Chapter 810 0805 [The young pommel horse is suitable]
Most of the scholars brought by the professors of Renqiu County were also young people.
When they saw Chen Ao going into the water to pick lotus root strips, they were not to be outdone, and they all took off their clothes and jumped into the lake.
Normally this would be considered degrading and polite, but in front of the emperor, he behaved like an unruly person.
Everyone picked a lot of lotus root strips, and Zhu Ming ordered: "Take them to cook and share them together today."
The county magistrate Renqiu quickly waved to the officials, whispered a few words, and quickly took the lotus root strips away.
There are so many people, there won’t be enough food.
Where the emperor could not see them, these officials went to the villagers for help.
It was not the busy farming season at this time. When the people heard that the emperor wanted to eat lotus root strips, they all laughed and went nearby to help collect them.
By the way, I brought some fresh food from the lake. The county magistrate guessed that the emperor might like it.
The south wind blows in bursts, and the lake surface sparkles.
Ju Ming was patrolling all the way, and he felt very happy while standing on the boat. He said to the prefect Liu Yizhi: "Liu Xiaoxing's name is like thunder to my ears. Why not compose another one today? Any poem will do."
"Xiao Xing" is not a word, but a poem written by Liu Yizhi.
He wasted half his life and failed to pass the Jinshi examination. The prefect recommended him as a scholar of the Eighth Line and wanted to recommend him to find an official position. But Liu Yizhi did not accept that he finally passed the examination in his forties. At that time, the lack was too difficult to make up for, so he was thrown away.
Go collect the liquor tax.
Put yourself in your shoes, you have been taking the imperial examination for half your life, but you have only been able to get a small official position of collecting wine taxes. Moreover, the country is still in devastation, and you have nowhere to put your ambitions to use.
It was not until Song Huizong ascended the throne that Zhao Huan recalled Liu Yizhi to the capital.
At that time, the whole country was in chaos. On his way to Beijing, Liu Yizhi woke up in the morning and saw the waning moon shining on the sparse forest. He thought of the treacherous ministers of the Manchu Dynasty who had brought trouble to the country, and also thought that he had wasted half his life with an uncertain future, and his wife at home had not been reunited for a long time.
I was so moved that I wrote a song called "Xiao Migrant Orioles·Xiao Xing".
This poem caused a sensation in the capital at that time, and quickly spread throughout the country, as it moved too many scholars to tears.
Liu Yizhi said: "I was in a hurry, so I didn't have a good sentence. However, when I was planting rice this year, there was a slight spring drought in Xiongan Prefecture. I saw people irrigating the fields with water trucks, so I wrote a poem that I haven't shared with others yet.
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Zhu Ming smiled and said, "Let me sing for you to listen."
Liu Yizhi said: "This poem is called "Water Wheel"."
"The village fields are high and low, and the streams are unequal in the distance. I want to irrigate the ends of the fields, but God will not send thunder and whip chariots."
The old dragon drank from his joints and drew mud from the water, making the sound of mud. At first, he stepped on the earth's axis, and the wind wheels rotated together and joined together.
Alas, my wife never stops walking, walking hundreds of miles a day without leaving home. The green awns prick the water seedlings when they first sprout, and when the snow waves turn the ridges, they will bloom.
Farmers work without any other thought, and my ears are not tired of hearing them, and I am vomiting and mute. In my remaining years, I also hope to be full, and I say that this preaching is better than hearing a frog."
Ju Ming really didn’t know this poem.
The whole poem uses the perspective of the farmer's mother and son to show the sad and hard work of the farmers and their humble desire for just a full meal.
Moreover, the description of the waterwheel is also extremely wonderful, and the imagination is both majestic and simple.
"What a poem," Ju Ming clapped his hands and praised. "The Emperor will definitely like it when he sees it! He loves farming and even built a waterwheel with his own hands."
Liu Yizhi cupped his hands and said, "It's just a clumsy work that made the officials laugh."
Ju Ming looked at Chen Kangbo again: "What about you?"
Chen Kangbo opened his mouth and read: "The people of Hainan are all interested in etiquette and righteousness, and the pirates in Huangchi have stopped fighting. Farmers and mulberry crops are harvested all over the country, and thousands of villages are playing flutes and drums."
“It’s also a good poem!”
Everyone was amazed.
In front of the emperor, this poem is more pleasing.
The world is at peace, wars have ceased. The country has experienced good harvests, and the world is peaceful.
This song praises the prosperous Ming Dynasty, and also vaguely touches on the Song Dynasty.
Chen Kangbo is twenty years younger than Liu Yizhi. He is full of energy, pioneering and enterprising, and naturally focuses on the good side.
But Liu Yizhi is over fifty years old, has experienced too many setbacks, and is more aware of the suffering in the world.
Chen Ao climbed out of the lake, the water still wet, half-dressed and with his upper body bare, and he quickly recorded the poems of the two of them.
Several county magistrates and principals also came to write poems, which were actually half-thought out. The content was mainly about praising the Ming Dynasty, and some were about the great rule of Hebei in recent years.
Then, those scholars also took out their works and recited them, hoping to take the opportunity to show off their talents in front of the emperor.
Everyone asked the emperor to leave poems, and the emperor happily accepted.
Zhu Ming did not change the poem "The Lotus Leaves Connecting to the Sky Are Infinitely Green", but used poetry to explain his purpose.
Su Qin brought a pen and paper, and Zhu Ming waved his hand and wrote: "Pass this to all prefectures and counties in Hebei, and ask them to recruit civilian men to fight with the army after the autumn harvest!"
"yes!"
Su Qin recited: ""Congjun Music".
"The autumn wind blows horns on the fortress, and the sunset flags are setting on the city wall. It is appropriate for a young man to saddle a horse. If you follow military music, don't ask who you are following.
I am waiting to ride to Jibei, and I have already moved to the west of Liaoning. The return date is still the same as Liu Yiyi. In the spring boudoir moon, there is no need to cry in the red sleeves."
Everyone was solemn when they heard this. Although they had already guessed it, it was finally confirmed that a war was going to happen.
Liu Yizhi raised his hand and said: "In the official family, several counties on both sides of the Juma River are planting rice, and the harvest season is later than in the south. Once a large number of civilians are recruited, it may affect the autumn harvest, and the people will complain a lot."
Ju Ming said: "In the prefectures and counties where rice is grown, if there is only one young man in the family, the tax will not be taxed. If it is the busy farming season, if the farmer is taxed, he will be deducted ten acres of tax."
Liu Yizhi finally smiled and said: "If this is the case, everyone will be happy to follow it."
Throughout the Hebei region, the newly recovered Youyan population was sparsely populated, and the lower reaches of the Yellow River were equally desolate and impoverished.
In other words, the three prefectures of Zhending, Baoding, and Xiongan are the closest and have the largest populations, so of course the people have to come from these places.
Ju Ming took the boat for a while and then ordered to return to the shore.
The meal had been prepared, and Ju Ming sat on the floor and invited everyone to join in the feast.
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Cross the Juma River and continue heading north.
Leaving the rice growing area on the north shore, the scenery instantly becomes desolate.
Along the way, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and bones are visible beneath the wind and grass.
Only when you get close to various county towns do you feel like you have returned to the human world.
The entire Youyan area is similar, and only within a few miles of each county can you see signs of human activity.
Even small towns are rare, and there are deserted villages everywhere.
The old house covered with vines shows that it was once a wealthy family.
Occasionally there is a station, and a fence is erected around it to protect against wolves and wild dogs.
It was the first time for all the entourage, including Ju Ming, to come to the north after the ravages of the Jin.
In fact, we cannot blame the whole blame on the Jin Kingdom, because in the last years of the Liao Kingdom, it had already experienced ten years of war and famine.
The Song Dynasty bought this place for several years, and brought in countless money and grain. Either it was embezzled by the civil servants, or it was used to maintain the troops of Guo Yaoshi and others. There was famine every year, thieves were rampant, and it was repeatedly invaded and plundered by the rebel generals of the Jin Dynasty.
Immediately afterwards, the golden soldiers came again.
Instead of helping the people, they continue to exploit them to death!
How many people are left?
Arriving outside Yongqing County, the county magistrate led officials out of the city to greet him.
Zhu Ming asked: "How many people are there in the county at this time?"
The county magistrate replied: "More than 20,000. A small half are in the county town and its suburbs, and a large half are on the north bank of the Juma River."
"You're recovering well." Zhu Ming nodded in approval.
It has indeed recovered well. There are more than 20,000 people in Yongqing County, either from various ethnic groups who are unwilling to follow the Jin Kingdom to evacuate, or from exiled criminals and their families.
The Han people, Khitan people, Xi people, and Bohai people in the north got along well with the exiled criminals.
There are wastelands everywhere, and they can cultivate them as they please without any conflicts of interest.
In order to obtain preferential tax exemptions, various ethnic groups also responded to the government's call and took the initiative to intermarry with the exiled Han people.
In a few decades, it will probably all be Chineseized.
Further north, Anci County, Zhu Ming asked, found that the county's population was only a little over 10,000.
Miaoyin County is even worse, with only 6,000 people in the county.
Continuing eastward to Xianghe County, there are less than 3,000 people in the county, half of whom are prisoners and their families...
There are only a few shops in the county, and most people live and farm on the outskirts of the city. They don't even use money here. They return to the era of barter. They take the harvested grain and raised poultry to the city to exchange for salt, cloth and other supplies.
"People's livelihood is in decline!" Zhu Ming couldn't help but sigh.
Chen Ao said: "When the official family destroys the Jin Kingdom, we can rest and recuperate. Thirty years later, the population will surely be prosperous."
After staying in Xianghe County for two days, Li Bao came from Yanjing to visit him.
The king and his ministers were very happy to meet each other. Zhu Ming took Li Bao to drink.
After drinking a few drinks, Zhu Ming talked about the dilapidation here. Li Bao shook his head repeatedly: "Continuing to the east and north, the decline of each county is even worse. The entire Shicheng County (Kaiping) has only more than a hundred households. And each household has a small population.
, there are only three to four hundred people in total. There are wolves, tigers and leopards everywhere, and the people farming are afraid, and there are only about ten people who dare not go out."
In this damn situation, if the Jin soldiers came from Xifengkou, the government wouldn't even have to organize a strong wall to clear the country.
Shicheng County doesn't even have a county magistrate because it has been downgraded to a town. The government is too lazy to collect taxes because the cost of tax collection is far greater than the tax revenue.
Ju Ming said: "After the war begins, our army must rescue the enemy. Even if Wanyan Zonghan wants to fight in Youzhou, other nobles of the Jin Kingdom, as well as powerful gentry of various ethnic groups, will force the Jin Kingdom to send troops to Liaodong."
"I personally command the Liaodong battlefield, you command the Youzhou battlefield, and Zhang Guangdao commands the Shanxi battlefield."
"Once you seize the opportunity, you and Zhang Guangdao will break through the border and go north. Don't worry about me. You keep fighting north and take the opportunity to regain the Han family's homeland."
Li Bao smiled and said: "Even if the main force of the Jin soldiers is in Youzhou, I won't be afraid. First, we must strengthen the walls and clear the country so that the Jin soldiers cannot rob food on the spot, and then force the Jin soldiers to fight me decisively."
Ju Ming warned: "Be careful in everything, Wanyan Zonghan is not an easy person."
During the confrontation between the two countries, the Ming Dynasty forced the nobles of the Jin Kingdom to unite and maintain a relatively peaceful political situation.
But if the Ming army attacks Liaodong, factional conflicts within the Jin Kingdom will break out.
Liaoning Province in later generations was the core elite area of the Jin Kingdom and the main grain-producing area of the Jin Kingdom. Once the Ming army attacked here across the sea, Wanyan Zonghan would not be able to withstand domestic pressure and would not be able to fight where he wanted to fight.
The main force must be mobilized to fight decisively.
Once the Liaodong war breaks out, the Ming armies in Shanxi and Youzhou will attack Xiongguan.
In the three battlefields of Liaodong, Youzhou, and Northern Shanxi, all the Ming Dynasty field troops were deployed, and the garrison troops were also mobilized to go north.
Not counting the civilians, the Ming Dynasty will send 300,000 troops!
