"Can a steam engine really pull a vehicle or a boat without a horse?"

On October 20, when Zhu Youxiao's question came from the Yangxin Hall of the Qianqing Palace in the capital, in the face of his question, Lu Wenzhao, who was ordered to come to the capital, replied:

"Long live Huiyu, it's true, but according to the words of Dr. Wang Zheng and others, although it can be pulled at the moment, there are many drawbacks."

Saying that, Lu Wenzhao explained the working principle of the steam locomotive, as well as the fuel, as well as the current limitations.

He simply explained, but here in Zhu Youxiao, he was aroused to be competitive because of his words.

"According to what I see, although Wang Zheng and others have researched this steam locomotive, the craftsmanship is not good after all......"

Zhu Youxiao pretended to speak profoundly, but who were the four eunuchs standing in the Heart Cultivation Hall by Lu Wenzhao?

They had long known that the emperor was a human being, and they had already guessed what Zhu Youxiao would say in the next sentence.

"Let the Armaments Institute send the drawings, and I will personally do it at that time and help them revise and revise the ......"

"Sure enough......"

When Zhu Youxiao spoke, everyone couldn't help but shake their heads, and Zhu Youxiao waited for Lu Wenzhao to respond "yes".

However, to his surprise, this time Lu Wenzhao did not obey his will, but said:

"Long live, Your Highness said that all the drawings of the Armaments Institute cannot be brought out of the Armament City unless they have been studied and perfected and applied in the territory of the Ming Dynasty."

"Therefore, it is difficult for the courtier to obey ......"

Lu Wenzhao bowed deeply, and Zhu Youxiao was stunned after hearing this: "Even I can't?" ”

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao responded with an embarrassed face, but quickly explained:

"But Your Highness said that if you want to see it, you can go to the Armaments Institute, and you can even participate in research at the Armaments Institute, but you must not bring out the drawings."

"Even after returning to Beijing, all the drawings after the inspiration need to be burned after the failure is confirmed!"

"That's ......" Zhu Youxiao was not angry, but sensed his younger brother's prudence.

"Something that can make my brother so cautious, I think it should be more important......"

Zhu Youxiao touched his chin, and Lu Wenzhao also explained:

"Your Highness has said that once the steam locomotive and steam engine ship have achieved a little success, and they can travel sixty miles every hour, they can reach Nuergan, five thousand miles away, in seven days from the capital, when the coal water source is sufficient."

"Five days to the west can reach Jiayuguan, nine days to reach Yili (Ili), ten days to Samarkand."

"If you go south, you will arrive at Nanjing on the 3rd, Guangzhou on the 5th, the city of Lhasa in Uszang on the 9th, and the Cham Mansion in the southernmost part of our dynasty on the 12th."

"If you want to recover the three declarations and six comforts, it only takes ten days from the capital to reach the small western ocean in the southernmost part of Myanmar, and you can reach the northeast of Tianzhu in 13 days."

"Your Highness said that if you wait for the railway to be built, then as long as you want, you can go back and forth between the capital and the most remote prefectures and counties in a month."

Zhu Youzhen did not forget to draw cakes for Zhu Youxiao, and Lu Wenzhao also passed on it honestly.

"Is it really that powerful? Wouldn't that be a long day?! ”

Sure enough, the person who can catch Zhu Youxiao's lifeblood is still Zhu Youzhen.

"That's true......" Lu Wenzhao responded honestly, and said another thing by the way:

"Your Highness also said that if the steam engine ship can also achieve this, then the Ming Dynasty only needs to spend five years to establish a supply point, and the Qi State can choose the middle position of the domain in North Asia and South Asia."

"At that time, it will only take more than ten years for the country of Qi to be on the right track."

"Five years? More than ten years? Zhu Youxiao burst into flames after hearing this, and then asked carefully, "What about Levia?" ”

"It's a little easier to go to Levia, you only need to establish supply points on a few islands in the Little Western Ocean, and then spend three years building supply points along the coast of Levia, and then spend another three or four years, and the Qi country will be on the right track."

Lu Wenzhao immediately replied when he heard this, and when Zhu Youxiao heard it, he immediately said righteously:

"That's not going to work!"

"No way?" Everyone turned their heads to look at Zhu Youxiao, puzzled by what was wrong.

Judging from the distance alone, it seems that Levia, which migrated for a shorter time and founded a country faster, was better......

"Although they are all barbarian lands, I think that North Asia Merica and South Asia Merica are bigger, my younger brother is born rich and noble, and then Levia is full of Kunlun slaves, how can I be worthy of my younger brother?"

"Okay, as far as the matter of the domain is concerned, I will make the decision for my younger brother, and the North Asia Merica and the South Asia Merica will be canonized as the Qi State, and when the steam engine ship is on the right track, the household department will transfer 10 million taels of silver to the younger brother to prepare for the feudal domain."

"Since it is my younger brother, then the Qi country must have millions of people, without millions of people, it is too down, and my younger brother is not suitable in the past."

"This ......" Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Lu Wenzhao was stunned, and after a moment he frowned and said:

"Long live, even if the imperial court has a steam engine ship that travels thousands of miles a day, it will take two months for ten merchant ships of nine thousand materials to set off, and they can only move five thousand people at a time, and the fleet can only move three times a year."

"Three times is fifteen thousand?" Zhu Youxiao calculated, and then said unconcernedly:

"Then arrange two hundred ships, so that three hundred people can be moved in a year, and so on ten ...... Twenty years, twenty years later, my brother will be able to become a vassal. ”

"This ......" Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Lu Wenzhao was speechless, and Wang An and the others almost bit their tongues.

Lu Wenzhao explained earlier that the fourth version of the steam engine may take several years or even more than ten years to complete, while the supply point may take five or six years.

Under the situation of the shortest known ten years and the longest twenty years, Zhu Youxiao actually had to organize the relocation of the people for 20 years, and then let Zhu Youzhen take up the domain......

That's a ...... Is...... What a big brother!

"Long live that, you ...... about the steam engine" Lu Wenzhao also wanted to save it, so he asked Zhu Youxiao to go to the Armaments Institute to meet Zhu Youzhen, and the two brothers talked about the affairs of the domain, but ......

"I don't have to go, I've been managing all kinds of opportunities lately, and I've been dealing with it every day until late at night, and it's hard to find time to go to the armaments hospital under the busyness."

"I believe that Wang Zheng and Bi Maokang can solve the matter of the steam engine by themselves."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, completely devoid of the previous interest in exploration and curiosity, and continued after waving his hand:

"By the way, after you go back this time, tell your brother, let him recuperate well, and leave it to me, if he can't travel hard, then rest in the armament hospital, if you go back to the capital, you can rest in the Qi Palace, you don't have to come to me."

"This ...... Long live ......" Lu Wenzhao was stunned, you must know that Zhu Youxiao asked when Zhu Youzhen would return to Beijing when he first arrived, urging Zhu Youxiao to hurry up.

How long has it been? How fast is the change of face?

"Okay, you step down, send the news back early, I believe you are not around, my brother is not very used to it, he is sick right now and needs to be taken care of by someone he knows."

Zhu Youxiao began to chase away customers, and the rapid change in attitude made Lu Wenzhao unexpected, and Wei Zhongxian was even more dumbfounded.

"Yes...... The minister retired ......"

In the face of the emperor's expulsion order, Lu Wenzhao could only sigh in his heart, then got up and saluted, and slowly withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Hall and the inner court.

It's just that as soon as he left, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wang An, Wei Zhongxian and others:

"These days, it has been announced to the Outer Court that he will drop out of the court, and if my younger brother comes to me, he will say that my government is busy, so let my younger brother go back and rest."

"That's right!" Zhu Youxiao added: "If you want to be sparse or something, send it to the celebrant supervisor, and you will take care of it." ”

"The slave and maid take ......the order," Wang An and Wei Zhongxian responded, without asking any questions.

Obviously, each of them can see that the emperor just doesn't want the king of Qi to become a vassal, or he doesn't want to be so fast.

This is the shortest 30 years, and the longest may be more than 40 years, it is estimated that the emperor's imperial grandsons will be vassals, and the king of Qi will still be dragged in the capital.

With Zhu Youxiao's current age, it is estimated that the limit is approaching after more than 40 years, and it can almost be said that Zhu Youzhen has not been allowed to leave him for more than a year in his life.

"Alas...... Forty years later......" Zhu Youxiao shook his head and sighed.

"Long live is still a little unbearable......" Looking at Zhu Youxiao's appearance, Wang An and the others thought silently in their hearts.

It's just that at this time, Zhu Youxiao's words were shocking: "Forty years later, my younger brother will only be in his sixties, and it is estimated that he can accompany Ran'er for a period of time before he becomes a ......."

“……”

As soon as the words were spoken, Wang An and the others all shut their mouths, not knowing what to say.

Co-authored King Qi for more than 40 years in the future, you have arranged it clearly......

"How many years?!"

On the way back to Beijing from the armament institute, when the motorcade on the way home met Lu Wenzhao who was returning halfway, Zhu Youzhen, who learned the news, suddenly opened the window, and his voice was almost broken.

"Migrate altogether...... Fifteen years ......"

Lu Wenzhao, who was on horseback, said the time limit in hesitation.

This is not only Zhu Youzhen, but even Wang Chengen, Wang Kentang, and even the Jinyi Wei and Xiao Cavalry Guards who are driven by Gongwei have subconsciously exclaimed in their hearts.

In the era when the average life expectancy was no more than 65 years old, Zhu Youxiao asked Zhu Youzhen to stay in Daming at least until he was at least 48 years old and at most in his 60s.

More than 40 years later, it is not certain whether Zhu Youzhen is alive or not, and Zhu Youxiao is estimated to be on the verge of entering the ground.

"What did he say?" Zhu Youzhen didn't even use the title of "elder brother".

"That's ......" Lu Wenzhao explained Zhu Youxiao's words, and listening to his words, Zhu Youzhen calmed down a little.

After a while, he sneered lightly: "My brother's idea is good, but it can't bother me. ”

After that, he said to Lu Wenzhao:

"How many prisoners are there in Liaodong, Beizhili, Shandong, Nanzhili, and Zhejiang this year?"

"There are probably more than 16,000 people in the August archives of the Criminal Department." Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youzhen also directly ordered:

"Descend the Japanese subject country to the territory, set up the province of Yingzhou, Yingzhou Cheng announced the political envoy department, and divided Yingzhou into Kyushu Prefecture, Shikoku Prefecture, and Hokshu Prefecture (Hokkaido)."

"The main island will be divided into three parts, with the south of Kyoto being designated as Minamijima Prefecture, the north of Kyoto, the south of Mito being designated as Honshu, and the area north of Mito being designated as Kitajima Prefecture."

"In addition, the Governor of the Eastern Army will be transferred to the ......."

Zhu Youzhen paused, as if he wanted to transfer how many soldiers and horses.

Judging from the current situation, military salaries account for one-fifth of the Ming Dynasty's finances, and if the remaining six battalions of soldiers and horses in the Eastern Army Governor's Office are transferred to Japan except for those stationed in Liaodong, it will save a lot of military salaries.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said:

"The Nanzhili Gongwei Battalion was divided into three battalions to go to Zhejiang, and then recruited three battalions of soldiers and horses from Shandong to participate in training in Zhejiang.

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao received the order, he obviously already knew Zhu Youzhen's idea, that is, to take Japan while studying the fourth version of the steam engine, so that the research time and the construction of the supply point would overlap, which could shorten the time by several years.

However, he still underestimated his Royal Highness, because Zhu Youzhen thought far more than him.

After he received the order, Zhu Youzhen continued to order:

"Move the prisoners to Kyushu, and then recruit civilians from the disaster-stricken provinces in the north to move to Yingzhou, from Kyushu to Shikoku, and then gradually go north."

"The people who moved to Yingzhou Mansion all had 20 acres of land per person, let Yan Siqi arrange it well."

"Tell Yan Siqi again that after the pacification, he will immediately send the traitors from the north to the Beizhou Mansion and the four islands north of the Beizhou Prefecture to reclaim the fields and build a market town."

"In five years at the latest, I'm going to see results in these places."

"Humble and orderly, then send someone to tell Yan Siqi." When Lu Wenzhao heard this, he also knew that his Royal Highness had made a "blood capital".

Six battalions of soldiers and horses, the two benefits fell on Yan Siqi's head, plus the six battalions of soldiers and horses in his hands now, that is, more than 36,000 people in the twelve battalions.

According to the configuration of the Ming army, these twelve battalions had a total of twelve artillery posts, that is, 120 ten-pound guns and 600 five-pound guns.

Although this kind of firepower is only 30,000 people, it is enough to be 300,000 Japanese invaders.

Li Rusong can rush left and right among the 40,000 Japanese soldiers with only 3,000 Ding, and now that more than 36,000 Ding-level Ming troops are on the march, Lu Wenzhao has even thought of the end of next year, when Japan will become Yingzhou.

Therefore, after Lu Wenzhao made a move, he began to arrange for someone to pass on the news, and then got off the horse and got into Zhu Youzhen's carriage.

After he got into the car, the convoy also continued to move towards the capital, and the distance was less than fifty miles.

After he got in the car, Zhu Youzhen was already bowing his head to write a new handwriting, and the proposition of the handwriting was "Pingwei Matters".

Obviously, he was not worried about Yan Siqi's pacification, but wanted to formulate his own strategy and post-war governance to let Yan Siqi implement it.

Lu Wenzhao sat next to Wang Chengen, the carriage was one zhang long, one zhang high, and one zhang wide was easily pulled by five horses, Wang Chengen was dealing with the documents of the imperial horse supervisor, and Lu Wenzhao also began to deal with Jinyiwei.

The three of them dealt with the matter together, and after being quiet for a long time, it finally ended with Zhu Youzhen's suspension of writing.

Zhu Youzhen wrote "The Matter of Pingwei" for half an hour, which is 2,000 words, and it is still written in classical Chinese, and if it is to be translated into vernacular, it may be able to translate tens of thousands of words.

In this "Pacification Matters", Zhu Youzhen mainly told Yan Siqi how to fight the shogunate, how to take the current marching route, which roads are auxiliary soldiers, and which roads are the main attack.

After the fight, Zhu Youzhen told Yan Siqi how to govern it.

First of all, as in the south, all the daimyos, generals, samurai, and folk who had ties to the shogunate were arrested, and then these people were thrown to the Hokushu Prefecture and the four northern islands to reclaim the fields.

After these old aristocratic forces were suppressed, the Ming Dynasty was able to have enough land to supply the immigrants.

Although the shogunate was small, it also had more than 30 million acres of arable land.

At present, through the war and the uprooting of the old aristocratic forces, only 145 million people can be left of the 20 million population, but nearly 20 million acres of land can be recovered.

According to the standard of 20 mu per capita, the Ming Dynasty could relocate millions of people to the shogunate, but the objects of relocation must be a large number of lonely and widowed men.

Men represent cultural symbols, even if the Ming Dynasty is strong, but as long as the women of the Ming Dynasty marry men from other countries, the next generation will inevitably follow the culture of the man.

Similarly, when women in other countries marry Ming men, they will slowly change into the cultural customs of the Ming Dynasty.

The cultural benefits of migrating one million men in the past are greater than the cultural benefits of relocating two million men and women.

As for the reclamation of the northern state capital, it was to prepare for the feudal domain and the relocation of the people.

The land of Beizhou Mansion was reclaimed more than 10 million mu of cultivated land in later generations, and as long as Yan Siqi did what Zhu Youzhen said, the two or three million old aristocratic forces of the shogunate could reclaim four or five million mu of cultivated land.

Not only the northern state capital, but also the four northern islands north of the northern state capital.

As long as market towns are built on all four islands, half of the problem of relocation will be solved.

The reason why I say half is because it is impossible for the Qi State to directly go to Central America to establish a vassal at the moment.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the Americas were still under the rule of European colonists and Indians.

At present, the number of Europeans in North and South America is about 500,000, of which nearly half are Spaniards, and the local population of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and other countries is close to 250,000.

From the time Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World to the time the Spanish founded Havana and took control of Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, Spain has been the largest force among the invaders of the Americas.

Twenty years before Wanli, the Spaniards had already mastered Central America and the Caribbean.

In other words, the territory of the Americas that Zhu Youzhen wanted was actually under the control of the Spaniards, and of the 250,000 Spaniards, they had about 30,000 troops and militia.

It was impossible for the Ming to duel with Spain across the Pacific Ocean, so they had to establish a gathering of at least 100,000 men before heading south.

The location of this gathering place was chosen by Zhu Youzhen in the area of San Francisco and Los Angeles in later generations, because the land here was enough to be cultivated to feed millions of Qi people.

However, it should also be noted that Zhu Youzhen's plan to win North and South America will inevitably lead to conflicts with other countries such as Britain, France, and the Netherlands.

Although their colonies in the Americas were much smaller than Spain's vast global empire and their main focus on small commercial activities such as the fur trade, they failed to attract large numbers of immigrants.

But over time, and with the end of the Thirty Years' War, Europe would move millions of people to the Americas within a few decades.

Therefore, what Zhu Youzhen has to do is to take the lead in driving them out before they relocate.

To achieve this level, it is necessary to build cities along the coasts of North and South America, and even if a city has only 10,000 men, it can feed thousands of troops with the fourth version of the steam engine.

With the power supply of Daming's power bank in the rear, there is no problem with Qi's military spending even if it exceeds the standard.

What Qi needs to care about is the food problem, and this problem involves the problem of cultivating fields.

The prisoners of the shogunate would be the largest "reclamation machine" before the steam engine was used in agriculture.

Northern State Capital—Four Northern Islands—Kammy Peninsula—Anchorage—Vancouver—San Francisco—Los Angeles—San Diego......

As long as a market town is established in each of these places and a large amount of coal is stored, the number of people that the Ming can transport to Qi every year will not be less than 300,000.

If Zhu Youzhen asked the industrial machine of Daming to try its best to release its production capacity and launch thousands of wooden steam engine ships on the water every year, then this transportation volume could be increased several times.

After all, even Spain, a country with a population of just over 6 million in the last century, could transport 250,000 natives and hundreds of thousands of black slaves to the Americas in a few decades, and there was no reason why the Ming Dynasty, who used steam-engine ships, would be inferior to him.

With 500,000 people transported every year, it only takes ten years to create a Qi country with a population of 5 million to exist in the Americas.

The population of Qi only needs to reach one million, and Zhu Youzhen can send people to the Americas to carry out expulsion wars against various countries and defend the land of Qi.

In other words, Yan Siqi's task is actually very heavy.

He needed to wipe out the shogunate within five years, and then establish a supply market town from the northern state capital to San Diego within eight years.

Eight years later, it will be the sixteenth year of the apocalypse, and in 1637 A.D., it will take another six years for the drought to end.

Under the condition of ensuring that the annual migration of the feudal domains does not exceed 500,000, and then ensuring that the Qi State replaces 500,000 people every year, the tens of millions of victims in the north of the Ming Dynasty will be perfectly digested.

When the Xiaoice River drought is over, the population of Daming may not exceed 200 million, but overseas vassals can definitely exceed 20 million of their own population.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen finally added a time limit to "Pingwei Matters", and told Yan Siqi that he needed to see results in a few years.

Whether Yan Siqi would betray this, Zhu Youzhen didn't think about it at all.

First of all, Yan Siqi had no capital to betray, because among his subordinates, except for a battalion of soldiers and horses who were his old subordinates, the remaining eleven battalions were all soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, and their parents and families were all in the Ming Dynasty.

Secondly, without the supply of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply impossible to conquer the entire shogunate and manage a country of more than 20 million people with only more than 30,000 people.

There is not so much saltpeter above Japan to supply these more than 30,000 people, Yan Siqi really wants to cut the territory, without Zhu Youzhen's action, he will fail in the internal friction in more than ten years.

As for betrayal in the Americas, it is even more impossible, even if Zheng Zhilong took advantage of Fujian, it took more than 20 years in history, but it only made Ryukyu barely self-sufficient.

With millions of Japanese slaves to the Americas to open up lands, without the supply of the Ming Dynasty, half of them would have to die in the first year.

"Give the letter to Yan Siqi and let him do what is written on it."

Zhu Youzhen handed the letter to Lu Wenzhao without pressure, and watched Lu Wenzhao get out of the car.

After he got out of the car, Zhu Youzhen also opened the car window, glanced at the land of Yanzhao that had begun to drift snow, and then exhaled a mouthful of white mist and muttered:

"Next, it seems that Lone wants to pay attention to the war of the feudal clan, and by the way, clean up a group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials......"

Updated at 6 p.m

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