During the Xuande period, tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were killed in Jiaozhi, which became an eternal pain in the hearts of the Ming people. After Emperor Xuanzong, from the emperor to ordinary scholars, he had more or less thought about when to recover his hometown. However, the Ming Dynasty's power was getting worse and worse, and this matter was put aside.

With this psychological basis, Lin Chunhong launched the battle to destroy the country and received almost no criticism. When Lin Chunhong announced in the newspaper that Zheng Jian and Li Weiqi died in the chaos, the whole country was in full swing, celebrating the transformation of the Ming Dynasty from the thirteen provinces of the two capitals to the fourteen provinces of the two capitals.

This made Zhang Daohan feel very unhappy and complained to Lin Chunhong: "Hexi Corridor and Hetao are much wider than Jiaozhi. When they were included in Jingzhou, they had never seen them say a good thing."

Lin Chunhong laughed and said, "How about setting up a governor in Hetao in Gansu to let the court recognize it?"

Zhang Daohan knew that Lin Chunhong was joking, but he was still anxious to stop him and said, "It's fine now, why bother with that?"

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After Jiaozhi was generally stable, merchants were the first to flock in, followed by landless farmers and some adventurers. A group of scholars were not willing to fall behind and sailed from all over the country to Hai'an and set foot on the fertile land of Jiaozhi.

Huang Zongxi once suggested that Lin Chunhong give up sending troops under the banner of Mo Jingkuan, but this was adopted by Lin Chunhong. When the battle to destroy the country was in full swing, Huang Zongxi was worried every day, fearing that because of his different name, he would bring a catastrophe to the Jingzhou army.

Fortunately, the Jingzhou army was successful and went to war with 50,000 troops, with less than 10,000 casualties. Huang Zongxi finally felt relieved and couldn't help but feel proud of his masterpiece.

Since he felt proud, Huang Zongxi thought about going to Jiaozhi to experience it personally and see what the Jiaozhi people were thinking.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu had close contact, so he pulled Gu Yanwu and went to Jiaozhi together.

After they landed in Hai'an's abandoned boat, they suddenly discovered that Ma Shiqi was actually greeting him personally at the dock. The two were flattered and hurriedly thanked: "Master Ma is busy with everything he wants, why bother with us in the mountain village? I really don't dare to take it!"

Ma Shiqi joined hands with two people and laughed: "The two great scholars all came to Jiaozhi. If Shiqi is negligent, they will be stabbed by the people in the world!"

"I dare not take it...I dare not take it..."

"Where can't you dare to be it? Jiangling Hou Zeng said that Mr. Tinglin and Mr. Nanlei are the geniuses of the times. One word, one strategy, is even more than one corps!"

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Everyone laughed and the atmosphere was extremely warm.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu expressed their intentions and repeatedly asked Ma Shiqi not to pay attention to them despite being busy.

Ma Shiqi no longer insisted and sent a letter to Di Wei, asking to send troops to protect the two great scholars. Di Wei also knew the weight of the two in Jiangling Hou's mind, so he sent a full elite soldier to wrap the two people up.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu smiled bitterly and joked with Ma Shiqi: "Master Ma himself is worried about the public security of Jiaozhi. How can the farmers deal with the businesses that flock to Jiaozhi?"

Ma Shiqi didn't care and replied, "I'm not afraid of ten thousand, I'm afraid of anything."

After Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu left Hai'an, they did not take a boat, and even did not sit in a carriage, but walked west. Along the way, the two found that along the Hong River, there were dense water networks and fertile land, which was no different from Jiangnan.

However, the south of the Yangtze River is densely populated and the city is prosperous, and it is almost impossible to see people in the villages of Jiaozhi. The big and beautiful farmland is actually covered with grass and is deserted there.

In sharp contrast, on the official road, beside the dock, and in the river, the densely packed people of Jiaozhi sweated heavily, and large-scale construction is underway.

Huang Zongxi was the boss in his heart and didn't understand why Ma Shiqi didn't let these people farm, but instead built infrastructure.

Unlike Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu was quite excited when he saw the large-scale construction of the project and said happily: "Jiangling Hou was addicted to paving roads and building bridges, and he always had this set when he walked there. However, this set is really suitable for everyone, which can quickly calm down and promote the prosperity of industry and commerce."

Huang Zongxi stopped, looked at the crowded crowds and said, "I don't know where Jiangling Hou got so much money. He actually repaired projects in various places south of Huguang, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, Sichuan, and Jiangnan at the same time! It is reported that the investment in Huzhou alone exceeded 1.5 million yuan last year. If so many places started construction at the same time, wouldn't the investment exceed 100 million yuan?"

"The construction project is a huge profit. How can the Marquis of Jiangling eat the marrow and know the taste?

"I have such a big investment, and I have a huge profit? How can I explain this?" Huang Zongxi was shocked and asked hurriedly.

Gu Yanwu turned his eyes away from the Jiaping Wharf, which was gradually taking shape, and said: "At the beginning, Gu couldn't figure it out. Later, he combined the tax policy of Jiangling Hou and then figured it out. Take Huzhou as an example. The investment of 1.5 million yuan is nothing more than buying materials and paying wages. Let's first assume that one million yuan is used to purchase materials and 500,000 yuan is used to pay wages. Materials are nothing more than wood, lime, stone and other things. When producing these materials, merchants need to pay 170% of taxes to the government. Then, 170,000 yuan is returned to the hands of Jiangling Hou. When wood, lime, and stone merchants produce materials, they need to purchase tools and recruit people. Merchants who produce tools need to pay 170% of taxes... After this round of cycles, how much money should be returned to the hands of Jiangling Hou?"

Huang Zongxi thought carefully and felt that Gu Yanwu was right, and suddenly became enlightened. He followed Gu Yanwu's words: "Workers got their wages, went to buy food, cloth, repair houses, and even went to gambling. There would be a cycle of cycles and increase taxes. In this way, even if the Marquis of Jiangling lost, they would not lose much. As for the construction of the project, there were countless benefits that it produced! No wonder Marquis of Jiangling opened a stall in Daming to carry out projects."

Gu Yanwu laughed and nodded, "That's exactly what it means. So..."

As soon as Gu Yanwu was halfway through his words, he was interrupted by Huang Zongxi: "No, no! If we follow this reasoning, as long as there is enough food in the Ming Dynasty, even if the Marquis of Jiangling built a hundred Afang Palaces, it would not exhaust the people's power?"

Gu Yanwu was dumbfounded and didn't know how to answer. Out of instinct, Gu Yanwu felt that building a hundred Afang Palaces would definitely exhaust the people's power, but according to what he said just now, the loss of people's power seems to be small.

The two of them thought about it for a long time, but couldn't figure out why, so they finally put the question aside and continued to move forward.

The west of Jiaping is not much different from the east. The farmland is abandoned on a large scale without exception. I occasionally saw a village, and the strong men in the village could not see it. When asked, most of them answered: "Mining in Taiyuan."

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu's worries are better than those of the day: Spring is now beginning, and it should be the time for spring to sow. If Jiaozhi misses the season and the harvest of the year is gone, Jiaozhi may fall into famine!

Famine, for the land of Xinna, is enough to destroy the foundation of rule.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu did not bother to take a closer look and went straight to Jiaozhou to see Ma Shiqi.

When the two expressed their concerns, Ma Shiqi replied: "The land, mountains, forests, and minerals in Jiaozhi belong to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. All the fertile land is qualified to farm!"

Only then did Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu realize that the large-scale abandonment of Jiaozhi land was not because people could not be found to farm, but deliberately did not distribute it to Jiaozhi people who had not yet returned.

The two of them didn't care about the pros and cons of this policy and asked directly: "What should I do if there is not enough food and there is a famine?"

Ma Shiqi did some calculations for the two: At present, there are about 50,000 Han people who have settled the wasteland in Jiaozhi, and more than 260,000 mu of land were distributed; there are more than 20,000 archers, including the relatives of the archers, and a total of about 300,000 mu of land was distributed; there are more than 10,000 people who participated in the Xiaowei Army, and about 150,000 mu of land were distributed, and all the land was cultivated. According to the average yield of four stones per mu, more than 3 million stones of grain can be produced. Now the Han people are continuing to migrate to Jiaozhi, and there are more and more people in Jiaozhi, and the annual output will only be greater than this.

At present, the population that needs to be raised in the entire Jiaozhi land is less than 1.2 million, and each person can get more than 300 kilograms of food, which is slightly lower than the per capita consumption in Jiangnan, and there will be no famine.

The data is placed here, which makes Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu convinced him.

However, before and after Zheng Jian died, there were as many as one million people in Jiaozhi who fled into the mountains and forests, so these people ignored it?

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu were both smart people and did not ask this question. After entering Jiaozhou City, they found that nine out of ten families were empty in Jiaozhou. After a little inquiry, they knew what happened in Jiaozhou. From the incident in Jiaozhou, it was enough to see that Lin Chunhong was indulging indulgence and wanted all the people in Jiaozhi to die.

It is best not to say such things that are contrary to human nature. After all, they cannot produce conclusive evidence.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu felt uneasy.

The two of them investigated along the way and found that the people of Jiaozhi did not resist the arrival of the Ming army, but it would take some time to accept it in their hearts. With the strength of Jingzhou and the rigorous rule, it would be almost impossible to spend this period smoothly. If they really ignore the millions of people scattered into the mountains and forests and starve most of them to death, the remaining Jiaozhi people would definitely regard the Ming Dynasty as their enemy and would have no room for maneuver. Even the Jiaozhi people who have returned to their hearts now have a great possibility of re-hate the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, a famine may completely ruin the current good situation.

When it comes to the principle of governing Jiaozhi, Ma Shiqi also acted under the order. Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu knew that it was useless to discuss with Ma Shiqi, so they bid farewell to Ma Shiqi, hired a good carriage in Jiaozhou, went north, passed Guangxi through Langshan, entered Huguang, and finally arrived in Jingzhou.

The mountain road was rugged, and the journey was 4,000 miles long. It took only thirteen days for two people to travel three or four hundred miles a day.

Lin Chunhong heard that the two of them were sleeping in the open and rushed from Jiaozhou to Jingzhou. He was amazed and knew that they had important things to do, so he immediately welcomed them into Xinggong Tower.
Chapter completed!