Chapter 1: The Prince is in the Northwest

"Bah." Zhu saw that he came out of the ground with a disgraced face. A very ordinary linen dress. People would never have imagined that he was the prince under one person and above ten thousand.

What is even more unexpected is that Zhu Jianjun is not in Beijing, but in Northwest Lan County.

This is Zhu Qizhen's tempering of the prince.

First, Zhu Qizhen has high hopes for the crown prince, after all, under the law of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult for Zhu Qizhen to be Prince Yi, not to mention, changing a prince in the royal family is almost killing a son.

Although Zhu Qizhen is ruthless, he has not reached the point of extinction of humanity.

Therefore, as Zhu Qizhen's political successor, Zhu Qizhen naturally has to be cultivated carefully.

Second, Zhu Qizhen is only in his thirties, which can be said to be early in the Spring and Autumn Period, but the prince is already close to adulthood. If you have been raised in Jingshi and have nothing to do, some people say that they separated the father and son, but it caused chaos.

It's better to take advantage of his youth. Put it out and sharpen it for a few years. It's good to see what the people's suffering looks like.

And where is the most bitter place in the world?

In fact, no matter where the people at the bottom have their own sufferings.

However, in general, the people in the northwest are a little more miserable than the people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, which is limited by the natural environment.

And Yu Qian was Zhu Qizhen's person, so Zhu Jianjun was thrown to the northwest.

Although Zhu Qizhen wanted to throw the prince over alone, neither the queen mother, the queen, nor the cabinet ministers outside would agree.

Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian have been fighting openly and secretly for many years. But only in the matter of the crown prince is a united front.

As a result, Zhu Qizhen had to make a little regression.

is to let the prince bring this little team over.

Who is the prince's team?

First of all, the prince's sworn classmate, the British Gong Zhang Mao. Zhang Mao took several guards of the Qianqing Palace, which was to protect the prince's safety.

and Yu Qian's son Yu Mian.

Yu Mian has now become a county prince in Nanzhili, but he was fished back by Zhu Qizhen and asked him to accompany the prince.

On the one hand, it is also for the sake of Yu Qian.

Yu Qian is over sixty years old, and coupled with the northwest wind and sand, his body is not as good as before. But in the Ming Dynasty, the father and son were officials of the same status, but they did not conform to the rules.

And Yu Mian followed the crown prince, although he was also in the northwest, but he and Yu Qian were not in the same system. Not to mention, the identity of the prince is kept secret, and in the eyes of outsiders, the prince is just a thousand households.

Yes, it is subordinate to the Tuntian Thousand Households in Lanzhou.

Zhang Mao and Yu Mian are all his followers.

Attentive people may find that there are no civil officials at the prince's side. This is also Zhu Qizhen's intention. I don't want the prince to have too much contact with civil officials and doctors.

As for the set of science, as a future tomorrow, I can't not know, I can't not understand, but if I really believe it. That's a no-no.

But Zhu Qizhen also didn't know how to teach the prince.

The reason is very simple, the formation of each person's thoughts is influenced by the specific environment. The reason why Zhu Qizhen has such an idea is that he was cultivated after nine years of compulsory education.

Before reaching adulthood, the foundation was laid.

But the crown prince is different.

Zhu Qizhen didn't have much time to teach the prince in detail one-on-one. can only let the prince go straight to the truth at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty.

And Zhu Jianjun's thousand-household official was arranged by Yu Qian for Zhu Jianjun.

This is also what Yu Qian did according to Zhu Qizhen's intentions, so that Zhu Jianjun could get in touch with the Ming at the bottom. And Zhu Jianjun, a thousand households, had to take more than 1,000 soldiers and their families, as well as some herdsmen attached to Mongolia, to do one thing, that is, to build an irrigation system along the Agan River.

The Agan River is a tributary of the Yellow River that flows into the Yellow River from its north bank.

It is also the most important part of the Northwest Water Conservancy Project planned by Yu Qian.

The reason why Wei Suojun was asked to do this thing is related to another matter, that is, the reason why Yu Qian has run Lanzhou as an important town in the northwest.

After all, Shaanxi Province in the Ming Dynasty had the territory of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai provinces. Xi'an is really beyond the reach of some whips in the northwest.

Therefore, he planned to move the Lanzhou Central Guards out of Lanzhou City, and then establish a Lanzhou Acropolis in the north of Lanzhou again as the northern barrier of Lanzhou City.

Yu Qian's plan is also because of the evolution of today's strategic form.

After the battle of Yanran, the tile thorn turtle retreated to the northwest, not daring to violate the border of the Ming Dynasty, as for other tribes of all sizes, they were not looked at by the border army, so since Renxuan, the land outside the shrinking border wall of the Ming Dynasty has also returned to the control of the Ming Dynasty.

The border line of Xuanda Liaodong and Haixi almost jumped thousands of miles to the northwest. Although Gansu and Ningxia are not so exaggerated, they have also advanced.

First of all, the town of Ningxia borders Dongshengwei.

At the top of the Yellow River, it is Yinshan, and Dongshengwei is in the east of Yinshan, and Ningxia Town is in the southwest of Yinshan.

Daming has already set up a post here.

In this way, there is another big road from Beijing to the northwest.

The area of Gansu and Lanzhou did not advance too far north.

The reason is simple.

Unprofitable.

Because of Gansu Town, Lanzhou is not far to the north, there is a large area of yellow sand.

Even if it weren't for the Yellow River, the town of Ningxia would be wrapped in yellow sand.

However, compared to Gansu, there is still some room for northward expansion in Lanzhou, compared to some cities in Gansu, it is simply a city built in Linsha, and there are large and small pine mountains in the north of Lanzhou, as well as some tributaries of the Yellow River. There is room for farming.

This is Yu Qian's plan to build the Lanzhou Acropolis.

Of course, Zhu Jianjun doesn't have to worry about building the city, he just needs to care about his own affairs.

But building a water conservancy project in the northwest is not a simple matter.

From the twenty-third year of orthodoxy, Zhu Jianjun stayed away from the subset of scriptures and history, away from archery and horse riding, and his thoughts fell on this river.

Compared with Hebei water conservancy, which has to make a trade-off between drought and flood, water conservancy in the northwest is much simpler, that is, it is necessary to find a way to divert water for irrigation.

In the northwest, there are only three months of rain a year between summer and autumn, and other than that, there is drought. Every citizen lives in an environment where water is scarce.

Before Zhu Jianjun came, he probably didn't expect that someone would be able to go dozens of miles without taking a bath for years and months in order to eat a sip of water.

When he first came, Zhu Jianjun was not used to it, but he got used to it after a year.

He had just gone down the well to inspect the river.

Some people may think that I am wrong, how can I go down to the well to inspect the river.

This is inevitable in the northwest, and the drought in the northwest is so great that the evaporation is too large, so big that if the water is allowed to flow from the ground, it will cause great waste.

Therefore, some channels in the northwest, such as the qanats in Xinjiang, need to dig a hidden channel in the ground, and then dig a well in the ground to use water.

If Zhu Jianjun might still care about his image when he first came, but now he doesn't care anymore. Speaking of thousands of households, this official is not small, but in fact, the strong men he can be responsible for are only more than a thousand people, which Yu Qian specially added to him.

Otherwise, according to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, a strong man in a thousand households will definitely not be enough for more than a thousand people.

More than 1,000 people were divided into several teams, just in the undulating ravine north of Lanzhou, digging hard, Yu Mian was a technician, and Zhang Mao was the construction captain. But everybody went down to the hole and dug it.

Also includes Zhu Jianjun.

Zhu Jianjun was pulled up from the well by a hanging basket, and Zhang Mao immediately reached out and pulled Zhu Jianjun up.

And Zhu Jianjun seemed to have just eaten a mouthful of dry soil, and at this time, he couldn't help it: "Phew." Zhang Mao handed him a sip of water, he took a sip, then rinsed his mouth in his mouth, and then drank the water again. He looked at the people around him who looked like they were made of mud, and said, "It's done, this ditch is finished." ”

As soon as the sentence continued, countless soldiers began to cheer.

Even Zhu Jianjun's eyes were moist.

This river is about a dozen kilometers long and can irrigate 20,000 acres of land, which is not much, but after Zhu Jianjun dug him out with his own hands, he knew how much in the world was not easy.

Even if he is a thousand households, he has suffered more in a year than he has eaten in more than ten years.