Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 17 The Rise and Fall of the People

"According to the decree of the imperial court, on the first day of February next year, the three villages of Yangliujing, Yangshuwan, and Yangliuhe under the jurisdiction of Dashuying Town and their villagers will move to Erhaiwei, Dali, Yunnan. You and others will inform you to sell off the land, cattle and farm tools in a timely manner. , house.”

"After entering Yunnan, the local government will distribute cattle, farmland and farm tools to you."

On the dirt road of Dashuying Town, a small official sent by Shangyuan County stood on an ox cart and conveyed the imperial decree to the surrounding area.

As soon as his words came out, many people in the crowd turned pale, and Zhu Gaoxu happened to come forward and heard the content.

He originally wanted to ask the clerk, but the clerk didn't give him a chance. After reading it out, he left with the two government officials.

But before leaving, he asked the yamen servant to put a notice from the court on a wooden sign in the straw shed.

Many people saw this and immediately came over, but few could read it.

Zhu Gaoxu motioned to Yang Zhan, who stepped forward and read out the above content after seeing this. The details were similar to what the clerk had just announced, except that the clerk's words were more direct and in vernacular, while the notice was more formal.

"My God!"

Yang Zhan just finished reading the content here. Some people who could not withstand the blow knelt on the ground and started wailing. The people next to them also looked at them with pity.

"The people in these three villages are in bad luck. If they go to a ghost place like Yunnan, I don't know if they can survive until the end of next year."

The man who had chatted with Zhu Gaoxu the previous time looked at the crying villagers in the three villages with pity, while Zhu Gaoxu had a complicated expression.

He was very clear about the significance of Yunnan to the Ming Dynasty and later generations. Not to mention that if Yunnan was unstable, the southwest would be unstable, and if the southwest was unstable, Huguang and the northwest would be unstable.

The copper, silver and gold mines in Yunnan alone can solve many of the current problems of the Ming Dynasty.

However, these things are matters at the national level.

For these ordinary people living in Nanjing, they have finally lived a good life for more than [-] years. However, now that the court has issued a document, they have to relocate their entire village.

Now it is not the time for future generations to move from Nanjing to Yunnan. If the treatment given by the court is better, you can still take a boat, but if it is not good, you can only walk.

After walking on more than 2000 kilometers of road, the people of the three villages had to face the situation of losing their families and losing their wives and children.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the people in the three villages who were wailing and even fainted from crying. He didn't know what to say, so he could only turn around and leave the place.

When Yang Zhan saw him leaving, he quickly left with him carrying the food basket.

Many people in the market rushed towards them, while those behind them left anxiously.

The Dashuying Market, which was bustling with activity a quarter of an hour ago, is now sparsely crowded and deserted.

Many foot traders and merchants on both sides of the street are also having a hard time. There are at least 2000 people living in the three villages.

Without these more than 2000 people, their income will probably drop a lot, and it will take years or more than a decade to recover from such a drop.

Therefore, many businesses with overlapping categories are also anxiously discussing future business issues.

Looking at the situation created by a piece of paper, Zhu Gaoxu was speechless all the way. It wasn't until he walked out of the town entrance, received the donkey cart from the soldiers guarding the town entrance, and set foot on the road back to the cathedral that Zhu Gaoxu became a little more energetic.

Yang Zhan, who was driving the car, looked at Zhu Gaoxu's appearance and couldn't help but comfort him:
"Don't worry, Your Highness. I heard Wang Xuan say that Dali is a good place. It was even better than Kunming before."

"If the villagers of these three villages can arrive, their lives will not be much worse than in the capital."

Yang Zhan's comfort sounded like nothing to Zhu Gaoxu. From Nanjing to Yunnan, how could life not get worse?
But what Yang Zhan said is indeed correct. After all, this is a farming society. If the court can fulfill its promise of distributing fields, cattle, and farm tools, then the lives of the people in the three villages will at least have the most basic guarantee.However, this feeling of not choosing his own destiny is suffocating for Zhu Gaoxu, even as a bystander.

"If I had not traveled through time to Zhu Gaoxu, but to the people of the three villages, I am afraid that now I would have no choice but to bow my head and obey the government's arrangements."

"Even if I am Zhu Gaoxu, what ability do I have to resist Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yuanzhang?" Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but daydream.

Ever since he traveled through time, he seemed to have a sense of urgency in his heart.

This sense of urgency urges him to make progress, or in other words, urges him to make progress.

If his performance is not as good as that of Zhu Gaoxu in history, the end of Yan Fan will not be much better than that of Wu Fan who was eliminated in history.

The current life will be gone forever, and even life will be difficult to save.

Every time he thought of this, Zhu Gaoxu could only force himself to study the art of war and constantly understand this era.

"Your Highness, here we are."

"Huh?" Yang Zhan's voice brought Zhu Gaoxu back to reality. He looked up and saw his small courtyard.

After clearing his thoughts, Zhu Gaoxu jumped off the donkey cart and opened the backyard door, then watched Yang Zhan drive the cart in.

Wang Xuan, who was in the courtyard, heard the noise and rushed to the backyard without stopping to help get out of the car.

As for Zhu Gaoxu, he closed the backyard door, bolted the door and walked towards the front yard. Wang Xuan and Wang Xuan also took it for granted.

In just a few breaths, Zhu Gaoxu came to the study. Compared with half a month ago, there was an extra sand table next to the desk.

The sand table is more than five feet long and wide, and the interior layout is very simple.

Zhu Gaoxu made a simple Ming Dynasty sand table by using stones to make mountains and rivers, sand to make plains, turf to make woods, and river sand to make rivers.

Because the sand table was too small, Zhu Gaoxu could only use bamboo strips with the name of the mansion written on them as the city.

More than two hundred states and prefectures are all on the sand table, and the situation of the Ming Dynasty can be seen at a glance.

In addition, one-third of the area to the north of the sand table is left as Mobei, where Beiyuan is entrenched.

It is worth mentioning that between the Ming Dynasty and the Beiyuan Dynasty, there were only small sections of earthen dams serving as the Great Wall in some places, and there was no Great Wall in most places.

As for the reason, the main reason is that the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties did not majorly repair the Great Wall. After Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded Zhengtong, he only built small sections of the Great Wall in some important areas.

The current Great Wall of Ming Dynasty is not even as large as the Great Wall of Yanzhao during the Warring States Period.

However, this can also illustrate Zhu Yuanzhang's confidence in his military arrangements.

Zhu Gaoxu knew clearly that if he wanted to show off to Lao Zhu, he had to understand Zhu Yuanzhang's military arrangements and explain his reasoning.

Therefore, it is particularly important to study Lao Zhu's military arrangements and then find solutions to please him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but squinted his eyes and kept scanning the sand table:
"So... where to start?"

(End of this chapter)