reached more than 72 million stones, more than 14 million yuan in taxes and silver, more than 8 million yuan in overseas customs duties and mining taxes, and this year's annual income is about 44 million yuan, which is more than 2 million yuan higher than last year. ”

"......" Fu Rang frowned when he heard this, but after thinking about it for a while, he nodded and said:

Now it's up to His Highness to kill him or to exile.

"Therefore, even if there are no casualties on Mahamu this time, it is very good to be able to separate the three parts of Warat."

He didn't expect Mahamu to recover so quickly, knowing that it had only been seven years since the last expedition to the north.

"Alitai sent someone to send news that Mahamu is rushing towards Kuoluan Haizi, and Alitai begs to move east to Hailaer City!"

"I don't bring artillery this time, you prepare 500,000 stone beans and 400,000 stone grain for me."

About three days later, the embarrassed Alitai came to the outside of Hailar City with more than 100,000 people.

"Let them migrate!"

"If these can be done, you and I can still pass on the wealth for more than ten generations, if you can't do it......"

Fu Rang was silent for a moment, as if he thought of his father.

(End of chapter)