"Leave it?"

"It's been left... In addition, Your Highness seems to be intending to prepare for the construction of Qi State's vassal state..."

On April 23, the 11th year of the Tianqi revelation, when Zhu Youxiao, who was handling the memorial in the Dading Palace, paused the red pen in his hand and raised his head with a little entangled confusion. Cui Yingyuan, who was kneeling on the ground, also lowered his head and answered his question.

Yang Bingwen's return brought an uncertain factor to the political struggle of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Zhu Youjian's issue of vassalization.

This problem that has been delayed from the second year of the Tianqi revelation is a problem that Zhu Youxiao has been avoiding, but it is also a problem that Zhu Youjian must implement after the Ming Dynasty is on track.

Lead by example...

If Zhu Youjian did not belong to the vassal state, would the future vassal state kings not have to belong to the vassal state?

If Zhu Youjian could use the resources of the Ming Dynasty to support Qi without authorization, does that mean that the future emperors can also help the royal heirs and vassal kings he wanted to support?

Only by setting an example can Zhu Youjian set his own rules.

Whether it is a tractor or something else, the Qi Palace must pay the money, even at the cost price.

This is not a trade issue, it is a ritual and legal issue.

Fortunately, the Qi Palace is the richest vassal palace in the world. Not to mention anything else, according to the Ming army's reward and punishment system, Zhu Youjian himself could get 10% of the rewards for this Northern Expedition, which is only 100.

Seven hundred thousand taels of silver.

This money can be used to immigrate, and it can be used to relocate 340,000 people. It can be used to buy machinery and can be used to buy 1,700 tractors.

This is just a reward of silver. You should know that in the Qi Palace, there were several gift lists for the last wedding. The gift lists sent by the ministers and generals from each frontier were as high as more than four million taels of silver.

As for the gold and silver accumulated by the Qi Palace, it is possible to relocate more than 300,000 people while relocating more than 300,000 tractors to Qi State to reclaim wasteland.

This financial resources are not available in other vassal palaces.

Therefore, whether it is for money or other things, Zhu Youxiao has no way to stop Zhu Youjian.

He refused to let Zhu Youjian move, which was to destroy the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty.

Unless Zhu Youxiao is willing to watch the future vassal system not follow the rules, he will have to follow the rules.

He roughly calculated the calculations. With his younger brother's salary, the gold and silver he has accumulated now, and the silver rewards he will be rewarded for in the future, he will be able to accumulate enough for two million people to relocate in ten years.

If two million people are all male, then intermarry with the indigenous women in Melica, North Asia, then in less than ten years, the population of Qi will reach 400 or even 5 million.

Zhu Youxiao was not afraid of the power of Qi. What he was worried about was that the better the Qi was built, the faster the younger brother would be in the vassal state.

"Long live... Your Highness is the vassal of you, too..."

"Shut up!"

Cui Yingyuan originally wanted to comfort Zhu Youxiao, but he didn't want to let Zhu Youxiao scold him as soon as he opened his mouth.

Zhu Youjian left the Ming Dynasty, and the person with the greatest benefit was Zhu Youxiao, because he could start to arrange his own people to the stage after Zhu Youjian left with a large number of officials, becoming the Ming Dynasty to eliminate Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and Zhu Youjian.

The one with the greatest control.

He didn't know this question? He knew very well, and he also knew that the longer Zhu Youjian stayed in the Ming Dynasty, the more unfavorable it would be for his rule.

No matter how the official school promotes his emperor, as long as the official school students graduate, they will know that all policies that benefit the people are made by the King of Qi and have nothing to do with the emperor.

Why was the Yanshan faction so obedient at the beginning, but in the end it became more and more rebellious?

To put it bluntly, when they found that the emperor and the book were completely different, and Zhu Youjian was more like the "Emperor of the Apocalypse" in the book, most officials were full of contempt for Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao knew all these things very well. He also knew that Zhu Youjian left was a good thing for him, but he couldn't bear to leave...

On one side is the only brother, on the other side is the hot power, and he wants it on either side.

"Where are my brother now..." Zhu Youxiao gritted his teeth and asked. Cui Yingyuan also responded quickly after hearing this: "It should be in Duoyan County."

"What have you found out about the invasion of Hudun Rabbit?" Zhu Youxiao asked again.

"This... only a few general flag officers and team officials of the eighth and ninth ranks were found, but when they found them, they had already committed suicide."

"As for the "Ten Thousand Enemies" that appeared among the Northern Barbarians, in the Ministry of War archives, all the Ten Thousand Enemies have been destroyed in the fourth year of the Apocalypse. It took too long to find out anything..."

Cui Yingyuan lowered his head, wishing he could bury his head in his chest.

"In other words, can't you find out?" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, and Cui Yingyuan could only nod his head: "Yes...unless the more than two thousand people involved were tortured and forced confessions, otherwise..."

"Then I won't investigate." When Zhu Youxiao heard that he was going to torture the soldiers in the frontier, his face changed.

The situation is already awkward now, and if he loses the morale of ordinary soldiers, he will be really alone.

The calm these days made Zhu Youxiao think clearly about one thing, that is, the invasion of Lin Danhan, which is essentially due to his younger brother.

If your younger brother is here, the parties will not stop attacking each other.

This time he is safe and has only two possibilities.

The first is that this time the matter was not prepared enough, which led to Lin Danhan not intercepting him.

The second is that this matter was deliberately not prepared enough, so Lin Danhan did not intercept him, and the purpose was to make his relationship with his younger brother tense.

The former must be made by a small number of people in the Yanshan Sect, while the latter must be made by officials from all parties.

Zhu Youxiao did not think about continuing to explore this matter. It was not his weakness, but his feeling that if he took action on this matter, the factional struggle between the imperial power and the Qi royal palace would be aggravated.

Therefore, no matter whether your younger brother takes the blame or not, in order not to aggravate the factional struggle, you can only let your younger brother take action.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath, and at the same time, Zhu Youjian, who had arrived in Duoyan County, also received an urgent memorial.

【April Dingmao, Sichuan, Yunnan Prefecture Railway…】

"The roadbeds in Sichuan and Yunnan have begun to be built, the roads have been built, and Kunming to Longchuan are unobstructed. Hong Jingluo submitted a memorial to ask His Highness if he can prepare to regain Myanmar."

He was rushing on the carriage on Duoyan County Road. When Li Dingguo read out the memorial sent by Hong Chengchou, Zhu Youjian stopped the brush in his hand and thought about it for a while before saying:

"Look at the memorial of the Ministry of Revenue, do you have enough money and food to mobilize in the southwest?"

"Your Highness, Zhengluo Hong said that he had prepared two million stones of rice and 700,000 taels of silver in Yunnan. You only need your high-ranking circle to attack the unjust officials."

Li Dingguo did not do what Zhu Youjian said because he found that there was Hong Chengchou's handwritten book behind the memorial. He opened it and read it, and handed it to Zhu Youjian.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly and took the handwritten book, looking at the ten lines at a glance.

In general, Hong Chengchou had already stocked two million stones of rice, seven hundred thousand taels of silver, and more than six hundred thousand kilograms of gunpowder in Kunming.

Zhu Youjian didn't know what this guy did, but judging from the report of the local Jinyiwei, it was not a search of the people's wealth and ointment from the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Jiaotong.

If you think about it carefully, it is probably what he has survived in the past few years.

"Since the food and fodder are ready, then go to the red circle and give him the commander of the Burmese government to control the Western Army. The Southern Army will be in the 42nd Battalion of the Four Provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and will be dispatched to quell the rebellion today."

Zhu Youjian had no reason to refuse the military action that would not waste the imperial court’s money and food. Moreover, the large-scale infrastructure in China required a large number of people to act as dangerous blasters. Such work could not be done by the people of the Ming Dynasty, but only labor reform workers could do it.

To pacify the Dongxu Dynasty, it would open up the southwest gate for the Ming Dynasty to go to Shidang in India. It would be only a matter of time before the recovery of the plains in the northern Ganges River was restored.

Zhu Youjian thought so, and Li Dingguo also used a red pen to criticize Hong Chengchou's memorials according to Zhu Youjian's words. Then he turned to look at Zhu Youjian who stopped writing and asked curiously:

"Your Highness, you have never been to Melica, North Asia. You have planned the local area thousands of miles away. Is there anything wrong with it?"

Li Dingguo's words were a bit presumptuous, at least in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Youjian did not blame him, but smiled and continued to lift his brush to paint and said, "There will basically be no mistake."

As he said this, Zhu Youjian also looked at the map in front of him.

This is a map of Melica, North and South Asia, drawn with brushes. The areas of different colors are divided according to brushes of different colors, and each area is marked with places where the house can be set up.

According to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, gray, pink, black, white, brown... Zhu Youjian divided the north and south Asian Melica into twelve areas.

These twelve areas are not provinces, but the order in which Qi State develops the local area.

Red means later generations of Alaska... British Columbia, as well as Washington, Oregon, California and other regions.

This is the scope of actual control in Qi's first five-year plan. Among them, Alaska is the most important place to take over a large number of labor reform workers in Yingzhou in the future, and it is also the main part of Qi's finances in the future.

More than two million labor reform workers will mine coal, gold and silver mines here, providing Qi with nearly one million taels of fiscal revenue per year.

Only after this place is controlled well will the Ming Dynasty continue to control other places, such as the vast northern region of the orange plate and the central Gobi region, then the yellow East Coast region, the green New Spain Governor's District, and other colors of Melica in South Asia.

The capital of Qi will be temporarily placed in the California area, but after all the above-mentioned places are included in the notice, the capital will move south, open up the Panama Canal, and establish a sufficiently defensive navy.

It will take about fifty years before and after this. By then, the population of Qi will reach about 40 million and the number of troops will remain at 500,000.

However, even Zhu Youjian could not guarantee that he could survive fifty years later, so he at most generally established the basic rule of Qi and allowed his successors to continue to strengthen.

Zhu Youjian divided these twelve areas into twelve provinces, with ten prefectures and ten counties in each province, and the total number was 1,200 counties.

Of course, such control is relatively weak, so provinces and counties will be continuously divided in the future. In the end, Zhu Youjian estimated that it would be necessary to divide thirty provinces, 300 prefectures, and 3,000 counties.

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But at this time, the population of Qi State was estimated to have exceeded 200 million, and the population of the Ming Dynasty was unpredictable.

The current Ming Dynasty's vassal system was destined to be a country with a large population exporter. This not only stabilizes the Ming Dynasty's domestic situation, but also allows the vassal states to gain a foothold overseas.

According to the current fertility rate of Daming, Zhu Youjian estimated that in a hundred years, the number of people in the Ming Dynasty would reach between one billion and one.2 billion.

However, if there is no land annexation, this data may soar to about 1.6 billion, accounting for 50 to 60% of the world's population.

As expected, Europe will become the dumping place for goods between Qi and the Ming Dynasty, because they will no longer develop their own industry under the attack of Qi and the Ming Dynasty in the east.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also breathed a sigh of relief and blew his canvas.

The canvas was blown dry, and Liu Bingwen, who had been sitting next to him, helped Zhu Youjian put away the canvas, while Zhu Youjian continued to pick up other canvases and continued to depict the cities and city construction that needed to be built in the first five-year plan of the Ming Dynasty.
To be continued...