Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the Thirteenth Year of Gansheng.

What happened in the past year?

In addition to consolidating the vassals of the Ming Dynasty with both soft and hard work, the biggest news is probably the old way of the Yellow River.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month of the thirteenth year of Gansheng, with the sound of explosions, the river bank on the north bank was blown up. The dry river water flowed north along the 5-mile wide river surface and crossed north Zhili, and entered the sea at the old river mouth dozens of miles south of Tianjin.

In fact, the river channel was also widened on the basis of the former path of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the past, there were all fertile fields, but the Qing Dynasty's invasion made this place an uninhabited land, which was also the reason why the court could implement the "Yellow River Returns to the North". As for the river channel that seized Huai to the south, it was also blocked, and the Huai River finally got rid of the dilemma of "strong Huang and weak Huai" and poor access to the sea.

Thanks to this, the Ming Dynasty finally had a grassland in the pass!

And it's quite big.

The river embankments on both sides of the Yellow River are ten miles wide from the river. This ten-mile-wide flood control area is prohibited from being reclaimed. After more than ten years of deliberate operation, it has long become an endless grassland.

Although it is narrow and long, it is also a region of more than thousands of square kilometers in a radius, with a total of millions of acres!

Of course, although this grassland is an official land, it was handed over to the guards of the military households along the river. They could plant grass and raise horses here. There were as many as 300,000 military households on both sides of the Yellow River, and they raised millions of horses in their homes. In terms of the number of horses, the current Ming Dynasty is far more than that of previous dynasties.

Of course, the quality is the same. After all, in the past decade, the Ming Dynasty has been trying every means to introduce excellent horses from the Middle East, Europe and other places! And drawing on the horse breeding laws of later generations, they have formulated special laws to improve horse breeds. In fact, this law is very simple to castrate stallions nationwide, and at the same time establish a large number of stallions, which are provided by the court, including Arabian horses, sweat and blood horses. After more than ten years of breeding, the dwarf horses became taller.

Of course, because of this, obtaining excellent stallions has always been the core of the Ming Dynasty's horse politics. In addition to breeding of official horse farms, introduction has become the best choice.

In the autumn of the thirteenth year of Gansheng, when two thousand sweat and blood horses arrived at the Ming Dynasty from thousands of miles away, it not only became a big news in the newspaper, but even the emperor himself was alarmed.

"Two thousand sweat-blooded BMWs!"

The reed marsh, which was once the Huainan Salt Farm, was reed marsh that was used to cook salt in Huainan Salt Farm. After the salt cooking method was replaced by salt drying, millions of acres of reed marsh were reclaimed into a pasture, specifically used to breed horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock.

"Your Majesty, two thousand sweat-blooded horses have been distributed to twelve horse farms across the country. There are 100 mares and twenty breed stallions left in Huainan. According to the agreement we reached with Pushun, they will sell us no less than three hundred good-bred sweat-blooded horses every year in the future..."

Standing on the mound, Zhu Guoqiang said with a telescope as he looked at the sweat-blooded BMW enjoying the grass under the slope.

"Three hundred horses, this Li Guo is quite generous!"

In fact, as early as ten years ago, the Ming Dynasty had already obtained bloody horses, but the number was extremely limited, but only a few dozen horses. Why? Because the Turkmens were unwilling to sell, but now, the Turkmens have been destroyed by Li Guo.

"When Emperor Wu of Han raised hundreds of thousands of troops and Li Guangli went on a voyage of thousands of miles, and only got thousands of bloody horses, two of them a year. Li Guo was so generous, three hundred a year!"

"Your Majesty, it's just to please the Ming Dynasty!"

Sinara, who was standing beside her, interrupted,

"In the past, in order to please Persia and us, the Turkmen also provided excellent horses every year. Although there were not so many, the Turkmens had no other treasures except these horses. I think the same is true for Li Guo!"

Xinara has given birth to a son for His Majesty. Now she is no longer the little princess of the Qiao family, but the concubine and the twenty-sixth prince of the Ming Dynasty Palace. In recent years, the world has been peaceful, and Zhu Guoqiang, as the emperor, still doesn’t ask whether he is diligent or not, but he is quite diligent in the harem, with more and more children, and he has thirty-two sons and twenty-seven daughters. Last year, the queen gave birth to another princess. In addition to the grade of concubines, there are several talented people who have made him sleep with a big belly.

In short, the royal family is absolutely lush now, but the world is so big that it is enough to be sealed. One India is enough to accommodate dozens of princes, and there are America, so Europe can consider it in the future.

“Pleasing…”

With a slight smile, Zhu Guoqiang did not continue to say anything.

His attitude towards the Qing Dynasty and bandits was completely different. The former must be completely solved, but the latter!

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In fact, he has always had some sympathy for the "Dashun". Even if they have done a lot of evil and killed many good people,... just as Chongzhen said, "I am a innocent kid, so I should appease him." "If you are willing to return to the right, you will be a good person."

Kill all the people and slaughter them all, that is to treat outsiders, but the bandits belong to their own people after all, and everything is easy to discuss.

Seeing that Your Majesty was silent, Shi Lei said softly.

"Your Majesty, based on the information we have at present, Li Guo's son will sneak into the Ming Dynasty to study this year with a pseudonym."

Take out an envelope from your arms and hand it to Your Majesty with both hands,

"This is a secret letter sent from the pseudo Chang'an."

"Oh? Li Guo's son came to Daming to study..."

Zhu Guoqiang did not go to pick him up.

In fact, since Li Guo sent the first batch of "international students", the Jinyiwei had already mastered the information and even grasped the trends. With just one order, none of those people could escape, but Zhu Guoqiang did not agree.

"Si Shi, do you know, why I don't want to fight the West now?"

His Majesty's rebellious question made Shi Lei stunned.

yes!

Why!

Now the Ming Dynasty is strong and the railway has been built to Yulin. As long as you are willing, you can fight north and west at any time, but why don’t you fight?

"The West Expedition..."

After a pause, Zhu Guoqiang said with a look in the distance.

"Even Yang Sichang, who advocated the suppression of bandits, once said: "The bandits were originally innocent children of the court, and the officers and soldiers who killed him were also innocent children of the court. Letting the innocent killer kill him was absolutely necessary." Although such a difficult suppression and pacification caused future troubles and suffered the Jiashen State Rebellion, if the army is suppressed by a large army, it is definitely not what I want. Although Li Guo and others were guilty of the Ming Dynasty, their troops under their command were not good people who were threatened by him, and they killed innocent children..."

Shaking his head, Zhu Guoqiang pondered.

"So, last year they sent international students to study in the Ming Dynasty, and I have never stopped them. It is because they hope that they can be taught and educated by our Ming Dynasty, influenced by our Ming Dynasty, and use knowledge and spiritual domination of the pseudo-Shun ministers and officials, which is more reliable than military conquest! When they dominate the pseudo-Shun government, facing the Ming Dynasty's advance, the possibility of resistance is almost zero!"

Is this pedantic?

In fact, Zhu Guoqiang has never been a pedantic person. The reason why he did this was naturally his intention.

"Create a group of talents who are pro-Mingxia through education." Whether in vassal states such as North Korea, Japan, or Siam, the Ming Dynasty did this. To put it bluntly, it was to cultivate the party leading the way, and finally achieve "merger" under the party leading the way itself. Such an annexation is far more effective than a military annexation.

Of course, this takes time!

But this is not the most important thing, all of this is just an superficial reason... More importantly, the Ming Dynasty needs the swords of Li Guo and the Qing Dynasty!

Especially Li Guo, without this knife, the Ming Dynasty would have to face some problems in the future, such as the Tianfang Sect and other problems. What should I do?

Li Guo and the others' method is very simple, it's nothing more than killing.

It has to be admitted that this method is very effective. The Qing Dynasty used their knife to turn the Western Regions into the world of Lamaism.

As for Li Guo... there is "no difference from China".

But the problem is that there are also Ottomans and Persia, which require their knives. Perhaps, this is the so-called "destroying tigers and swallowing wolfs"!

But how can we make this knife used by the Ming Dynasty? Or let this knife solve some problems for the Ming Dynasty, and wait until all the problems of the knife are solved. It is time to solve the knife, but before that, the knife is still useful.
Chapter completed!