"Your Highness can't do this to us! We are all sincere in taking refuge in the Dharma! ”

"Take refuge in the Dharma and have a wife and daughter?! Hurry up for me! ”

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, you will be punished by heaven for doing this......"

"One more word, I'll give you a set of punishments first!"

"Allah...... Yes! ”

"Eat pork secretly, and Allah will spit on you!"

On March 20, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, with Zhu Youzhen's order, a large group of fake Taoist priests and fake monks in Hexi were driven out of the temple, and they were fined to hand over the land and poll taxes that had been evaded for so many years.

For a time, nearly 2,000 people in Hexi were picketed, accounting for almost one-thousandth of Hexi's population.

When this group of people was found out, there were also some believers who did not know why came to intercede.

But when they saw that the monk had wives and children, and the Quanzhen Taoist priest had wives and daughters, and that the Zhengyi monks couldn't even memorize the Taoist classics fluently, their whole worldview collapsed.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he not only liberated more than 2,000 manpower, but also recovered the taxes that had been missing over the years from them, and he also breathed a bad breath.

The group of people who were pulled out were full of grief and anger, and he was content on the way to Xining County.

It's just that I don't know if the Xiaoice River period is coming, from the wind and snow before the start of the war to the present, and with Zhu Youjian's eastward advance, the snow is getting heavier and heavier.

"If this continues, I'm afraid that spring and summer planting will be delayed in the northwest this year."

On the carriage, Sun Chuanting glanced at the snow-covered Qingtang Mountain outside the window, and sighed very worriedly, while Zhu Youzhen kept drinking with a wine gourd, and held a copy of the military report of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in his hand.

In general, although the battle of the complex set was fought beautifully, it does not mean that all parts of the Ming Dynasty are peaceful.

In February of this year, Nurhachi sent Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan to invade the south one after another, but fortunately, there were not many troops, and the quality was not as good as the 40,000 horse infantry when they were restored to Liao, so they were easily repelled by Xiong Tingbi under the command of He Shixian.

As for the southwest, Hong Chengchou has already led troops into Lin'an Mansion in Yunnan.

However, after entering Lin'an Mansion, Hong Chengchou transferred Ma Xianglin, Mu Changzuo, Mu Zeng and other troops to Tengyue Baguan (west of Tengchong County, Yunnan, and even in Myanmar).

Later, he transferred Tengyue Baguan and other Tusi soldiers who had been reorganized to Lin'an Mansion, and it seemed that he was using Shadingzhou to train his troops.

This move is not inappropriate, after all, Sha Dingzhou's troops are only less than 20,000, and Hong Chengchou has always maintained the suppression of more than 40,000 troops.

As for the money and grain, the money and grain after Yunnan's land reform and return, and the reputation of the family, Hong Chengchou's capital is enough for him to fight for five or six months.

Therefore, before he asked for help from himself, Zhu Youzhen was not prepared to increase the military expenditure of the Western Army Governor's Office.

Now he has to prepare to start saving silver, saving grain, eating Hexi, Hetao, and the old port thoroughly, and digesting them cleanly.

In addition, after returning to the capital, he will also start to prepare for the gathering of many feudal lords to enter the capital to discuss the matter of going to the West and becoming a vassal overseas.

Time waits for no one, the five years of the Apocalypse will pass soon, and the time given to him is only two years.

The drought is not only a test for the Ming Dynasty, but also an opportunity for the Ming Dynasty.

When tens of millions of people experienced drought and became hungry, they did not care where they went.

At that time, the hungry people can be used to prepare for the relocation, whether it is the current old port, Hexi, Liaodong, or the future Indochina Peninsula and Tianzhu.

In short, they will take the initiative to become a part of the contribution to the system of the Great Ming Sect, and Zhu Youzhen will not harm them.

When one acre of land in China can be exchanged for ten acres of land overseas, such an exchange ratio is enough to make most of the people who only have one or two acres of land crazy.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen took out a blank order and wrote down his own arrangements.

Of course, when he did this, Sun Chuanting was also watching from the side.

Zhu Youzhen didn't mean to hide it, so Sun Chuanting also saw many instructions on shipbuilding, migration, news spying and so on.

At this time, he was sure that he had squeezed into the core position of the Qi Wang Party, and Zhu Youzhen also got straight to the point:

"In the next few years, I'm afraid that in addition to sweeping the north, you and Hong Chengchou will preside over the recovery of Wusizang, Sanxuan Liuwei, Annan and other places."

"Your Highness ordered, and you dare not disobey." Sun Chuanting knows very well that Zhu Youzhen is the person in his heart who can change the Ming Dynasty.

He knew very early on that from the moment Zhu Youzhen ordered him to dismiss Bi Jiewei, he roughly understood who he needed to follow.

As for Zhu Youxiao's side, although he is loyal to the monarch, if he is really allowed to choose, he still chooses to be patriotic.

What is patriotism? Whoever can make the Ming Dynasty strong and prosperous is the person who can really strengthen the country, and those who follow such a person are patriotic.

Coincidentally, Zhu Youzhen is such a person, and Zhu Youxiao ......

Sun Chuanting pondered, while Zhu Youzhen didn't know what Sun Chuanting was thinking, and he was still taking care of himself to give orders to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

It's just that no matter how he gave the order, his military order was maintained back and forth on the three points of reserving talents, preparing to fight drought, and attacking and defending the war.

"The people of Liaodong have broken through to four million......"

Suddenly, Zhu Youzhen suddenly spoke, and what he said also made Sun Chuanting look sideways.

He took a closer look and found that the military information was sent by the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and it mainly said that the people of Liaodong had exceeded four million.

In a year and a half, under the condition that the migration policy of Liaodong has always existed, more and more people have migrated to Liaodong, after all, everyone knows that the Ming territory within the Great Wall of Liaodong is very stable at this moment.

As a result, various policies have been instrumental in attracting people to migrate.

Zhu Youzhen took a closer look, and it was not surprising that the people of Liaodong exceeded four million, and he was more concerned about the number of acres of land in Liaodong.

After all, no matter how many people there are, there are not enough acres of land, and there will be no supply for the expedition of the army.

The reason why it is so easy to reset this time is also because it stands on the shoulders of nearly 20 million people and 60 million mu of cultivated land in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hexi provinces.

Liaodong's foundation is still a bit thin, even at the moment......

"More than 3.96 million acres of new reclamation fields...... Looking at the number of new reclamation fields, Zhu Youzhen nodded with satisfaction, and Sun Chuanting next to him also said:

"At this rate, in five years, the number of acres of land in Liaodong that can produce grain stably will probably exceed 15 million mu."

"When the time comes, to support a Northern Expedition of 50,000 people, there will be no need to transfer food from other places."

"Almost, but five years is too long." Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, and gave a veto in terms of time.

Huang Taiji doesn't die, he always feels that there is a heart disease.

Although the size of Daming determines that even if Huang Taiji plays a flower, it is impossible to turn the tables.

But if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves who are worried.

Who knows if this guy will go to Liaodong or outside the Great Wall of Yanshan to give himself eye medicine when he sweeps the north, Pingnan, and Dingxi and appeases the internal affairs?

At present, as long as the hungry people in Henan who have moved to Liaodong are stable and resume production, then Zhu Youzhen and he can organize a second sweep of the north.

Thinking of this, he became popular, said that he already knew, and continued to pick up other military situations to prepare to deal with.

Among the many military information, the most conspicuous is the military information sent by Shen Tingyang from the old port.

On the fifth day of the third lunar month, Shen Tingyang had already arrived in Luzon, and then continued south.

However, when he drove to Bo Ni, King Bo Ni asked Shen Tingyang to temporarily sit in Bo Ni to work, so as to help King Bo Ni deter some nobles who were about to move.

Shen Tingyang thought about it, Bo Ni was in the center of the Nanyang Channel, and it was really good to stay here to work before Annan was recovered, so he stayed.

After arriving at the old port, he sent more than 20,000 scribes and more than 300 officials to various places, except for Sanshan and Dongshan Prefecture, which did not send officials, and other places that already had familiar land were taken over.

After this takeover, Nanyang began to liquidate the fields, and according to the statistics left by the princely kingdoms, the amount of cultivated land in the old port of the Ming Dynasty is now more than 9.21 million mu.

This is still the data that Huanglong did not recover the entire territory of Java, and if Java is also recovered, the number of acres of land should be four times higher than the number estimated by Zhu Youzhen.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen could only sigh "vicissitudes of life", and then continued to look down.

According to Shen Tingyang's report, the number of people who are currently under the administration of the old Hong Kong Cheng Xuan is more than 1.7 million.

Among them, the number of Han Chinese is less than 360,000, of which 210,000 are new immigrants to Luzon, and the rest are all natives.

This data made Zhu Youzhen frown, but the migration plan that Shen Tingyang wrote later made him a little more comfortable.

Shen Tingyang set the migration into five stages, one stage is one year, and at least 500,000 people will be moved south every year.

It may sound like a small number of people for 500,000 people, but this is already the largest carrying capacity of the city.

After all, it is impossible for the city to stuff people into the hold like animals in the same way that whites trade with blacks.

Therefore, even a merchant ship of 5,000 materials could transport 2,000 people south at most when the supplies were complete.

Of course, if we continue to build ships, then this carrying capacity can continue to increase.

At present, there are less than 600 merchant ships and cargo ships involved in the migration, but only 200 of them are involved in transporting people to the south, and the remaining 400 are transporting grain, various kinds of cattle and materials.

If the number of ships increases, it will actually be easier for the Ming to completely control the South Seas than it is to completely control the Northeast and Western Regions.

The consumption of sea freight is only one-third or even one-quarter of that of land transportation, which is a natural advantage.

The voyage to the West is about to begin, and after that, the various feudal states will also become vassals overseas, and with the current transportation capacity, it is a fool's dream to complete the overseas vassals.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen specially replied to Shen Tingyang, saying that the City Shipping Division could place orders for more than 600 merchant ships and cargo ships with more than 5,000 materials to the five major shipyards.

At present, the Imperial Horse Supervisor has no extra silver, and the reward for the battle of the re-set is still being calculated, so he can only let Shen Tingyang transfer the silver from the silver captured by Huanglong to place an order.

After the autumn harvest, the Imperial Horse Supervision Committee allocated money and grain to the south to alleviate the financial problems of the city.

After writing the reply, Zhu Youzhen put down his pen, and Sun Chuanting, who had been watching from the side, also said:

"His Royal Highness asked Shen Bu to build a ship, for the sake of overseas vassal kings, right?"

"Well......" Zhu Youzhen responded, and while looking at the military situation, he explained to Sun Chuanting:

"My Ming Dynasty is densely populated at the moment, and the gentry occupy many acres of land, and the acres in the hands of the people are not even as many as the gentry and strong."

"If this goes on for a long time, even if ZTE is done again, it will only be a few decades if you want to be lonely."

"Only by using the clan to migrate overseas, and then moving the people overseas, and using the clan's vassal state to resist the barbarians who may invade my Ming Dynasty, can the Ming Dynasty last for a long time."

Zhu Youzhen's idea is actually very different from Zhu Yuanzhang's idea, but the only difference between the two is the different resources used.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang still has a kind of Chinese empathy for all countries, believing that the whole world is the people of the Ming Dynasty, and all the kings are the kings under the command of the Great Tomorrow.

Therefore, he chose to let the vassal king be stationed in some territory that needed to be consolidated, and use the local resources and the resources of the imperial court to defend the border for the Ming Dynasty.

But in Zhu Youzhen's heart, the Ming Dynasty was higher than the vassal king, the vassal king was higher than the foreign vassal, the outer vassal was higher than the trading country, and the trading country was higher than other countries.

Therefore, what he chose was to send an army to help the vassal king conquer an overseas vassal state, so that the overseas vassal could use overseas resources to feed back to the Ming Dynasty while also establishing its own vassal state locally.

In the end, the vassal kingdom became the garrison of the Ming Dynasty in a certain direction, protecting the Ming Dynasty from being violated.

Just as Tianzhu is canonized, then the only thing that needs to be prevented and vigilant on the Daming Sea is from the east.

If the Western powers invaded from the west, they would first have to pass the many vassal states of Tianzhu.

As for whether the Tianzhu Domain will finally form an alliance and block the maritime trade routes of the Ming Dynasty?

It can only be said that in terms of Huaxia being a culture and the bloodline of the clan, unless there is another Zhu Yunwen on the side of the Ming Dynasty, the overseas vassal kings will not have the heart to go against the Ming Dynasty.

Without the control of the Ming Dynasty, many vassal kings will continue to choose to expand if they can expand after cleaning up other cultures in South Asia, and those who cannot expand will start to fight.

At this time, Daming became a mediator.

Unlike the Zhou royal family of Zhou Tianzi, the fist of the Ming Dynasty must be larger than that of the vassal states, and for the Ming Dynasty, the stability of Tianzhu is the most important.

With the advancement of science and technology, maritime trade routes will become more and more important, and many feudal kings of Tianzhu may rebel against the discipline of the Ming Dynasty.

But the result was a group attack.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen was not worried about the feudal lords who went to Tianzhu, he was more worried about canonizing the feudal kings who were too far away.

Africa, Americas......

"I still have to limit the vassal king to Asia and Oceania, but my brother's other descendants and I can consider separating the overseas ...... farther away."

Zhu Youzhen didn't trust the other kings with thin blood, and his own words, he also knew very well that with his current strength and strength, if he was canonized close to Daming, it would be a disaster for him and Daming.

Maybe there will be no gap between him and Zhu Youxiao, but what about him and Zhu Youxiao's children and grandchildren? What about his children and grandchildren and Zhu Youxiao's children and grandchildren?

The State of Qi must be canonized far enough, otherwise if the war between the feudal domains starts, it will inevitably be the most fierce fight between the State of Qi and the Ming Dynasty......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen felt a little headache, and then opened the car window and glanced at the snow outside the window, as well as the valleys and mountains.

The cold wind blew, and he was a lot refreshed, and at this time, Sun Chuanting also said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Three Xuan and Six Consolations and Annan, Wu Si Zang, Duo Gan Four Places, Who is Your Highness going to recover first?"

"If you talk about recovery, you must first recover Annan, after all, the land of Annan has its own legal system, and Annan is easier to recover than the other three places." Zhu Youzhen replied without thinking:

"To fight Annam, it is completely possible to make the Governor's Office of the Southern Army, the Governor's Office of the Western Army, and the Governor's Office of the Navy jointly attack, and jointly send troops from the coast, mountainous areas, and the north and south."

"In the land of Annam, there is constant infighting, with more than 3 million people, tens of millions of acres of cultivated land, and three crops a year."

"If I take this place, it will only take two or three years for my Daming, and it will be another big granary."

"With it, Sumatra, and Sichuan, it will be much easier to recover the three propaganda and six comforts."

Zhu Youzhen's words made Sun Chuanting agree very much, especially this re-set battle, which made him realize the importance of logistics.

Why did the battle of the complex go so smoothly? Not because of the bravery of the army, but because of the logistics in place.

Even if there is no Shangzhi and the reorganized Governor's Office of the Five Armies, relying on the logistics of this battle, the Ming army can still solve the problem of the three major divisions.

Therefore, logistics is the top priority of the army, as long as there are no problems in logistics, the Ming Dynasty will deal with Jianguo, Beiguo, Donghu, and Annam...... It's all going to be hand-to-hand.

Why didn't Zhu Youzhen deal with the construction of the Northeast? It's not because of the poor logistics in Liaodong.

When recovering Liao, you can take the sea, and then rely on the sea to fight a wonderful defensive battle within the Great Wall in Liaodong.

But after that, the field war seems to be a little unsuitable.

In fact, there were more than 300,000 troops in the Battle of Fuliao, but the problem was that the Ming army's horse infantry was almost zero, and it was all thanks to the three cavalry of Man Gui, He Shixian, and Cao Wenzhao that the highly mobile Nurhachi was defeated.

If the Ming army had horse infantry in all divisions at that time, the outcome of the battle would have been better and ended faster.

Even if it rained, as long as the mobility could keep up, Nurhachi might have been surrounded and killed by the Ming troops who rushed from all directions as soon as he left the Weining camp.

However, the horse infantry is only one aspect of logistics, after all, they can carry more logistics than foot soldiers, which is nothing.

The real success of the First Battle of Fuliao was due to the fact that Zhu Youzhen transferred tens of millions of stone grain and straw to arrive ahead of schedule, which gave the army enough confidence.

For example, in the battle of Sarhu, if Yang Hao also has tens of millions of stones and grains, then Nurhachi will be dragged to death by him.

Therefore, in the face of sufficient logistics, some of the deficiencies of the generals can be remedied.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to clean up the three propaganda and six comforts, it must be ready to go thousands of kilometers deep into the primeval forest.

This is still the distance of a land and sea attack, and if it is the army on one side, the distance in depth will be 2,000 or even 3,000 miles.

It is precisely because of such a distance that most of the Central Plains Dynasty's battles in this place ended in failure.

Like during the orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Ji, a general who directly fought in the hinterland of Myanmar and even sent troops to the Assam region, is enough to be boasted no matter which dynasty he is placed in.

The only advantage that Zhu Youzhen has over Wang Ji is that Wang Ji needs to face a Luchuan dynasty with a population of millions, 200,000 armor, and a system similar to that of the Qin and Han dynasties.

And what Zhu Youzhen has to face is a Donghu Dynasty that is in the midst of infighting, although it is not divided, but it can be regarded as a ghost.

So Zhu Youzhen doesn't have to worry about how to fight, he only needs to care about how to ensure the logistics baggage.

"You have been to Guizhou, in your opinion, if you fight Luchuan, what preparations should the imperial court make now?"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Sun Chuanting, and Sun Chuanting paused when he heard this, and then said:

"In fact, the problem of grain and straw can be solved by waterway, but by waterway, although there are big rivers in Yunnan, there are very few that can be navigated."

"At most, taking the waterway is to take the Yuanjiang River and transport the grain to the Weishan Mountain in the south of Dali."

"But there is still a distance of thousands of miles from Dali to Tengyue Baguan, and according to my correspondence with Hengjiu (Hong Chengchou's self-name), he once told me that this place is dangerous, and I am afraid that it will take three times the ordinary capacity to pass."

What Sun Chuanting said should be Gaoligong Mountain and Hengduan Mountain Range, which Zhu Youzhen roughly remembers.

Although he had not been to that place in his previous life, he had also heard of the local roads.

"If His Royal Highness wants to recover the three Xuan and six comforts, the lower officials still suggest that they listen to Heng Jiu's advice first."

"After all, Heng Jiu has also been in Yunnan for so long, and now that Shadingzhou is about to be encircled and suppressed, he should be able to take a look and give the right advice."

Sun Chuanting looked at Zhu Youzhen and admonished Hong Chengchou kindly, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed his head slightly to express his approval.

After the recognition, he also took out a reply post, on which he wrote some Hong Chengchou's views on the recovery of Annan and the three propaganda and six comforts.

After doing all this, the speed of the carriage they were riding gradually slowed down, and Cao Wenzhao also stepped forward to the window and said to Zhu You in the car:

"Your Highness, you can now look at Xining County."

"Hmm" Zhu Youzhen replied, and then stretched out his head to look at the front of the carriage.

At the end of the horizon, a city standing at the mouth of the Qinghai River valley came into view.

The terrain around the city is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, surrounded by mountains, with South Mountain in the south and North Mountain in the north.

Xining City is just stuck on the three forks of this river valley, and walking out of Xining City to the east is the vast Hehuang land of Daming.

Walking west out of Xining is the majestic Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the magnificent Qinghai Lake.

As long as the foundation of this place is clear, Zhu Youzhen will know how to use troops against the Qinghai area......

"Your Highness, Xining and Songpan, if you want to take Wusizang and Duogan, you must garrison troops and grain in these two places."

Sun Chuanting just glanced at Xining City, and immediately gave it the highest evaluation, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly, and responded:

"We'll have to see how to do it, but the snow season hasn't passed yet, and we have to wait until the snow melts to fully understand."

After that, Zhu Youzhen looked at the sky that was still snowing, and couldn't help but say to himself:

"In this way, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to the capital in a short time."

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