In mid-March of the first year of Tianqi, Xu Guangqi and Sun Chuanting first conducted a thorough verification of the soldiers.&1t;/p>

All the soldiers who were vacant, futile, and occupied were all laid off. However, no responsibility was pursued. If this was pursued, the capital would be in chaos.&1t;/p>

By the late Ming Dynasty, corruption was already a very common phenomenon. Corruption was no longer called corruption. In history, Wei Zhongxian was jailed by playing the anti-corruption card. The Donglin Party said that you have been too defensive.&1t;/p>

The reason why Beijing camp is unusable is naturally the result of the corruption of military officers and civil servants, which is a bit too wide. Therefore, this rectification, that is, the verification of soldiers, did not investigate the nobles and civil servants.&1t;/p>

After some rectification, the Beijing camp with more than 300,000 people turned into 220,000, many of which were the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. After another verification, only 50,000 people could fight. The remaining 170,000 people did not meet the physical fitness standards.&1t;/p>

Then Zhu Youxiao issued an imperial edict, and the Beijing camp reclaimed military camp outside the capital. Each household gave 50 mu of land and one cattle.&1t;/p>

As soon as this imperial edict was announced, the soldiers in the Beijing camp were greatly excited.&1t;/p>

That's fifty acres of land! And if it's irrigated land, it's definitely easy to produce 2 shi of wheat per mu, and you won't have to worry about food and clothing in the past year.&1t;/p>

The 170,000 Beijing soldiers who were separated were then nearly 160,000 willing to participate in the military farming. Each household gave 50 mu of land, which was equivalent to reclaiming 80,000 mu of wasteland.&1t;/p>

However, in the north at this time, wastelands were everywhere.&1t;/p>

It is not that the people in the north do not know how to repair water conservancy, but no one organized them to repair water conservancy. In the past, when they paid their talents or paid directly, the local government's warehouses were too much food and even deteriorated. In this way, they could take out enough grain to organize the people to repair water conservancy. In addition, the previous corvee service was necessary. Nowadays, it is enough to pay money. The concealment of the local population and the emergence of inflation, the government's ability to build a corvee service has dropped sharply.&1t;/p>

Without the government organizing the people to repair water conservancy, the land will often become deserted in one year, and in two years, the land will be deserted in three years, and the people will be exposed.&1t;/p>

In the entire Hebei region, there are more than 30 million mu of barren land.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youjiao issued an order to reclaim military garrisons, and immediately received support from the military officer group. If these lands are reclaimed, they will be a big piece of fat! In the future, they can encroach on the military garrison and turn the military garrison land into their private land.&1t;/p>

But what these military officers didn't know was that Zhu Youxiao was also staring at the land of these military camps. Before opening the military camp, Zhu Youxiao naturally thought of these military officers, and the nobles wanted to divide the land. Zhu Youxiao expressed his calmness in this regard. He would train the army at that time. Whoever dared to jump in front of him was purely seeking death, which was just a reason to kill the pig.&1t;/p>

The military camp cost is low, or it does not require Zhu Youxiao to spend too much money from the treasury. The soldiers in Beijing have military pay for the imperial court, which is free labor. Unlike those refugees who reclaim land, they also have to pay the royal food.&1t;/p>

Give a plowing ox to an interest-free loan from the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

With the support of the emperor's orders, nobles, military officers, and loans from the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, the military camp started very smoothly. More than 100,000 soldiers from the Jingying camp drove out of the city, picked up tools and started to repair water conservancy and reclaim land. Once the eight million mu of land in Jingying was reclaimed, even if one mu of land produces 1 shi of grain, it can bring 160,000 shi of grain to the court every year.&1t;/p>

The military camp was led by Xu Guangqi and the Royal Agricultural Company cooperated. A large amount of wasteland was enclosed, and the river was dredged, ponds, slopes, and canals were built. After these facilities were repaired, the irrigated land was released. Some land could even be turned into paddy fields to plant rice.&1t;/p>

Rice can also be grown in the north, but paddy fields are not so common, so the scale is far less than that in the south, but it does not mean that they cannot be grown.&1t;/p>

The wheat yield in irrigated land can generally reach about 2 shi, and finally ground into flour, which is more than 1 shi. The wheat yield in dry land really depends on the weather for food. When it comes to drought, it is very normal to produce dozens of kilograms of wheat per mu. This is the essential difference between water conservancy and no water conservancy.&1t;/p>

With water conservancy facilities, land can ensure stable yields in drought and flood, and the yield is guaranteed. Even if some land cannot guarantee stable yields in drought and flood, at least it has a much stronger ability to resist disasters. If it is combined with the planting of sweet potatoes, it is basically impossible to have famine.&1t;/p>

Sweet potato promotion is naturally also in the reclaiming of wastelands. It is already spring. Many land that is being reclaimed has been inserted into the ground after turning the soil with oxen twice.&1t;/p>

Many farmers have never seen this thing and feel it is very novel. The sweet potatoes you planted only need to be watered at the beginning. After the sweet potato vines take root and grow, they basically don’t need to worry about them, and they are extremely drought-resistant. If they are really drought, just put water in once or twice.&1t;/p>

The military camps in Jingying and the emperor's reclamation area of ​​the Royal Agricultural Company will total 130,000 mu, which can increase 130,000 shi of grain every year. The land taxes and taxes of the Ming Dynasty were only 190,000 shi at this time.&1t;/p>

As Cao Jinyu's grain store expands its scale of settlement, its business continues to increase.&1t;/p>

Those refugees, tenants, and soldiers in the Jingying who participated in the reclaiming of wastelands were all supplied by the Jimin Grain Bank. At this time, Zhu Youzhao began to train the Jingying camp, and the food requirements of the Jingying soldiers also became supplied by the Jimin Grain Bank. The official orders increased accordingly, and four million stones of grain were soon exceeded.&1t;/p>

On this day, Cao Jinyu came to the Forbidden City to meet the emperor. The two began to secretly discuss more profitable grain retail.&1t;/p>

"Emperor, there are 550,000 households and 2.19 million people in the capital alone, and the annual grain needs are at least 50,000 stones. If we can squeeze out other grain banks, we will have a profit of at least one million taels of silver every year. There are also northern towns such as Tianjin, Taiyuan, Jinan, Kaifeng, and Xi'an, with a combined population of over 10 million. If we can monopolize the grain supply of these towns, the money we can earn every year will definitely go to the sea." Cao Jinyu said to Zhu Youxiao with some excitement.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao's eyes shining when he heard this, but Zhu Youxiao was not desperate and thought about it carefully and asked, "Can you guarantee that you can keep up with the transportation and processing of grain?"&1t;/p>

"This, I'm just starting to do it." Cao Jinyu was a little embarrassed, and Zhu Youxiao asked, "Then what are your plans?"&1t;/p>

"Weichen plans to use hydraulic power to process grain to reduce labor costs. In terms of transportation, water transportation is the main focus, and four-wheeled ox carts are used for transportation." Cao Jinyu replied.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao has been traveling here for half a year and has a certain understanding of the transportation tools during this period. In this era, China still mainly uses water shipments, after all, the shipping cost is low enough. For transportation in 6 places, the carriage is basically a two-wheeled carriage, while the ox carriage is a four-wheeled carriage.&1t;/p>

This kind of four-wheeled ox cart also has steering devices, but it belongs to the "semi-finished" level. Because of the slow cattle level, all these semi-finished steering devices are enough. The advantage of ox carts is that they have strong pulling power, which is far better than carriages.&1t;/p>

China does not have four-wheeled carriages, which is obviously not because the technology is not enough, but because the four-wheeled carriages are not competitive enough. After all, Asian horses are small in size, unlike those heavy horses in Europe that are suitable for pulling carriages. Moreover, European water transportation is not as good as China, so European four-wheeled carriages have room for exhibition and technology can continue to improve.&1t;/p>

Four-wheeled carriages have no competitive advantage in China, so they lose their motivation to develop.&1t;/p>

In order to monopolize the northern commodity grain market, Zhu Youxiao and Cao Jinyu soon arrived at the Royal Military Factory of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

Before Shenyang fell, Zhu Youxiao transferred more than 3,000 craftsmen from Shenyang, making the scale of craftsmen in the Royal Military Factory very large and there is no shortage of manpower. A large number of craftsmen began to transfer military to civilians and produce various agricultural tools and other things.&1t;/p>

Then Zhu Youxiao established a hydraulic machinery research department and a horse carriage research department in the military factory. Hydraulic machinery can reduce grain processing costs and also reduce military equipment production costs, which must be developed.&1t;/p>

The carriage is relatively simple, and the four-wheeled carriage uses a relatively simple steering device, and uses a bearing shaft to increase stability and uses a spring to reduce bumps.&1t;/p>

The transportation cost of horse-drawn carriages is still higher than that of ox carriages. The advantage is that they are faster and more suitable for military use. The improved four-wheeled carriages will improve efficiency and can also reduce some costs.&1t;/p>

The advancement of technology allows capital to further monopolize the market.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao solved the technical problems in the operation of commercial grains, and the next step is how to squeeze other grain banks out of the market.&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!