"The disciple pays homage to the teacher, and the subordinate official meets Yuan Fu."

"Well, everyone is here, sit down."

When Yuan Keli was giving instructions to his favorite disciples, Wen Tiren, the chief minister of the court, was also summoning his confidants and disciples.

For the Ming Dynasty at this time, under the emperor, the main power was the Imperial Master Party, with the Zhejiang Party as a auxiliary. However, although the overall relationship within the Imperial Master Party was not bad, Wen Tiren, Yuan Keli, even Sun Chengzong, Xiong Tingbi, etc.

their own hills.

Yuan Keli is an all-rounder with a very high IQ, so he also likes all-rounders. For example, Ni Yuanlu, Huang Daozhou and others are all great scholars in terms of history. It goes without saying that they have such talent. As for Wen Shoufu,

Well, Lao Wen has never been a genius with amazing talents, so he doesn't like the kind of talented people who show off their talents at a young age. In his opinion, those who are calm and do things well are the ones worth cultivating.

Therefore, compared with Ni Yuanlu and Huang Daozhou, the two people he summoned that night were completely different people.

Ma Shiying, Gao Hongtu.

"Yaocao."

"The disciple is here."

"The emperor has replied to my letter recommending you as a teacher, so your position will be moved."

"Disciple, thank you very much for taking care of me, teacher. I would like to ask you, where does the emperor intend to send this disciple?"

"The imperial court will establish a new Jilin Chief Secretary in May this year. Yaocao, you will be the first Jilin Chief Secretary and Chief Envoy."

"Jilin? Teacher, is this new province in the northeast?"

"Yes, Liaoning Province goes further north. It is mainly based on the Songnen Plain that was developed by the Jurchens in the past, with some areas south of Longgang Mountain, bordering Fuguo. The provincial capital is set in Changchun Prefecture, with an outpost

Haikou is called Vladivostok. This is a place that was developed to receive Japanese arms during the Jurchen rebellion more than ten years ago."

"Uh." Ma Shiying thought for a moment, stood up very calmly, and said in an indifferent tone: "Teacher, the student is just a fourth-grade General Secretary Taichang. Logically speaking, he has been promoted to a second-grade Chief Envoy.

It’s the emperor’s grace that is so great that I shouldn’t say anything more. But how many Han people are there in Jilin Chief Secretary?”

"Well, it's good to be calm during big events. Sit down and talk."

After Ma Shiying sat down again, Wen Tiren said: "The imperial court allowed the Jurchens to continue to migrate northward to develop the Sanjiang Plain a few years ago, so in recent years, some farmers from Liaoning in our Ming Dynasty have also moved there, uh...

." At this point, even a person like Wen Shoufu, who is indifferent to emotions and anger, blushed: "There are about five to six thousand households, with a population of more than 30,000."

"This..." Ma Shiying, who was listening carefully at first, suddenly raised his head, but when he saw his teacher's face, he didn't say anything sweet after all.

Seeing Ma Shiying's hesitant expression, Lao Wen quickly laughed: "Well, my teacher also knows that these people are too few, and they are not as good as a medium-sized county in the mainland. Therefore, after my teacher's coordination, the imperial court

We agree to move half of the original residents of Kuandian Liubao there, probably about 30,000 to 40,000 people."

Seeing that the flush on Ma Shiying's face had subsided a little, Wen Tiren also breathed a sigh of relief: "In addition, isn't the imperial court recently building a railway from Shenyang to Sarawat? The number of workers along the line will not be less than 50,000.

.Also, hasn’t the imperial court already conquered Mongolia? Half of the Hulunbuir grassland has been assigned to the Chief Secretary of Jilin. As long as you have the ability, the Mongols on that grassland can also be regarded as the population of your Jilin. Yaocao

, how about it? After all, it’s nearly 200,000, right?”

"... I would like to thank my teacher for your cultivation. I wonder who my supervisor is?"

"How can there be an inspector in the new province? You can do it yourself, and the Privy Council will assign a new cavalry battalion to you to control the field. Besides, it is a new province. Everyone has already discussed it at the State Council. Jilin Province will be tax-free for three years.

When you went there, the Ministry of Household Affairs allocated 1.2 million silver dollars and 500,000 shi of grain. In the next three years, this support will be halved every year. In the fourth year, which is the beginning of the 14th year of the Apocalypse, Jilin not only did not

Any support from the imperial court must be paid in full to the imperial court."

"Yes, disciple understands."

"Hey, Yaocao, I know you feel uncomfortable. You probably think this is a distribution. But my teacher advises you not to think so. In fact, this is an overall plan laid out by the emperor. If you make achievements in Jilin

, I don’t think you might be able to join the cabinet before becoming a teacher in the future.”

"The teacher was joking. I think it would be very rare for me to go to Jilin and be able to reorganize all households and build the Yellow Register of Jilin in three years. But what did the teacher say about the overall situation?"

"In these years, as the chief official of the General Affairs Department, all documents have to go through you. I think you should know that although the imperial court has become richer and richer in recent years, at least it has encountered big problems in agriculture. According to the Yanjing Daily

According to the above statement, the Ming Dynasty has officially entered the Little Ice Age. Niang Xipi and Zhang Shize boasted very much in the newspapers, saying that although the Little Ice Age would cause a reduction in agricultural production, as long as everyone works together, there is nothing to worry about. Hum, but as a teacher

I heard the emperor say privately that extreme climates like the Little Ice Age have occurred in China before, in the late summer and early Shang, the two Jins, the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms."

"ah?!"

Looking at Ma Shiying, who had always been calm, he couldn't help but be shocked. Wen Tiren nodded solemnly: "So, to prepare for a rainy day, we must solve the food problem. As big as I am, if I don't grow food myself, I will lose it."

Even if all the food in the Nanyang countries is snatched away, there will be no way to feed so many mouths. Not to mention, in the future, when the Ming Dynasty competes with Spain or the Ottomans for global hegemony, the food consumption of the army will increase countless times."

"Disciples probably understand that the purpose of establishing Jilin as a province is to open another granary for our Ming Dynasty, right?"

"Yes, Yaocao, since the emperor abolished the poll tax, the hidden population among the people has lost its meaning. Therefore, in recent years, the population of our Ming Dynasty has increased sharply. According to the latest yellow book data, the entire Ming Dynasty, two capitals and eighteen provinces,

Now there are more than 187 million people. Niang Xipi, in the past, the court did not find these people in the population census. I really don’t know how they hid them in the past. Uh, I digress, anyway, so

When many people encounter this kind of extreme weather across the country, hey, if we don’t prepare in advance, there’s no telling what will happen.”

"What the teacher said made the disciple deeply worried. But the disciple heard that a typical manifestation of the Little Ice Age was that the temperature in the north dropped and rainfall decreased. As a result, Jilin's agriculture is completely hopeless. Where did this big granary come from?

Is it going to be built?”

"The Emperor has set several policies to completely solve the hidden food problems of our Ming Dynasty. The first is to continue to vigorously promote high-yielding crops originating in the Americas. The second is to strengthen control over the Southeast Asian countries. The third is to promote the sharing of land into acres.

Reduce the burden on farmers. The fourth is to set a protective price for the purchase of local grain in the Ming Dynasty. The fifth is to trial collective farms."

"Collective farm?"

"Yes, this is what you are going to do in Jilin. Yaocao, my Ming Dynasty consciously protected small farmers when Taizu founded the country, so although after many years of land annexation, the real collapse, such as the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period,

The Ming Dynasty does not have such aristocratic families as states and counties, and closed-door cities. Although this is excellent, it also creates a new problem. The land is too scattered, which is not conducive to centralized management.

The collective farm mentioned by the emperor refers to a brand-new agricultural production model that starts with at least 500,000 acres of land, grows only one kind of crop, uses unified water, unified fertilization, and unified management."

"The Emperor is indeed the reincarnation of Canglong, and he knows everything!" Ma Shiying struck his hands hard, and became completely excited: "If we really do this, the output of this farm will be at least 20 to 30% more than that of ordinary small farmers.

And the losses are reduced by at least 50%!”

"Hahaha, now do you understand the importance of establishing Jilin as a province? In the mainland of Ming Dynasty, under the small glacier climate, implementing this policy in the south will definitely be more effective and better. But in the south..." Old Wen

He shook his head and smiled for a while: "Huai'an Prefecture has been flooded by the Yellow River all year round. If the levee is repaired, hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland can be recovered. There is also some good land in Hunan Province, which was founded not long ago. But if we really want to

When it comes to large areas of cultivated land, we have to consider the Songnen Plain and the future Sanjiang Plain."

"Disciple understands."

"Well, Yaocao, now do you know how heavy the burden is on you? According to the estimates of the surveyors who went to build the Shen-Sa Railway in the early days, the newly-built Jilin Province has no less than 50 million acres of arable land, and almost all of it is now

Borderlands, that is to say, they are all the land owned by the imperial court, which allows you to build a farm as much as you like!"

"Disciple understands. When I went to Jilin, I first cleared the land, then demarcated the scope of the farm, and tried not to sell the cultivated land as much as possible."

"That's right." After showing his encouraging eyes to his proud disciple, Wen Tiren turned his attention to Gao Hongtu.

"Jianwen."

"The official is here."

"In addition to the new Jilin Province in the 10th year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court will also build three Mongolian autonomous regions: Monan, Mobei, and Moxi. Regarding this matter, His Highness the Supervisor of the State has received the emperor's decree and transferred Xinjiang Governor Ding Qijun to serve as our first Ming Dynasty governor.

Protect the Mongolian Zhonglang General."

"Hiss~ I didn't expect that the official positions of the Zhonglang General who protected the Xiongnu and the Xianbei Zhonglang during the strong Han Dynasty, which so enhanced the prestige of our Han family, would be resurrected in our Ming Dynasty! Ding Hengwen is destined to leave a name in history in his life."

"Yes, everyone wants to restore the official position of a strong man and take up the post. But who asked the emperor to choose him?" Spreading his hands, Wen Tiren smiled: "Does Yanwen care about the position of governor of Xinjiang?

"

"I would like to thank Yuan Fu for your support."

"Well, when you went to Xinjiang, in addition to establishing good relations with the local aliens, your main task was to build a collective farm. In Xinjiang, there is little rain all year round, and the land is irrigated by snow water, so it doesn't matter what the little glacier climate is, as long as you can control it properly

, there will still be a lot of food. In addition, it is said that Xinjiang has strong sunshine, which is very conducive to cotton production. You should also grow cotton there. In this way, there will be much less grain fields in the interior being converted into cotton fields."

"I understand."

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot an important thing." Patting his head, Wen Tiren said: "Since we are developing agriculture, how can we not have good seeds? Yanwen, you are lucky. The emperor has been developing agriculture since he was young.

Instructed the current factory owner and Da Sikong to research hybrid crops, initially hybrid rice, and later hybrid wheat. A few years ago, after we conquered Mongolia, Da Sikong used the best wheat in Ming Dynasty to hybridize with the grass on the grassland, and got

A new variety, the yield is not very high, but it is resistant to drought and exposure. It is just right for you to bring this new seed to Xinjiang."

"Hahaha, thank you Yuanfu, thank you Da Sikong, thank you all the professors at Fangshan."

"As for you." Wen Tiren turned back to Ma Shiying and said: "Why do you think the imperial court had to establish Jilin Province in the 10th year of the Apocalypse? The biggest reason is that the professors of the Agricultural Laboratory of Fangshan Academy of Sciences are in Hokkaido, Japan.

New rice species that are extremely cold-resistant have been found.”

When Ma Yaocao heard this, his whole body swayed with excitement: "Teacher! This disciple is completely confident."

"Hahaha, you all do your best. I will also thoroughly explain to you that the collective farm is a nationwide experiment conducted by our Ming Dynasty to solve the future food problem. Those who succeed in this experiment will inevitably

Jane is in the emperor's heart. Now, Huai'an in the south is Ni Yuanlu. Changsha is Huang Daozhou. Do you know how heavy the burden is on you?"
Chapter completed!