No matter how embarrassing or shameless this judgment is, it doesn't matter at all.

"In fact, compared to Han Lin'er, I am more optimistic about Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han brothers. They are famous all over the world, have hundreds of thousands of powerful troops, and now occupy the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River. As a result, I am afraid that within two years, they will definitely

Become the most powerful force in the world. By then, Han Lin'er and others will be trapped in the impoverished Henan area, and they will not have the military and financial resources to compete with them. By then, the emperor Han Lin'er will be nothing more than a puppet, even if there is no civil strife.

Even if it is abolished, Zhu Yuanzhang can also rely on the land south of the Yangtze River to develop and grow calmly, and have the ability to go north to compete for the world." Kong Kejian said.

"Then who does father plan to let go to Jiangnan?" Kong Xi asked knowledgefully.

"Going to Jiangnan is very important. I actually decided to let you go to Jiangnan in person."

Kong Xixue was shocked again when he heard this.

"Does father want me to go in person?"

Kong Kejian nodded and said, "Yes, these two Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang are definitely not something ordinary people can handle. You are talented and knowledgeable, and it's time to see the world."

"Don't be shy this time when you go to Jiangnan. Bring one hundred thousand taels of silver with you. Let's see if there is any business you can do and bring it back."

Jining Prefecture, where the Kong family is located, is located near the North-South Grand Canal.

As the most important canal commercial port in the interior of Shandong, the large and small warehouses and docks in Jining Prefecture basically have the shadow of the Kong family.

Therefore, the Kong family's financial resources, in addition to being a so-called farming and studying family and exploiting tenant farmers, also have another important channel for making money, which is business.

Kong Xixue also nodded: "The boy obeys the order and will set off immediately to prepare for a trip to Jiangnan."

...

Jiangnan, Jinling.

The original Yamen of the Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces is now Zhu Han’s Pingzhang Yamen of the Jiangnan province.

Since entering Jinling, Zhu Han has not made any large-scale changes to the layout of Jiangnan.

Because he has been observing.

Observe which aspects require drastic improvement, and prepare to concentrate your own financial, human and other resources to make rectifications.

After all, the original strength of brothers Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han only controlled half of Jiangbei Province.

If it's a bit bigger, it's only a dozen counties.

Nowadays, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are located in Fujian, which has strong military support, and the pirates in eastern Zhejiang are entrenched. Most of the territory has surrendered to the Red Scarf Army Zhu Han brothers.

As a result, with a vast population of tens of millions and hundreds of counties, the talent pool in Zhu Han's hands was simply not enough.

Nowadays, the core area of ​​Jinling and Suzhou is barely maintained.

As for other places, we can only focus on sending people to solve important problems.

Liu Bowen and Shi Naian sat on both sides of the hall.

Next to them, there were Hu Weiyong and a group of other clerks.

Liu Bowen opened his mouth and said first, "Your Excellency, we received a messenger from the imperial court yesterday, urging us to prepare grain and fodder to supply the army's needs for the Northern Expedition. I don't know how your Excellency should make a decision."

Since the Red Scarf Army recaptured Bianliang City under the leadership of Liu Futong, the size of the army has greatly expanded, and a large number of scholars and scholars have been recruited as officials of the Song Dynasty court.

As a result, the required consumption of food, grass, military pay, and other supplies increased dramatically.

After several generous rewards, the Bianliang Red Scarf Army exhausted its original reserves and sent people to Jiangnan again and again to ask for Zhu Han's support.

Zhu Han was already very dissatisfied with this.

Zhu Han looked unhappy and said to Liu Bowen: "Send someone to arrange for the envoy to stay in the post house and provide him with good food and drink. As for food, military pay and the like, our Jiangnan did not come from the strong wind. Money and food

They are all collected from the people of Jiangnan, how can we allow them to squander it like this?"

Zhu Han was quite dissatisfied. According to the intelligence coming from Bianliang, since the capture of Bianliang, a large number of Liu Futong's Red Scarf Army generals began to become rapidly corrupted and indulged in pleasure.

There are hundreds of geishas, ​​maikos, and theatrical troupes of all kinds.

Just eating and drinking for these people is a huge expense.

According to the decision of the Great Court Meeting in Yingzhou before the Red Scarf Army's Northern Expedition, the grain, grass, military pay and other materials supported by brothers Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han had already been sent to the main force of the Red Scarf Army.

Now, Liu Futong has sent people to his house one after another to collect grain and grass taxes, which is naturally inconsistent with the previous agreement.

Zhu Han was too lazy to pay attention to him.

He is currently very busy with the affairs of governing the south of the Yangtze River, so he has no time to support people like the Red Scarf Army and spend their time in Bianliang.

Zhu Han did not have time to send envoys for the time being. Since Liu Futong wanted money and food, he should wait first.

He decided to hang out the messenger first.

After a month of preparation, Zhu Han now has three plans for how to solve the governance problems in Jiangnan.

Zhu Han's first blow was to strike the land.

Mainly on the issue of land distribution, there were originally a large number of official lands directly under the jurisdiction of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. These lands originally belonged to various levels of government.

Now that the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties were defeated, all these official fields were taken over by the Red Scarf Army.

Zhu Han naturally started from these official lands. He planned to subcontract these official lands to the common people and refugees who came to them in the name of production responsibility system.

In fact, it is also the civilian settlement and military settlement plan implemented in the Dingyuan area of ​​Chuzhou.

The taxes paid by these civilian villages and military villages were based on a fixed amount.

In other words, as long as farmers in Juntun and Mintun work more, they will earn more. No matter how much you harvest, after all, the share you turn over is a certain amount, and the rest is yours.

In this way, the fertile farmland in Jiangnan will play a huge role, and the local people will soon have enough food and clothing, and there will no longer be a large number of refugees.

In addition, he will continue to seize land from local tyrants in Jiangbei. He has sent people to secretly investigate the names of local tyrants and gentry in various prefectures, counties, and counties, and has drawn up black and white account books and dispatched supervisory messengers.

Zhu Han set up inspection offices in various states to check those local tyrants and evil gentry who had committed heinous crimes. Their crimes would be publicly tried, their land would be confiscated and distributed to the poor local people.

In this way, a large amount of fertile land can be obtained in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

It is enough to settle the poor farmers and refugees who have no land, and stabilize the people's livelihood in Jiangnan.

Zhu Han's second attack was on industry and commerce.

This decision was far beyond the expectations of Shi Naian, Liu Bowen, Hu Weiyong and others.

They knew that Deputy Commander Zhu Han attached great importance to industry and commerce, but they did not expect that he would attach such importance to it.

Zhu Han's generosity in industry and commerce is enough to shock everyone.

He registered all the craftsmen in Jinling, Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou and most of the south of the Yangtze River.

Detailed fish scale books are drawn up for each person's age, household registration, craftsmanship, length of service, etc.

According to the fish scales of these craftsmen, Zhu Han planned to build three important industrial and commercial centers.

The first one is Chuzhou in the north of the Yangtze River. As its hometown, it will serve as a small but sophisticated R&D reserve industrial base.

The other two are Jinling and Suzhou. As newly planned industrial and commercial centers, they are vigorously developing iron smelting, glass, sugar, etc.

"Sir, the heads of the Shen family, Zhou family in Suzhou, Qian family in Hangzhou and other big families have arrived in Jinling and are on standby at any time." Shi Naian said again.

Zhu Han nodded slightly.

These people are the richest wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

There are even many families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. For example, the Qian family in Hangzhou is descended from Qian Liu, King of Wuyue during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. As a powerful family entrenched in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Zhu Han is naturally the

We attach great importance to them, and we need to cooperate with these people first, and then slowly divide and disintegrate them.

Zhu Han said: "First send someone to make arrangements and let them rest in the post house for a day. Tomorrow night I will host a banquet for them in the government office. These are big fat sheep. To make them bleed, they have to be coaxed."

them."

Zhu Han laughed as he spoke.

Shi Naian, Hu Weiyong, Liu Bowen and others also echoed and started laughing.

The large amounts of money, grain, silver, and craftsmen needed for Zhu Han's grand industrial and commercial plan all needed to be obtained from the hands of these wealthy businessmen from aristocratic families.

After all, financial, human and other resources are now concentrated in the hands of these big business families. Only when they are handed over obediently can the advanced technologies in Zhu Han's hands shine.

At this time, Zhu Han turned to look at Hu Weiyong again, and then said to him: "Hu Weiyong, I sent you to invite the head of the Nankong family, why haven't you come yet?"

When the Northern Song Dynasty fell, the Kong family in Qufu split into two branches, the northern and southern clans.

The eldest branch also followed the Southern Song Dynasty court to settle in the south of the Yangtze River, while the other branch stayed in their hometown in Qufu to guard the ancestral tombs and old houses.

From then on, the descendants of Yanshenggong were divided into Nankong and Beikong.

Logically speaking, the orthodox direct line of the eldest son and grandson should be the Confucius family in the south. However, the Confucius family in the south successively declined the canonization of Duke Yansheng in the Yuan Dynasty. From that time on, the title of Duke Yansheng fell to Beikong.

Hu Weiyong hurriedly bowed and said, "Sir, in accordance with your order, I have sent people to Quzhou to invite the Kong family. However, Kong Yuanlang happens to be ill and will not be able to leave for a while. He will have to wait at least ten days and a half.

Only then can I come to Jinling.”

"What? Are you really sick?"

Zhu Han was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

"Is it true that he can't come, or is he pretending that he can't come?"

Zhu Han's third plan was to attack Confucianism and the imperial examination. As the biggest golden brand of Confucianism, the name of the Kong family must be put to good use.
To be continued...