This speculation is really unspeakable, even if it is highly pragmatic, he does not dare to hint at Zhu Yijun or ask anything in a roundabout way.

After all, no one dares to ask the emperor if you are not skilled in that area.

Isn't this looking for death?

Seeing that Gao Pragmatic frowned deeply for a long time, but still didn't speak, but his face became more and more cautious, Zhu Yijun realized that he really couldn't answer what he said just now from Gao Pragmatic's position.

You can't expect a civil minister to teach the emperor how to make the queen happy, right? This is something that only eunuchs can do.

"Uh...... Truth-seeking. Zhu Yijun hurriedly diverted the topic: "The self-presentation of the general soldiers of each town should have arrived at the military headquarters by now, right?" ”

Gao Pragmatic also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "It's here." ”

Zhu Yijun asked speechlessly: "Who are the people and is there anything special?" ”

Well?

Gao pragmatically said: This matter is not my responsibility.

The Ministry of War is now a four-squire system, and the status of the Rong Zheng Squire is not low, but the annual routine self-presentation of the general soldiers and deputy chief soldiers in various places is not the management of the Rong Zheng Squire Lang, but the military department Shangshu Liang Menglong personally reviewed it, and Zhu Yijun's question is supposed to be the wrong question.

But fortunately, there was a meeting in the Ministry of War, and Gao Shishi did not know about it, so he replied: "So far, there are Liaodong General Soldier Li Chengliang, Jizhen General Soldier Yang Siwei, Changzhen General Soldier Zhang Chen, Baoding General Soldier Dong Yiyuan, Xuanfu General Soldier Wang Guoxun, Datong General Soldier Ma Gui, Shanxi General Soldier Li Rusong, Yansui General Soldier Jia Guozhong, Ningxia General Soldier Zhang Weizhong, Guyuan General Soldier Li Zhen, Gansu General Soldier Liu Chengsi, Sichuan General Soldier Li Yingxiang, Zhejiang General Soldier Wang Huaxi, Fujian General Soldier Yu Song, Guangdong General Soldier Liu Fengxiang, Guangxi General Soldier Hu Liangpeng, Guizhou General Soldier Zhang Yu and Deputy Chief Soldier Zhang Yu and others all followed the rules and reported their resignation. ”

"What is the opinion of the military department?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Gao pragmatic said: "The big Sima has convened several colleagues to discuss this matter, probably only the Xuanfu chief soldier Wang Guoxun should retire when he is old, and there are a few deputy chief soldiers who should be rotated. ”

Zhu Yijun asked: "Xuanfu is one of the gateways of the Beijing Division, Wang Guoxun has retired, who can succeed him?" ”

Gao pragmatically said: "Ma Chengen can succeed him." ”

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't Ma Chengen in Kaiyuan?" A few days ago, he was just asked to inspect Liaobei, if he is transferred back to Xuanfu now, who will Kaiyuan be replaced? ”

Gao pragmatic replied: "In exchange for Ma Chengxun, the two of them are cousins, and the main forces under their command are all Ma family soldiers, since Ma Chengen can control Kaiyuan, Ma Chengxun will not be bad." Even as far as the minister knows, the difference in the number of soldiers in the hands of the two of them seems to be similar, and when they are transferred, they may only need to change generals without changing troops, and they can save some money. ”

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and asked, "Ma Chengxun was also meritorious in the previous battle of Monan, right?" ”

"Yes." Gao pragmatic nodded in response.

"Alright, that's it." Zhu Yijun bowed his head and said: "Ma Jiajiu Zhen Xuanda, Ma Chengen went to Xuanfu, and when I go to attack the map in the future, I will avoid instability on the flanks." ”

"Your Majesty." Gao pragmatic said this, paused for a moment, and said: "By the way, the emperor, there is something that needs to be paid attention to." ”

"What's the matter?"

"The leaders of Qinghai Tumut are the two chiefs of Litu and Huoluochi, and because they are jealous of the Shunyi king, Hannaji has been rewarded by me, and now they no longer obey the orders of Tumut's headquarters. The king of Shunyi wanted to send Hannaji to the expedition, but it happened that the Hetao Ordos Wanhu cut off Huang Taiji suddenly suffered from an emergency, and the undercurrent in the Ordos Department surged, and the king of Shunyi was afraid that the Hetao would change after the westward expedition of the army, so he could only temporarily hold the army still, and at the same time carry out the military department to remind the court to pay attention. ”

Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "This kind of thing happened?" Is there any inside story about this? ”

Of course, he knew how deeply the pragmatic Jinghua had infiltrated Mongolia, so he asked directly about the inside story.

Gao pragmatic did not hide it, and replied: "The matter is basically true. The two chieftains of Zhuli Rabbit and Huoluo Chi were originally brothers, and these two were driven to Qinghai by Alta back then, and they did not have much loyalty to the Tumut headquarters. On that day, the king of Shunyi was powerful, and the Huangtai Ji of Ordos was the main force to worship Hannaji as Chechen Khan, so the two of them had to temporarily submit to it.

In the autumn of this year, Huang Taiji was infected with the disease, and it was difficult to control the situation in less than two months. At this time, it is said that the envoy of the Tu people detoured to Mobei to Qinghai, and I don't know what benefits Xu Yili Rabbit and Huoluo Chi two chiefs had, in short, the two chiefs no longer obeyed the orders of Fengzhou Beach, and began to completely get up on their own. ”

Zhu Yijun suddenly frowned: "There are still black hands of the figures here?" It seems that Xin Ai's son is really capable, a bit of a mastermind. ”

Gao pragmatic said: "Although Buzhihatu is a defeated general under his ministers, this person does have some skills, and he can't be taken lightly. In the minister's opinion, since he made a move, he would not just lay out this game. ”

Zhu Yijun really paid attention to it, and muttered: "What do you think he will do?" ”

Gao pragmatically said: "What exactly will be done, the minister has not had time to think about it carefully, but the minister thinks that what he does will not escape the two main purposes: one is to isolate Tumut as much as possible, and the other is to try to delay my Ming Dynasty's war preparations." ”

Zhu Yijun's small eyes flashed, and he said coldly: "I think so." ”

He paused for a moment, and then asked: "The Chahar Department suffered a lot of losses after the defeat in the Battle of Southern Liaoning, how is it recovering now, do you have any news from there?" ”

"A little." Gao pragmatic frowned: "The Tumen still trust Buzhhatu very much, and from what can be learned so far, Buzhhatu has at least offered two strategies to the Tumen to speed up the recovery of the Chahar Department." ”

"Which two strategies?" Zhu Yijun immediately asked.

"The first is to develop agriculture. Now, like Tumut, the Chahar is cultivating farmland and growing food in some of the fields that can be planted, and they don't even know where to get some cotton seeds, and they start planting cotton fields, but I don't know if they have got a loom. ”

Zhu Yijun frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know how much farmland they have opened up?" "Peerless Tang Gate fo

Gao pragmatically shook his head: "Jinghua's horse team can't go far to Chahar, and the specific situation is not known for the time being." ”

Zhu Yijun thought for a while, and then said: "I think they should have got a loom—otherwise, what's the use of them growing cotton?" You can't just play a few quilts, right? ”

Regarding cotton, it seems that many people in later generations have misunderstood, thinking that there was no cotton in ancient China, which is actually wrong.

Cotton cultivation has been recorded in China during the Qin and Han dynasties, and the planting areas are mainly distributed in Hainan Island, Liangguang, Yunnan, Fujian, Sichuan and other places in the south. There are also in the north, but most of them are in the Western Regions (Xinjiang) and the Hexi Corridor. However, at that time, cotton was planted in a small area, and it was rarely used to make clothes to wear.

In the Song Dynasty, cotton began to be introduced to the Central Plains, but cotton at this time was mainly used as a flower ornament, and no one thought of weaving cotton into cloth and making clothes. It was also from the Song Dynasty that the word "cotton" officially appeared, and it was all "cotton" before.

At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a great figure appeared in the southern region where cotton was grown, and she was the "ancestor of the cloth industry" Huang Daopo. Huang Daopo improved the whole set of equipment for cotton weaving, and popularized the weaving technology to the north and south of the river, and people began to wear cotton clothes. The Yuan Dynasty army also began to be equipped with cotton armor filled with cotton.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang used forced methods to promote cotton planting, so that cotton cloth and cotton clothes began to be popularized. In the Ming Dynasty, Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations" contains, "cotton cloth is available in every inch of land", "there must be ten rooms of looms", and cotton at this time has been very popular in the Ming Dynasty. For example, the Jiangnan region during the Wanli period was the center of the textile industry: silk and cotton.

However, the cotton in the south of the Yangtze River is not considered to be high-yielding, so the main production area of cotton in the Ming Dynasty is actually in the north.

For example, Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, whether it is silk cotton or cotton, is an important production area. There is a record in volume 35 "Kapok" of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", which says that "Qilu people grow cotton", "two or three hundred catties per mu are normal", and it is an area with high cotton yield per mu.

Of course, this yield cannot be compared with modern production, but in ancient times, when there were no chemical fertilizers and pesticides, this yield was still very high.

Not only Shandong, but also Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces have cotton production. In Henan, the hometown of Gao pragmatic, the cotton planting industry is also quite prosperous. "Taizu Record" contains, Hongwu 25 December Xin did not contain, "Zhangde, Weihui, Guangping, Daming, Dongchang, Kaifeng, Huaiqing Qifu", "this year's harvest" of "cotton flowers of more than 1,830,000 catties" - that was still in the early Ming Dynasty, there were more than 10 million catties of cotton production in the land of Qifu.

In addition to the high yield, the income of cotton planting is also very high, such as the six provinces of Shandong are all planting cotton, and the history records that "the benefits of the five grains are less than half". Therefore, many places have given up growing grain, especially in the areas with developed cotton textile industry in the south, even high-yield rice is not planted, and eight or nine tenths of it is used to grow cotton or silkworms, the reason is that the income of planting cotton or silkworms is higher, of course, this is why the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River needs Huguang to supply grain.

Faced with Zhu Yijun's question, Gao pragmatically shook his head and said, "The minister thinks this is also possible." ”

"You mean they just play quilts?" Zhu Yijun was surprised: "Why is this? In this case, they still need to find a way to get my Daming's cloth to be useful. ”

Gao pragmatic said: "In the winter of the Battle of Southern Liaoning, Chahar probably froze to death a lot of people, for them, whether they are well dressed or not is secondary, and the key to solving is the problem of freezing to death." The outflow of cotton cloth is actually uncontrollable, as long as Chahar is willing to spend more money, he can always get it, and with cotton cloth, those cotton cloth is wrapped in cotton cloth, whether it is to make quilts or cotton clothes, in fact, it is okay. As for whether the clothes are ugly or not, this is obviously not something they care about now. ”

Zhu Yijun frowned: "Why can't the outflow of cotton cloth be stopped?" Now who still dares to have a private market with Chahar? ”

I don't know if anyone dares to be pragmatic with Chahar, and even from his point of view, he is not actually opposed to trading with Chahar, after all, he has always been able to use this mutual market to achieve his own goals.

However, he also knew that Da Ming's attitude towards Chahar was completely different from that towards Tumut, so he didn't bother to persuade Zhu Yijun on this matter, but said: "Chahar may not need to directly exchange markets with my Da Ming or private markets to get cloth, they can go to trade with the Jurchen tribes, and even trade with some Tumuts - there may not be no one under Chechen Khan who dares to disobey Da Khan, which is the same as Da Ming also has criminals." ”

When Zhu Yijun heard this, he was a little annoyed, and said hatefully: "I really wish to stop their market rewards." ”

The market reward is the saying of the Ming Dynasty, to the effect that it is my Ming Dynasty's reward to exchange markets with you.

Of course, Zhu Yijun is just an angry sentence, of course he knows what the consequences of stopping all the mutual markets will be - the reason why Tumut fought with the Ming Dynasty for decades during the Altan Khan period was not to ask for a mutual market? At present, Tumut is so honest, it is impossible to just be a high and pragmatic face, Daming gave them a stable mutual market, which is the most basic and fundamental.

Gao Pragmatic shook his head: "The mutual market can't be stopped, not only can't it be stopped, but before taking Chahar, it is even necessary to increase some total amount as appropriate to stabilize Zhubian." ”

Zhu Yijun sighed and said helplessly: "In addition to turning to heavy farming, what else does Chahar do?" ”

Gao pragmatic said: "The other item has actually been mentioned just now, that is, heavy business. ”

Zhu Yijun was slightly surprised: "Heavy business? ”

For him, the Ming Emperor, Chongnong has heard a lot, but it seems that it is the first time that Chongshang has been represented.

Gao pragmatically nodded and said, "Yes, business-oriented." According to the information that the minister had at hand, Buzhhatu should have greatly strengthened trade with the Jurchens. ”

"What kind of news?"

"Over the past year or so, the Jurchen tribes have eaten far more beef and mutton than in the past, and the horses kept by the tribes have also increased a little more than in the past. The minister thought that this must be the material flowing from Chahar to the Jurchens. In other words, the Jurchens sold other goods to the Mongols in exchange for these cattle, sheep and horses. ”

Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "What can the Jurchens sell to the Mongols?" Ginseng, deer antler velvet and various furs? But the Mongols don't have much demand for these things, do they? ”

Gao Pragmatic shook his head decisively and said: "Of course the Jurchens don't sell these to the Mongols, they can take these things to exchange with the Ming Dynasty, and then exchange the goods of the Ming Dynasty and then exchange them with the Mongols, eat at both ends and earn at both ends." ”

When Zhu Yijun heard this, his eyes widened suddenly: "Then aren't we suffering?" ”

Ah......h Did you just react? The Jurchen ministries are now making it clear that they are earning money by virtue of their status as a "neutral country", which is no different from the Midi before Pearl Harbor.

"That's right, before we fight the remnant yuan, the Jurchen ministries always have such an opportunity."

Zhu Yijun was furious when he heard this, turned a few steps under the big tree, and said hatefully: "Okay, good, good, let them earn another three years, and wait until three years later, my Ming Dynasty will completely destroy the remnant yuan, and sooner or later I will have to settle this account with them again!" ”

The muscles on Gao Shishi's face twitched slightly, and he said secretly: The history books say that you are a fan of wealth, but I can't imagine that you are really ...... Fortunately, I will be honored.

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