Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 674 Fanwai (22) comes on stage

"Starting today, all those over the age of 30 in the army will gradually change jobs within one year."

"Those who change jobs will be given 100 taels of retirement silver, and the local government will arrange work, and they will be transferred to government servants, soldiers and horses and other officials."

"In addition to changing jobs, you can also retire. Those who retire from the Central Plains will get ten acres of land. Those who are born outside the country, or those who are willing to relocate, will have a hundred acres of land. The local government will allocate a tractor."

On the fifth day of July in the 42nd year of Tianqi, the disarmament policy that Zhu Ciran had planned for a long time was officially implemented.

In the Ming army with a total number of more than 72, nearly 7 people were asked to change jobs, and a small number were asked to retire.

Last year, Daming cleared a number of official positions through the Jingcha, so some middle and low-level generals were also arranged to transfer to the local Ministry of Punishment and Military Division.

Maybe it's because the remuneration for changing jobs and retiring is good enough, and there is no mutiny in the army, which is expected by Zhu Ciran.

After all, it is now 42 years since the Apocalypse, and Ming Dynasty has been promoting universal education for more than 20 years. Many soldiers in the army now have received elementary and middle school education.

Maybe they are easy to be instigated, but in the face of real benefits, most of them still choose to retire with silver and land deeds.

The obedience of the soldiers at the bottom made some generals very helpless.

In addition, the navy captain Huang Fei and grandson Zhu Heyin went to sea, and the court had Qi Wulong and Li Dingguo sitting in the north and south, so many generals chose to remain silent.

According to the deployment of the Dudufu of the Five Armies, the large-scale disarmament will start in August in the second half of the 42nd year of Tianqi, adopting the order of the Five Armies first, and then going straight up, and organizing and implementing it from top to bottom.

The focus is on the two capitals of the Western Army and the Northern Army, while the Navy is required to change its organization and reorganize in battalion units.

After five months of streamlining and reorganization, the army of more than 72 was reduced to more than 63, with a total of 26 guards and 160 battalions.

Among them, 26 guards were obtained after Zhu Ciran abolished and merged the Shangzhiying soldiers, adding ten guards to the original sixteen guards.

As the main field force of the Ming Dynasty, the Shangzhi 26 Guards have a total of more than 14 people, which is close to a quarter of the entire army.

The remaining 160 battalions were divided into [-] battalions each by the five armies, and the remaining ten battalions were classified as the ten battalions of the imperial city, and the former three guards of the imperial city were banned.

Although the disarmament and job change this time only reduced Daming's annual military expenditure by more than 120 million taels on paper, in the long run it would free up Daming's economy to develop people's livelihood.

The fact is also true. On the 42th day of the twelfth lunar month in the 25nd year of Tianqi, Zhu Ciran, the crown prince of Jianguo, organized a court meeting at Huangjimen.

In the court meeting, Zhu Ciran took the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" written by Qi Wang Zhu Youjian as a blueprint, added or deleted some economic policies, and renamed it "New Five-Year Plan".

On the first day of February in the 43rd year of Apocalypse, the "New Five-Year Plan" policy was implemented by Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

In this plan, there are three main tasks for Daming in the next seven years.

One is to speed up scientific and technological research on people's livelihood and speed up the construction of economic industrialization.

The second is to stop the penetration of Huangdian into various economic fields, and restore the state-owned and private self-operated economic structure in the 23rd year of Tianqi.

The third is to increase jobs, distribute currency to the people through infrastructure construction, and at the same time strictly control the price of goods, and crack down on corruption inside the Huangdian.

In addition, in the research of people's livelihood technology, the imperial court needs to increase the original annual investment of 180 million taels to 300 million taels, and at the same time reduce the annual military technology research of 320 million taels to 200 million taels.

In terms of economic industrialization, the basic task for the next seven years is to focus on the people's livelihood science and technology research of the Military Armament Academy.

Mainly promote the entry of "invented scientific and technological products" into the people, continuously increase the production of agricultural and industrial consumer goods, and ensure the improvement of the living standards of the people.

Take control of Huangdian, increase the protection of private agriculture, handicrafts, and commerce, and increase state-owned and private-owned employment positions.

These policies began to be promulgated after the supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In order to prevent the local government from distorting the policies, Zhu Ciran also ordered the cabinet ministers Jin Xuan and Yan Yinshao to lead the officials of the three divisions to inspect the localities.

As a result, the mighty New Deal radiated from Beijing to all directions, and some factories that had been prepared for a long time also started construction.

It's just that, compared to Ming's rumbling construction, all countries in the world are dealing with their own problems.

In the past 42 years of the Apocalypse, King Ezhe of Shunning captured Kiev with great force and captured more than [-] Polish soldiers and civilians.

At the same time, Sweden captured Norway, a vassal state of Denmark, allowing Norway to declare independence.

Tsarist Russia and Denmark also retreated steadily on the battlefield, and it was difficult to parry the attack of the Swedish army.

At this time, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I was very concerned about the loss of the Brandon region in the "35 Years' War".

During the past ten years of recuperation, the agriculture and handicraft industries of the Holy Roman Empire have been restored, and the [-] standing army has nowhere to vent.

In order to regain the Brandon area and also to contain Sweden, Leopold I declared war on the Kingdom of Sweden on October 42, [-] Apocalypse.

The [-] troops of the Holy Roman Empire raided the unsuspecting Brandon area, and the [-] Swedish troops stationed there retreated in time to avoid casualties, but the Swedish battlefield south of the Baltic Sea was divided into two.

The entry of the Holy Roman Empire disrupted Alvin's plan, and he sent his minister Herma to Lvov.

Herma arrived in Lviv on the fifth day of winter, when the Holy Roman army had already marched towards Gdansk, and was about to surround Gdansk, an important port city.

Therefore, when Herma met Ezhe, he conveyed King Alvin's thoughts, hoping to make an additional agreement with Shunning King Ezhe, so that after the Mongolian army captured Warsaw, they would go to the Brandon area to repel the Holy Roman Empire army.

When E Zhe learned of Alvin's idea, he did not directly reject this idea, but responded to Herma that the Mongols need to be approved by the Ming Emperor before they can decide whether to join Sweden in the war with the Holy Roman Empire.

Hearing Erzhe's response, Herma reluctantly left Lviv and returned to Stockholm to discuss with Alvin.

At the same time, E Zhe sent envoys to Daming to see the attitude of Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

However, the distance from Lviv to Beijing is tens of thousands of miles, among which they need to reach the river to take the train.

Calculated at the fastest speed, it will take them at least two months to arrive in Beijing. Therefore, during the four-month round trip, Ezhe can safely use troops against Poland.

In the 43rd year of Apocalypse, E Zhe led [-] Mongols to capture Lublin in the southeast of Warsaw. The Polish King Kazimierz assembled [-] soldiers and civilians near Poland, preparing to defend Warsaw to the death.

This year, Northern and Eastern Europe were in chaos, but Southern and Western Europe were not much better.

Spain and the Ottoman Empire confront each other in North Africa, while Portugal concentrates on digesting the Morocco region, and at the same time renews the "Trade Terms" with Qi, Tang, Kyrgyzstan, and Huai.

King Charles II of England is determined to restore Britain to its pre-war economic status. For this reason, he married Catalina, the daughter of King Joao IV of Portugal on the fifth day of September.

This marriage allowed him to get a dowry of 40 Ming Dynasty banknotes, equivalent to one-tenth of Britain's annual fiscal revenue at this time.

Using these banknotes, Charles II repaid the remaining loans from the Ming Dynasty during the Charles I period, and issued a compensation to some widows of soldiers who died in the war.

In the twelfth month of the same year, the main structure of the Palace of Versailles was completed. Louis XIV used the army to remove a large number of nobles from their rights as local governors, thereby weakening the power of the nobles.

When the time entered the 43rd year of the apocalypse, Louis XIV believed that if the king of France wanted to gain supreme power, he must unify the religious beliefs of France.

Therefore, on the 25th of the first month, he overturned the Edict of Nantes, which was tolerant to Protestantism, and after the decree was issued, the Huguenot churches were destroyed and the Protestant schools were closed.

During this movement, most Huguenots were forced to convert to Catholicism.

Different from the turmoil in Europe, the three countries of Mughal, Persia, and Ottoman mainly focused on recuperation.

During their recuperation period, Zhu Heyin, the grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty, visited Shu, Zhou, Fu, Chu and other Lesser Western feudal vassals successively, and met with more than 200 princes and county kings of Indian servants.

During this period, he further signed detailed trade terms with the feudal states, alleviating the dissatisfaction of the feudal states with Daming.

In April of the 43rd year of Tianqi, Zhu Heyin arrived in Yongyi (Muscat), the capital of Yongguo.

Yongyi is located at the gateway from the Persian Gulf to the Little Western Ocean, surrounded by mountains on three sides, bordering the Arabian Sea in the southeast and the Gulf of Oman in the northeast, with beautiful scenery and an important strategic position.

As early as the Han Dynasty, this place had become a relatively prosperous port city, so Zhu Ciyun chose this place as the capital of Yongguo.

However, although Yongguo has a vast territory, because it is located in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula, agriculture can only pump groundwater for farming.

This has also led to the fact that Yongguo's grain production is not high, and it is necessary to purchase grain from various countries.

Coupled with the lack of metal minerals in the territory, when Zhu Heyin came to Yongyi, Zhu Ciyun implicitly proposed the idea of ​​changing the title to another land.

This kind of thinking made Zhu Heyin very embarrassed. Seeing this, Zhu Cizhen had no choice but to write a letter and send it back to the capital, hoping that his father could change his seal.

Since Yongguo was established for a short period of time, nearly [-]% of the country's population is local natives.

The construction of Yongguo also tends to be primitive, not only inferior to the feudal clans of India, but also inferior to the feudal clans of Kunlun Continent.

Therefore, after hastily inspecting several cities, Zhu Heyin embarked on the route to Kunlun Island.

On April 26, Zhu Heyin led the fleet to Hankou (Djibouti), the port city of Ruiguo. Ruiwang Zhu Changhao was old and unable to meet him, so he sent his son Zhu Youliang to meet him.

Zhu Changhao is the younger brother of Zhu Heyin's great-grandfather Zhu Changluo, so Zhu Heyin did not criticize him harshly, but went to Hanzhong (Addis Ababa), the capital of Ruiguo, under the guidance of Zhu Youliang.

Ruiguo is located in the center of the corner of Kunlun, adjacent to the Ottoman Empire in the north, Guiguo in the south, and Tang in the west. However, due to the weak power of the Kunlun vassals, no market towns have been established at the junction so far.

Since Switzerland is rich in mineral resources such as water resources and gold and silver, and is the closest to India, the national strength is developing well.

The country's population is mainly composed of Han people, supplemented by the Yao and Miao people who migrated from the Ming Dynasty. The Han people account for about [-]% of the local population.

As of the end of the twelfth lunar month in the 42nd year of Tianqi, the country's population reached 76, which is considered one of the most populous countries among the Kunlun feudal clans.

Here, Zhu Heyin also has a general understanding of the situation of the Kunlun vassals.

Unlike what Zhu Heyin heard in the capital, the population of the Kunlun vassals was relatively small compared to the territory, and there was no such thing as a strong national power and arrogance of the people as the civil servants said.

Because of this, the Kunlun feudal clans expressed their dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty's policy of restricting population migration.

Due to insufficient population, even though most countries have the strength to go deep into the interior, they cannot go deep because of logistical problems.

With the coastline as the center, the forces of various countries can't penetrate at most about four hundred miles.

This kind of national power limits them, and it is also the reason why many inland migration campaigns failed.

Knowing this situation, Zhu Heyin made a promise to Zhu Youliang, the eldest son of Ruiguo, that after returning to China, he would persuade the country to relax the migration policy.

Once his words were spoken, Zhu Youliang and the whole Ruiguo had a different attitude towards him.

A few days ago, Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui, who was still old and weak, and was bedridden, also appeared in front of Zhu Heyin, eagerly walking with him to the capital Hanzhong, not at all like an old man who is nearly seventy years old.

Not only that, but during the subsequent journey, Zhu Heyin also knew what benefits his words brought him.

On the third day of May, when he was leading the fleet to Hengyang (Mogadishu), the capital of Gui Kingdom, Zhu Youlang, the eldest son of Gui Kingdom, had already led more than a hundred guards to go north by boat, and boarded his ship at sea. .

Next, Zhu Youliang asked the guards to clear the way for him, all the way to Hengyang, the capital of the country.

Hengyang, the capital of Guangxi, has been known as the "land of frankincense and myrrh" since ancient times. It used to be the place with the most frankincense and myrrh production and the longest history.

As early as the end of the Shang Dynasty, Egyptian pharaohs often sent merchants and generals to buy spices here. After that, merchants from Greece and Persia and navigators from the Central Plains came one after another.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, this place was already prosperous and became the busiest ivory and leather trading center in the world at that time.

Of course, there are pros and cons to this background.

The advantage is that the local development will not be too difficult, after all, there is already a foundation, but the disadvantage is that there is a large population here. Although it is mainly composed of Arabs, it still has a huge impact on Gui.

Even though the Gui Kingdom has been established for more than 20 years, when Zhu Heyin came to this city, the faces of the people in the local streets were still dominated by Kunlun slaves and Arabs.

The whole country of Gui has a population of more than 300 million, and Han people account for less than one-sixth, which is enough to explain why Zhu Heyin is so welcome in Gui.

A crown prince who supports immigration is extremely important to the country of Gui. As long as Zhu Heyin can promote a loose immigration policy, then the country of Gui will probably follow his lead in the future.

Zhu Heyin gradually understood the importance of his support for loose immigration. As long as he grasped this point well, the support of the Kunlun Continent would always exist for him.

Secondly, he has gone all the way, and almost all countries have welcomed and supported him extremely.

Supporting him is in itself supporting the eldest son system, and the eldest son system is the greatest guarantee for him to secure his position.

"Woooo-"

The ear-piercing siren sounded again, and by the time Zhu Heyin came back to his senses, it was already May [-]th.

The fleet slowly sailed out of Hengyang Port, looking at Hengyang, the capital of Gui Kingdom, which was getting smaller and smaller behind him, Zhu Heyin was thoughtful.

Standing beside him, an eunuch came forward and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Liu Zhi, you said that the loose immigration policy is good or bad..."

Zhu Heyin asked the eunuch in front of him, eunuch Liu Zhi put away his hands when he heard the words, bowed respectfully and said:
"Your Highness, in the eyes of this maidservant, there must be good and bad loose immigration policies. The key still depends on how the new policies are implemented."

"If the New Deal is done well and the people can live a good life, even if the immigration policy is relaxed, no people will migrate."

Liu Zhi said half of what he said, but Zhu Heyin had already guessed the remaining half.

He turned his head to look at Liu Zhi, and then glanced at Hengyang who was gradually disappearing:
"You mean to loosen the policy and let the people choose for themselves."

"If the court does well, the people will stay. If the court does not do well, don't let the court delay the people?"

"Slaves dare not..." Liu Zhi lowered his head, but Zhu Heyin shook his head and said:
"Why don't you dare... In fact, what you said makes sense."

"I've walked this way, and although I feel that the life of the local people in the various vassals is relatively miserable, the lives of the people of my Han family are still good."

"At least...they can eat meat and wear new clothes every year..."

As they talked, Zhu Heyin's voice gradually became weaker, until it was so small that only he could hear it.

He looked at the waves washed away by the cruiser, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After a few minutes, he suddenly said: "I think of the people of Qi..."

Zhu Heyin thought of the faces of the people of Qi State he saw during those few months in Qi State, which he had never seen along the way.

"I don't know how many years it will take for the people of the state to catch up with the lives of the people of Qi."

Zhu Heyin looked at Liu Zhi, but Liu Zhi didn't dare to respond, which made him a little disappointed.

Even though he is the grandson of the emperor, sometimes he still wants to have a few people to confide in.

When he was in the capital before, there was Zhu Cihuang who could confide in him, but now that Zhu Cihuang has returned to Qi, he himself embarked on the journey to the West, and he doesn't know when we will meet again.

Thinking of this, Zhu Heyin involuntarily raised his head and looked up at the group of seabirds standing on the mast. He suddenly remembered the conversation between his uncle and himself when he was in Qi.

"Bold nephew, how many years have not seen you and the emperor's grandfather..."

"Almost 19 years..."

"So long? Don't you miss each other?"

"I think...just..."

Zhu Youjian's hesitant appearance appeared in Zhu Heyin's mind in the form of memories. At that time, he only felt that the other party had difficulties, but he didn't know how big the difficulties were.

It's just that now I feel it carefully, no matter who the two go to the other side, it will bring instability to their respective countries.

For the sake of their respective countries, no matter how longing they are, they still have to be controlled.

"Royal..." Zhu Heyin sighed:

"It's really difficult..."

(End of this chapter)