Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked at Shenyang Road and compared it with the one on the other side, and found that Shenyang Road was indeed more suitable.
"Yes, let's keep an eye on it. After defeating Beiyuan, we will build forts, dig trenches, and integrate various places."
Zhu Yuanzhang made a decision in his heart and felt very comfortable.
Three armies here are out to fight, and I have already discussed matters in another place with Xiaqiu Village.
The entire dynasty was not good at civil and military affairs. The key was that Zhu Yichang was just the one who stood in front.
It seems that there is a pair of eyes looking at the entire Ming Dynasty. Those eyes... are as pure as the innocent eyes.
"Hanhan, do you want to eat some fruit?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought, turned to look at Hanhan, and asked with a smile.
Zhu Wentian: "..."
You tell me what you want me to do.
"Fruit, no, full, um! Hey hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian refused with a naive smile on his face.
"Hanhan is indeed a lucky person. He is not as tired as us and has to worry a lot."
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed again, lowered his head to study the map, and discussed the specific location with the chief and his son.
"Here, Your Majesty, is a location surrounded by hills to the west of Shenyang Road.
The Hun River passes through the hills. There are ravines on the southeast side of the hills, but there are also small flat areas.
This is the best place. Our soldiers can be placed on the hilly mountains. If the Jurchens come to trade with each other, they will not be able to turn against us and attack us.
We can also grow rice on small plains, but we can only grow it once a year, which is japonica rice.
Or you can plant a greenhouse and bake bricks at the same time. There are mines there, good coal mines, especially good ones.
There are also clay, limestone, and gypsum mines. Anyway, there is no shortage of anything. "
The head of the village pointed to the place of Fushun when Zhu Wentian was there. The location with the small flat land was Fushun County.
As for the coal mine, it is of course an open-pit mine of excellent quality.
Zhu Yuanzhang perked up when he heard the village chief talking about growing greenhouses: "Grow greenhouses! That's right! Let's grow greenhouses in places where we trade with Goryeo and Jurchens, and then sell greenhouse vegetables to them."
He suddenly thought of a way to make money. The winter over there is cold!
Normally, you can’t eat cucumbers in Nanjing in winter. In the Tang Dynasty, they were grown near hot springs.
In the Song Dynasty, there was floor heating, and if you didn't control it well, the vegetables would be roasted to death.
I have a greenhouse in Daming, so I put the greenhouse there and grow it and sell it to them.
It was agreed before that in order to solve the transportation problem, the greenhouse would be built elsewhere.
It works in other places, but why not in places where there is mutual trading? How much can a cucumber be exchanged for?
Zhu Biao was equally happy and said: "The bricks are burned to build the fort? To defend against the Jurchens."
"Your Highness, the purpose of burning bricks is to make a kang. The Jurchens have few bricks, so they usually use mud to make a short kang. A fire is burned underneath. Lying on it at night will make you feel less cold. At least you won't freeze to death.
After we burn the bricks, we can exchange them for them to make kangs or even build houses.
After frequent trade with them, we moved people there and lived with them.
Let them gradually accept our way of life, plus the officials we send to help our people.
Our officials can also help them if they need anything. "
The chief had never thought about building a fortress. As long as the Ming Dynasty defeated Beiyuan, the Jurchens would not dare to use force at all.
In the past, they were suppressed by Bei Yuan, who banned everything. If they were really capable, why didn't they attack Bei Yuan?
The Jurchen tribe respects the strong, so they drove Bei Yuan away. The army went over and asked some Jurchen tribes close to the Ming Dynasty to submit, and they immediately agreed.
The Ming Dynasty did not need to use forts for defense, cavalry was enough!
"Okay, let them go to places with little land and many people. It's cold over there, help them build houses and build fire pits."
Huimin Pharmacy went over to treat them. They were helping us guard against Jurchens.
After cultivating the land, if you don't collect the land tax for three years, no, for five years, you will be exempted from the corvee for another three years. how? "
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and said that he was really stingy. If he went so far away, he would be exempted from five years of land tax.
The chief glanced at Hanhan and thought to himself, Hanhan is right, our Majesty is a bit stingy.
But he couldn't say these words. He hesitated and then said:
"Your Majesty, Xihe Village and other villages now grow two crops a year, but they have not collected more from their fields.
Just because the department store opened there and made money in their hands through buying and selling.
What if the migrating people do not receive land tax for twenty years?
If the food they grow is not enough for them to eat, we will have to subsidize it.
If it's enough for them to live on, we'll exchange it for something.
Our goal is not to take away all their things, but to make them rich.
After they become rich, they will produce more things for our Ming Dynasty to use. "
The mayor is reasonable. The poorer the people, the more miserable they are, and they have to work hard just to eat all day long.
The other twenty-one villages in Xuancheng County have become rich. How much do they provide to the Ming Dynasty?
How much can you get from collecting a field? If they can't finish it themselves, they will naturally sell it and buy soap and other things for use.
How much does soap cost? The price difference in the middle will come out!
Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned slightly red. He heard the meaning of the long words, oh!
He lowered his head and looked at the picture and said: "It's like this. When they make money, they buy good things. Let's make good things...hehehehehe..."
"What your Majesty said is true." The commander had to take care of Zhu Yuanzhang's mood: "In addition, when it comes to serving, this needs to be expressed differently."
"What should I change it to?" Zhu Biao helped ease his father's embarrassment.
“We don’t talk about corvee work, we talk about leading the people to build a beautiful home, the court provides tools, and the people work hard to build roads and river embankments.
We can even give them salt and fish for free. They are building roads for themselves, and they are building roads for the Ming Dynasty!
Our soldiers used to work together. This is called the relationship between the army and the people. What kind of corvee are they doing? "
The head of the village rephrased the matter, and the feeling was instantly different. The people had a lot of work to do, and they still felt that they were not oppressed.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao: "..."
The two looked at the village chief in surprise. Is this still the honest and honest village chief of Xiaqiu Village?
Oh, no, this has nothing to do with the village chief. Xiaqiu Village still provides free mung bean water to the people, and the library also always provides free reading.
"Okay, okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang said three good words in a row, and he gained a lot today.
He rolled up the map himself, picked up the watermelon, gave Hanhan a tooth first, and then took a bite himself: "The melons in Jingshui Town are delicious, in the greenhouse.
We need to build a greenhouse as soon as possible, plant watermelons in them according to your method, and keep bees in it.
No matter how poor the people are, the leader always has the money to enjoy the best things. This is true for Goryeo and the same for Jurchens. "
Zhu Yuanzhang had already thought of who would be willing to consume greenhouse products, including the royal family of Goryeo and the tribal leaders of Khitan.
These people often exchanged things from Daming. Others could only provide them with things in exchange, but they themselves could not enjoy those good things.
(End of chapter)
