"Stayed?"

"Yes left behind...... In addition, His Highness seems to be intent on preparing for the construction of the Qi Kingdom......"

On April 23, the 11th year of the Apocalypse, when Zhu Youxiao, who was dealing with the music in the Dading Palace, paused the Zhu pen in his hand, raised his head slightly tangled, and Cui Yingyuan, who was kneeling on the ground, also lowered his head and answered his question.

Yang Bingwen's return brought an uncertain factor to the political struggle of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the issue of Zhu Youzhen's vassal status.

This problem, which has dragged on since the second year of the Apocalypse, is a problem that Zhu Youxiao has been avoiding, but it is also a problem that Zhu Youzhen must implement after thinking that Daming is on the right track.

Lead by example......

If Zhu Youzhen doesn't have to be a vassal vassal member, then won't the future vassal king have to be a vassal either?

If Zhu Youzhen can use the resources of the Ming Dynasty to support the Qi State without authorization, does it mean that the future emperor can also help the imperial heir vassal king he wants to help in this way.

Zhu Youzhen himself can set an example to make the rules stand up.

Whether it's a tractor or something else, the Qi Wangfu must pay for it, even if it's at cost price.

It's not a trade issue, it's a matter of etiquette.

Fortunately, the current Qi Wangfu is the richest vassal palace in the world, not to mention anything else, according to the reward and punishment system of the Ming army, Zhu Youzhen himself can get one percent of the reward for this Northern Expedition, that is, 1.7 million taels of silver.

This money can be used to emigrate 340,000 people, and it can be used to buy machinery, and it can buy 1,700 tractors.

This is just a reward for silver, you must know that in the palace of King Qi, there are several copies of the gift list for the last wedding, and the gift list sent by the ministers and generals of the frontier is as high as more than four million taels of silver.

As far as the gold and silver accumulated in the Qi Palace's current situation is concerned, it is completely possible to purchase another 3,000 tractors to reclaim wasteland in Qi while moving more than 300,000 people.

This kind of financial resources is not available in other feudal palaces.

Therefore, whether it is from silver or from various other things, Zhu Youxiao has no way to stop Zhu Youzhen.

He did not let Zhu Youzhen move, that is, he destroyed the Ming Dynasty's vassal system.

Unless Zhu Youxiao is willing to watch the clan system not follow the rules in the future, he will have to act according to the rules.

He probably calculated that with his brother's fortune and the gold and silver he had accumulated at present, as well as the silver bounty for future wars, he would be able to accumulate enough silver for the migration of two million men in ten years at most.

Two million people, if all of them are men, then intermarriage with the indigenous women of North Asia Melica, then in less than ten years, the population of Qi will reach four hundred or even five million.

Zhu Youxiao was not afraid of the strength of the Qi State, he was worried that the better the Qi State was built, the faster it would take for his younger brother to become a vassal of the country.

"Hooray...... Your Highness is also a ...... to you."

"Shut up!"

Cui Yingyuan wanted to comfort Zhu Youxiao, but he didn't want to let Zhu Youxiao scold him as soon as he opened his mouth.

Zhu Youzhen left Daming, and the person who benefited the most was Zhu Youxiao, because he could start arranging his own people to come to power after Zhu Youzhen left with a large number of officials, and became the person with the greatest control over Daming after Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and Zhu Youzhen.

This question is not clear to him? He knew very well, and he also knew that the longer Zhu Youzhen stayed in Daming, the more unfavorable his rule would be.

No matter how the official school promotes him as the emperor, as long as the students of the official school graduate, they will know that all the policies for the benefit of the people are from the handwriting of King Qi, and they have nothing to do with the emperor.

Why was the Yanshan faction so obedient at first, but in the end it became more and more rebellious?

To put it bluntly, when they found out that the emperor and the book were written as two people, and Zhu Youzhen was more like the "Emperor of the Apocalypse" in the book, most officials were full of contempt for Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao knew all these things, and he also knew that Zhu Youzhen's departure was a good thing for him, but he was reluctant to ......

On one side is the only brother, and on the other side is the hot power, which he wants.

"Where is my brother now......" Zhu Youxiao gritted his teeth and asked, and Cui Yingyuan hurriedly responded when he heard this: "It should be to Duoyan County." ”

"What did you find out about Hudun Rabbit's involvement?" Zhu Youxiao asked again.

"This ...... Only a few eight- and nine-rank chief flag officers and team leaders were found, but when they were found, they had already committed suicide. ”

"As for the '10,000 enemies' that appeared among the northern captives, in the archives of the military department, all the 10,000 enemies had already been destroyed in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and it was too long for anything to be found......"

Cui Yingyuan lowered his head, eager to bury his head in his chest.

"In other words, can't you find out?" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, and Cui Yingyuan could only nod stubbornly: "Yes...... Unless the more than 2,000 people involved are tortured to extract confessions, they ......"

"Then don't check it." As soon as he heard that he was going to torture the soldiers to extract confessions, Zhu Youxiao's face changed.

He is already in an embarrassing situation now, and if he loses the military spirit of ordinary sergeants, then he will really be alone.

These days of calmness have made Zhu Youxiao think about one thing clearly, that is, the matter of Lin Dan Khan's entry into the Kou is essentially his younger brother.

If your brother is here, the attacks of the parties will not stop.

This time he was safe and sound, and there were only two possibilities.

The first is that this time the matter was not well prepared, which caused Lin Dan Khan not to intercept himself.

The second is that this matter was deliberately underprepared, so that Lin Danhan did not intercept himself, and the purpose was just to strain the relationship between himself and his younger brother.

The former must have been done by a small number of people in the Yanshan faction, and the latter must have been done by party officials.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to continue to study this matter, it was not that he was weak, but that he felt that if this matter was handled by him, then the factional struggle between the imperial power and the Qi Wangfu would be aggravated.

Therefore, regardless of whether he let his younger brother take the blame or not, in order not to aggravate the factional struggle, this matter can only be done by his younger brother.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath, and at the same time, Zhu Youzhen, who had arrived in Duoyan County, also got an urgent note.

[April Dingmao, Sichuan, Yunnan Fudao Railway ......]

"The roadbed of Sichuan and Yunnan has begun to be built, the government road has been repaired, Kunming to Longchuan is unimpeded, Hong Jing slightly sparse and ask His Highness, whether you can prepare to recover Burma."

On the carriage on the road of Duoyan County, when Li Dingguo read out the note sent by Hong Chengchou, Zhu Youzhen stopped the brush in his hand, and after thinking about it, he said:

"Look at the performance of the household department, whether there is enough money and food to mobilize in the southwest."

"Your Highness, Hong Jingluo said that he has prepared two million stone rice wheat and seven hundred thousand taels of silver in Yunnan, and only your Highness can crusade against Buchen."

Li Dingguo didn't do what Zhu Youzhen said, because he found that there was a handwritten letter from Hong Chengchou behind the song, he opened it, looked at it, and handed the handwritten book to Zhu Youzhen.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he frowned slightly and took the handbook, and read it at a glance.

In total, Hong Chengchou had already hoarded 2 million stone rice, 700,000 taels of silver, and more than 600,000 catties of gunpowder in Kunming.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know how this guy did it, but judging from the report of the local Jinyiwei, it was not the people's fat and people's ointment in the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Jiaojiao anyway.

If you think about it, it is estimated that he has saved it in the past few years.

"Since the grain and straw have been prepared, then circle the red, give him the peace and Burma economic envoys, control the western army and the southern army in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and the four provinces of the forty-two battalions of soldiers and horses, and mobilize troops to quell the rebellion on the same day."

Zhu Youzhen has no reason to refuse the military action that does not waste the money and food of the imperial court, and the large infrastructure construction in China needs a large number of people to act as dangerous blasters, and this kind of work cannot be done for the people of the Ming Dynasty, but can only be done by labor reformers.

The pacification of the Donghu Dynasty would open the southwest gate for the Ming Dynasty to go to India, and it would only be a matter of time before the northern plains of the Ganges River were recovered.

Zhu Youzhen thought so, and Li Dingguo also followed Zhu Youzhen's words, and used a Zhu pen to criticize Hong Chengchou's performance, and then turned his head to look at Zhu Youzhen, who stopped writing, and asked curiously:

"Your Highness, you haven't been to North Asia to Melica, and you are planning the local area from afar, is there anything wrong?"

Li Dingguo's words were a bit presumptuous, at least in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Youzhen did not blame him, but smiled and continued to lift the brush to paint: "Basically, you can't make mistakes." ”

Saying this, Zhu Youzhen also looked at the map in front of him.

This is a map of North and South Asia drawn with a brush, with different colored areas divided by different colored brushes, and each area is marked with a place where a government can be established.

According to red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, gray, pink, black, white, brown...... Zhu Youzhen divided the north and south of Asia into 12 regions.

These twelve regions are not provinces, but the order in which Qi develops their localities.

Red is the Alaska ...... of later generations British Columbia, as well as Washington, Oregon, California, and other regions.

This is the scope of actual control in the first five-year plan of Qi State, of which Alaska is the most important, it is the place where a large number of Yingzhou labor reformers will be taken over in the future, and it is also the bulk of Qi State's finances in the future.

More than 2 million laborers will mine coal, gold and silver here, providing nearly one million taels of financial revenue for the country every year.

Once this place is controlled, the Ming Dynasty will continue to control other places, such as the vast northern region and the central Gobi region with the orange plate, then the yellow east coast region, the green Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the other colors of South Asia.

The capital of Qi will be temporarily placed in the California region, but once all of the above places are included in the notice, the capital will be moved south, the Panama Canal will be opened, and a sufficient defense navy will be established.

It will take about fifty years, and the population of Qi will reach about 40 million, and the number of troops will remain at 500,000.

However, even Zhu Youzhen did not dare to guarantee that he would live to fifty years later, so he probably established the basic rule of the Qi State in general terms, so that his successors could continue to strengthen it.

Zhu Youzhen's overall division of these 12 regions into 12 provinces, each province has 10 prefectures and 10 counties, and the total is 1,200 counties.

Of course, this kind of control is relatively weak, so the follow-up will continue to divide the provinces and counties, and in the end, Zhu Youzhen estimates that 30 provinces, 300 prefectures, and 3,000 counties will need to be divided.

It's just that at this time, the population of Qi is estimated to have exceeded 200 million, and the population of Daming is unpredictable.

At present, the Ming Dynasty's vassal system is destined to be a large population exporter, which can not only stabilize the Ming Dynasty, but also allow the vassal country to gain a firm foothold overseas.

According to the current fertility rate of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen estimates that in a hundred years, the number of the Ming people will reach between one billion and one billion.

However, in the absence of land annexation, perhaps this figure will soar to about 1.6 billion, accounting for 5 to 60 percent of the world's population.

Not surprisingly, Europe will become a dumping ground for the goods of Qi and the Ming Dynasty, because they will not be able to develop their own industries under the attack of the Ming Dynasty in the west.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also breathed a sigh of relief and blew his canvas.

The canvas was blown dry, and Liu Bingwen, who had been sitting next to him, helped Zhu Youzhen put away the canvas, while Zhu Youzhen continued to pick up other canvases and continued to depict the city and urban construction drawings that needed to be built in the first five-year plan of the Ming Dynasty.

Jingzhao Province is the name of Zhu Youzhen for this province, here, the Qi State needs to establish ten provinces, one hundred counties, one thousand market towns, and ten thousand villages.

All the urban construction is designed according to the scale of 20 million people, although it will take hundreds of years for the local area to reach this scale of population, but Zhu Youzhen does not need Huanglong to complete the construction in one go.

These drawings are also the same as the administrative drawings of the Qi State, divided according to color and area, using the traditional Han city structure, and the overall planning is orderly.

Among them, Wang Jing of Qi should be enough to accommodate one million people, and one million people live in one hundred fang cities, and each fang city lives ten thousand people.

In addition to these residential areas, there are two major commercial areas in the east and west, namely the foreign trade area in the west, the commodity area and the livestock and grain trade area in the east.

In fact, it still continues the urban design style of the Han people, but it is just an enlarged version of the city of Beijing.

For example, the main road in the capital is 40 zhang, and the auxiliary road is 10 zhang, while the main road of Qi Wangjing is 60 zhang, the auxiliary road is 20 zhang, the street is 10 zhang, and the laneway is 5 zhang.

Etiquette or something, Zhu Youzhen will be flexible before the domain, some of the etiquette system that should be changed needs to be changed, and it is impossible to affect the future urban construction because of the etiquette system.

Zhu Youzhen is not conceited, but he has the ability to change the etiquette system.

He said here today that he wanted to change the etiquette system, and tomorrow the Yanshan faction will help him change it, and Gu Bingqian and other civil officials didn't even have a chance to interject.

If he doesn't change it, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Daming to produce a person like him who crushes civil officials to death, and it is even more impossible to change the etiquette system.

However, to build such a royal capital, the cost must be very large.

The only advantage of Qi is that there is no need to worry about the employment of the people, the people cultivate the land well in the early stage, and the heirs in the middle can grow up and become workers after studying in the official school of the Qi State.

Naturally, the workers here cannot be labor reformers, but skilled workers, and the early construction is completely dependent on Yingzhou's labor reformers.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen also found his own pastime on this boring and long road.

As time passed, the design drawings of the cities were drawn by him, and by the time the carriage was less than ten miles away from Yanshan County, Zhu Youzhen had already drawn the structural drawings of thirty-two county towns and one Wangjing.

The structural drawings are mainly the basic drawings of sewage, floor heating, urban roads, and the square city, specifically about how to build houses and palaces......

Zhu Youzhen may need to talk to his brother who is good at carpentry.

After all, if this elder brother of his own family goes to the next generation, he may be able to find out the identities of several architects and designers.

The design of the three major halls, even if it is placed in Daming, is a difficult design task, but Zhu Youxiao's design is basically no problem after taking into account the wood, and the three major halls of the Apocalypse are the same as the three major halls of the Yongle period, which are one-third larger than those of later generations.

It is somewhat wasteful that such a ready-made designer and architect is not used.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen also arrived at the foot of the Dading Palace in the north of Yanshan County while quietly waiting.

When he stepped out of the carriage, he just looked up and saw Zhu Youxiao walking down the mountain.

Although it is difficult to achieve brotherhood and brother gong politically, Zhu Youxiao's concession and Zhu Youzhen's outward appearance have given this relationship some durability.

Zhu You looked at the figure, he didn't know how long this relationship could last, but at least this relationship was still there for now.

"Brother!"

Zhu Youxiao walked all the way down the mountain, and Zhu Youzhen also walked to the platform at the foot of the mountain to meet Zhu Youxiao again after a more than four months.

"My brother lost ...... weight"

Seeing Zhu Youzhen up close, Zhu Youxiao's first sentence was that Zhu Youzhen had lost weight.

Indeed, before the expedition, Zhu Youzhen reluctantly increased his weight to 160 catties (96kg) after a period of eating nonsense, but after more than a month of running, he lost weight to 140 catties (84kg).

For his height of 5 feet 9 inches (188 cm), this weight is actually about the same, but due to his years of exercise, this weight makes him visually a little thin.

"My brother has gained a lot of weight...... Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhu Youxiao, who was five feet five (176cm) and had a round figure, and couldn't help but think of what his brother looked like when he was thin.

At that time, he was not handsome, but he was also beautiful, but now he can only say that his affinity has become higher......

"I've gained a lot of weight recently,......" Zhu Youxiao touched his stomach, and Zhu Ciran, who was panting next to him, dismantled the stage mercilessly: "When I weighed this morning, my father was already one hundred and fifty-seven pounds (94kg)." ”

"Hahahaha......" Zhu Youxiao didn't feel embarrassed, after all, no matter what era it is, fat often represents the nourishment of life.

"This time my brother comes back, if I go hunting with my brother, I may be able to lose some weight."

Zhu Youxiao said, took Zhu Youzhen's hand, and didn't care about Zhu Ciran, so he pulled Zhu Youzhen towards Dading Palace, but Zhu Ciran didn't care, but found his goal.

】

When Li Dingguo was glanced at by Zhu Ciran's gaze, he subconsciously felt numb in his scalp, and then said to Liu Bingwen:

"Brother Bingwen, I need to go home to see how the family is doing, and ask Brother Bingwen to take care of His Highness's living on my behalf."

"Uh...... Good. Liu Bingwen didn't know why Li Dingguo was so flustered, but he still responded.

"I'll go too!" Hearing that Li Dingguo was going home, Zhu Ciran followed in a hurry.

I don't know why, he was honestly scared yesterday, but after seeing his Uncle Qi and Li Dingguo today, his heart suddenly settled down.

It seems that these two people are there, that is, there are 100,000 troops besieging Dading Palace, and he is not afraid.

"Prince, you ......"

"Alright, alright, I'm going!"

Some eunuchs next to him wanted to prevent Zhu Ciran and Li Dingguo from going home, but Zhu Ciran grinned at the eunuchs strongly, so that the eunuchs did not dare to provoke, so they could only quickly arrange soldiers, horses and luggage, and escort them to Li Dingguo's parents' house.

Zhu Youxiao did not stop the whole process, and it can even be said that he paid attention to Zhu Youzhen, and talked to him about various things all the way, but he didn't talk about Lin Dan Khan's entry into the Kou.

The two walked all the way into Dading Palace, during which Wei Zhongxian followed closely, his eyes kept rolling, as if he was thinking about why these two were not talking about business.

As soon as he thought that he had almost gone without spending all the money, Wei Zhongxian gritted his teeth with hatred.

He knows that he is a slave and a maid, but the person who organized this matter is also a slave and a maid, and the slave and maid make up their minds to hit the master, don't they give them some color to see?

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian was eager to hear what the two brothers had to do with those who organized the matter.

However, when he followed him to the summer palace, Zhu Youxiao turned around and said, "You guys just stay here, and by the way, let people prepare a meal." ”

After that, Zhu Youxiao also smiled at Zhu Youzhen and said: "The fresh fish of this Wulie River is delicious, my brother can taste it." ”

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, and Wei Zhongxian and they could only respond aggrievedly and let people prepare meals.

However, when they were preparing the meal, Zhu Youzhen, who entered the side hall, saw that there was no one, and said calmly with a calm face:

"This matter, no matter who it is, can be dealt with by the Yanshan faction and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies."

"The matter can't be too big, what the minister means is that with Huang Long as the leader, the five military governors and Yanshan factions who are responsible for this are assigned to the Qi country."

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to kill people by mistake, and he didn't want to make the Yanshan faction and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies panic.

Sending the people involved in this eucalyptus to the Qi country was the most moderate means he thought of.

After this group of people was sent away, except for the position of naval governor, which needed to be left to Huang Fei to appease Huang Long, the other positions of generals, prefects, and counties could be given to the local students who participated in Enke.

That is, a new force will come to power, but they will be weak.

Most of the students who participated in Enke, who could also serve as generals, prefects, and prefects, were local officials of Enke in the fifth and sixth years of the Apocalypse.

At that time, most of the officials involved in Enke were poor students and had no local support, so they belonged to the neutral faction between the Zhu Party and the Yanshan faction.

It is precisely because they are neutrals that they have no choice but to turn to the emperor.

Such an arrangement is in disguise to say that Zhu Youzhen is already going to support the imperial party.

However, the term imperial party is a false proposition, because when the interests begin to differ, the imperial party will quickly change into other parties, such as the Qi Wang Party back then, and the Gu Party now.

"This matter, my brother will look at it, it's just that my brother is suffering......"

Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment, and could only speak apologetically, but Zhu Youzhen returned the salute unimpressedly, and then talked about what he thought was "the right thing".

"In the affairs of the Qi Kingdom, I need my brother's help with some things, mainly the construction of King Qi's capital and Fu County."

"In addition, I thought about it, maybe my brother will also use these things when he governs the Ming Dynasty in the future, so he ......"

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen spread out some of the drawings that he had been holding in his hand on Zhu Youxiao's dragon eucalyptus.

"What ......" Zhu Youxiao followed and watched, but as the drawings were spread, his gaze immediately changed from absent-mindedness to intent.

"Of course I'm going to get these things!" Seeing Zhu Youjian's neat and tidy drawings, Zhu Youxiao couldn't put it down, squeezed Zhu Youzhen away, picked up the drawings and observed them carefully, and from time to time there was an exclamation of "whoop" in his mouth.

Zhu Youzhen also smiled helplessly when he saw this scene, but then pointed out what he needed to improve, and walked to the side to personally study the ink, ready to draw the architectural style he wanted.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao refuted that there was something wrong with his style, and on the other hand, he happily admitted the rigor of the central heating and sewage system.

In the end, the two put down the drawings and began to pick up a brush and have a heated discussion on the question of architectural style on the white paper, so that Wei Zhongxian was very confused when he brought people into the hall with the dishes.

"Isn't that group of rebels supposed to be discussed? Why are you drawing......