A big beggar is just asking for food, isn't it? And he doesn't ask for it properly, but a large group of people are armed and begging for food! It's better to let Li Zicheng do this, he is the prince of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Cixiang pondered and said: "Although the military advisor's method is good, the largest wealthy family in the world seems to be my family, right? Isn't it appropriate for a prince like me to take refugees to eat at a wealthy family?"

When he was talking, his eyes turned to Wei Zaode to see that the prince, Tianhuang, was not suitable for leading the refugees to live in a wealthy family. You, the prime minister, should step forward as soon as possible!

Wei Zaode was glanced at by Zhu Cixiang and knew that he had to speak up, so he smiled and said: "It's appropriate, why isn't it appropriate? Such things happened in the Sui and Tang dynasties. According to historical records, in the 14th year of the founding of the Emperor, Guanzhong

Due to severe drought and lack of food, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty led hundreds of thousands of officials and dignitaries and refugees from Guanzhong to eat in Luoyang. As a result, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty gained the reputation of being a food-loving emperor!

Later, when Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty became emperor, he once led hundreds of officials and hungry people to eat in Luoyang due to lack of food in Guanzhong. Due to lack of preparations, many people starved to death along the way."

Doesn't the reputation of "Emperor Chasing Food" mean "Emperor Begging for Food"? Zhu Cihong said in his heart: He has been deceiving people all day long with the slogan "Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated".

Like Zhu Yuanzhang, he is going to beg for food!

But Hunan is my hometown in my previous life! People say that I return to my hometown in fine clothes, but now I have to go back to my hometown to beg for food.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cixiang sighed and thought: Why is there no famous official who can beg for food on his behalf?

"Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Just as Zhu Cixiang was thinking about it, Cao Youyi, the deputy military advisor, stepped forward.

Okay, Zhu Cixiang looked at Lao Cao and felt that his appearance was very suitable for begging! Work hard, and you will leave your name in history in the future, and you will be the beggar general!

Cao Youyi said: "I think Hunan is too close for Your Highness to take people to eat. It is better to go a little further and go to Guangdong."

What? He wants to go to Guangdong to beg for food! Zhu Cixiang still has a smile on his face, but he is already annoyed. His eyes slide on the palace, looking for Zhang Shize, the British censor. This Cao Youyi looks like a corrupt official! Be sure to check it out!

Cao Youyi didn't know that he was going to be in trouble soon, so where could he come up with ideas?

"Master Chitose, leading the northern refugees south to eat is an opportunity to control the rich lands of Hunan and Guangdong!"

What? Zhu Cixiang's face changed slightly, "Tell me quickly!"

Cao Youyi smiled and said: "I often hear people say that Guangdong is as rich as the south of the Yangtze River. It has a vast territory, many paddy fields, a warm climate, and can produce three crops a year. Moreover, Guangzhou, the provincial capital, has been a commercial port for thousands of years and is extremely prosperous. Foshan near Guangzhou is the most prosperous place in the world.

How could it be that such a rich and important place in the Four Jus, rich in iron tools and firecrackers, was not guarded by our own people? The prince took advantage of the opportunity of going south to eat, and brought a dozen or two hundred thousand people there, and settled there

Grant land near Guangzhou, select the best and strongest of them, and organize them into a new army. In this way, the prosperous land of Guangdong will be firmly in the hands of His Highness the Crown Prince!"

Isn't this how the Eight Banners troops were stationed at strategic points in each province? Zhu Cihong was so happy that he almost wronged Zhongliang just now.

In addition to worrying about food, Prince Zhu was also worried about how to deal with the Cantonese people!

There are nearly 26 million acres of farmland in Guangdong, which is only more than 3 million acres less than Shaanxi (if you check carefully, it is probably Guangdong that has more farmland), but the total land tax is only 999,990

One hundred shi, which is more than 700,000 shi less than the total land tax in Shaanxi!

I don’t know how the taxes in various places were determined in the Ming Dynasty? The taxes in Guangdong are actually so much less than those in Shaanxi! How can the people of Guangdong agree to such a thing? In the future, one Shenzhen will be worth two Shaanxi, right? Although there is no Shenzhen now, Guangzhou

It is the number one commercial port in the world!

Guangdong's taxes have to be increased three times, no, it would be ridiculous to increase them five times!

In addition, there are customs duties and commercial taxes!

Guangzhou has been a major foreign trade port since the Han Dynasty, and it has been prosperous for more than a thousand and hundreds of years! So far, Guangzhou is still the first commercial port in the Ming Dynasty, but what about commercial taxes and customs duties? Isn't it embarrassing not to have millions of taels a year?

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But millions of shi of food and millions of taels of silver can never be obtained from the Cantonese people by issuing a few edicts and killing a few dirty officials. Because these days, the Cantonese people are still quite fierce and fight with locals and guests.

This thing started to appear in the middle of the Ming Dynasty!

Although the fighting between natives and guests in the Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with that of the Qing Dynasty, especially the fighting between natives and guests in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, a certain military tradition was still developed in the Guangdong area.

According to Zhu Cixiang's information from Huang Jiang, Su Guansheng, Li Shichun and other Guangdong confidants, the native guest clans in many places in Guangdong have been united after years of armed conflicts. Most of them live in groups, build forts, and train clansmen.

Soldiers and weapons were built, just like the powerful families from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Fierce conflicts often occurred between the native guest clans. The two sides dispatched hundreds or even thousands of people to form battle formations and fight each other occasionally. The government could not prohibit it at all.

If the Ming Dynasty's magistrates in Guangdong could not even stop the armed fights between the Tuke clans, how could they collect taxes? Those powerful clans that often clashed and fought were not comparable to the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River!

Not to mention the combat effectiveness forged in long-term conflicts, even the size and degree of unity of the clan far exceed that of the Southeast. Because there is no pressure from the struggle between natives and foreigners in the Southeast, the cohesion within the clan is very weak, and the resistance of the imperial court to collect taxes

That is gentry power.

The gentry in the southeast generally have little force. If Zhu Cixiang really turned his back and started killing, they would be nothing more than fat pigs to be slaughtered. However, Zhu Cixi was still reasonable. No matter how hard the gentry in the southeast tried to trick them, the Ming Dynasty could still receive more money from Nanzhili in a year.

Six million stone field tax, in addition to paying a lot of business taxes. People in Huguang only gave two million, Sichuan only gave one million, and Guangdong only gave 990,000. In comparison, these southeastern gentry are relatively conscientious.

So don't be too cruel to them.

But Guangdong is in trouble. In collecting taxes and clearing land in Guangdong, they are not fighting against the gentry, but directly fighting against the native guest clans. They are all powerful clans! The Ming army in Guangdong cannot defeat them at all, so no matter how they sent them before,

Anyone who goes to Guangdong will get it for free.

To collect enough taxes from the Cantonese people, we must send the truly effective new army there!

But Zhu Cihong didn't have enough new troops at hand.

So Cao Youyi's method can be regarded as solving a major problem faced by Zhu Cixiang!

"Cao Qing!" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "You are indeed my humerus!"

Since it is the humerus, it is not a matter of investigation. Zhu Cihong has already made up his mind. He will let Cao Youyi be the "Guangzhou General" and ask him to take people to Guangdong to beg for food, and conveniently occupied both Hong Kong and Shenzhen. This is a good opportunity.

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"Your Highness," Lin Zengzhi, another confidant of Zhu Cihong's Ministry of Industry and Industry, seized the opportunity to come up with an idea again. "There are now millions of exiled Northerners (actually tens of millions), and many of them are very capable. The imperial court can divide them into various provinces."

Attack key points, and then select the best and strongest from them and organize them into an army. If the northerners get food and the court gets soldiers, the control over every place will be greatly enhanced."

"That's how it should be!" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "The Ministry of War and the Generalissimo's Office immediately made a plan. Nanjing and Wuhan are the places where most people from the north will be resettled, followed by Fengyang, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Zhenjiang, Songjiang, Hangzhou, and Ningbo.

, Fuzhou, Jiujiang, Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Changsha, Guangzhou, Guilin and other places must be assigned and resettled.

Zhu Cixiang named 16 state capitals in one breath. Except for Nanjing and Wuhan, each state capital will arrange an average of more than 100,000 refugees, and two million northerners will have a place to live in wealthy households!

If hundreds of thousands more are able to be selected from these refugees, the Ming court's ability to control Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces will also be greatly enhanced!

In addition, at least one million strong northerners will be placed in Nanjing and Wuhan. They will be the most important source of troops for the new army to overcome difficulties.

Zhu Cihong paused and then said: "Deploy a battalion of new troops to various places where refugees gather to be responsible for gathering refugees to rush to Jiangdu. In addition, the Navy must try to mobilize ships to assist the refugees. Once the refugees have arrived in Nanjing, I will
Chapter completed!