Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 592 Relocation Tomb System
"Woooo-"

"The train is coming!"

"Quick! Bring your things."

"Girl! Take your things quickly!"

When the Changping warehouse stopped stocking grain, and when it was reported in the Ming Dynasty that the official relocation was about to end, many people finally got a little scared.

Fengyang Railway Station in Fengyang Prefecture was already crowded with people, whether it was inside or outside the station, in short, there might not be less than [-] people in the crowd.

The reason why they are so anxious is because the imperial court only gave them half a year, and after half a year, all the relocation expenses need to be paid by the people themselves.

Everyone wanted to rush to the relocation site before June, because at least they could still get the cattle and tractors issued by the imperial court, and they could also get ten shimi of grain per person.

Food, this word is a very expensive luxury for the people north of the Yellow River.

If the change of migration policy only makes the people uncertain about their future life, then the food price is the whip to drive them away in reality.

As time entered the 20th year of the Apocalypse, without the coordination of the imperial court, food prices in the provinces north of the Yellow River have skyrocketed.

As of the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the price of rice in the five prefectures and two prefectures of Nanzhili and Jiangbei was twelve cents per catty. Compared with the first month of last year, the price has doubled on the original basis.

In addition, grain prices in Shandong, Shanxi, Beizhili, Liaodong, Shaanxi, and Hexi provinces have also risen by two to eight yuan per catty.

For places where the average wage is fifteen to thirty cash, the price of rice at seven to fourteen cash is desperate.

Such despair, coupled with the imminent termination of the migration policy, naturally made many poor people start to worry.

Fortunately, they have already grabbed train tickets and started to travel to the relocation site by car.

Those who are unlucky, like the people now, can only wait for the precious ticket in the cold.

In the cold, there are countless train stations like Fengyang. The migration entrances used to be sparse, but now they are crowded with people. Everyone is holding migration tokens, waiting to be summoned.

It's a pity that they waited for the heavy rain before the train came.

"It's raining!"

"First shelter from the rain, first shelter from the rain..."

All of a sudden, Fengyang Railway Station became a sea of ​​people and a world of umbrellas.

Chunyu did not make many people happy, because most of them had already sold their fields to the government in exchange for migration tokens.

Looking at the rain and feeling the biting cold wind, the heavy rain at this moment only makes people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.

In the square of Fengyang Railway Station, there were either human heads or umbrellas, and either umbrellas or human heads.

Everyone was wearing cotton padded clothes, carrying large and small bags of things, and holding migration tokens in their hands. Even if they heard the call, they had to squeeze into the waiting room with great effort.

Those outside who were not summoned were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, their eyes full of longing.

But even the waiting room is crowded right now.

The corners, seats, and roads were full of people. Some of them were optimistic, some sighed, and some looked at the heavy rain and shouted that it was unfair.

There are some farmers sitting on the cold ground at the stairway, sighing unceasingly:
"Hey, why didn't the rain fall sooner, it just waited until we sold the field..."

"Jingle Bell--"

At this moment, the bell in the waiting room rang, which meant that the next train was about to arrive. The people in line immediately regained hope and poured into the ticket gate.

Looking at this scene, there was a pair of father and son in the line outside the waiting room. The son looked like he was only three or four years old. They didn't bring an umbrella. The son's round eyes were still stained with rain. He snuggled up in his father's clothes, With his small head exposed, he watched everything that happened in the waiting room.

The father wrapped his clothes tightly to keep his son from the cold.

His arms were very warm, but his tired son's eyes were in a trance. He kept fighting with his upper and lower eyelids, but he still asked ignorantly:
"Father, how long will it take us?"

Facing his son's question, the man looked at the iron plate in his hand and the endless crowd in front of him, and could only say helplessly:
"I don't know... baby, be patient, we still have a long way to go..."

"Woooo-"

"jingle……"

"The Yumen Town Railway Station is ahead, get ready to get off!"

When the siren sounded again, it was no longer Fengyang Station, but outside Jiayuguan, thousands of miles away.

After many days of porridge and food, the victims crowded in the car have recovered a little bit of energy.

Hearing the flight attendant's voice, a man in boots also removed the book covering his face.

When that face was revealed, it was Sun Kewang who had changed into a normal uniform.

"My lord, this cart of people will follow us to Shanshan County. I don't know if Yumen Town has prepared enough camels and horse-drawn carts."

"It would be bad if there were no carriages and camels."

When Sun Kewang took down the book, the two attendants sitting opposite him also became worried.

"Don't worry, Guochao has transported almost all the draft horses and camels from the inland officialdom to Hexi this year. We came early, and there should be enough draft horses and camel carts."

"Let's go, get out of the car..."

When Sun Kewang got up together, all the victims in the carriage also got up.

They were disaster victims in Shanxi, and the reason why they cared so much about Sun Kewang's actions was that during the seven or eight days of driving, Sun Kewang often discussed the difficulties of the people with them.

Then he said that he was the magistrate of Shanshan County, and if the people were willing to go with him, even if the local area did not have as much as [-] acres of cultivated land for them, he would find a way to get machines and take them in Shanshan County. Based on.

Sun Kewang's sincerity quickly impressed the people on this train, and seven people in total 860 were willing to follow him to Shanshan County.

However, he had to prove his official status first.

"Sun Zhi County..."

When the train arrived at Yumen Town, a hundred miles away from Jiayuguan, Sun Kewang got off the train with the people's bags.

It took a quarter of an hour, and when everyone got off the train and walked out of the train station, there was a very lively scene at the gate of the train station.

Tens of thousands of people are receiving supplies, dark supplies and black crowds, as well as horses, donkeys, mules and camels neighing in the distance.

This scene, together with the vast and majestic scenery in the northwest, immediately lifted the spirits of many people living in Shanxi.

Especially when they left the train station, an official in official uniform also came up to him and bowed to Sun Kewang.

This scene reassured all the people who wanted to follow Sun Kewang to settle down in Shanshan County.

"Li Yu, the head of the relocation department of Yumen Township Migration Department, has met Sun Zhi County here. The materials in Shanshan County have been prepared and can be picked up at any time..."

Li Yu, the young head of the Migration Department, once had a relationship with Sun Kewang. After all, Sun Kewang is also a leader among the new generation of civil servants in recent years.

"Thank you, Master Li..." Hearing that the supplies were ready, Sun Kewang knew that Zhu Ciran had arranged all of this.

He took more than 800 people to the location of his supplies in Shanshan County, and what appeared in front of him were more than 300 draft horses and more than 200 camels.

In addition to these, there are two hundred tractors tied with black cloth, and bags of grain, grain seeds, and vegetable seeds.

Sun Kewang knew the approximate quantity of those things at a glance, but he was most concerned about the tractor.

"The more than 800 people behind me will follow me to Shanshan County, I don't know..." Sun Kewang wanted to communicate with Li Yu first, but Li Yu laughed:
"Sunzhi County can let the people follow spontaneously, and our relocation department will naturally not stop it."

"The food, water, and machines are all here. Sunzhi County can leave for Shanshan County at any time."

"The shortest road is seven hundred miles northwest from Dunhuang, along the edge of the desert to Puchanghai (Lop Nur)."

"Puchanghai is vast in scale, hundreds of miles long from east to west, and four to five miles wide from north to south. It can replenish fresh water there and then go southwest for seven hundred miles, and then reach Shanshan County."

"In Dunhuang, a team of cavalry and guides will be sent there to lead you to Shanshan County."

Li Yu explained some routes, and after hearing this, Sun Kewang also began to arrange for people to load the supplies into the truck.

Fresh water and luggage are handed over to the camels, while machinery and food are handed over to the draft horses.

Before setting off, Sun Kewang also asked if there was coal in Shanshan County, and the answer he got was that there were coal mines, and more than 2000 captive bandits were now mining under the supervision of the Ming army.

What Li Yu said was good news for Sun Kewang.

If there were tractors but no coal, it would be very difficult for Sun Kewang to manage Shanshan County well.

Now that there are tractors and coal, it is not difficult to manage Shanshan County well.

Not only that, but Li Yu also told Sun Kewang that there are more than 200 mu of cultivated land in Shanshan County.

In other words, as long as they arrive in Shanshan County before the spring planting, the 800 or so of them will still be able to eat the food they grow by themselves before the fall.

With these cultivated fields and tractors, Sun Kewang is sure to move another 3000 people to Shanshan.

For this reason, he naturally said a lot of good things to Li Yu.

However, the rules of the relocation department are there. How many people Shanshan County wants to relocate depends not on whether the relationship is strong or not, but on how much food Shanshan County produces and how many people it can feed.

With this little field at present, the 800 people who can support them can only be said to be barely enough, and Li Yu has already given extra favors, otherwise Sun Kewang would only be able to take away more than 700 people.

So after knowing the conditions for the relocation, Sun Kewang stopped pestering them, and brought the people who had already prepared, bought more than 800 pancakes out of their own pockets as lunch for the team, and asked them to rush to Shanshan County immediately.

Like them, it is just a microcosm of the wave of immigration. The real situation is in the hands of Zhu Youjian at this moment.

"In two months, 56 people..."

In the Hall of Carrying Transport, Zhu Youjian was not satisfied with the implementation of Zhu Ciran's policy, but he had nothing to say.

"Your Highness, have the people in Anbei Court exceeded 5?"

Wang Chengen next to him glanced at the content of the memorial. He did not expect that under the implementation of the new policy, the speed of migration would be so fast.

"At this rate, I'm afraid the population of the Western Regions will reach 30 by June, which is considered a good thing."

Zhu Youjian commented on the effect of the migration, and at the same time said to Wang Chengen:

"After you leave work, go to the East Palace and tell the prince that the population of the two provinces of the Western Regions does not need to be too large, just 300 million, and the main gathering places are Shule and Anxi."

Zhu Youjian has a very serious attitude towards the two provinces of the Western Regions, but a serious attitude does not mean that there will be unlimited immigration.

Later generations immigrated because the Han people were a minority in the local area at that time, and they also needed to guard against enemies in the northwest and north.

However, the problems faced by Ming Dynasty were different. There was a gap in science and technology between Ming Dynasty and [-] Northern Army, regardless of logistics, which was enough to crush the entire Eurasian continent.

Not only that, on the population issue, Lin Dan Khan took away most of the herdsmen, and the remaining 10,000+ Mongolians in Turpan were also moved away by Zhu Youjian.

In the current Anxi and Beiting provinces, although there are few Han people, they occupy an absolute dominant position.

Three million Han Chinese is the number that Zhu Youjian thought up in consideration of productivity and the future development of Ming Dynasty in Central Asia.

These 300 million Han people will immigrate to the area after Ming conquered Central Asia in the future to help Ming consolidate its rule there.

This 300 million population will not change the natural environment of the Western Regions and Central Asia. After all, the drying up of Lop Nur is a lesson from the past.

As long as the Central Asian region is conquered, plus the existing territory and various minerals of Ming Dynasty, there will be basically no scarce resources after the technology is improved, and there is no need to be greedy for the dried up potassium mines in Lop Nur.

Taking the Shule area, the Ili Valley in Anxi, and the Fergana Valley in Central Asia is enough to support 300 million people and [-] soldiers.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also planned to adjust the number of soldiers and horses in each capital.

He asked someone to open the "Da Ming Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu", then looked at the current territory of Daming, and finally made adjustments:

"The Governor's Office of the Eastern Army takes over the defense of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Ryukyu, Yingzhou, and North Korea."

"The Governor's Mansion of the Southern Army serves as the backup for the two major supervisory divisions, Xiaoxiyang and Nankunlun."

"The northern and western armies remain unchanged, but the five armies will have to make adjustments to their troops."

"The soldiers of the Eastern Army were reduced to [-] battalions, the Northern Army increased to [-] battalions, the Western Army increased to [-] battalions, and the Southern Army maintained [-] battalions."

"The number of active duty is kept within 70 and must not exceed."

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Wang Chengen immediately wrote it down and sent it to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

In addition, in the face of few years, Zhu Youjian also made arrangements:

"Transfer Man Gui and Sun Yingyuan as the left and right co-prefects of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion."

"Cao Wenzhao will take over as the commander of the Northern Army, and He Shixian will be the commander of the Eastern Army."

Zhu Youjian transferred his two confidants back to the capital. Although it seemed that they were promoted, they actually did not have much real power.

With the Southern Army supporting Zhu Ciran and the Western Army being conservative, Cao Wenzhao and He Shixian are in control of the Northern Army and the Eastern Army, which can reduce many quarrels in the court.

Although in Zhu Youjian's view, Cao Wenzhao and He Shixian don't have the ability to serve as the governors of the first army, but if they are not allowed to take the position, they will never have this ability for the rest of their lives.

People have to be tempered. Sun Yingyuan, Sun Shoufa, and Cao Meng are shining examples.

Moreover, with the fighting power of the Ming army, as long as the governor does not make fatal mistakes, he can basically fight a crushing battle.

Recalling Man Gui and Sun Yingyuan is enough to express Zhu Youjian's attitude.

Now the Yanshan faction should not be so noisy, at least they have to observe and observe the situation first.

"Father, we're back..."

When Zhu Youjian finished his business, he saw Zhu Cihong walking in the door carrying a messenger bag.

He is eight years old now, studying at the government school next door to Baiwangfang, and is currently in the second grade.

Not surprisingly, Zhu Youjian will take them to Qi State after he graduates from the fifth grade, and then receive Qi State-style four-year education in Qi State.

"What did you learn today?"

Seeing Zhu Cihong's return, Zhu Youjian smiled and said, Zhu Cihong also ran to his side quickly:

"I learned how to ride a horse today. I got started very quickly. The other students were scared and cried, but I was able to ride the waves proficiently when I got on the horse."

"The teacher said, I have the talent for riding and shooting." Zhu Cihong was complacent, his face was full of small pride.

"That's not bad. It's impossible for a man in Prince Qi's mansion to know how to ride a horse." Zhu Youjian picked him up and put him on his lap.

He looked at Zhu Cihong, feeling a little melancholy.

He originally thought that Yuan Xibin would give birth to a son, but it seemed that God destined him and Yuan Xibin to have no son luck. After Yuan Xibin gave birth last winter, the rest was still a daughter.

Zhu Youjian was not unhappy, after all, he liked his daughter more than his son.

He was worried that when Yuan Xipin gave birth to a son after Zhu Cihong and the others grew up, it would be a little embarrassing.

Although Zhu Cihong is the eldest son, he is not a legitimate son. If Yuan Xipin really gave birth to a legitimate son by then, Zhu Youjian can only make policy adjustments.

Li Di, Li Chang, Li Xian...

Three options would be presented to him, but he would choose none.

In the final analysis, these are the choices of the heirs of the feudal system, and what Qi will do in the future is to be a virtual monarch.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to be a real illusory monarch. His illusory monarch is to weaken the power of the monarch and deprive part of it.

Qi State will also have a cabinet in the future, and the cabinet can be changed, but the emperor cannot be changed.

Regarding the launching of wars, the formulation of national policies, and criminal trials, which are prone to public grievances, are handed over to the cabinet.

Regarding the termination of the war, diplomatic exchanges, and governance of the people's livelihood, things that are easy to obtain public opinion are left to the emperor.

In a country under the Qi State-style Da Ming suzerain-vassal system, as long as the Qi King does not have the power to abolish and kill the county king, there is nothing wrong with the county king being an official in Qi State.

There must be a clan in the cabinet, but it cannot occupy an absolute seat, otherwise the rule of Qi will still be based on the interests of the clan after all, and it is easy to have a policy of exploiting the common people.

In a six-seat cabinet, the imperial clan occupies two, workers occupy two, peasants occupy two, and the emperor has decision-making power. This is enough for the next hundred years.

As for the scholar-bureaucrats and powerful landlords?It is kind of Zhu Youjian not to kill them.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian narrowed his eyes.

The powerful gentry of Qi State is very simple, but the powerful gentry of Daming is difficult to deal with.

As for how to deal with the powerful gentry of Ming Dynasty, history has given Zhu Youjian the answer.

One of the most worthy of reference is the mausoleum migration system in the Western Han Dynasty.

The Mausoleum Relocation System was an "effective choice" during the period of Han Gaozu Liu Bang.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty, he set his capital in Guanzhong. Because the population of Guanzhong was sparse due to the war at that time, Liu Bang followed Liu Jing’s suggestion and ordered to move all 10,000+ powerful clans, heroes and famous families of the six countries of the Kanto to the Guanzhong. Guanzhong.

After these people have migrated, they cannot be placed arbitrarily, otherwise they will be the next source of turmoil if they are not careful.

In order to properly accommodate these people, Liu Bang ordered them all to be placed in Changling (Liu Bang's tomb), and Changling County was built near Changling for the residence of the migrants. This is the origin of the Lingyi system.

Liu Bang's relocation of these powerful heroes not only avoided their rebellion, but also avoided their annexation of the land, and naturally put an end to the powerful landlords.

These tyrannical landlords managed to become stronger by annexing land and bribing officials. As a result, following the emperor's edict, they had to give up their hard-earned foundations and live near the emperor's mausoleum.

This kind of policy has virtually alleviated the local class contradictions, so that later emperors of the Western Han Dynasty would build mausoleums to accommodate these "rich people" who had migrated.

The mausoleum system, which is so conducive to ruling, not only shoulders the two major tasks of "strengthening the base and weak branches" and "defending the Huns", but also undertakes the tasks of easing class conflicts, preventing landlords from becoming powerful, and strengthening the centralization of power.

It can be seen that the Yiling system played a huge and necessary role in the early Han Dynasty.

However, the reason why the Mausoleum Relocation System, which was produced in a special period, in a special environment, and in a special background, has not been inherited is that there are many disadvantages in it.

For a dynasty and a country, a stable environment is the foundation. The migration of people is not a policy suitable for long-term use, let alone such a large number of immigrants.

For the situation in the early Western Han Dynasty, using immigrants to fill the number of people in the pass can achieve better defense, but this method is not applicable to every subsequent period.

The mausoleum system can be regarded as transferring the land conflicts across the country to Guanzhong through the migration of the population, and regulating it with the help of the emperor's private property and authority.

However, with the skyrocketing population of the dynasty, the sharp increase in land prices, and the shortage of food products, in the end this system could no longer be maintained in Guanzhong, and it was a matter of course to abolish it.

From this point of view, there are many disadvantages of the mausoleum transfer system, but this disadvantage is for the unified dynasty under land annexation, not for the suzerain-vassal system like the Ming Dynasty.

How many feudal princes are there in Ming Dynasty?

32...

What about the county king?
Right now there are 190 seven.

Each vassal represents a mansion, and each county represents a county.

Now that the vassal kings and the county kings have all moved out, what if the Ming Dynasty’s mausoleum relocation system is not aimed at the emperor, but at the vassal kings?
The vassal kings and county kings built mausoleums, and the gentry and powerful men who moved their fiefdoms went to the vassal state to guard the mausoleums of the vassal kings and county kings. What would happen in this way?
Only one edict is needed, and nearly [-]% of the gentry and powerful gentry in the Ming Dynasty may be relocated overseas.

If the kings of Wu and Yue in the south of the Yangtze River were established again, and then their domains were separated, then the gentry and powerful gentry in the south of the Yangtze River might have to go to the frontier to defend the territory for the vassal kings.

"Cheng En..."

"The servant is..."

Zhu Youjian suddenly opened his mouth, and Wang Chengen bowed to answer. Zhu Youjian, who was holding Zhu Cihong in his arms, also smiled and said:
"Do you think that the Yongwang and Dingwang of my two eldest nephews are not very pleasant? Why don't you... change them!"

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