Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 69: Harmony between Grandfather and Grandson
In the Wuying Hall, Zhu Gaoxu was only dealing with the first memorial, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked him for his opinion. This made Zhu Yunwen unintentional in dealing with the memorial, so he had to see what they could say.

Facing the inquiry, Zhu Gaoxu blurted out without thinking:
"Ziyang County belongs to the Huaihe River water area, and there are [-] rivers in its territory such as Si River, Gufu River, Baima River, and Nanquan River."

"My grandson thinks that it is just to provide disaster relief and provide people with autumn food, but it is just treating the symptoms but not the root cause."

"If local floods are not completely cured, then the government will have to avoid floods once and provide disaster relief once in the future. If things go on like this, the treasury will be empty."

"Therefore, local officials should be asked to provide work-based relief, and at the same time, the Ministry of Industry should send water workers to thoroughly regulate the rivers in Ziyang County to avoid another local flood outbreak in the future."

Zhu Gaoxu easily came up with a solution to the problem because he knew very well the principle of "giving a man a fish is worse than teaching him to fish."

This kind of view can be expressed by any official, so it cannot impress everyone.

However, that was only said by Qian Chen, not Zhu Gaoxu, who was regarded as a warrior by others.

Therefore, when he said these words, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction, handed the memorial to the eunuch and eunuch next to him, and at the same time said: "Do as this boy said."

"My servant accepts your order..." The eunuch, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, accepted the memorial in return, and then sent someone to write a reply on the spot.

However, Zhu Gaoxu's words were limited to this.

His words, at most, won him the impression of being a talented politician, far inferior to those high-ranking officials in the court.

Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang finished his explanation, he lowered his head again and started processing the memorial. Zhu Yunwen, who was standing next to him, saw that his grandfather didn't say much, and he felt relieved. At the same time, he smiled and praised Zhu Gaoxu:
"Brother Xu has this opinion since he first started governing. Given time, I'm afraid he will be able to manage Beiping City in an orderly manner."

Zhu Yunwen's words sounded like a compliment, but in fact he was saying that Zhu Gaoxu only had the ability to govern a city.

Even if Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he couldn't say anything. He just smiled and bowed in return, as if he had been greatly encouraged.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's actions, Zhu Yunwen lowered his head with satisfaction and continued to deal with the memorial.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also lowered his head and dealt with the remaining fifteen memorials one by one.

He first briefly read through fifteen memorials, the contents of which basically involved the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Ministry of War, and local prefectures and counties.

In summary, it involves military, logistics, local politics and economy.

However, the scope of these matters is not large. Military and logistics are guaranteed to be matters of one thousand households and below, and local affairs are also matters of the government and below.

With this kind of treatment, it is not difficult to see that Lao Zhu is preparing to test out the limits of his current abilities bit by bit.

To be honest, Zhu Gaoxu didn't have much experience in managing people's livelihood in his previous life, but he couldn't resist the fact that he had played so many strategy and chess games.

Although he didn't know how to manage the local people's livelihood, he only had a few things to think about.

After all, ancient times were a society dominated by agriculture. Doing well in agriculture was equivalent to doing well in the local economy.

This is a very simple truth. Only when farmers have money will they spend it.

When there are more wealthy farmers, the consumption power of the place will increase. Once the consumption power increases, businessmen will naturally come here.

However, there are still many problems involved, such as how to transport food, how to preserve it, how to...

In short, there were too many problems, and there was no shortage of food in the early Ming Dynasty. There was even so much food that large-scale infrastructure construction continued in the early Ming Dynasty.

Almost [-]% of all the cities that can be seen in later generations were built during the Ming Dynasty. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu had in his hand a memorial about the completion and construction of local cities.

[Yihai and Xiamen City were completed, Dongguan Nantou Guarding Thousand Households was started, Dongguan Dapeng Guarded Thousand Houses was started, and Duyun City was built. 】

Looking at these memorials, Zhu Gaoxu put down those unrealistic ideas and turned around to study work-for-relief.

However, the only memorial in his hand was the one in Ziyang County that suffered the disaster. The other memorials were basically about ordinary military defense, city construction, etc.

With his previous work experience in mind, he quickly processed all the memorials.

"Grandpa, I'm done." Zhu Gaoxu discovered something. Every time he called Zhu Yuanzhang grandpa, the other party would look good on him, so he shouted tentatively this time.

"Huh?" Sure enough, when he heard the word "grandpa", Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and glanced at Zhu Gaoxu, then waved his hand and motioned to the eunuch to bring over the memorial that Zhu Gaoxu had reviewed.

Only a few steps away, the memorials handled by Zhu Gaoxu were delivered to Zhu Yuanzhang.

He handled government affairs faster than Zhu Gaoxu, so it only took him a quarter of an hour to read through fifteen memorials.

"The writing is good, and the method is pretty average."

With an imperceptible smile in his eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Gaoxu's words with satisfaction, and nodded to the method he proposed, indicating that it was okay.

"From now on, the memorials from the Commander-in-Chief of the Qian... Guards of the Governor's House and those below will be handed over to the second son of the Yan Mansion, Zixu."

Zhu Yuanzhang told the eunuch beside him, and also taught Zhu Gaoxu: "You are pretty good at commanding logistics and responding to preparations, but your government affairs are a little worse."

"You first learn how to arrange logistics and respond to the local military attache's memorials. After a while, you can read and handle the local government memorials."

"Okay" Zhu Gaoxu nodded, and at this moment the eunuch beside Zhu Yunwen also began to select the memorials of the Governor's Palace and the Ministry of War from the pile of memorials on his desk.

Seeing the eunuchs taking away the memorials from his desk, Zhu Yunwen remained calm, as if he didn't care about these preparations and arrangements.

Soon, more than sixty memorials were placed on Zhu Gaoxu's desk, which shows that the military was very busy during the Hongwu period.

With Zhu Yuanzhang's reminder, Zhu Gaoxu became more cautious.

He flipped through a series of memorials, most of which were written by the commanders of the guards. The content was either asking for the distribution of cotton, or asking for a reward of cloth for the winter.

For these memorials, Zhu Gaoxu calculated and distributed them according to the number of people in the guard station reported by the other party.

This may seem boring, but it is necessary.

Zhu Gaoxu calculated them one by one and then approved them, and the memorials he approved would also be read by Zhu Yuanzhang and then approved.

After dealing with more than thirty memorials on logistics and scheduling in this way, Zhu Gaoxu finally ushered in his first memorial related to Beibian.

[Muchun, the Marquis of Xiping, would like to report: Jiashen, I have appointed Jianchang avant-garde. However, the area of ​​the Tiertai Guards is mountainous and forested, and there are few plains. It is difficult to cultivate crops, and the military pay is not provided. So I would like to place guards in Jianchang of the Tiertai Guards. In the coming year, I will be an official. The military can implement it]

Zhu Gaoxu had heard of the name Xiping Marquis Muchun a long time ago, but he didn't expect that Muchun was not only great at fighting, but also so good at managing the army's logistics.

However, for Muchun's memorial, Zhu Gaoxu still used some of the things he had seen in Yunnan in his previous life to reply.

He first suggested that Muchun visit southern Yunnan, western Yunnan and other places, and refer to the local people's terraces to instruct some health stations with difficult terrain to cultivate. Then he explained some diseases and insect pests that are prone to occur in Yunnan and how to protect them.

In addition, Zhu Gaoxu also mentioned the climate of Yunnan and listed practical economic crops such as sugar cane, pepper, walnuts, pinellia, rhizome, eucommia, etc., in order to make the local people wealthy.

Some of these things can be used to squeeze sugar, and some can be dried and transported. They are easy to preserve and are very suitable for Yunnan.

After writing these things, Zhu Gaoxu asked the eunuch to hand the memorial to Zhu Yuanzhang.

During this period, Zhu Gaoxu kept waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to say something about himself. However, he just glanced at the content and nodded with satisfaction:
"Your suggestions are good, but how do you know that Yunnan's climate is suitable for these crops?"

"Wang Xuan told his grandson." Zhu Gaoxu omitted many honorifics, making him and Zhu Yuanzhang more like the grandfather and grandson of an ordinary family.

"Well..." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything more. He just handed the memorial to the eunuch and told him to ask someone at the post station to remind Mu Chun. Apparently, he wanted Mu Chun to take Zhu Gaoxu's suggestions seriously.

After finishing these things, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Gaoxu also bowed their heads to deal with the memorial.

It's just that in Zhu Yunwen's eyes, this behavior of the two of them was something he couldn't get used to.

He glanced at Zhu Gaoxu vaguely, then quickly lowered his head, and the hand holding the pen couldn't help but clenched tighter...

(End of this chapter)