"Emperor, Qihezhuo surrendered, the Western Regions are now safe!"

The person who spoke was Zuo Zongtang. As usual, the local telegram was collected by the cabinet first, and then the important one was selected, and the cabinet's chief or secondary assistant reported to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jishi was sitting behind the imperial case in Jinshen Hall, and several close ministers such as Weng Tonghe and Tan Zhonglin were constantly bringing in the cabinet, and the telegrams sent by the Grand Marshal's Office or the Industrial Promotion Association were asked to review them.

Emperor Zhu looked faint, holding a plan to develop Kaifeng Prefecture New City, watching. Now the Ming Dynasty is building a large-scale project to stimulate domestic demand. Ten government developments are spending millions of silver dollars like a tide. Although the Ministry of Finance does not need to allocate funds, Always, we have to keep a close eye on it.

Hearing Zuo Zongtang's report on Qihezhuo's surrender, Zhu Jishi just smiled faintly, as expected! He asked Li Hongzhang to raise trouble in southern Xinjiang not because he could not deal with the seven of them, but just wanted to consume the strength of Hezhu and others. , to facilitate the removal of them from southern Xinjiang.

"Left Prime Minister, you see where should I go to convert the seven of them?"

When Zuo Zongtang heard this, his brows frowned slightly, "Your Majesty, do you really want to transfer them? These Qihezhuo have a high prestige in southern Xinjiang, and I'm afraid they..."

Zhu Jishi snorted: "Isn't it just six or seven hundred thousand people!"

Zuo Zongtang immediately took a breath, and the emperor's tone...is not good!

"The barbarians are not of our race, and their hearts must be different. The strong will be bandits. The weak will be humble and the low will be hijacked, and they will ignore their kindness. They are their nature." Zhu Jishi said coldly as Wei Zheng's famous saying, and then said, "My opinion is what I think." Similar to Ye Lan'er, the barbarians must be educated and transformed into the Han Dynasty to make a plan for long-term stability. To transform 600,000 Hu people in southern Xinjiang into our Han people, we must uproot the Hezhuo family, which has caused trouble to southern Xinjiang for many years. !Since they are willing to respect me as the monarch, then I will turn them over, otherwise... they should be killed to eliminate future troubles!"

Zuo Zongtang hesitated for a moment and advised: "Emperor, if the killing is too heavy, it may damage the reputation of benevolence. Now there is nothing wrong in Xinjiang, why bother to increase the right and wrong?"

"Nothing is happening now. It does not mean that there is nothing happening in the future. I am the king of the country. I kill people like a slaughter. Even the barbarians are afraid of my methods. They only dare to be angry but not speak out, let alone rebellion?" Zhu Jishi looked at him calmly with a look of his face. Zuo Zongtang, "If I am gone in the future, the prince may have my current power? Even if I have it, I am afraid I will kill someone first? Since that's the case, I might as well do this evil person alone. Let the prince go to the future Just be a virtuous and benevolent lord.”

Zuo Zongtang shook his head and stopped insisting. After thinking for a while, he said, "Your Majesty, why not bring the seven of them and Zhuo Feng to Qinghai."

"It's close to Xinjiang." Zhu Jishi shook his head.

"So find a piece of land in Mongolia?"

"Mongolia? Or too close?"

Zuo Zongtang frowned: "Do you want to entrust them to Siberia?"

According to the provisions of the "Villager Law", the territory that has implemented the Ming Constitution cannot be handed over to vassals for management, so most areas of the 18 provinces in the Han area cannot be used to arrange some of them. Most of the Northeastern areas have no way to arrange them. The two provinces of Jiaozhou and the northwestern Borneo have also implemented constitutionalism and cannot be resettled. I think they can only go to wild places like Siberia.

Zhu Jishi waved his hand and smiled, "Just find a place to ask them to collect some money... I don't want them to really manage them, so these He Zhuo should stay in Nanjing honestly!" He stopped After a while, he said, "Jeju Island, although it is under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Governor, the Ming Constitution has not yet been implemented. I will find a piece of land for seven of them on Jeju Island... Each piece of land has a profit of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. That's it."

Qihezhuo's territory is quite large, but his income is very limited. If you add it together, it may not be 200,000 yuan a year. Zhu Jishi gave them 30,000 to 40,000 silver dollars to raise each family, but he was actually very kind to him. He should be dissatisfied.

, then you can save this money!

"Prince, what about their 600,000 people?"

"Of course we must turn Hu into Han." Zhu Jishi sneered, "Don't let them scatter in various places, concentrate on two oasis Kashgar and Yeerqiang, allocate land and houses, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment. In addition, use Ye Lan'er's method

, lure them for profit, teach them for etiquette, and promote their sinicization... These 600,000 people do not have to pay land tax, but they have to pay captive tax according to the number of males! However, they can enjoy free Confucian education, which is the Xinjiang Governor's Office and the Xinjiang Provincial Education Department every year

Jointly responsible for the assessment with the Colonial Ministry. Those with excellent grades will be granted Chinese citizenship, and the poll tax will be exempted and additional land will be granted. Among them, the best ones can also be an official."

There is nothing new about this system, it is to spend money to buy peace and give these 600,000 people some preferential treatment. However... the purpose is to encourage them to turn into Chinese rather than to turn into Hu.

Zuo Zongtang thought about it and thought that Emperor Zhu's method was feasible. Although there was a little risk, Zhu Jishi, a murderous evil man, was suppressed. Who dared to really hit Emperor Zhu's gun? That was not a rebellion.

It's about death!

"Your Majesty, can the True God Cult still convince you?" Zuo Zongtang thought for a while and asked again.

"Let me, I am religiously free from the Ming Dynasty. But... I cannot allow the True God Cult to open a religious school." Zhu Jishi said lightly.

"Is it just that the true gods are not allowed?" Zuo Zongtang frowned. The Ming Dynasty practiced religious freedom, so all sects could preach freely, of course, including the beginning of religious schools. And now the most schools have begun to train clergy in the Ming Dynasty.

It is not true God's religion at all, but the various Christian denominations.

"Christianity is not allowed, it must be treated equally!" Zhu Jishi thought for a while and added, "These regulations can be added when the Ming Dynasty Education Law is amended, but Christian church schools that do not aim to cultivate clergy can still be opened

However, the textbooks used must also be approved by the Ministry of Education. In addition, the Hong Kong Autonomous Dominion does not apply to the "Ming Dynasty Education Law" so religious schools can be opened."

After talking about the matter with Zhuo, Zuo Zongtang took out a telegram from his sleeve and handed it to Emperor Zhu. The content was related to the emperor's vassal. This time it was a telegram from Zheng Yongyi, the minister stationed in Tibet.

It has been half a year since Zheng Yong arrived in **. During this half year, he was not busy with the throne, but visited various places in ** and even went to Shannan this summer and

On a trip to Nepal, I personally inspected the resources and terroirs of various parts of Shannan. I also found a very good flat land where the Yarlung Zangbo River in Shannan merged into the Brahmaputra River. It has a warm climate and abundant rainfall, which is very suitable.

reclamation.

Therefore, Zheng Yongyi suggested establishing a stronghold there and moving some ** lords to settle there. If possible, they could gradually develop towards the Bramaputra River and strive to turn the Bramaputra River into

The dividing line between Ming Dynasty and British India.

"The emperor, Zheng Yongyi reported that the south of the mountain is very rich, with many valleys, and river valleys are suitable for cultivation and reclamation. If developed, the entire people of the ** can be placed there, and the environment is more than that of **

*The north of the mountain is good. I think this method is good, you can try it." Zuo Zongtang paused and said, "The only bad thing is that the transportation between the south of the mountain and the north of the mountain is too inconvenient, so I can only follow the Yarlung Zangbo River

The valley is only accessible for a few months a year. The troops we stationed there are too easy to be isolated and easily conflict with Britain.”

Weng Tonghe took a map drawn by the British and spread it out in front of Zhu Jishi. Emperor Zhu naturally quickly found this land that still belongs to China but was occupied by India in later generations - from transportation Judging from the terrain, this land is really the fat meat that India says. They really have to rob it with all their might, and it is indeed difficult for China to defend it. However, this is not a problem for the current Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!