Chapter 1580 Expanding the Territory
Most of the Yuan Dynasty was captured by the Baodao Army, and then the Baodao Army and the Southern Righteous Army fought a two-year war in the Yangtze River Valley.
Later, neither side wanted to fight, and finally the representatives of both sides held a peace conference in Jinling and established the Ming Dynasty.
Although the people of Baodao were very confused, Guo Poyu compromised after knowing that Zhang Wuji was behind Duran, he knew that Duran supported Zhang Wuji, so Zhang Wuji must have something extraordinary.
The following year, Zhang Wuji ascended the throne and personally conquered Mongolia.
Before the city was broken, the ministers fled from the capital with the unconscious emperor and returned to the Mongolian steppe to rebuild power, but Mongolia had no strength to fight back, and in the face of the new Ming army, Mongolia was defeated at a touch, and the Chinese region was unified again.
Zhang Wuji later recognized the independent sovereignty of the countries in the Western Regions, no longer regarded them as lord states, successfully pacified the countries in the Western Regions that were about to move, and then turned around and worked hard to manage the Asian region, opening up islands in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
Zhang Cuishan became the emperor for some reason, and he was still confused when he arrived in the new palace in Jinling. He didn't expect that his son would become an emperor in just a few years, and Zhang Wuji was only in his early twenties this year.
In the palace, Zhang Cuishan was uncomfortable, and he still wanted to go back to Wudang, but Zhang Wuji was busy with government affairs and didn't have time to listen to Zhang Cuishan's thoughts, so he kept dragging it out.
It is not for nothing that he became an emperor at the age of twenty, but he was definitely the first to lay down the country at the age of twenty. Zhang Wuji has become a legend, but it is easy to fight the country and it is difficult to defend the country, and whether Zhang Wuji can be a good emperor depends on how well he governs.
In order to develop the desert island, Zhang Wuji publicized to the demobilized soldiers and bankrupt refugees that as long as they immigrated to the desert island, they could get a large amount of land and be exempt from taxes.
However, the miasma poisonous insects on the southern islands are terrifying, you must know that although the level of science and technology has improved in this era, the technology tree is crooked, and the medicine is still an old Chinese medicine doctor, and the probability of being cured of illness is still uncertain.
Although the land is tempting, it also has to be enjoyed.
So the propaganda is very hard, but the effect is very dismal.
After Zhang Wuji knew about it, he decided to expand the scope of publicity, and anyone who was willing to develop the island could get the identity of the Ming Dynasty and become a glorious Ming person, so he hoped to attract people from the color eye, anyway, someone had to go.
If there is really no way, they will directly transfer the army with an establishment to the island to open up the wasteland to live, and when the service period expires, they will ask them if they are willing to stay.
In short, it is painstaking to open up new territories.
Zhang Wuji is still very sensible, although the land in the Western Regions is fertile, it is thousands of miles away, and there are deserts, grasslands, and high mountains, which is really difficult to control. It would be better to include those islands in the territory to the south, and use the ships to facilitate the expansion of the land, which would be more beneficial than the false respect of the countries of the Western Regions.
At the beginning, the actual control area of Dayuan was not large, although the expedition reached the Atlantic, but in the end Dayuan had almost no contact with the Atlantic coast, and now I don't even know if the countries on the other side of the Atlantic remain the same. Therefore, although the expedition was majestic, it did not bring practical benefits.
Wang Bao is a demobilized soldier, he is a loyal fan of Zhang Wuji, and now he has a pair of guns pinned to his waist, just to imitate Zhang Wuji's gun fighting skills. During the war, he was a general bannerman, and he also had fifty men under him.
Zhang Wuji became the emperor, and Zhu Yuanzhang is now the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, so the military system he formulated is still in use. At the local level, the military official positions of the Ming Dynasty were divided into three from high to low: commander, guard commander, thousand households, hundred households, general banner, and small banner.
The small flag is in charge of ten people, the general flag is in charge of five small flags with a total of 55 people, the hundred households are in charge of two general flags with a total of 112 people, the thousand households are in charge of ten hundred households, and the guard commands and manages 5 thousand households.
Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted the non-commissioned officer position in the Ming Dynasty to be hereditary to stabilize the morale of the army, but Zhang Wuji denied the hereditary system, and he did not think that the children of officers would also be good soldiers. Zhang Wuji also encouraged the soldiers to open up a new world.
In such an environment, Wang Bao, an inconspicuous little officer, stepped on a southbound sea ship, which was specially designed to transport resources for land reclamation, including farm tools, seeds, and of course, people.
Wang Bao kept all his pension at home, and his family did not want him to go, but he felt that since the emperor wanted him to go south, he should go. He believed that the emperor would not lie to him, because the emperor had always led them to victory, and this time the wasteland was no different.
The boat will pass through the treasure island and will also take a group of people with it.
Before leaving, Wang Bao heard that there were wild people on those islands, and mosquitoes were the size of the palm of a hand, and they could turn into jerky after standing in the middle of the day when the weather was hot, but these frightening words did not frighten Wang Bao, and he still came without hesitation.
On the ship, he also met several other people, including former soldiers like him and homeless homeless people. Some people do it voluntarily, and some people are forced to leave.
Wang Bao is most familiar with a down-and-out talent, because he is a fellow villager. This show is named Tang Qiuming, and he was sold by his uncle at home, and he was not willing to go to sea, but if he didn't go to sea, he wouldn't even be able to eat in his hometown.
And the contracts are all signed, and Xiucai will go to prison if he doesn't come.
Xiucai is the talent of the previous dynasty, although the current dynasty also recognizes it, but the treatment is gone.
Xiucai, lifting people, Gongshi, Jinshi, although Xiucai is the lowest level of fame, it is also divided into three, six, nine and so on.
Tang Qiuming is the first class of Xiucai, called Di Shan Sheng, that is, Di Sheng, when the Great Yuan Dynasty was still there, he could get a subsidy of four taels of silver every year.
The second-class show is called the enlarged student, that is, the proliferation, and the third-class show is the attached student, that is, the epistudent. These two are not subsidized by the state.
Of course, Xiucai is not immutable, it does not mean that Xiucai in the examination is a lifetime Xiucai, Xiucai has regular assessments, and through the 'annual examination', Xiucai will be adjusted, upgraded or demoted, and if there are major mistakes, they can even be removed from their reputation.
His parents died, his property was seized by his uncle, he had no living allowance, and his contract, a series of blows made this thirty-year-old talent decadent.
But he came and came, and he could only accept his fate, Tang Xiucai didn't think about committing suicide by jumping into the sea.
Wang Bao often shared the food brought out of the house with Tang Xiucai, which made Tang Xiucai very moved. He kept saying that even if he went to the South China Sea, he would continue to study, and one day he would be famous and glorious to his ancestors.
Wang Bao didn't want to comment on this, anyway, he went to open up wasteland, which was completely different from Xiucai's goal. But having a goal is a good thing, and it can make people optimistic about life.
However, when they got to the island, they realized that they were too optimistic, and they saw that except for the port, there were trees outside.
Fortunately, the nearby land has been measured, and the land can be allocated when people arrive.
Wang Bao got a large piece of land, but he couldn't cry or laugh, the land is big, but it is full of trees, enough for him to cut down for a few years, how can this open up wasteland?
Moreover, there are no workers in this place, and Wang Bao found out for the first time that the emperor is actually still tricky. He got a free axe, and then he was going to experience what it means to 'get rich, first pick up a tree'.