Of course, Gao Antai is not a benevolent person. Let’s not talk about the three Xuanfu divisions in southern Xinjiang such as Nian’an, Hue, and Guangnan. Let’s talk about the Thang Long and Hai Duong Xuanfu divisions he took in the south of Bei An. Obviously, there is no way to talk about it.
Superior benevolence and righteousness.
That area is the most essential part of the Red River Delta, equivalent to Hanoi in later Vietnam. The two municipalities of Hai Phong plus the four provinces of Hai Duong, Tai Binh, Hung Yen, and Bac Ninh, roughly speaking, account for 90% of the Red River Delta.
To express it using the weights and measures of later generations, this is a fertile land of about 7,000 square kilometers. The land is fertile, the water is abundant, and the sun is abundant. It is a perfect place for the development of agriculture, especially for growing rice. The whole world can rival it in this aspect.
There are very few areas.
Then Gao Pragmatic stroked his pen and said, I want this land...
You know, the entire Red River Plain is only about 20,000 square kilometers, and he is going to visit one-third of it at once, which is still the most essential part. How can he be embarrassed to talk about benevolence and righteousness?
However, even so, the Cen and Huang families can still accept it, because without high pragmatism, they will get nothing.
However, high pragmatism requires that the Red River Delta, a grain-producing area, is not primarily considered for economic interests, but from a political perspective: if you control the food, you can control the population, so if you control the grain-producing area, you can "immigrate to exchange blood."
At the same time, it also laid a material foundation for the continued expansion of the Han family's power in the future. Otherwise, if they expand to the south in the future, would food have to be transferred from the Ming Dynasty?
The Ming Dynasty is about to enter the Little Ice Age. He may have to transport grain back to rescue the emergency. How can there be much grain to pull out!
Therefore, the Red River Delta must be controlled, otherwise things will be difficult to handle in the future. The Cen and Huang families divided up the remaining more than 10,000 square kilometers of the Red River plain, which was a huge surprise for them.
In the past, the Huang family had a long and narrow Mingjiang plain, which could be used to grow some food. However, the Cen family's area was almost all mountainous fields, with not many acres of good land. Now that they suddenly had so much fertile land, how could they not be happy?
In later generations, Vietnam's rice yield per mu was much lower than that of China, but its total grain output was equivalent to the sum of Hunan and Hubei, China's two main grain-producing areas, close to 50 million tons. You must know that Guangdong has the Pearl River Delta, and its grain output is only
About 13 million tons. A mere place in Vietnam produced 50 million tons. What is the concept?
This means that in the current period when the yield per mu of Daming and Annan is not very different, the grain output of the Red River Plain may be close to that of the entire Huguang.
Huguang is familiar with it, and the world is full of it.
The Cen and Huang families each got one-third of Huguang, which is a crazy amount of money!
Of course, this does not mean that all these fertile fields will belong to the Gao Pragmatic and Cen Huang families. After all, those people in Mo Chao are not dead... They will slowly find excuses to attack the local tyrants to divide the fields.
The carving up of the Red River Plain was easy to say, but starting from Yi'an, the areas further south were packed up and taken away by Gao Pragmatism, which is not benevolent and righteous.
Although these areas are still wild lands even in the eyes of Annan people, Gao Pragmatic knows their development prospects. Although the agriculture in this area is not as good as that of the Red River Plain and the Mekong River Plain in Gao Pragmatic's long-term plan, it
Self-sufficiency can actually be achieved, but its real advantage lies in minerals.
With a high level of practical geography, he knew that there was a large high-grade iron mine in Ha Tinh and basically knew nothing else about it. But after he started to have Annan's idea, he sent someone to write a letter to Liu Xin,
Ask her about the distribution of mineral resources in Vietnam in later generations.
After Liu Xin contacted the Panax notoginseng supply in Sichuan, she went to Tengchong, Yunnan to meet her eldest brother Liu Wei. That place was very close to Guangxi, so the reply to the letter was naturally fast. Soon Gao Pragmatic got a relatively detailed report on later generations of Vietnam.
Mineral resource distribution map.
Liu Xin not only marked some important mining areas and main mineral types that she remembered for Gao Qiangshi, but also carefully drew various mineralization belts - Gao Qiangshi didn't particularly understand this thing, but he had a general idea of what it meant.
The three areas he captured, namely Nian'an, Hue, and Guangnan Xuanfu, were clearly marked as belonging to the "Changshan fault-fold mineralization belt" and the "East Indosinian fault-block mineralization area" in the map Liu Xin gave him. Remove those
Gao pragmatically brought in manganese ore, lead-zinc ore, bauxite and other things that he had no choice about. The most critical minerals in these two places that can be used immediately are iron ore, gold ore and copper ore.
There is also coal here, but according to Liu Xin, it is inconvenient to mine coal here because it is very hidden and not easy to handle with the technology of this era. If you want to mine coal, it is best to go to Quang Ninh Province - this is what Liu Xin said.
What was mentioned in later political district planning actually corresponded to the Anbang Xuanfu Division that had been assigned to Huang Zhiting.
The coal mines in An Bang Xuan Phu Division have huge reserves, and they are high-quality mines. This place is also close to the sea, and sea transportation is very convenient. The only trouble is probably the pirates near Halong Bay. This can only be eliminated after the war is over——
But theoretically speaking, pirates shouldn't rob coal ships, right? Annan is not cold, so what's the point of them robbing coal? Is it for cooking?
As for the northwest region that Cen Ling was assigned to, it is actually rich in mineral resources - there are many mountains there, and there are copper and iron. However, because the Ha Tinh iron ore is powerful enough, Gao Pragmatic does not need Cen Ling to dig iron ore, he only needs to
Just dig copper mines on the land of the Xuanfu Division of Xinghua and Xuanguang. After all, copper mines are a good thing in this era. Whether it is making money or cannons, copper mines are indispensable. However, there is a shortage of copper in the Ming Dynasty (Wufeng Note:
In fact, China has always been short of copper, so the current domestic bullets are copper-cased and steel-core bullets that have been developed with great efforts, and huge amounts of copper ore are imported every year).
Gao's pragmatic plan was to develop and utilize the copper mines in the area under his control, while the copper mines in Cenling would be transported to the sea along the Red River and transported back to the Ming Dynasty. As for what the Ming Dynasty would use it for, whether to make money or cannons, Gao
It doesn’t matter if it’s pragmatic.
In the area assigned to Huang Zhiting, there is also a large iron ore in Lang Son, which can be built there. However, because Gao Pragmatic does not need it himself, the iron ore there can also be transported back to the Ming Dynasty.
Cen Ling's copper and Huang Zhiting's iron were both free gifts given to Zhu Yijun by Gao Pragmatic Plan. They said they were free, but in fact they were spending money to buy Ping An. There was not much difference between following the tribute, but they didn't need Zhu Yijun's gift in return.
What Zhu Yijun has to do is very simple - just give him a name.
This approach is very pragmatic. This is how he obtained the soap monopoly from Emperor Longqing back then. But now the situation has changed slightly. It was Cen Ling who took the copper and Huang Zhiting latte in exchange for Zhu Yijun, the Ming Emperor, to "move the town" to them.
Annan” recognition and approval.
Speaking of which, in terms of cost-effectiveness, Zhu Yijun is the most cost-effective. Nodding, writing "yes", and receiving a large amount of income, it couldn't be more satisfying.
