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Although the government offices and noble gardens in Nanjing have not been used for the time being, they will definitely be useful in the future.The eunuchs who survived were thrown around as handymen, cleaning and maintaining buildings with a meager salary.

These too heard that Zhao Han had moved in, so they joined forces in private and came to petition together.

Zhao Han walked to the gate of the Governor's Mansion, saw a crowd kneeling in the dark outside, frowned and shouted: "Hurry up and disperse!"

A eunuch climbed up on his knees, kowtowed and said: "The servant bowed to the commander. The commander will be the emperor in the future. In the palace, it is inconvenient for the guards to do things, so we have to use eunuchs. We are all disabled people, please The commander-in-chief is kind enough to stay and serve the commander-in-chief."

"Are you the leader?" Zhao Han asked.

The eunuch thought he had an opportunity, so he quickly replied: "Your maidservant's humble name is Yuan En."

"Arrest this guy to sweep the streets. He will be fined for three months. No salary, only food!" Zhao Han said, turned around and left.

A group of eunuchs knelt there, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

Even if one day Zhao Han really wanted to use eunuchs, he would order them to be summoned instead of a group of eunuchs coming to instigate them.

……

Jeju Island.

Hu Dinggui, Wang Yaochen, Lu Xiangguan, and Chen Tangong looked at the more than 400 horses in front of them, and there was nothing but indescribable shock in their hearts.

"Isn't this Tianma?" Lu Xiangguan exclaimed.

Hu Dinggui looked at his mount, and then at the horse breed that had just been brought in, like a person who has been eating bran for a long time, suddenly encounters delicacies from mountains and seas.

500 horses departed from India and were transported to Shanghai. More than 30 horses died, and more than 60 horses were sick and stayed temporarily for recuperation and treatment.Only 402 good horses were actually transported to Jeju Island.

These horses were all bought from the Mughal Empire, and they are all Mawari horses.

公马平均肩高接近1米55，母马平均肩高接近1米53，而济州岛这边的平均肩高只有1米22。

A difference of 30 centimeters!

These are likely the hybrid descendants of Arabian and Turkmen horses, brought to northwestern India by invaders.

When the Mughal Empire expanded, several states that had this kind of war horse fought back and forth with the Mughal army.In the end, relying on internal division and political marriage, the Mughal Empire annexed those states and gave them a high degree of autonomy.

After long-distance transportation, everyone was reluctant to ride, so they were sent to the pasture to recover their energy.

It was not until ten days later that Hu Dinggui carefully tested the car.

That feeling is like changing a tractor into a top sports car!

"drive!"

Hu Dinggui sat on the horseback, galloping between the horses, as if flying through the clouds.

Lu Xiangguan also chose a horse, and immediately burst into pride, he rode his horse to catch up with Hu Dinggui and said: "General Hu, with this amazing horse, it can sweep Mobei!"

Hu Dinggui ran for two laps and stopped, and said: "Let this kind of Tianzhu horse breed by itself first, and if the stallion still has enough strength, then choose the best Jeju mares to breed. The horse is born in October, and the pony is one and a half years old. If they can be bred, many good horses can be born in five years!"

Chen Tangong caught up and asked, "How much is this kind of horse?"

Wang Yaochen replied: "150 taels a horse, guaranteed to be transported from Tianzhu to Macau, and no money will be given to those who died halfway. Zheng Zhilong sent a boat to transship, and paid another sum of money. It is estimated that each horse cost 160 taels."

"That's tens of thousands of taels of silver, and I bought hundreds of horse breeds." Chen Tangong said in shock.

The reason why it is so expensive is mainly the transportation problem.

When Portugal buys horses and transports them to Macau, it has to bear the risk of the horse dying halfway.They also hired a professional horse breeder to take good care of them along the way, so that the death rate was reduced.

Hu Dinggui was afraid that the horse would be tired, so he rolled over and kept stroking the horse. He wished he could hug the horse to sleep.

Mawarima's ears are very cute. They are pricked up, and the tips of the ears are rolled inwards, as if they are "compared with each other".With muscular body and shiny fur, this is the best war horse in South Asia!

Zhao Han gave Jeju Island a quota of 2000 cavalry.

Among them, 1800 cavalry were all transferred from Datong soldiers.With the remaining 200 people, asking Hu Dinggui to recruit from the island is one of the steps to assimilate the islanders.

The ethnicity of Jeju Island is very complex, including Koreans, Mongolians, and Han.After two or 300 years of intermarriage, the blood has been completely mixed, and because of poor treatment, many of them are still criminals, and their sense of identity with North Korea is not very high.

As long as they are given equal treatment and taught to speak and write Chinese characters, they can assimilate into their own people in the future.

Even if Zhao Han wanted to colonize, he would not pursue a policy of extermination.

The Chinese nation has such an amazing talent for assimilation, why should it learn from the barbaric and bloody Westerners?

Of course, if there are stubborn people, they must still speak with guns.

……

"Boom!"

With a burst of thunder, the torrential rain poured down.

Lu Xiangsheng studied behind closed doors at his hometown in Yixing, resting and recovering by the way.

After several years of military career and being imprisoned for another year, Lu Xiangsheng's health is not good.

When I woke up in the morning, it was still raining heavily.

This rain has been going on for a day and a night.

Lu Xiangsheng felt a little bad, and immediately went out with an umbrella, and came to the small river in the village, the water level had already exceeded the warning line.

He went home and took his younger brother Lu Xiangjin to the county government on foot to report the situation.

Before I left the village, I saw several officials coming in coir raincoats, knocking on doors from house to house to pass orders.

"Brothers of the peasant association, gather at the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village immediately!"

"Datong peasants and soldiers, all gather! Gather soldiers, gather soldiers!"

"..."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at all this in a daze. The peasant association and peasant soldiers are all mud legs from the past.

It took them only half a year to get the land.

The policy on peasants and soldiers has been adjusted, not every family will come out, and the only child can not be a peasant and soldier.After the family is separated, there is only one strong laborer in the family, so it is not necessary to be recruited as a farmer and soldier.

Therefore, the number of farmers and soldiers in each village and town has dropped by at least one-third compared to when Zhao Han first started his army.

During the slack season, he only practiced for half a day a day, and he only had one lunch in the town, so the training speed and salary were lower than before.

At least the peasants and soldiers have to take care of food, but the peasant associations bring their own dry food when doing things!

Don't get paid, but bring your own dry food, isn't it the old government corvée?People should hate it deeply.

But Lu Xiangsheng soon saw a scene that he would never forget. A large number of members of the peasant association not only went out in coir raincoats by themselves, but also brought their families with them, and even teenagers followed.

They walked through the rain and gradually gathered into a team, singing songs with high fighting spirit.

Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Xiangjin followed them, but saw two flags erected at the entrance of the village, one was the flag of the peasant association, and the other was the flag of the peasants and soldiers.

Wherever they passed along the way, rich families lay down at the door to offspring one after another, with fear in their eyes.

Last year, when the fields were divided in the village, there was an army at the beginning. After the peasant association was established, the army withdrew immediately.Some big landlords still wanted to resist the policy, and at the order of the peasant association, countless peasants with hoes on their shoulders arrested the entire family of those landlords for public trial.

Dare to resist by force?

Killed on the spot!

"Brother, they are here to fight the flood." Lu Xiangjin said.

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "I know, it's just... I feel a little emotional for no reason."

Lu Xiangjin said: "It's really embarrassing."

Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "When I was leading the army in the north, I often heard the name of the king of Zhao. He defeated the local governors several times. I just felt that those governors were incompetent. If I led the troops by myself, I would definitely kill the Zhao thieves. But in this situation , It made me realize that none of the civil servants and military generals of Ming Dynasty can be Zhao Han's opponent."

"What the people want." Lu Xiangjin said.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The hearts of the people in the past were the hearts of the scholars and the people. Guishou was ignorant, he didn't know right from wrong, he didn't know the benefits and harms, so he couldn't get his mind together. Haha, this statement is absurd. Guishou is not ignorant, but has nothing to do with them. Zhao Han With Tian Zheng’s desire to gather at the head of Guizhou, this is the real aspiration of the people. After the flood is over, let us brothers also go to Nanjing to see what we can find.”

The various armies being mobilized were delayed by the heavy rain throughout the Yangtze River Basin.

Heavy rains fell in Jiangxi, Hunan, and Jiangnan, and finally formed a large flood peak in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.Susongchang Lake and these big taxpayers were all hit by floods, and countless farmlands along Taihu Lake were submerged.

Flood in the south, drought in the north!

Shandong is not only plagued by drought, but also plagued by locusts, and the whole province is full of migratory locusts.

Puzhou Prefecture was the worst hit, and all the vegetation was eaten up.The government dug a pit to bury the corpse directly outside the city gate, and the hungry people dug the pit to dig up the corpse, cut up the corpse and ate the flesh.There are also family members who died of starvation, and there are many father and son couples eating each other at the morgue.

Fortunately, Zhang Guowei was appointed as the Jiangnan Water Conservancy Envoy, and he has been building Jiangnan Water Conservancy since last summer.And with work as relief, many hungry people survived the famine.

The damage caused by this year's flood is far lower than that in history.

"Order to suspend the dispatch of troops from all over the country, and all rush to the disaster area to rescue the people!"

This is the first military order issued by Zhao Han himself after he moved to Nanjing.

There are floods in all provinces, how can we fight across the river?

Chapter 335 [Yangzhou no longer has ten days]

The city of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty was very large, and the outer city wall framed the entire Zijin Mountain.Guanyin Gate, Qilin Gate, Shangfang Gate...these are all gates of the outer city, leaving only one place name in later generations.

As far as the outer city wall is concerned, there are large areas of farmland and mountains in Nanjing.

Then, should we keep the arable land in the city, or should we distribute the arable land to nearby farmers?In other words, are these people who are included in the outer city considered urban residents or farmers?

During the flood relief period in various places, the magistrates of Shangyuan and Jiangning counties in Nanjing came to find Zhao Han with many doubts.

Zhao Han convened the officials of the Governor's Mansion to discuss repeatedly, and decided that the farmers should be counted first, and the land that should be divided should still be divided-in fact, it has already been divided.

When the urban population continues to expand, land will inevitably be gradually encroached upon.At that time, the population on the land will be relocated to the north to divide the land, and those who are willing to stay will be directly converted into citizens.

"There are still some vagrants in the city who lack stable livelihoods," Zhao Han ordered, "post notices to recruit 1000 people to work. Volunteers will come and pay wages. First, clean up the ruins of the Nanjing Imperial City. After the flood recedes, Recruit craftsmen and handymen to slowly restore the Nanjing Imperial City."

The two county magistrates took their orders to leave.

Pang Chunlai asked: "The governor plans to make Nanjing the capital?"

"It's true, let Beijing take it easy." Zhao Han sighed.

The population of Beijing is also in the millions.

In the mid-Ming Dynasty, the surrounding vegetation was cut down.During the Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties, residents had to rely on Xishan coal for their living firewood, and the emperor could only open his eyes and close his eyes when his ancestral graves (dragon veins of the imperial mausoleum) were dug up all day long.

The ecological environment there is extremely fragile, and there are several sandstorms every year.

Needless to say, water transportation is a waste of manpower and material resources.

Don't talk about food grain going by sea, Zhu Yuanzhang also used sea ships to transport military food at first, and Zhu Di also used sea ships to transport horses from North Korea.There were several shipwrecks, the entire fleet capsized, and such things were never mentioned again.

Zhao Han himself may be able to insist on shipping, but who knows what future generations are?Being fooled by ministers with relevant interests, it is estimated that he will have to take the Grand Canal again.

Zhu Di set his capital in Beijing to deal with Mongolia.

With the continuous development of guns, railways may be built in the future, and the Mongolian grasslands no longer pose a big threat.Then why go to Beijing to eat sandstorms?

Set aside 200 years to restore the ecology around Beijing, so that the people there can live a better life.

Another most important reason is that after the war and famine in Beijing, the population may not be much left.If Zhao Han decides to set his capital in Beijing, he will have to forcibly relocate rich households and common people to enrich the city of Beijing, just like Zhu Di.

Toss around!

"Nanjing is also fine," Li Banghua said after careful consideration, "but we have to go on an expedition to the grasslands and take root firmly in Hetao."

In addition to Hetao, there is also the Songliao Basin. Both areas can be farmed, and they have been in the state of half-cultivation and half-grazing in the Ming Dynasty.As long as these two places are under control, the grasslands and the Northeast are no problem. However, before the advent of the railway, the cost of transporting food in was relatively high, and it took at least 30 years of hard work to stabilize it.

Zhao Han looked at the map repeatedly: "The flood prevented them from crossing the river. Let us send troops to Jianghuai, at least in June. By that time, Zhang Xianzhong may have captured Yunyang. Our army went north to Jianghuai, and Li Zicheng went north to Shanxi. Zhang Xianzhong had no other choice." , it is estimated that he will go west to Sichuan. According to reports, there are uprisings everywhere in Sichuan, and Zhang Xianzhong may easily enter."

"The eight thieves are not bad. They have been promoting good governance in Hubei for the past year. It is not a bad thing for him to take down Sichuan." Li Banghua said.

Zhang Xianzhong no longer ran to get his hands on Tongcheng, the chief military adviser would not be Wang Zhaoling, and no one would fool Zhang Xianzhong into killing indiscriminately in Sichuan.

Today, Zhang Xianzhong proclaims himself the "Great General of Dingguo", and his military advisers are ranked in order: Liao Zhifang, Xu Yixian, and Pan Duao.

In particular, Liao Zhifang and Xu Yixian, one who carried "Da Tong Ji" with him, and the other who boasted of being Zhuge Liang all the year round, were all admonishing Zhang Xianzhong to implement good governance.

So Zhang Xianzhong started to do what Zhu Yuanzhang did, throwing a large number of soldiers who had no combat effectiveness into "military settlements".He also recruited refugees everywhere and carried out "civil settlements" in various places.At the same time, he began to train soldiers and restrain the military discipline of the troops. Although the military discipline is still very bad, it is much better than that of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

These policies are considered good governance in the chaotic north.

Although the people in military and civilian villages were similar to serfs, they still regarded Zhang Xianzhong as a living Bodhisattva.

Really, killing a few people less so that the common people can farm in peace is already called good governance in the north!

In comparison, Li Zi's achievements are much worse.

This is not Li Zicheng's personal reason, but that Henan has been suffering from severe drought for many years, and even if he farms, he can't grow any food.Li Zicheng also went to fight Shanxi, where the drought was even more serious.He couldn't be self-sufficient, so he could only grab food and money all the way, and then lead his troops straight to Beijing!