Yang Qing finally agreed to Li Laiheng's resignation......

In fact, the latter is mainly to avoid suspicion.

After all, as a non-Ming military system, as long as he doesn't want to divide one side, he understands that the position of Dihua Dutong is very hot.

The site is too big.

West of Jiayuguan, he has the final say.

Not only did he grasp the military and politics, but he also had the right to mobilize even the vassal army, just like the Anxi Jiedu envoy in the Tang Dynasty, he had the right to wage war when he saw fit. He had the right to requisition all the Ming troops in Guanxi, including the militia, although there were not many militias there now, but he did order that the entire west of Jiayuguan must be listened to. He had the right to order the Dzungar tribe, the Heshute tribe, including the king of Ladakh and other vassals to send troops to assist in the battle, just as the Tang Dynasty envoys recruited vassal states to send troops. And the taxation of Kansai was also determined by himself, and the officials were appointed by himself, so it can be said that it was the same as a vassal king like Joseon.

Even more than these vassal kings.

After all, these vassal kings did not have the power to give orders to other vassal kings, but they did have the knots in their hands.

That's pretty eye-catching.

In other words, although Dihua is a bit bitter, it is definitely a fat difference.

The land trade of the Ming Dynasty to the west was all under the control of Dihuadu, and thousands of tons of tea were sold from him every year, and an endless stream of caravans turned north from Dihua to the docks of the Irtysh River under the protection of the Dzungars. The city of Dihua is almost entirely full of shops and warehouses, and even many foreign merchants live in the city, including merchants from heretical countries, who are not allowed to enter Jiayuguan, but they can trade in Dihua. Not to mention the control of foreign plunder, especially the slave trade, the slaves transported from there to the mainland every year can account for more than 70% of the current supply of entertainment venues and wealthy mansions in the Ming Dynasty.

It's all money!

Li Laiheng doesn't want to be separated, and he doesn't want to be the target of others, plus he is a little disheartened by reality, in this case, of course, retreating bravely is the smartest choice. He is also the Marquis of Daming Dingyuan, a general, and he has also accumulated a rich family business over the years, with his friendship with Yang Qing, no one will dare to deal with him when he comes back. It is said that the protector of the country can be regarded as a personal friend, and he and Li Dingguo, mainly the three of them are almost the same age, especially Li Laiheng has fought with him, even if such a person does not have any official position, no one will dare to provoke. In this way, this real hero, who originally insisted on the Ming Dynasty to the end in history, chose to resign and retire when he was in his prime......

Retire directly from active service.

With the rank of general, he was transferred to the reserves.

"The east of the great river goes to the waves for thousands of stacks, and the blood of heroes cannot be shed for three hundred years!"

Yang Qing looked at his back and sighed.

"Why are you so special to this person, just because I fought with you back then?"

Her Majesty the Girl said suspiciously.

"If it weren't for me, the first emperor would have hanged himself in Coal Mountain with Wang Chengen, Wu Sangui would still borrow troops to suppress Kou, and Li Zicheng would have fought a decisive battle with him and Dolgon at Shanhaiguan and was defeated. Then Dolgon would enter the pass with Wu Sangui, and with the support of the northern gentry, they swept the world and broke through the southern capital, gradually destroying the resistance of the Tang Dynasty and King Gui, and the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed. And this person will be the last general in this land to fight to the death for Daming. ”

Yang Qing said like a stick.

"You're not kidding, are you?"

The Empress was stunned.

"Am I kidding? You can deduce the heavens when I can! ”

Yang Qing said.

Since it is said that he is an immortal, of course the immortal has to have a little ability to pinch his fingers.

"Then you deduce and deduce first, without him, no one can go to Dihua to lead troops to destroy Yaerqiang, none of our generals are familiar with it, and among Li Zicheng's people, there is also no one who can be as reassuring as him."

Her Majesty said angrily.

"What's so hard about that? An army there was already a little small in strength, and it happened to transfer another cavalry army over, so let Gao Dejie go, this bastard has reflected enough in the past few years. The military households that have been reclaimed there have also begun to grow potatoes, and the food and the like are enough to ensure that the two armies are supplied, and the transportation of the remaining weapons and ammunition is barely enough. But there is still a need for a person with a special identity to deter, a person who can represent that Da Ming attaches enough importance there, isn't your brother still not sure about the fief? It's better to seal him there and carve out a fief for him in the area west of Dihua! ”

Yang Qing pointed to Yan Qi on the map and said.

He was going to throw Zhu Cihuan, who was still destroyed by Ma Ge in his seventies, to Bosten Lake to be the vassal king, and assigned the two places of Yanqi and Korla to Zhu Cihuan. A vassal king is in the Western Regions and is also the younger brother of Her Majesty the Empress, which is enough to reflect the importance that the Ming attaches to there.

"What do you mean? Throw my brother to an island thousands of miles away, and then throw my brother thousands of miles away to the Western Regions? ”

Her Majesty was furious.

"I didn't say he had to be a fan!"

Yang Qing said.

"First of all, Cihuan needs to be crowned king, but we are working on the Gongtian Law, so it is obviously inappropriate to find a place to seal him the king from the mainland, but it doesn't matter how much is sealed in the Western Regions, the Four Peoples Assembly will not care how many are sealed there. And this place can be assured of my conscience that it is all fertile farmland, whether it is farming and grazing, it is a good place, and if you plant cotton, you will definitely be able to produce high yields. Then in the name of protecting your brother's vassal, I will send an army of cavalry to the Western Regions, which, together with the Fourth Cavalry Army there, will be enough to sweep through Yarkand.

And you, as the Empress, make a request to the Imperial Estates......

Please note that it is a request.

I hope that the young people will go to the Western Regions to protect your brother for the sake of your face, and your brother will give them the same treatment as Huangzhuang, and you will give them a subsidy for another ten years.

So that we can emigrate there. ”

Yang Qing continued.

It is useless to agitate for the large-scale development of the western region, and it is very difficult for anyone to be interested in the large-scale development of the western region, but it is useless not to emigrate there after all, and it is necessary to control immigration. The number of people is small, and the Tang Dynasty did not have much population in the Western Regions, and there were only a few thousand households in Tingzhou and the like, but as long as there were immigrants, the garrison could take root. Li Zicheng's western expeditionary army has already emigrated a lot there, but it is only limited to Dihua and Hami and other places, and there is no further west, and he can only transfer from Huangzhuang to the outside of the emigrate, but he can't force this kind of thing. It's no use expecting propaganda to get the militia to take the initiative, it's useless for him to brag about how good it is, those militias will listen to it at most, but it is impossible to take the initiative to go.

On the contrary, Her Majesty the Empress plays the favor card differently.

Her Majesty the Empress personally asked the militia of Huangzhuang for help for her younger brother, and the Empress got a fief for her younger brother, but the fief was too far away for the population, and any of you helped me as a sister, that place is definitely a good place.

Of course, it's a little farther away.

But it's not too far, and it's also very convenient to build the national highway in the future.

In short, it is the queen who plays the favor card.

It must be understood that the people respect the Empress as much as they worship the Protector, and they can not be fooled by the Protector, but they will never be able to bear the Queen's request.

The Protector is desperately preaching the benefits there.

The two-pronged approach is to get a group of young families who have to be diverted because of the increase in the population of Huangzhuang, and directly divert them to thousands of miles away, as long as 8,000 small couples go over, then this land will really be settled. Besides, that place is really good, relying on Bosten Lake, irrigated by the meltwater of the Tianshan Mountains, it is completely a paradise with abundant water and grass. A young man with a wife and a concubine enjoys the blessings of the Qi people, and it is estimated that it will take less than 20 years to turn 8,000 households into 80,000 households, and the population of modern Bayingolin Prefecture is more than 1 million.

In fact, Yang Qing is engaged in a Yang's version of the production and construction corps.

Zhu Yuanzhang did the same.

What did he do when he divided his sons into places in the east, west and north of Liao?

It's for forced immigration.

Each vassal king had guards, ranging from tens of thousands to tens of thousands, and these guards were military households, and the whole family followed, and if they didn't go, they would violate military orders, and the result was that through these divisions, he really returned to the Han people again through these sub-feudal lands.

The Nine Great Kings were all for this purpose.

After hundreds of years of rule by Liaojin and Mongolia, there are no Han people in Liaodong, Daibei, and Gansu, and Liaodong has been swept away from Jin to Liao, such as Guo Yaoshi and others, and Mongolia has been sweeping a stubble during the destruction of Jin, so how much can be left over and over again can be imagined. The area around Gansu was originally from the Western Xia, and the Mongols' extermination of the Western Xia was completely exterminating, and they were definitely not interested in screening, and the Han people in Hexi had already mixed up with the party at that time

And even if there are a small number of the rest, they are basically all serious.

Like the princes.

It was Zhu Yuanzhang who forced the immigrants and refilled these places with a large number of military households who moved north from the south, and the great migration in the early Ming Dynasty was mainly from the south to the north.

Especially from Jiangxi.

Shanxi Hongdong and the like can be a story, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Hongdong belonged to Pingyang Prefecture, the population was less than a county in Raozhou, Jiangxi, there were not many people moving out, and there were few people themselves. The vast majority of modern northern Han people actually migrated from the south to the north, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a quarter of the country's population was in Jiangxi, and three-quarters of the population was in Jiangnan! It was Zhu Yuanzhang who used various ways, various excuses, and even Zhulian and other means to continuously move the population of the south to the north, so Hongwu was notorious, after all, no one likes to leave their homes and run to barren land to open up wasteland.

And Yang Qing is also playing this set.

Sealing his brother-in-law to the Western Regions, and then immigrating under the banner of supporting population, the only difference is that he is inconvenient and compulsory, but Her Majesty the Empress has the same result of playing the favor card. The key there is actually transportation, although the railway is really far away, but the highway is not far away, at most five years he can build the highway to Dihua, in fact, now the road from Chang'an to Lanzhou has been half repaired.

However, this highway does not take Guguan, but like the Xilan Highway before the Anti-Japanese War, it goes north from Chang'an to Qianzhou, continues to the north through Changwu to Pingliang, and then goes directly to Lanzhou from Pingliang.

It is expected to be completed early next year.

However, the road surface is not as high-end as the national highway in JAC.

After all, the soil quality of the northwest is not the same as that of Jianghuai, where the smooth road surface is basically enough to be tamped with three-way soil, and there is no need to pave a stone roadbed like Jianghuai, originally this highway in history was only one year, and it was repaired from Xi'an to Lanzhou. And from Lanzhou to Xingxing Gorge will also be very fast, mainly people in this area, those festival envoys will go all out in order to make the protector happy, ordinary people can also make money, at least before Yang Qing arrives at Xingxing Gorge, don't worry about speed.

But the rest is slow.

From Xingxing Gorge to Dihua, there are not many people.

Originally, the population that was still a little bit was also cleaned up by the Shun army, and it was only the family members who settled with the army later, but the entire Kansai, including Hami and Dihua, added up to more than 10,000 households, which were basically all family members of the Fourth Cavalry Army.

And then there are the merchants.

At this point, the population will not be able to build roads quickly.

But in any case, within five years Yang Qing must build the road to Dihua, but also have to establish a post station along the way, especially for the replacement of horses, now there is no shortage of horses in the Ming Dynasty, nearly ten years of breeding plus purchase and seizure, the number of horses in the Ming Dynasty exceeded 600,000......

However, it is still not as good as it was in its heyday.

It is estimated that during the Ming Dynasty's total victory, that is, the early Yongle period, the total number of horses in the country exceeded 900,000.

At the same time, the highway from Chang'an to Dihua was repaired at the same time, and the highway from Nandu to Chang'an was also built early, and a national highway transportation system that went directly to the Western Regions was established, and the four-wheeled carriage went directly to Dihua. Americans can rely on the California National Historic Trail, which has no roads at all, from the border between Kansas and Missouri, to drive a caravan all the way to California to pan for gold. In the final analysis, the distance that Americans go to California to pan for gold is basically the same as the distance from Chang'an to Dihua, as for the direct railway to Dihua promised by Yang Qing......

That's 50 years enough!

"But he's going to have to go!"

Her Majesty said.

"He's not a kid anymore, it's time to go out and experience some wind and rain!"

Yang Qing said.

Zhu Cihuan is also nineteen years old.

As for Zhu Cijiong, he has not yet become a vassal at this time, he is the king of Ding, and the domain should be in Hebei, but then his brother-in-law is also ready to change him to a better place, such as Shuozhou, after all, he and Her Majesty the Empress are compatriots and cannot be thrown too far.

Her Majesty the Empress did not insist any longer.

In fact, she also understands that it is best for her brother to stay away from Yang Qing, although it is impossible for them to rebel at this time, but they still need to guard against them getting too close to Yang Qing, and then occasionally rubbing some sparks. They are all far away, they themselves love what they like in their own fiefs, there are fiefs, there are shares in various enterprises, and occasionally she gives some private money, this is enough, as an empress, you must have the consciousness of an empress. Brothers or something, either be confined or stay away, you must not be too laissez-faire, you can eat, drink and have fun, you can be greedy for money and lust, but you can't be too capable, but you have been exposed to it since childhood, and the empress is still very much of their Zhu family's legacy at this point.