I'm really not doing business

Chapter 479 The Tonghe in Tonghe Palace
Zhang Juzheng's purpose in writing the first volume of "Class Theory" was to explain his policies and gain consensus among the people in the Ming Dynasty for their approval and implementation.

As for the second volume, he did not advocate public printing. It was distributed in large quantities and circulated everywhere. The first volume was completely sufficient for the current Ming Dynasty. The first volume made people aware of the existence of class and its injustice. .

Zhang Juzheng's opposition to the return of farmland was also based on the first volume, but after writing the distribution of the second volume, Zhang Juzheng actually hoped that the return of farmland would be implemented.

With the gradual improvement of the engineering regiment and battalion system, Zhang Juzheng gradually realized that perhaps the return of farmland could really be implemented. Even if it was partially implemented, it could be regarded as accumulating foundation.

Wang Chonggu, who was in charge of this matter, showed his impatience. If it were not for the emperor and the Taifu, Wang Chonggu would immediately launch engineering corps camps across the country to form the Xiang army of the Ming Dynasty and resettle the refugees.

"Wang Cifu, the Ming Dynasty still needs some time, and we have enough time. Currently, more than 80% of Dingkou in the Ming Dynasty are farmers. Although the commercial tax rate has exceeded 50%, 80% of the commercial tax comes from overseas plantations. , the city shipping department draws points, and the government and factory groups are built, not from the countryside. "Zhu Yijun advised Wang Chonggu to calm down, not to cool down himself, but to talk about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun further said: "The Ming Dynasty is still dominated by small-scale peasant economy, with iron plows and oxen plowing, intensive farming, farming and the handicrafts of each household account for 90% of the output, and the rest is the output of manual workshops, which only accounts for 1%. Well, the small-scale peasant economy is based on each household and is fragmented, and any disturbance may cause the small households to disappear. "

"Wang Cifu, what do you think?"

"I've thought about it." Wang Chonggu gradually calmed down and realized that things were not that simple.

The engineering regiment and battalion are not omnipotent, just like the original military garrison. Therefore, experience needs to be summed up in practice.

The third lady said helplessly: "I don't know, and neither does Anda Khan... The grassland has always been like this."

Being superstitious about a certain idea or policy that can solve all problems once and for all is an illusion and naivety.

"Governor Pan really put his own efforts into practice, I admire him." The third lady only admired Pan Jixun. She left the courtiers in the Wenhua Palace of the Ming Dynasty and went to eat sand outside the Great Wall. This kind of behavior looks like a lack of brains. Such stupidity, but Pan Jixun's ability was one of the best even in the Ming Dynasty. He did not avoid the hardships of the dust and personally observed the people's sentiments, which really put Sanniang to shame.

Pan Jixun gained widespread recognition after he skinned and beheaded 1,300 Huma bandits in public.
Sanniangzi, the chief envoy, has always wanted to ask Pan Jixun some questions, but she couldn't find him. Pan Jixun has been away from the city for more than ten days in a row, visiting various tribes. These small tribes are actually very similar to the villages of the Ming Dynasty. In comparison, tribes are more vulnerable. A snow disaster, a severe drought, or a plague will disappear without a trace.

The future is a very luxurious word. Only Ming Dynasty is qualified to consider long-term strategies. On the grassland, the main consideration is whether we can see the sun rise as usual tomorrow.

Pan Jixun had greenery sprouting in the grassland, and returned to the Governor's Mansion in Guihua City in early March. It was called the Governor's Mansion, but it was just a house with two entrances and exits. However, it was also a rare brick building in the entire Guihua City. After the city surrendered, the Yamen was built.

Zhu Yijun watched them leave at Wuying Tower.

Pan Jixun explained his logic in great detail. The complete instability of the natural economy has led to various grassland tribes attacking each other to compete for survival resources. In order to win the competition, overgrazing has become inevitable, whether it is war horses, Weapons, or exchange for Ming goods, all require livestock.

This is true for any government decree. If the step is too big, huge problems will arise.

Sanniangzi, this is a typical survivor bias. Pan Jixun should have been a young Sima. There were only a dozen or so young Sima and above in the Ming Dynasty. If Sanniangzi stayed in the capital for a long time, she would know that most of the bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty were Confucians, and some The words he said during the interview made everyone’s scalp numb.

"The temple is a devil's cave, at least on the grassland." Pan Jixun said with confidence: "If the Ming Dynasty did not have kings transforming the grassland, the result would be male thieves and female prostitutes. You may not be convinced, but it will definitely be the case because the grassland is overgrazed. "

For example, owner-peasants, tenant farmers, and farm laborers, most of whom control a small number of acres or no acres, must rely on the virtuous and gentry in the countryside to obtain acres of land to cultivate in order to survive. Excessive land rents lead to too low labor remuneration, making it impossible for poor coolies to To survive, the rural gentry themselves do not have so many people to farm, and the land being abandoned is also a waste for the rural gentry.

Pan Jixun took back the letter and said: "The scale of livestock is expanding, the grassland is shrinking, and there are more and more deserts and Gobis. Among the border residents of the grassland, three out of ten women suffer from leucorrhea, and seven out of ten men have been horse bandits." , The situation in the grassland is not optimistic. "

For example, the gentlemen in the city hire short-term workers and long-term workers. The wages are a contradiction, but the interdependence between them is a unity.

This contradictory unity, like contradiction, exists widely.

It’s not that Changshengtian was angry because of the grassland people’s betrayal and surrendered to Buddhism, or Zi Buyu’s strange power and chaos, but the substantial degradation of the grassland is related to human production activities.

The disease will definitely spread in the grassland, especially in Tantric temples where people gather. The disease will spread to the entire grassland through these devil's caves.

At present, the six engineering regiment battalions also have their own separate military numbers, which are called Yongzi regiment battalions, namely Zhong, Lie, Yi, Xiang, Xiao, and Ang. The first to third engineering regiment battalions are building Datong Mansion. Chidao to Guihua City.

If the Ming Dynasty is a small-scale peasant economy, then the grassland is a natural economy that is completely dependent on nature. If the God of Immortality refuses to give a gift, it is a natural economy of death, which is extremely fragile. Now there are more beliefs and Buddhism on the grassland, and it is a great joy. Tantric, this may make Changsheng Tian very angry, so the grassland without the gift becomes more and more barren.

Your Majesty is such a magnanimous person, but he is often made dizzy by stupid remarks.

"Are all the officials of the Ming Dynasty so powerful?" Sanniangzi said blankly. Pan Jixun was much better than Wu Dui, Fang Fengshi and the like. Are all the officials of the Ming Dynasty so powerful? Even though they are so powerful, the Ming Dynasty only has two capitals and fourteen provinces?
Pan Jixun shook his head and said, "To be honest, it's not much."

"I asked Mrs. Zhongshun. Mrs. Zhongshun didn't know anything. I could only go and see for myself." Pan Jixun wanted to arrange the work directly, but the third lady asked three questions and didn't know how many people there were in a certain tribe, how many livestock they had, and pastures. Where, and where winter is, I have no idea.

"The lands under the jurisdiction of Guihua Prefecture must complete the confinement as soon as possible. No more free grazing. The main purpose is to raise sheep. The land must be cultivated to grow pasture. Perennial pasture must be planted on the edge of the pasture to divide it. The manure from the confinement must be collected and composted."

This is the end of the grassland, the end that Pan Jixun saw after practicing hard.

The grassland is a feudal system, which is completely different from the county system of the Ming Dynasty. Anda Khan manages only five Wanhu households that come to Bansheng for discussion every year. His understanding of the various tribes under the jurisdiction of Wanhu is not as detailed as that of the Ming Dynasty.

Pan Jixun took off his mask and said with a strange expression: "Mrs. Zhongshun thinks what would have happened to the grassland if the Ming Dynasty had not attacked Bansheng?"

"It is true that the regiment-building method of the engineering corps camp is a more centralized, larger-scale, and more circulatory production method than that of small farmers. This is fatal to small farmers. I have ignored the factory regiment We only see the good side of it and ignore the vulnerability of small farmers," Wang Chonggu said sincerely, realizing the terrible harm of promoting it now.

Pan Jitong was in Guihua City. Unlike what he thought, Guihua City was not the pearl of the grassland outside the Great Wall. On the contrary, it was really simple and dilapidated. The city walls were not masonry walls, but adobe, and the quality of the adobe was very poor. The poor condition resulted in the city wall being filled with pits and pits, and the city wall could only encircle ten miles. The city was not a single square, but a mess with border residents living in it, and there were not even decent streets.

There are a total of 100,000 people in the Jingying Camp. There are three cavalry camps, 12 chariot camps, and 18 foot camps. Each cavalry camp, four chariot camps, and six foot camps constitute a regiment camp. The Jingying Camp has a total of The three regiment camps are Wuzi Tuanying, Yaowu Tuanying, Fenwu Tuanying, and Zhenwu Tuanying, controlled by Qi Jiguang, Li Rusong, and Ma Gui respectively.

The Ming Dynasty's engineering regiments and battalions are destructive and a contradictory unity. They can produce and destroy. On the one hand, Zhang Juzheng is worried about the chaos in the world. On the other hand, it will destroy the current Ming Dynasty with an arrogant attitude. Stable production relations will inevitably cause labor pains. Try to reduce the labor pains to the point where everyone in the Ming Dynasty can bear it. This is what the Ming Dynasty must think about.

The stability of a completely natural economy is far weaker than that of a small-scale peasant economy. The output is insufficient. The main contradiction of the entire grassland is survival.

These three regiments and battalions are organizational names, and the services under their jurisdiction are not always fixed. For example, in actual battles, if Li Rusong is the vanguard, he will be in charge of all the cavalry battalions, while Qi Jiguang's central army is mainly an infantry battalion, responsible for the rear. Most of Ma Guizhou is a car camp, and only the Beijing camp can achieve this kind of flexible adjustment.

At present, the small-scale peasant economy in the Ming Dynasty is still the mainstay. How to gradually change in the continuation is in line with the current economic situation in the Ming Dynasty.

Farmers in the Ming Dynasty accounted for 80% of the total population. The goods produced by the farmers in the households, whose men farmed and women weaved, were not worth mentioning in the face of large-scale collective construction.

Pan Jixun took out a handbook. This handbook is his practical observation. It includes the proportion of human and livestock land, pasture ownership, tribal size, captive management, handicraft sheep shearing and rough processing, markets, loans, and taxes. Wait for the observation, these are observations that grassland carnivores never have.

The concept of a unity of contradictions is not complicated. Such production relations existed extensively in the Ming Dynasty.

Then small farmers and landlords are a contradictory unity that are in conflict over grain rent, interdependent, and closely related.

The engineering regiments and camps set out. There were only three regiments and camps starting from Beida Camp, with only 36,000 people. These three regiments built four Chi Roads, and the remaining three regiments and camps built the Jingyun (Datong) Chi Road. Because the Jingyun Chi Road is the most difficult to construct, has the most complex working conditions, and has the largest altitude difference, it requires three regiments and camps to be divided into three sections for construction.

Sanniangzi shook her head in confusion and said, "I never thought about it. I don't know where my next meal will be after this meal. How can I have time to think about those issues."

Sanniangzi looked at the contents of the notebook. Although it was a bit messy, she could still find the main thread.

Overgrazing further aggravates the instability of the natural economy, because grasslands are slowly disappearing, grasslands are becoming desertified, and grasslands are getting colder and colder, and natural output is reduced. The final result is complete male thieves and female prostitutes, with men robbing to make a living. Most of these women will become prostitutes, and the place where they make a living is the world temple.

Sanniangzi was a little unconvinced. She actually wanted to say that it was not the grassland people’s fault. The Ming Dynasty had imposed an embargo for more than two hundred years, and even an iron pot could not be found in the grasslands. However, iron pots in the Central Plains were extremely expensive, and each mouthful cost one or two seven cents of silver. A big bag of 120 kilograms of wool cost only one tael or seven dollars. The Reconciliation Sect had become the main force in the grassland, and it was not groundless to want to be naturalized in the Ming Dynasty.

A few years ago, your Ming Dynasty was not much better!
But the third lady didn't know how to refute it. What Pan Jixun said was true. The grassland was indeed rotten. She shook her head and said, "Then why should we burn it?"

"Coal." Pan Jixun took out the map of Kanyu and said: "Before this winter, the coal from the Datong Coal Field will be transported to Guihua City for distribution. You must be prepared. I will go to Shengzhou (Ordos) tomorrow to supervise the Shengzhou Coal Field and Chi Road.”

The cycle of the grassland has been destroyed. The excrement of livestock is originally nutrients. Only by cultivating pasture after composting can the cycle be formed. Because the grassland burns cow dung and the compost is insufficient, the cycle is destroyed, and there is no possibility of captive breeding. The people of the grassland are not stupid. The purpose of building cities is to move from a higher-risk natural economy to a small-scale peasant economy, but work like farming requires material support.

Coal is the key.

Without firewood, it is impossible to settle down and live, so migration has become the main theme of the grassland people.

"The conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Lu has made it impossible to mine coal in Datong Prefecture, which is harmful to the Ming Dynasty and the grassland." Pan Jixun looked at Sanniangzi and said, "I hope Mrs. Zhongshun can continue to maintain her own ideas. The Ming Dynasty had the sincerity and ability to conquer the grassland. A stable frontier was of great significance to the Ming Dynasty, and a stable life was what the grassland people longed for. "As early as the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyuan wrote " "Shui Jing Zhu" has already described in detail the mining and utilization of Datong coal mines, and even recorded the magnificent scenery of spontaneous combustion of coal seams. In the Tang Dynasty, coal from Datong Prefecture had been transported to Guanzhong and Luoyang along the Guandaoyi Road. , widely used in smelting iron, casting money, refining sulfur, burning lime, burning bricks, burning ceramics, brewing, pharmaceuticals, refining black vitriol, etc.

However, with the secession of vassal towns in the Tang Dynasty, wars broke out, and the mining and transportation of Datong coal was interrupted by the war. There were no records of large-scale mining of Datong coal in Song, Liao, Jin, and Meng. However, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were lost. 480 years later, Yunzhong The county of Datong finally returned to the hands of the Han people, but the long-term war prevented the full development of coal mining and transportation.

Because Datong Mansion is a war zone.

This is bad news for the Ming Dynasty and the grassland.

"It should be so." Sanniangzi nodded and said. It was her long-cherished wish for the grassland people to live a stable life, and she only had this long-cherished wish. Anda Khan was beheaded, and the children who were adopted under her name were killed together. Now she relies on this long-cherished wish Lasted.

She plans to adopt two more children as an explanation for herself.

"Don't Andahan know about the Shengzhou open-pit coal field? He can't mine the coal in Datong Prefecture, so why not mine the coal in Shengzhou?" Pan Jixun asked the question he wanted to ask.

Sanniangzi shook her head and said: "It's because I don't know, it's not because I don't mine. Prospecting is still too difficult for us prairie people."

Is it because An Dahan doesn’t want to? He doesn't even know how to pick it?
Many things that were taken for granted for the Ming Dynasty were just a fantasy for the grassland people. Look for the dragon to share the gold. Look for the Miao Yin from the topography, veins, hydrology and geography, and then use the Miao Yin to find the big dragon of mineral deposits. Speaking of which, Easy, that is, easy for Ming.

There are no professionals in that field in the grasslands.

Qi Jiguang's direct descendants are miners, and they are all old craftsmen. During the expedition, they will feel that there are big goods in this mountain, but to the grassland people, they are all mountains, and there is no difference between mountains and mountains.

The Songjiang School talks about scale, vertical scale and horizontal scale. Sanniangzi has also heard of it and paid attention to it. After all, as the top meat eater in the grassland, she can still buy dibao and miscellaneous newspapers. For the grassland, prospecting has no scale. Word.

Pan Jixun understood.

"I saw that the gate of Guihua City has no name yet. The gate to the east is called Tonghe Gate." Pan Jixun organized his notes and talked about the name of the gate of Guihua City.

"Tonghemen?" Sanniangzi asked doubtfully.

"The one from Tonghe Palace." Pan Jixun nodded.

Sanniangzi's eyes widened, she was stunned for a moment, and then she squeezed out two words through her teeth: "Fuck!"

In terms of Tonghe Palace's ability to flatter, even if the grassland chases after thousands of years, it may not be the opponent of the Central Plains. This is simply picked up by chance, completely natural, a simple sentence, full of loyalty!

If we want to discuss the vertical and horizontal scale of flattery, it is difficult for the grasslands to be a rival. After all, there have been many, many people in the Central Plains throughout the dynasties, so the more flatterers there are, the more capable they are of flattery.

Pan Jixun began to communicate with the officials of the Ministry of Industry to naturalize Chidao in Datong. This section of the road was not difficult to build. With three engineering regiments and more than 30,000 people, it could be completed in early June. After arranging the major events, Pan Jixun packed up He picked up the things and prepared to go to Shengzhou in Shuofang Prefecture. He planned to go and visit in person.

Pan Jixun traveled from narrow areas to wide areas. While he personally visited and investigated, he also sent commanders and generals to lead soldiers to explore in detail to learn more about Suiyuan's population, education, religion, customs, transportation, farms and pastures. , tenancy, types of agricultural and animal husbandry products, compost, fruits, household handicrafts, agricultural products trading, markets, etc. Only by understanding these contents can we have a comprehensive understanding of the situation in Suiyuan, and then formulate government orders according to local conditions.

This is a very, very tedious job.

Pan Jixun's work was already very troublesome, but Qi Jiguang was actually even more troublesome. During this period, the elite soldiers of the Beijing camp were spread out throughout Suiyuan, and they only did one thing, and that was to suppress bandits. It was really very difficult to suppress bandits. This was not The elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's capital camp were not strong enough, but it was a matter of marching.

For example, when keeping time on a rainy day, there is no sun. Before the Ming Dynasty began to imitate the small Thai clock "Nuremberg Egg" in precision manufacturing, the marching time used the bead counting method, which means counting two strings of beads. Using two strings of beads, counting 6225, that is An hour.

Every ten miles, the trumpet and cannon are raised, and they stand at their feet. Sound the gong and sit and rest for a moment or two.

That is to say, the Ming army had to rest for 25 minutes every time they walked 10 miles. How to count miles? How to count steps? How to count beads? This is applied mathematics.

Planning involves resting, timing involves living and cooking, and the most important thing on the march is setting up camp.

Later, with the invention of the measuring stroller and the large open tube watch invented by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, it became much simpler.

Even one timekeeping is so troublesome, and I am even more worried about others. Military affairs are no less complicated than general affairs, and because it is the most intense conflict, it is even more difficult to resolve.

But these things turned into a few words in the hands of the historians of the Ming Dynasty. Jiguang led the troops in the capital to suppress the bandits, and shocked the grassland.

Qi Jiguang didn't care about this. No matter how busy the military affairs were, it was better than having no battles to fight. There was no need to write down these tedious tasks in the history books. They were all things that should be done. Compared with the tedious military affairs, Qi Jiguang hated the ghosts of people's hearts more. Conflict is meaningless internal friction.

Qi Jiguang, who was in Wuyuan Prefecture, turned a large number of prisoners of war into slave camps and sent them to Shengzhou and Womagang for mining. Li Rusong was commanding the front line of Womagang, and Qi Jiguang chose to completely delegate power.

The process of suppressing the bandits by the elite soldiers of the Jingying camp did not go well in the early stage, and the losses were huge. After the expedition to Hetao was decided, the Ming Dynasty Jingying camp attacked in units of 100 teams and lost more than a hundred sharp soldiers. This loss made Qi Jiguang was very heartbroken, mainly because the environment outside the Great Wall was completely different from that in the hinterland.

The banditry in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty was mainly composed of poor coolies who could not survive, and many of them worked part-time. At the end of the year, the landlords came to collect the debts. If they did not want their children to bear the debt, they had no choice but to turn into bandits with their faces covered. But the grassland The horse bandits here are professional bandits. It can be said that there is no stronghold in the entire Yinshan Mountains, and no stronghold is not covered by bandits. Moreover, they are military bandits. Many of these bandits make a living by looting all year round.

In the early days of the suppression of the bandits, the focus was on appeasement. Soon, the strategy was adjusted to focus on suppression. This allowed the suppression of the bandits to proceed smoothly, but the problem was that more than 20,000 prisoners were taken. These prisoners, Qi Jiguang also There is no waste, they are all new forces in mining.

After nearly half a year of suppressing bandits, Hetao finally regained some peace. Those who resisted to the end were all treated with firecrackers and artillery. In the process, Qi Jiguang gradually discovered that the Tiger Crouching Cannon was extremely easy to use and could be said to be a cure-all for the disease. remove.

The Jiujin artillery is very powerful, but it is installed on a side chariot. The carriage camp cannot travel on the rugged roads and it is difficult to enter the mountains. The Tiger Crouching Artillery, which can be carried by one person, has become a key factor in suppressing bandits. As a sharp weapon, the centurion team has ten squatting cannons. When encountering a mountain stronghold, they line up in a row. After several consecutive bombardments, the gunmen line up and move forward. They kill the enemy very efficiently. The battle usually ends within half an hour. It can be over.

Ma Gui led the Zhenwu regiment and once swept through seventeen villages in one day and captured more than 2,700 people.

"Your Majesty has sent another 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder..." Liang Menglong walked into the big tent. His Majesty the Emperor's gunpowder in the Beijing camp was not enough, so he transferred another 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder from the capital along the Chi Road, of which 50,000 kilograms were handed over. It was given to Wu Baipeng, the governor of Xuanda, and the remaining 100,000 jins have all arrived at Wuyuan Mansion.

"The 200,000 kilograms of gunpowder last winter haven't been used up yet." Qi Jiguang held up his forehead. These 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder cost at least 50,000 silver. If they were transported to the front line, they would be worth at least 55,000 taels of silver. The gunpowder would be replenished accordingly. We all came together. His Majesty really did not treat the front line poorly. He had plenty of food and supplies.

Liang Menglong said with a smile on his face: "The large-scale bandit suppression has come to an end. These 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder should be used to open mountains and mines."

Gunpowder is needed to open mountains and build roads, especially in rugged places. Gunpowder is also needed for mining. Gunpowder has a wide range of uses. There is no possibility that it cannot be used. It can only be said that His Majesty has never been stingy with Jingying.

"Pan Butang went to Shengzhou and did not come to Wuyuan Mansion." Liang Menglong asked in a low voice: "Is Pan Butang deliberately avoiding meeting Qi Shuai?"

"Both of them have received imperial edicts to act expediently. When we meet, who listens to whom? Just don't meet." Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "In this matter of suppressing bandits, he, a scholar, has the kindness of a woman, but it is troublesome. , it’s okay if you don’t come.”

"Pan Butang killed 1,300 prisoners in Guihua City a few days ago." Liang Menglong smacked his lips. This Pan Jixun was really ruthless.

"what?"

Qi Jiguang also just received this news. Is this scholar so murderous? Just after leaving the fortress, there was such a big movement. Who is the warrior?

The five thousand people Qi Jiguang killed in Bansheng were desperadoes who took advantage of the war to rob and rob the grasslands. After that, most of the prisoners were turned into slave camps to mine.

Liang Menglong explained in detail, and Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "I see, then we should kill. If we don't kill, we can't convince the crowd. Then our prisoners can be safely handed over to Pan Butang. If Ci doesn't control the army, if he is Rou If you are a benevolent person, you must beware of the prisoners gathering together and causing chaos."

Beyond the Great Wall is not a hinterland, let alone a safe haven. Rouren here can actually be harmful.

"Bad news came from the capital." Qi Jiguang sighed and handed His Majesty's letter to Liang Menglong.

"I had known this. After all, Pan Butang is one of the very few people." Liang Menglong said with an extremely embarrassed look on his face after reading the letter in his hand.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty issued an order to sign up people with merit and fame to come to Suiyuan to serve as officials. He gave generous treatment and the promise of promotion in three years. Just like when he recruited people with fame and fame to go to Luzon, no one announced the results. .

No one wants to come to such a bitter and cold place. The Beijing camp has been defeated and the bandit suppression has come to an end. Even the military guards on the three sides have begun to move out to Hetao, but there is a lack of civilian officials.

"Cowardly people! I'm ashamed to be associated with them!" Liang Menglong slapped the table and said angrily. The reputation of scholars has been lowered by these stupid pigs.

(End of this chapter)