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Chapter 49: The Great Migration of Tunwei

Zhu Cijing sat quietly in the imperial study room of the Ganqing Palace alone, feeling a little empty and a little worried, because the queen Qin Mingyue took the eldest prince Zhu He's in the west to visit Qin Gongming. This was the first time his precious son left the palace, and he said he was not worried that it was fake.

Fortunately, the queen Qin Mingyue is a master himself and has brought a bunch of eunuchs specially trained by Cao Huachun, accompanied by loyal Hou Qin Liangyu, so you don’t have to worry too much about safety issues. However, the first time his son left him and went out, he was always worried.

Just as he was sitting there thinking about things, Cao Huachun bowed and walked in and bowed, "Emperor, Minister of War Sun Yuanhua asked for a meeting."

Just in time, I found something to distract myself. Zhu Cijiu sat upright when he heard this and said loudly: "Xuan"

He was still very satisfied with these confidants. Not only did he have strong work ability, but he was also familiar with his preferences. They all knew that they did not like those who were tempted by the enemy. Therefore, when Qin Gongming went to Beijing, Sun Yuanhua and Bi Maokang, who could have gone but not, chose not to go after knowing that Qin Liangyu was going.

This is the right thing to do. If a second-class legion general leads his army to Beijing, is the commander of the Imperial Guard, is the second auxiliary minister of the Ministry of Works, and is the Minister of War, and a large number of people come to greet him, it would be a bit too grand. It will not only delay the official business, but also make people unable to see it. It is enough to have a first-class official as a representative.

Sun Yuanhua came in soon. After the king and his ministers greeted him, he took out a stack of official documents from his arms and respectfully handed them to Zhu Cijing.

Zhu Cijing originally thought that this was the specific plan of the Army Officer Academy. After all, Qin Gongming led the Dingliao army to escort 200,000 prisoners, and the construction of the northwest part of the capital could start soon. However, when he took it over, he saw that it was the plan for the relocation of Tunwei.

In fact, Sun Yuanhua had already proposed the proposal for the relocation of Tunwei at the beginning of the year. Zhu Cijiu also agreed very much at that time, but Sun Yuanhua had been very busy for a while. After the food and grass allocation, he immediately started to design armored combat vehicles. It was not until the armored combat vehicles were designed some time ago and the samples were made that he had time to consider the plan for the relocation of Tunwei.

This plan was made in detail. At the beginning, Sun Yuanhua listed all the commander commanders, garrison offices, and thousand household offices in the Ming Dynasty. There were more than ten pages in this item alone. Zhu Cijing was confused. He couldn't remember so many garrison offices, so he could only sweep over quickly. At the end of this item, he finally saw a total statistics. The Ming Dynasty now had 42 commanders, 351 garrison offices, and more than 2,500 senators, and the number of military households reached a terrifying amount of more than 2.8 million!

This seems to be more than the Hongwu period at the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, because the total strength of the Ming Dynasty was only more than 2.7 million, so why did it increase by more than 100,000? These are mainly Zheng Zhilong's surrendered subordinates. They are all soldiers of the regular army of the Ming Navy, so it is impossible not to give them military registration.

Faced with so many military households, Zhu Cijing is really overwhelmed. It takes a lot of effort to count, deploy and mobilize them one by one!

Fortunately, he didn't need to do this. The Governor's Office and the Ministry of War did this. And now the Governor's Office of the Five Army only have some honorary titles left, and the actual things have actually been brought to the Ministry of War.

This time, Sun Yuanhua not only made a plan to relocate the Tunwei, but also put forward standardized suggestions for the management of local capital departments, ward offices and thousand-household offices.

He suggested that in addition to the Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei, keeping the 17 subordinate garrisons unchanged, the other commanders and commanders will govern the five garrisons. In this way, the Ming Dynasty's existing more than 40 provinces and Zhili Prefecture only need to station more than 200 garrisons, and the others can be moved to Siberia;

He also suggested that the original guardian thousand households and chieftain thousand households should be merged into regular garrisons, with each garrison under its jurisdiction. In this way, the Ming Dynasty's garrisons would have nearly 500 garrisons;

He also suggested that the training of the garrison station should be restored. During the slack season every year, all garrison stations must organize their subordinates to train for one month to ensure the quality of the Ming army's military source;

These suggestions have all come to Zhu Cijing's heart, so he naturally would not object. He even wanted to stand up and pat Sun Yuanhua's shoulder and praise him. However, the most critical part of this plan, the specific plan for the Tunwei relocation has not been read yet, so he could only patiently turn back.

According to Sun Yuanhua's previous suggestions, after the reorganization of the Tunwei, the total number of garrisons in the Ming Dynasty would be close to 500, while the number of garrisons required by the command command departments of each province only needs more than 200, which means that the remaining garrisons can be moved to Siberia.

This migration naturally cannot be moved randomly. Tunwei is not a place to rest in Guangtun. They have to get married and have children, and have to farm and eat. Some military households have more than ten people in their families, so if they want to move Tunwei, they must first solve the problem of food and accommodation. Tunwei has no food and salary. If you don’t give them arable land, they must starve to death.

According to Sun Yuanhua's plan, the first batch of more than one million military households will be moved to the Siberian Plateau. The arable land there is not the most important, but the main ones are mountain and forest land. Of course, if the arable land area is purely calculated, it is quite terrifying. However, the sealing period is long and only five or six months a year is suitable for cultivation. Naturally, the harvest cannot be compared with the inland area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

Based on this situation, Sun Yuanhua suggested that the land used to divide it into three categories, namely arable land, grassland and forest land, and the area must be doubled.

Like arable land, each household in the Tunwei family is about fifty acres. When you arrive in Siberia, a family of fifty acres cannot be full at all, and it costs at least 100 acres. Therefore, Sun Yuanhua suggested that if the Tunwei relocated to Siberia, each household will be distributed at least five times and 250 acres will be allocated;

There are also grasslands and forest land, which can only be survived by breeding and hunting, and the area required is wider. For this type of sanctuary, Sun Yuanhua suggested that the area should be expanded at least a hundred times, that is, each household should be allocated at least 500 acres. In this way, each thousand households will only have 50,000 or 60,000 acres, and an area of ​​less than 50 square kilometers. One thousand households and five or six thousand people are not a large number.

Zhu Cijiu was naturally extremely satisfied with the plan for the relocation of the garrison. After reading it, he praised Sun Yuanhua well and asked Cao Huachun to draft an order immediately. According to the content of Sun Yuanhua's suggestion, the command and command departments of each province immediately began to reorganize. According to the requirements of the Ministry of War, and in accordance with the opinions of the military households, he reorganized all the extra garrisons and prepared to accept the dispatch of the Ministry of War and move to Siberia.

At the same time, he also issued an order to order the Ministry of Revenue to send officials to Siberia immediately to measure the land, count the population, plan the area, and draw out the river valley grassland needed by the original nomads, and leave all the others and prepare to be distributed to Tunwei.

In fact, the Siberian Khanate is not very large, and most of them are concentrated in the Siberian plains. The total population of nomadic tribes in the Siberian Plateau is only a few hundred thousand. In such a vast area, there was no pressure to migrate more than one million households and garrisons in the past, and most of the places were even empty.

With the migration of Tunwei, Siberia's permanent population structure has undergone a fundamental change. In the past, the population of the entire Siberian Khanate was only more than 2 million, while the Tunwei planned to move this time had more than 2 million households and more than 10 million people!
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