Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 394: Medicine and stone are difficult to cure
"Pattering..."

In the morning, as the sun rises, the sound of bucket after bucket of water can be heard on the plains where green grass sprouts.

In this greenery, a village being built around the stone castle undoubtedly looks very abrupt.

It is already mid-February, and after a month of hard work, cement courtyard walls made of river sand and river stones have appeared on the once white land.

Eighty-eight courtyards stand outside the stone fort. The rustling "朙" flag on the stone fort flutters in the wind, declaring the sovereignty of this land to the natives everywhere.

Outside the stone castle, every household began to get up and work.

The women went to dig gullies outside the village, while the men used the river sand and river stones piled up at the door of each house on the main road in the village to mix them with cement to build houses.

Some people have a large family, and the main house has been built, but only the beams and roof are needed.

Some people with a small family first built a wing house to rest, and then slowly built the main house and the cow, horse and pig pens in the backyard.

There is no doubt that Lu Yu's family does not belong to the two, because although they have many people, they are all children and not very strong, because they still live in tents.

Jiang Gui frowned. After all, gold is not easy to mine, especially in the early stages of mining.

Normally, it takes one year to bring out a team of immigrants. In this year, the entire team can basically own houses, build the most basic water conservancy channels, and open up two acres of wasteland per capita.

"Haha, I know. I am not doing this just to silence the temple officials so that they will not impeach us."

Class A will receive a ten-guan subsidy, Class B will receive a five-guan subsidy, Class C will receive no subsidy if qualified, and Class D will receive a demerit. Anyone with three demerits will be deprived of their official status.

"How many natives are there in the mining area now? Can we speed up the process?"

“I never thought we could live in a tiled house when we came to Luzon!”

With that said, Lu Yu continued to build his house. Although concrete of this strength was not good, it was still much stronger than rammed earth walls made of rammed adobe.

One of the young men sighed. Lu Yu nodded when he heard the words, but then shook his head and said: "That thing is very expensive. I asked Liu Li, we can't afford it at three cents per brick."

The courtyard door of the Lu family was pushed open. Liu Quan, who was holding a booklet, and several men stood at the door and said to Lu Yu who was working:

After all, Xu Chailao was a maritime merchant. He knew very well that he had to generate enough benefits to make the temple ministers notice the development of Luzon. Therefore, in the past three years, he and Jiang Gui teamed up to defeat many small tribes and They were captured as prisoners of war and worked in the mines to the north.

Thinking of this, Lu Yu became very motivated, and at this moment there was noise coming from outside the house.

"It would be nice if there were bricks..."

Jiang Gui not only has to be responsible for managing maritime affairs, he also has to intervene in matters in the mining areas in northern Luzon Island. After all, the gold mines in Luzon are the reason why no civil servant in the temple has spent money and food to impeach Luzon.

As long as the canal is completed, it will be easier to open up wasteland and cultivate the land, and the yield will be high enough for the assessment officials to remember him.

Now they have poured out the walls of the main house, and they are just waiting for the roof boards to be put up tomorrow to seal the roof.

"Yes!" After hearing that there were free tile collars, Lu Yu immediately jumped down from the ladder, and brought the tiles into the courtyard in piles with a few brothers who could do physical work.

"Yes, thank you Mr. Li Chang!" Lu Yu bowed gratefully, but Liu Quan didn't say anything. He nodded and turned around and left.

On the ground, two young men of 12 or 13 years old put the mixed concrete in wooden barrels and handed them to Lu Yu. Lu Yu held a shovel in one hand and took the barrel in the other. He skillfully poured the concrete into the foundation and inserted it into the foundation. inside the wooden board.

This year he is already 25 and has achieved first-class results in Luzon for three consecutive years.

Being able to achieve such results is inseparable from his hard work and hard work.

In the hospital, Lu Yu's younger brothers and sisters chatted non-stop and were very excited.

Due to insufficient cement, these concretes are mostly made of river sand and gravel, and are not very strong. Therefore, they need to be built on wooden frames in key places.

After giving all the instructions, he led the people out of Donghe Tun and continued the construction of the water conservancy gully outside the village.

Seeing how pitiful they were, Liu Quan rarely asked his family members to follow the collective to dig drainage ditches and gullies.

Overseas, in addition to basic salaries, officials also receive merit-based subsidies.

For him, as long as Donghe Tun can be built as quickly as possible, he can also apply for the Luzon City assessment as quickly as possible. After the inspection is correct, he can hand over Donghe Tun to the next district chief. He returned to Luzon with a first-class assessment result and continued to wait for his next immigration team.

The wooden boards fit together tightly, with two feet embedded in the soil and one foot sticking out.

Xu Chailao asked the military attache, and this military attache was Jiang Gui, the commander of the Nanhai Guard.

"Three hundred and fifty-six taels, the mining situation this year is good..."

As long as you can meet these requirements, you can get a first-class assessment and receive a large amount of ten-gun subsidies.

In the Xuanwei Si Yamen in Luzon City, Xu Chailao weighed the gold in the bag on the table, nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at a military attache sitting on the first place to his left.

"So many tiles!"

Seeing this, Lu Yu also wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the uncapped main house with hope in his eyes, as if he had seen what it would look like after it was completed.

"Luzon City sent tiles at a cost of one thousand per household. Bring your brothers to move them."

After all, they are all orphans, and no one is talking about them.

"Three hundred and fifty-six taels in two months is pretty good. It is twice the output at this time last year."

In the first half of last year, Luzon produced 600 taels of gold, and with the increase in miners this year, the output can vaguely reach an annual output of more than 2,000 taels.

Ten guan of money was enough for Liu Quan to buy two acres of farmland in his hometown. After working like this for ten years, including his basic salary, he could go home and live the life of a small landowner even if he lost his official status.

People like them are not a minority in Luzon, and the better they live, the more relatives and friends they will call. The more people there are, the greater the achievements of Xu Chailao as Luzon's ambassador.

"Brother, give it!"

Looking at the situation in their yard, Liu Quan nodded and said, "Don't change the drainage outlets and other things in the yard without authorization, so as not to trouble everyone."

More than two thousand taels of gold is not too small, and there are more than 20,000 taels of copper coins.

If you include Luzon's commercial tax and the land tax that started to be collected this year, the tax revenue will probably reach about 50,000 guan. In more than 1,400 counties in the mainland, it can still be ranked among the top 300.

But this alone is not enough to meet Xu Chailao's promotion requirements.

"I did some calculations and found out that nearly 200,000 acres of cultivated land will start paying taxes this year. According to the tax and grain policy, we can collect up to 60,000 shi, which is equivalent to 20,000 guan."

"Including business taxes and gold mining, it's only 50,000 yuan."

"This achievement is not enough even for me to promote, let alone for you to promote me."

"Commander Chiang, would you like to see if we can open a few more mines in the mining area?"

Xu Chailao doesn't want much power, he just wants to return home in glory. After all, as a wealthy businessman in Nanyang, he has already made enough money and so on. What he wants now is an identity that can keep his money, such as a hereditary Sanxian. and Wu Xun.

"You can open it if you really want to, but most of the natives have fled into the mountains. It is very difficult to capture them."

Jiang Gui frowned and replied. Xu Chai Lao heard this and said, "It's difficult in the north, so we can go to the south."

"Zheng Zhengshi and the imperial court did not allow us to go south..." Jiang Gui interrupted Xu Chailao. In his case, the imperial court's order was still the highest order.

"The general is out, so military orders are not respected." Xu Chailao smiled and said at the same time:

"If not, then burn the mountains and sell some grass fertilizer to increase tax revenue."

"Burn the mountain, we can drive out some natives." Jiang Gui nodded, all actions were within the scope permitted by the court.

Seeing him like this, Xu Chailao also picked up the tea cup, took a sip and said, "There are now more than 98,700 people in Luzon and more than 376,000 acres of cultivated land."

"Although 30,000 to 40,000 people immigrate here every year, the immigration rate from Fujian has gradually slowed down."

"I heard that in the past nine years, 460,000 people have migrated from Fujian to Annan alone."

"If we include Old Port and our place, it is estimated that many people in Fujian will no longer be able to cultivate their fields, and our number of immigrants will gradually decline."

As a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, Xu Chailao knew very well why there were so many people from Fujian and Guangdong in Nanyang. In the final analysis, it was because the war in the late Yuan Dynasty did not affect the local area, resulting in a small area and a large population. In order to survive, many people had no choice but to go to the sea to make a living.

Now that Fujian has received a large number of immigrants organized by the imperial court, the population has probably declined even more than it did at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Conflicts within the province have sharply decreased, and immigration has naturally become more difficult.

Xu Chailao knows very well that Luzon is now only one county in size.

If he wants to gain the hereditary rank and martial arts through promotion, he must increase Lu Song's size to the level of a mansion.

Without a population of 200,000 and a tax revenue of more than 100,000 yuan, his request is undoubtedly a fantasy.

"What are you going to do?"

Jiang Gui asked Xu Chai Lao, and Xu Chai Lao heard this and said, "Everyone is profit-seeking. As long as we give enough profit, I don't believe no one will come."

"For example..." Jiang Gui nodded and asked, Xu Chai Lao also said:
"Capture enough natives and let them dig for us in the north and make cement, tiles and bricks, then we can distribute enough things to the people."

"I heard that the Old Port in the south did the same thing, so it was able to attract nearly 100,000 immigrants in the past three years."

The Old Port is further away than Luzon. Logically speaking, the number of local immigrants cannot exceed Luzon. Therefore, when Xu Chailao learned about the situation in the Old Port, he began to investigate the immigration policy of the Old Port.

I don't know whether this is true or not. As soon as Xu Chailao understood it, he immediately became enlightened.

Old Port can do it, why can't they?

"If you do this, you will easily be impeached by the civil servants above the temple." Jiang Gui was a little afraid of civil servants, but Xu Chai Lao didn't care:

"As long as they bring enough benefits to the court, what do these literati mean?"

"Don't forget, we are all His Majesty and His Highness's people, not this group of literati."

"If you are worried, then we can ask His Highness if we can go south to capture the natives."

Xu Chailao talked for a long time, just to get Jiang Gui to go to Shu together and ask Zhu Gaoxu if they could go south to capture the natives.

Jiang Gui was hesitant, but after thinking that he had been in the command position for so many years, he finally nodded: "Okay!"

Seeing that Jiang Gui agreed, Xu Chailao immediately took him and joined forces with the Shang Dynasty, and their memorial was sent to Guangzhou through the maritime immigration trade route, and then rushed through 800 miles to arrive in early March. Delivered to Nanjing.

"This Mr. Xu Chai is a pretty good man, but Jiang Gui is a little impatient." Outside the Palace of Qianqing, Zhu Gaoxu held the urgently delivered memorandum. Even though his face didn't look good, he still managed to praise him.

Of course, he also saw that Xu Chai Lao was taking advantage of Jiang Gui. Xu Chai Lao was not to blame for this, but Jiang Gui was too impatient.

Jiang Gui is only twenty-nine years old now, and he can be considered young and promising as the commander of two guards.

If he gets higher up, he will probably take over Cui Jun's position, or serve as a commanding officer in the mainland.

Although his ability is sufficient, in terms of his character, Zhu Gaoxu is still ready to polish him.

"How many military immigrants are there in Annan and Old Port?"

Zhu Gaoxu closed the memorial and handed it to Yishiha beside him. Yishiha nodded when he heard the words and said: "Annan has about 700,000 people, and Old Port has about 190,000 people."

"The former accounts for 20% of the local area, and the latter accounts for 30%."

After Yishiha finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Gaoxu nervously. Zhu Gaoxu did not answer after hearing this, but asked about other things.

"Tell me everything about Guizhou, Donghai, Modong and Timur."

"Yes..." Taking a deep breath, Yishiha told all the news he had compiled in the past few days:
"Except for the Song family that was destroyed, the four major chieftains in Guizhou all surrendered their land and moved to Chengdu Prefecture."

"One hundred thousand southwestern barbarians in southern Guizhou are still being encircled and suppressed by Duke Qian and Duke Cao. In addition, a rebellion broke out in the Dateng Gorge area of ​​Guangxi, but the scale was small, with only more than 10,000 people."

"Cao Guogong sent Sheng Yong and Liu Zhen to quell the rebellion. Yunnan was relatively stable and nothing major happened."

"The Laluos in the Daxue Mountains of Sichuan have been suppressed, but the Marquis of Jianchang (Qu Neng) Shangshu said that there are a large number of Laluos in the Daxue Mountains, and they are ready to carry out an in-depth encirclement and suppression. He asked the court to allocate money and food."

"On the Donghaifu side, North Korea has evacuated all its military and civilians. However, because heavy snow has hindered the progress of road construction, Chen Chang has not yet completed the road from Dingliao to Donghaifu."

"Fu Daha went to Shu and said that Timur, the fierce brother, is constantly reinforcing Haiyang City. If the court needs it, he can take the lead in sending troops to surround Haiyang City."

"On the Jinghaiwei side, Commander Zheng Jun has sent troops to take over Shuangcheng and Helan Mansion. In addition, there have been undercurrents in Japan recently, and the envoys sent by the imperial court were not received by Ashikaga Yoshitari."

"The situation in Modong is pretty good. The number of Sanwei immigrant military households has reached 120,000, and more than 470,000 acres of cultivated land have been reclaimed. It can supply Hailaer with 300,000 stone grain, but it also needs the Bohai Sea to supply Sanwei. Six hundred thousand stone grain.”

"Shen Guogong (Wang Yi) went to Shu, preparing to lead five thousand fine cavalry to patrol after the beginning of spring, to intimidate Wala Mahamu and other captive chiefs."

After clearly explaining these things that happened in the southwest and northwest of the country, Yishiha breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to explain:

"There's no military information coming from Timur's side. It's probably because Shaharul hasn't ended the war in the river yet."

"However, Zheng He sent news that he had captured millions of gold and silver in the land of Persia, and even captured thousands of fine horses, but he didn't know how to transport them back to the country."

After Yi Shiha said this, Zhu Gaoxu also squinted his eyes.

In this era, it was very difficult to transport thousands of horses from Central Asia to East Asia, whether by sea or land, and I had no good solution.

"Tell Zheng He and let him think of a way, whether it's by land or sea, whatever he can bring back will be counted."

"also……"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the Qianqing Palace, where a female doctor hurriedly ran out. While he was heartbroken, he couldn't help but speed up his speech: "How is the establishment of the third division in Guizhou? Are all the officials in place?"

"Everything is already in place." Yi Shiha nodded and said, "More than 30,000 officials and 20,000 teachers have entered Guizhou. Except for southern Guizhou, where they are still unable to penetrate deeply, other places have begun to return to their hometowns."

"Except for the south, the implementation of the new policies in the north has also begun to bear fruit."

Yishiha handed the booklet in the eunuch's hand to Zhu Gaoxu. Zhu Gaoxu took it and opened it while listening to Yishiha's introduction in his ear.

"In the past six months or so, with the subordinate staff in place, preliminary results have been achieved in population and field statistics in various places. Although the progress has not reached 50%, the results that can be found are already staggering."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Gaoxu saw the current population and cultivated land situation in the three places.

[Henan has 2,544,627 people and more than 2,165,000 acres]

[Shanxi has a population of 4,269,300, and more than 4,000, 36,005,33 acres]

[North Zhili: 2,276,500 households, 1,7546,327 acres and 9 cents]

"I saw it." Zhu Gaoxu interrupted Yi Shiha, and after scanning the contents of this booklet, he came up with the results of the work in the three places in the past six months.

But in terms of population, Henan has nearly 600,000 more people and more than 4 million more arable lands than the one under Hongwu's 14th year. Of course, 300,000 of them are due to Zhu Gaoxu's immigration policy.

However, as far as the current progress is concerned, when the new policies in the three places are fully implemented and the land measurement and population registration are completed, it will not be a problem for Henan's population to exceed three million, and the problem of cultivated land should not be big, because the current measured situation The situation in the household department is similar to last year.

The main problem in the three places is that the population has changed. The cultivated land is similar to that registered by the Ministry of Household Affairs, but there are more than ten or even hundreds of thousands of acres.

Given the current period of active reclamation in the three places, it is not surprising that so many acres of arable land were produced in half a year.

"From this point of view, even if Shanxi has carried out immigration to Peiping and Henan, the number of people in its territory will still be close to five million."

"As for Henan and Beizhili, it is estimated to be around 3 million."

"This result is not much different from the quantity I estimated."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and gave his own evaluation. After all, according to the old time, the population of the three places was nearly 8 million as early as the 14th year of Hongwu. Now, 28 years have passed, how can the population still stay at 8 million? The appearance of getting ahead.

Now after checking, the number of 11 million is considered low. In Zhu Gaoxu's psychological expectation, the population of the three places should be around 12 million.

It can only be said that the neonatal mortality rate in this era is still too high, and hospitals must continue to promote it.

“Can hospitals in various places be separated into branches?”

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the brochure and asked Yi Shiha. Yi Shiha was stunned when he heard this: "You have to go back and check to find out. But judging from the number of medical students who graduated last year, there should be no problem. At least they can be distinguished. Twenty schools.”

"The number of doctors is too small." Zhu Gaoxu frowned and said, "We can recruit students who have graduated from government schools. After all, doctors' salaries are not low, so they should be interested."

What Zhu Gaoxu said is true. The salary he gave doctors was 30 guan per year for ordinary doctors, 50 guan for the section chief, and 100 guan for the dean.

This salary is definitely a high-paying job for most families of government students, and it is more than what subordinate officials earn.

Previously, everyone took the examination for subordinate officials because they felt that subordinate officials had a bright future and might be able to become officials.

Nowadays, government schools have higher requirements for the admission of subordinate officials, and many people have no place to go. Doctors with higher salaries will naturally become the first choice.

Hospitals in various places basically adopt the "One Belt Three" or "One Belt Four" learning method. Zhu Gaoxu has read last year's memorial of the Taiyuan Hospital. There are 54 hospitals outside the customs and 97 inside the customs, with a total of more than 16,000 doctors on the job.

Among them, surgeons and gynecologists have the largest number. This is mainly due to Zhu Gaoxu's emphasis on obstetrics and gynecology from the beginning and the military's demand for surgeons.

"Let Tai Hospital open hospitals in Shanxi, Beizhili, Susong, Henan and other places. The ratio of surgery and obstetrics and gynecology should be high. In addition, the chief ministers and yamen of each place should pay attention to publicity."

After saying all this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't wait to close the album, handed it to Yishiha, and ran towards Qianqing Palace.

He saw more than a dozen doctors trotting into the Qianqing Palace, which was enough to explain Queen Xu's situation.

"Stop the bleeding first!"

Walking into the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Gaoxu heard the heart-wrenching words. Zhu Gaochi and others were already uneasy, as well as Zhu Di, who had his hands clasped together and seemed to be praying to gods and Buddhas.

It's not that she was undergoing surgery, but Empress Xu's breast cancer ruptured and bleeds this morning.

"Your Highness, we need a blood test!"

A female doctor trotted out of the side hall, and her words made Zhu Gaoxu feel cold.

"I lost!"

"Is blood transfusion technology mature? Are you confident?"

Zhu Di didn't understand the difficulty of blood transfusion, thinking that anyone could do it, and immediately stood up, while Zhu Gaoxu asked quickly.

"As long as there is no problem with the blood type, there will be no problem. The Eucommia gum in the needle tube can isolate the air and prevent air from entering the blood vessels."

The female doctors were doctors transferred from Annan by Zhu Gaoxu. They had performed hundreds of breast cancer resections and blood transfusion surgeries in Annan.

"Take ours to see whose blood type matches."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu spoke in a deep voice. Seeing this, the female doctor began to prick everyone's fingertips with needles, and took out a microscope to blend with Queen Xu's blood for observation.

Fortunately, Queen Xu's blood type is type A (A), and Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Yueying are both type A. However, although Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Di have the same blood type, they are type C (o).

Seeing the female doctor drawing blood from Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Yueying, Zhu Di walked back and forth anxiously: "Why can't mine work?"

While Zhu Di was crossing the steps, Zhu Gaoxu calmly said to the eunuch on duty next to him: "Write down the blood types of everyone in our family so that we can facilitate blood transfusions during surgeries in the future."

"Yes..." The eunuch agreed and communicated with the reserve doctors next to him.

Not long after, as the female doctor sterilized the syringe sealed with Eucommia glue and drew out the blood, they entered the side hall without taking a break and transfused the blood to Queen Xu.

Fortunately, there were no problems with Queen Xu's coagulation function, and her condition stabilized after a blood transfusion.

When the female doctors came out to announce the news, Zhu Di immediately rushed into the side hall with Zhu Gaosui and others, leaving only Zhu Gaochi, who was lying on the chair with a pale face, and Zhu Gaoxu, who stood there and looked at the female doctors.

From their eyes, Zhu Gaoxu had already guessed the result.

"Tell me, what's going on with my mother..."

As soon as he spoke, Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting on the chair, turned a little paler. He was so smart, so why didn't he know what his second brother meant?

Like Zhu Gaoxu, he looked directly at the many female doctors. The female doctors looked at each other nervously and didn't know how to explain the situation to Zhu Gaoxu.

After a few breaths, the female doctor in charge finally knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily.

"Her Royal Highness the Queen's condition is beyond cure..."

Her words stuck in Zhu Gaoxu's throat, and Zhu Gaochi swayed from his chair and sat limply on the ground.

At this moment, the two brothers were undoubtedly in the same mood, and Zhu Di, who unknowingly walked to the door of the side hall, also heard these words.

Just for a moment, the father and son felt their noses sore and their vision blurred...

(End of this chapter)