In any case, under the influence of the imperial court's policies, no matter how the miners in the Guannai relocated to their land, they eventually had to go far outside the Guan.

Unlike Zhang Xuan's heavy mining tax in the Guan, which led to a lot of scolding, Xia Yan's tax reduction and exemption policy outside the customs was naturally praised.

Under the influence of Huang Lichang, Jiang Nan of Cangzhou also came to Mobei, and at this time he had successfully borrowed 100,000 silver dollars and contracted a large open-pit coal mine in Mobei.

However, Jiang Nan found that many government-run coal mines outside the Guannan were already using steam engines for mining, so he couldn't help but express his idea of using steam engines to Fan Da, the governor of Monan, at the business meeting presided over by the governor of Monan, after all, the steam engine has high production efficiency and does not require too much manpower, which can solve the problem of low population density outside the customs and difficulty in recruiting workers.

Fan Da, the governor of Monan, directly conveyed Xia Yan's order from the cabinet, expressing his willingness to once again provide low-interest loans to Jiang Nan and other merchants who came to open mines outside the customs to buy steam engines.

Jiang Nan and other merchants who came to open mines outside the customs were naturally even happier, and their enthusiasm for doing business and mining outside the customs was much higher.

In short, under the influence of the policy of tightening and loosening the outside of the imperial court, more and more people in the Guanwai have migrated to the Guanwai, and the land use value outside the Guanwai has also increased, and the people who come to the Guanwai have to obtain a lot of income under the care of the preferential policies of the imperial court, and the prosperity of the people outside the Guanxi has also stimulated more and more people in the Guanwai to pour in.

Although many places outside the Guanxi have become bitterly cold due to the colder temperatures, under the lure of money, more and more Han people have begun to settle in the Guanwai and gradually become towns, and because of the bitter cold outside the Guan, the living style and lifestyle of the Han people are also quietly changing.

The people inside the customs brought more new elements from the customs to the outside of the gates.

Warmer brick houses have become the most popular residential buildings for the people outside the Guan, and the wealthy people will also install glass to protect against the cold, and the honeycomb coal and tandoor stoves that have risen in the capital area have also begun to become popular outside the Guan.

After the emergence of market towns due to commerce, the nomadic way of life was gradually replaced, and many people began to work in the market towns in their spare time, just like the people of Jiangnan towns.

Only active and prosperous production activities can allow the dynasty to rule the region for a long time, otherwise, the dynasty will not have the foundation to rule the region.

Nowadays, in order to effectively and long-term rule the Guanwai Desert, the Ming Dynasty used the administrative capacity of the state apparatus to turn many areas outside the Guanxi into areas with prosperous commercial and production activities, which naturally enabled the Ming Dynasty to effectively rule this region.

Even though the imperial court gave a lot of benefits and lowered the tax rate to a very low level in order to prosper the mining market outside the Guanwai, the annual tax revenue outside the Guanxi was enough to raise a powerful army that could deter the western Warat and the northeastern women's direct tribes.

Moreover, the military stationed outside the customs and the families attached to them also have a foundation for survival outside the customs.

Because Guanwai is a virgin land, the political system established is the most progressive and reasonable and comprehensive, after all, there is no need to reform the old things, only to copy them directly.

It's just that the colder and colder days not only affect the agricultural production outside the customs but also affect the commercial trade, the difficulty of transporting goods has increased a lot, fortunately, after the emergence of the cement industry, the impact of the temperature drop on commercial trade has been reduced to a minimum, and in winter, the government has already had a certain scientific management knowledge and began to organize workers to clear the road with industrial salt to melt snow.

"This is really unthinkable, in previous years, here is still a vast grassland, in winter the snow covered the entire field, cattle and sheep have to be killed so as not to lose fat, people can only hide in the shed dare not come out, now it's good, even if it is such a big snow, there is also the roar of the machine in the mining area, and there are many workers on the cement road while pulling coal while spitting hot gas, people eat more fat cattle and sheep, and don't worry about killing cattle and sheep can not be sold!"

Yan Song, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, who came to Saibei to promote the cultivation of more hardy crops and potatoes, saw that there were still people outside the Naturalization City (Hohhot) in the ice and snow, and couldn't help but say that as a high-ranking official of the imperial court, he was naturally very willing to see this scene, after all, this is a symbol of long-term peace and stability.

At this time, in the court, the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao and the cabinet officials no longer paid attention to the affairs outside the Guan.

For Zhu Houzhao and the top officials of the empire, it was already a success of the entire strategy to make the economy of Guanwai active and the imperial court no longer pay a huge cost for supporting the army, and how to develop outside the Guanxi was no longer the focus of the empire.

The focus of the empire is still the south, and the sea is still the sea.

In the next two to three hundred years, the ocean will be the focus of the competing interests of all countries and the cradle of their rise.

Emperor Zhu Hou of the Ming Dynasty illuminated this truth.

The enlightened ministers who followed Zhu Houzhao were also aware of this problem, because they had already tasted the sweetness of maritime trade.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know what kind of suffering he sent overseas colonial officials to bring to the local natives, but he knew that in order to get the Ming out of suffering, the suffering of plundering and exploitation had to be passed on to these natives.

"Outside the Guan, only mining and animal husbandry can be developed, in addition to the road construction and cause, at present it is of little significance to continue to go north, the minister thinks, the center of gravity of the empire should still be in the south, Cochin, Champong, Srivijaya, Chenla, Siam, Lüsong, Java and other places should be occupied as soon as possible, these areas have a lot of arable land, can produce a lot of grain!"

At this time, Xia Yan took the initiative to ask Emperor Zhu Houzhao to start letting the Ming Dynasty attack the south, Zhu Houzhao also nodded, he naturally knew that the current development of the empire should indeed be in the south, but the question is how to develop to the south, whether to only grab raw materials, or directly turn Southeast Asia, South Asia and even Oceania and other regions into industrial raw material processing areas, or become agricultural civilization, responsible for food production.

"These places are naturally to be occupied, but how to rule these areas after they are occupied, whether to continue mining or turn into agricultural areas to supply food to the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Houzhao asked, he already had an idea in his heart, but he still wanted to see the opinions of the ministers present.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister believes that what the empire needs most now is grain, and what it needs more in the future is still food, and the people take food as the sky, but according to the investigation report of the Audit Office, now these places in Jiangnan and Guanwai have been purely dependent on foreign grain imports, and the grain output in Gyeonggi, Huguang, Sichuan and other grain-producing areas is also declining, which shows that the grain-rich areas in Daming Pass have gradually changed from rice to mulberry, and we need to settle more fields in other areas in the future."

Zhang Xuan also said something at this time.

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was even more convinced of his own point of view, so he asked Wang Shouren: "The general participation of the Guards Army in the military department Shangshu Gui Cao came to meet and discuss the strategy of recovering Jiaozhi!" The Jinyi guard strengthened the intelligence reconnaissance of Jiaozhi. ”

Wang Shouren and the others all said yes, they all understood that His Majesty had obviously made up his mind to recover Jiaozhi, and they did not stop it, because they all knew now that it was not His Majesty's great joy to recover Jiaozhi now, but that the empire had to recover Jiaozhi.

There is no way, because the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty itself is too fast, the agricultural civilization has been greatly reduced, and more than half of the grain has relied on imports, and among the sources of imported food, Jiaozhi and Siam, Champa and other places account for the largest proportion, and if you want to occupy Siam and Champong, you must first occupy Jiaozhi. If the Ming Dynasty wants to occupy the grain producing areas of Southeast Asia, it can only occupy Jiaozhi first.

Of course, if the current Ming wants to obtain food from Jiaozhi, in fact, it can also be done without war, but with the increasing demand for food in the empire, it is obviously not enough for the empire to get more food through trade, so it is naturally more advantageous to occupy Jiaozhi and destroy the country of Jiaozhi, get rid of the ruling class that feeds the people of Jiaozhi, and supply all the food produced by Jiaozhi to the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, only by turning Cochin into the Ming Dynasty's own territory can it be better to carry out more advanced agricultural production technology research.

But for the Ming Dynasty, the use of war to conquer Jiaozhi is only a means, and how to turn Jiaozhi into an agricultural production base of the Ming Dynasty is the key.

Because of history, many scholars and doctors in the government and the opposition are more willing to restore the "county system" management model for Jiaozhi, that is, to incorporate Jiaozhi into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, during the period of Emperor Yongle, the Ming Dynasty had included Jiaozhi in the territory and also carried out the "county system" management.

Now, Emperor Zhu Houzhao has recovered Jiaozhi and managed Jiaozhi with the "county system", which can naturally be regarded as the glory of the Yongle period.

But Zhu Houzhao is now entangled in whether the people of Jiaozhi should be treated the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty, after occupying Jiaozhi, the inclusion of Jiaozhi into the local territory means that many cruel policies will not be implemented, therefore, in line with the purpose of maximizing the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is obviously wrong to treat the people of Jiaozhi as the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty.

How the Ming Dynasty will rule the occupied areas in the future is a question that needs to be clarified, at present, there are two main ways for the Ming Dynasty to rule the occupied areas, that is, the colonies, one is the form of Manchuria, the Ming Dynasty appoints the head of the executive to rule over the Manchurian area, and the real power is in the hands of the head of the executive, and the king of Manraka is only a vacant position.

One is the Goa model, which combines the traditional caste system of the Asan, placing the Ming people at the first level of the caste system, and then using caste hierarchy management.

"The rotten Confucians think that the people of the world should be treated equally and treated with virtue, but Your Majesty's sacred learning makes the ministers understand that the wealth of the world is limited, and if you don't want to trap our people, you will have to harm other countries, and if you want to favor other countries, you will damage the interests of our people!"

Zhang Xuan expressed his opinion when he analyzed the current discussion on how to treat the people of different races to Zhu Houzhao, and said: "Therefore, the minister believes that even if the cochins are recovered in the future, the people of different races should not be treated the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of different races should be divided into hierarchies, and according to the degree of sinicization!" ”

"The minister disagrees with what the first assistant said, the Buddha said, the world and the law are equal, since they are all human beings, why are they distinguished by their different races, so what is the difference between us and the former yuan! Moreover, the outline of the constitution also stipulates that the so-called human rights endowment, and only the Son of Heaven can abolish the basic rights of people on behalf of heaven. ”

At this time, Wang Ting, a new member of the Cabinet University, opposed Zhang Xuan's view.

Zhang Xuan hurriedly replied: "The talent for human rights is true, but the talent for human rights means that His Majesty gives human rights, because His Majesty is my Ming Dynasty!" And as long as Your Majesty says that these alien people are not people, but slaves, then they are not worthy of human rights! The so-called existence of human rights is naturally controlled by the Son of Heaven! ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing when he heard Zhang Xuan say this, he found that Zhang Xuan was quite right, the natural human rights that were regarded as the truth by later generations seem to be indeed as Zhang Xuan said, whether a person has human rights or not depends on what rights the person who rules him gives him, and if he wants to win more human rights, he still has to rely on him to have more powerful forces to win them.

"What the chief said is exactly like this, whether it is Jiaozhi or Zhancheng, whether the natives in these places can have human rights, it can't be given by me, they have to rely on their own efforts, if they can force me to have to recognize their human rights, I can naturally treat them as the people of the Ming Dynasty, but they obviously don't have this strength now!"

After Zhu Houzhao said, Zhang Xuan also took over: "As Your Majesty said, there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to favor the people of different races, and the Han and Tang dynasties and the Song Dynasty are not far away. In the opinion of the ministers, the people of Jiaozhi should be divided into the second class, and they should not be allowed to have the opportunity to educate and write, not to have the opportunity to enter Middle Earth, not to have the opportunity to do business, not to have the opportunity to train in the army, and not to have the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination as an official! ”

After Zhang Xuan said the "five prohibitions", Zhu Houzhao also nodded, he knew that once Zhang Zhang's five prohibitions were implemented, it meant that the people of Jiaozhi could only be serfs and provide food for the Ming Dynasty, which was undoubtedly beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and could also effectively hinder the progress of the civilization of the indigenous people of Jiaozhi.

"Quasi-play, in the future, the people outside will be used as a system, and the edict will be issued to the world, and the people of the Ming Dynasty will be the best people!"

After Zhu Houzhao said, Zhang Xuan and others all said yes, and no one raised too serious opposition to this, after all, the Ming Dynasty does need to have a group that can be exploited at the moment, and the people of their own country can't do it, so they can only exploit people of different races.

Although Jiaozhi belongs to the mountainous jungle, the requirements for the army's jungle operations are relatively high, but fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has a lot of resources, what type of terrain there is, and what kind of talents there are, so it is not difficult to transfer a few mountain divisions.

At the same time that the Ming Empire was preparing to recover Jiaozhi, the royal clan meeting also came as scheduled.

The feudal clans began to enter Beijing one after another.

As far as the current Zhengde Dynasty is concerned, most of the problems in the country have been solved, the system of cheap registration and the system of artisan registration have been banned, the military household system is also gradually reformed, the customs outside the border have also begun to develop, the tax administration in Jiangnan has also been reformed, the control of the grassroots has also been strengthened, the government has already had a test method, the economy has been the main capital controlled by the state, the military has a standing army in the form of a conscription system, there is also an education and training system, and there are also special research and development institutions in industry and science and technology.

However, the only problem at the moment was that there was a vassal king, and the growing arrogance of these clans posed a great challenge to the rule of law and stability of the empire, and the speed at which they multiplied also put a lot of pressure on the empire's future financial expenditures.