"The minister sent people to inspect the two places mentioned by His Majesty, and found that they were indeed good places, and it must be no problem to build a city." Li Zhongxing said: "There is room for expansion in the future. ”

What Zhu Yijun asked Li Zhongxing to do was to inspect two places, because Zhu Yijun wanted to build cities in two places.

Zhu Yijun has ideas about how to control and rule the Jurchens, but no matter what the idea is, you must first have a stable foothold, and it is not enough to just talk about it.

In this era, fortification is the best foothold, and at the same time, the foundation for establishing rule.

With cement and bricks, building a city will no longer be as time-consuming and laborious as before, once the city is successfully built and merchants gather, there will be a lot of Han people pouring here, which Zhu Yijun knows very well.

After the city was built, Zhu Yijun could even tempt the Jurchen tribes into the city.

Zhu Yijun didn't believe that with a good life in the city, they would be willing to continue squatting in the wilderness. Once you enter the city, it is not so easy to get out.

It's not that Zhu Yijun is forced or anything, but the life in the city is completely different from the previous life.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!

The two places selected by Zhu Yijun to build the city were all strategic and transportation points. One is located on the shore of Erlong Lake, that is, the location of Siping in later generations, and the territory of the current Yehebu.

In later generations, this place was still very famous, because there was a very famous battle called Si Zhan Siping.

Once Siping City is built, it can be the gateway to Shenyang to the south, and the city built on Horqin can be connected to the west. To the east, the Jurchen Department could be contained, so that the Ming Dynasty could advance and expand northward.

Whether it is military status or political status, Siping is a place of great fate.

Once Zhu Yijun built a city in this place, it directly laid the foundation for the Ming Dynasty's rule in the north. At the same time, Zhu Yijun planned to set up a new province in the newly built city, and directly control the territory north of Siping and the first part of Horqin.

Once this goal is achieved, the rest of the matter will be much easier.

The second place where Zhu Yijun wants to build a city is Dandong.

Although the current Dandong is not a barren land, it is almost the same, but the location of Dandong is indeed extremely critical. This is very important to him both in later generations and in the present.

Building a city in Dandong, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty can go up the Yalu River and directly reach Dandong.

It can form a big support for Liaoyang and Shenyang, and form a complete offensive and defensive system. At the same time, it can radiate to North Korea, and once the Ming army enters North Korea, Dandong can become a logistics support base.

At the same time, Dandong can also form a very good clamping situation against the Jianzhou Jurchens, once the Jianzhou Jurchens have a change, the army can send troops from Dandong, and the deterrent power is not ordinarily strong.

In his previous life, Mao Wenlong got a military base on Phi Dao, but he didn't make trouble for Houjin.

Once these two cities are built, Liaodong will become an introspection, not a frontier.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty will form a very strong control over Liaodong. At the same time, Dandong can also become a bridgehead for trade between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, and maritime trade can also be carried out in Liaodong Korea.

The efficiency of transporting goods to Dandong to the sea is not an ordinary improvement.

This time, Zhu Yijun summoned the leader of the Jurchen tribe, and building a city was one of the very important things. After there is a plan to build a city, it is natural for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to investigate and find out.

Li Zhongxing came to Liaodong in person this time, the purpose was to open up the business territory of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong.

It included the original Duoyan Sanwei and Horqin, as well as the Haixi Jurchens and Jianzhou Jurchens, and at the same time laid the foundation for entering North Korea. Once these are opened, Daming will obtain unprecedented commercial benefits.

Commercially-oriented, the development of the entire Northeast will be greatly enhanced.

Ten or twenty years later, the entire Liaodong will be lined with towns, and at the same time it will expand to the north, and even Zhu Yijun is ready to accept some North Korean refugees in Liaodong, which is the refugees after Toyotomi Hideyoshi came over this time.

These people can be ruled as the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is in terms of cultural identity or obedience to the Ming Dynasty, the current North Korea can be said to be very, very high for the Ming Dynasty. Once the Koreans entered, they would be the greatest boost to the Ming Dynasty's increased dominance over Liaodong.

Zhu Yijun has made a big investment this time and has a big plan, otherwise he would not have come to Liaodong in person.

North Korea's Jurchen Liaodong, Zhu Yijun is ready to open up in one fell swoop, and establish a sound development mechanism, which is very important. Otherwise, Zhu Yijun would not have waited for these years, and one Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not enough for Zhu Yijun to spend so much.

After listening to the results of Li Zhongxing's inspection, Zhu Yijun nodded with satisfaction.

"Good!" Zhu Yijun looked at Li Zhongxing and said with a smile: "I will send an edict to the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, so that they can come up with a plan, and the money will also be allocated from the Ministry of Households." ”

Although the work of building the city was done by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the money was paid by the treasury.

This point has long been clearly divided, and the Urban Construction Department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs has developed very well over the years. He is proficient in everything from building materials to construction, and he also has plenty of manpower.

This model is like building roads in later generations, and it is state-owned enterprises that are built, but it is the treasury that pays for them.

It's just that it was placed in Daming, that is, it was the emperor's company that undertook the construction, but it was the treasury that paid for it.

Feudal imperialism with crony capitalism, this is the best system Zhu Yijun can think of. Because the emperor himself is the biggest magnate in the world, if you engage in other systems, all of them will involve a question of the right to rule.

The capitalists want to be in power, and for this they preach democracy and turn power into a game of capital. Ordinary people, you don't have capital, and you can't play if you want to. Crony capital will not, their capital comes from the powerful.

This is in order, and there is capital after the existing magnate, which is the crony capital. After the existing capital, there are magnates, that is the capital game, and it is the capitalists who play this.

Crony capital is born dependent on imperial power, and there is no such thing as a powerful person without imperial power.

Crony capital is essentially a confrontation with the capitalists, one grabbing interests through power, and the other grabbing power through interests, which are completely two twisted things.

Which one is good, Zhu Yijun doesn't know, which one is advanced, Zhu Yijun doesn't know.

There is no perfect system, only the most suitable system, and in this era, crony capital is naturally suitable. As long as the road to the promotion of civilians to the elite is not blocked, there will not be irreconcilable contradictions for so long.

Therefore, the path of military merit knighthood is very important, because you kill the enemy and get promoted, and you are really good.

Then the road of foreign conquest cannot be stopped, the people at the bottom want to promote the elite, and the elite want to expand their power, there is only one way, that is, to fight out, which is why the power of the capital is derived from the Junker aristocracy.