The significant impact of the Little Ice Age on the Ming Dynasty can be divided into two parts: internal and external: internal means decline in productivity and shortage of means of production; external influence means social turmoil and frequent wars.

Judging from the duration of the major disaster and the impact it caused, the harm of the peak of the Little Ice Age is even worse than that of Jiannu.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao could only sigh that he was not at the right time and wanted to be a worrying emperor.

To the outside world, he can climb the technology tree, improve the level of weapons and equipment, strengthen military strength, and resist looting from the north.

Internally, he needs more officials like Li Jingbai who loves and cares for the people. At least, those bastards who are corruption and shameless and may force the people to rebel will kill more, the less harm they will be to the country and the people.

Kill a group of corrupt officials and then a group of them. Even if they are not Li Jingbai, they will be better than the original one. Even their family members are exiled and they have no chance to take revenge.

As there are fewer and fewer enemies, more and more obedient ones are used, Zhu Youxiao feels that his situation is safer.

Moreover, beheading or exiling corrupt officials is also a blessing for many people. If you don’t have a seat, how can you get so many opportunities? Everyone is waiting for the election of the Ministry of Personnel, the imperial examinations and the clerks who are transferred to officials!

To put it bluntly, there are many people who die of rabbits and foxes, there are many people who gloat, there are many people who hate and hate, and there are few people who stand up for the punishment of officials. There are even none, or they dare not.

No matter whether he dares or not, or whether he is holding back any harm in secret, Zhu Youxiao will not stop, let alone be polite.

This is not something tolerated just by being tolerant, nor does it need to mention such a noble goal of the country and nation. This is a major issue that concerns whether one’s throne is stable and whether one’s women and children can enjoy happiness.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youxiao has regarded this as a life-and-death struggle. He has the same determination and is the same unshakable one as his determination to destroy Jiannu.

No one understands the emperor's ruthlessness and urgency, because no one knows the tragic scene in history. Only the emperor knows that if he does not change, he will die.

For this reason, the emperor did not hesitate to kill ten times more people. Just count it, it was only tens of thousands, and at most it was more than 100,000. Compared with the tragedy in history, what is the 100,000 people?

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Jiannu suffered repeated failures and was suppressed. It seemed that Pingliao would not be able to succeed in a long time.

In China, the emperor cleansed officials one after another, from the court to the local government, from corruption to collusion between officials and businessmen, either exiled the whole family or beheaded and exiled. The tense air shrouded the officialdom and seemed to have never dissipated.

Under such circumstances, the Ming Navy set out from Guangzhou with more than a hundred warships and thousands of officers and soldiers, and easily occupied the firewood stick. This was not very conspicuous news, and not many people realized the importance of this overseas land.

Whether it is the current Chaiban, the future Jiading Prefecture, Saigon, or someone's name, the emperor only knows that this place is a flat and fertile plain with sufficient water resources, and the restoration and development is a large granary.

However, in the early stages of development, funds and manpower were still needed. In this regard, Zhu Youxiao could only take out hundreds of thousands of yuan from the treasury as the cost of this dispatch and used it to resettle immigrants.

Fortunately, the climate and land here are suitable for cultivation, and the harvest of three seasons a year does not take long to make immigration and garrison self-sufficient.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, the people who have moved from Fujian, Anhui and Guangxi will be mobilized to migrate. This year will be 3,000, next year, and next year, it will reach 50,000.

From the immigrants to the construction of ports and the permanent navy, this overseas land became the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it was so strong that it could be defended.

Anhui is often flooded, Fujian has many mountains and few lands, and the people cannot bear the suffering. Therefore, more of their careers at sea, while immigrants and farming give them an extra way to make a living.

Guangxi, let me tell you a fact that is not known to many people: In the end, the rebellion of Guangxi chieftains and the uprisings of Miao, Yao and Zhuang broke out continuously.

Among them, the Datengxia Uprising lasted three times, which lasted for more than 200 years. They were Han Yong, the right assistant censor in the first year of Chenghua, Wang Shouren, the new Jianbo Ministry of War, the seventh year of Jiajing, and Cai Jing, the Minister of War, the eighteenth year of Jiajing.

That's right, Mr. Wang Yangming, a master of Xinxue, led his troops to fight again and suppressed the Second Datengxia Uprising.

Zhu Youxiao was also quite puzzled by this. How could Mr. Wang, who was keen on war and never failed, be portrayed as a philosopher by later generations?

But this is just an irrelevant matter. Zhu Youxiao is more concerned about why Guangxi rebelled and what is the reason? Because there are many local officials, why should Yunnan be much more stable?

After searching the information and asking the officials, the emperor finally found the reason. It was very simple, but as expected, it was still a problem with the land.

Guangxi has many mountains and few lands, and its land is barren and its people are poor. This characteristic is not unfamiliar to Zhu Youxiao, but I didn’t expect it to be so sharp in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, most of the land in Guangxi had been occupied by local officials and local people. Miao, Yao, Dong, Zhuang and other ethnic minority farmers, and even Han farmers, had little land, or even no land.

The establishment of the Ming Dynasty had basically no impact on local officials in remote areas. Although this was conducive to rapid stability, social contradictions were also preserved.

With the growth of population, by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, land annexation in Guangxi became more and more intense, causing social conflicts to gradually intensify.

In feudal society, land was the most important means of production and the foundation for farmers' survival. If farmers lose land, they are equivalent to cutting off their life path.

Therefore, the poor peasants in Guangxi revolted due to their livelihoods, and they never stopped from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty basically adopted tough repressive measures against rebellions in various places. They believed that once they showed weakness, more chieftains would follow suit and cause a worse situation.

However, one of the suppression methods adopted by the Ming Dynasty in Guangxi, "armed land seizure", created the seeds of the next rebellion, causing the peasant uprising in Guangxi to continue.

The so-called armed land grabbing means referring to the land of the uprising peasants as the thief field, and after quelling the rebellion, they were distributed to the government army or recruited land soldiers to cultivate.

In other words, armed land seizure means that the court openly allocated the peasant land to the garrison officers and soldiers, as well as local officials and local officials who helped the court suppress the rebellion.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that a peasant uprising was suppressed, and a new uprising against the armed government forces of seizing land was brewing again.

In fact, there is another reason for the continuous rebellion in Guangxi, that is, salt.

Since Guangxi does not produce salt itself (don’t think there is salt next to the sea), Guangxi’s salt is basically transported from Guangdong.

Due to the inconvenient transportation in ancient times and the court's monopoly on salt, Guangxi's salt was in short supply. "There are many private vendors and the salt price is very high", and "the salt in the official career was stopped, the soldiers were short of food and food, and the local area was trapped."

It was not produced salt at first, and local officials intervened in salt transportation and engaged in salt vendors to privately reap the food. This made salt a serious social problem in Guangxi, and the people were very dissatisfied with it.

"Poetry of Western Guangdong" says: "The mountains are deep and the road is far away, so I can cook the ashes on the banana leaves and pickle the vegetables." This is a true portrayal of the salt-deficient life of the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi at that time.

The salt problem is easy to solve. Kill a group of local officials and then implement the "Salt Send Salt Method" to break the monopoly of salt. Through the invisible hand of the market, it is very promising to solve the shortage of salt and high prices.

The main source of the rebellion lies in the land, which Zhu Youxiao can be sure of. It is not surprising that he listed Guangxi as a province to mobilize immigration.

Moreover, whether it is Anhui, Fujian, and Guangxi, local people can adapt to the climate of Mekong Province quickly.

That's right, the Chaibank occupied by the Ming army is not very big now, but the emperor has regarded it as a province of the Ming Dynasty and named it Mekong Province.

As for managing Mekong Province, Zhu Youxiao was not stingy with the title of governor and became the local governor with the same rank as the mainland.

In fact, from the emperor's will, we can also see the emperor's attitude towards Mekong Province and his ambition for the development of Mekong Province. The territory will become larger and larger, and the area will be closer to the mainland provinces.

Taichang Shaoqing Dong Yingju was appointed as the governor of Mekong Province by Zhu Youxiao because his manager of the military farming affairs from Tianjin to Shanhaiguan.

The Mekong Province not only has a governor, but also a garrison admiral. The governor and the admiral are in line with each other, and the military and political separation are also a precedent set by Zhu Youxiao.

I mentioned earlier that Mr. Wang Yangming, the master of Xinxue, led his troops with literati and successively quelled the rebellion of Ningwang and the Datengxia Uprising. He can be called a model of Confucian generals.

But in Zhu Youxiao's view, civil officials leading troops and military generals obeying their orders were the main root causes of the recession of the Ming Dynasty.

As the direct planning and command of most military operations, civil servants rarely come directly from the military system, although there are many people who practice martial arts and read military books.

Because of the principle of politicism over military affairs, civil officials directly override military affairs, making military officials become grassroots executors.

The low status of military generals is only one of them. It is not surprising that the war is led by civil servants who are good at talking about war on paper. More defeats are more likely to win.

Mr. Wang Yangming's victory is not universal and cannot represent the true ability of civil servants. The same is true for Yuan Keli. His excellence cannot cover up the incompetence of other civil servants and the low military ability.

However, it is not easy to achieve equal importance to civil and military affairs and separate military and political affairs. The establishment of Mekong Province gave Zhu Youxiao an opportunity to experiment.

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From quantitative change to qualitative change, there must always be a process. Sometimes the time is short, which makes people feel violent; sometimes it is slow, which can be described as subtle.

For individuals, some people feel more obvious when they are in it; some have less impact, so they do not realize too much change.

This has a lot to do with the difference between the individual's position and environment.

The civil servants felt the change in the direction of the court, the emperor's iron fist and determination to punish corruption; the military generals had more and greater power, and could straighten their waists in front of the civil servants, and the war became more and more hope of victory.

As for the young people in Shengdou, they are busy making the whole family eat and wear food and clothing. Perhaps they also felt the spring breeze of reform and the soothing pressure, but it is not so strong and obvious.

Zhu Youxiao, who was in the palace, could not fully understand the feelings of others. He could only unswervingly follow the path he designed.

Of course, he also had feelings about the changes that took place in the Ming Dynasty. From the amount of fiscal revenue, the victory or defeat of the war, the secret memorials of officials, and the reports of factory guards, he could realize that the disease of this old empire was getting better.

And his arrangement, whether in front of him or in the long run, no matter how many people can understand it, it is like falling on a chess piece on a chessboard, and sooner or later it will work.

The fastest thing to see the effect was the Liaodong war. The transportation of a large number of weapons and ammunition, and the continuous replenishment of food, supplies and war horses made the Ming army in various Liaodong departments increase their combat power while putting increasing pressure on Jiannu.

When the men of Liao Town advanced along the Sancha River waterway, they successively captured Niuzhuang Post and Dongchang Fort; when the two Zhang Pan and Zhang Bang formed a mixed cooperation to capture Yaozhou Post, the Haizhou Guards were under the attack of the Ming army.

When the Ming army's navy gradually explored the waterway, went north along the Liao River, and appeared in the Hun River, which might reach Chenyang, Jiannu felt the embarrassment that he could not be guarded against.

Hunhe shipping began in the Yuan Dynasty and became increasingly prosperous.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the official transportation of grain and salary was usually carried from Shandong along the Bohai Bay, Liaodong Bay to the northeast, and along the Liaohe River, transporting grain and salary to various garrisons along the way, among which the Shenyang section was transported through the Hunhe River.

Since then, commodity transportation has gradually emerged, and Hunhe freight transportation has become busy.

At that time, the Ming court allowed each ship to transport eight-quarters official goods and two-quarters private goods at the same time, making the ferrymen profitable. Only when the Northeast's rice, ginseng, fungus and other commodities began to be sold to various places.

The Chenyang section of Hunhe River also formed a fixed dock. Vessels of all sizes set off from Chenyang, carried passengers on board, and then returned from Yingkou to carry items on board.

At that time, or until the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chenyang could be regarded as a coastal city. It was connected to the vast world outside through the Hunhe River shipping.

But now, Jiannu hated Hunhe and this "golden waterway". Because the Ming army's ships could be smooth, their riding and shooting could only sigh at the river.

Is it just that navigation is so simple that fools know that ships can carry cannons and ships can transport troops? The Ming Navy opened up the waterway of Tonghun River on the sea, which means that Shenyang may be attacked by the Ming army.

The advantage of the Ming army's naval army was that Jiannu could not catch up with him. Because of this, Jiannu felt a huge threat.

It was necessary to block the Ming Navy or block the river channel, but this was obviously impossible for the Hunhe River, which was turbulent at that time.

Another way is to block iron chains on the river, but this project is still a task that Jiannu cannot complete.

In other words, Jiannu had no effective method for the Ming army navy. He monitored closely and prevented the Ming army from climbing up the river and landing to attack, as if there was only such a passive method.

Regardless of whether the Ming army's naval forces were feinted or actual attacks, they could restrain a lot of Jiannu's troops. This may be the purpose of the Ming army; but for Jiannu, they had to concentrate and not allow the Ming army to succeed in the attack.

The situation further deteriorated, which did not include the threat posed by the Dongjiang headquarters to the Jianzhou Wei, and the Ming army in southern Liaoning and Liao Town jointly formed a threat to Liaoyang.

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Chapter completed!