Apocalypse 10th year.Although a year has passed, according to Ma Maocai, the governor of Shaanxi, the drought is still continuing.There are even signs of locust infestation in some places.However, because Zhu Youxiao had already ordered Ma Maocai to organize a locust hunting team last year, raised a large number of ducks, and ate a lot of locusts in advance, the locust plague in many parts of Shaanxi Province has not yet appeared on a large scale.In addition, after Zhu Youxiao's ten years of governance, the Ming Dynasty set up government-run medical centers in various places because of the strong financial resources of the imperial court, and Zhu Youxiao therefore ordered the local medical centers to bury the people who died of starvation, and sprinkled lime everywhere, and even after exterminating rats and mosquitoes, the plague in Shaanxi has not yet appeared on a large scale because of drought.In addition, many people in Shaanxi are no longer feeling the effects of the drought.Some of them have already begun to participate in water conservancy projects organized by the government and have become workers.Most of them took their families and crossed the ocean to the Ruodan area, which was located in the northern region of the Bay of Bengal in the later years, and began to participate in the enclosure movement organized by the Daming Ocean Development Company."
Bang!"
A wisp of white smoke rises.Zhang Xianzhong looked at a native landlord who had fallen in front of him and the native soldiers who fled in embarrassment, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and he carried the three-eyed gun on his shoulder, and then took out the wine bag on his waist and drank a sip of spirits.Three-eyed guns and spirits are now the favorite items of the old Qin people who were arranged to Ruodan to carry when they performed the enclosure mission.Because the three-eyed gun can be used as a firearm to shoot the natives, or it can be used as an iron bone to directly smash people.As for spirits, they are naturally invigorating.Zhang Xianzhong now likes this kind of life very much, a three-eyed gun, a pot of spirits, and a horse, he can open up hundreds of miles of land for Daming in one day.These lands would become Zhang Xianzhong's farms, and his relatives and friends, except those who fought with him, would work on his farms.Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong only needs to pay a relatively low amount of public grain to the company, so that he can be recognized by the company and protected by the company's standing armed forces.However, a war-like man like Zhang Xianzhong is already a relatively large manor here, and he has a group of native slaves of his own, which can be used for farming, and his relatives and friends have become the managers of his farm.Just like when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs in history, some nobles of the Eight Banners would enclose land, and even plunder the Han people to make coats.Zhang Xianzhong is doing this kind of work now.Li Hongji is not worse than him, he took the entire Li family village, including his nephew Li Guo, in this area, and soon became a force and became a very big manor owner.In short, in order to avoid large-scale peasant uprisings due to continuous droughts, and in order to avoid financial crises caused by the imperial court's non-stop disaster relief, Zhu Youxiao also began to transfer the impact of natural disasters to the Ming Empire to other regions.After all, who made the current Ming Empire a super empire of this era.The Ming Empire was devastated by the disaster, and other countries could not have a good time."
Although Shaanxi is now thousands of miles of red land, but it is no longer starving everywhere, a large number of people are hired by the ocean development company in batches, and then transported overseas, but according to the governor Ma Maocai, now Shaanxi has been empty, a large number of farmland is idle, but overgrown with weeds, in addition to the official road, many roads have appeared weeds."
Zhu Youxiao has now returned to Beijing, and at this time, Yuan Keli reported to him the latest situation in Shaanxi."
The edict was given to Ma Maocai, asking him to organize the people who stayed in Shaanxi to turn idle farmland into woodland as much as possible, and plant more trees to consolidate water and soil, and the intensification of drought is not unrelated to the reduction of forests and the aggravation of loess in that area, and in addition, take this opportunity to build water conservancy and dredge rivers, so as to minimize the impact of drought."
Zhu Youxiao said."
Your Majesty, according to the report of the Ministry of Industry, there are many coal mines in Shaanxi, so the Ministry of Industry suggests that coal mines can be opened to solve the problem of food for the people affected by the disaster in Shaanxi, instead of having to be transported overseas in large quantities."
Xu Guangqi played another thing here.After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to directly mention to them what coal is a non-renewable resource, and only said on the grounds that it would not affect the feng shui of the dragon vein: "The mines in the pass, if it is not necessary, try not to open, so as not to affect my Huaxia dragon vein. ”"Yes!"
Xu Guangqi replied."
Since I have said this, I have heard that there are many local gentry or wealthy families who open mines without permission, and it stands to reason that the mines are the private property of the emperor, so we must clearly tell the world that they are not allowed to open mines without permission.Zhu Youxiao continued."
Yes!"......
"How is the development of the steam locomotive now, and how is the rubber I asked you to get from the South Seas to carry out relevant dissolution and inflation experiments?"
Now that all kinds of steam engines have begun to appear, these cars and new wheels conceived by me must also appear as soon as possible, so as to facilitate more long-distance transportation in the future, and after the Ming Dynasty immigrates a large number of people overseas due to natural disasters in the future, the area it rules will naturally become larger and larger, and at that time, it will naturally need better cars. ”At this time, Zhu Youxiao suddenly asked about the progress of the manufacture of steam locomotives and rubber tires.Xu Guangqi replied: "At present, the locomotive has been manufactured with a speed of one hour and twenty miles, but the track designed by His Majesty has not yet been laid, so the locomotive has not yet been moved to the track for testing, and it is expected that if it is really realized as His Majesty said, it will have to wait a little longer, but it will be soon; As for the experiments with rubber, pneumatic tires have been made and used in horse-drawn carriages, the shock absorption system is indeed good, and the Academy of Sciences has built a bicycle designed by His Majesty, which is now equipped with pneumatic tires and is about to be served. ”Zhu Youxiao was quite surprised after hearing this, and asked: "Yes, the wheel wire of the bicycle is difficult to pull, how do you make it?"
”"Back to Your Majesty, since Song Yingxing and their instructions to promote converter steelmaking on the basis of crucible steelmaking, they have tried to add some other metal elements, and now they have also obtained a kind of iron wire that is easier to draw into wire, but it costs a lot of money."
Xu Guangqi replied.Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Hurry up and send it to the palace, I want to take a closer look, in addition, since you can pull out the wire, then reduce the cost as soon as possible, in the future, there are many places where these wires are used, such as when defending the Tartars in the border town, you can first arrange a circle of barbed wires with bells on the periphery, which is faster and easier to detect than building a wall!"
”"What Your Majesty said is that now that these new things have appeared, the imperial court's demand for coal and iron will surge in the future, and since it cannot be mined in the Guan, it is necessary to continue to explore more mining land outside the Guan."
Xu Guangqi replied."
It's not just the increase in the demand for coal and iron, in the future, the number of troops will have to increase again, not only the disaster victims, but also the workers who have lost their jobs because of the appearance of various steam engines, raising so many soldiers, it is time to launch a large-scale war to exterminate the Eastern Captives, the Tatar tribes are all nomadic people, it is difficult to exterminate them all, and it is difficult to become a big disaster, this Eastern Captives must be completely exterminated."
As he spoke, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Xieyuan, the new minister in charge of the military department, and said: "The military department needs to set up recruitment offices in various prefectures and counties to recruit young and strong people who have not yet worked in the country. ”.