"It's done well. After Hong Chengchou resting, he ordered him to go south and recover the rest of Jiaozhi territory."

On October 19, 2018, when the news from the south came back to the north, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian had already returned to the capital, while Zhu Youjian is playing chess with Zhu Youjian in the Yangxin Hall.

When playing chess, he suddenly received a good news from Hong Chengchou, which naturally made Zhu Youxiao very happy.

After all, Zheng Jian is the strongest in Annan. Now Zheng Jian commits suicide and the entire Zheng family is recovered. Then it is only a matter of time before the Ruan family, Zhan Po and other forces are pacified.

"Brother, too."

After Zhu Youxiao was happy, he also handed the victory report to Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian, who was playing chess, took the victory report and read the war process in the victory report carefully.

Less than half a month after Zheng Jian committed suicide, all four prefectures and thirteen counties in the south were recovered by Mu Qiyuan and Wu Bikui, but the result was a bit cruel.

More than 200,000 strong men who were "involved" with the Zheng family and more than 300,000 male tenants under the Zheng family were convicted and sent to the old port for labor reform.

Despite this, the Red River Delta lost a large amount of labor, the political significance that Zhu Youjian needed was achieved.

Nearly four months before and after the dispatch of troops, it was expected to capture the northern part of Jiaozhi. The next one, Ruan and Champa, will also be completely captured before next spring planting.

From this point of view, there is no need to worry about Annan's affairs, while Zhu Youjian needs to care about the issues of Nanzhang and the issues of immigration to the border.

"How busy are you in the migration of the disaster victims?"

Zhu Youjian used Jiaozhi to call Annan in his words and words. When Zhu Youxiao saw this, he understood his younger brother's thoughts and immediately said:

"The Annan Dutong Department was abolished, the Jiaozhicheng Announcement of the Political Envoy Department was renamed, and the Jiaozhi Province was established. Shenglong Prefecture was renamed Jiaozhou Prefecture and became the Jiaozhi Prefecture."

"Mu Qiyuan inherited the title of Duke of Qian and guarded Jiaozhou from now on. Wu Bikui served as the general of Jiaozhi. Hong Chengchou temporarily led the governor of Jiaozhi, and Jiaozhi was transferred to the control of the Southern Army Governor's Office."

Zhu Youxiao made many appointments in one breath, and Wei Zhongxian, who was in the Yangxin Palace, immediately responded when he saw this.

As for immigration, Lu Wenzhao, who was standing aside, bowed and replied:

"There are 630,000 migrant victims in Shaanxi, and they are traveling south in six batches. At present, the first 130,000 people have arrived in Qinghua County, Jiaozhou Prefecture."

"In addition, the millions of victims in southern Jiangxi of Fujian were divided into two parts, 600,000 were moved to Jiaozhi, and 400,000 were moved to the Palembang government and Nanhai government, and the old Hong Kong government."

"The 600,000 people who have moved Jiaozhi are divided into 12 batches, and it is expected that all of them will be moved within half a year."

"For the people who moved Jiaozhi, Hong Jingluo has distributed land acres according to the court's will, according to the migration standards of twenty acres of land per person."

Lu Wenzhao's reply made Zhu Youxiao frown. He looked at his younger brother and asked:

"Thus, wouldn't the people who moved Jiaozhi to 1.23 million? If there were twenty acres per person, would Jiaozhi have so much arable land to be distributed?"

There are 1.23 million people, 20 acres of each person, and the arable land that needs to be issued is 24.6 million acres.

With so much arable land, Zhu Youxiao found it difficult to believe that Jiaozhi would have so much arable land.

However, Zhu Youjian said: "Yes, even if not, Hong Chengchou will let the local area have it."

This was a bit confusing, but Zhu Youxiao was relieved after hearing this.

As for Zhu Youjian, he had already thought about how to deal with the local area.

If there is insufficient arable land? Then follow the example of Jianlu. Jianlu used more than 300,000 Han people to reclaim hundreds of thousands of arable land, and the Ming Dynasty could also use millions of Annan people to reclaim millions of arable land.

Moreover, compared with Jianlu, the Ming Dynasty had a huge population market. When Jianlu opened up land, wood was cut down. Wood could only be used to build houses and smelter iron, but the Ming Dynasty could be used to build ships and fabricate wood to transport it north to make construction materials.

Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Monan, Jiangnan...

The forest area in these places is far inferior to that of later generations. Transporting Jiaozhi's wood to the north can only make money, but not lose money.

The reason is very simple, because you don't need to pay...

"How many elderly, weak, and children are involved in the Zheng family?" Zhu Youjian asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao responded after hearing this:

"About a million..."

A funny scene happened. Jiaozhi, which had a population of only more than two million, actually had nearly one and a half million thieves.

No one believed this when he said it, but Zhu Youjian didn't need others to believe it.

"Tell Cheng'en to establish two major shipyards in Jiaozhi, two major textile yards, cement yards, and iron yards in the north and south."

"The elderly, weak, women and children need to undergo labor reform for three years, and the wages will be paid at 10 cents per day after three years."

"Your Highness is kind..." Wei Zhongxian saw that there was a flattery to slap, and immediately flattered Zhu Youjian.

"How is the drought?" Zhu Youjian ignored Wei Zhongxian's flattery and asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also said:

"Water wells have been dug in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Although the fields are dry, the drinking water of the people is not a problem."

"The Ministry of Works has recruited 1.2 million civilians from Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places."

"There are 800,000 civil servants who sorted out the Yellow River, widened the post road, and 400,000 civil servants who cared out the official road."

"The daily wage of private workers is 10 cents. Now, including the materials, the daily expenditure is about 20,000 taels of silver."

"Twenty thousand taels?" Hearing this number, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youjian:

"If this continues, can the Ministry of Revenue hold on?"

"If you can't hold on, you have to hold on." Zhu Youjian said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Behind this one million people, six million people, are six million people."

"A ten-month of a day is calculated based on the local grain price, and you can still buy three kilograms of rice."

"Three kilograms of rice cannot support six people, but at least it is also a source of income."

"This is the best way for the imperial court to make this year's work-for-relief. If you want to increase your wages, you can only look at how much tax the wine department can collect."

Does Zhu Youjian want to pay high wages to the victims? Of course he thought, but he had to consider whether anyone would get involved in the scattered numbers, and whether the treasury could operate.

During the Tianxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population was only 50 million, and these 50 million people created 1040 million yuan of alcohol taxes.

The price of wine in the Ming Dynasty was far less than that in the Northern Song Dynasty. For example, after the establishment of the Wine Class, the sweet potato roast was only sold for eight cereals, which was only one-quarter of the price of wine in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The population of the Ming Dynasty should be around 150 million. Zhu Youjian has some basic information, that is, when the wine price is one-quarter of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population is three times that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song Dynasty could pay taxes of 10 million ounces of alcohol, and the Ming Dynasty could earn at least about 7.5 million taels.

As long as the 7.5 million taels of silver can be collected, it will be much easier to pay salaries to all officials, and it will be easier to raise the price of money for disaster victims.

If the alcohol tax is not enough, then the deed tax, mining tax, and commercial tax will be put on the same tax.

Anyway, as long as miscellaneous items are abolished, it will be abusing the gentry, not the people.

If the gentry came up with other means to transfer taxes to the people, Zhu Youjian could also use other means to deal with them.

Of course, the most important thing is to control public opinion so that we can better deal with gentry.

Controlling public opinion is not simple. It is something that can be solved by a newspaper.

To put it bluntly, the ultimate goal of controlling public opinion is education.

When did civil servants control public opinion? Didn’t it start after social and private schools became popular?

Zhu Yuanzhang and why didn’t the civil servants control the world’s speech during the Zhu Di period? The promotion of official schools and the knowledge that students contacted were the most important means to consolidate rule and spread public opinion.

It is better to put people in the official school to study for ten days than to read a thousand newspapers.

Zhu Youjian has been preparing for a major blood change in the official school since the second year of Tianqi, but this speed is not fast.

Yanshan’s third and fourth institutions are the beginning of the subject division, but now after three years, the number of students is no more than 5,000.

Five thousand people, according to the minimum of five subjects of official studies, can at most benefit a thousand official schools, while only a few hundred people in one official school.

It is certainly good to have hundreds of thousands of people receive education on loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but compared with the sociology and ethnic science that Zhu Youjian wants to confront, it has affected much fewer people.

Fortunately, at the current speed, Yanshan's third and fourth schools should be able to exceed the upper limit of 100,000 in a few years. By then, once Zhu Youjian releases people, the students he can influence will be millions of students.

It's right.

"How many students are there in Yanshan University except for the third and fourth schools, and the other six universities with basic education?"

Zhu Youjian took the tribute tea and drank it. Zhu Youxiao looked at Lu Wenzhao curiously. Although Wei Zhongxian didn't look, he also listened with his ears.

The affairs of Yanshan Academy were no longer a secret in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone knew that Zhu Youjian’s powerful means were not the army, but this group of people.

"About 570,000..." As soon as Lu Wenzhao spoke, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help looking at Zhu Youjian.

He wanted to know how his younger brother supported so many students. After all, Zhu Youjian told him that the investment of each Yanshan student was six taels of silver a year.

Five hundred and seventy thousand students means that Yanshan School needs to invest more than three million taels of silver every year.

Zhu Youjian basically did not ask Zhu Youxiao for this money, and the bank account of the Imperial Horse Supervision also left very secretly, and there was no sign of accounting.

It is not surprising that Zhu Youxiao couldn't see it, because since the third year of the Tianqi period, Yanshan Academy was assigned to the official jurisdiction of the Huangdian.

In other words, Yanshan Xuefu is actually spending money on imperial stores, and the large number of imperial stores want to make accounts, so it is very simple to make the books without telling the problem.

Even in the information age, it will take a long time to check a large company, not to mention that it is the seventeenth century.

"The number of students enrolled in every year is around 100,000..." Lu Wenzhao's words made Zhu Youxiao even more unable to sit still.

There are 100,000 people, it can be said that the number of people in the Imperial College of Nanbeicheng is just like that.

This means that Zhu Youjian produces 100,000 clerks every year. At this speed, it only takes ten years to change all the officials and clerks, and there is no need to worry about corruption among others.

Whoever is corrupt will be replaced. It is not too easy to select hundreds or thousands of people from 100,000 to replace a group of officials.

"According to so many students, if there is no one to send in ten years, how can my brother solve their position problem?"
To be continued...