Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 0905 three years, turned upside down!

"Old man, how is the harvest this year?"

Zhang Haogu smiled and sat on the small stool beside the field ridge, chatting with the old farmer beside him.

The old farmer was obviously a little excited. Looking at the ridges of grain behind him, the old man had a satisfied smile on his face: "Thanks to you, Shoufu, this year's harvest will be a good year."

"It's not thanks to me, how can I have this ability. This is the result of the hard work of the big guys, and it's your own labor. It's thanks to me, I deserve it." Zhang Haogu said, looking at the ridges of wheat fields. After the severe drought, Henan, the hinterland of the Central Plains, finally regained some vitality.

"You can't say that. Shoufu, before your Datong party came, we mudlegs, let alone farming with peace of mind, would not be bullied by those corrupt officials and those gentry and landlords one day. Without our own fields and food, the whole family was forced to be domestic slaves and tenants, and they would not be able to eat enough for the landlords all year round." The old farmer said with emotion.

"Oh, the good days of the year of Tianqi. Since the year of Chongzhen, the lives of the common people have been getting worse day by day. First, the money has become less and less useful, and finally the banknotes have become waste paper; later, the merchants can no longer see them, and no one in the county is doing business. I don't know who to sell to if I have some things at home. After that, the imperial court collects grain and money, but how can we have grain and silver? Who in the master’s family is not a good farm with tens of millions, and who is not full of food, gold and silver, but the imperial court doesn’t care about them, they only know how to ask us who have nothing.”

"The original land at home was taken away by the landlord, and the food and gold and silver were collected by the government. That's not counting. The court even asked us for money, so we almost sold ourselves to the court to pay taxes. It's only been a few years since the Apocalypse Dynasty. How did the Chongzhen Dynasty become like this? The officials protect each other, and the gentry and landlords are all related to the county lords. Those of us farming and farming, who offended and ruined our families?"

Hearing the old farmer's emotion, Zhang Haogu also sighed: "The court has made it like this, the people suffer the most. I'm sorry for you, we have been back for three years, but this year can only feed the big guys. As the chief assistant, I have a responsibility."

The old farmer became anxious when he heard this: "Yuanfu, that's not the case. You can come back and continue to lead the big guys to live a good life. The big guys are all happy. The big guys are looking forward to your return. After all, who can escape this natural and man-made disaster? We also suffered disasters during the Chongzhen Dynasty, but the court ignored us and asked us for money and food regardless of our life and death. It's not like our Datong party. die."

"We have seen everything that the Datong Party has done in the past few years. Where can we find such a good official who personally leads us to work and helps us find a way out. Even in the worst disasters of the past two years, no one died of starvation, and we can have a warm meal. This is enough, enough."

"Not to mention this year, the disaster has passed and the grain harvest has been bumper. This year is a good year, and it will be better every year in the future. This is what we are looking forward to. With the Datong Party leading us, we are not afraid of hardships or tiredness, as long as we can make progress."

What the old farmer said made Zhang Haogu nod slowly: "Yes, what the common people are looking forward to is a bright future and a good life in the future. This is what our Datong Party has been working hard and doing all the time. The common people believe in us, and those of us who are officials and cadres cannot let the common people down."

Another farmer on the side smiled and said: "Shoufu, you have to take care of your health. I heard that you are busy with affairs every day. This is not acceptable. You will live a long life. We people now only believe that you can lead us to live a peaceful life."

Hearing this, Zhang Haogu couldn't help laughing and said: "Hahaha, it seems that I have to pay attention to my body. But, the big guys don't have to trust me only, the cadres of our Datong Party are all worthy of trust. I believe that these young and lovely cadres in our party will lead the big guys to live a good life."

"The so-called family is full, and Simin is well-off. Such a good day is not far away."

The old farmer sighed lightly: "Hey, Shoufu, with you here, we definitely believe that you can lead us to live a good life, but if you don't care about things, I can't imagine what will happen then."

"Take the Ming Dynasty as an example. During the Tianqi Dynasty, the people's life was good, but in the Chongzhen Dynasty, it changed immediately. In this dynasty, the emperor and the courtiers, the life of the people is like going up a steep slope. There are ups and downs, and they don't know what the future will hold."

Zhang Haogu also sighed: "Old Man, I'm in my thirties now. If I live to be seventy years old, I'll work for another 30 years, but I will retire one day. This Datong will be handed over to newcomers sooner or later. In one's life, it seems that there is a lot of time, but the time to do things is too short, and there are too few things that people can do in this life."

"I tried my best to do what I could, but what I couldn't do, I could only place my hope on the next generation. Isn't that how people are, they pass on from generation to generation, and each generation inherits the hopes and aspirations of the next generation. Slowly, step by step, we move towards the future."

"Old man, don't worry about what the future will look like. Our generation of Datong Party members may not be young in the future, and the blood in their hearts will not be as hot as it is now, but there will always be young Datong Party members, and there will always be passionate Datong Party members. They are the future."

As he said that, Zhang Haogu got up slowly: "How long can I hold on? Such a big country, so many people, and so many things, even if I have thousands of hands and eyes, I can't handle it."

"These still depend on the system, the law, and self-examination"

The chat with the old farmer made Zhang Haogu feel a lot of emotion.

Especially regarding the direction and future of the Datong Party in the future, Zhang Haogu clearly realized that even within the Datong Party, the ideology of many people has not been completely transformed, and many people have not grasped the meaning of the spirit of the central meeting.

This is not possible. If the Datong Party wants to truly exist for a long time, and if it wants to pass on the Datong Party’s ideology of Datong in the world unchanged, there are still many roads that Datong needs to take.

After leaving the farm, Zhang Haogu looked at a young man beside him with a friendly smile: "You are doing a good job here, which is worthy of recognition."

This young man is the person in charge of the farm, responsible for leading the construction of the people, and at the same time developing the economy and commerce of the farm. It can be said that the development of a farm is good or bad, and the person in charge of the farm plays a key role.

Now the entire north, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Zhili, Shaanxi, Gansu, including Liaoning, Jilin, Heihe in the northeast, and Monan and Mobei are all managed according to the latest land management law of Datong.

According to the Law of Datong and the Datong Land Management Law, all land, whether it is cultivated land, or resources such as forest land, grassland, mountains, forests and rivers, is owned by Datong, that is, it is state-owned; and on this basis, the state subdivides resources such as cultivated land, grassland, and forest land into various farms, pastures, and forest farms, and then the farms, pastures, and forest farms are contracted to households.

Finally, each farm household has its own arable land, and the herders on the ranch have their own pastures, cattle and sheep. On the one hand, it stimulates the enthusiasm of the people for production. After all, working for themselves is different from working for the public. At the same time, this contracting system also ensures that all resources are produced and operated under the state-owned system.

State-owned is the current national policy of Datong.

In today's big environment, this once-in-500-year period of great change, it is necessary to concentrate resources and strength for development, so as to ensure that Datong will continue to move forward and lead the people to the future.

However, Datong also has a reward system, including rewards for talents in various fields such as military exploits and scientific research, and grants resource rewards and honor rewards including treasure banknotes, houses, and farmland.

Datong, a brand-new country standing in the Central Plains, is showing its vigorous development to the world.

Under the call of the center, the common people actively carry out production, people work enthusiastically, workers work overtime in the factory, farmers take care of the fields while repairing roads and dams and rivers, researchers are studying science day and night, and soldiers are constantly training.

In the past three years, the drought has not dealt a heavy blow to Datong, let alone sluggish the new country. On the contrary, under the heavy pressure, Datong has become more and more united, and its cohesion is unimaginably high.

For example, in the Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, it was difficult for them to imagine that the second- and third-rank officials of a dynasty personally took the lead in farming and digging ditches, and it was even more difficult to imagine that when encountering danger and suffering, it was not the mud legs who rushed to the front to block the danger for the officials. Instead, the officials rushed to the front.

Today, Datong's industry has recovered to a certain extent. Based on the original foundation, Datong has successively established four industrial zones in Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi, and then established a fifth industrial zone in Shaanxi, and connected the various industrial zones through repaired straight roads and accelerated repairs.

Thanks to the development of industry, the military also carried out a wave of refitting. The original spears, swords and shields in the towns were replaced by muskets, and various types of light and heavy firearms that were in short supply were gradually replenished.

Take the navy as an example. Originally, the Datong military inherited the essence of the Beiyang, Dongyang, and Western navy. During these three years, Datong successively repaired some warships. At the same time, the eight iron-clad ships lying in the port of Dalian were finally able to move.

This good news made the Datong military very happy. These few ironclad ships were cruising around outside, which was better than anything else.

Don't you see that I just sent a fleet consisting of an iron-clad ship and 25 ships of various types to visit the Edo Bay of Dongying, and Dongying, which has become a little restless because of Datong's departure for three years, immediately settled down.

Those daimyos who no longer want to be controlled by the Japanese shogunate took the initiative to send people to pay tribute, and they behaved extremely well-behaved.

Datong is developing well here, while the Nanming court in the south of the Yangtze River is still groping its way in chaos.

It's not that Chongzhen didn't want to work hard to restore the old capital, but that he was powerless at all.

The conflict between southerners and northerners is too great.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the southerners and the northerners have been at odds with each other, not to mention that now the northerners come to the southerner's house to grab food.

But it was also the arrival of these northerners that brought a large number of wealthy people to Jiangnan. These people brought a large amount of gold and silver. Coupled with the fine gold and silver brought by the court when hunting in the south, Jiangnan, which has gathered a large amount of gold and silver, also ushered in prosperity and luxury.

Looking at Jinling, the lights are endless day and night, and the Qinhuai River is full of music and music every night. The whole Yingtian is in a kind of intoxication of singing, dancing, feasting, and seems to completely ignore the Datong in the north.

Ever since they learned that Datong was affected by the drought, the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty had completely relaxed, that is to say, Chongzhen and the northerners still had the idea of ​​returning to the old capital, and they had been smug about training the army.

Chongzhen first reorganized the four Jiangbei towns, and then rebuilt the Jiangnan camp with the support of the people in the north. The rebuilt Jiangnan camp was no longer dominated by guards from all over the country, but recruited soldiers and village bravery.

Chongzhen also understood that those guards were really useless. He knew why Zhu Youxiao wanted to ban the guards. The guards in the coastal areas were all rotten, let alone the inland guards.

That is to say, the border guards are better, and the guards in Northwest and Liaoning are considered to have the style of the guards in Taizu and Chengzu.

Under the auspices of the cabinet Yang Sichang, Wen Tiren, and Shi Fenglai, and under the single-handed promotion of Liu Hongxun, the minister of the Ministry of War, the Jiangnan Camp recruited local soldiers from Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places to form recruits.

This army trained completely according to the training method of the new army. For this training method, Liu Hongxun still rummaged through the box in the Ministry of War to find the drill code of the new army that was crushed under the box by the waste of the Ministry of War.

The 10 recruits train day and night, and they still look decent. At least Chongzhen doesn't feel bad, thinking that with this army, there is no problem in defending Jiangnan.

As for the four towns in Jiangbei, they were completely cannon fodder. They were essentially formed by the fleeing guards and refugees in Jiangbei. The combined size seemed to be 8 to [-], but in fact their combat power was no different from that of Jiangnan's guards.

Today's guards in Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other places are not the guards who experienced war training when they faced the Japanese invasion, let alone the Qi family army trained by Qi Jiguang.

It seems that the development of the Nanming court today is actually not bad, especially in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong. Fujian and Guangdong have trade with overseas countries, with developed industries and commerce, and there is no shortage of funds. Zhejiang is a wealthy area in the Jiangnan area. In addition to Jiangnan, the essence of Nanming is the land of these four provinces.

As for Jiangxi, Yunguichuan, and Huguang, Chongzhen couldn’t control it even if he wanted to. In fact, Nanming today is like autonomous provinces. In name, they all listen to Chongzhen.
That is to say, the northerners need such a signboard, and there is no better choice. In the final analysis, the interests of the gentry and nobles in the southern country are given by Chongzhen.

From the second year of Chongzhen to the seventh year of Chongzhen, the prestige of the court of the Ming Dynasty has been getting lower and lower, and its local ruling power has been negligible. Until now, the three provinces of Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi are still clearly under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

As for Guangdong and Guangxi, the situation in these two provinces is very complicated, and Fujian has almost become the territory of the Zheng family.

The current Nanming is a small imperial court united by various forces. No one can say how much ruling power the imperial court has. Otherwise, Chongzhen would not have worked hard to rebuild the Jiangnan camp. Now he does not trust outsiders very much.

In Yingtian's palace, Chongzhen sat in the imperial study and frowned deeply at Zhezi in front of him. Empress Zhou looked at Chongzhen very worriedly.

Since he became the emperor, from the former letter king Zhu Youjian to the current Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty, the submissive Zhu Youjian has disappeared, but the current Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian is still so self-proclaimed that he is noble and extraordinary.

After experiencing the paleness in the north, Chongzhen's suspicion became more and more serious, and at the same time he seemed not self-willed, but Queen Zhou knew very well that Chongzhen was still the same Chongzhen, still self-willed, suspicious by nature, still impatient when things happened, and easy to act too hastily.
I don't know whether it is right or wrong for him to sit on the throne.

After all, the former Ming Dynasty was so powerful and brilliant. In the hands of the first emperor, Ming Dynasty became a powerful country that served all barbarians.

But in the hands of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was divided internally first, then the national policy was chaotic, and finally it gradually declined until it lost half of the country and retreated to the southern country.
Since ancient times, how many people have been defeated by the south?
Back then, Liu Jinu, who swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, was still trapped in the south?

Isn't there only one Ming Taizu in this world?
"Your Majesty, have some soup." With a faint sigh, Queen Zhou delivered the ginseng soup to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen was taken aback for a moment, then said, "Please trouble the queen."

Looking at the haggard-faced Chongzhen, who is as old as a 50-[-]-year-old at such a young age, without the vigor and vigor of a young man, Empress Zhou couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, if you continue to work so hard, how can you hold on to your body?"

Chongzhen sighed: "If I don't work hard, this Ming Dynasty will perish in my hands."

"I know that I am no more than a middle-aged man, but the more I am like this, the more I have to work hard."

"Da Ming, you can't leave me"

"That thief Zhang Haogu won't give me too much time."