Five days later.

"Tianjin?"

Fang Congzhe sneered.

"Yang Yishi made a good plan. He has been growing rice along the Haihe River in Tianjin for many years. It is well-known that there are all fertile fields. Do you want to cultivate land and farm there? The court also wants to cultivate land and plant rice there! Don't think about it."

He continued.

At this time, the war had ended. As Yang Xin said, when the White Lotus Cultists in Zou County lined up and shouted at the foot of Yishan Mountain, the White Lotus Cultists stationed there quickly killed Xu Heyu and other leaders surrendered. Because there was no food, there was no food there, and the morale of the army was unstable. As for Chen Zhi of Teng County, he did not surrender, he tried to lead his troops to break through, but was defeated again by the Sichuan-Zhejiang army outside the city. Chen Zhi was killed by the Baigang soldiers of Qin Bangping's troops, and a small number of remaining subordinates fled to the mountains in Baodugu.

Most of the others also surrendered one after another after knowing that the Zou County church members surrendered.

The Shandong Rebellion suddenly happened and was quickly pacified in less than three months.

Then Yang Xin ran to Beijing for three days and met the Saint directly.

He wants to reclaim wasteland.

Wanli has promised to reclaim wasteland but has not yet fulfilled it.

Wanli looked at Yang Xin.

His Majesty the Emperor's complexion is getting worse day by day.

Although he was only fifty years old, except for Zhu Yuanzhang and his son, the Zhu family seemed to be in poor health. Since last year, his health has been deteriorating.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty was still normal during this period.

Due to the wild boar skin strategy, Liaodong has turned to no major war so far. And judging from this situation, wild boar skin cannot hit Liaodong at least in the first half of the year. As for the two sides' scattered battles in the border wall area, it is not worth mentioning.

Not to mention it is with wild boar skin, it is actually the same as the Mongolians.

Although fried flowers have grabbed a large amount of food in Kaiyuan and are still honest this winter, fried flowers do not represent all Mongolians. He only represents the five tribes of Nei Khalkha. None of them are honest, whether they are Lin Danhan or the Ming Dynasty called Hudun Tuhan, or Tumote. Fortunately, they are not really threatening the Ming Dynasty. It is nothing more than friction between each other outside the pass. Occasionally, Mongolian herders gather to demonstrate outside the wall, and the Ming army stationed along the line also demonstrated.

Then there were a few scattered battles of hundreds of people.

The same is true in the southwest, and there are constant small battles with the mountain people.

Xu Hongru's sudden rebellion was truly possible, but because of Yang Xin's participation in the war and the amazing performance of the Sichuan-Zhejiang Army, it was quickly resolved. The latter did surprise Wanli, especially the Zhejiang Army. Even if he did not admit it, he knew that Qi Jiguang, who he hated at the time, had indeed left him a precious legacy. In short, for this imperial emperor who had entered the 48th year after ascending the throne, his empire that had lasted for 250 years was still as stable as Mount Tai, and the prosperous era of Wanli was still, at least there was no sign of collapse.

"In that case, Tianjin will indeed not be suitable."

He said slowly.

The imperial court did want to reclaim wasteland in Tianjin.

After all, from Wang Yingjiao to Xu Guangqi before, it has been confirmed that all that place can be turned into fertile fields, and Zuo Guangdou is inspecting the area to inspect whether large-scale land reclamation can be carried out, so that Yang Xin can no longer be given to him.

"Your Majesty, the grass people don't want those suitable for growing rice in Gegu. Caomin said before that Caomin wants saline and alkali beaches that no one wants. Of course, the Gegu area cannot be considered saline and alkali beaches.

What the grass people want is to go east and south, that is, the land between Gegu and Dagukou, and continue to go south from there. That area cannot be cultivated or dried salt. It is all a deserted land that can be said to be barren. The grass people just want this place. In the grass people's idea, they are to bring these rebellious parties to make them apologize to His Majesty by transforming this wasteland. His Majesty mercilessly spared their death penalty for participating in the rebellion, so they cannot be punished at all. I just want them to accept punishment in this way.

My minister's plan was to take them to start from Tangguantun in Qing County to dig a river to reduce floods on the Cao River.

Tianjin is known as the bottom of Jiuhe River.

Most of the rivers in northern Zhili gather there, and floods are constantly circulating every year that threaten the canal transport and Tianjin City. There is no time for Tianjin City to be trapped by floods. Therefore, I wanted to dig such a river to lead some of the floods to the northeast from the upstream, bypassing Tianjin and Sancha Rivers and directly into the sea at Dagukou. In this way, fresh water can be used to irrigate these saline-alkali lands, and the safety of Tianjin and Sanchakou Cao Rivers can be ensured.

And these people can dig the river.

After digging, let them stay in the local area to reclaim land and maintain this river."

Yang Xin said.

He just wants to dig a horse factory to reduce the river.

As long as there is Machang Jianhe River, Xiaozhan rice will be available. At this time, the rice planting in Tianjin is only carried out in the Gegu area, and the Xincheng to Xiaozhan area is purely worthless, but it is different if there is Machang Jianhe River. Under the continuous erosion of fresh water diversion on the canal, the salt of the saline-alkali beach is diluted and taken away. What is left is naturally a piece of deposition for millions of years, all of which are fertile soil for humus.

"How much money does the court have to pay?"

Fang Congzhe said angrily.

It is obvious that Mr. Fang Ge's wife was deeply disgusted with Yang Xin. The matter between this bastard and his niece has become a joke in the capital, and the Fang family has also become a laughing stock. Until now, he is still a joke for people in the capital after dinner. Mr. Fang Ge's wife couldn't suppress his anger when he saw his face and wanted to go forward and hit him with a tablet on the head.

"No need for a tael of silver in the court!"

Yang Xin said.

"Then how do you dig this river?"

Wanli became interested in an instant.

It’s easy to say if you don’t have money. His Majesty the Emperor is most annoying to pay money. Those who can do things without paying money are all good comrades to him.

Yang Xin is a good comrade.

He never asked him for a tael of silver, but he even did everything properly.

But it is too incredible to not dig a canal of more than 100 miles if you don’t have to pay a salary. Even if those surrendered scented scholars don’t have to pay for their wages, they must at least have enough food to work. Even if those people cannot give them all, such a project will have to be at least 10,000 people. At the current price of 10,000 silver, you will have to eat tens of thousands of taels a year.

This is not considered buying tools or anything like that.

"Your Majesty, you have said before that the land that the grass people reclaimed is considered rewarded to the grass people, but the grass people cannot ask His Majesty for nothing. The grass people do not need to dig this river for one tael of silver in the court and then lead them to reclaim the wasteland. The number of cultivation along the line is considered to be the grass people, so that the grass people can be at ease. As for their meals, the grass people themselves will solve them, but His Majesty must allow the grass people to take them to do something else. After all, the grass people really have no money, so they can only find ways to make money while digging this river."

Yang Xin said.

The money in his pocket is enough to support this year.

Similarly, he can also start trawling fishing this year. In fact, there are those in Guangdong, but the ones that drag the upper layer of the seawater are called sailboats. What he needs to do is to make large trawlings, make paddle boats to drag the fish on the bottom of the coast, and then use these fish to solve the food for those people. In addition, in some places with high terrain in this area, sweet potatoes and the like are first planted, so that a batch of grain reserves can be harvested this year. In short, he can deal with the past year.

It won’t take long for the horse factory to cut the river.

In history, there were less than 20,000 soldiers, which took only more than a year.

The terrain of this area is flat and the soil is soft, so it is just a person who sends a shovel to dig.

“You can’t cook salt!”

Fang Congzhe said immediately.

"You can't cook salt, and you can't cook salt in this life. The grass people want to take them to fish and replenish their food, the second is the Kaiyuan military transportation mentioned last time, and the third is to do some trade. In short, as long as it is not illegal, the grass people want to take them to do it, but many of these have household registration restrictions, so it requires your Majesty's grace to do it."

Yang Xin said.

"allow!"

Wanli said readily.

All of these are worth mentioning, as long as you don't ask him for money.

What's more, Yang Xin's dig of this river is indeed very useful. It is not worried about the lack of water in the Tianjin section of the canal, but it is just afraid that floods will destroy the embankment, or even irrigate the city of Tianjin.

Having this river diversion can at least reduce flooding.

"But they can't give all of those people. After all, they will give you the time to get the young and strong counties, and no one will farm the land in the future. You can only pick up ten thousand people from them at most. There is no limit on the time for digging rivers. You can dig it anytime. Even if they are your volunteer army, I will give you a name for this volunteer army. Since the slogan you shouted is to kill the Hu, it is called the bandit army. If you don't return to the Governor's Office of the Five Army, you will not return to the Beijing camp. I sent someone to you from the Sili Supervisor to be a military supervisor, which is considered to be the direct control of me.

And you still have to have a military post and can't run around like this anymore.

You have made great contributions to the extermination of the Wenxiang Sect, especially to protect the Confucius Temple and the Yanshenggong family. I will give you a commander of the Jinyiwei, and the commander of the Tongzhi and the admiral of the bandits."

He continued.

"Thank you, your Majesty!"

Yang Xin said quickly.

This is Wanli's kindness. To put it bluntly, Wanli also knows the relationship between him and the civil servants. In this way, even if he is directly under Wanli, he is similar to the nature of internal warriors. His commander of the Jinyiwei Tongzhi is scary enough, so he can go to Tianjin to play freely in the future.

Also on standby there.

In the future, no matter where there is a situation where the rescue team members are needed, Wanli will have to quickly solve the problem. The significance of this bandit army is that Wanli does not have to pay to support him. He will be his own destruction. Ten thousand soldiers are considered serfs to him. The nature is similar to the military households under the hereditary generals of the garrison at this time. In addition, he is also tied up there, otherwise he would not be able to run around everywhere. Wanli does not want another Nishan incident, and his killing weapon level must be locked in a safe warehouse.

Fang Congzhe next to him looked at Yang Xin with complicated eyes.
Chapter completed!