From the head of Juzi Island, you look east to Changsha, to the west to Yuelu, and to the north of the Xiangjiang River. The water and sky are the same color. Who is in charge of the ups and downs?

At the south end of Orange Island, Zhu Cixiang climbed up to a pavilion and looked out at Changsha City, Yuelu Mountain and the vast Xiangjiang River. At this time, tears filled his eyes.

This is his hometown! He, a wanderer who has been wandering for more than 200 years, finally returned to Changsha, Hunan Province, which has always fascinated him, and saw a little bit of the same scenery as before. But things have changed, people have changed, and everything has changed.

, the relatives and friends of the past were not born yet and can never be seen again!

"Chitose Master, Prince Brother, why are you crying?" Zheng Chagu came over with a pretty face and asked curiously. Only then did Zhu Cixiang realize that his face was full of tears, and his eyes were probably going to be red from crying, and he was rude.

He had been crying for an unknown amount of time. The guards, eunuchs and maids around him all looked at his crying with their mouths half open.

These people are probably thinking in their hearts: What sad thing has this prince thought of? It is not easy to think about it! Such a golden person, in the past two years or almost three years, he has only been able to live happily for a few days.

When the Tatars started a war, they started a war with rogue bandits. They also had to find time to deal with a bunch of rebellious officials and corrupt officials. Now they have to lead so many refugees from the North to beg for food and feed the rich!

Zhu Cixiang really worried about these northern refugees! In order to move more than two million people who are starving from various refugee camps (Zhu Cixiang has always been very concerned about the refugees fleeing from the north), in Fengyang, Huai'an

, Yangzhou, Jiangpu, Yizheng and other places built refugee camps for them to accommodate some of them who had no need for food and clothing), were brought out from the death line (starved to death), naval warships, merchant ships on the Yangtze River, and canals

Cao boats, sand ships anchored in Shanghai, and even some bird boats that could sail on inland rivers were all urgently requisitioned by the Generalissimo's Office.

The Cabinet Office also wrote that the prefectures (states) and county (state) governments along the Yangtze River, along the Gan (river), along the Han (water), and along the Xiang (river) fully cooperated and prepared a list of local wealthy businessmen and gentry to welcome them.

The prince brings people over for dinner!

Of course, Zhu Cihong is reasonable and will never eat other people's food in vain. All wealthy households who have provided food will settle their accounts with them.

No matter how much you eat, the compensation will be doubled (it was originally planned to add 50%, but later considering the current high price of rice, it was changed to double), and it will be deducted from future land taxes.

In addition, all the local tyrants and evil gentry who warmly entertain His Highness the Crown Prince and the beggars can continue to rent the official fields, military villages, and hidden fields they occupy with a "preferential land rent" of three to seven buckets of rice after clearing the land, and they provide

Food for refugees can also be included in the deposit at one and a half times the amount.

Inspired by a series of preferential conditions and the prince's personality charm, along the way, the gentry everywhere still knew that no one dared to fight against Zhu Cixiang's army of beggars behind closed doors, so they all obediently donated their food!

It seems that the gentry in the southeastern part of the Ming Dynasty are worth saving. They are all "loyal gentry", "righteous gentry" and "intelligent gentry". It seems that the Ming Dynasty has been cultivating gentry for more than 200 years, and finally it has some effect.

In addition to begging for food, Zhu Cixi also had to resettle some refugees along the way.

The process of refugees fleeing all the way from the north is actually a process of eliminating the old and the weak. Therefore, most of the refugees who followed Zhu Cihong to beg for food were young and strong. At least most of the men among them met the selection criteria for the new army soldiers.

So Zhu Cixi placed them in Anqing, Jiujiang, Wuhan, and Yuezhou (Baling) on ​​their way to beg for food, and also sent some to Jingzhou, Xiangyang, and Nanchang. When the begging army arrived in Changsha, the original two million people were

Now there are only more than half a million left.

According to Zhu Cixiang's plan, Changsha will arrange for 200,000 northern refugees to occupy half of Changsha City. Prince Ji's Mansion and the palace guard's station will all be allocated to these 200,000 refugees. Prince Ji's Mansion and some other county and prince's mansions,

The General's Mansion and some related government offices will also be demolished. The obtained masonry, wood, and land will be given to these refugees to use in building houses.

The Wangzhuang outside Changsha City (not only the Wangzhuang of King Ji, but also the farms of the five kings of Jing, Liao, Rong, Chu, and Min) and the military fields guarded by the royal palace will also be given to the northern refugees who resettle in Changsha.

In addition, Zhu Cihong will also set up a "Changsha General's Mansion" to manage and resettle the 200,000 refugees in Changsha. If these 200,000 people are based on households, they are more than 40,000 households and less than 50,000 households.

In addition to the "Changsha General's Mansion", Zhu Cixiang also established a general's mansion in all state capitals where a large number of northern refugees were resettled.

However, these "general mansions" are not the same as those garrisoned general mansions in the Qing Dynasty in history. They only temporarily took care of the refugees, and were also responsible for recruiting soldiers and conducting basic military training for new soldiers. They were somewhat similar to the Yingyang Mansion and Zhechong Mansion in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, their recruitment target did not target the Northern refugees. The Northern refugees were not military members, nor were they a privileged class like the Bannermen.

Zhu Cixi didn't want them to eventually become the banner men of the Ming Dynasty, nor did he want them to become the new military households of the Ming Dynasty. He just wanted to give some of them a chance to rise and become the upstarts of Beifu who supported him. Most of them still slowly

Integrate into the local area. As a feudal dynasty, if you want to rejuvenate, you will inevitably produce a group of new nobles. However, Prince Zhu does not want the new noble group to have too many people. There will be too many wolves and not enough meat!

Since Zhu Cihong handed over the Prince Ji's Mansion in Changsha City (which had been destroyed by Zhang Xianzhong) to the General Mansion in Changsha and the refugees, his residence was placed in the Yunlu Palace (Taoist Temple) on Yuelu Mountain on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River.

At the same time, he also found a villa belonging to a wealthy family on Orange Island. Sometimes he would bring Wu Sanmei and Zheng Chagu to live there, and take a look at the Changsha City that haunted him, but he didn't expect to see it.

I cried just looking at it.

Huang Xiaobao saw Prince Zhu crying for no reason and didn't know what happened, so he had to go up and ask: "Master Qiansui, Mr. Cao, Governor He, Mr. Chang and Du Fantai have all gone to Juzizhou. Do you want to

Don’t want to see them?”

"See you!" Zhu Cixi wiped his tears, "Have Ji Kun and Wang Fuzhi arrived?"

"Here they are, they arrived early."

"Then ask them to come together!"

"Here!"

The place where Zhu Cihong, Cao Youyi, He Tengjiao, Chang Yanling and others met was the villa on Orange Island. It was a very elegant place, surrounded by orange groves.

The purpose of Zhu Cihong summoning them here was to discuss with them the Guangdong issue and the Xiangxi (including Shizhouwei) issue.

Now the plain area of ​​Huguang has basically been effectively controlled by Zhu Cixiang. Among them, Hubei asked Li Zicheng to clean up, and Zhu Cixiang just went to grab the fruits of victory. Although there were many twists and turns in the process, the results were not bad.

The plain areas of Hunan include Yuezhou Prefecture, Changde Prefecture, Changsha Prefecture, and Hengzhou Prefecture. Through the two General Prefectures of Yuezhou and Changsha, and a Hengzhou General Prefecture later, we can basically control it firmly.

But Guangdong and Xiangxi are not so easy to deal with! In the former, there are conflicts between natives and guests, and there are many merchants and pirates, all of whom are thorns! In the latter, there are a bunch of local warlords in western Hunan, whether they are chieftains or guards, they are also all different.

Kind of dissatisfied.

In the original history, this group of monsters and monsters were tormented until the New China before they were eradicated. Zhu Cixi, the founding prince, did not dare to compare with the New China.

So I didn’t consider completely razing it or anything like that.

On a small building with a view of Yuelu to the left and Changsha to the right, the seven people who came from Zhu Cixiang set up a banquet. They did not eat at the banquet, but ate in portions, just like the ancient kings did when they entertained their ministers.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes of food, Zhu Cixiang smiled and said to He Tengjiao, Cao Youyi and Chang Yanling: "Two generals, He Futai and Dufantai, I invite you here today just to make some plans."
Chapter completed!