Of course, the experience of each war still needs to be summarized.

This time, it can be said that the most profound feeling is that there are too few elite soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Just like the three camps, there are too few who can become the main force to fight.

The Guanning Army is indeed the most elite of the Zu family army. Therefore, after the Zu family army was eliminated by Jianlu, the remaining troops could still defend the city and cooperate with each other, but they could not participate in the war as the main force.

Therefore, the first thing Emperor Chongzhen did after he returned was to summon Liu Kongzhao, the chief general of the Beijing camp, and said to him bluntly: "Innovation in the Beijing camp is inevitable. I will give you a month to eliminate the weak and retain the strong in the current Beijing camp."

There were signs of this matter before, so Liu Kongzhao had already expected it. However, when he heard Emperor Chongzhen mention it, he wanted to speak and talk about several things he considered. If these things were not resolved, it would be unlikely that the innovation of the Beijing camp would be thorough.

However, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to know what he wanted to say, so he continued to say to him directly: "There is only one principle, to eliminate the weak and retain the strong. You can be divided into third-class. The first is the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and even the basic physical work cannot be maintained; the second is the strong but not suitable for going to the battlefield; the third is the military soldiers who are suitable for going to the battlefield; I do not limit the quota for these third-class classifications, and each level should be as much as you should. You will be limited to all the differences in half a month, and I will verify them personally."

Speaking of this, he looked at Liu Kongzhao's eyes, and saw that he wanted to speak but stopped, and said with a smile: "I can reveal to you first. First, the old, weak, sick and disabled, I will give him food fields to live, but not in the capital, but in Shanhaiguan, which can be used as a farmer; second-class soldiers, I will adapt them into engineer soldiers, which is used for daily use in road construction, bridge repair, disaster relief and prevention, etc. Third-class, naturally I don't need to say anything."

Liu Kongzhao did not expect that the emperor had arranged everything properly, so he had nothing to say and immediately received the order.

Emperor Chongzhen was preparing to keep an eye on the innovation of the Beijing camp. After this matter was completed, he would use this as a template to gradually promote the garrisons across the country.

The Ming army should have changed.

After giving this order, Emperor Chongzhen immediately began to check the financial situation.

The salt administration reform is still being implemented, and it is still unclear whether the people will benefit from it.

The branch of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which has been established in the Ming Dynasty, has been set up and started operating in the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. As for the current situation in the capital, the deposits and loans in various places are not extensive enough. Relatively speaking, there are more in the Jiangnan area, but only more. In this regard, the imperial court still needs to continue to guide it.

After reading the memorial, Emperor Chongzhen went out in person and was received by Song Yingxing, who was the founding department.

Song Yingxing naturally knew what the emperor was trying to come so quickly, so he immediately told Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, there are some results at present, and it can be burned out as Your Majesty said. However, there is a difficulty now, that is, the refractory bricks are still a bit weak. I am still experimenting on multiple fronts. I believe that in about a year, the difficulties we are currently facing should be able to solve."

Emperor Chongzhen did not hope that Song Yingxing could make it all at once, but he still had reminders. He said to Song Yingxing: "Don't be stingy with the rewards you should have. You must fully mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of craftsmen. If you don't have enough funds, apply to me. This thing is widely used and will greatly change the current people's livelihood. Of course, it will improve the finances of the court. You must hurry up!"

With the emperor at the bottom of his words, Song Yingxing immediately laughed and replied immediately: "Your Majesty has told me about the importance of this matter, so how dare I delay it!"

Emperor Chongzhen was still very satisfied with Song Yingxing's ability to do things, so he nodded and prepared to leave. However, before leaving, he suddenly turned to Song Yingxing and said, "It is indeed not easy for Song Qing to insist on rejecting all kinds of excuses to give gifts!"

Song Yingxing was stunned when he heard this, and then came to his senses. He knew that after becoming the prince's lecturer, he was very popular. He did find various relationships and various excuses to give gifts, but he refused them all. The emperor had factory guards in the capital, so it was normal for him to know this situation.

Thinking of this, after coming back to his senses, he immediately turned his face seriously and bowed and replied: "This is the duty of the minister to be an official, and I dare not break this bottom line. The salary of the minister and the reward of Your Majesty are enough for the life of the minister!"

"Haha, you have a good sense of enlightenment!" Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile, "When you do this, I will give you one percent of your shares, and you can receive dividends every year, and the time will be set to sixty years."

When Song Yingxing heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. After Emperor Chongzhen's explanation, he knew that if the thing could be made and applied widely, it would be unprecedented. In other words, this thing is very valuable. Even if one percent of the shares is one percent, as the scale expands, it will definitely be far higher than the salary.

"I thank you for your kindness!" Song Yingxing immediately saluted solemnly. With this great gift, the Song Mansion will have no worries about food and clothing in the future!

Emperor Chongzhen accepted this calmly and immediately returned to the palace.

What I said just now was indeed reported to him by Wang Chengen, the admiral of the East Factory. Almost important officials in the capital have set up eyeliners to monitor him. As soon as Emperor Chongzhen returned to the capital, the relevant memorials were summarized on his imperial case.

Compared to Song Yingxing, Chen Zilong accepted some of it. However, Emperor Chongzhen could understand it, because Chen Zilong's social relations were far more complicated than Song Yingxing, and there were naturally more human relationships. As long as it was not an excessive matter, Emperor Chongzhen turned a blind eye. After all, there was no fish when the water was clear. If all officials were like Hai Rui, it would be impossible!

After returning to the palace, Emperor Chongzhen began to read the memorials of disasters in various places.

Since April, there has been severe drought and rain in Wujiang area, and locusts have taken the opportunity to make things worse. However, thanks to the disaster relief mechanism set by Emperor Chongzhen, the timely transportation of food was not caused by the large-scale starvation to death.

However, Emperor Chongzhen saw a stack of memorials, all about disaster warnings. There was a summary of disaster situations in the cabinet at the top. Emperor Chongzhen's face turned a little serious just as he saw it.

There are also signs of severe drought in the capital and near Nanjing, as well as in Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Huguang. The range is so wide that it is a bit shocking. If it does not rain in the future, all of them will be severe drought, and the problem will be serious.

As for what the cabinet wrote in the memorial, it was said that such a large-scale drought was rarely seen before. There would be rain in various places. The Imperial Heaven Supervision also gave a reply, thinking that the disaster situation in some provinces should be alleviated.

Although they all thought so, Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to be careless. During the late Ming Dynasty, it was a period of famous natural disasters and man-made disasters. It should not be possible, but God would do it.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen would rather be in these provinces as having severe droughts in the future. Therefore, for this matter, he immediately convened six ministers and nine ministers in Wenhua Hall to discuss matters.

Now, Emperor Chongzhen has such a high prestige, and he can infer the truth from clues. Therefore, no senior officials of the Ming Dynasty dared not ignore the emperor's opinions.

With Emperor Chongzhen's re-emphasis, these senior officials of the Ming Dynasty spoke out in response to the disaster he was worried about.

"Your Majesty, I think that the local Censorate can send the censor to inspect the disaster areas in various places. In this way, the scope of the Censor's inspection of various places is limited, so you can concentrate on rectifying the local disaster resistance capabilities!"

"Your Majesty, I think that we should build water conservancy and do a good job in water storage and drought relief."

"Your Majesty, sweet potatoes have been promoted for three consecutive years as a supplement to the staple food, especially in southern regions such as Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places, which have achieved great harvests. Some of the grains can be drawn from them."

"Your Majesty, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops, the court should repeatedly urge the local government to pay attention to it, plant it outside the farmland to supplement the needs of food."

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Each piece of suggestions basically has some truth, and Emperor Chongzhen nodded when he heard it.

In fact, behind these suggestions is the hard work of Emperor Chongzhen. After several years of layout, I have gained some results now.

After the meeting, there were twelve related suggestions in total. After sorting them out, the imperial edict was immediately issued to the capital and ordered to implement them.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that he did nothing wrong with what he took so seriously.

In the original history, from April to August of the 14th year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought in Wujiang area, and locusts covered the sky. The official orders to capture it became increasingly serious. Rice prices were four taels of silver per stone, and the road was full of beggars, and many people died of pillows. People used trash and slag as precious flavors, or ate tree crumbs and elm barks. Factory set up everywhere to prepare porridge, and tens of millions of people were eaten a day.

Such a tragic situation can be said that the Ming court is powerless to the local area. The Ming people, on that plane, really lived in dire straits, and it was completely the end of the dynasty.

Also, in the original history, starting from June of the 14th year of Chongzhen, there were severe droughts and locusts in the two capitals, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, and Huguang. At that time, Shandong and other provinces reported disasters for a year, and Zuo Mao and others supervised the grain transportation. The road chi commented: "I arrived in Jinghai and saw that the people died of hunger, three deaths of the epidemic, and four robbers." Li Qingshan then led the people to revolt, blocking the grain transportation, and the Ming court was in a major shock.

However, now, the disaster in the 14th year of Chongzhen has been properly prevented and the adverse effects are delayed. At least there is no historical tragedy in the Wujiang area. In various provinces of disasters, Emperor Chongzhen now attaches great importance to it and has sorted out twelve measures to prevent and relieve disasters.

In the original history, the bandits had not yet been destroyed, and at this time, wars were everywhere, which added frost to the disasters in various places. If there were no man-made disasters, such a large-scale disaster would not have occurred.

No matter how big the disaster is, as long as the government and the people work together to fight disaster relief, the so-called "people conquer nature" can be reflected.

Emperor Chongzhen is like this, and he wants to do the thing that man can conquer nature.

However, in his heart, he still knew that the various measures he had planned in China still needed time to accumulate effects. For example, although the promotion of sweet potatoes can be grown, the selection, storage, how to produce a variety, and how to harvest them can be solved by the experience left by Xu Guangqi. It takes time to accumulate and will explode after reaching a certain level.

As for potatoes and corn, which have higher environmental requirements, Xu Guangqi did not specifically experiment and write an experience summary when he was alive, so it was even more difficult to promote. Although this task was left to Chen Yulong, the Ming Dynasty had a wide territory and it still required many different places to accumulate experience in a few years.

From this, Emperor Chongzhen knew that at least in the past few years, the most important thing in the Ming Dynasty's disaster relief was the food issue. This still depends on the Zheng family fleet to transport grain back from the Nanyang area.

It should have been since last year that the Zheng family began to transport food on a large scale to the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is the domestic food disaster relief, the Dongjiang Army's food, or even the Guanning Army's food, a large part of it is due to the Zheng family's blood transfusion.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little worried that such a thing was not in the original history. Now that food is transported from Southeast Asia on a large scale, this matter will inevitably have a butterfly effect. I don’t know what the butterfly effect will be, whether it will be good or bad for the Ming Dynasty? How big is the impact?

If there is a problem with the grain in Nanyang and no more food can be imported, it will have a great impact on the Ming Dynasty. For example, disaster relief and resilience are a problem, and war with Jianlu is another problem.

Thinking of this, thinking that food restricts the Ming Dynasty's revival. It can even be said that whether the Ming Dynasty's revival depends on whether there is enough food. This can be solved by the Nanyang side at present. This made Emperor Chongzhen feel that his neck was stuck, and he didn't know when he would be strangled by someone? Or, he wouldn't be strangled?

My fate is up to me, not to others! Emperor Chongzhen secretly became ruthless in his heart. He must pay attention to the grain output of the Ming Dynasty. The manpower and material resources invested in this area are still too little. Didn’t Yuan Daxia’s hybrid rice solve the problem of food and clothing for 1.3 billion people in later generations? It’s just artificial breeding of various rice?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately came to Zhang Zilong from the Agricultural Department and told him this idea, asking him to select backbones of the Agricultural Department to the south to choose the experimental field. Once the place is decided, the local government will cooperate fully and add more experiments. Even if it cannot be done in ten years, what about twenty years?

While Emperor Chongzhen was busy with disaster relief, a large army was gathering on the grassland outside the Great Wall of Shaanxi. In the central army tent, sitting in the main seat, the rat tail of the money was very obvious, needless to say, it was Jianlu.

This person was Jirgalang, who was sent by Huang Taiji in Hetao Region. At this time, he was hearing the person kneeling in front of him report the news.

The person who reported the news was dressed in a Han Dynasty costume and spoke Ming Dynasty Mandarin with a Shaanxi accent.
Chapter completed!