Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 993 Governor of Jinsui
When meeting Sun Changzhou, the emperor had already made a round of inspection in Changping, and he knew it in his heart.

Agriculture in the north as a whole is developing for the better. Although the policy of low land tax has created a certain sense of tax loss for the imperial court, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

"Hey-"

Sun Changzhou got out of the carriage. The strong sunlight made his eyes narrow unconsciously, and he raised his right hand habitually. What appeared in front of his eyes was a mill.

There are several wooden houses with reeds as sheds, which are ventilated and bright.

Several donkeys were blindfolded and walked habitually, and as they walked, the tendons were moved, and then they were squeezed continuously, and a large amount of juice was squeezed out.

Sun Changzhou glanced at the black wooden board, the juice flowing on it, and the sticky accumulation under the stone pool.

He couldn't help feeling a little nauseous.

The emperor was dressed in ordinary clothes, and his slender beard was neatly rested. It seemed that because of his age, his cheeks had begun to grow fat, and his originally sharp eyes had become kind.

But how can there be a monarch who fights the world single-handedly?
"His Majesty--"

"You came!"

Zhu Yixi responded calmly, concentrating all her energy on this squeeze.

Seemingly seeing Sun Changzhou's confusion, he explained: "This is sugar."

"Sugar?" Sun Changzhou was taken aback: "Can sugar cane be grown in the north?"

"No, it's beets."

Zhu Yixi chuckled: "Steam the beets, chop them up, squeeze them, and it will become sugar water."

"Then boil it in an iron pot, and that's sugar."

Suddenly, Sun Changzhou's face changed suddenly, and his eyes widened.

Beets can also make sugar?

This is a huge boon for the North.

"Did you notice?"

Zhu Yixi showed a little complacency: "Beets, the colder they are, the sweeter they are."

"Chahar, Suiyuan, and Northeast China are all suitable for growing sugar beets."

"As long as it becomes popular, it will be a great thing for the common people."

Sun Changzhou was filled with emotions, and he directly bowed his hands in worship: "Your Majesty is really a first-class sage."

"Sweet potatoes and corn are enough for food and clothing, and beets make the people rich. This is a matter that will last forever, and it all depends on the merits of Your Majesty."

Zhu Yixi shook his head, and said modestly: "Sweet potatoes are popular in Fujian, and sugar beets are slightly involved in Gansu and Shaanxi. I just stood on the shoulders of my predecessors to help for a while."

Even so, he raised his head with a proud face.

If it is popularized according to time, it will take two to three hundred years for sugar beets to be popularized throughout the north, and corn and sweet potatoes will not be popularized throughout the country until the 300s.

His slight push is enough to save hundreds of years of effort, the credit is too great.

Food can only be used for food and clothing, but the importance of cash crops is no less than food.

In the late Ming Dynasty, tobacco was introduced to Daming, but it was always resisted by the government, and the common people were strictly prohibited from growing tobacco.

Because they are afraid that tobacco will take over the farmland.

The same is true for beets in the north at the beginning, and the officials are very discriminatory.

This is because of population growth and insufficient arable land, so that food cannot keep up with the rhythm.

Now the Northeast has opened up wasteland, Annan has been transformed into the Qin State, and American crops such as corn and sweet potatoes are popular, and there is sufficient food.

The income from one mu of sugar beets is several times that of grain, which is not only conducive to the accumulation of wealth among the people, but also increases their ability to resist disasters.

In Zhu Yixi's plan, tobacco leaves and sugar beets will be important agricultural crops in the north, along with soybeans and peanuts.

Although the price of sugar is high, the oil industry should not be underestimated.

Eat more oil and eat less food, which is also conducive to social stability.

The army is like this, willing to put fuel, otherwise the training will be too much.

The sun was a little fierce, and the emperor put on a straw hat.With a group of people came to the river, blowing cool wind.

The eldest daughter and daughter-in-law who did the laundry noticed this group of people, and were also frightened into silence, and left in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, Chahar now has small cities such as Chifeng, so it is divided into six counties, with 40 Han people and 80 Mongolian people. The two live in harmony without any conflict."

Sun Changzhou stood bowed and reported on Chahar's situation.

In terms of governance, it has reached its peak for Chahar.

He used Han people and Mongolian people to check and balance each other, and at the same time, among the Mongolian people, he suppressed ordinary herdsmen with sweat tents.

Among the nobles, the King of Beihai County and the King of Chahar County check and balance each other, but most of the small and medium-sized nobles hand over their land to the government to take care of them, and live on their own with the iron sheep tax.

In the end, Sun Changzhou said with a smile: "The king of Beihai County and the king of Chahar County have a number of relatives and friends who are married to the court and have a close relationship, but the ministers are not in a hurry to supervise."

"According to investigations, there are only [-] tents left in the Beihai County King's tribe, and the Chahar County King has only [-] tents, and there are very few nobles who support him. He is no longer a threat to the court."

Speaking of this, his smile is extraordinarily bright.

It took nearly ten years to tame the Chahar people, which was extremely hard work, but Sun Changzhou did it.

One is to rely on the powerful frontier army, and the other is to rely on interests, like cutting sausages, and constantly making them submit.

In the end, the strength of the Mongolian nobles was less than [-]% of that of Chahar, and they were extremely scattered.

"As long as the one-hundred-household system is implemented for a long time, the rule of Mongolia will not be far away."

Finally, it concluded.

The emperor nodded slightly, expressing his satisfaction.

The policy for grasslands is mainly the one hundred household system.

Freeing the herdsmen from the hands of the nobles and establishing a characteristic grassland bureaucracy system will stabilize the court's rule over Chahar.

The taming of Buddhism, the wooing of nobles, etc., are just auxiliary means.

Although iron sheep money is the main method, it seems to be going well, but there are many stubborn nobles, which is a test of skills.

Sun Changzhou did all of this well.

From the governor of Water Transport, to the governor of Xuanda, the governor of Chahar, Sun Changzhou has lived up to his expectations.

In a sense, he is a top talent.

But who would have thought that he was a down and out Jinyiwei from the beginning, waiting to die in the sick camp?

Zhu Yixi was a little imaginative for a while.

"What's your plan next?"

Hearing the emperor's inquiry, Sun Changzhou was taken aback. He didn't have any plans, he had to listen to the emperor.

But he hesitated for a while before he said: "I want to tell my old man to return home."

"You're only in your fifties, not even sixty, it's too early for retirement."

Hearing this, the emperor shook his head and directly vetoed this opinion.

However, seeing that Sun Changzhou's temples were all white, he couldn't bear it, and said, "I can't leave the Qing family!"

Sun Changzhou sighed in his heart, he knew it was so.

The emperor said swiftly: "I have decided to abolish the post of governor of Suiyuan and install governor of Jinsui. The Qing family will be the first governor of Jinsui."

He said earnestly: "The Mongols in Suiyuan still need the Qing family to manage them!"

Suiyuan is located in the Yinshan area to the north of Datong, Shanxi, and still occupies Dongtao of Hetao, and most of the territory is Mongolian.

Compared with Chahar, which is close to Gyeonggi, it is convenient for the court to govern, but Suiyuan is a bit far away, and it is difficult for the governor to completely govern.

At this time, it was not the emperor's whim to combine Shanxi and Suiyuan into the Jinsui region, but it was planned long ago.

The establishment of the governor of Jinsui not only facilitates the trade in the grassland, but also can borrow Jin soldiers to suppress the rebellion.

It is also more convenient to immigrate and farm.

In addition, the emperor decided to set up new governors of Yunnan and Guizhou, and governors of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Needless to say, Yun and Gui, the two provinces are relatively poor, with poor mountains and bad waters, so they can be easily suppressed together.

The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is not in Guangdong, but in Guangxi.

There are many chieftains such as Yao and Dong in Guangxi, with many people and little land, so governance is extremely difficult, and there have been countless rebellions in the past thousand years.

It is very appropriate to use Guangdong's money to appease Guangxi.

Zhu Yixi thought of so many governors in the late Qing Dynasty, and had to say that the political wisdom in them was extremely high.

There are also the governors of Fujian and Zhejiang, one poor and the other rich, complementing each other; the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, one has fewer people and the other has many people.

The governor of Sichuan is in charge of the southwestern chieftain and the plateau area. It is also necessary to have a governor here to facilitate the mobilization of financial and material resources to send troops to the plateau.

Zhu Yixi is temporarily not interested in the governors of Fujian, Zhejiang and Sichuan.

Fujian has Taiwan to release the flood, and the southwest has Kang and Wei Zang to bite each other. It doesn't matter for the time being.

Wait, the governor of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia is necessary, but it must be added as the governor of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia.

Each of these three places has its own shortcomings, and they really need to be closely linked.

As for why you are not afraid of the governor's separatism?
That's because there are governors, chief envoys and other officials in each province, and the official ranks are not much different, and the governor is not their direct subordinate.

The main responsibility of the governor is to manage the coordination of the army and suppress the rebellion in a timely manner.

Sun Changzhou brought the emperor back to Beijing, and there were only three days before the start of the test.

There will be three trials, three days each.

Shaowu's continuous reform of the imperial examinations in the early years has been implemented to the rural examinations a few years ago. Only the boy's examination still follows the old practice, and only the stereotyped essays are tested.

Under the new imperial examination, the examination is still three days, three sessions, but the content of the examination has undergone earth-shaking changes.

For example, in the past, the chief examiner and the same examiner needed to read three test papers together, adding up tens of thousands of copies and tens of millions of words, which can be described as non-stop around the clock.

But now, the chief examiner is just invigilating the exam, picking up the gaps and making up for the omissions, while the same examiners are divided into three groups, and they read the three exams respectively.

The same is true, the number of fellow examiners has increased to 30, ten for each session.

At the same time, sealing, transcribing, proofreading, grading, and filling in the list, etc., are selected from the eight parts, which are random, and it is absolutely difficult to cheat.

In terms of exam content, a large-scale update has been carried out.

In the first round, there are three policy essays, one poem and one Ci each. The eight-part essay format must be used, which is the same as in the old days.

In addition to the standardization and fairness of the eight-legged essay, the more important thing is that the format of the eight-legged essay is the official document of the Ming Dynasty.

The imperial decree of the emperor and the official documents of the local government must be written in stereotyped essays.

The biggest feature of the stereotyped essays in the Shaowu Dynasty is the presence of punctuation marks.

In the past, the examiners did not mean to give an approval or no directly after reading the essays, but to read the sentences, which brought about extremely high difficulty in reading.

With punctuation marks, marking eight-part essays is even easier, and the time has been shortened by more than half.

A new rule has been added to the marking rules: If there are two or more punctuation errors, they will be eliminated directly.

The second test is about law and scriptures, as well as history and common sense.

It can be compared to Mingjing, which needs to fill in the blanks and write silently, and the memory is tested.

For example, what is the year name of Emperor Taizu, the 28 generals of Yuntai in the Eastern Han Dynasty, etc.

In the third round, there are application questions for the test.

For example, judging cases based on content, arithmetic problems, etc., are basically basic problems in officialdom.

At the beginning, scholars were dissatisfied with such rules, and public opinion was in an uproar.

But in the face of the temptation of officialdom, many people still feel that they are upright, and there is a breakthrough in the bottom line.

As long as you can be an official and have an imperial examination, you can do whatever you want.

Just like in the Northern Song Dynasty, when Ouyang Xiu was the chief examiner, he directly dismissed the Taixue School (weird, bizarre, slanderous, vulgar and wretched), and hired Su Shi, Zeng Gong and others, and the Taixue students directly made trouble.

But two years later, Liu Ji, the student leader who was criticized by Ouyang Xiu, directly changed his name and re-examinated. The writing style was very different, and he was directly hired by Ouyang Xiu.

The bottom line of literati is lower than imagined.

Therefore, when Shaowu’s new policy was implemented, the candidates immediately made major changes, and then they all regarded the third game as the most important one, because there was no reference answer for it, so they couldn’t memorize it.

Thousands of children arrived in Beijing, bringing huge consumption power, doubling the amount of paper in the capital, full of inns, and endless cases of various cases, making the Patrol Headquarters very busy.

The vendors yelling on the street also shut up one by one; in the noisy restaurants and restaurants, they talked about the examination, such as examiners, examination questions, and examination provinces.

The patrolmen patrolling the streets all looked serious, looking like thieves.

Traveling in plain clothes, the emperor noticed the tense atmosphere in the capital and couldn't help feeling amused.

Millions of people in the capital seem to be breathing with this group of candidates.

That's right, after becoming a Jinshi, this time he can also be a county magistrate, Bailihou, and become a big shot with more than [-] people. Who wouldn't be nervous?

Zhu Yixi didn't hang out on the street. If he was caught by those patrolmen, it would be a big joke.

He went straight to a bookstore: Biqu Pavilion.

Needless to say, this is the bad taste of the traveler.

Among them, the most conspicuous ones are the examination collections over the years, and some other four books and five classics, classics and historical classics are also selling well.

There are also previous bulletins, which are also selling well.

And what makes Zhu Yixi happy is that "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty" and "Three Hundred Poems of Song Dynasty" are the best sellers.

"what--"

When he saw the title of the book, he went straight to it: "Little Knowledge of Physics".

This book, the title is amazing.

"Fang Yizhi?"

Zhu Yixi thought about it in her mind and felt familiar.

After a while, he suddenly realized that he was the chief envoy of Shandong.

Once one of the four sons of Jiangnan, a concubine in the 13th year of Chongzhen, has a great reputation.

I never wanted to be a dignified political envoy, but I also published a book.

After flipping through it, Zhu Yixi has some criticisms and praises, but compared to folk legends, this common sense is pretty good.

"My lord, do you want this book? It only costs two pennies."

The man hurried over and asked attentively.

Zhu Yixi is very smart, and he immediately knew that he was urging people and not allowing customers to read more books.

(End of this chapter)