Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 50: All Han Chinese speak nonsense

"Have you seen it before? How about it?"

In the Wuying Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting in the hall, and Zhu Yunwen was sitting on one side. The close military attaché was half-kneeling in the hall to report the news to Zhu Yuanzhang.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang leaned forward, obviously very concerned about what the military attaché said.

When asked, the military attaché truthfully reported:
"Ying Guogong met with His Highness the Second Highness of the Yan Mansion and asked him to use a hundred-jin gun. Then he gave some instructions and asked Shouchun's consort to take the collection of books to the back room in the front yard for His Highness to read."

"Okay!" After hearing the military attache's words, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and walked back and forth happily, with the smile on his face unable to stop at all.

His appearance was seen by Zhu Yunwen on the side, and he unconsciously clenched the brush in his hand tightly.

"Tell that boy to study hard from me. If he doesn't learn well, let him give Chi Huan back and go to the Imperial College to study for another three years!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was excited for a while, but his long years of experience quickly calmed him down. He pointed at the military attache and greeted him. The military attache responded quickly, then stood up and exited the hall.

Seeing the military attache leaving, Zhu Yuanzhang sat down happily, unable to hide the smile on his face.

It wasn't until he caught a glimpse of Zhu Yunwen clenching the brush that he retracted his smile, turned to Zhu Yunwen and ordered:

"If your brother learns his skills in the future and asks him to accompany King Yan to guard the north, it will save you a lot of trouble."

"Haha... what Grandpa Huang said is true. My grandson understands it." Zhu Yunwen reacted and immediately relaxed his grip on his hand. He responded with a smile while not forgetting to pretend to be worried:
"It's just that I haven't paid much attention to him recently. I don't know if it will make him feel uncomfortable."

"He collected the horses in the palace and knew what to do." Zhu Yuanzhang appeased Zhu Yunwen with a few words, and then continued to lower his head and deal with the memorial.

There have been a lot of state affairs recently, especially the resistance in the south of the Yangtze River.

Baochao is an important part of Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, so he must fully promote Baochao.

"Are the people below ready? This time, we need to prepare enough treasure banknotes to distribute to the officials, so that the people can accept the treasure banknotes."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Yunwen, and Zhu Yunwen responded with a confident bow:
"Grandpa Huang, don't worry. The Imperial College has released 1 students to prepare for this matter, and another [-] people can be released in August."

"Well..." After hearing Zhu Yunwen's words, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction, but made other arrangements:
"Keep those ten thousand students in August, I will be of use."

During the conversation, Zhu Yuanzhang handed a memorial to the eunuch next to him, who passed it to Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Yunwen briefly read it and found that it was a memorial submitted by the Ministry of Industry, which mainly talked about the lack of water conservancy facilities across the country.

As he was flipping through the pages, Zhu Yuanzhang also leaned on his chair and talked about his experiences and opinions:
"Farming is the source of food and clothing for the people, and it is also what enables them to live and work in peace and contentment."

"The former Yuan Dynasty governed the world with lenience, allowing local officials to prey on the common people."

“These officials only know how to collect taxes but don’t know how to help farmers. They only want to exploit the seedlings and encourage them to grow, and they exploit the people’s bones and marrow.”

"After I took over the world, I was always worried about farming, and [-]% of farming is about water conservancy."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed:
"I was born in Fengyang. Fengyang has been flooded since the Yellow River changed its course during the Song Dynasty and diverted the Huai River into the sea."

"If it behaves well, I can still have something to eat from the fields."

"If it spreads even slightly, Fengyang and Huaibei areas will have no harvest, and many families will have to feed their children."

Zhu Yuanzhang revealed the tragedy of the Huaihe River during the Yuan Dynasty, and taught Zhu Yunwen earnestly: "Many people in the world have suffered from drought and floods due to flooding of rivers. You must be prepared in the future and must pay attention to it every day."

"Even if you pay attention, you still have to see if the officials below are lying to you."

"In previous years, I ordered the chief envoys below to repair water conservancy in local areas, but some of the chief envoys violated the regulations, causing harm to the people and concealing the court's money and food. This is particularly hateful!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's tone seemed to be venting, and finally he slapped the table. While Zhu Yunwen and others were frightened, he also waved his hand:
"If those students have finished their studies, wait for me to teach them personally so that they will not be deceived by the officials after they go down!" Zhu Yuanzhang was very domineering, but Zhu Yunwen's mind was not on this, so he bowed in return and responded hastily. Next: "Yes... my grandson will remember this."

"Yes!" Zhu Yuanzhang watched Zhu Yunwen agree and sat back in his seat with satisfaction, but he didn't want Zhu Yunwen's thoughts to be on Zhu Gaoxu...

"Wonderful! I didn't expect that Northwest and Monan would look like this right now!"

When Zhu Yunwen was thinking about Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaoxu was holding a book that Fu Youde had recorded.

He was sitting in the sitting room, the book in his hand was like a treasure that he couldn't bear to let go of, and his eyes were fixed on the contents.

The reason why this book received his attention is that it is entirely from Fu Youde's perspective, recording the customs and landforms of various places he traveled through.

[Hexi and Hu people live here, and they don’t understand each other, but they see Qilian...]

Looking at the Hexi chapter in his hand, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't bear to move his eyes away.

Since time travel, he has always believed that what makes him better than people of this era is that he has mastered a lot of geographical knowledge. Because he often traveled by car for work in his previous life, he has also traveled to famous places in his motherland, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and other places. Sichuan Dashan, understand most of the geographical situation.

But when he saw Fu Youde's book, he immediately overturned some of his thoughts.

For example, in the land of Hexi, which was called Gansu in later generations, Zhu Gaoxu drove himself all the way. Not only was the road green, but at least he could see many mature trees.

It's just that in Fu Youde's book, Hexi in this era still had many large and small lakes, and the snow in the Qilian Mountains was thicker, so more river water could be released in summer.

However, despite abundant water resources, due to the indiscriminate deforestation of local people, the current greening situation in Hexi is not as good as that of the Mu Us Sandy Land in later generations.

And since the Han people have stopped in Hexi for more than [-] years, there are only hundreds of thousands of Semu and naturalized Fans and Mongolians who were appeased and appeased by the Ming Dynasty in Hexi.

Among these naturalized people, there is a huge lack of talents who are familiar with Chinese.

Even now, most of these naturalized people can only write Persian and read the Koran. The charm of the Han family is gone, and rebellions continue.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang continued to move people to Hexi for so many years, it would not help.

Ten thousand people moved there and 1 fled back. To this day, the Han people do not even account for half of the local population, because Gansu has also absorbed the Mongols who continue to flee south.

With such an ethnic environment, coupled with the Xifan people who continue to attack the border fortresses in Qinghai, the Hexi Corridor can be said to be in danger.

Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang prepared to ennoble Su Wang Zhu Kai to guard the northwest.

In Fu Youde's book, he recorded his conversation with Feng Sheng.

Feng Sheng believed that if he wanted to use Hexi to attack the Beilu in the north, the number of local people must increase to one million. However, attacking the Western Regions would require a larger population to support it.

With the current population, the situation in Hexi is very embarrassing. Staying here will consume supplies. If you don't stay, the range of Beirut nomads will be expanded.

Fu Youde believes that Gansu must be defended. As long as the emperor encourages immigrants and allows Gansu to be self-sufficient, Gansu can be used as a springboard to attack the Western Regions, and then send troops from Daning, Xiyu, and Dongsheng to cut off the northern captives' westward escape, and gradually The activity range of Beilu was compressed to the north of Lingbei.

In Zhu Gaoxu's view, both of them are right, but from a historical perspective, Gansu cannot retain immigrants. Even in the late Ming Dynasty, when the population was 300 to [-] million, Gansu's population would not be higher than [-].

It took more than 270 years for Gansu's population to grow to 300 million, which shows how difficult it is to immigrate here.

However, from the book, Zhu Gaoxu also saw a phenomenon in the Ming army, that is, starting from the first year of Hongwu, military households in the guard station had continuous desertions.

From what he learned from Wang Xuan and his wife, it can be said that the treatment of military households in the early Ming Dynasty was very good. Why were there so many military households who fled south?

Without understanding this problem, Zhu Gaoxu would not be able to return to the north with peace of mind...

(End of this chapter)