Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 395 Bank Pilot Prologue
"Gu Bingqian, this old dog, really can't look at him with the eyes of ordinary people!"

"Bei Zhili's promotion of official schools, look at His Highness's posture, is planning to make Yanshan No. [-]..."

When Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian were discussing the direction of Ming Dynasty, in a side hall of Wenhua Palace, Shi Fenglai and Feng Quan were holding tea and talking about party and political struggles.

The two sat in the side hall, although they were cursing, their expressions were as calm as water.

Shi Fenglai's concern was the same as Wen Tiren's. He believed that Gu Bingqian and Gu party officials couldn't stand the killing of Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang, and would break out party struggles with King Qi.

However, the facts gave them a resounding slap in the face. They never imagined how much a person who wants to be a dog can be.

Of course, compared to Gu Bingqian, the Gu party officials under his command are even worse.

If Li Banghua, Xie Xuelong and others from Donglin were killed, or Yao Zongwen and Wen Tiren from Zhejiang Party were killed, even if the leader stopped him from confessing, the people below would use the leader to fight King Qi.

Everyone knew that the king of Qi could not let Wu Fu attack the courtiers, so even though they knew they couldn't beat the Qi palace, they still fought to prevent themselves from being the next one to be killed.

But when it comes to Gu Dang's place, it's better, the people above are doggy, and the people below are even more doggy.

Except when the gentry pushes them, they will refute the orders of the Qi Palace, and at other times they are like toads, poking and moving.

However, in the face of people like Zhu Youjian, the facts have also proved that whoever fights against him is often the one who gets killed.

"Zhou Yanru will enter at least six films, so what about Wen Tiren?"

After clearing up his mood, Shi Feng looked at Feng Quan, apparently regarding Feng Quan as the current think tank of the Zhejiang Party.

"It just depends on what His Highness wants to do."

Faced with the questioning, Feng Quan had no choice on the surface, but in fact he had many ways in his heart.

However, if Wen Tiren ascended to the throne, what about Feng Quan?
Everyone wants to ascend to the pavilion, and Feng Quan is no exception.

To help Wen Tiren is to hinder oneself, it is impossible for Feng Quan to do such a thing.

He gave an answer, and in order to interrupt Shi Fenglai from continuing to ask, he changed his tone and discussed the topic of official studies:

"Before this year, there were only more than [-] government schools in the imperial court, and most of them were controlled by local gentry."

"Currently, there are more than 600 government schools in Beizhili alone, and the original 130 and [-] government schools in Beizhili have been merged."

"These teachers are all students who graduated from Yanshan and failed Enke. If they are used to train officials and students, I am afraid that five years later..."

Feng Quan pointed out that a new interest group bigger than Yanshan might emerge in five years' time.

But facing his words, Shi Fenglai said calmly:
"Five years won't make a difference. I've sent people to inquire about it a long time ago. To put it bluntly, these official studies are elementary studies and beginners. Since they are beginners, there should be other official studies to deal with in the future."

"The third and fourth colleges in Yanshan were split into Shuntian and Yingtian colleges before the United Qi Palace. I am afraid that these people will go to Shuntian and Yingtian to study in the future."

"In this way, it will take at least ten years to study, and this time is also in line with the age of recruiting students for this official school."

Shi Fenglai mentioned age and Shuntian and Yingtian schools, but Feng Quan thought about it, and it was the same.

At present, the entry age for government schools is seven to 15 years old, while the ten-year period represents 17 to 25 years old.

This age is about the same age as most of the students who take part in the imperial examination.

In other words, at present, Prince Qi's Mansion is planning for ten years later.

"In that case, you don't have to worry about them." Feng Quan changed his mind and echoed Shi Fenglai, but Shi Fenglai shook his head and said:

"otherwise……"

"This time, the government school in Beizhili mainly recruited rural children, but it also recruited many gentry and honorable children."

"However, the gentry and nobles from all parties wanted to donate gold, silver and rice and wheat, but they were all rejected. In my opinion, King Qi is planning to reduce the gentry's control over the future officials of the court early."

"Why do we get involved with the people below, you know this best."

"King Qi's doing this is tantamount to digging out the roots of the gentry."

"But they can't help it." Feng Quan frowned:
"The example of the Sichuan gentry is the first. Whoever dares to interfere with the affairs of the Qi Palace and the Yumajian will inevitably be killed."

"What's more, nearly 3000 people from Sichuan Jinyiwei, Yumajian, Xichang, and Dongchang were all liquidated by Lu Wenzhao and Li Yongzhen one by one, and more than 6 people were rumored to be assigned to Xiaoxiyang. Who would dare to follow suit in such a tragic situation? ?”

Feng Quan talked about the Sichuan incident, but there was almost no news about this incident.

Lu Wenzhao and Li Yongzhen, one against Yumajian and Jinyiwei, and one against Dongxichang.

All those working in Sichuan were liquidated, involving more than 6 people.

This kind of thing, in the early years, would have been a big case.

However, the Sichuan New Deal and the Northern Zhili Official School New Deal have attracted everyone's attention, and only a few people have noticed what happened in Sichuan.

Feng Quan was one of them, and there were no more than a hundred people who paid attention to this matter above the temple, and officials from Jinyiwei and Yumajian from all over the temple also paid attention to this matter.

This matter made everyone feel insecure, so in this limelight, whoever dares to trip the Qi Palace with the gentry is using his own nine clans as a bargaining chip.

"Government matters are of great importance, and the gentry will not be indifferent. It's just that Beizhili is a place for nobles, and they dare not speak up. Naturally, it is not the gentry's turn to speak."

Shi Fenglai talked about the official school with a little bit of worry, but Feng Quan sneered: "Xungui?"

"A group of people who are scared out of their wits, even the clan can pull out a few talents, and they? Hehe..."

Feng Quan's disdain for the nobles was all written on his face, and although Shi Fenglai saw it, he didn't refute anything.

In their view, Xungui really cannot be supported by mud, and Zhu Youjian had already opened Yanshan Academy for the children of Xungui to study in the second year of Tianqi.

However, in the eight years from the second year of Tianqi to the present, there has not been a single general in the Shuntian honorable ranks, and the highest official position is only a general.

With this kind of ability, waiting for death honestly may be able to bless three generations. If you want to make troubles, I am afraid that if you make troubles in the morning, all the nobles will be cut off in the evening.

It is also because of their inaction that the reform of official schools in Beizhili can be so easy this time.

Shi Fenglai has already foreseen that not only Northern Zhili, but also Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Liaodong and the three overseas provinces, the reform of government schools in these places will be very easy.

The reason is that the powerful gentry and the chieftains in these places have been dealt with by Zhu Youjian one by one in the past ten years.

At present, apart from Henan, Shandong, Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, the capital and seven provinces are still relatively strong, and the rest of the places are already in the hands of Zhu Youjian.

Fortunately, these places accounted for three-fifths of Daming's economy and population, otherwise all officials would have to be regarded as straw dogs by Zhu Youjian.

"The matter of the official school is not good for a head-on confrontation with the Qi Palace. The best way is to integrate with them, just like what Fang Ge said back then."

Shi Fenglai always remembered Fang Congzhe's words, that is, if the Zhejiang Party wants to survive for a long time and turn around, it must be broken up, follow the policies of the imperial court, and at the same time mix sand in the policies.

His words naturally won the approval of Feng Quan, who was pity for his life. The two looked at each other and probably knew what to do.

Therefore, in the next few days, they continued to write letters back to their hometowns, and these letters were undoubtedly a good opportunity for Jin Yiwei, who had a knife hanging on his head, to tighten his knife and express himself.

The first letter was bought and intercepted before it left Beizhili, and the letter was copied and sent to Zhu Youjian.

When the letter came to him, he was taking Li Dingguo and Zhu Ciran to inspect the officialdom in Xishan.

Shuntian Xishan is a branch of Taihang Mountain. It was called "the head of Taihang Mountain" in ancient times, also known as Xiaoqingliang Mountain. arm".

It's just that this time Zhu Youjian brought people here not to observe its magnificence, but to something about the lives of the people of Ming Dynasty.

"Sorry..."

"Wow, this horse is so big!"

When Zhu Ciran's voice sounded, in front of him was a heightened and reinforced wooden fence, and inside the fence was an endless pasture, tall Shire horses and a large herd of excellent mares. .

Although Xishan was used by literati and officials to cool off, there is a relatively old horse farm at the foot of the mountain.

The Xishan Racecourse was established when Xu Da recovered the Sixteen States of Yanyun, and was then managed by the Royal Horse Supervisor.

However, with the continuous victories of the Ming army outside the customs and the establishment of the three Taining mansions, the horse farm and cattle farm of the Yumajian have been relocated to the Daning Mansion and Duoyan Mansion.

There are more than 4000 million mu of grassland, enough for hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses to gallop.

As for the original horse farm in Beizhili, it was allocated to farmers and divided into cultivated land.

Of course, those are ordinary horse farms, and some of the better horse farms have been left behind, and they are used to breed royal horses.

Xishan Racecourse was also used to breed royal horses before, but this situation ended with the arrival of Xu Xiake last year.

The [-] imperial horses from Xishan Racecourse were relocated and replaced by [-] Shire horses and [-] mares, as well as [-] large white pigs and [-] native sows.

One to thirty, this is a reasonable match made by the Yumajian based on the notes left by Xu Xiake.

There are dozens of breeding farms like them, and Zhu Youjian came this time to observe the breeding of these livestock.

Of course, after a brief look, they still need to go south to the Armament Academy.

However, compared to the Military Armament Academy, Zhu Ciran and Li Dingguo are observing horses and pigs respectively.

The two stood behind the fence, one in front of Zhu Youjian and one behind Zhu Youjian, facing two directions.

Zhu Ciran was looking at the tall Sharma, while Li Dingguo was looking at the fat British big white pig.

This seemingly weird scene represented the concerns of both parties.

When Li Dingguo saw the big white pig, he felt that if this kind of pig could be raised on a large scale, the common people would be able to eat cheaper meat.

This is not because of his high foresight, but when the Great White Pig from Great Britain and the native White Pig from Ming Dynasty stand together, the picture is too shocking.

British large white boars are five feet five in length, four feet six in chest girth, more than three feet in height, and weigh more than five hundred catties.

Looking at the big white pig from Ming Dynasty next to it, not to mention its body length and bust, its weight of only [-] to [-] kg makes it only half the size of a big white pig.

Once such large large white pigs are successfully bred and promoted in an all-round way, the problem of people eating meat will be alleviated.

Of course, what is more important is that this large white pig can be bred once every three days on average, and it takes less than four months from pregnancy to delivery. After six months of birth, the weight can reach 180 catties, and after ten months it can reach [-] kg Thirty or forty catties.

This growth rate is faster than that of Daming native pigs, the upper limit is also higher, and the reproduction speed is also faster.

For example, right now, Wang Chengen is praising the big white pig to Zhu Youjian.

"Your Highness, this big white pig entered the pen in April last year, and in September it will breed a second generation of little white pigs."

"This little white pig doesn't grow as fast as the big white pig, but it's not much worse."

"According to the estimates of the official pig makers, the little white pig can be fattened to about 400 catties a year, and it can be fattened to more than [-] catties in two years."

As Wang Chengen spoke, his face also showed a sense of pride. Looking at the hundreds of pigs, a sense of heroism suddenly rose in his heart.

"How many second-generation little white pigs are there?"

Zhu Youjian didn't have Wang Chengen's heroic feeling in his eyes, he only cared about the breeding and promotion of pig breeds.

"This kind of pig is easy to get sick. The Xishan Racecourse only bred more than 300 pigs, and all of them were sent to other official farms for breeding. The second generation has also begun to breed the third generation."

"Currently, there are more than 7000 second-generation white pigs in the officialdom of Shuntian Prefecture."

Zhu Youjian nodded slightly at Wang Chengen's words, and it turned out that his memory was correct.

It only takes a few hundred breeding pigs, tens of thousands of breeding sows, and a few more years to breed tens of millions of small white pigs.

As long as the officialdom promotes it in an all-round way, and then let the common people follow suit, it will only take about ten years for the full-scale promotion.

There are currently nearly [-] small white pigs, even if only [-]% of the breeding pigs, but these [-] pigs, it only takes more than half a year to reproduce hundreds of small white pigs.

Of course, the premise of this calculation method is that the sows and feed must keep up.

So Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Chengen: "Can the sows and feed in the officialdom keep up?"

"Keep up!" Wang Chengen nodded: "Currently, the officialdom is spread all over the north, southwest, and overseas, with a total of more than 900 million pigs."

"In addition, the wine department sends more than 700 million catties of fermented glutinous rice to feed factories every month. There are 900 feed farms in the country, and they can produce [-] million stones of feed every month, which is just enough to feed them."

Wang Chengen expected the output and quantity of the feed farm, but Zhu Youjian frowned after listening:

"How many laborers are employed in the feed yard at the present time?"

"There are 300 to 400 people in one place, with a total of more than 72 employees." Wang Chengen bowed and said:
"Under the severe drought, the price of hired labor is cheap, each person is [-] Wen per day. According to your Highness, you can work for four hours a day."

"The feed in this feed farm satisfies the officialdom, and at the same time, it can sell more than 2000 million shi of feed to the common people every year."

"Can the feed farm expand or increase the number?" Zhu Youjian is not satisfied with the number of workers employed in the feed farm, because hiring workers is to solve employment and ease land acquisition.

"This..." Wang Chengen paused, embarrassed:
"Your Highness, this is not bad. The total grain output of Guochao is less than 17 billion shi, and at most it can produce more than 6 million bran."

"The feed farm accounts for [-]% of the market, and the price of bran has already increased by [-]%. If the feed farm expands production, the common people..."

Wang Cheng'en didn't go on, but the reason was very simple. After all, there was not enough food. In order to feed the huge number of poultry and livestock in the official farm, the feed farm had to buy more bran.

Bran is the feed for livestock and poultry on weekdays, and if it is taken away by the feed field, the common people cannot afford to raise livestock and poultry.

It is impossible to make more farmers suffer in order to increase the number of jobs in feed farms.

Unless the imperial court can solve the problem of bran production under the total amount of grain, it is best not to act rashly.

"Increase the production of fermented glutinous rice in the winery, and the wine can be produced in various vassal states and vassal states..."

After listening to Zhu Youjian, he also knew that the bran could not be touched, so he told Wang Chengen to use fermented glutinous rice instead of wheat bran.

After explaining, he looked at Sharma and asked, "How is the breeding of this big draft horse?"

"It's a bit difficult. This horse is too big, and many horses are difficult to give birth." Wang Chengen shook his head, and then reported:
"At the end of this month, the second generation of horses was born. At present, more than 1 horses are pregnant, but I don't know if they can give birth to [-] horses smoothly."

"A horse is no better than a pig. It is eleven months pregnant, and it takes three years for the first mating."

"According to the words of the horse craftsmen, it will take at least four generations and 12 years to breed more than 300 million large draft horses, and the large draft horses after the fourth generation may not be as big as the current ones."

Wang Chengen wanted to say more, but Zhu Youjian interrupted him:
"Don't worry about it. Cultivation is all about cultivating as much as you have. There are not enough pastures outside the pass, so you can cultivate in Nanzhou."

The native horses of the Ming Dynasty can only cultivate one or two acres of land a day, while the Sharma can cultivate three acres of land a day.

With 300 million Sharmas, Daming's 7000 million mu of arable land can be cultivated in three months.

Of course, the busy farming time is not that long, but Daming can also continue to train Sharma.

It will not be a problem to spend decades to cultivate tens of millions of draft horses with the vast Nanzhou.

Of course, if Daming can further produce tractors, then there is no need to train Sharma.

It's just that technology is not something that can be made just by thinking about it. It needs time and inspiration. This inspiration can take days, months, or years.

In short, before it was invented, Daming could not stop the cultivation of large draft horses.

"Take care of yourself..." Zhu Youjian didn't comment too much, but turned around and left.

Seeing Zhu Youjian leaving, Zhu Ciran and Li Dingguo followed immediately, while Wang Chengen looked at these two and couldn't help shaking his head.

From his point of view, Li Dingguo is fine, but Zhu Ciran is really not up to the task.

He also heard that His Royal Highness asked the emperor to send the three princes to study in official schools.

However, from the twelfth lunar month to the present, the emperor did not make a decision for one and a half months, and the registration period was also closed.

From this point of view, it is obviously impossible for the three princes to go to official schools.

Although Wang Chengen also thought that it was inappropriate for the prince to study in a government school, he always felt that His Royal Highness's words were right.

Maybe Zhu Youxiao will regret it in the future if the prince is not allowed to study in a government school.

"Cheng En, how many employees does the Imperial Horse Supervisor have now?"

Zhu Youjian walked in front and suddenly asked, but Wang Chengen immediately replied after hearing the words:
"72 in the feed yard, 33 in the imperial store, 32 in the official field, and 39 in the shipyard, totaling more than 170 million people."

"Where's the imperial court?" Zhu Youjian didn't stop, walked towards the gate of the racecourse, and kept asking.

"The imperial court..." Wang Chengen didn't answer directly, but thought about it for a while, and then said:

"There are more than 3 people in the Municipal Shipping Department, 37 in the Inspection Department, 35 in the Military and Horse Department, and 62 in the Yamen..."

"There are 27 people in the four divisions of Salt, Liquor and Tea Mine, 6 in the Department of Law, and 12 in the Department of Finance. If the total number is 3505 million."

"350 five..." Zhu Youjian murmured, and at the same time walked to the gate of the racecourse.

The Xiaoqiwei and Jinyiwei at the door were already ready, and Zhu Youjian and the others took off their shoes before getting into the carriage, waited for the one-foot-long and wide carriage, and sat back in the main seat, before Zhu Youjian said:

"Counting the five military governors' mansions and hundreds of officials, as well as the hired workers in various places, it's almost 700 million, right?"

"Return to Your Highness, it's like this..." Wang Chengen sat in his seat and bowed in response.

Zhu Ciran and Li Dingguo were leaning against the window on the left side, whispering, as if they were talking about Sharma and the big white pig.

Comparing these two children who have no troubles, Zhu Youjian feels relieved.

Daming currently has a paper household registration of 4000 million, of which 500 million are local natives from Yingzhou, Jiaozhi, and Jiugang.

Even counting them, those directly employed by the imperial court accounted for one-twentieth of the Ming's population.

This one-twentieth of the population is followed by a family, so in reality, the imperial court controls a quarter of the population.

It seems that there is not much resistance to checking the household registration and land acres in the world.

It's just that when it's time to investigate, I'm afraid many resistances will arise.

Zhang Juzheng spent ten years, and later generations spent 13 years. If Zhu Youjian wanted to investigate, he had to make complete preparations and then investigate.

Things in Xiaoyangyang must be stabilized, and the army must be withdrawn, and the Northeast must also be resolved. The same is true for Southwest Dongyu and Burma, as well as Uzang on the plateau.

To pacify the Quartet, withdraw more than 80% of the troops, and use nearly [-] troops, millions of soldiers and inspectors, and more than [-] officials to come to Lei Ting to investigate.

More than 200 million people came out to investigate a large group of 4000 million people, and each province deployed nearly 10 people.

Zhu Youjian didn't believe that the gentry could play tricks with him under such force.

The only thing he needs to pay attention to is the corruption of Yanshan officials. In three years, the corrupt officials in Yanshan must be cleaned up as much as possible, and then the population and cultivated land will be censused.

Although the banks of the Finance Department cannot be promoted in one go, it is not impossible to start from the North Zhili and the North.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Wang Chengen:
"Let's go to the Military Armament Academy, and send someone to tell Li Changgeng that the Department of Finance will be activated after the official school starts, and it will be implemented in Beizhili for the time being."

"The servants take orders..."

Wang Chengen complied obediently, and Zhu Ciran, who was also in the carriage, immediately lit up when he heard the Military Armament Academy. His strange eyes seemed to be thinking of something interesting...

(End of this chapter)