Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1205
This guess is really unspeakable, even if it is high and pragmatic, he would not dare to imply Zhu Yijun or ask around the corner.

After all, no one dared to ask the emperor if you were not skilled enough in that respect.

Isn't this courting death?
Seeing that Gao Wushi frowned deeply for a long time, but still did not speak. Instead, his face became more and more cautious. Only then did Zhu Yijun realize that he really couldn't answer what he said just now from Gao Qixi's standpoint.

You can't expect a civil servant to teach the emperor how to make the queen happy, right?Only eunuchs can do this.

"Uh...be true." Zhu Yijun quickly changed the topic: "The self-report of the chief soldiers of the towns should have arrived at the Ministry of War by now, right?"

Gao Wushi also breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Here it is."

Zhu Yijun asked without words: "Who are there, and is there anything special?"

Ok?
Gao pragmatically said: This is not my responsibility.

The Ministry of War is now a system of four servants, and the status of the military and political servants is not low. However, the annual self-reporting of the chief soldiers and deputy generals in various places is not managed by the high and pragmatic military and political servants, but is personally reviewed by Liang Menglong, the minister of the Ministry of War. It is reasonable to say that the question is the wrong object.

But fortunately, this matter had been held in the Ministry of War, and Gao pragmatism was not ignorant, so he replied: "So far, there are Li Chengliang, the commander of Liaodong, Yang Siwei, the commander of Jizhen, and Zhang Zhang, the commander of Changzhen. The ministers, Baoding commander Dong Yiyuan, Xuanfu commander Wang Guoxun, Datong commander Ma Gui, Shanxi commander Li Rusong, Yansui commander Jia Guozhong, Ningxia commander Zhang Weizhong, Guyuan commander Li Zhen, Gansu commander Liu Chengsi, The Sichuan commander Li Yingxiang, the Zhejiang commander Wang Huaxi, the Fujian commander Yu Song, the Guangdong commander Liu Fengxiang, the Guangxi commander Hu Liangpeng, the Guizhou commander Zhang Yu and the deputy commander Zhang Jie, etc. "

"What is the opinion of the Ministry of War?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Gao pragmatically said: "The Chief Sima has summoned several colleagues to discuss this matter. Probably only Wang Guoxun, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, should retire when he is old, and there are several other deputy chief soldiers who should be rotated."

Zhu Yijun asked, "Xuanfu is one of the gates of the capital. Now that Wang Guoxun has retired, who can succeed him?"

Gao pragmatically said: "Ma Chengen can succeed."

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't Ma Chengen in Kaiyuan? I just asked him to visit northern Liaoning a few days ago. If he is transferred back to Xuanfu now, who will Kaiyuan take to replace?"

Gao Wushi replied: "In exchange for Ma Chengxun, the two of them are cousins, and the main force in their command is the Ma Jiada soldiers. Since Ma Chengen can control Kaiyuan, Ma Chengxun will not be bad. Knowing that the number of soldiers in the hands of the two of them seems to be different, when they are transferred, they may only need to change generals instead of soldiers, and they can save some money."

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and asked, "Ma Chengxun's last battle in Monan was also a good one, right?"

"Yes." Gao pragmatically nodded.

"That's good, let's do it like this." Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Majiajiu town Xuanda, Ma Chengen went to Xuanfu, and when I go to attack Tumen in the future, I will avoid instability on the flanks."

"The emperor is holy." Gao pragmatic said here, paused for a while, and said, "By the way, the emperor, there is something that must be paid attention to."

"what's up?"

"Qinghai Tumut leader Litu and Huoluochi chiefs, because they were jealous that King Shunyi gave Han Naji a great reward to me, and now he no longer obeys the orders of Tumet headquarters. King Shunyi wanted Han Naji to send troops to conquer. But it happened that the Hetao Ordos Wanhu Quejin Huangtaiji suddenly suffered from an emergency, and the undercurrent in the Ordos department was surging. The Shunyi King feared that the Hetao would change after the army's westward expedition, so he could only hold his troops for the time being.

Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "How could such a thing happen? Is there any inside story?"

Of course he knew how deeply the pragmatic Jinghua had penetrated into Mongolia, so he directly asked about the inside story.

Gao Wushi didn't hide it, and replied, "It's basically true. The two chiefs, Lili Rabbit and Huoluochi, were originally brothers. They were driven to Qinghai by Altan back then, and they didn't have much to do with the Tumut headquarters. Loyalty. On that day, the Shunyi king was powerful, coupled with Erdos's Quejin Huangtaiji, who advocated Hannaji as Chechen Khan, so the two of them had to temporarily surrender.

In the fall of this year, Huang Taiji contracted the disease, and in less than two months, he was completely broken, and it was difficult to control the situation. The two chiefs, Li Rabbit and Huo Luo Chi, were vaguely disobedient to Wang Ling of Fengzhou Beach.At this time, it is said that there are envoys from Tumen who detoured from Mobei to Qinghai. I don't know what is the advantage of focusing on the two chiefs of Rabbit and Huoluo. In short, the two chiefs stopped obeying Fengzhoutan and began to act completely on their own. "

Zhu Yijun frowned immediately: "Is there still a black hand from Tumen? It seems that Xin Ai's son is really capable and looks like a mastermind."

Gao pragmatically said: "Although Burihatu is a defeated general under the minister, he does have some skills and cannot be taken lightly. From the minister's point of view, since he made a move, he will not just lay out this game."

Zhu Yijun really took it seriously, and pondered: "What do you think he will do?"

Gao pragmatically said: "I haven't had time to think about what I will do specifically, but I think that what he does can't escape two main themes: one is to isolate Tumert as much as possible, and the other is to try to delay my war preparations for Ming Dynasty as much as possible. "

Zhu Yijun's small eyes flickered, and he said coldly, "I think so too."

He paused for a while and asked again, "The Chahar Department suffered a lot after the defeat in the Battle of Southern Liaoning. How is it recovering now? Do you have any news from your side?"

"A little bit." Gao pragmatically frowned and said, "The Tumen still trust Brihatu very much, and from what we can understand so far, Burihatu has at least offered two strategies to the Tumen to speed up the process. Recovery of the Chahar Department."

"Which two strategies?" Zhu Yijun asked immediately.

"The first is to develop agriculture. Now, the Chahar Department, like the Tumet, has opened up farmland in some places for planting, and planted food. I don't even know where to get some cotton seeds and start planting cotton fields, but I don't know where. Did they get the loom?"

Zhu Yijun frowned slightly, and asked thoughtfully, "Do you know how much farmland they have opened up?"

Gao pragmatically shook his head: "Jinghua's horse team can't go far in Chahar. The specific situation is not known at the moment."

Zhu Yijun thought for a while, and then said, "I think they should have got a loom—otherwise, what's the use of growing cotton? You can't just play a few quilts, right?"

Regarding cotton, it seems that many people in later generations have misunderstood that there was no cotton in ancient China, which is actually wrong.

China already had records of cotton planting in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the planting areas were mainly distributed in Hainan Island, Guangdong and Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian, Sichuan and other places in the south; there were also in the north, but mostly in the Western Regions (Xinjiang), Hexi Corridor and other areas.It's just that at that time, the planting area of ​​cotton was very small, and it was rarely used to make clothes.

In the Song Dynasty, cotton began to be introduced into the Central Plains, but at this time cotton was mainly used as a flower ornament, and no one thought of weaving cotton into cloth and making clothes.It is also from the Song Dynasty that the word "cotton" officially appeared, and it was always "cotton" before.

At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a great figure appeared in the southern region where cotton was planted. She was the "ancestor of the cloth industry" Huang Daopo.Huang Daopo improved the whole set of cotton weaving equipment and extended the weaving technology to the north and south of the river, and people began to wear cotton clothes.The Yuan army also began to equip cotton armor filled with cotton.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang used compulsory methods to promote cotton cultivation, which made cotton cloth and cotton clothes popular.Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creation" in the Ming Dynasty stated that "cotton cloth is available in every inch of land" and "weaving machines must be available in ten rooms". At this time, cotton was very popular in the Ming Dynasty.For example, the Jiangnan region during the Wanli period was the center of two major textile industries: silk and cotton.

However, cotton in the south of the Yangtze River is not high-yield, so the main cotton producing area in Daming is actually in the north.

For example, in Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, both silk and cotton were important producing areas. There is a record in "Kapok" in Volume 35 of "Agricultural Zheng Quanshu", saying that "people from Qilu grow cotton", "it is normal to receive two or three hundred catties per mu", which is an area with high cotton production per mu.

Of course, this yield is not comparable to modern yields, but in the absence of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in ancient times, this yield is still very high.

Not only Shandong, but also three provinces of Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi have cotton production.In the highly pragmatic hometown of Henan, the cotton planting industry is also quite prosperous. It is recorded in "Records of Taizu", Xinwei in December 25th year of Hongwu, "Zhangde, Weihui, Guangping, Daming, Dongchang, Kaifeng, Huaiqing seven prefectures", "collected this year" "Mian Spend more than 180 million catties"——that was still in the early Ming Dynasty, and there were more than 1000 million catties of cotton production in the seven prefectures.

In addition to high yields, the income from growing cotton is also very high. For example, all six provinces in Shandong grow cotton. History records that "the benefit of five grains is less than half".Therefore, many places have given up planting grain, especially in the southern regions where the cotton textile industry is developed, and even high-yield rice has not been planted. Eighty-nine tenths are used to plant cotton or sericulture. The reason is the income from cotton or sericulture. Higher, of course, this is why the rich and prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River need food from Huguang instead.

Facing Zhu Yijun's question, Gao pragmatically shook his head and said, "I think this is also possible."

"You mean they only play quilts?" Zhu Yijun asked in surprise: "Why is this? In this case, they still need to find ways to get my Daming's cloth to be useful."

Gao pragmatically said: "In the winter of the Liaonan Battle, Chahar probably froze to death a lot of people. For them, dressing well is the second priority, and the key thing to solve is the problem of freezing people. Cotton cloth In fact, Ming can't help the outflow of cotton. As long as Chahar is willing to spend more money, he can always get it. With cotton cloth, those cottons are wrapped in cotton cloth, whether it is a quilt or a cotton coat, it is actually possible. Whether the clothes are ugly or not is obviously not something they will care about now."

Zhu Yijun frowned: "Why can't the outflow of cotton cloth be stopped? Does anyone still dare to have a private market with Chahar?"

I don’t know if anyone still dares to have a private market with Chahar Gao pragmatic. Even from his point of view, he is not opposed to a mutual market with Chahar. After all, he has always been able to use this mutual market to achieve his own goals.

However, he also knew that Daming's attitude towards Chahar was completely different from that of Tumert, so he didn't bother to persuade Zhu Yijun about this matter, he just said: "Charhar doesn't necessarily need to trade directly with me in Daming or a private market to get it. Bubo, they can go and do business with all the Jurchen ministries, and even with some of the Tumt people - there may not be anyone under the command of Chechen Khan who dares to act against the Khan, which is the same as Daming's criminals."

Hearing this, Zhu Yijun became a little annoyed, and said bitterly: "I really wish they had stopped all their city rewards."

Market reward is the way of Daming, to the effect that it is my Daming's reward to exchange markets with you.

Of course, Zhu Yijun's words were just angry words. Of course, he knew the consequences of stopping the mutual market. The reason why Tumut during the Altan Khan period fought with Daming for decades was not to ask for a mutual market?Now that Tumut is so honest, it cannot be just a pragmatic face. Daming has given them a stable mutual market, which is the most basic and fundamental.

Gao Wushi really shook his head: "The mutual market can't be stopped, not only can it not stop, but before taking Chahar, it even has to increase the total amount as appropriate to stabilize the plurilateral."

Zhu Yijun sighed and said helplessly: "In addition to switching to heavy farming, what else does Chahar do?"

Gao pragmatically said: "The other one has actually been mentioned just now, that is, commerce."

Zhu Yijun was a little surprised: "Heavy business?"

For him, the Ming emperor, Zhongnong heard a lot, but it seems that this is the first time that he has been focusing on business.

Gao pragmatically nodded and said, "Yes, business is important. According to the news that the minister has heard, Burihatu should have greatly strengthened his trade with Jurchen."

"What kind of news?"

"In the past year or so, the various departments of the Jurchen have consumed far more beef and mutton than before, and the number of horses kept by each department has also increased. The minister thought that this must have flowed from Chahar to the Jurchen. It is said that the Jurchen sold other goods to the Mongols and exchanged these cattle, sheep and horses."

Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "What can Jurchen sell to Mongolians? Ginseng, deer antler, and various furs? But Mongolians don't have much demand for these things, right?"

Gao Wushi shook his head decisively and said, "Of course the Jurchens are not selling these to the Mongols. They can exchange these things with Daming, and then exchange for Daming's goods and then exchange them with the Mongols, eat both ends, and earn both ends."

When Zhu Yijun heard this, his eyes widened: "Aren't we at a loss?"

Ah this...you just reacted?The Jurchen ministries have now made it clear that they rely on the status of a "neutral country" to earn both ends, which is no worse than the Midi before Pearl Harbor.

"That's right. Before we fight Can Yuan, the Jurchen divisions always have such opportunities."

Zhu Yijun was furious when he heard this, he turned a few steps under the big tree, and said bitterly: "Okay, okay, okay, let them earn another three years, and after three years, Daming will completely destroy Remnant Yuan, this is the debt. Sooner or later, I'll have to settle with them again!"

The muscles on Gao Wushi’s face twitched a little, and he secretly said: The history books say that you are an emperor who is obsessed with money.
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