"Omitted! Your Highness has replied! You can play! ”

On April 28, half a month after the song was sent back, when Mu Yi "broke into" the Longchuan Temporary Economic Strategy Mansion with a batch of red notes and holy decrees, Hong Chengchou was actually already mobilizing grain.

Due to the fact that Yunnan and some areas of Jiaozhi are harvested three times a year, and a lot of gold and silver mines have been discovered in the fried mountains, Hong Chengchou has accumulated a lot of money and grain.

However, the money and grain will be used in the southwest as a prayer post for his ascension.

"Oh ......" put down the brush in his hand, Hong Chengchou blew dry his calligraphy, and then wiped the ink on his hand before walking out from behind the desk and taking the holy decree and note handed by Mu Yi.

When he opened it, he saw that there were a lot of things written on it, but in fact there was only one word...... Can.

"It's time to do it, how much grain from Kunming has not been transported to Longchuan, and how long will it take?"

Hong Chengchou put away the recital and the holy decree, and turned his back to Mu Yi to ask.

"There are also 600,000 meters and 170,000 taels of silver, as well as more than 300,000 catties of gunpowder."

"If we start to transfer troops now, 20 battalions of soldiers and horses in Yunnan Province will be able to reach Longchuan in early May at most, and there will be 22 battalions of soldiers and horses in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Jiaozhi, but about 10 battalions can be transferred to participate in the war."

"After calculation, at most by the beginning of July, thirty battalions of soldiers and horses will be able to gather in Longchuan."

Mu Yi excitedly talked about the strength of the southwest, the 30 battalions of soldiers and horses are more than 90,000 people, 3,000 artillery pieces, more than 50,000 infantry guns, and more than 10,000 cavalry guns.

This force is not to mention the peace of Burma, but even the peace of Siam.

"Don't be in a hurry to transfer, take your time, and let the ministries arrive in Longchuan before September."

Hong Chengchou turned around and gave a flat order, and Mu Yi hurriedly responded.

"The day when the army will send troops is tentatively set for the middle of October, and the whole battle should be completed at the end of the first month."

Hong Chengchou stayed in Longchuan for several months, probably figuring out what kind of climate the three Xuan and six comforts were across the mountains.

In general, high temperatures in the 20s to 30s are maintained throughout the year, especially in February, March and April.

Hong Chengchou asked Jinyiwei to test it with an outdoor thermometer produced by the Armaments Institute, and the highest temperature in the past three months was 38 degrees, and the lowest temperature was 21 degrees.

In the past few months, plus Jinyiwei, according to the temperature survey of the whole year last year, for the Ming army, only three and a half months from mid-October to the end of the first month can fight.

Once the time exceeds these three and a half months, the Ming army will be unaccustomed to the soil and water in large numbers, because the Jinyi Wei in charge of the investigation is relatively healthy only in these three and a half months.

Hong Chengchou has read the explanation of miasma in "Yanshan Medicine", and in general, miasma is generally compared to factors in the real environment such as heat waves, sun exposure, miasma, long rain, noise, air pollution, and dust aversion.

These things will cause dizziness, palpitations, nausea, headache, loss of appetite, low self-esteem, physical weakness and other phenomena.

In order to alleviate the water and soil adaptation as much as possible, we can only reconcile the soldiers and horses with similar local climate to fight the climate, so the soldiers and horses of the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Sichuan came in handy.

However, in fact, only the soldiers and horses in southern Yunnan and Jiaozhi can adapt to the local area, while the other soldiers and horses will be unaccustomed to the soil once they exceed the three-and-a-half-month combat period.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou's preparations were very simple, that is, to recover Sanxuan and Liufu in three and a half months, and then transfer the soldiers and horses that were not adapted to the water and soil back to the garrison, or exchange them with the soldiers and horses of the Yunnan Gongwei Battalion, and let them garrison the area of central Yunnan.

At that time, those who could stay in Burma were only the soldiers and horses of less than 10 battalions in the two provinces of southern Yunnan Gongwei Battalion and Jiaozhi Gongwei Battalion.

It is very difficult to use 30,000 people to try to rule 8 million young people, but Hong Chengchou is not worried at all.

He wants to go to the cabinet, but before Zhu Youzhen leaves the Ming Dynasty, he still needs to constantly curry favor with Zhu Youzhen, so he has to collect enough seizures for Zhu Youzhen.

It is very simple to give gifts, in the name of the generals of the southwest, when the prince of Qi is born, it will not be gossiped about.

As for how many gifts to give? This has to look at how rich the local Haoqiang Toast's family property is.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou asked: "Is the Burmese thief's head reward silver or eleven tael?" ”

"Yes!" Mu Yi replied without thinking, after all, the first-level reward was the most direct way for the generals of the Five Armies Governor's Mansion to earn silver, and he naturally paid attention to this.

"There are not enough labor reformers in Jiaozhi, and the construction of Myanmar also requires a lot of labor reformers, this time the sweep is still handed over to Mu Qiyuan and Wu Bikui to do, you and Ma Xianglin take the lead, Long Zaitian and Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming and several generals and I are in the Chinese army."

"Thank you!" Hearing that he was playing as a striker, although he was with Ma Xianglin, Mu Yi still bowed excitedly.

However, when he bowed and saluted, Hong Chengchou reminded him:

"The old man thought about it, if nothing else, His Royal Highness should change the law of Duogan in the next two years, and then reinstate Sun Chuanting to lead the troops to recover Wusizang."

"Your Mu family's business in Qamdo, it's best to count it early, if His Royal Highness asks him to check it, don't cheat and cheat, and hand over the real account book."

"Think about the identity of your Mu family, it's good for you to do this."

Hong Chengchou reminded Mu Yi, and when Mu Yi heard it, his heart immediately chuckled.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to check Duogan, it can only be an inventory of minerals, and the Mu family began to operate the minerals of Qamdo during the Hongwu period.

For more than two hundred years, they earned millions of taels from Qamdo, so they were able to pull out 20,000 soldiers and horses to support the rebellion of Chongming in the first year of the Apocalypse, and they could also leave 20,000 soldiers and horses in Qamdo and Lijiang to defend the Xifan (Tibetans) in the area of Wusizang and Qamdo.

When Zhu Youjian was in charge of the Mining Division, Mu Yi asked Hong Chengchou, and what Hong Chengchou told him at that time was to continue to do it and leave it alone.

More than three years have passed before and after, and looking at this posture, it is estimated that the Mu family will really have to pay taxes this time.

Xie Jingluo reminded. When Mu Yi heard this, he was about to let people go back and discuss with his father Mu Zeng, but Hong Chengchou also waved his hand and motioned for him to step down.

Mu Yi had something on his mind, so naturally he didn't talk about Sun Chuanting's possible resurrection, but after he stepped back, Hong Chengchou still remembered Sun Chuanting.

He didn't understand why he was an official in the same dynasty, and he obviously did a good job, several times better than Sun Chuanting, but His Royal Highness the King of Qi always favored Sun Chuanting.

"Could it be that I didn't make a mistake, so Your Highness doesn't need help?"

Hong Chengchou was a little cranky for a while, and even thought about whether he should make a mistake, but a person like him who is wise enough to protect his life, even if the last time he "starved to death" was fake news, he would never do it if he really put himself in danger.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Hong Chengchou could only attribute Sun Chuanting's favor to Zhu Youzhen's liking of subordinates like Sun Chuanting.

Thinking about it like this, Hong Chengchou felt that his position was a little unstable again, and couldn't help squinting his eyes:

"Sun Boya......"

"Look, I'm right, it's better to look better."

When Hong Chengchou was thinking about how to overpower Sun Chuanting, Zhu Youxiao's proud and complacent voice sounded in the Dading Palace in the Yanshan Mountain Range.

At this moment, in the summer palace, a huge sand table with a length of one zhang and a width of three zhang appeared on the main hall.

With the endless sea to the west and the towering mountains to the east, only the narrow strip of land in the middle can be used for human life.

However, in this narrow strip of land, there are now fist-sized cities, as well as thumb-wide roads paved with concrete, and railroad tracks carved out of wood.

In general, if anyone sees this sand table and ignores its Chinese architectural style, those who don't know it will think that it is the old West Coast of the United States in the 19th century.

This is the West Coast sand table painted by Zhu Youzhen, built by Zhu Youxiao, and the craftsmen worked overtime.

It stretches from Alaska in the north to Los Angeles in the south, with ninety mirror-sized counties and ten fist-sized prefectures along the coast.

In later generations, there were only one province and ten counties north of Vancouver, and nine provinces and ninety counties south of Vancouver, and the entire Jingzhao Province was divided into Jingzhao Province, Jinshan Province, Anling Province, Pingling Province, Gaomi Province, Lushan Province, and Chengshan...... and so on ten prefectures and one hundred counties.

All the names of prefectures and prefectures are based on the names of all the cities of Qi during the Warring States period, which also echoes the feudal system and eliminates the difficulty of choosing names.

In general, Jingzhao Province basically included most of the territory west of the Red River in later generations, and could be cultivated and grazing, although it was not as good as the east coast, but for the next ten years of Qi, this place was enough.

In addition to this sand table, there are two large sand tables not far away, which are the sand table of Wang Jing of Jingzhao Mansion, and the sand table of the entire North and South Asia Merica.

From the inside to the outside, the capital city of King Qi is composed of four city walls of the palace city, the royal city, the inner city and the outer city, built between the mountains and rivers of the west coast of Zhong Lingyuxiu, the city wall winds up to 99 li, covers an area of about 340,000 acres, is divided into 135 square cities, enough to accommodate 2 million people to live in it.

Of course, it is naturally impossible to build such a large city in one go, so its construction period is divided into forty years and divided into four phases.

When they went, the first phase of construction began, and the palace city covered an area of 2,600 acres, and it was expected to be built in five years.

After the completion of the construction, the second phase will begin, and the second phase will also be five years, and the royal city covers an area of 12,000 acres, which is also expected to be built in five years.

As for the third phase of the city after its construction, the time will be ten years this time, because the inner city covers an area of more than 90,000 acres, which is enough to accommodate 600,000 people.

The last outer city is a 20-year construction period, covering an area of more than 220,000 acres, enough for 1.5 million people to live.

In general, in terms of current prices, the cost of Qi Wangjing is more than 12 million taels, and the average is divided into 300,000 taels per year.

The whole city is paved with cement pavement, with cement and masonry city walls, and the houses are also cement masonry and wooden structures, and all houses are built by the Ministry of Qi State Industry.

Such a city, it is estimated that when Zhu Youzhen crossed the sea, he could only see the royal city or the inner city, and when he was dying, he could see the completion of the entire royal capital.

Zhu Youzhen's original intention was to build a Wang Jing that could accommodate millions of people, but this original intention was rejected by Zhu Youxiao.

According to Zhu Youxiao's words: "The treasury can't be moved, but the internal treasury can, for the brother's lifetime, I will allocate 300,000 taels of silver from the internal treasury to you every year to build Qi Wangjing." ”

300,000 taels of silver, which is also a lot of money for the internal money whose income is gradually limited to about 3 million taels, with Zhu Youxiao's current physical condition, I am afraid that it will not be a problem to live to 60.

That is to say, basically nearly ninety percent of the buildings in Qi Wangjing were built with money from the interior.

Zhu Youxiao is very generous in this regard, but he is a lot more critical of the matter of Qi immigrants.

"To fill such a large city, the two million people will need 10 million taels of silver......

Zhu Youzhen looked at Qi Wangjing and suddenly said this, which made Zhu Youxiao immediately look at him vigilantly, and said tentatively:

"Migration silver is indispensable, this is what you said, brother......

"I said that...... What I said ......" Zhu Youzhen couldn't cry or laugh, and when Zhu Youxiao heard this, he also hurriedly inquired:

"Brother, when are you going to move the people over?"

"I was about to talk to my brother about it." Zhu Youzhen immediately thought about it after being reminded, and then said that he wanted to use silver to buy a tractor at cost price, and then move the people.

In fact, he didn't need to tell Zhu Youxiao what he said at all, because Zhu Youxiao basically didn't care about these things, and he was now only in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Punishment.

However, in line of trust, Zhu Youzhen still told him to avoid someone using this matter to sow discord in the future.

"This matter, my brother will do it." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand after hearing this, and continued:

"Anyway, the more than 2 million acres of arable land left by the old slaves outside the customs can't be eaten for the time being, and even if the people are relocated, I'm afraid it will take a year."

"A year later, it would be good for the tractors in the industrial zone to provide 4,000 units a year to the three provinces outside the Guanwai.

Zhu Youxiao said this very generously, but he also calculated it specifically.

According to Zhu Youzhen's words, ten households and one mu of tractors, the 4,000 units have to move 40,000 households and more than 200,000 people every year.

Of course, this is nothing for the Ming Dynasty, more than 200,000 immigrants, and the people of Shanxi can meet the indicators by casually relocating the people.

However, what can the two thousand tractors allocated to Qi do with it? Needless to say.

Counting the 3,000 units that have been saved so far and the 1,000 units that will be produced by the end of the year, it can be said that by the end of next year, there will be 6,000 tractors in the Qi Congress, which will be able to reclaim nearly 100,000 mu of cultivated land.

Only when the local area is rich will the officials of the Yanshan faction be willing to go to the Qi State in the future.

Zhu Youxiao is equivalent to helping his younger brother build the Qi State at the same time, eliminating domestic hidden dangers in exchange for the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for the fear that other vassal kings would have opinions and party officials would have opinions, Zhu Youxiao would have wanted to take out all the tractors every year to buy peace and send the Yanshan officials out of the Ming Dynasty early.

It's a pity that he wants to do this, but the Yanshan officials don't want to leave.

In the final analysis, if Zhu Youzhen wants to be a vassal and make the Qi country more prosperous than the Ming Dynasty, not many people believe it at all.

In the eyes of most officials, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty was built on the construction of the Great Unification Dynasty for more than 2,000 years, as well as the construction of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

King Qi's new policy is good, but it is also a great cause built on the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Youzhen stays, then relying on the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, he can make greater achievements, and if he goes to the Qi State, then the Qi State can develop better than the Ming Dynasty? Nobody believed it......

"The matter of the industrial zone, it is estimated that the first batch of industrial zones will be put into operation next year, and the ten-year construction of the second batch of industrial zones will begin next year."

"Ten years later, Daming should be able to produce hundreds of thousands of tractors, tens of thousands of steamships and locomotives every year, and can replace millions of ploughing cattle and millions of pack horses, and hundreds of thousands of wooden boats."

Zhu Youzhen constantly instilled in Zhu Youxiao the importance of the industrial zone, that is, he didn't want his brother to interrupt scientific and technological research and development in order to maintain the centralized rule of the Ming monarch after he left.

"At that time, my brother is estimated to be still there, and if my brother is in power, I don't need to worry, hahaha......"

Zhu Youxiao smiled heartlessly, but Zhu Youzhen shook his head after hearing this.

If Daming had the soil to realize his political ambitions, he would naturally be reluctant to leave, but it turned out that such soil did not.

The land of Daming, which has been inherited for more than 5,000 years of civilization, has been filled with too many interests, and the interests have also been divided in large quantities.

All he could do was lick the bricks and tiles of this dilapidated house, but he couldn't dig the roots, because his identity meant him couldn't do such a thing.

But Qi is different, he went to Qi country, and in that land where there is no conflict of interests, he can maximize his political ambitions.

He wanted to try to see how to balance the power of the monarchy and the power of the people.

If successful, the feudal clans will learn to follow suit, and even the Ming will follow suit.

If he fails, then he can use the power of the Ming Dynasty to try new methods again, absorb failures, and leave a successful national policy.

He can fail a million times, but as long as he succeeds once, the feudal lords and the Ming will know what to do.

This is a chance that Daming can't give him, because once Daming fails and falls, it will not have any power to help Zhu Youzhen rebuild a new Daming, but let Daming transition naturally, it can help Zhu Youzhen build countless new Qi countries at critical moments.

Of course, this is only during Zhu Youxiao's reign, because Zhu Youzhen does not dare to guarantee whether his eldest nephew, Zhu Ciran, will continue his policy.

"In this way, next year, the Qi State should be able to feed the three battalions of soldiers and horses on its own."

Zhu Youxiao propped his hands on the sand table of Qi Guo and said this inexplicably, and Zhu Youxiao shook his head after listening:

"I'm going to let Jin Xuan and them set off in June, first bring two battalions of soldiers and horses and 10,000 Yingzhou labor reformers, and then let Huanglong bring a battalion of soldiers and horses and tractors produced in the second half of the year, as well as 10,000 labor reformers."

"Jin Xuan arrived in Qi State, it should be October, and the reclamation time left for him is about five months, 3,000 tractors, and at most less than 20,000 mu can be reclaimed in half a year."

"Counting the fish catch and locally made soil and fertilizer, I estimate that it should be able to produce one stone per mu in the first year, and it is not self-sufficient, so Yingzhou has to supply it with food."

"After Huanglong also brings people over, I am afraid that the local area will need 120,000 stone of grain every year to meet the shortfall."

"My prediction is that in about the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, these 30,000 people will be self-sufficient and can receive 30,000 immigrants, and after that, the number of immigrants per year will be about three times the number of tractors."

Zhu You calculated that a tractor can cultivate ten to fifteen acres of land, while a person who wants to live needs four to five acres of basic cultivated land.

In other words, 10,000 tractors can produce 100,000 to 150,000 mu of arable land, while the number of immigrants is about 30,000.

Of course, when the first immigrants already had more than five acres of arable land, the meat of the people of Qi was not a problem, because there was enough grain to produce fodder.

If the first batch of immigrants had more than 15 acres of arable land, then the subsequent immigrants would not have to worry about not being able to buy food to eat in the local area, and even Kim Hyun could use taxes to issue food stamps.

Therefore, the tractor is a killer on the road to the development of Qi country, and the more it is numbered, the faster Qi country will get on the right track.

After the completion of the second batch of industrial zones in ten years, Qi will receive more than 100,000 steam engines every year, add millions of acres of arable land, and relocate dozens or millions more people every year.

However, this premise is that Qi can come up with so much migration silver, and the migration silver can only rely on Yingzhou's labor reformers to go to Jinshan Mansion (Alaska) to earn gold and silver for Qi State.

At present, there is nothing for the 20,000 or 20,000 labor reform workers, but in the future, more and more labor reform workers will be transferred, so it will naturally be difficult to discuss, so Zhu Youzhen is ready to say it in advance.

"The labor reform workers in Yingzhou, how about Qi Guo pay one or two pieces of silver to move one?"

"It's okay to take all of my brother away."

Not surprisingly, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and asked Zhu Youzhen to take all the labor reformers away, but Zhu Youzhen did not do this, and still insisted: "Let's still have one or two." ”

"......" Hearing his younger brother's insistence, Zhu Youxiao also glanced at him sideways, and after thinking about it, he nodded: "Then according to what my brother said, one or two." ”

After that, Zhu Youxiao was ready to continue to concentrate on his wood, but Zhu Youzhen said something serious.

"The Third Northern Expedition and the War of the Domains have completely ended, and it is time for my brother to set a reward."

"This is the list drawn up by my brother, my brother can take a look......" Zhu Youzhen said, taking out a piece of paper in his arms, and Zhu Youxiao also took it and spread it out.

On this piece of paper, the first person to rank is Cao Wenzhao, followed by Cao Bianjiao, Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan, Sun Shoufa, Yuan Yingtai, Cao Meng, You Shigong, He Shixian and others......

The names of other Zu Dashou, Mao Wenlong, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui and others are also on the list, with a total of 127 generals on the list.

In addition to them, Zhu Youzhen also wrote down the names of Huang Long, Huang Fei, Lu Xiangsheng, Qi Yuanfu, Qi Yuanbi, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others, a total of 159 generals on the list.

All of the above are the heroes of the war of the feudal domains and the Third Northern Expedition, and among them, a total of seven people were knighted.

There were four people who were knighted in the Northern Expedition, namely Xiong Tingbi was promoted to Marquis of Jiangxia, Sun Yingyuan was promoted to Marquis of Dingxing, Cao Wenzhao was promoted to Weiyuanbo, and Yuan Yingtai was promoted to Fengxiangbo.

There are three people who were knighted on the battlefields of the various domains, respectively said that the Liaodong Marquis of Huanglong, the Dingxi Bo of Qi Yuanbi, and the Dingdong Bo of Qi Yuanfu.

There were three marquis and four uncles in the entire two major battlefields in the north and south, but what was even worse was that the Qi family produced three nobles.

However, this fateful life is not enough, just because Zhu Youzhen wants to light another fire:

"In addition, the younger brother suggested that Qi Yuangong be promoted to Dingnan Bo, Qin Minping to Wu Longbo, and Qin Liang Yushi Zhubo."

Zhu Youzhen's words, Daming has two noble families, and it is a family with many honors.

That is, Qi Jin Ding Yuan Marquis, Qi Yuan Gong Ding Nan Bo, Qi Yuan Fu Ding Dong Bo, Qi Yuan Bi Ding Xi Bo, as well as Qin Bangping Zhongzhou Marquis, Qin Bang Han Youyang Marquis, as well as Qin Liangyu's Shizhu Bo and Qin Minping's Wu Longbo.

Two doors, three marquis and five uncles, what a privilege is this?

"......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youxiao was silent for a moment, he knew very well that the veterans of the two sects all hoped to support the Ming Dynasty and stand on their side, so promoting them was equivalent to consolidating the imperial power.

With such a canonization, Huang Long will not have an opinion, Sun Yingyuan will not have an opinion, Xiong Tingbi will not have an opinion, and as for others, they will not have an opinion.

In the final analysis, the Qin and Qi clans were basically the mentors of most of the military generals of the Qi Palace, and they had no reason to oppose it.

"Just do what my brother said, but ......" Zhu Youxiao approved the list, but then muttered:

"On this list, you can add Wei Liangqing, Jin Qi, and Zhang Xianzhong."

"The three of them, the first two have made meritorious contributions this time, and they hope to be promoted to the commander of the three guards of the imperial city and the general army of Kaiping Mansion."

"As for Zhang Xianzhong, I heard that he made meritorious contributions in defending the city in Duolun County and resisted the siege of more than 40,000 cavalry in Subudi, this time he may be promoted to a battalion general, or a guard commander?"

(End of chapter)