Getting up from Cai'er's body, Zhu Youzhen had breakfast in Kunning Palace, and he sent a few opinions he had written last night to the interrogation office with the little eunuch, and then returned to Qianqing Palace.

Throughout the morning, Zhu Youzhen nested in the Qianqing Palace and studied a map for a long time.

The next day, Zhu Youzhen convened a special court meeting, which was attended by officials of all sizes and 10 departments of the three courts.

Now the officials of the 10 ministries are responsible for their own responsibilities, and the problems that cannot be solved will be handed over to the prime minister, and if the prime minister of the cabinet cannot make a decision, and then hand them over to Zhu Youzhen, perhaps there will be no need for a routine court meeting.

"Your Majesty, the road from Chengdu, Sichuan to Xi'an, Shaanxi, has made great progress, the roadbed has been completed, and now the cement pavement is poured, according to the plan, before the end of next year, it should be passable." Minister of Communications Li Changgeng was not ready to start, after all, it was only the completion of the roadbed, and he was ready to wait until the road was opened to report to Zhu Youzhen, but at today's court meeting, the ministers had nothing to do, so he reported to the emperor on the construction of this important road.

"Oh, bring me the map." Waiting for Li Changgeng to take out the map he was carrying, Zhu Youzhen did not ask the eunuch Zhang Yixian to present it, but left the dragon chair and came directly to Li Changgeng.

"Your Majesty, please look," Li Changgeng pointed to the map with his hand, "between Chengdu and Xi'an, it is cut off by the Jialing River, the Fujiang River, and the Tuojiang River, and there are also Qinling, Daba Mountain, Jianmen Mountain and other mountains blocking it, and the traffic is extremely difficult. ”

"This, I know, Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky! Need to build bridges, open mountains, add ravines, etc., Li Aiqing has worked hard! Zhu Youzhen also knows that the difficulty of Shu Road is not something that can be said in a few words.

At that time, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, relied on the danger of the terrain, and when the strength was not good, he would enter Shu to recuperate, and once the climate was cultivated, he would send troops from Chencang and eventually establish a strong Han; During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei's strength was obviously inferior to Cao Wei, and he was still able to favor Chengdu because of the difficulties of Shu Dao.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youzhen put this road in his heart and instructed Li Changgeng to explore and build it as soon as possible, if this cement road is successfully built, Sichuan will be integrated into Guanzhong, and it will certainly have a huge role in promoting Sichuan's alien naturalization and economic development, and the Ming Dynasty can also use this to build a circular cement road that contains all the core areas of Han nationality rule.

"This is the duty of the minister," Li Changgeng did not expect that Zhu Youzhen could also tell the difficulties and dangers of the road construction process, and understand the daily hardships of the road construction workers, "The section from Xi'an to the west to Fengxiang was built by His Majesty when he was in office in Shaanxi, and it has long been passed, and then from Fengxiang to the southwest, through Luoyang, Yangpingguan, Guangyuan, Zhaohua, Jiange, Qingchuan, Jiangyou, Mianyang, Deyang, and finally to Chengdu." ”

This should be the general trend of the "Baocheng Railway" in later generations, building roads in such mountains, relying entirely on manpower, casualties are conceivable, now the road is built by prisoners of war, after the road passes, no one builds a monument for them, but, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, these prisoners of war paid the price of blood, sweat and even life, Zhu Youzhen's face became gloomy.

"Your Majesty?" Li Changgeng noticed the change in Zhu Youzhen's face in time, he didn't understand what he was wrong, in fact, he was still very satisfied with building the roadbed in such a short period of time, as for the prisoners of war, he didn't care at all, they were prisoners of war, and they could give them a chance to live, Daming was already very merciful.

"It's nothing," Zhu Youzhen knew that now was not the time to sympathize with the prisoners of war, "Li Aiqing, those prisoners of war who built roads are also working hard, and they will have to build roads in other places in the future, treat them well and try to make their lives better." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Only then did Li Changgeng know that Zhu Youzhen wanted these prisoners of war to build more roads for Daming.

"By the way, this Sword Pavilion, but where Jiang Wei fought Deng Ai back then?" Zhu Youjian saw that the atmosphere was a little solemn, and hurriedly changed the topic.

"Your Majesty, it is here, when Sima Zhao ordered Deng Ai and Zhong Hui to attack Shu in two ways, Deng Ai led the soldiers to enter from the Sword Pavilion, and met Jiang Wei of the Shu Kingdom to intercept him, and he did not advance an inch, Zhong Hui led a surprise soldier and attacked from the small road, but it was easy to take Chengdu, which shows the danger of the Sword Pavilion." "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has been written for a long time, and Li Changgeng is naturally no stranger.

"Haha, the Sword Pavilion that Deng Ai didn't conquer back then was conquered by Li Aiqing's road construction army today, congratulations!" Zhu Youzhen believes that the key to this road is the roadbed, as long as the roadbed is completed, you can pour cement separately, the construction period should not be too long, anyway, there are prisoners of war now, "I also have a map here, you may wish to take a look." ”

Zhu Youzhen took out the map, the map only marked the Nanyang region, everyone was puzzled, only Li Chunye saw Luzon Province in the upper right corner, can know its approximate location, "Your Majesty, but the Nanyang War is over?" ”

"Li Aiqing is right, Zheng Zhilong has indeed won a big victory in Nanyang," Zhu Youzhen did not hide his joy, "Zheng Zhilong defeated Portugal in Malacca, and with the aftermath of victory, he is negotiating peace with the Dutch, and there should be a final message soon." ”

Zhu Youzhen has sent a message to Zheng Zhilong, agreeing to establish the Ming Autonomous Province, and the peace talks with the Dutch should be concluded soon, so that the South China Sea Fleet will establish a naval base from Xiamen and Guangzhou to Dayuan in Taiwan Province, Subic in Luzon Province, Kuching in Lanzhu Province, and finally in Malacca City, and the Ming Dynasty will officially control the South Seas.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, the South China Sea Fleet has opened up the territory for the Ming Dynasty again!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

The ministers have been accustomed to the victory of the Ming army, from Liaodong, to Tibet, to Luzon, to Burma, until the current Malacca, since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty's foreign wars have remained completely victorious, and the territory has expanded to an incredible extent.

Huang Liji, Li Chunye, and others estimated that Zhu Youzhen held a court meeting today, and he was probably going to set up a new province.

"Zhongqing, look at this map," Zhu Youzhen asked the chief officials of the ten departments of the three courts to surround him, and the low-level officials could only stay behind, desperately stretching their necks, but they could only see the back of the heads of the people in front of them, and all the officials were as quiet as if waiting for the verdict of their fate, "This is Luzon Province of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"To the south, is the newly recovered land of the South China Sea Fleet, Sulawesi and the Spice Islands, in the southwest of them, is a huge island, called Borneo, the Ming classics were also called Bo Ni, will become an autonomous province of the Ming Dynasty, and here, called Malacca, is the place where Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, and it is also the only passage for Ming ships to enter the Western Ocean, which was later occupied by the Portuguese, and now, it has finally returned to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty......"

In order to keep the ministers from being too surprised, Zhu Youzhen secretly changed a lot of concepts, for example, in the Malacca Waterway, Zheng He only established a trade warehouse back then, and in order to prevent pirate harassment, some soldiers were stationed, but at this time, with the consent of the Spur Canada, it was necessary to pay a venue fee, which was actually not even a military base, let alone the land of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, Borneo, in different periods, the Ming classics are not the same, because the island has established different countries, although these influential countries, are the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, but the merchants and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty basically did not touch these islands, but the countries on the island sent envoys to Beijing to pay tribute, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that I don't even know where these islands are.

And Sulawesi Island and the Spice Islands were all named after Xiyi came here, as for what they were called before, Zhu Youzhen didn't know, and the ministers of the Ten Divisions of the Three Academies had never heard of it, they weren't even the vassal territories of the Ming Dynasty, and they couldn't even play with eight poles.

"Your Majesty, is Nanyang going to set up a province? If a province is established, the minister should prepare first. "Minister of Personnel Wang Yongguang is not very interested in these islands, he is already preparing, once a new province is established, new officials will inevitably be needed, since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty has set up too many new provinces in the frontier, and there are not enough officials in the court.

Zhu Youzhen did not answer Wang Yongguang's question, but let the map go through the hands of the ministers, and the three pieces of land circled by red lines on the map are very eye-catching, but there is no scale on the map, and no one knows how big these three pieces of land are.

After all the officials looked at it, Zhu Youzhen coughed and stopped the court's discussion, "Since you have returned to Daming, of course you must set up a province." Zhu Youzhen used the word "Hui" to dispel the doubts of the ministers.

"Your Majesty, how many provinces do you need to set up? If a province is established, the distance between these islands seems to be too far...... "Li Chunye understands Zhu Youzhen's mind best, Zhu Youzhen once looked forward to the future of the Ming Dynasty to him when he was still a king, and now he is moving towards these goals step by step, and some goals have been fully achieved.

As Zhu Youzhen said, when the Ming Dynasty achieved these goals, it did not leave the treasury empty and the people displaced because of the war, on the contrary, every foreign war, the Ming Dynasty could obtain huge economic benefits, and the silver was converted into funds needed for domestic construction.

In other words, every foreign war can not only open up the territory, but also promote the prosperity and progress of the country.

"First of all, Sulawesi and the Spice Islands," Zhu Youzhen originally planned to include these places in Luzon Province, but later considered that it was too far away from Luzon, and there was no land connection, and the management remained unchanged, and the naturalization work of Luzon itself was far from complete, and it was simply impossible to start Sinicization on the newly recovered land, and it was appropriate to set up a separate province, "Zhongqing don't look at the shape of the island, but the area of the land can be compared to the entire Hebei Province." ”

"The whole of Hebei Province?" I don't know who whispered a word, and someone picked up the map again, eager to put their eyes on the map.

"I plan to set up a new province here," Zhu Youzhen said, "Wang Aiqing, is there a suitable person to take charge of this new province?" ”

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