Author: Beicheng 2,000

"Woo--"

In October, when Kandahar, Kabul and other places recovered, the Mughal troops, which were originally trying to break through at the Khyber Pass, began to retreat and built fortifications behind the Khyber Pass.

Seeing that the Mughal army was gone, Zhu Ciran also ordered the Western Expedition Army to exchange troops with the Northern Army.

At the same time, Zhu Ciran generously gave every soldier of this Western Expedition army half a year off, and his salary was paid.

As the news of the victory of the war came, Zhu Ciran also sent people to ask Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao, who were far away in Yunnan, about the policies to govern the river and how to deal with the peace talks in Lin Danhan's direction.

The sound of the train's whistle means that Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao boarded the train, and Yang Lian did not come to see Zhu Youjian because he knew that the emperor did not want to see him.

After a month and a half, the two brothers met again on the train, so naturally there was a series of greetings.

"My brother has been blackened a lot..."

Looking at Zhu Youjian, who had become much darker than Zhu Youjian a month and a half ago, Zhu Youxiao, who got in the car and hugged Zhu Youjian enthusiastically, began to sigh.

"It is better for men to have black spots." Zhu Youjian replied with a smile and took a seat with Zhu Youjiao.

"Beep--"

The sound of the whistle of the train departed was heard, and Zhu Youxiao had nothing to ask about Zhu Youjian. After all, he knew that Zhu Youjian had been visiting farmland, school, and privately for the past month and a half.

However, Zhu Youjian was very interested in Zhu Youxiao's experience, but he suppressed his curiosity and first made an evaluation of the things in the west.

"The entire Hezhong area has been recovered, but the situation is not optimistic."

"According to Cao Wenzhao's report, the land in the river is as vast as the Central Plains. Although most of the areas are Gobi Desert, there are many places to live."

"But in such a huge river, there are only 120,000 people with semen at present, and they all believe in religion, which is difficult to control."

"For these 120,000 people, it is impossible for the imperial court to hand over the tractor to them to cultivate. Maybe they will take the country's heavy weapons to Persia, Mughals and other places one day."

"The most urgent task at the moment is to distribute prisoners and their families from all over the world to the river, and to enrich the local population while distributing them tractors."

"In the shortest time, while restoring production of more than one million acres of land in the river, new arable land must be reclaimed to feed the army."

Zhu Youjian knew very well that the Ming Dynasty's rule towards the west had actually reached its limit, and the reason why Zhu Ciran hurriedly withdrew the 40,000 troops in the Western Expedition was because of the difficulties in supply.

Now that 40,000 troops in the Western Expedition were withdrawn, and 24,000 permanent guards were replaced, the supply was alleviated, but the safety in the river also became a problem.

Anxi and Beiting are now the transportation hubs of the Ming Dynasty in the western region, but even they have only a population of more than 1.7 million, and one-tenth of them are the families of local garrison troops.

In addition, after the imperial court's investment in nearly 100,000 tractors in three years, the total amount is only 4 million mu.

It is very difficult for these arable land to support the local people, and they still need support from Hexi, let alone feeding Hezhong and Lingbei.

In addition, there is no railway to the river. If you want to transport one stone of grain to Mengchi Mansion, you can at least afford to transport five stones, not to mention the Hezhong Prefectures and counties in the West Sea, which are far away from the West Sea.

That was a cruel situation where twenty stones of grain were transported from the front line and only one stone was transported from the front line.

What makes people feel even more cruel is that the grain output of various local areas is only seven dou per mu, and after removing the wheat husk, it is only five dou, and less than eighty kilograms of wheat.

With millions of arable land, there are nearly 150,000 soldiers and civilians, although production can be raised as long as it resumes, the Ming Dynasty will have to transport grain from the Central Plains to the river in the next year.

A minimum of 300,000 shi of rice and wheat is needed for 150,000 shi of rice and wheat. If you want to transport these rice and wheat to the front line, you can afford to transport at least 6 million shi.

Perhaps the only good news for Zhu Youjian was that they captured more than 500,000 cattle and horses and more than 2 million sheep from the Khanate of Shiva.

These sheep are enough to solve the meat problems of local military and civilians. Although the more than 200,000 stones of grain obtained from the crackdown on Kandahar and Kabul were not delicious, they can also solve some problems.

Therefore, in Cao Wenzhao's memorial, the amount of grain transferred by local military and civilians was only required to reach 100,000 stones.

This is good news, because if a few months are delayed, there will be more arable land in the Western Regions and more grains will be produced next year. You can transport grain directly from the Western Regions to the river, and the loss on the road will not be so large.

However, from this question alone, we can see that the Ming Dynasty ruled the river in a very difficult way.

Although Shiva, Bukhara, Kazakhs, Mughals and other countries also reclaimed arable land in the river, the temperature in the world in the Ming Dynasty was too low, and there were too few places to cultivate before it entered industrialization.

It is not worth the effort to recover the current Ming Dynasty. Before entering the era of internal combustion engines, this place did not have much temptation to the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian brought Zhu Ciran, Zhu Youxiao, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and other four people who have been in power in the Ming Dynasty for at least 20 years have seen various scientific and technological models of the Military Academy, telling the story of the future of oil and oil in the Hezhong region.

Changes.

Zhu Youjian could not guarantee it during other periods, but in the next twenty years, it would be impossible for the Ming Dynasty to give up on the river.

Twenty years later, the railway will be opened, and even if the internal combustion engine has no progress, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to give up the Hezhong area.

"The drought is in the south at present, and it may be difficult to immigrate to the river."

Zhu Youxiao looked at the memorial of the Ministry of Revenue to Drought and answered with embarrassment, but then he breathed a sigh of relief because he saw the memorial of Zhou Yanru, the Minister of Justice:

"However, the Ministry of Justice has involved many officials because of the self-inspection of the Jinyiwei. The number of prisoners has soared to more than 90,000. If all of them are exiled to the river, it should be able to restore production in the river and reclaim new farmland.

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The Jinyiwei's self-inspection was undoubtedly Zhu Ciran's work, and Zhu Youjian was not dissatisfied with this.

Since he decided to hand over the power, he would not regret it.

"The self-inspection of the Jinyiwei's military personnel is just the beginning, and officials who have bribed them in the past will be dismissed one after another."

Zhu Youjian glanced at the memorial and continued to say:

"There are so many corrupt officials in the world. Even if you can only catch one tenth of them every year, it can restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties."

"What is needed in the river is the population. Only when there is a population can tractors be used, water conservancy projects can be built, and new arable land will be continued."

"With the potential in the river, the State can maintain more than one billion mu of grassland and eighty million mu of arable land."

"It's no problem to support 20 million people in this place. The problem is that people need to be able to do it."

"In addition, if the population is sufficient in the future, it should be established as a province step by step."

Zhu Youjian talked about his views on Hezhong, which was also recognized by Zhu Youxiao's nod.

"How do you plan to deal with the peace talks between Hutu and Rabbit?"

Zhu Youxiao asked about Lin Danhan’s request for peace talks, and Zhu Youjian also tapped the table with his fingers and said:

"It's not impossible to negotiate peace, but Lin Danhan's plan must be a firearm."

"Fire weapons can be sold. There are still more than 100,000 guns in the arsenal of the State Administration of China, but the tiger and rabbit squats do not have enough money to buy them."

"I am going to let him use the land east of the Volga and west of the Ural River as a condition for peace talks."

"As for purchasing materials, if there is gold and silver, the court can sell it to him. If there is no, he can sell the land to the court."

Zhu Youjian expressed his thoughts.

For the Ming Dynasty, those more than 100,000 sword guns were already eliminated, and it was impossible to sell them to Lin Danhan. What's more, Lin Danhan could also be used to stir up the situation in Eastern Europe, which is very beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

"I'm afraid this is not easy..."

Zhu Youxiao frowned, feeling that his younger brother's idea was a bit unrealistic.

East of the Volga River and west of the Ural River are Lindan Khan's main pastures now.

If Lin Danhan ceded this land, he would only have more than 10 million acres of pasture west of the Volga River.

Peacekeeping was not the only thing he wanted, he still wanted food, iron and firearms.

Zhu Youjian asked him to sell land, which means that Lin Danhan will return to the situation of the nomadic tribe.

If he could not seize the land of other countries, his tribes would only leave him.

"He doesn't have many choices, and he can't fight against Lu Miguo (Ottoman) with his strength."

"Although Lu Mi Kingdom is not well equipped, it still has a population of nearly 20 million, 200,000 soldiers and horses, and an annual national strength of 12 million taels."

"The Crimean Xiluo plundered people in Eastern European countries every year to sell them to Lu's fan country."

"Therefore, the country of Lu Mi will definitely protect the safety of the Western Barbarians, so it is destined to send troops to drive away the tiger rabbits and squat."

"The relationship between the State and Persia and Lu Miguo is not bad at the moment. We cannot break up directly for the time being, so it is destined to support the tiger rabbit to squat to restrain Lu Miguo."

"You can enthrone the tiger rabbit as King Shunning, let him be the national dynasty to protect the country and buy time for the national dynasty to immigrate to Eastern Europe."

"As for the land matter, the State Administration of China will not let the tiger and rabbit suffer losses. It is a mu of acre of arable land, a 100 taels of grassland, a 100 taels of gunfire, a 5 kilogram of gunfire in Yanshan, a 100 taels of gunpowder, a 100 taels of gunpowder, a 100 taels of gunpowder

One or two, as the principle of land transactions.”

Zhu Youjian was laughing when he spoke this so-called rule.

As the Ming Dynasty mineral industry entered the first industrial revolution, the price of iron materials began to decline, and the decline in raw materials also caused the cost of guns and cannons to begin to decline.

Now the cost of a foot gun is only two cents and silver, while the five-jin cannon in Yanshan is only twenty taels.

That is, a two-month silver gun can be exchanged for two acres of arable land or one hundred acres of pasture.

The Ming Dynasty could not lose this deal.

Moreover, using land to maintain trade is also a disguised way to force Lin Dankhan to invade other countries and stir up the situation in Europe.

Now the battlefield in Western Europe has reached its climax. This climax lasts for at most three to five years, and then it will enter a low period, and countries will develop war-weariness.

As long as the people of all countries begin to get tired of war, the Ming Dynasty will finally stand up and be a peacemaker and completely end the war.

However, according to this trend, the Thirty Years War may have to be changed to the Forty Years War.

In the past ten years, what the Ming Dynasty had to do was digest the Hezhong region and at the same time support Lin Danhan to become a small overlord of Eastern Europe, or directly become the overlord of Eastern Europe.

Only in this way can the Ming Dynasty provoke the Second and Third European Wars.

Once the Forty Years' War is over, the Great Mongolian Kingdom can also fight west...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian handed over the land trade terms he had written to Lu Wenzhao, who had been standing next to him.

"Leave it to the prince and the cabinet, and then send officials to negotiate."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao bowed and responded, took two memos and retreated.
To be continued...