Brother Zhu Youxiao

"jingle……"

"Moo~~~"

"Okay, stop barking, I'll feed you now."

On the [-]th day of the winter month, when India and the Indo-China Peninsula were on fire, the northern frontier of Ming Dynasty was unusually quiet.

In Ningxia in the winter month, it was below zero, and the cowshed in Zhenyuanguan, Ningxia County was also very cold. However, when Zhu Fuju threw a coal ball into the fireplace that was about to go out, the temperature in the cowshed quickly rose.

The Ningxia Camp is responsible for guarding the Ningxia Mansion, and Zhu Fuju, who was transferred to the Ningxia Camp, is currently serving as the military supply Sima of the Yuanshao in Zhenyuanguan Town, Ningxia Prefecture.

The system of the Gongwei battalion uses the Five Banners as a sentry, and there are 545 people in each sentry. In each sentry, there is one guard of the sixth rank, two deputy guards of the seventh rank, one quartermaster of the eighth rank, and a scribe officer of the eighth rank. one person.

Although he was only a quartermaster, Zhu Fuju still had ninety soldiers under the Quartermaster Banner.

What the Quartermaster Banner needs to do is to be responsible for the meals of the whole sentry and the livestock in the barracks, so that the whole army can ensure that they can eat enough. At the same time, they also need to count the things used by the clerks, and make up for the lack of things in advance, etc. .

Although the things to be done are very boring, Zhu Fuju enjoys them.

No, although Ningxia was already snowing heavily, Zhu Fuju got up early in the morning and started to add briquettes and fodder to the cowshed and stable.

After finishing all this, he walked out of the cowshed, and what he saw was the snow and the soldiers who got up and went to training.

Compared with the soldiers of the Five Banners, the soldiers of the Quartermaster Banner usually finished the work at hand, and then went to training at noon.

Although Zhenyuan Pass has become Nei Pass, but for the meals of Quanshao, the work here is no less than other places.

A small Zhenyuan Pass, with the destruction of Hetao Mongolia and Ningxia Mongolia, the place that the people used to avoid has now become a rare "rich" place in Shaanxi.

Of course, the "rich and rich" here does not refer to gold and silver, but to rivers and water veins.

Because it is close to the Yellow River and Helan Mountain is on the left, Zhenyuan Pass is not short of water. Naturally, when Shaanxi suffered a severe drought, Zhenyuan Pass, which was already safe, became a place where hungry people in northern Shaanxi took refuge.

Zhenyuanguan used to have only 500 soldiers and 1000 to 6000 residents. Now, there are more than 2 households and [-] people. Even outside the pass, more than [-] mu of arable land has been reclaimed.

"Military Zhu, the pigs are all fed!"

Zhu Fuju was still lamenting the changes in Ningxia's environment, but a team not far away shouted at him.

Hearing this, Zhu Fuju also went to the pig farm, opened the door and walked in to have a look.

The pig farm in Zhenyuanguan is not small, covering half an mu of land, and the pigs raised in it are Bamei pigs native to Guanzhong.

Bamei pig has a narrow and long head, large drooping ears, and longitudinal "eight" wrinkles on the forehead, so it is named Bamei. Its coat color is black. According to its body shape, appearance and production characteristics, it is divided into three types: big Bamei, Erbamei and Xiaohuo pigs. type.

Zhenyuan Guan raises young pigs. This kind of pigs are precocious and easy to fat, and are very popular among the people in Guanzhong. However, this kind of pigs are usually only about 130 catties when they are slaughtered. After removing some inedible bones and internal organs, they are less than [-] catties. It's a catty.

Therefore, in order to satisfy Quan Shao's appetite, the former quartermaster raised a whole hundred pigs.

These [-] pigs were divided into three enclosures, Zhu Fuju looked at the largest pigsty, with a total of forty young pigs in it.

Although there are one hundred heads, it is actually enough for Zhenyuanshao to eat for two consecutive months. Therefore, most of the time, the soldiers of Zhenyuanshao basically eat chicken, duck and goose, followed by mutton, and finally pork.

Since the Ming Dynasty changed to the recruitment system of the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies, the soldiers' meals can no longer eat meat as they used to go to the Zhigongwei camp, but only have meat in the afternoon every day.

To feed an army of 10,000+, although the officialdom can freely allocate land to build breeding farms, things like plague are always the natural enemies of the officialdom.

In the entire Ningxia Prefecture, there are only three official offices of the Yumajian, and they are mainly responsible for [-]% of the local army's meat, and the remaining [-]% are self-sufficient with the military supply flag.

The breakfast of Zhenyuan sentry soldiers is usually two steamed buns and two eggs, and lunch is three dishes with tofu, eggs and other protein-rich ingredients as dishes. Meat can only be eaten in the afternoon.

But even so, many people who come to join the army are satisfied.

Therefore, Zhu Fuju was very concerned about the livestock raised in the Military Supplies Flag. He looked at the forty pigs one by one, and after making sure that none of them had problems, and the pig houses were all cleaned, he left satisfied.

"Has the sheep shed outside the pass been cleaned up?"

Walking out of the pigsty, Zhu Fuju asked a question, and the team next to him nodded his head: "It's all cleaned up and counted. There are 350 seven sheep, and one is not missing."

"Hmm..." Exhaling a breath of white mist, Zhu Fuju nodded, "When the spring begins, let the herdsmen help to stock them. It is estimated that there will be four or five hundred of them in the coming year, and then I can occasionally have two meals of meat."

"This...doesn't seem to be in compliance with the rules?" The captain hesitated for a while, but Zhu Fuju waved his hand:

"What are the rules? Let the brothers have enough to eat is the biggest rule."

"That makes sense! Zhu Jun needs to be knowledgeable." Hearing this, Dui Zheng smiled, but Zhu Fuju shook his head:

"That's not what I said. This is what the veterans of Shangzhi heard from His Highness when I was in Shangzhi."

"Your Highness? Your Highness King Qi?!" Hearing the word Your Highness, the team next to him stared at him, and the other soldiers also looked at Zhu Fuju when they heard the word "His Royal Highness King Qi".

They all knew that Zhu Junbao of their family had participated in the bloody battle in Beishan, and he was from the Shangzhi Guards. He might have met His Royal Highness King Qi.

"Military Zhu, have you met His Royal Highness King Qi?"

"Zhu Junsu, what does His Royal Highness King Qi look like?"

Since Zhu Fuju's subordinates are all new recruits aged [-] or [-], they admire and are curious about King Qi very much.

They saw themselves becoming rich with their own eyes, and they also saw with their own eyes how King Qi pacified captives and distributed land to the people, so they naturally had different feelings for King Qi in their hearts.

"His Royal Highness King Qi..." Zhu Fuju pondered for a few seconds, then shook his head: "I haven't seen it either."

"However, some old soldiers met His Royal Highness King Qi when they were in the Four Guards."

"According to what they said, His Highness has a watch of the sun, which is beyond words."

As he said that, Zhu Fuju laughed: "However, they are probably talking nonsense, after all, His Highness is very busy."

Although he has seen the cruelty of war, this does not prevent Zhu Fuju from respecting Zhu Youjian.

Without Zhu Youjian, his family would still be tenants in the Prince Qin’s Mansion. They could only eat brown rice every day, and they could only taste a little meat during the New Year. They usually live in a narrow house with adobe walls and straw roofs.

It was Zhu Youjian who gave them the land, which allowed them to get rid of their status as tenants of the palace, and they were able to join the army, engage in business, and official career freely.

Thinking of this, Zhu Fuju also sighed a little, wondering if the appearance of His Royal Highness King Qi is really what the veterans said...

"Ah... Qiu!!!"

"What? Got a cold?"

When Zhu Fuju and the soldiers were guessing about the appearance of His Royal Highness King Qi, Li Dingguo who was sitting in the Chengyun Hall suddenly sneezed, and Zhu Youjian who was not far away also raised his head and expressed concern.

"No, just a little itchy nose."

Li Dingguo rubbed his nose, and Zhu Youjian also said to Wang Chengen when he saw this: "Have someone turn up the heating valve in Chengyun Hall."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen nodded in response, and ordered a clerk next to him to make arrangements.

After the time entered the winter month, Zhu Youxiao took Zhu Ciran and the others to Fangshan to escape the winter, while Zhu Youjian stayed in the capital to handle official business because of his busy state affairs.

Of course, with his ability, the hundreds of memorials are nothing more than things that can be processed with a snap of his fingers. What really makes him unable to leave are the affairs of the Department of Finance and government affairs, household registration, and industrial areas and immigration.

For example, right now, he is holding in his hand the memorial to the Department of Financial Affairs sent by Li Changgeng.

It has been almost a year since the fourth edition of the steam engine was applied to the mint, and during this year, the mint minted more than 420 billion coins with a denomination of more than [-] million taels, of which copper coins occupy the vast majority.

Such a quantity seems to be able to be put into the market at once, and Zhu Youjian also intends to do so.

However, he is not going to put it on the market immediately, but is going to wait until June next year to put Tianqi Tongbao on the market.

The reason why these six months are needed is that he needs Hong Chengchou to completely pacify the Luchuan area before June of the 12th year of the Tianqi.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian first dealt with the first of the five things he needed to be busy with:

"Send an order to Li Changgeng to continue minting coins, and at the same time, all the coins that have been minted will be escorted to the local banks according to the proportion of the population of each county and town, from far to near."

"In addition, let him prepare manpower to go to Luchuan, and work with the Ministry of Industry to prepare banks in the counties and towns of Luchuan."

"Apocalypse 12 June [-]th, the bank in Daming officially issued Tianqi Tongbao."

"In addition, Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was ordered to conduct a census of the population of the provinces of the country and dynasty from the 12th day of the first month of the [-]th year of Tianqi, register and compile the books with Li Changgeng, the Finance Department, and print the household registration books for the people."

"From the 12th year of Tianqi, people who do not have a household registration book are not allowed to study in official schools."

After all, Zhu Youjian felt that there were not enough things, so he got up and walked to the window sill, looking at the heavy snow in the capital, he said calmly:
"After the Department of Finance issues Tianqi Tongbao, all national salaries will be distributed using Tianqi Tongbao, and all local government taxes and taxes will be escorted to the local bank, and privately escorted to other places."

"In addition, after June 800th, Yumajian invested another [-] million pairs of industrial zones to expand production, and built eight new industrial zones in Shanxi, North Zhili, Shandong, and South Zhili."

"The household registration must be completed 15 years before the apocalypse, and the industrial zone must be fully put into operation 15 years before the apocalypse."

"Four years later, I want to see Guochao's annual output of at least [-] tractors, and the number of industrial steam engines and large-scale high-pressure steam engines must also meet the standard."

"In addition, starting from the end of next year, soldiers over the age of 45 in the five-army governor's mansion will change jobs. The targets of the change are railway soldiers, yamen servants, soldiers and horses, and local officials."

"If you don't want to change jobs, then the Governor's Office of the Five Armies will buy land in the local area according to his military age, and grant the land to retire."

"Those who have joined the army for three years will be awarded [-] acres of retired farmland. For each year of military service, the retired farmland will increase by [-] acres. There is no cap."

"As for veterans who are willing to relocate to Luchuan, the three provinces outside the customs, Nanzhou, and Jiugang after retiring from the army, they will still be granted land according to their military age."

"Those who have been in the army for more than three years will be granted [-] mu of land. For each year of military service, the field of retired soldiers will also increase by [-] mu. The land granted to the veterans will be self-selected by the retired soldiers, and the local horse inspector will be responsible for distributing tractors."

Zhu Youjian decided to disarm the army, and the people who were laid off were the same as what he had originally planned, veterans over the age of 45.

However, even with disarmament, Zhu Youjian still gave the veterans the treatment they deserved after retiring from the army.

Among them, the treatment for overseas veterans is the most lucrative.

If a soldier with 20 years of military experience chooses to retire overseas, he will immediately get [-] acres of unowned land, and the Yumajian will also issue a tractor to his family.

You must know that this is different from the tractors of the village collective. The tractors of the village collective belong to the imperial court, but the tractors in the hands of veterans belong to him.

In addition to not being able to buy or sell, and the Yumajian had to come to check regularly, how to use this tractor was decided by the soldiers themselves.

To put it bluntly, it is an immigrant in disguise, but this immigrant has changed from distributing cattle to distributing tractors.

As for the output of tractors, Zhu Youjian is not worried.

The disarmament will not be completed until the end of next year. By then, the first batch of industrial zones will have been successfully put into operation, the second batch of industrial zones will also start to be established, and the third batch of industrial zones will also begin to be cleared.

When the soldiers who change jobs and retire in the next year decide where to go, the output of tractors has risen to four to five thousand by then, and after they go to Luchuan, the three provinces outside the customs and Nanzhou, it is estimated that it will be the end of the year.

Next, it will take another half a year to choose the land and build a house, and it will be 14 years since the apocalypse comes and goes. By then, half of the second batch of industrial zones have been put into operation, which means that Daming has at least an annual output of tens of thousands of tractors.

At this time, when retired soldiers apply for tractors, the Imperial Horse Supervisor will naturally approve and approve them readily.

The retirement of the soldiers will not delay the semi-mechanized agriculture of Ming Dynasty, but will promote the semi-mechanized agriculture of Ming Dynasty.

With these people as objects to show to the people in Luchuan, the three provinces outside the customs, Nanzhou, and Jiugang, other people will naturally know the benefits of tractors, and more and more people will migrate.

Now the population of the three provinces outside the customs has been relocated for half a year, but it has risen from the initial 110 million to the current 130 million. This speed is too slow, and Zhu Youjian has to push it.

He needs to make the three provinces outside the pass self-sufficient before the 14th year of the apocalypse, and allow the three provinces outside the pass to feed back the inside of the pass before the 16th year of the apocalypse, otherwise the next severe drought will still make Daming busy.

In a short period of time, it is unrealistic to rely solely on tractors, and manpower is the best means to develop the three provinces outside the customs in a short period of time.

If nothing else, just look at Liaodong.

In the first year of Tianqi, there were only a million people in Liaodong, and only a few million acres of arable land.

But in the tenth year of Tianqi, the population of Liaodong soared to 800 million, with more than 3000 million mu of arable land.

In ten years, the arable land in Liaodong has increased eightfold, which is the result of the hard work of hungry people everywhere.

If each of the five provinces of Liaodong, Shanxi, North Zhili, Shandong, and Henan relocates half of their population to the three provinces outside the Guan, the amount of cultivated land in the three provinces outside the Guan will increase from 300 million mu to 1000 million mu in five years.

In addition, within five years, Daming's tractors can produce 60 to 100 units for development outside the customs, which means [-] million acres of land reclamation every year, plus more than [-] million acres of human land reclamation.

Add up, at least 200 million mu of wasteland can be reclaimed every year, and it will continue to increase in the future.

However, this is just thinking about it. After all, among other things, the lives of the people in Henan are very nourishing.

Of the more than 5000 million mu of cultivated land, more than 600 million mu of cultivated land is in the hands of [-] million people, with an average of more than six mu per person and an annual output of twelve shimi.

After keeping the five shi, they can easily sell the seven shi rice, earning three taels of silver per person, more than ten taels per household.

Because of this, the people in Henan are the least concerned about the relocation, and Zhu Youjian has nothing to do with them.

It is impossible for him to force relocation, because the six mu of land per capita has reached the maximum amount that a person can cultivate without enough cattle.

In other words, the peasants in Henan are currently the most stable part of the peasants in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Daming.

If they are relocated, they must be distributed to the people who stay behind. Otherwise, the people will not be able to plant so much land. If they are not relocated, let this go on. After 50 to [-] years of population growth, it is estimated that the people in Henan will become poor households in Ming Dynasty. .

Therefore, Zhu Youjian can only encourage the people in Henan to relocate, so as to relocate tens of thousands of people every year, and delay the outbreak of local land mergers in the future.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian has a headache. The most important thing for him right now is to call on the people in the north to move to the three provinces outside the customs, and then call on the people in the south to move to Luchuan, Jiugang, and Nanzhou.

Among them, the land in Old Port and Southern State is the most wasteful.

If the land in the old port, especially the land in Nanhai Province (Java) is developed and equipped with tractors, it can feed at least 2000 million people with the yield per mu in this era.

Counting other places, it is a breeze for the Old Port to feed a population of 3000 million.

However, the urban population in the three most densely populated Jiangnan provinces has no intention of migrating at all. They have long been accustomed to working and earning money, and asking them to return to farming will simply kill them.

As for the remaining [-]% of the agricultural population, they are basically used to growing mulberry and selling silk, and they don't even want to go to the Old Port.

Therefore, the population of at least 5000 million in the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River has become Zhu Youjian's biggest headache.

Let them ignore it, and wait for the severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River in the 16th year of Apocalypse, then he will prepare to raise at least 3000 million mouths.

And it's not just these 3000 million mouths, there are hungry people waiting to be fed in other places.

Anyway, no matter how he calculates it, he has to spend enough food for at least 5000 million people, and this food will last for several years.

Thinking about it this way, it is not unreasonable for Zhu Youjian to have a headache, and it is more difficult to forcefully relocate the people in the south of the Yangtze River than it is for him to implement "the gentry pays for the mu, and the gentry pays for the grain".

He overhauled the trains, operated the Northeast, and the old port. To put it bluntly, he wanted to allow food from the mainland and overseas to be continuously transported to the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

Among them, overseas food is the most important.

If the steamship is successfully built, then the high-quality grain from Sidang in India can be supplied to the old port, and the grain from the old port can be supplied to the south of the Yangtze River.

The distance between India and the old port is more than 6000 miles, and the distance between the old port and the south of the Yangtze River is more than [-] miles. In terms of the speed at which a ship is fully loaded and can travel [-] miles per hour, the event of refueling and rest is basically deducted. time of day.

Nine thousand steam ships can transport 300 shi of goods, one hundred ships are worth [-] million shi, and the food in the old port...

"Chengen, what is the number of acres of old Hong Kong land this year?"

Zhu Youjian asked Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen hurriedly looked for the file when he heard the words, and finally found the file a few minutes later, and saw the memorial of Shen Tingyang in Jiugang.

"Jiugang has more than 720 million acres of farmland this year, and more than 460 million stones have been handed over to the land tax."

Wang Chengen read out the land tax payment of Jiugang, and the land tax of Jiugang also unknowingly accounted for one-third of Daming's land tax.

However, Zhu Youjian was very clear that the reason why so many land taxes were paid in the old port was that the local taxes were the ten taxes of the army's farmland.

However, starting from next year, the land tax of Guochao will be uniformly adjusted to ten Fu and one, which also means that the land tax of Jiugang will be reduced to more than 800 million shi.

"According to the memorandum of the Ministry of Household Affairs, how many acres of fields are there in the country? How many fields are there this year?"

Zhu Youjian kept asking, and Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun also searched for the memorials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and finally found and read out:

"There are 630, 250, and 830, and 930, and [-], and [-], and seven stones and six catties per year."

Daming's Tian Fu hit a new high, but the number Wang Chengen read was a bit funny.

According to the traditional land tax of one thirty Fu in the Ming Dynasty, it seems that there are more than 9 million mu of arable land. When the average yield per mu in the north and south is one and a half stones, at least more than 300 million land taxes must be paid.

Looking at it this way, there seems to be no problem, and the number of land taxes is still large.

But the problem is that among the more than 9 million mu of land, except for Shanxi and Shaanxi where the land tax is exempted from payment, other northern and overseas provinces are divided according to the rules of ten tax three and ten tax two according to the division of the military area. Pay the land tax.

The land in these provinces is about 3000 million mu. Except that there are more than [-] million mu of wasteland that cannot be taxed. According to the records of previous years and the military settlement law, they should pay at least [-] million stone fields for rice and wheat. right.

This is nearly 2000 million shi of rice and wheat. After removing the rice husk and fire consumption, the amount that can be put into storage is about 8000 million shi. Then a problem arises.

In addition to the two provinces that have been exempted, and the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Jiaotong that are responsible for the armament of the southwest, it is reasonable to say that the remaining six provinces of Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili have as many as two More than 3000 million mu.

Under the circumstances that the other six provinces in Beijing have already paid 8000 million shitian taxes, how come the six provinces in Beijing, which occupy 3000 million mu, only paid more than 800 million shi?

It needs to be known that among them, there are also military farms with an amount of more than 2000 million mu. For these more than 2000 million mu of military farmland, at least 1000 million shi of land taxes have been paid.

In other words, for the remaining 800 million mu of arable land, only 300 million shi was paid, and the amount of land tax they should have paid should be [-] million shi...

Therefore, this year, in the six provinces of the southern capital, at least 400 million shimimai was paid less...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian's face turned livid:

"Ask Bi Ziyan to come see me!"

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