In order to relieve the pressure on Xiong Tingbi and Hong Chengchou, Zhu Youxiao appointed Chen Qiyu, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as the Minister of Pingfu to go to Liao Dynasty to deal with the homeless people.
It is impossible to move them back to the pass. The people in the pass cannot protect themselves, and the imperial court cannot take care of them at all. Moving them back rashly will only cause chaos.
In order for Chen Qiyu and the others to organize themselves, they must first arrange for the people from Haizhou, Gaizhou and other places to go back. Lao Nu suffered a series of defeats and suffered a serious loss of strength. The situation in Liaodong has been stabilized. Just the defense range.
In the next ten years, Liaodong will be the strategic center of gravity, and the enemies in the Northeast are far more than just a wild boar skin.
I don’t know how many savage tribes there are in the northeast, and there are three powerful Mongolian tribes next to Liaodong, not far from the Horqin tribe, and directly connected to North Korea in the east. These places have been China’s territory since ancient times. Zhu As a time traveler, Youxiao cannot insult the power of Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty.
The so-called Jurchens of the Later Jin Dynasty are a complete joke. The real Jurchens have already disappeared since the fall of the Jin Kingdom. They were either destroyed or became Chinese.
They are just a tribe of savages who migrated south from Siberia. Zhu Youxiao had done special research before traveling through time, and the Jiannu have nothing to do with the Jurchens.
No matter whether it is writing, culture or customs, none of them are correct. Their Manchu is modified from Mongolian, while the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom have their own writing.
Moreover, Huang Taiji himself said that most of the earliest Jianzhouwei tribes were the merger of the Tungus and Huli Gai people, with a very small number of Jurchens with impure blood mixed in.
Wild Boar Skin pretended to be a Jurchen descendant, but in fact it was just to improve his status and gain the confidence to rebel against the Ming Dynasty.
And because of the negligence of the imperial court and the strong support of Li Chengliang, the old slave finally became a leader, and even defeated the Ming army in large and small battles. It really looked a bit like the Jurchens fighting against the Liao Kingdom.
The number of Han people who died tragically at the hands of Jiannu alone has reached hundreds of thousands, and now hundreds of thousands of people have become homeless.
It is a waste of resources to support hundreds of thousands of people like this. Zhu Youxiao should implement the work-for-relief method, make good use of population resources, and organize them to build city defenses in Liaoshen and other cities and fortresses and passes.
In order to better link the two cities of Liaoning and Shenyang and make them more indestructible, Zhu Youxiao decided to imitate Qin Shihuang back then and build a straight road specifically for the use of the army.
This is a huge project. If there were no other ways and choices, Zhu Youxiao really wouldn't want to do such a big thing in this difficult time.
Without excavators and paving equipment, it is really difficult to build a straight highway.
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The Sui Dynasty was so rich and powerful at that time. It actually sent out a million troops to conquer Goguryeo, and it was twice. However, such an extremely prosperous dynasty just built a canal, and almost lost half of its life.
All the things had to be carried on people's shoulders, and when encountering mountains and rivers, they had to dig and fill with hoes and rakes. Fortunately, Ming Dynasty's gunpowder technology was very mature and widely used. With gunpowder,
In the feudal dynasty, there were corvees. When the country wanted to build city roads or other construction projects, these corvees had to unconditionally obey the local government's safety and go out to work. Every family was obliged to do so.
During the corvée period, there was no wages, no welfare guarantees, and even travel expenses had to be prepared by yourself. You only had one meal for one day's work, which may not be enough to eat. When you died of starvation and exhaustion, you were thrown into any pit and buried. .
When the First Emperor built the Qin Straight Road, countless people died of exhaustion and starvation. It is no exaggeration to say that the road was completely paved with bones.
During Zhu Youxiao's last expedition to the north, in addition to visiting the Great Wall of the Jin Kingdom, he also took a look at the Qin Zhidao on the side of the Great Wall. Even after a thousand years, this ancient highway is still the most used by the armies of all dynasties.
The Liao-Shen Straight Road is just a starting point. He wants to connect Guangning, Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan, Jingshi and Jiubian Army Town with straight roads.
There is a saying that goes well: if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Although this sentence is not entirely correct, it still makes sense.
For the current national conditions of the Ming Dynasty, mobilizing people to exchange work for food can solve many troubles and uncertainties.
Natural disasters are coming, and the income from grain production in the northern provinces will become less and less. However, the population of each province is very large. If these people are not organized and find something to do, they will do this when they can no longer survive. The emperor.
The bandits of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were no different from local chickens and dogs. Zhu Youxiao had never taken a serious look at such reckless people.
The Ming Dynasty was not defeated by Li Zicheng, let alone the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but by the peasants and common people, who were full of despair and had no livelihood.
But the prerequisite for implementing work-for-food is that he must have so much food in his hands. Without some reserve of dry goods, no matter how good the idea is, it will be useless. Others will not follow your imagination.
However, the Ming Dynasty's treasury's annual income was not high. Normal taxes plus the Liao Xiang levy amounted to about seven million taels of silver, which was simply not enough.
In terms of military expenses and the salaries of vassals, nobles, and officials, they already accounted for more than half. The seven million taels of silver were gone without even seeing a splash.
It's easy to spend money but hard to make money. Zhu Youxiao worked hard and ransacked so many houses and finally saved 40 million taels of silver. Now it's less than a year and he has almost lost half of it.
At that time, the southwest will be conquered and the land will be restored. This will be another huge expense. There are only a few hundred thousand dan left in the national treasury. If you don't pay attention, you will face bankruptcy.
Song Yingxing had promised him that cold-resistant rice seeds would be developed within half a year, and Zhu Youxiao became more confident.
Zhu Youxiao clenched his fist and hammered hard on the map of the Ming Dynasty. The location he hit was exactly the location of South Zhili.
This is a place where wealthy businessmen gather, who want money, food, and a complete business system. Even if Zhu Youxiao becomes the emperor, he will be jealous.
He secretly said in his heart that after the southwest is pacified, he will go to South Zhili to meet the "richest man" of these dynasties!
Especially those salt merchants and maritime merchants, as long as they can be caught in one fell swoop, Zhu Youxiao will not have to worry about money in three to five years.