Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 537
"I heard that those who follow the sky prosper and those who oppose the sky perish. It is common sense to judge misfortune and good fortune from ancient to modern times."

"Weirwala National Teacher Tulu Baihu returned to Daming, and was awarded Jin Manbo for the first time, and General Zhaoyong for the first time of the third rank, and rewarded 1000 taels of gold."

"Then his nephew Eqier and his eldest son Yildu Qizheng are four-rank general Mingwei, and the remaining nine sons are fifth-rank Wude generals, and the first thousand and one hundred households under his command are awarded sixth-rank Zhaoxin school lieutenants."

"Jin Manbo will move to Xi'an today and stay in the Baoning County Prince's Mansion, looking forward to Erqisi..."

On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the 16th year of Tianqi, when the strong wind from the northwest blew, the eunuch who passed the decree came from the capital and told Gushi Khan with an imperial decree, what Ming was going to do with them.

To be honest, he did not expect that he would bring [-] troops and six or seven thousand men to surrender, and he could pick up an earl and dozens of casual orders.

"Chen Tulu Baihu, thank you for your majesty's long grace, long live your majesty... long live... long live..."

Outside the gate of Jiayuguan, Tulu Baihu and a group of Heshuote generals knelt down to receive the order, and the [-] troops behind him also knelt down one after another. The scene was spectacular.

While he was accepting the order, the general of Jiayuguan also said to him:

"Jin Manbo, please lead your generals to Xi'an City immediately. As for your tribe, they will be resettled to live in the Qinghai area, and each household has tens of thousands of acres of pasture."

The general's words were translated by the officials of the Siyi Pavilion, and Tulu Baihu was also very helpless when he heard the words. He knew that after he handed over the military power, he would only be a happy uncle in the future.

It's just that if he doesn't hand over his military power, he obviously can't enter Jiayuguan.

He looked up at the majestic Jiayuguan in front of him, and also saw the nearly thousand black cannons at the pass, and the three thousand Ming troops guarding them outside the city.

Looking at the "fire blunderbuss" in the hands of the Ming army and the armored equipment, he didn't dare to have any other thoughts in his heart, so he could only raise his hands in a bow to express his acceptance.

Seeing that he responded, the officials of the Siyi Pavilion also stepped forward to help him up, and led someone to change him into a third-rank official military uniform for him.

After everything was done, the Gushi Khan who founded the Heshuote Khanate in history officially became Jin Manbo of the Ming Dynasty.

They were brought into Jiayuguan, while the more than 3 people who stayed outside the pass were registered as households by three thousand Ming soldiers.

An hour later, more than 3 people were divided into 430 households according to their families, with a total of 450 people.

According to Zhu Youxiao's will, each of their households will get [-] mu of grassland in Qinghai.

Just like treating the herdsmen of Ming Dynasty, they need to pay one-tenth of the cattle and sheep produced to Ming Dynasty as herd tax every year.

Upon hearing this news, many herdsmen showed joy on their faces. After all, in Oala, they often need to pay ten thirty-four to the lord above, and now they only need to pay one tenth.

Not only that, when they were in the Western Regions, each household usually had only two or three thousand mu of grassland, but now they can have ten thousand mu of grassland, which is beyond their imagination.

Ten thousand mu of pasture, if used to raise sheep, can raise hundreds of thousands of sheep.

Of course, these are only part of their happiness. What makes them really happy is that their cattle and sheep will be bought and sold by the imperial store, which directly saves them the step of finding a buyer by themselves.

The price given by the Huangdian is two hundred taels of silver for each sheep, three taels of silver for each head of cattle, and one tael to three taels for horses depending on the situation.

Such a price is naturally something to be happy about for the herdsmen, and it is also a big profit for the Huangdian.

As long as the train from Xining to Jiangnan is opened to traffic in the future, the sheep of 12 yuan a piece will be sold to Jiangnan for [-] yuan, and the cattle of three taels of silver will be sold for [-] taels.

Needless to say about horses and mules, in short, it is impossible for the imperial store to lose money in business, and the herdsmen will not lose money in business.

Giving farmland to farmers and pastures to herdsmen is the best way to buy people's hearts.

The Ming Dynasty may not have much arable land, but the amount of grassland is definitely a lot, and it has even reached the point where there is no end to it.

The grassland in Uzbekistan province alone has reached [-] billion mu, not to mention the provinces of Nanzhou, Modong, Shanyu and Donghai.

U-Tsang currently has a population of just over 30, of which more than [-] live in Xining and Qinghai provinces, while Lhasa, Qamdo, Bolu, and Qiangtang provinces have less than [-] people.

There are 50 people, more than one billion mu of grassland, and two million mu of land, which cannot be divided up.

In this way, on the tenth day of the 16th day of Tianqi, after four days of preparation, more than 3 herdsmen began to migrate to Uzang.

Not only did the herdsmen begin to migrate, but the officials of the Siyi Pavilion in charge of the guards also recorded Gushi Khan's mood all the way to Xi'an.

Although Hexi is densely populated and lacks arable land, Shaanxi is also suffering from a severe drought, so that other places except Hetao, Hanzhong, and Guanzhong are barren, but no matter what, Daming is still the most prosperous and developed dynasty in the world.

Gushi Khan, who had never even seen a bicycle, saw a hard concrete road that had been laid for thousands of miles after entering Jiayuguan.

Sitting on the carriage to Xi'an city, he saw the Jingjia Railway under construction on Fudao, and arrived at Shouyangguan in Gongchang Prefecture at the end of January, saw it and took the train.

When he saw the train, his entire face was filled with astonishment, as if he had traveled to another world.

At this time, Gushi Khan felt the huge difference between the Western Regions and Ming Dynasty just like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden.

When he was still wondering how such a heavy "monster" like a train moves, the train had already sent him to Xi'an City.

After arriving in Xi'an, he felt as if he had traveled to the future.

Uniform concrete masonry buildings, cement pavement on the entire street, and wide roads, bicycles riding on the road...

All these things made him feel like a world away, so that when an official from the Siyi Pavilion asked him how Ming Dynasty was, he said with some melancholy in his tone:

"I never thought that the Celestial Dynasty would be so prosperous, and I never thought that there would be iron chariots in the world that could travel thousands of miles a day."

When Gushi Khan said this, his eyes were full of melancholy, and his words were full of sadness and helplessness, but the generals of the Heshuo special department and the sons of Gushhan who were present felt that they had made an extremely correct decision.

They are different from Gushi Khan. Gushi Khan is a stronger person. In order to compare with other countries and bring Wala back to the top, he has been working hard to make changes.

It was only in the end, when he came to Xi'an, that he realized that all the efforts he had put into Daming were nothing more than dilapidated houses that could be destroyed by a few hundred cavalrymen.

After seeing the power of Daming, he spent his days in Baoning County Prince's Mansion, which was renamed Jinmanbo Mansion. While learning the official language of Daming, he would go out to walk around the city of Xi'an every day, watching all kinds of human beings in the city.

All of his actions were reported to Zhu Youjian by Jin Yiwei.

"Pity……"

In March, when Zhu Youjian read what Gushi Khan had done in the past few months, he couldn't help shaking his head, with some regret in his words.

If there hadn’t been the sudden rise of Ming Dynasty and Lindan Khan’s westward migration, this Gushi Khan would have been able to bring Oara back to the top, and then at the cost of leaving Oara to stabilize the interior of Oara for more than [-] years, until the rise of Galdan in Junggar until.

It's just that none of these things will appear. Zhu Youjian cares more about the future of Daming than the future of Gushhan.

[Bingzi in the first month, Shanxi was hit by drought, and in February, Jihai was hit by insects in Shaanxi. Except for Datong and Taiyuan, all harvests were lost. Please ask for relief and disaster relief]

[In February Gengxu, Nanyang, Henan suffered from a drought. Chen Qiyu, the governor of Henan, said: At that time, the hungry people had no food, the price of rice soared, and the rice was full of money, and there were no wild vegetables in the mountains, so they had to eat bark and grass leaves. 】

[In February at Renwu, Sun Chuanting, the envoy of the Northwest Economic Strategy, played: Except for Shuofang, Ningxia, and Hanzhong in Shaanxi, there is no rain in June, so I beg for forgiveness. 】

[In the first month, there were floods in many places in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhenjiang and Danyang were very cold. There were many people wearing cotton clothes, and there were people who died of freezing on the road. 】

"Alas..." Zhu Youjian sighed while looking at the memorials about the drought in the local area.

He knows that this year will be difficult, but he also knows that the most difficult time of this year has not yet come.

The drought and floods in the south of the Yangtze River are what he is worried about, but this matter has not come for a long time.

"Have the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River encountered drought this year?"

Zhu Youjian was eating, dealing with the memorabilia, and asked about things without looking at the people in the hall. Lu Wenzhao replied, "There is no drought in the three provinces."

"However, since the beginning of the first month, there have been only a handful of rains in the three provinces. If there is a drought, it is not impossible."

Lu Wenzhao's words made Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen look up at him, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, and asked after pondering:
"How about the grain transportation in each province? Are they imported into Changping warehouses in the north, Jiangnan, and northeast?"

"Returning to Your Highness, the time is too short. Not all of them have been transported yet, but more than [-] million stones have been sent to the south of the Yangtze River, more than [-] million stones to the north, and more than [-] million stones to the outside of the pass."

Wang Chengen responded quickly, and Zhu Youjian nodded without raising his head: "Hurry up."

"The servants take orders..."

Honestly bowing and saluting, seeing that Zhu Youjian had no other arrangements, Wang Chengen was relieved.

But at this time, Zhu Youjian glanced at the alarm clock on the table, and when he realized that the time was up (13 o'clock), he also got up and prepared to walk out of the Chengyun Hall.

The three of them didn't get up when they saw this, they seemed to know what Zhu Youjian was going to do, and they were no longer surprised.

Zhu Youjian walked out of the Chengyun Hall, and sure enough, when he walked out of the door of the hall, he saw Zhu Cihong lying on the steps.

He carried a food box, and with Yang Rushi leading him, he walked up the hundred steps step by step.

"father!"

Looking up, when he saw Zhu Youjian, he shouted happily, Zhu Youjian also showed a smile, sat on the steps, and stretched out his hand to signal him to climb faster.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong also speeded up, climbing up step by step, until he climbed up the steps after 5 minutes, and handed the food box in his hand to Zhu Youjian:

"Father, this is the crisp mountain that Madam Yuan asked to make."

"Okay..." Zhu Youjian took it with a smile, pulled Zhu Cihong to sit on the steps, and asked kindly, "Have you eaten?"

"I'll eat it later when I return to Cunxin Hall." Zhu Cihong shook his head.

"Then let's eat together."

As Zhu Youjian said, he opened the food box, and used a spoon to dig out the crispy mountain to feed to Zhu Cihong. Zhu Cihong's face was flushed with heat from climbing the steps. Although it was only March, summer had already ushered in the capital.

The dryness and heat in the body disappeared instantly when he took a mouthful of Sushan, making Zhu Cihong nod his head again and again, with a smile on his face.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian dug out another mouthful and fed it to Zhu Cihong, and only took a mouthful by himself from time to time.

In the end, after eating a plate of Sushan, Zhu Youjian couldn't eat a few bites himself, but as time went by, Lie Yang began to exert strength, and Zhu Youjian led Zhu Cihong back to the Chengyun Hall.

They were sitting at the entrance of the Chengyun Hall, enjoying the wind blowing from the hall, and they were much cooler for a while.

"Is Dad done with his work today?"

Zhu Cilang asked Zhu Youjian, and leaned back, trying to see how many memorials on Zhu Youjian's table case were left in the side hall.

"Not yet, but it's not too late."

In fact, Zhu Youjian didn't play anything with Zhu Cihong, the father and son just sat at the door to enjoy the breeze, chatting about some interesting things about what Zhu Cihong was playing when Zhu Youjian couldn't see.

For others, these things may be boring, but for Zhu Youjian who is tired all day long, it is also good to listen to interesting stories about children.

After only listening for a quarter of an hour, Yang Rushi, who was already in his prime, said, "Your Highness, it's time to go back and practice calligraphy."

"Hmm..." Hearing that he was going to practice calligraphy, Zhu Cihong stood up with some reluctance, turned around and saw his father also got up, and then saluted respectfully with a trace of reluctance.

"Father, the kid went to practice calligraphy."

"Go..." Zhu Youjian waved his hand, indicating that he can leave.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong reluctantly took Yang Rushi's hand and walked towards the stairs.

When their backs disappeared completely, Zhu Youjian also breathed a sigh of relief, and returned to the Chengyun Hall to continue processing the memorial.

In the memorials, he paid special attention to the reclamation and population immigration of the three provinces outside the customs.

By the end of February, Beishan had reclaimed 110 million mu of cultivated land. According to the situation that 40 million mu of cultivated land can be reclaimed in the six months from April to September every year, Beishan's population of 10,000+ would only take six or seven years at most. be self-sufficient and support the army.

As long as Beishan can support the army, the [-] Ming troops on the east side of the Nalena River can start their westward expedition.

Tsarist Russia had less than [-] troops east of the Ural Mountains, and the Ming army could have swept all the way west to the Ural Mountains.

The only problem is supply, and it is unrealistic to rely solely on Beishan for the supply problem.

Tsarist Russia relied on rivers to advance eastward, and the Ming army could do the same.

Relying on the Lena River, the Tunguska River, the Yenisei River, and the Ob River... the Ming army can transport materials from the Beishan Province, the Shanyu Province, and the Western Regions to Siberia.

It is unrealistic to maintain too many people, but there is no problem in maintaining the supplies of [-] soldiers and horses.

However, the prerequisite for this method is that the Western Regions must be recovered, otherwise the supplies from the Western Regions cannot be transported to the West Siberia Plain.

Relying on the Irtysh River and the Ob River in the Western Regions, the Ming Dynasty could transport supplies to the Ural Mountains, and it would not be difficult for three thousand Ming troops to take the Ural Mountains.

After taking the Ural Mountains, Tsarist Russia will inevitably panic. If there is a truce, Zhu Youjian is ready to digest the Western Regions. If not, then he will have to transport tractors to the Western Regions on a large scale.

Not to mention the Ili River Valley, the Altay region in the north alone can reclaim more than 200 million mu of paddy fields.

With 200 million mu of paddy fields, even if each mu produces one stone, it can support at least 50 people.

If you want to feed 20 troops and support the farmers who cultivate the land, you only need [-] mu.

To reclaim 20 mu of paddy fields, only [-] people and [-] tractors are needed.

In this way, 20 mu of paddy fields can be reclaimed in one year, and in the first year after reclamation, the yield per mu can be at least [-] shi, and the court can receive a land tax of [-] shi. half a year.

In the second year, the Altay region was enough to feed 5000 garrisons, and in the third year, it could feed [-] or even [-] people.

5000 people, let alone stationed in the Ural Mountains, are more than enough to take down Tsarist Russia.

However, in order to defeat Tsarist Russia, the Ming army had to have a province in Central Asia that could support their expedition.

Therefore, if you want to win the east of the Ural Mountains, you must win the Western Regions, and if you want to win Tsarist Russia, you must develop Central Asia.

The latter will take too long. Not to mention anything else, it will take more than ten or twenty years to build a railway from Jiayuguan to Central Asia.

This time is too long, and Zhu Youjian can't afford to wait, so Tsarist Russia can only be handed over to Zhu Youxiao or Zhu Ciran to clean up.

What he has to do now is to open up the territory of Ming Dynasty to the Ural Mountains and the river area of ​​Central Asia, then organize the construction of a railway leading to Central Asia, and finally leave.

When the railway is completed, whether Daming wants to reach Europe is not a decision he can make.

"What is the output of tractors this year?"

Zhu Youjian asked Wang Chengen, and the other party flipped through the documents of the Military Armament Academy, and then responded: "It will reach about [-] units by the end of the year."

"Twelve thousand will be sent to Qi State, four thousand will be sent to Nanhai Prefecture in Jiugang, Luzon, Palembang, and Old Port will be sent to each of the three prefectures, one thousand will be sent to each, three thousand will be sent to Jiaozhi, and two thousand will be sent to Nanzhou."

"The remaining [-] will be sent according to Donghai's eight thousand, Modong's three thousand, and Shan Yu's one thousand."

Zhu Youjian said without raising his head, but Wang Chengen said:

"Your Highness, Long Live allocated 200 million taels of domestic money, Qi can buy [-] units."

"The country still needs to develop, and Qi Guo will be enough to get [-]." Zhu Youjian couldn't help but dismiss Wang Chengen's idea.

He wants to develop Qi, but not at the expense of Ming's development.

If he was going to do it, he did it in the first place.

What's more, the number of tractors will increase to 160 next year, and Daming will spend [-] million taels to buy tractors.

In the next year, this number will rise to 200 million taels, and it will reach 19 million taels in 260.

In short, this amount changes every year, so it should be saved for the next few years.

"How many fields have been reclaimed in Yingzhou?"

Zhu Youjian was processing the memorandum without raising his head. Cao Huachun turned the pages after hearing it, and finally raised his head and replied: "Beizhou Prefecture has reclaimed more than [-] mu of cultivated land."

"At the end of February, Yang Buzheng envoy went to Shu, saying that Qi State needed to transfer 30 reform-through-labor workers."

"Yang Buzheng envoy Shangshu expressed support, and also explained that the fields in Beizhou Prefecture have almost been reclaimed, and the reclaimed land will reach 500 million mu next year at most, and it will be over."

"Currently, there are still three years for reeducation through labor, but the number has plummeted from more than 200 million seven years ago to 130 million."

"Emissary Yang Buzheng means that if Qi State can take them all to Qi State by the end of next year, then the grain that Yingzhou can transport to Guochao every year can increase to 400 million shi."

Yang Wenyue made a proposal that Zhu Youjian couldn't refuse. It was impossible for him to let people kill the millions of reformed-through-labor workers. After all, Qi State still needed it.

Therefore, it is a very good choice to relocate the reformed laborers to Qi State, and then let them use the waste heat for Qi State's mining and agriculture locally.

The only thing that needs to be cared about is whether the Qi State can support the 130 million [-] reformed-through-labor workers.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian calculated the changes in Qi's cultivated land.

At the end of the 17th year of Tianqi, the cultivated land in Qi should reach more than 180 million mu.

The 180 million mu of arable land, according to Jin Xuan's handwriting, can basically feed 90 people relying on the meat provided by the local bison.

If it is postponed for another year, the number of acres of fields in Qi State can reach 260 million acres, which can support 130 million people by then.

Labor reformers can eat sweet potatoes and potatoes, and they only need 50 mu of land to grow enough food to feed them.

If it is necessary to transfer 130 million people to Qi State, it will take about four or five years to transport them to Qi State alone without using steam ships and large-scale ships.

So if it is counted from this year, it will take about 20 years before the apocalypse to complete the delivery. Zhu Youjian doesn't have to worry too much about the food.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian responded to Cao Huachun:
"Tell Yang Wenyue that the imperial court has no spare capacity to support him in transporting the reformed-through-labor workers, so let him use the cargo ship from Yingzhou to transport the reformed-through-labor workers to Qi."

"If you don't have enough time, then tell some reform-through-labor workers that as long as they work for the Qi State for three years, they will each be given ten acres of arable land."

Giving ten acres of arable land to Yingzhou reform-through-labor laborers made Cao Huachun a little speechless, but when he thought of Yingzhou and Nankunlun, he immediately understood, and slowly bowed: "I understand."

Cao Huachun didn't speak anymore, but Zhu Youjian had the final say, according to the current tractor distribution situation, when Modong and Donghai could repay Daming.

Donghai takes two-thirds of the tractors in the north every year. According to the reclamation period of only nine months a year, although it can't reach the speed of [-] mu per year in Qi State, it can reach [-] mu per year.

12 tractors are transported there, which is [-] mu of arable land every year.

This number is still increasing. Around 20 years after Tianqi, the number of local tractors should reach 300, and it is not a problem to reclaim [-] million mu of arable land.

Counting manpower reclamation, about 20 years after the apocalypse, Donghai Province with a population of more than 300 million can have at least 800 million mu of arable land.

By then, at least 300 million shimimai will be able to be shipped to the customs.

As for the situation in Modong, it should be similar.

In short, it will be able to feed back to Guannei in about 19 years of Tianqi, and the 19th year of Tianqi is the 12th year of Chongzhen.

As long as the three years of the 21th, [-]th, and [-]st have passed, Daming can shift his energy from drought resistance to foreign warfare or consolidating the territory.

As for the complete end of the drought, it should be the 23rd year of the apocalypse, so I have to transfer the population to Qi before the 23rd year of the apocalypse.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian felt pressure...

(End of this chapter)