Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and then said to Huang Liji cautiously and carefully: "Jeju Prefecture and Taiwan Prefecture are newly attached, and the natives on the island have always refused to accept the king, so the imperial court wants to give Jeju Prefecture a population of 500 households and a population of 1,500 Taiwanese Prefecture according to the Ryukyu example.

Daming Cheng has been peaceful for a long time, still to Henan Dingkou breeding the most prosperous, some time ago Henan local chaos, it is precisely because there are few people in the land, there are too many idle people in the place, so after being instigated, so many incidents have happened.

Therefore, the imperial court decided to transfer a total of 2,000 households from various provinces in Henan to Jeju and Taiwan respectively, and the selection criteria were households with more than 100 acres of land. All households that are drawn to the relocation will receive land in the new relocation area at a ratio of 1:2 to 1:2 for their land in their original home. As for their land of origin, it will be leased to the local people. ”

Huang Liji's heart suddenly beat, he knew that the precedent Chongzhen said was not impossible, when the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom asked for the population, the Ming Dynasty gave the Fujian people 36 surnames who were good at boating, and paid tribute.

However, the population given by the Ming Dynasty was only civilians before, but now Chongzhen is targeting the gentry of Henan, which is actually more like the old thing of the large-scale relocation of the rich families in Jiangnan to the north at the beginning of the country.

However, the emperor did not mention the relocation of the rich family from Jiangnan to the north, but mentioned the Ryukyu surname incident, which had a low impact, obviously to tell the people of the world that the choice of this migration population would not go beyond the scope of Henan.

Huang Liji weighed the pros and cons for a moment, and then calculated that this matter was actually doable. The relocation of 2,000 households to two overseas provinces is not about moving people, but about who to choose.

Compared with the land and grain requisitions that Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu did in Henan, this relocation of the whole family to the two overseas mansions is a really vicious plan.

But he also knows very well that once this matter spreads, he, the head of the cabinet, will inevitably be hated by the people of Henan.

After thinking about it for a long time, Huang Liji lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty's policy is certainly effective, but now the Henan gentry are already emotional, and now that the imperial court has issued such a drastic policy, will it anger them, and even those who were neutral and wait-and-see before have rebelled?" Will the chaos in Henan expand? ”

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a while, and then said: "You also said, now there are still a large number of gentry in Henan who are watching the development of the situation, if the imperial court is at a disadvantage, do you think they will join that side?"

There can only be one winner in the game between the imperial court and the Henan gentry, and it is impossible for everyone to have a win-win situation. What worries me even more is that if the policies pursued by the imperial court in Henan fail, will those gentry officials stop in moderation?

Will they carry out an all-out assault on the new policies issued by the imperial court? At that time, public opinion in the world will rise up and be turbulent, will I protect you and keep the imperial decree out of Gyeonggi? Or will they pander to the public opinion of the government and the opposition and throw you out as scapegoats for the implementation of the new policy? ”

Huang Liji raised his head, he looked at Chongzhen's gaze for a long time, and then said a little indifferently: "If Your Majesty insists on this, the minister can only follow, but the minister has a request, and I ask Your Majesty to agree." ”

Zhu Youzhen blinked, and finally said with a smile on his face, "Mr. Huang, please speak." ”

Huang Liji pursed his lips before he said softly: "This relocation of large households in Henan to the two overseas provinces is certainly beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, but it is not a good thing to leave their hometowns after all, so the old minister hopes that the relocation will be placed after the beginning of spring next year, so as to give the relocated large households a time to prepare." Lest in a hurry, someone would take a risk and bring a lot of trouble to the imperial court. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought about it and said: "This matter of population migration has the benefit of urgency, and there is also the benefit of delay. But since Mr. Huang said so, let's do as you say.

However, since the court has drawn its knife, it is always necessary to cut a few people to deter the ill-intentioned people, lest they think that the court is weak and can be bullied, thus causing misjudgment.

In this way, before the Spring Festival, let Xu Xianchun and Yang Suoxiu select 100 households to move to Taiwan, and it would be better to pick a few chickens to set an example for the monkeys. The rest will be relocated in large numbers after the beginning of spring next year.

As for the list of the relocated people, the quota was allocated to each county in Henan, and then the gentry of each county were asked to select the personnel, and the chief officials of each county carried out the verification, and Han Yiliang, Xu Xianchun, and Yang Suoxiu supervised them. ”

Huang Liji carefully scrutinized the two propositions put forward by Xia Chongzhen, and found that there was not much of a problem, so he immediately nodded in agreement. However, he still has some confusion about this in his heart, and he doesn't know how much trouble this move overseas will cause.

Zhu Youzhen didn't care about Huang Liji's change in expression, he clapped his hands at Lu Qi and said, "Steward Lu, open that curtain, I still have something to say to Mr. Huang." ”

Huang Liji looked in the direction of Chongzhen's finger and saw Lu Qi open a curtain covering the west wall, and below the curtain was a large map.

He followed Chongzhen to the map and found that most of the areas on the map were still blank, but some areas of Bohai Bay, Liaoning West Corridor, Hebei, and Shandong had been marked with circles of lines.

Zhu Youzhen first pointed to the map and explained to Huang Liji, and after the use of this map, he sighed slightly and said: "Bohai Bay, Liaoning West Corridor, and Hebei are more refined in surveying and mapping, but the other provinces are still blank, I am afraid that without 3 or 5 years of effort, this map of the Ming Dynasty will not be completed." But for now, let's use it for now. ”

At the beginning, Huang Liji felt that the new map was a complete mess, and the landscapes on the map were too abstract and not as three-dimensional as the old map.

However, when he was able to skillfully replace the contour lines and legends on the map, he found that the new map was much more practical and convenient than the old one. This kind of map drawn in equal proportions, as long as you master a few legends, you can easily judge the general situation of the distance and height of the place in your mind, which is really an important weapon of the militaristic state.

Huang Liji suddenly frowned and asked Chongzhen: "Your Majesty said last time that the Ministry of Rites teaches geography knowledge in various schools, and all the new maps are used in this geography textbook, is this the map?" ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded disapprerovingly and said: "Yes, as a Ming person, wouldn't it be ridiculous if you don't even know the geography of your own country."

Mr. Huang, you don't know, recently the Wensi Institute has made a new breakthrough in movable type printing and copper plate printing technology, and invented lithographic printing, which can print very clear pictures, and there will be no distortion and blurring when printing small maps, so I let them use the new map for teaching. ”

Huang Liji said a little anxiously: "Your Majesty, if such a delicate map flows into the people, if it falls into the hands of unscrupulous people or Jiannu Beiyu, wouldn't it be funding the enemy?" ”

Zhu Youzhen glanced at him and said disapprovingly: "I don't see it that way, the map used for teaching is not as fine as mine's. This map is the level used by the General Staff, the Army, and the Ministry of Engineering, and the maps used for teaching are better than the old ones, so they will not cause such serious consequences.

In addition, it may be a little bad for the new map to fall into the hands of foreign enemies, but Mr. Huang, you have to look at it from another aspect, the benefits brought to the Ming by the Ming students who have received the new map teaching will be limitless. Since the pros outweigh the disadvantages, it's only natural that we're going to push for a new type of map. ”

Huang Liji glanced at the map on the wall with some worry, Chongzhen's words did not convince him, but he did not want to continue to entangle with the emperor, because he knew that he could not convince the other party. He planned to have a good talk with the officials of the Ministry of Rites when he returned, and re-examine the matter of geography textbooks.

Seeing that Huang Liji was no longer silent, Zhu Youzhen put down the matter, pointed to the map instead, and told Huang Liji his thoughts.

"Mr. Huang, you also know that at the beginning of the year, based on the joint research of the Wensi Academy and the Ordnance Superintendent, the two sides jointly launched a new mode of transportation by laying iron bars on the ground to drive heavy carriages. The capacity of this new mode of transportation, called the railway, is close to the efficiency of the Grand Canal.

Although the railway transportation is not as good as that of the Grand Canal, the railway is much less affected by the weather than the canal. Compared to building a canal, the investment is much less.

Up to now, a railway has been built in the inner and outer cities of the capital, and a railway has also been built from the capital to Xishan, and both railways are in very good condition. It is estimated that the cost of transporting coal from Xishan to Beijing this winter can be saved by two-thirds, which is a very staggering figure.

The railway connecting the north, south, west and west of Shanxi has also officially started, and it is expected to be roughly completed in 2-3 years. At that time, the trade route from the Yellow River to Saiwai will be more convenient.

The railway from Jinan to Jiaozhou is now almost negotiated, and as long as the railway is built, cotton and coal from Shandong can be shipped directly from Qingdao to the south.

These railway projects, I think Mr. Huang already knows, right? ”

Huang Liji naturally nodded in agreement, what Chongzhen said was what he knew, which was nothing unusual.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly pointed to Beijing on the map, and then said as he moved down: "The Beijing-Zhuozhou railway is under construction, Mr. Huang, you should be clear."

From Zhuozhou to the south, through Baoding, Shijiazhuang, Handan, Jiaozuo across the Yellow River, then Zhengzhou, Xuchang, Queshan, Xinyang and finally to Hankou on the Yangtze River, if we build this railway, then in addition to the Grand Canal, there is a second communication line between the north and the south.

In addition, Sanmenxia, Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Shangqiu cross the Yellow River through Xuzhou and extend to the coast of the Yellow Sea, and then connect Jinan with Xuzhou, then Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Huaibei, Huguang will form a railway network. In this way, the north, south, east and west of the Ming Dynasty will not have to be subject to the transportation capacity of the Yangtze River, the Grand Canal and the Yellow River..."