Zhu Youjian undoubtedly trusted Lu Xiangsheng very much. Lu Xiangsheng was a civil servant and brave in fighting, which gave Zhu Youjian a very good impression.

As for Zhao Yan, Zhu Youjian also had a very good impression. Although this son came to seek help, he was extremely active in killing the thieves. Zhu Youjian did not even lower the order, so he rushed to the Central Plains to attack the thieves.

Previously, he saved Fengyang's ancestral tomb, and this time he killed the King of Chuang again and lost. This made Zhu Youjian feel very good, so he agreed to Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion and asked Lu Xiangsheng to transfer the 400,000 prisoners to the Denglai Tun Cultivation.

However, the deterioration of Shaanxi made Zhu Youjian very disliked. Hong Chengchou, who was in charge of military affairs in five provinces, was even poorer than in a corner of Shaanxi. Now there are still bandits rushing to the Central Plains, which is not even within Hong Chengchou's ability. Therefore, Zhu Youjian decided to appoint the governor of Huguang, Lu Xiangsheng, the military affairs of Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, Huguang and other departments, and led the general Zhao Yan to command the Denglai army, Zu Kuan, Zu Dale, and deputy general Li Chongzhen to control the Guanliao and the local garrison to suppress the enemy, and gave Shang Fangjian to act cheaply. The scope of authority was clearly divided: "Hong Chengchou supervises the northwest, and Lu Xiangsheng supervises the southeast."

The deadline for the suppression of the bandits in June has passed April. In addition to the improvement of the war in the Central Plains, the northwest is still in turmoil. In order to speed up the progress of the bandits, Zhu Youjian issued another edict called "Absolution from Shanxi and Shaanxi".

"I respect the way of heaven and conquer the world. I think of this military and civilians. Who is not a child? I am the only one who is a greedy official and the years are so famine that he is forced to do something wrong. I have ignorance and gradually threatened to follow the crowd. I have been innocent for several years, and I don't know how many of them are. I am sad and sad, and I sleep and eat and eat... For this reason, I issued another amnesty letter, and sent an official to voluntarily, and followed the instructions of the great letter, and followed the customs. If I repent and surrender, I will return to the right, and I will be said to be rescued and the refugees will be found one by one. The locals will be included in Baojia.

All provinces will send back the protection, return the old business, and return it, and pay tribute to many places. If you do not want to return to the local area, you can go to Denglai, Shandong to settle down and all the oxen and fields will be sent to the well to enjoy the joy of rest. If you are obsessed with it, you will never be sad. If you are born from outside, how can you be covered again? Supervise and govern the soldiers and work together to suppress them, and make sure that they will be eliminated and there will be no remnants. Alas, Fushun suppresses rebellion, the court's laws are selfless; if you go out of life, you should not miscalculate. The imperial edict will be published in the far and wide, and all the people will know."

In the edict, Zhu Youjian also clearly understood the core reasons why the people followed the thief. Officials embezzled [***], and the continuous famine, which made the thief grow bigger.

At the same time, he expressed his compassion, gave a solution, and threatened it. The carrots and sticks all came into battle, but Zhu Youjian did not provide any substantial means of resettlement.

The Qing Dynasty returned the old business and was just an empty talk. The [***] in the late Ming Dynasty and the serious financial crisis of the court could not achieve any effect.

However, sending it to Denglai Centre is a practical solution.

Lu Xiangsheng's memorial sent the rebels to Denglai, which undoubtedly made Zhu Youjian want to find a way to resettle the rioters, and the settlement fee was not required to be issued by the court, which was a good idea.

The officials of the court even more affirmed this method. Zhao Yan sent them some filial piety, and he sent filial piety directly like a vulgar warrior. Instead, he did it very secretly through the connections of Shandong merchants. Although some of them were discovered by the Jinyiwei who were placed in the official's homes, in general, they did not make a big fuss to the point where the city was full of storms.

What a sincere heart to serve the country and what loyal ministers are commendable? Amid the praise, Zhu Youjian's good impression of Zhao Yan has once again aggravated.

However, Zhao Yan's sales of private salt cannot be hidden for a long time. Zhao Yan's sales method is almost nakedly confronting the salt merchants in Lianghuai, the main force is Hui merchants.

Hui merchants were not only both Confucian and businessmen, but also made friends with powerful people. The capital was extremely strong. I believe that it would be in the court in no time... Regarding Chongzhen's promotion of Lu Xiangsheng, Liu Heng seemed a little worried: "The emperor gave Lu Xiangsheng a sword and named the Lord of the Commander. Lu Xiangsheng was the master of suppressing the thieves in the Central Plains. If he wanted to call the Lord to go to the Central Plains to suppress the thieves, wouldn't it make us mess up?"

"The so-called dragons do not leave the abyss is indeed not good for us." Zhang Buyun nodded.

"So, according to your opinion, how should we deal with it?" Zhao Yan asked.

"If Lu Xiangsheng wants to call the Lord to the Central Plains to suppress the thieves, the Lord can send a battalion to cooperate in the suppression. If he wants to change the Central Plains, the Lord can simply ask for illness and not go there." Liu Heng suggested.

"Well! That's it!" Zhao Yan nodded. If he wanted to change the town, then naturally he would be unwilling. After all, Denglai is his foundation, and there is no way.

At the end of August, the battalions that went to the Central Plains to fight the bandits returned to Shandong with 400,000 prisoners. They were then placed in Dengzhou, where many unbordered lands were found.

This is a very closed place. Except for the official roads, many other roads only allow a cart to pass by.

Zhao Yan also had his own difficulties in choosing Dengzhou instead of Laizhou.

Except for the land in Laizhou that was ravaged by Kong Youde, most of the other places are densely packed with landlords of all sizes. These landlords are indeed not strong, but if they want to force their land, they will cause trouble.

If they wanted to force their land, Zhao Yan wouldn't have that much money at all. Even if a mu of land was sold for three taels of silver, a million mu would cost three million taels.

There is no doubt that he didn't have that much money. Therefore, he could only cultivate the hilly areas in Dengzhou first. The hilly areas in Shandong are not fertile, and the most suitable crops for planting are soybeans and peanuts.

As for the division of agricultural labor, grain is generally produced in the northeast and south, beans and peanuts are produced in Shandong, and then exchanged. However, the environment at this time is not suitable for division of labor.

Zhao Yan needs food, the more the better. However, it also requires a large amount of beans. After all, feeding horses and cows requires soybeans. As the horse farm expands and the number of horses increases, the demand for beans further increases.

After discussion, Zhao Yanyu Tang Zhengze decided to allocate fifty acres of arable land to each young man. In addition to the people who were snatched from the bandits, there were also refugees recruited from all over the place. The number of young and strong people who settled Dengzhou was about 400,000, so 20 million arable land was needed to be reclaimed in Denglai.

According to calculations, there are probably only those unowned arable land in Dengzhou.

Among the fifty acres of arable land, thirty acres of wheat were planted, fifteen acres of beans, three acres of peanuts, two acres of sweet potatoes, and interplanted corn during the period.

The reason why thirty acres of wheat is that Zhao Yan needs a lot of grain. Naturally, it is not a verbal call. Even if a business is doing grain business, it does not transport wheat from Denglai.

Fifteen acres of beans are to meet the needs of breeding. If the needs exceed them, it doesn’t matter. You can export these beans to the south.

Planting peanuts in three acres is also to meet consumption needs. Planting sweet potatoes in two acres is to prepare for wasteland. If the war lasts for many years, people will not starve to death.

From next year, Denglai will no longer plant sweet potatoes on a large scale. Areas that plant sweet potatoes on a large scale will be moved to Yingzhou and Handan. After all, the two zones are closer to the disaster area and are more convenient for transportation.

"After these people are filled with Dengzhou, Dengzhou will inevitably be full of people and produce more grain, but road conditions must be solved, otherwise it will not only be difficult to transport grain, but also difficult to be rich in the local area." Tang Zhengze said.

"After getting settled, let the more than one million people go to build roads! In addition, autumn is approaching. Let the textile factory speed up the time to make cotton jackets and give each of the people who have not settled, so don't let them freeze."

...After the policy, it suddenly became noisy in all parts of Dengzhou. More than one million refugees flocked to Dengzhou and began to build houses in planned places.

Houses are all simple wooden houses, which can shelter from wind and rain. At the beginning of everything, you can only make ends meet. Many people, who were the first to carry out military farming, have already started to build brick and tile houses this year. For the people who built brick and tile houses, Zhao Yan would give them a few glass skylights, which is also one of the benefits! Let their houses be brighter.

Many people who left the thieves and refugees recruited from all over the country were surprised to find that Zhao Yan's promise to them had been fulfilled. Not only did he get enough sweet potatoes every day, but each of them also got a cotton jacket of high quality. I heard that there was one after winter.

According to the process, first register the household registration of refugees, whether they have family members or craftsmanship, and whether they have or not. Then, the villages are designated. One village is one thousand young people. In the past, three villages are built with one fort, but now ten villages are built with one fort. This time, the villages are 400,000, and forty bastions must be built.

Then the newly appointed village chiefs, group chiefs, group training, and guards took office. Then the young and strong people were assigned to each village. The distribution principle was for relatives to follow. The refugees who had no young and strong relatives stayed in Zhaojiabao for other distributions. If the young women without spouses were present, the matchmaker would come to help these refugees re-establish their families.

After being allocated to their respective garrisons, the young and strong people first began to build houses in planned locations. These locations are usually the first choice to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and are close to the water source.

Then we will start to distribute the tools needed to build houses, as well as farm tools, seeds, and oxen. Then the heads of each township will organize people to build houses and reclaim wasteland.

As for each fort guard, they will organize the training of each garrison and start to investigate the bandits near each garrison. After discovering the bandits, the townships of each fort jointly suppress the attack. If it is more difficult, inform the military camp, and the military camp will send troops to clean up.

After the house was built, people began to be organized to reclaim wasteland and build simple water conservancy. After planting crops, they began to build roads, build forts, and improve various facilities and defenses for the settlement.

During the first year of construction, young and strong people in the village usually have no time to practice. They only have time to practice after the second year of stability.

During the construction period, the food and clothing for refugees to keep warm were provided by Zhao Yan, and the oxen, farm tools and seeds were also provided by Zhao Yan, and these refugees did not need to repay them in the second year.

More than one million refugees flocked to Dengzhou, which put some pressure on all departments.

There is not much problem with seeds in agricultural tools. Since the iron production in Handan, the output has far exceeded the consumption demand in this era.

At present, the total capacity of blast furnaces in Handan has reached 100,000 cubic meters, producing 100,000 tons of iron, producing 30 tons of steel, and 80,000 people participating in steel smelting and mineral excavation. The current output is maintained at this level and there is no continued increase in output, because there is insufficient market demand, blindly increasing output will only cause an oversupply.

However, it seems that there has been an oversupply, so each of the farm tools required for farming is a top-notch steel product, and the cost is almost the same as that of iron farm tools!

For this reason, the business is stepping up the planning of the production and sales of iron and steel commodities, and digesting these excess production capacity as soon as possible.

The ox plowing is also a bit tight. According to the distribution of five people to one cow, 80,000 ox plowing ox is needed. Fortunately, not only have they been vigorously raising horses in the past two years, but they have not yet been able to raise cattle. Each village has its own cattle farm. Tang Zhengze has also built three large cattle farms, which are evenly enough.

Building a town, building a fort, and water conservancy requires cement and blue bricks. The output of kilns is obviously not up to par, and the production scale needs to be expanded. This time, more than one million refugees poured into Dengzhou, and there was always no shortage of manpower. In addition, the fortifications of the town and each fort can be postponed for some time to rebuild, which is completely sufficient in terms of water conservancy.

Dengzhou Prefect Chen Zhongsheng naturally had to participate in this large-scale military farming project. Chen Zhongsheng was a fairly honest official. Of course, it was only relatively speaking that there were some gray incomes. After taking office in Dengzhou, he did some practical things for the people. Zhao Yan liked him and often had contacts with Chen Zhongsheng. The relationship between the two was very good, unlike Laizhou Prefect Sun Yaoguang and Zhao Yan.

Chen Zhongsheng cooperated very actively in this military farming. So many refugees were settled in Dengzhou under the organization of Zhao Yan, and repairing water conservancy and roads. It can be imagined that in just a few years, Denglai would be prosperous and his political achievements could be improved.

While being happy, Chen Zhongsheng was also amazed at Zhao Yan's financial resources. Such a large-scale military farming cost no less than millions of taels.

"When Zhao Yan started his family, he was just a small landlord family in the countryside. In just a few years, he had trained a strong army, which not only quelled the bandits in Denglai, but also made the desolate Denglai flourish again. The so-called way to govern the country is nothing more than to safeguard the people. If the people can be safe, the country can be safe. If the army can be strong, the foreign race dare not attack. His great talent is beyond our reach. If we can learn some skills from him, we can make a difference in the future, which has eliminated the current disadvantages." Chen Zhongsheng thought in his heart and decided to have more contacts with Zhao Yan in the future.

At the same time, Chen Zhongsheng also personally inspected the newly established towns of Zhao Yan, carefully paid attention to every detail and process of resettling refugees. After observation, he found that there was no difficult place to farm farming. Most of the fees for Zhao Yan's large-scale farming were collected from the income from farming in Huang County. Whether it was farm tools, seeds or oxen, they were all produced by themselves.

In other words, as long as he farms in this way, he can roll bigger and bigger like a snowball, but it seems simple but extremely difficult.

First of all, there must be a fee investment in the military farm in advance, and it cannot be too small. If the scale is too small, the expansion speed will be restricted.

Today, the corruption is in decline and wars are everywhere. The court has long been unable to make ends meet. It can only drink poison to quench thirst and pay additional taxes. How can we withdraw money, grain and farmland?

Furthermore, from the recruitment of refugees, land planning and resettlement of refugees, there are also various places that need to be paid attention to. First of all, there must be cultivated land. For example, today, the land under the land is owned by wealthy households. The rich have houses and fields, while the poor have no place to stand.

Only places like Denglai that experience war and resist remote areas with a large amount of wasteland can find a large amount of arable land. If it is in other places, it will definitely be counterattacked by landlords of all sizes.

Furthermore, the clerks need to be honest. If they are greedy and cunning, no matter how good the policies are, they will be implemented in a mess. Although the managers under Zhao Yan do not have a name in the government, they are just like clerks. However, these clerks are all dedicated to their work. Even if they want to be greedy, they dare not blatantly. They can only use some tricks in secret, and are often worried that they will be found out.

The reason why this was so was because he put aside the existing [***] officialdom and established a small and elegant officialdom himself. Behaviors like Zhao Yan were almost ruthless, but his actions did indeed bring the scene of peace and rising to Denglai.

If we want to farm in various places in the Ming Dynasty, we have to rectify the officials first and then regulate the land, but this is obviously unrealistic.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!