As the saying goes: If you have food in your hands, don't panic in your heart.
Zhu Yunwen knew very well that for the Ming Dynasty, the most important strategic resources were not guns and cannons, nor swords and armor, but food.
Food is the most important thing for the people. If you can't solve the stomach problem, everything is just nonsense.
With the implementation of the one-stop law and the national policy of curbing mergers and acquisitions, the number of taxable acres will reach a record high this year.
Judging from the current reports from various places, this year is considered to be a good year, and it is expected to be a good harvest year.
Once the yield per acre increased, grain trading became a big problem.
If some local businessmen use the excuse of abundant grain to lower grain prices, it will definitely harm farmers.
Farmers have no money left in their hands and can only rely on a group of corrupt officials to eat and drink, and wealthy businessmen to play music and sing. Then this big business can only be concentrated in the capital, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, coastal areas and other places, and cannot benefit the local area widely.
What Zhu Yunwen wants is for flowers to bloom everywhere, not all green and one red.
"There are large granaries in each state capital and small granaries in counties. They are funded and built by the Agricultural Tax Department, which is responsible for government purchases of grain. As for the price of grain, it will be based on last year's price. This way, merchants will not lower the price. If there is a shortage in the grain warehouses in various places, they can Report to the state government. If the state government is insufficient, it can be reported to the chief envoy's office to coordinate grain allocation and storage."
"For areas with a lot of grain surplus, we can either repay the people and send it to the capital, or raise the price of the capital's granaries and attract merchants to send grain, or use canals to transport food from north to south and east to west to ensure the grain for the capital and the army in the north."
Zhu Yunwen patted the crenellations of the city wall and said seriously.
Xie Jin and Huang Zicheng nodded repeatedly. Although the capital currently has sufficient food reserves, after all, the capital has a large population and army, and the daily food consumption is huge. It is always good to prepare more food.
Zhu Yunwen looked to the north and sighed softly.
Nanjing, surrounded by dragons and tigers, is a good place to build a capital. In addition, Nanjing and its surrounding areas are major food-producing areas. If it is not besieged, there is basically no crisis of food shortage.
The construction of granaries in Nanjing has only two biggest functions, one is to prepare for disasters and prepare troops, and the other is to stabilize prices.
Unlike during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when Chang'an was the capital, the surrounding production area was the small Guanzhong Plain. Once a famine broke out, the emperor had to pack his luggage immediately, take with him several wives, several ministers, and tens of thousands of soldiers, and then run to Eat in Luoyang.
Sometimes I ran too fast and there was not enough dry food on the way. By the time we arrived in Luoyang, half of the people accompanying us had starved to death.
The one who pioneered the emperor's "living in pursuit of food" was the famous
Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.
Later, when Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty came to power, wasn't the Sui-Tang Grand Canal also centered on Luoyang?
Strictly speaking, although Chang'an was the capital at that time, it often did not have enough to eat and was very shabby.
Zhu Yunwen did not need to be a "grain-seeking emperor", but he was deeply worried about Nanjing as the capital.
Nanjing is a good place, a land of fish and rice, rich in products, close to the Yangtze River, no shortage of water or food, but this is only the economic value of Nanjing.
If we consider it from a political, military and national perspective, the location of Nanjing is really inappropriate.
The biggest and strongest enemy of the Ming Dynasty is not near Nanjing City. Even if you run for ten days and a half, you will not see the enemy.
The enemies who can really destroy the Ming Dynasty and completely end the Ming Dynasty's national destiny are the nomads in the north!
Specifically, Tatar and Wala!
Yes, the city of Nanjing is far away from Tatar and Oara. Once they cause trouble, they are lucky enough to fight through the Great Wall and reach the foot of Peiping City. Nanjing City will be safe and sound. After all, there are Huaihe River and Yangtze River blocking it. Those on horseback cannot fly. Come across the Yangtze River.
Therefore, from the perspective of the safety of the imperial capital, Nanjing's safety index is good.
However, the Ming Empire was not just the imperial capital. The vast territory in the north belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and the people there were also the people of the Ming Dynasty.
If the Tatars and Oaras occupy Beiping Mansion again, it will create a de facto Ming Dynasty separatist regime and form a confrontation between the two national forces.
By that time, the Ming Dynasty can only be a corner of the Southern Song Dynasty, and how tragic the fate of the Southern Song Dynasty is, the sea in Yashan is the most clear.
Once the northern defense line is breached, the Tatars and Walas can completely reach the gates of Peiping within a month.
Wait until the news reaches Nanjing, prepare a large army from Nanjing, and then send troops north. When these people arrive outside Peiping City, they are probably not fighting a defensive battle, but an offensive battle.
Too far south and unable to respond to threats from the north in time, this is the biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty capital.
It is not that such problems have never occurred in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and more than once.
In the 14th year of Zhengtong (1449), the leader of Wala also annihilated the three main battalions of the Ming Dynasty in Tumubao, captured Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, and attacked the city of Beijing on October 11 of the same year.
At this time, Yu Qian stood up and, with his courage and wisdom, led the second- and third-rate "reserve teams" to defend the city of Beijing.
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One hundred years later, in the 29th year of Jiajing (1550), Anda, the leader of the Mongolian Tumote tribe, once again attacked the city of Beijing.
The Taoist Emperor was also panicked. Fortunately, I was uneducated and was deceived by the Ming Dynasty. He added that "two million people and animals were plundered". That was enough, so he went home.
Otherwise, with the tens of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people living in Beijing at that time, it would basically be a disaster.
Just imagine, if Beijing was just an ordinary city and not the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty, how could the northern territory of the Ming Dynasty still be defended?
When Nanjing sends troops there, the spring flowers will turn into autumn moons!
From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty's survival, politics, and military aspects, Nanjing City was not suitable as an imperial capital at all.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a talented man with great military vision. He naturally knew this. Even though the Ming Dynasty was founded in 1368, the first year of Hongwu, and Tianfu was renamed Nanjing, Nanjing was not the capital in the ten years after the founding.
To be precise, there is the reality of being a capital city, but not the name of a capital city.
It was not until the eleventh year of Hongwu that Zhu Yuanzhang changed Nanjing to be the capital, thus confirming Nanjing's status as the capital.
Zhu Yuanzhang was hesitant at first as to where to choose as the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
On the table are four options.
The first one is Nanjing at your feet, that is, Jinling.
As the counselor Ye Dui said: "If the capital of the country is at Jinling, we can expand the land to the south. If it is unfavorable to expand the land to the north, we can defend the Jianghuai River."
The second one is Kaifeng.
What many people don’t know is that in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing was Yingtian Prefecture, and Beijing was Kaifeng Prefecture, not the current Beijing.
Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to build his capital in Kaifeng and personally inspected it twice. Unfortunately, Kaifeng was destroyed, the waterways were blocked, the land routes were blocked, and food transportation was a big problem, so he had to give up.
The third choice is Fengyang, Zhu Yuanzhang’s hometown.
The place where the dragon rises, okay, let’s do it, this is it.
So, starting from the second year of Hongwu to the eighth year of Hongwu, when Fengyang, the capital of Zhongdu, was about to finish cleaning up the debris, and after acceptance, it could be moved in, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly ordered not to build it.
Okay, this is an unfinished building.
The fourth choice is Chang'an.
He sent his eldest son Zhu Biao to investigate, but Zhu Biao died when he came back.
Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken and had no intention of moving the capital.
Now it's Zhu Yunwen's turn, and he must also consider the issue of the capital.
