The county magistrate asked people to come back to deliver the message. He did not need to participate in the work, and could continue to leave the county and go to the depths of the mountains to pull heads.
And everyone present, as long as they are willing, can follow Qin Jianglong to kill people.
However, Qin Jianglong didn't understand why there were officers and soldiers from the camp taking off their military uniforms and putting on ordinary people's clothes to go with them.
Follow the explanation of the person who came back to deliver the message.
This was because the county magistrate was worried that they might encounter some danger in the mountains, so he specifically asked the general at the camp to send some officers and soldiers to accompany them into the mountains.
But since it was to protect them, why did he need to change his uniform?
Qin Jianglong didn't understand, but it was a good thing to think about it. If we really encountered big insects or something in the mountains, these officers and soldiers would definitely be more useful than them.
After confirming that he could continue to pimp people to make money, Qin Jianglong suppressed these thoughts and left with a few people who hoped to go into the mountains together with the officers and soldiers who put on civilian clothes.
There are already more than a dozen teams like Qin Jianglong's in Dayong County.
With the idea of making money, everyone entered the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the southwest, escorted by the officers and soldiers who took off their military uniforms and put on civilian attire.
There are many people like Qin Jianglong who discovered a way to make money through one thing and became rich.
These people all left Dayong County.
But there are more people who are constantly being pulled to construction sites in Dayong County.
After it was determined that wages would be paid every three days, everyone got into work with enthusiasm.
In addition, more people from the mountains who came to work in Dayong County for the first time heard about the beheadings, and also made requests to go into the mountains to behead people.
Li Yulong naturally agreed and sent officers and soldiers to protect him.
"Back to Your Highness, there are already more than 20,000 people working outside the city. Do you want to continue to let people go out to kill people?"
On the top of a bare mountain with only forts and watchtowers, Dayong County Magistrate Li Yulong bowed his head and asked for instructions from the emperor's grandson who was watching the Lishui River construction site.
In order to prevent someone who might want to build a dam upstream of the Lishui River to intercept the river water, and finally blow up the dam, allowing the accumulated river water to slope down, causing an impact on Daying and Dayong County.
In this section of the river outside the city, after the river water was diverted, continuous dredging and dredging began. The river embankments were reinforced and raised on both sides, and retaining walls were built.
Construction started on the river at the same time as a steel and concrete bridge.
Larger and deeper pits were dug in the river bed.
The mold has been laid down, and a steel cage has been installed in the middle. It will be put into use only after the cement factory at the foot of the mountain is built and the quarried rocks are burned into cement.
"We need to find something else to do for the next people."
Zhu Yunxi spoke softly and frowned slightly.
At present, the 20,000 people have already met the current project needs of Dayong County.
Investing more people will not only waste the court's money and food, but also waste manpower.
Naturally, a small county magistrate like Li Yulong couldn't get involved in such high-level matters.
Zhu Gaochi looked at Dayong County on the other side of the river and said, "Then expand the county seat. If there are more people, the camp will also be rebuilt with bricks and stones."
"This is a good idea."
Zhu Yunxi said with a smile and turned to look at the Dayong County Magistrate who had been waiting here for a long time.
Li Yulong smiled all over his face and nodded repeatedly: "His Royal Highness and the Crown Prince care about Dayong County and are considerate of the people. As magistrates of Dayong County, I feel moved in my heart. Your Highness and Crown Prince are kind to the people of Dayong County. I live in it on behalf of the people of the county."
,Thank you."
Zhu Yunxi just smiled, picked up the telescope again, turned around and looked toward the upper reaches of the Lishui River in the southwest.
Over there is the location of the cement plant that has already been built.
With the investment in the project, a large amount of gunpowder will be transported out of the camp every day, and the officers and soldiers of the firearms battalion will be responsible for controlling and using it. They will blast the mountain at the location of the cement factory to facilitate the people to mine rocks and level the land.
to build a cement plant.
Zhu Gaochi put his hands together and looked at Li Yulong with a smile: "His Highness and I are members of the clan, and this Dayong County is under my rule in the Ming Dynasty, and the people are also the people of my family. The county magistrate does not need to thank you. If you can
It is also appropriate to make ordinary people richer and live a better life."
Li Yulong nodded as usual: "It's absolutely true! What the Crown Prince said is absolutely true."
Zhu Gaochi hummed and waved his hand: "There are several construction sites outside the city. There are many causes, but they are all real things. County Honorable Lord should go and keep an eye on them as soon as possible. Once these things are done, County Lord Li will always have something to do.
Your Highness and the officials will naturally remember the hard work you have done."
These words naturally imply a promise.
Although these things are now decided by the imperial court, or in other words, by Zhu Yunxi.
But the matter was done in Dayong County.
Even if Li Yulong, the county magistrate, does nothing, as long as he keeps an eye on the project and ensures that there are no mistakes, he will naturally have political achievements after the work is completed.
Get out of this mountain.
It is not only the hope of the people in the mountains, but also the hope of officials like Li Yulong in the mountains.
The smile on Li Yulong's face became even brighter.
He kept nodding in agreement and carefully retreated down the top of the mountain.
After the county magistrate left, Zhu Gaochi turned around and walked to Zhu Yunxi.
"This time, in order to completely eradicate the southwestern chieftain system, the imperial court has successively raised three million taels of silver and a lot of grain and grass. Are they really going to throw them all in?"
Zhu Gaochi frowned and asked softly.
The three million taels of silver and countless amounts of food and grass in his mouth were not just used in Dayong County.
Strategies like this are being carried out simultaneously throughout the Shiwanda Mountains in the southwest, such as Dayong County.
Zhu Yunxi did not put down the telescope in front of him, but said loudly: "Do you think that if these money cannot be eradicated from the southwestern chieftain system, it will be useless?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhu Gaochi thought for a while and shook his head.
"I understand what you mean. What we are doing is not just in the southwest. Just like the road from Yichang to Kuizhou, firstly it is to pull out the people in the mountains, and secondly it is to open up the route from Huguang to Sichuan.
the way.
The same principle applies to the line from Guiyang to Chongqing via Bozhou, not only for the southwestern chieftains, but also to connect these places together."
Zhu Yunxi smiled: "Since you know, then what else do you have to worry about? The court's money has been spent. Even if the southwest chieftain system cannot be abolished in one fell swoop this time, it can still connect the roads in the southwest and strengthen the court's control over the chieftain system.
Control of the Southwest.”
Zhu Gaochi kept silent.
He just felt that things were done a little too hastily.
The old man is in a hurry to stay in Beijing, the uncle is in a hurry to completely abolish the chieftain system, and brother He is in a hurry to finish his errands and return to the capital.
Zhu Yunxi continued softly: "Are you thinking about how these people who came out of the mountains will be settled in the end?"
"I didn't say that." Zhu Gaochi shook his head.
"But that's what you think." Zhu Yunxi finally put down the telescope in his hand, turned around and looked at Xiaopang: "The Ming Dynasty has been in power for thirty years, but the population in Shu has not actually returned to its peak period. Huguang passed by
These rounds of New Deal reforms have created a lot of free land, which is enough to accommodate these people who came out of the mountains.
As for the future...
When the chieftain system in the southwest disappears, the roads currently being built around it can be built into the mountains. By then, the open land in the mountains can also be used and handed over to the people for farming, and there is no need to worry about any trouble in the southwest."
Zhu Gaochi swallowed: "Another big project worth tens of millions of taels!"
Based on what Zhu Yunxi just said, if the imperial court does not invest tens of millions of taels of silver, it will not be possible at all.
The imperial court is actually not doing many major things now, but a lot of money is invested in every matter.
On the river, millions of dollars of food are invested every year.
The same goes for the Western Railway, which started construction two years ago.
Moreover, the imperial court is still preparing to conquer the plateau and the Western Regions.
There are also the development of the New World, iterative updates of the naval fleet, and the research and development and iterative replacement of Daming firearms. Countless money and food are invested in these every year.
Now there is another big hole.
Zhu Gaochi is not worried that the current Ming Dynasty will be defeated by external enemies.
Because all the forces outside the Ming Dynasty that could be called enemies have disappeared.
He is now worried that Ming Dynasty will be dragged down by these internal reforms that seem to be hasty.
"I've done the calculations. Now the money and supplies that the imperial court spends every year alone are over 30 million taels."
"Although the imperial court's income has increased a lot in recent years, if it continues, it will only be just about average. Once something happens, it will be difficult to make ends meet."
The imperial court was in Hongwu for about twenty-five years, and its annual income was about thirty million taels.
Zhu Gaochi knew this very well.
Zhu Yunxi shook his head: "Don't worry, the general has conquered enough land in the south. Even if it is in short supply, we will not be short of food now. When the New World is developed, there will be no shortage of gold and silver. You
You have to think, once things are done in the southwest, will the court be able to save millions of taels of food expenses every year? Can it even increase the court's annual income by one million taels?"
One thing no one knows.
This is how much food the Ming Dynasty spent every year in order to implement the reform of land and return to local people in the southwest.
No one has ever settled this account.
People only know that it took a long time to complete the reform, but they don't pay attention to how much Ming Dynasty invested in it.
Zhu Gaochi opened his mouth and wanted to say something else.
Zhu Yunxi interrupted him: "There is still money and food investment from Jiubian. Last year because of the Northern Expedition, it was the most investment in the past year. But when the cabinet summarizes the settlement at the end of this year, you will look at the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts. Even if there is a
Daqing City needs investment, and the entire Jiubian is now much less expensive than in the past, and these are real savings."
Zhu Gaochi was speechless.
He understood that no matter how much he worried, Brother Xi could convince him.
Because everything he said is true.
Zhu Yunxi's eyes flickered: "Right now, we are fighting an unprecedented war here. In the past, whether it was the Ming Dynasty, the Tang, Song, or even the Yuan Dynasty, we always fought against each other in the southwest, trying to solve the chieftain system that had existed for thousands of years.
.
But now, we can simply use money and food to create a peaceful world instead of letting those soldiers fight with the enemy, why not?"
"But in the end there's still a battle to be fought here!"
Zhu Gaochi retorted stubbornly.
But his rebuttal at this time was more like his incompetent rage after realizing that what Zhu Yunxi said was right.
Zhu Yunxi smiled: "That will save a lot of lives."
Zhu Gaochi was discouraged, curled his lips, and was unwilling to talk to the other party.
Zhu Yunxi started to walk towards the camp at the foot of the mountain: "One more thing, you tell Brother Bing and let him lead people to find out the situation in the mountain. This time, with the help of these local people, I want to
Find all the deepest caves in the southwest mountains and mark them on Kanyu."
Zhu Gaochi hurriedly followed him and muttered: "Aren't you afraid that the chieftains who mingled with the people will go back and report? When the time comes, the people who go into the mountains to pull people's heads will be buried deep in the mountains."
Why are mediocre people like Qin Jianglong allowed to continue to go into the mountains to kill people this time?
In addition to pulling out the natives and Miao people from the mountains and taking advantage of the opportunity to work, they were brought under the direct management of the imperial court.
It is the officers and soldiers who follow them who will secretly note down and draw the topography of various places.
Even everyone, including Zhu Yunxi, knew that among the mountain people who came to Dayong County this time, there must be many people sent by those who opposed the imperial court's abolition of the chieftain system.
This matter must also be carried out.
Zhu Yunxi stopped.
He was silent for a moment, then sighed softly, but his eyes became sharp.
"Although I don't want people to die, death is inevitable. It is absolutely impossible for the people who enter the mountain this time to return with full payloads like before, but this is a loss we must bear."
"In fact, as long as those who are unwilling to have the chieftain system abolished kill more people, the situation in the southwest will be better for the imperial court."
"And those who oppose the abolition of the chieftain system will also fall into another war!"
After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi quickened his pace again.
The old man should go out for a walk. Before the old man returns to the camp, he must prepare a meal for the old man.
I am a grand grandson of the Ming Dynasty, so I am very busy.
Zhu Gaochi's face was gloomy: "What another war?"
However, Zhu Yunxi's figure had already disappeared, and he did not hear Zhu Yunxi's explanation.
But Zhu Yunxi, who was walking towards the camp from a distance, muttered something to himself.