"The first thing to do is to vigorously produce chemical fertilizers, and we must let the people not say everything, at least the people in high-yield areas must be able to use chemical fertilizers."

"Now that there is a railway, as long as the grain production in the south is enough, enough grain can be mobilized to the north to achieve the goal of transferring grain from the south to the north."

At the beginning of April of the sixth year of Hongxi, when Zhu Zhanyu was heading south for Yunnan, Zhu Gaoxu was strolling among thousands of acres of rice fields in the south of Beijing, and he was followed by more than a dozen young men in their thirties who wore regular clothes and looked like peasants.

It can be seen that this rice field is different from other rice fields of this era, they are relatively thick, and there are many "farmers" who are sowing granular grains in the fields.

This is the experimental field of the Beijing Taixue Agricultural Research Institute, and the experimental ones are all excellent rice that they have been selected and cultivated.

These excellent rice plants are cultivated, sown, and sown with natural guano fertilizer produced by fertilizer plants.

With the addition of abundant nutrients, their growth state is gratifying, and the output is bound to be not too low.

"At present, the fertilizer factory in Jiangnan mainly produces two kinds of chemical fertilizers, one is guano fertilizer, and the other is bone meal grass ash fertilizer."

Following Zhu Gaoxu, Yuan Zheng and Zhu Gaoxu, who were in charge of agricultural research, explained:

"The former can produce 120,000 tons per year after the commissioning of the steam engine every year, and the latter can produce 300,000 tons per year due to frequent land reclamation."

Eating well is the first step, and this first step takes a long time to achieve.

What he wants now is to increase grain production and at the same time increase enough non-staple foods so that the people can have enough to eat.

Zhu Gaoxu was not satisfied after listening to Yuan Zheng's tirade report, and he said to Yuan Zheng:

Only when the people can eat enough can the Ming Dynasty have long-term peace and stability, and can it be peaceful enough.

Productivity must be broken through in order to keep delaying its time.

You can eat porridge and eat meat, but the difference is very different.

"In addition, the number of private farms is also increasing, doubling compared to Yongle in five years."

In this case, the lives of the common people will gradually decline over time, and a large number of middle classes will continue to die out over a long period of time as the population increases.

Due to the war, except for the Song Dynasty, all dynasties were sparsely populated when the country was founded, and the per capita rations were naturally very large.

Yuan Zheng explained bitterly, but Zhu Gaoxu said when he heard this: "If the people can't afford it, the imperial court will subsidize it, and every catty of price will be sold." ”

At that time, it will either be to open up Nanzhou, or to control Dongzhou through economic or migration means.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu stopped, and Yuan Zheng also began to elaborate: "The Ministry of Agriculture has made a rough inference and record of the five years of Yongle and the five years of Hongxi. ”

"On the whole, if there is no mistake in the population situation of the household, the per capita grain is 802 catties, 8 catties and 4 taels of oil, and the average of meat, eggs and milk is 20 catties."

Among them, whether it is chemical fertilizer or steam engine, breeding and cultivation...... These are all technologies and means to increase productivity.

"Your Majesty, if you want to promote it in high-yield areas such as Jiangnan and Huguang, this output is far from enough, but this has reached the limit of the imperial court."

He's doing something very motivating, and for the sake of the results of it, he can resist most of the temptations in the world...... Let the people of Daming eat enough!

"Say no, say something practical and useful." Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to listen to these flattering words.

It is true that the people of the Ming Dynasty do not say that they are not full of food, but this is compared with the previous dynasty, not the present.

Normally, this kind of sparsely populated dividend can last for about 80 years, and after these 80 years, it will fall into the economic trap of land annexation, or excessive concentration of wealth.

"There are more than 600,000 beef cattle in the pastures in the north of the imperial court, 120,000 ploughing cattle, and more than 50,000 beef cattle can be slaughtered every year, which are basically transported to the south, and 8,000 ploughing cattle can be provided to the south."

"In addition, pig farming ......"

"This ...... This ......" Yuan Zheng obviously didn't expect His Majesty to pay so much attention to agriculture, so he gritted his teeth and said:

"The ministers will definitely reduce the cost of fertilizer, please rest assured."

"We can't stand still, and there is a problem with the existing per capita rations, because you are not removing the feed that feeds the livestock."

"In the five years of Yongle, the staple grain output of the Ming Dynasty was about 60 million tons, the oil output was about 250,000 tons, and although the meat, eggs and milk could not be counted in the whole country, according to the data collected in Nanjing, Beijing, Chengdu, Liaoyang and other places, it was about 12 catties per person on average."

"In addition, the output of new crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn has reached more than 4.6 million tons."

The amount of cultivated land cultivated by the Ming Dynasty can still greatly exceed the number of new people at present, but as the effective land continues to decrease, this situation will eventually come to an end one day in the future.

It can be said that this kind of economic trap will come later after Zhu Gaoxu's reasonable distribution of the New Deal, but it will always come.

"The household department will allocate 500,000 taels every year to support agriculture and reduce the cost of chemical fertilizer to four wen per catty."

"I see the progress of the Agricultural College, and I hope that the current progress is getting better and better than in the Hongwu and Yongle years, but this is still not enough."

"In terms of increasing the yield per mu, the former can be stable at 20%, and the latter is around 14%."

Yuan Zheng understood the meaning of his words, so he hurriedly took the book from the doctor behind him.

However, what Zhu Gaoxu is most concerned about is the most basic food issue.

"Moreover, the cost of chemical fertilizer is five wen per catty, and at least twenty catties are needed for one acre of land, which ordinary people simply cannot afford."

"Building water conservancy is an investment in agriculture, and so is fertilizer."

What Zhu Gaoxu wants to hear is whether the current Daming agriculture has progressed, or how much progress has been made.

On the ridge, Zhu Gaoxu listened to these things that literati didn't like to hear, but a lot of pride rose in his heart.

"After 17 years of introducing new crops, livestock breeding, and the promotion of chemical fertilizers, Hongxi's five-year staple grain output is about 74 million tons, oil has increased by 830,000 tons thanks to the promotion of peanuts, and meat, eggs and milk According to the data collected along the border of the Liangjing Railway, the average urban person per year is 20 catties."

"In fact, there has been an increase in all kinds of situations, among which the new fodder brought by the new crops began to be used to feed livestock, and after reasonable breeding, the number of beef cattle has increased from more than 4.4 million heads recorded in the national government yamen in the five years of Yongle to 6.3 million heads, and the meat production of bulls has increased from 480 catties to 560 catties."

It has been 56 years since the Ming Dynasty, and after a series of reforms and redistribution by Zhu Gaoxu, with the investment of a large amount of resources, millions of acres of wasteland have been continuously reclaimed.

"If the planting area of new crops in the north expands, the number of beef cattle and cultivated cattle per mu will also increase."

In just 17 years, Zhu Gaoxu has improved the rations, meat, eggs and milk of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and with the completion of the railway, meat, eggs and milk from the north can be continuously transported to the south, and grain from the south can be continuously transported to the north.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Gaoxu will set up the Dongzhou and Beizhou Propaganda Divisions, but he doesn't know how long these two Propaganda Divisions can last.

He intended to move people to the local area, but now the Ming Dynasty needed more people in the vast southwest.

Only when the local area is stable, Daming can have the energy to take care of overseas.

"You have to pay attention to the promotion of chemical fertilizers, and the money from the household department will be allocated when I go back."

Leaving a sentence, Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the experimental field and rode in a carriage towards the Forbidden City.

When he returned to the Forbidden City, Zhu Zhanqi, who had been on the road for two and a half months, finally entered the border of Yunnan and came to the Han Mansion in Kunming.

"Zhan Yan, your father is really relieved of you, there is no danger along the way, right?"

In the palace of the Han Dynasty, the sound of beauty came out in the carrying hall, the fat Zhu Gaochi sat on his throne, and below were Zhu Zhanqi, Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhanjun, Zhu Zhanyong, Zhu Zhanyin, Zhu Zhanyuan and other older princes.

Except for Zhu Zhanji, who has dark skin for the perennial training of the guards of the Han Palace, the rest of them are the same as Zhu Gaochi, white and fat.

Forty-six-year-old Zhu Gaochi has given birth to sixteen sons and seven daughters, but because the Zonglu system of the Ming Dynasty was changed by Zhu Gaoxu, no matter how many children he had, the money allocated by the imperial court was so small, and it was his business whether he could support him or not.

In this regard, Zhu Gaochi is not worried at all, because Zhu Gaochu allocated him two overseas copper mines, and these two copper mines can produce 6,000 yuan per year, counting his income, it is completely enough to support his family.

Not to mention twenty-three children, even two hundred and thirty children, he can raise them very well.

Of course, whether his body can eat or not is another matter.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhanyan observed his uncle, he was fat and fair-skinned, not at all like people living in Yunnan.

Zhu Zhanyan rode all the way from Wumeng Mansion to Kunming Mansion, and most of the Yunnan people he saw were emaciated and dark, but they were not emaciated by not having enough to eat, but emaciation brought about by too much work.

According to what Zhu Zhan Yan learned in middle school, the land of the west belongs to the water tower of Zhongzhou, while Yunnan is the water tower of the Indochina Peninsula.

Because of the high altitude, the ultraviolet rays are strong and it is easy to get tanned.

Originally, Zhu Zhanyan didn't understand the meaning, but when he walked into Yunnan, he knew what the strong ultraviolet rays meant.

At least in two days, his face had been tanned and peeled, and he had no choice but to change carriages.

Although the place where the skin peels off is already good, the face is inevitably much darker than before.

"Uncle looks like he doesn't like to go out?"

Zhu Zhanchi looked at the white Zhu Gaochi curiously, and Zhu Gaochi also waved his hand and said: "Although Kunming Mansion is flat, there are also some small hills, and it is more tiring to walk, so I am still at home, and I have nothing to do for a walk." ”

Zhu Gaochi's words provoked Zhu Zhanji to shake his head for a while, his father knew too well that the biggest movement was probably dancing with a dancer.

"It's still about moving around a lot." Zhu Zhanyan didn't know what Zhu Gaochi's movement was, but he still reminded:

"This time I went south, whether it was my grandfather, my father, or my mother, they all asked me to come and see you."

"I just said it at the grandpa's family banquet, and when I finish my studies and go north, I hope to bring my uncle and third uncle to the north together."

"Grandpa is going to go north in three years, and my eldest brother and I will be the pioneers, and the family will have a reunion dinner before departure."

"The Northern Expedition?" Zhu Gaochi lost his voice and said: "Your grandfather will be sixty-six or seventy years later, why did he still let him go north?" ”

"Grandpa asked for it himself." Zhu Zhanyan said with a smile: "Father said that if grandpa's wish is not fulfilled, grandpa will definitely be unhappy, it is better to promise him first and make him happy." ”

"Having said that, but Your Majesty is really ready to let the Emperor Taishang go on a northern expedition?"

Zhu Gaochi changed his title, Zhu Zhanchi didn't care, and continued to smile: "If grandpa insists on asking for it, then there is no way." ”

"But Uncle can rest assured, in three years, the railway and waterway will lead to Hailar, and grandpa will only need to sit in Hailar at that time."

"If that's the case...... it's okay" Although Zhu Gaochi does not approve of the policies of his father and second brother, he still cares about the two.

He was relieved to learn that he could take a train or boat to Hailar.

Zhu Di's armor is more than 60 catties, if a person in his 60s wears more than 60 catties of armor and rides to Mobei, Zhu Gaochi really can't put his mind at ease.

"Okay, let's eat first, don't talk about anything else in Yunnan, the mountain delicacies and wild meat are really everywhere."

After chatting about business, Zhu Gaochi set his eyes on his dining table, picked up the chopsticks and feasted happily.

Zhu Zhanyan also looked at many unseen meals on the table, and carefully picked up the chopsticks and tasted them.

An hour passed, and a banquet ended with laughter and laughter.

Zhu Zhanyan did not leave in a hurry, but had to rest in the Han Mansion for three days before going to Longchuan Mansion to take up his post.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Zhan Yan got up and went to the Qianguo Mansion, which was not far from the Han Palace.

Mu Chun is his father-in-law after all, and if he doesn't meet in Kunming, he will inevitably be complained by Mu.

After preparing the palace gifts to carry south, Zhu Zhanyan walked into the Qianguo Mansion with his guards.

In the Qianguo Mansion, 60-year-old Mu Chun led his family to kneel to Zhu Zhan Yan who walked into the mansion.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhanyan hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Father-in-law can't, how can there be a reason for the elders to salute the juniors." ”

"After all, His Royal Highness is the prince, and the old minister should also salute." Mu Chun was respectful to Zhu Zhanyan, and Zhu Zhanyan smiled and helped him up: "Today, I only talk about the shortcomings of the parents, not about state affairs." ”

Mu Chun is the foreign aid that Zhu Gaoxu found for Zhu Zhanyan, although he is sixty years old, but the Mu family knowledge he has cultivated is general, and his two sons are also very knowledgeable.

"Your Highness......"

The two eighteen or nineteen-year-old young men looked at Zhu Zhanyan, Zhu Zhanyan looked back at them and smiled: "This must be Mu Yi and Mu Jing, right?" ”

Mu is the eldest sister, Mu Yi is less than a year old, and Mu Jing is two years younger.

Facing the two, Zhu Zhanyan also praised: "I have heard of the exploits of the two of you, and you dare to lead five hundred horsemen to attack more than 10,000 barbarians with your father-in-law at this age, your courage is commendable!" ”

"Your Highness Xie praises." Although Mu Jing is still calling His Highness, it is not difficult to see that he has a temperament.

If Mu Chun hadn't been here, he might have changed his name to brother-in-law.

In comparison, Mu Yi was very steady, he replied with a false praise and then shut up and stopped talking.

"Your Highness, let's go and sit down first."

Mu Chun is only three years younger than Zhu Di, and he is the one who has met Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma, Zhu Biao, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu.

As far as his first glance at Zhu Zhanyan was concerned, he felt that Zhu Zhanyan was definitely not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, let alone Zhu Gaoxu, but he was definitely much stronger than Zhu Yunwen.

In order to observe his son-in-law, Mu Chun began to probe Zhu Zhanyan from all sides in the following conversation.

Zhu Zhanyan may know it, or maybe he didn't think about it so much, but he knows everything about these issues, and he has nothing to say.

After getting along with each other as a whole, he gave Mu Chun a very open-minded and open-minded feeling.

If you want to evaluate, he thinks that Zhu Zhanyan is the kind of person who knows that he is strong, but he does not bully the weak.

He is a hero, but being an emperor is not a hero enough.

Just a simple temptation, Mu Chun knew why Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Zhanyu to hide his identity and come to Yunnan to serve as a minister.

It's a pity that Zhu Zhanyan didn't understand the meaning, otherwise he wouldn't have come to him openly.

Although he did not reveal his identity, with the attitude of the Han Mansion and the Qianguo Mansion towards him, it was difficult for others not to guess his identity.

Thinking of this, Mu Chun couldn't help but shake his head and sighed secretly in his heart.

After the family banquet, Mu Chun took Zhu Zhanyan to the Cuihu Willow Camp and watched the training of the military camp in the distance.

I have to say that Mu Chun's military capabilities are obvious to all.

Except for Li Wenzhong, Mu Ying, and Zhu Gaoxu, there were few generals in the Ming Dynasty who could completely defeat him.

All four of them were young soldiers and had made great achievements before the weak crown.

Compared with Zhu Gaoxu and the others, Mu Chunxing may be slightly inferior, but he set out at the age of seventeen to fight, fighting from the northwest to the southwest, and the plains, mountains, cavalry, and infantry are all proficient.

It was precisely because of his outstanding ability that after Mu Ying's death, Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of letting others guard Yunnan, and directly designated Mu Chun.

Mu Chun's experience, Zhu Zhan Yan is very familiar with, after all, since he was born to the present, he has often heard his father say that Song Sheng in the northwest and Mu Chun in the southwest are the two pillars of the Ming Dynasty.

Song Sheng died too early, and he didn't have the opportunity to see him, but when Mu Chun sees it now, it is really not much different from the legend.

From a few words, Zhu Zhanyan could feel Mu Chun's sense of belonging to Daming and the Zhu family, and occasionally when he mentioned Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma, his voice was even more choked, obviously thinking of some things in the past.

With such a person as his father-in-law, even Zhu Zhanyan himself felt that he was very lucky.

"Your Highness went to Longchuan this time, and the minister hopes that His Highness can change and return."

Looking at the barracks, Mu Chun also said the same thing as Zhu Gaoxu.

He also saw that Zhu Zhan's black and white temperament was too clear, and this temperament was not what an emperor should have.

He only hopes that Zhu Zhanyan's temperament can be smoothed out, otherwise it may not be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty.

"The kid will, and the kid will come back to see his father-in-law then."

Zhu Zhanyan said this, and Mu Chun didn't continue to say anything when he saw this, but just took him around Dianchi Lake for three days.

During this period, Zhu Zhanji also came to Zhu Zhanji, but he did not communicate much with Mu Chun.

Han Wangfu, Yunnan Sansi, Qianguo Mansion......

This is the tripartite force in Yunnan, and Wang Xuan basically does not participate, after all, he and Mu Chun are more familiar with each other than others.

It's just that because he helped Fu Mao block Mu Chun's grain route and reinforcements, he and Mu Chun have changed from confidants to current strangers.

Although Mu Chun thinks that Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu are very good after they take the throne, he still can't get over the hurdle in his heart, and Wang Xuan is the same.

After a simple stay in Kunming Mansion for three days, Zhu Zhanyan went to Longchuan Mansion in the west.

On the way, he went to Dali, and wanted to know how beautiful his father said Cangshan and Erhai Lake were.

Perhaps because the climate was too cold in this era, and the population in Dali was not large, there were many trees in Cangshan in this era, and the Erhai Lake was also crystal clear.

For the relics left by Nanzhao, Zhu Zhanyan was not interested in looking at them, his eyes were mainly on the people living in Cangshan and Erhai.

Although there is a language barrier, Zhu Zhanyan is also willing to spend money to find a translator, so he knows a lot about the southwest.

It can be said that before the Ming army did not liberate them, most of the people living under the rule of Tusi were unhappy.

They don't have enough to eat, they don't have enough clothes, and because they have been bound to the toast for generations, they don't dare to resist in the face of some toast's brutality.

Even if they meet kinder toasts, they will be affected by the fight between toasts and toasts, and their lives will not be stable at all.

During the Hongwu period, the Han people could still wear straw sandals and coarse linen clothes, but they were barefoot, and at most they used some fabric to barely cover important parts.

Since the Yongle period when Yunnan changed its land and returned to the stream, their lives gradually began to improve.

The land that used to belong to Tusi was divided equally among them, and the imperial court would also give them grain to encourage them to cultivate new land in large quantities.

Not only that, but their children can also read and write, and they can also go to the vicinity of the official road to apply for workers and repair the official road to get paid.

In Zhu Zhanyan's opinion, the official wage of 20 wen a day is extremely low, but whenever he wants to be angry, those people with smiles on their faces will dispel his anger.

"You are from the capital, have you seen Emperor Yongle and Emperor Hongxi?"

A septuagenarian lady dressed in Bai costume asked Zhu Zhanyan, her eyes were gray and she seemed to be unable to see.

When a young man sitting next to Zhu Zhanyan heard this, he immediately translated for Zhu Zhanyan.

"I've seen it, but it's far away......"

Zhu Zhanyan sat on a low stool less than a foot high, and didn't understand why this septuagenarian old lady lived in an earthen house, why she could still smile so happily.

"They must have looked kind, like bodhisattvas."

"Kind ......" Zhu Zhanyan didn't know what to say, his grandfather was quite kind, but his father ......

"Kindness, if the emperor hadn't sent troops, I would still be a slave now, and I wouldn't have survived this time."

The old lady stretched out her feet, and there were scars on her feet that had been shackled, and Zhu Zhanyan could see that it was all because he had seen Mongolian slaves fleeing from exile in Hailaer City.

They also have scars on their legs that resemble shackles and wooden shackles.

"Now that life is better, I can eat enough...... I really envy you for having a good life, I don't know how long I can live. ”

The old lady was obviously blind very early, but Zhu Zhanyan didn't know why, and always felt that he could see the scene of the so-called "good days" on his face.

Maybe Guotai and Min'an don't have to travel all over the mountains and rivers, just look at the faces of the people, look at their expressions to make everything clear.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhanyan nodded: "It's going to get better and better!" ”

(End of chapter)