"Is this the train of the Celestial Empire......"

"Woo-"

The shrill whistle sounded, and watching a train in the distance pulling several carriages of goods to the east, Ashikaga Yoshikyo, who was sent by Ashikaga Yoshitsugu to participate in the enthronement ceremony, was full of shock.

The speed of a train full of goods is not much faster than that of a horse-drawn carriage, but the existence of this kind of ability to pull hundreds of thousands of catties of goods without horses only exists in mythology for the envoys of various countries.

On the official road leading to Tianjin, the envoys of various countries who left one after another saw one train after another, and sometimes even they doubted whether the Ming Dynasty was really the son of heaven.

"Someday, we're going to make something like this!"

For a time, the envoys of Japan, Korea, Siam, Manchuria, Champang, Gan Xiaozhi and other countries made such bold promises.

Such an environment is no worse than that of Luzon.

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu did not reject these notes, more and more ministers began to be dismissed, and finally hundreds of copies of their notes were impeached.

"The ministers retired ......"

However, as far as the result is concerned, Zhu Gaoxu's steps seem to have been very steady, because he has a lot of means to make money.

The world population market has 300 million, and if Daming can eat the 300 million population market, it will be difficult for other countries to have a chance to turn around.

"Boss, third, you go back to the palace to rest, I will also go to deal with government affairs."

"Dad, uncle (second uncle), third uncle, let's go."

He took hundreds of officials and more than 600 officials to Cheli Province, because it was summer, the local area was very hot, many officials and officials from the north and south could not bear this stuffiness, and bid farewell to Lu Yu one after another.

According to the wage set by Zhu Gaoxu, if a mine in northern Shaanxi is opened to recruit workers, the income of one miner in a year will be enough to buy 73 stone of rice, enough to feed more than a dozen people.

With the population of Gansu and Shaanxi, if the local people can provide 300,000 miners, then the local people can rely on the minerals to eat.

Zhu Gaoxu's words are really true, Zhu Di's body is much better than in history.

Closing the above volume, Zhu Gaoxu gave a high evaluation of the two prefectures of Longchuan and Cheli.

"The iron mine will start construction first, and I will let the household department allocate money and grain to you, you don't have to worry."

On the third day of the fourth month, Zhu Di led the Yanshan Left Guard, the Zhaozhou Left Guard to the north, and the three capitals of Daning, Bohai, and Liaodong also gathered troops and horses to move closer to Hailaer.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu say this, Yizha also chuckled: "The Jianghuai of Longchuan Mansion was still sparse a few days ago, hoping that the imperial court could build a railway from Longchuan to Nandian and to Manmo through Ganya. ”

"In the end, almost thirty stockades were removed, leaving twenty-two stockades for you."

The Ming Dynasty could not follow in the footsteps of Spain, so Zhu Gaoxu had to greatly promote the industrial process of the Ming Dynasty in his limited life.

The Sandu Division recruited its own people, dispatched grain and grass, and transported grain and grass to Hailaer through the Nuwen River and land routes.

The problem of money shortage, which had plagued Hongwu for 33 years, was greatly alleviated by him in less than 17 years, and as far as the current situation is concerned, I am afraid that it will only take a few years for the problem of money shortage to be solved.

The military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty plummeted from 18 million guan to 14 million guan, and the 4 million guan saved was not saved, but put into the market.

Due to its dependence on the Lancang River, there is no shortage of water here, on the contrary, it is very hot.

"The new crops have been planted in the mountainous areas of southwest China and in the northeast and northwest, and the area is not large, less than 14 million mu."

In history, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Di disagreed, and Zhu Di also needed to let Xia Yuanji supervise Zhu Gaochi in the customs to prevent Zhu Gaochi from messing around.

Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhanji wore armor and rode horses, and fought with Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu.

Huang Fu's answer satisfied Zhu Gaoxu, and the mines in Shanxi and the northwest are the foundation of the prosperity of the northwest.

For example, from 1754 to 1784, the illiteracy rate in England was only 5% for small shopkeepers, 19% for jomannons and farmers, 20-30% for merchants, 46% for housekeepers, 51% for construction workers, and 59% for agricultural workers and domestic servants......

"When the fertilizer can be mass-produced and there is no need to rely on struvite anymore, people will no longer have to worry about starvation."

The two got up to leave, and Zhu Gaoxu continued to bow his head to deal with the music.

These mines were discovered very early, but they were not mined on a large scale because they could not be transported.

In the next few days, Lu Yu was basically doing the post-war handover work with Mu Sheng, and it was not until tens of thousands of sinners in Longchuan were transferred that Lu Yu began to govern Cheli Mansion.

"According to this wage, the court still has a profit anyway, it's just that it earns more and earns less."

In the past seventeen years, there have been many officials killed by Ji Gang and Chen Ying, and Xie Jin was buried in the snow by Ji Gang, not to mention other officials who are not heavy.

You must know that a suit of armor is at least sixty pounds, at the age of fifty-eight years old, Zhu Di is wearing a suit of sixty pounds of armor and running thousands of miles in Mobei, how can people not worry?

"Second child, look at the two of them."

"Thank you for the handover!"

Zhu Gaoxu interrupted, and then set his eyes on Huang Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who was sitting next to Guo Zi.

"The eldest and third don't know the soldiers, don't listen to them, just follow your own ideas, I know your body, and it's okay to come two more times."

"At present, the number of students counted by the Ministry of Rites has reached more than 8 million, and our teacher-student ratio has also reached 1:27."

"Huh...... It is estimated that it is Wang Xuan's foolish opinion. Zhu Gaoxu chuckled, but did not directly refuse Jianghuai's dismissal.

When Lu Yu arrived here, he saw Dai slaves who were planting rice, as well as many sergeants who came and went to supervise the exchanges.

After he left, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui rode to the palace on an elephant chariot.

Soon, 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 auxiliaries began to move north.

The Central Plains has always been the weather vane around it, and there is no doubt that all countries will spend a lot of effort to study the policies of the Ming Dynasty.

It seems that because of Zhu Di's departure, many ministers began to impeach the current Jinyi Wei commander Ji Gang, as well as Chen Ying, Yu Shi Qin Heng and others in the left capital.

Many of the surrounding forests were burned down due to the fighting, but in such a rainforest climate, the burned forests have been covered with greenery, and there is no sign of burning at all.

Seeing the army marching, Zhu Gaoxu explained to the eldest and third children, then turned around and sat on the chariot and drove towards the city.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his eyebrows and said to Guo Zi and Huang Fu:

"The north needs support, the south is making steady progress, once the Liangjing railway is opened, the south will also receive a steady stream of low-cost coal and iron in the north, which is also good for the south."

Now when the official camp enters the field, it is 100 wen a day, and it is 36 and a half yuan a year.

The so-called Jinghong County is actually a village built by the Dai people.

Guo Zi reported truthfully, Zhu Gaoxu didn't think that such a slow speed, and said approvingly:

"This speed is already very fast, and Taixue is already further researching chemical fertilizers and cultivating new crops."

Seeing this, Geng Tong and the others could only shut up, after all, it is difficult for them to even protect themselves now, if it were not for Zhu Gaoxu to restrain the new political faction, then the party struggle might have been staged two hundred years in advance.

On horseback, Zhu Di looked at this mighty army, although he knew that the cost of this northern expedition was not shallow, and it was likely to be in vain, he still decided to go north and not give Mahamu a chance to recuperate.

If this money is distributed to the entire people of the Ming Dynasty, then each person can get more than 50 Wen every year, which can make a person comfortable for ten days, and this amount is still rising.

Although the local area is sweltering, there is antimalarial powder and enough water, which has met many conditions for land reclamation.

Huang Fu knew that to obtain gold and silver from overseas, he had to send money in the form of infrastructure, but he couldn't do that.

This is still the situation when Britain and the Qing Dynasty maintained a trade deficit, and now the Ming Dynasty occupies two advantages in the world trade surplus, as well as the gold and silver mines in Dongzhou and Kunlun.

There was no time to rest, and he soon returned to the tedious work.

The so-called large concentration is to concentrate most of the population around the five counties to open up wasteland, and as for the cultivated land left over from the past, a small number of people are left behind to cultivate it.

At the same time, the entire Ming Dynasty is also making steady progress, and the railway to the north and south is being built little by little.

"Go ahead!"

In the Wuying Palace, Zhu Gaoxu took the seized and stored income handed over by the household department to make an evaluation, and Guo Zi, the secretary of the household department, also said when he heard this:

"In addition, iron ore and coal mines in Gansu and other prefectures have been found, and like the Daxigou iron mine, it can be mined by allocating money and grain."

Seeing Mu Sheng leaving, Lu Yu also began to explain and take over the villages, and at the same time, according to the requirements of the imperial court, five counties were selected as the foundation for governing Cheli Prefecture.

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Gaoxu issued an order on the ninth day of April to summon Geng Tong from the Criminal Department to investigate the case and detain more than 30 officials, including Ji Gang, Chen Ying, and Qin Heng.

While he was dealing with the slack, Zhu Di's team was still slowly moving north, and Lu Yu, who had stayed in Jianshui County in Lin'an Prefecture for nearly a year, was finally told that he could go to Jinghong County in the car to take up his post.

"The Northwest Railway is indeed going to be built, but not now, and we will talk about it when the route is surveyed."

"According to military statistics, the total population is more than 367,000, and the cultivated land is more than 792,000 mu."

"Yes......" The two responded, and Zhu Gaoxu also waved his hand and said, "Stand down." ”

"This time, thousands of people were involved, and a lot of gold, silver and copper coins were seized, as much as 8 million."

After a long time, it is strange that Zhu Di's situation can be better.

As a person who graduated from middle school, Jianghuai used the knowledge learned in middle school to build sugar factories in various counties in Longchuan.

The post-war recovery of Cheli Province was gradually on the right track under Lu Yu's eastward journey, while the situation in Longchuan Province began after Jianghuai used Wang Xuan's power to sweep away the local criminals.

"The army in Yunnan has reclaimed 2.76 million people, more than 8.24 million mu of cultivated land, many people have fled to Sanxuan and 10 comfort, and after half of the captured gold and silver have been retained in the army, more than 2.6 million yuan have been handed over."

"This Jianghuai really dares to mention ......"

After the influx of gold and silver into the colonies, basic education was emphasized, but in just fifty years, the literacy rate in British society increased further, and the illiteracy rate among merchants fell to 15-30% and construction workers to 38%......

Therefore, Xu Shuo did not support Longchuan and Che Li a lot, and he very much hoped to establish a relationship with the two so that he could visit the temple in the future.

"Hahaha......" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, Zhu Di knew that he had not chosen the wrong person, so he shook the reins.

Knowing that Mu Sheng and the others were going to evacuate the people of the thirty villages, and that there were tens of thousands of Han people migrating, Lu Yu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Zhu Gaoxu remembers that the reason why the two industrial revolutions were promoted so quickly was actually inseparable from the importance that Europe attached to basic education at that time.

In Jinghong Village, Cheli Mansion, standing in the courtyard of the former Tusi, Lu Yu communicated with Mu Sheng, who was stationed there, about how to hand over.

The two fathers and sons have quarreled about moving the capital to Beijing for I don't know how many times, not to mention the revision of the "Yongle Canon" and the matter of going to the West, conquering Jiaozhi, and destroying the Nantian clan.

After a while, the originally lively Andingmen was instantly deserted.

"Starting next month, we will gradually withdraw the troops, and every thousand households will move from the local area to the white clothes of several villages, and finally leave a guard in the car to garrison the border."

By mid-May, the Yunnan Provincial Government Department and the Metropolitan Department had also handed over to Beijing the documents seized by the army during the reform of Yunnan's land and return to the river, and Zhu Gaoxu was able to review them.

"Your Majesty, this money can actually be used for the repair of the Northwest Railway......"

On 17 April, Geng Tong handed over a confession, saying that he had confiscated three boxes of account books in the house of Ji Gang and others, involving more than 600 officials and more than 2,000 officials, and seized 12 boxes of gold, 87 boxes of silver, more than 600 boxes of copper coins, more than 40 boxes of gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, dozens of mansions and villas, and tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

It is naturally unrealistic to send all of them to the people, but it is very worthwhile to invest in industry and turn the agricultural population of the Ming Dynasty into an industrial population.

In order for them to plant well, Lu Yu also distributed the ploughing cattle handed over to him by the army to these people.

Machines that use pulleys to exert pressure to juice sugar cane are not very advanced.

Huang Fu's words are true, in Shaanxi and Gansu, the local wage is very cheap, even if it is a miner's wage, it is rarely more than 40 wen a day.

"Although it is only 300 miles, with the situation in Yunnan, the cost may not be less than 1 million."

Due to the fear of rebellion, the local area is still under military control, with more than 20,000 troops stationed in four guards.

Britain and Spain also plundered silver and gold from the Americas, and Spain was unable to industrialize for a number of reasons, but the main reason was that they did not put the plundered gold and silver into production.

The battle that should be fought has been fought in the Yongle years, and now what Zhu Gaoxu has to do is to give full play to his ancestral skills, open up wasteland and farm, research technology, and innovate in science and technology.

However, the problem is that compared with the Qinling Mountains, the Hengduan Mountains in Yunnan are not easy to cross, and the specific ones have to be investigated by the Ministry of Industry.

Outside the Anding Gate in Beijing, tens of thousands of cavalry waved their flags, and two classes of civil and military officers came one after another.

"This gold and silver will be handed over to the Yunnan political envoy for post-war recovery, I see that Xu Shuo has a lot of support for Longchuan and Cheli, and I hope that these two places can become the base for the imperial court to proclaim three and ten comforts in the future."

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochu with satisfaction, Zhu Gaochu chuckled when he heard this: "It's just one or two million yuan of military spending, if my father is worried, then just cut 500,000 yuan of internal funds next year to subsidize the national treasury." ”

"This time the cost is not shallow, if there is pressure on the treasury, you will write to me."

As for the people who had been relocated to the five predestined counties to clear the land, they did not feel anything.

"But you don't have to worry, the population has begun to migrate over there in Longchuan, and it is rumored that there are tens of thousands."

Lu Yu waved at Mu Sheng, Mu Sheng said hello, and then left Jinghong Village and returned to his camp outside the village.

From firearms and treasure ships at the beginning, to trains now, they just feel that they have more and more things to learn.

"Dad, this northern expedition, you take care of your body."

As for the wages of the cement yard and the gunpowder factory, it is basically more than twice as much as that of ordinary local workers.

In front of the war horse, although Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui did not participate in this battle, they were afraid that Zhu Di would not survive.

Regarding Zhu Di's policies, Zhu Gaochi basically only agreed to the policies of building canals, combing the Yellow River, and dredging the Wusong River, and all other policies were contrary to Zhu Di.

You must know that even in a remote place like northern Shaanxi, the price of grain is at most 500 wen per stone.

Factories have sprung up in various provinces, especially in the north.

As his words fell, Zhu Neng, who commanded the soldiers and horses, immediately ordered the army to go out.

Although the Ming Dynasty was nearly ten times larger than Britain in the mid-eighteenth century in terms of population size, the rate of illiteracy did not decline much slower than in Britain, which was more productive and cheaper than Britain at that time.

When Tusi was there, they were Tusi's slaves, and now they have turned over to be masters, although it is hard to open up the wasteland, but the fields they open up are their own, and the food is enough, which is already unimaginable days for them.

"Yes, Dad, don't be too reckless, Zhu Neng and them are not impossible."

Zhu Gaoxu's punishment of Ji Gang aroused strong dissatisfaction among Geng Tong and other officials.

First of all, the cement yard was set up to facilitate the construction of water conservancy facilities and city houses in the future, and the second was to carry out large-scale centralized and small-scale decentralized management of the people left behind in Cheli Province.

The Ming Dynasty, which came out of the Southwest War, used the gold and silver transported from Dongzhou to continuously mint coins, and circulated the newly minted currency to the people in the form of infrastructure construction.

In the rapid development of people's livelihood and economy, a small war is also gaining momentum.

Zhu Gaochu was wearing an emperor's regular clothes, and in the face of Zhu Di's ridicule, Zhu Gaochu also glanced at the two of them, and responded to Zhu Di:

"Huang Fu, what is the situation of the mineral deposits that you asked you to go to Shaanxi and Gansu to find last year?"

The balanced temple allows Zhu Gaoxu to calmly manage the government and make targeted arrangements for the provinces, such as the current ......

On April 20, Geng Tong played Ji Gang, Chen Ying and others accepted bribes, and according to the "Da Ming Law", they should have peeled the skin and filled the grass to set an example.

For the people left behind, they directly obtained the fields of the entire village, some even more than 20 families, but more than 100 people, and they got thousands of acres of cultivated land.

An hour later, Zhu Gaoxu strode into the Wuying Palace, and no less than two hundred copies had accumulated on the table.

Once there is a railway, the resources of these places can flow into the Central Plains to the east of the Mt. Kunshan.

In his opinion, the 300-mile railway in Longchuan is still very necessary, and the technology of the Ming Dynasty does not support the construction of a railway across the Qinling Mountains, but if Longchuan can go directly to Chongqing and Chengdu, it can be transported by land and water, and the materials and troops of the Chengdu Plain, Huguang and Jiangnan can be transported to Yunnan.

"The northwest is remote, and it is impossible for the miners to pay according to the wages of Shanxi and Beizhili, so they should be allocated according to 100 wen per day, and as for cement and gunpowder, they should be allocated according to 50 wen per day."

"In addition, the promotion of primary schools is mainly based on the teaching of graduates in the north, and if it does not work, we will re-recruit and train."

"With this money, the industry in the north can also be arranged in more detail."

"Recruit a sufficient number of iron miners to mine the iron ore, and at the same time build a cement yard and a gunpowder yard to make cement and gunpowder."

On the contrary, since Zhu Gaochu became the crown prince, Zhu Gaochu can basically satisfy Zhu Di or help him find a way to do whatever Zhu Di wants.

"Now that you are here, the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Atlas will be handed over to you."

Zhu Gaoxu set wages for Shaanxi and Gansu, which made Huang Fu wonder: "Your Majesty, is it too high?" ”

Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Gaochi and the two of them, and then turned his gaze to Zhu Gaoxu.

Lu Yu had no choice but to agree to their farewell.

Zhu Gaoxu does not think that the wages are very high, or that the national conditions are different.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Daxigou Iron Mine in Xianning County has been found, and you can recruit workers to mine it just by waiting for the allocation of money and grain." Huang Fuzuo replied:

The song was passed to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaoxu said: "Ji Gang and others are all former emperor's ministers, and they have meritorious service in the national dynasty, and the death penalty can be avoided, so Ji Gang, Chen Ying and others will be assigned to Bohai Changchun Mansion as commoners." ”

"There are 57 large and small villages in Cheli Province, which are basically dominated by Baiyi (Dai people)."

Yizha reported the results of Yunnan's land reform and return, and Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting on the chair, listened to it:

"The amount of gold and silver is not very large, but the population and arable land are far beyond my expectations."

The opinions of the two fathers and sons on policy are highly unified, and occasionally when they are not unified, most of them are because Zhu Di feels that Zhu Gaoxu is too radical and his steps are too big.

However, in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu ordered the ministers not to discuss it again and resolutely implement his previous will.

With shock, they arrived in Tianjin and sailed to their homeland.

"Alright, let's all go back, wait for my triumphant return!"

The Ming Dynasty has more than 7 million yuan of gold and silver flowing into overseas every year, and there are at least more than 5 million yuan of resources that can be minted and used after the gold is saved.

"This proportion is already very high, at most it cannot exceed thirty, should it be recruited or continue to recruit, no matter how hard it is, no matter how hard it is, this is the difference between us and Siyi."

Jinghong County is composed of wooden villages to form a city wall, the circumference of the village is more than two miles, and thousands of people can live inside the village.

Therefore, when he came to Jinghong County, the seat of Cheli Prefecture, there were less than 400 people left in the team of more than 700 people around him.

Although it has not yet been effective, judging from the content of Jiang Huai's answer sheet in the palace examination, supporting him will not make Wang Xuan and Xu Shuo responsible.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu asked Guo Zi: "How is the promotion of new crops?" ”

Zhu Gaochu waved his hand, Zhu Gaochi held back his words, and seeing that Zhu Gaochu was not worried at all, he held back his chatter, and watched Zhu Zhanji and them go north.

It's just that now the Ministry of Industry is surveying the Northwest Railway, and Luchuan is divided by itself, and he will not give Luchuan a chance to raise his head again, so the construction of the Southwest Railway is not so urgent, and it can be discussed after the completion of the Liangjing and Northeast Railways.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu also remembered the old man of the Northern Expedition, and couldn't help asking:

"By the way, where are they, old man?"

(End of chapter)