Yanshan Town, Daningwei.
This earthen city, which had been abandoned for countless years, has now become the city where the Emperor of Heaven resides. After the Battle of Lao Hamulin River, Zhu Youjian's army was stationed here and never moved again.
The reason why the army stationed at the Daning Acropolis for many days without moving was of course not because Zhu Youpang realized that Huang Taiji, who he met in the battle of Laohamulin River that day, was probably a Xibei, but because the Daning Acropolis was too big. important!
This is the Daning Guard that connects Liaozuo to the east and Xuanfu to the west! In the early Ming Dynasty, King Zhu Quan of Ning was in charge of Daning. He had 80,000 armored soldiers, 6,000 chariots, and three Duoyan cavalry guards. Who dared to try their best, Mongolian or Jurchen?
The military decline of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have started from the abandonment of the Daning Guard and even the entire Peiping capital in the first year of Yongle!
Later, Emperor Zhu Di also felt that it was extremely inappropriate to abandon Daning. In the eighth year of Yongle, he wanted to restore Daning, Kaiping, Xinghe (all Beipingdusi) and other guards after the victory of the Northern Expedition to Canyuan. It is a pity that Zhu Di did not see the victory of the Northern Expedition and died of illness during the Northern Expedition.
The plan to restore Daning, Kaiping, Xinghe and other guards has no further progress, and they have not been recovered again until now.
But regaining Daning does not mean restoring Daning!
Otherwise Emperor Yongle would not have placed the restoration of Daning after the Northern Expedition of Can Yuan... The reason for this arrangement is because it only takes a short time to use troops to regain Daning, but it will take many years to restore Daning. Continuous investment.
Although Daning is a good place, it is really not easy to run it. At that time, Chengzu gave up the territory of Beipingdusi, which Taizu Dynasty had worked hard for many years to establish. Although he had no choice but to do so, it was indeed too hasty.
However, Zhu Youjian's current financial resources are far less than those of Ming Chengzu. If you want to run Daning with such weak financial resources, of course you have to be careful... not only in Daning, but also in the fight against the Donglu, Beiyuan, and Western thieves.
Now the traitor is still young, and Zhu Youjian is a "poor dad". If he doesn't plan carefully, he will still be in trouble sooner or later.
To make careful calculations, Zhu Youjian alone cannot do it, because he is not good at calculating economic accounts.
So Xu Ruolan, a former slave of the Huanyi Bureau who had just been promoted to Secretary of the Shanggong Bureau for "military merit", was now holding an abacus and account books and helping Zhu You check the accounts.
Shanggong Bureau is a female official yamen and one of the six bureaus in the harem. In the early Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Yuanzhang did not trust eunuchs, female officials had a higher status and the six bureaus in the harem were fully equipped. However, since Yongle, the Six Bureaus of the Harem were gradually abolished, and in the end only the Shangfu Bureau was still barely running.
After Zhu Youjian accepted Xu Ruolan, he ordered to restore the process of mastering female skills, and the Shanggong Bureau of Chief Secretary Zhi, Si Zhen, Si Cai, and Si Ji. Of course, what was restored was just a short-lived yamen, and two old palace ladies were appointed as left and right ministers, nothing more.
As for Xu Ruolan, Xu's widow, because of her meritorious service in "accompanying the chariot on expeditions", she has now become a female official under the empty-headed yamen. As for the official Si Zhen, as the name suggests, he is in charge of valuable and good things. Of course, this is just a name. In fact, her job is just a "private financial consultant", helping Zhu You check big and small accounts.
"Long live my lord, in this battle we captured all the territory of Huizhou Guard, Fuyu Guard, Xincheng Guard and Daning Guard, a total of four guards. In addition, Xingzhou Wutun Guard, Kuancheng Guard, Kaiping Guard and Kaiping Qian The territories of the Tunwei, Yingzhou Middle Tunwei, and Yingzhou Right Tunwei have also been captured by the troops of Yanshan and Liaoxi towns and two Ordos with 10,000 households. These are 14 guards or tunwei. ! Most of the Peking capital has been acquired, and most of Yanshan is already under the control of the Ming Dynasty! His Majesty’s illustrious martial arts can really be compared with Grandpa Chengmiao. It’s just..."
As she spoke, Widow Xu, who had been having a good life recently, sighed softly, and then looked at Zhu Youjian, who still looked like a handsome young man, but behaved very maturely.
"You just ate too much and it's hard to digest?" Zhu Youjian was leaning on a bamboo couch as he spoke, his brows slightly furrowed, showing that he was worried.
He now has a premonition that Hutu Dunhan is in a bad situation... because the contact between him and Hutu Dunhan was interrupted 5 days ago!
Needless to say, Hutu Dunhan is definitely up to something bad!
Now I just don’t know how bad the situation of this wanderer is.
If Bao Luhan does something bad, the grassland north of Luoma River is likely to fall under Huang Taiji's more effective control.
In this case, the three guards of Daning, Xincheng, and Fuyu cannot give up... and Zhu Youjian cannot retreat easily! At least until the construction of the castles in Daning, Xincheng, and Fuyu Sanwei, as well as the castles in Rehe, and the castles in Yingzhou Zhongtunwei and Yingzhou Youtunwei are completed. Zhu Youjian must stay in Daning!
With him here, Huang Taiji, who has suffered twice, will definitely be cautious and will not dare to make a large-scale attack.
In this way, the five guards including Daning, Xincheng, Fuyu, Yingzhou Zhongtun, and Yingzhou Youtun should have enough time to consolidate... After all, they have to build the castle and then stock up on food. , military supplies and so on.
"Your Majesty is wise," Widow Xu shook her head, "I have already made the calculations according to your Majesty's proposal... If 120 houses are built on these 14 wards of land and 120,000 households are relocated, it will be In order to settle the land, 2.4 million shi of grain and at least 1.2 million taels of silver must be prepared! And it will take another three years before most of the new military households can make a living from the harvest of the land. And these 120,000 new There is no way to recruit all the military households at once, and it is even questionable whether they can recruit them all."
The work of recruiting new military households did not go smoothly... Zhu Chunchen spent a lot of effort to recruit less than 5,000 households.
The situation of Zu Dashou was slightly better, and about 10,000 households were moved to Yingzhou Zhongtunwei and Yingzhouqiantunwei.
Adding both sides together, there are only 15,000 households, which is still far from the goal of 120,000 households!
Therefore, Widow Xu was very skeptical after hearing Zhu Youjian's big immigration goal.
"Ruo Lan, you don't have to worry about the population. I have a way." Zhu Youjian smiled, "As for the 2.4 million stone grain and 1.2 million taels of silver...it is impossible for the Ministry of Household Affairs to provide it. The Ministry of Household Affairs can take it." It is already very generous to provide money to build fortresses and city gates in the mountains of Yanshan and Liaoxi."
The 14 Weihui will become 10 prefectures, among which the five tunwei in Xingzhou will be merged into one state, and the remaining 9 tunwei will become one state.
There must be at least 10 state cities in each of the 10 states. The cost of building the cities must of course be borne by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In addition, the 10 prefectures and cities had to be connected by roads, and at least a pass and a fort had to be built. Some cities with thousands of households also had to provide money from the Ministry of Household Affairs to repair them.
These expenses are enough to give the Ministry of Household Affairs a headache, so part of the expenses for farming must be paid from internal funds (the rest should be paid by nobles in Beijing).
He looked at Widow Xu and said, "If I give you the management of Huangzhuang, Huangdian and Zhuangzi handed over by King Fu, will you be able to raise 1.5 million stone grains and 1 million taels of silver in three years? "
"It should be able to be taken out," Xu Ruolan said, "If not, just sell some imperial stores. In fact, most imperial stores are not profitable, so there is no use keeping them. It is better to take back some money and lend money."
"Lend money? Can you get it back?" Zhu Youjian felt a little guilty.
"You can take it back..." Xu Ruolan said, "You don't have to give it to small households, just give it to big Shanxi merchants, big salt merchants, and large merchants."
"Okay," Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "Then I'll leave it to you!"
When Zhu Youjian was speaking, Yang Hao's voice came from outside the imperial tent where he was: "Long live the Lord, the Xuanfu is reporting urgently!"
"Xuanfu? Come in quickly!" Zhu Youjian quickly let Yang Hao in.
Yang Hao opened the chain and walked in quickly. The old man was making a comeback now, and his energy was getting better and better. He ran from the tent of the military department in front of the tent in one breath, and he didn't even breathe much. When he met Zhu Youjian He didn't even bother to salute, so he started to report: "Long live my lord, Hutu Dun Khan was defeated by the Jiannu army at the Siramulun River. His 20,000-strong army was completely destroyed, and his whereabouts are unknown!"
