On the eleventh day of the first month of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, when the battle at the foot of the Mansha Mountain ended with the Ming army wounding three people and killing 54,337 people, the Ming Dynasty's Ping-Burma campaign against Donghu was basically over.

Huang Fei did not care about the other routs, but pursued Maung Ji with 6,000 soldiers and horses, and met with Pindari who was rushing north on the southern plains.

The twin engines started the battle in an instant, but Maung Ki, who reacted, hurriedly commanded his son Pindari to retreat towards the western Chinsan.

The Burmese army began to retreat westward, and the Ming army, under the command of Huang Fei, continued to pursue.

Tens of thousands of Burmese troops were killed on the retreat of more than 100 miles, and Pindari, who was still fighting at the beginning, ran faster than anyone else.

Finally, on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Maung Ji took his son Pin Dali and more than 40,000 defeated troops to hide in the territory of the Qin Mountains.

On the same day, Taigong City was broken, Mu Yi and others led their troops south, and won successive battles, and finally surrounded Binya City, and Dumodi, the defender of Binya City, surrendered decisively when he saw this.

So far, the Ming Dynasty's political envoy in Luchuan in the southwest has been successfully established, and the two capitals and twenty-three provinces have become two capitals and twenty-four provinces......

"Omitted ......"

"Omitted ......"

"Hmm!"

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when Huang Fei hid in the Qin Mountains and hid in the remnants of the Burmese army in the Arakan Mountains, Hong Chengchou also divided his troops and asked Mu Qiyuan to lead his troops to the Rakhine Mountains to participate in the encirclement and suppression, and he himself rushed to Binya City.

The reason why he came to Binya in a hurry is very simple, that is, to invite merit.

"Kuaima sent a message to the capital, asking the imperial court to send officials to organize immigrants to Donghu, and at the same time asking the imperial court for instructions on what to do with Ahom in the north and Siam in the south."

Hong Chengchou walked into the temporary Jingluo Mansion in Binya City and gave an order to Mu Yi beside him.

Mu Yi responded, and Hong Chengchou also walked into the Jingluo Mansion and sat in the temporary Jingluo Mansion in the style of Donghu Tusi.

Seeing this, Mu Yi couldn't help but rejoice: "Congratulations to Jinglu, this battle wiped out Dongwu, and the dynasty recovered the Liuwei region in one fell swoop and reestablished Luchuan." ”

"Hmm......" Hong Chengchou just responded, but the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't be hidden at all.

Now that Luchuan has been extinguished, the next thing he has to do is to take good care of Luchuan.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou looked at Mu Yi: "I am going to recommend you to the imperial court as the chief soldier of Luchuan, if you want, you can raise the soldiers and horses of the Mu clan and the people in the area of Qamdo to take the lead in moving and running Luchuan." ”

Hong Chengchou was afraid that Mu Yi would not understand why he wanted the Mu clan to move, so he gave an example:

"The matter of Uszang and Duogan, if nothing else, His Royal Highness the King of Qi will merge them into one province in the future, and this province may only be reduced to white land in the future."

Hong Chengchou described Wusizang and Duogan as white land, which naturally did not explain how the military would be in the two places, but said Zhu Youzhen's policy of governing the country.

At present, the population of the Ming Dynasty is seriously "insufficient" compared to the territory, and a large number of plains are filled with other ethnic groups, and have not even been developed.

If you want to rule Uszambi, you must settle to Sibian.

But the problem is that so many good places in the Ming Dynasty lack Han people, so what's the matter with throwing Han people on the plateau?

Therefore, in Hong Chengchou's view, it is very likely that Zhu Youzhen will relocate the Xifan people in Wusizang and then exile a small number of criminals in the local area to stabilize the local demand.

If this is the case, then the Mu clan, who is still mining in eastern Tibet such as Qamdo, is a little inappropriate.

The Mu clan's base camp is Lijiang, but the reason why they can defend the border for the Ming Dynasty in Lijiang for a long time is that the first is loyalty, and the second is that the Ming Dynasty needs Lijiang to help take care of the eastern Tibetan area.

Now Sun Chuanting is about to lead the troops to pacify Wusizang, and once Wusizang is pacified, the Mu clan, who opened mines in eastern Tibet, will be a little overstepping.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou persuaded Mu Yi to move the people and horses in the Qamdo area to Luchuan.

This can solve the problem of the Mu clan in eastern Tibet, and the second is that the Ming Dynasty needs a person to help guard Luchuan, and Luchuan also has mineral deposits, which will not make the Mu clan embarrassed.

Third, to put it bluntly, Luchuan was beaten down by Hong Chengchou, and he won't let others get involved.

Not only Luchuan, it can be said that the entire Indochina Peninsula must be stable, otherwise where will he put his old face Hongge?

The Jiaozhi and Luchuan you fought, and the Yunnan and Guizhou that you leveled, in the end, the southwest was in turmoil, no matter who got it, anyway, you Hong Chengchou had to be the first to take the blame.

Hong Chengchou likes to let others help him carry the blame, not himself, so he naturally has to arrange good people for this kind of thing to prevent chaos in the future.

The Mu family has been arranged by the King of Qi in Jiaozhi, the Long family is too small, my family is brutal, and only the Mu family is suitable for garrisoning Luchuan.

"The last general has long been waiting for Jingluo to drive, please rest assured that the people of my Mu family in the eastern Tibetan area will take the lead in relocation."

Mu Yi is not a fool, Hong Chengchou has already mentioned it obviously, and compared to Yunnan, Luchuan is rich and rich except for being hot and humid.

Especially in the plains, although Yunnan is a plateau, the plain area is not a lot, but the mountains are difficult and the roads are relatively scattered.

However, if compared with Luchuan, most of Yunnan's advantages will become disadvantages.

The area of the plains of Luchuan, which is several times that of Yunnan, is enough to feed tens of millions of people.

If Mu Yi wasn't afraid that the relocation of the Ju clan would be suspected of separatism, he would even want to take the entire Mu clan to relocate to Donghu.

With tens of millions of acres of vast plain land and hundreds of millions of acres of undeveloped land, even if the Mu clan encloses millions of acres, I am afraid that it will not attract the attention of the imperial court.

It's just that his identity as a young citizen still needs to be paid attention to in terms of migration.

However, even if the whole clan cannot be relocated, there is no problem in relocating most of them, so that the land in Lijiang will be vacant, and the remaining Mu clan will be able to take over.

Mu Yi's idea is in line with the thinking of most gentry and officials in this era.

Although the Ming Dynasty has entered the industrial society, the existing industrial influence is too small, only limited to commerce, agriculture and all walks of life still do not have any potential and characteristics that can be noticed by the national elite.

Therefore, land was also an important resource for the gentry, officials, and common people to compete for.

Mu Yi is not short-sighted, but he can only see the value of the land, and he has never seen or touched the steam engine thousands of miles away.

Wanting to change his mind, unless one day he actually sees the benefits of these things.

"You can look at the finishing things, the railway and government roads in Luchuan are not easy to build, and it is impossible to count on the support of the old port."

Hong Chengchou said such a sentence, and Mu Yi immediately responded with understanding:

"Rest assured, many people in this Luchuan land have colluded with Tusi, and the last general will definitely clean up these moths before the imperial court moves the people and appoints officials to come!"

"Well, you can do it yourself, and send more people to encircle and suppress the remnants of the cave army in the Rakhine Mountains." Hong Chengchou responded, and then picked up the coarse tea next to him, and Mu Yi left with interest.

Soon after he left, a team of Tang cavalry also began to go north along the Dajinsha River, heading towards the capital.

Time flies, to the twentieth day of the first month of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, after eight days, Hong Chengchou's good news spanned more than 4,000 miles and was sent to the capital.

Zhu Youxiao had not yet returned to Beijing, so the court meeting was held at the Huangji Gate under the auspices of Zhu Youzhen, who was the supervisor of the state.

Only more than 200 officials above the fifth rank participated in the court meeting, and Zhu Youzhen sat under the imperial platform wearing a crimson round-necked robe and a winged crown.

Although it was just an ordinary wooden chair, he sat there, and that chair became the throne that decided the life and death of people in the world.

"The matter of Luchuan is over, and it is only a matter of time before the defeat of King Maung Ji of Talong, and the main reason for convening Er and others today is to govern how to immigrate to Shibian and how to build government roads and railways."

Sitting on the chair, Zhu Youzhen leaned very relaxed, but the more than 200 officials in the palace did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

The first to speak was naturally Gu Bingqian, who was the first assistant to the cabinet, and his attitude was also very concise:

"Your Highness, the old man thinks that he can send all the 6,000 officials who are in Enke Liujing this year to Luchuan, gather the people in time to organize households, measure the acres of land, and then discuss the issue of governance according to the estimation of Luchuan's income."

The meaning of Gu Bingqian's words is to put it bluntly, that is, he is not ready to pay the tax money in the customs to support Luchuan, and wants Luchuan to be self-sufficient.

In this regard, most of the officials also nodded when they heard this, after all, in their opinion, Luchuan was too far away.

However, Bi Ziyan was opposed to this, he stepped forward and said with a wat board:

"Your Highness, the old man doesn't agree with Gu Ge's words."

"The old man once read the "List of Luchuan" ordered by His Royal Highness to be surveyed, and found that the land of Luchuan can be reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of arable land, and even half of the local people have not been cultivated."

"In the early years of the dynasty, because of the emptiness of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, the Luchuan was not taken, and now that the Luchuan has been won, and the population within the dynasty is full, then the dynasty should pay the silver, immigrate to the real border, let the people live in peace, and let the border be happy."

Bi Ziyan is pragmatic, he has carefully read all kinds of information on Luchuan, and has also checked Luchuan's location many times.

He found that Luchuan was a very large area, and its territory was roughly the area of Jiangxi, Nanzhili, and Huguang provinces combined, and nearly a quarter of the area was plains.

In addition, this place is a place where it is more than a year old, and in terms of agriculture, this place is more vigorous than the above-mentioned Yangtze River provinces.

Bi Ziyan conservatively estimated that according to the area in the "Luchuan List Map", Luchuan can be reclaimed at least tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land.

Tens of thousands of acres of arable land, how big is this wealth? How many people can be fed? How much wealth can be created? The value of Luchuan is self-evident.

Even according to the current tax of one out of ten, Luchuan can contribute more than 10 million stone of land every year, and at present, only the two provinces of Nanzhili and Jiugang can meet this standard, so in terms of agriculture, Luchuan is equivalent to the value of these two provinces.

In addition, the reason why Bi Ziyan compared the above-mentioned one Beijing and two provinces along the Yangtze River with Luchuan is because Luchuan also has a river from north to south.

As the most important river in Luchuan, the Dajinsha River is navigable from the north of Menggong to the lower basin as a whole, and the shipping value is very large.

In addition, it faces the small Western Ocean and is located in the westernmost part of the Ming Dynasty's native coast, in case there is a problem in the old port in the future, the Ming Dynasty can also connect the feudal domains of the Little Western Ocean and the feudal domains of Levia through this place, so as not to be interrupted by the connection between the clans and the vassals.

Therefore, the more Daming invests in this place, the higher the return it brings to Daming.

Bi Ziyan, who knew all this, constantly persuaded the officials of various factions in the court from agriculture, geography, and shipping, and some officials of the Yanshan faction also bowed their heads when they heard this, and seemed to agree with Bi Ziyan's inference.

As for Gu Bingqian, as soon as he heard Bi Ziyan stand up and speak, he immediately stopped speaking.

To put it bluntly, he just stood up and made a statement, as for whether to use this suggestion, or whose suggestion to use, in fact, Zhu Youzhen already had a certain number in his heart.

Thinking so, Gu Bingqian looked at Zhu Youzhen vaguely, and sure enough, although Zhu Youzhen was looking at Bi Ziyan at the moment, his eyes were a little distracted, and he was probably thinking about things.

Seeing it this way, Gu Bingqian had a bottom in his heart, so he no longer spoke.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he knows better than anyone the importance of Luchuan to Daming.

Bi Ziyan's eyes and concerns are mainly the focus of people in this era, but Zhu Youzhen has a more long-term view.

Not to mention anything else, according to the process of industrialization, Luchuan is a place, once the Ming Dynasty can directly connect with the local area, it can rely on its own advantages to radiate the entire southwest area of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, after Luchuan was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Guangxi and Jiaozhi in the southwest became due south provinces.

After the two provinces were removed from the southwest, the Ming provinces in the southwest were Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Luchuan, and the population of the four provinces plus the natives was about 167 million.

In terms of land carrying capacity in this era, the upper limit of the four provinces is at least 60 million people, and after the development into the industrial age, with the popularization of spending, the upper limit can reach 100 million, and in the electric age, the upper limit can reach 300 million.

That is to say, no matter how you look at it, the southwest with a large population as the support, as the southwest estuary of the sea, is likely to become the top three economic prosperity areas in the Ming Dynasty.

Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Golden ...... Triangle?

Thinking that the Yin Rawaddy River was called the Great Jinsha River by the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the Greater Jinsha River Delta might be called the Golden Triangle, Zhu Youzhen felt a little strange.

But in short, opening up the Luchuan River has great benefits for the southwest region, although the development is still not as good as the coastal areas, but at least the upper limit of development will be much better than the current situation, at least many people in the southwest region will pass through this channel and get rich.

Therefore, the construction of Luchuan is the top priority of the Ming Dynasty in the construction of the southwest.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and interrupted the back and forth of Bi Ziyan and other officials:

"Okay......"

As soon as he spoke, the entire hall was instantly silent, and everyone hurriedly bowed their heads and listened to the teachings.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at everyone, then changed his sitting posture, and then said:

"The people of Luchuan need to accept the way of the sage, how much do five million people of Luchuan need to invest in opening an official school?"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Chengde, and Chengde, who had not participated in the topic, felt the gaze, stepped forward, and responded with a wat board: "According to the calculation that one of the five people in the dynasty is young, there are about one million students. ”

"Recently, the quality of government schools has increased to 20 to 1, so it takes about 50,000 teachers and 1,000 government schools."

"The initial investment is about 200,000 taels, the follow-up teaching and learning is 600,000 taels per year, and the expenditure on cooking and maintenance is about 30,000 taels per year, so after stabilization, it is 630,000 taels."

After Chengde finished speaking, he stepped back, and Zhu Youzhen looked at Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry:

"In the land of Luchuan, I am going to set up twelve prefectures and sixty counties, how much does it take to spend on the prefecture roads and county roads?"

"In terms of local topography, the cost will be lower than Yunnan, slightly higher than Sichuan, depending on the location of each prefecture and county, but in general, it will not exceed 20,000 miles in Yunnan, and the cost will not exceed 7 million taels."

"Xiu from Longchuan to the south of Salem, and from Miao Dang to Zhou, from Salem to Chiang Mai, how much is the contract?" Zhu Youzhen asked again.

"This ......" Wen Tiren was asked, so he could only say: "The railway has to be surveyed in actual ways to learn that if the mileage does not exceed 5,000 miles, the cost should be about 27 million taels." ”

"What about the city repairs?" Zhu Youzhen knew that Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru were the two big toads, and they didn't poke or do anything, so they asked immediately.

"According to the standard of 12 prefectures and 60 counties, about 300 market towns, it will probably take more than 1.2 million taels."

Wen Tiren finished answering his question, and when he saw that Zhu Youzhen no longer asked, he bowed down and retreated to his position.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he looked at Bi Ziyan:

"Bi Shangshu, you should have heard it, the budget for official schools, railways, government roads, county roads, city repairs, etc., is not less than 36 million taels, according to your estimates, how long will it take for the land of Luchuan to earn back so much silver."

"Also, how much can Lu Chuan bear on his own? How much does the dynasty have to help share? ”

Bi Ziyan listened to Zhu Youzhen's question respectfully, and only after he finished speaking, did he make a gesture, and said in front of hundreds of officials:

"Hong Jingluo's side, for the time being, has not sent the documents and accounts of Luchuan, according to the estimation of the Beizhen Fusi, Luchuan should have more than 30 million acres of land and a population of six or seven million."

"According to the new policy, there should be more than 4 million stone fields, and the commercial tax is unknown, but according to the same population, as long as the imperial store is opened in Luchuan, there should be an annual income of 3 million taels."

"Together, the direct commercial tax and the income of the imperial store, plus Tian Fu, can solve about five million taels."

"According to the Ministry of Industry's estimate, if it is divided into years, Luchuan will be able to solve it self-sufficiency in eight years, but if you add the problem of the local political envoy, Luchuan will need ten years to solve it by itself, and the railway cannot wait so long."

"In addition, the official school did not take into account the study problem of subsequent immigrants, and the old man believed that the construction of Luchuan could be completed in about eight years with 60% of Luchuan and 40% of the national dynasty, with an annual investment of 5 million taels of silver."

Bi Ziyan made it clear, it was almost Hong Chengchou of Luchuan who solved 3 million taels by himself, and the household department paid 2 million taels for eight consecutive years.

This is not a big burden on Luchuan, and it is not a big burden on the imperial court, but it is ......

"However, now that Luchuan has been pacified, should the taxes of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Jiaozhi be handed over to the Ministry of Households?"

Bi Ziyan said that he wanted to solve the real problem of Luchuan's finances.

Before Hong Chengchou passed through the southwest, the southwest finance has not been handed over to the household department, now Luchuan is peaceful, Hong Chengchou only needs to manage Luchuan, then the taxes of the other four provinces can be handed over.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen also agreed, so he said to Baiguan:

"From today onwards, Hong Chengchou will be promoted to Nan Anbo, Yao Ling's Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, and a scholar of the Middle Pole Temple."

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"This ......"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, the ministers of the palace hesitated, and Shi Fenglai of the Zhejiang Party stepped forward to say:

"Your Highness, since the establishment of the cabinet, there has never been a precedent for the dynasty to let a minister into the cabinet, this is ......"

"There is no precedent to start with the Apocalypse Dynasty!" Zhu Youzhen's voice was not loud, but it was deafening.

Like Nanming, in history, Nanming did not let people from the four towns of Jiangbei enter the cabinet, using Shi Fenglai's reason.

However, for Zhu Youzhen, there are no rules, so he will open rules for the Ming Dynasty.

"That Hong Chengchou is also a Jinshi from the second class of the Bingchen Science Palace, what's the matter? Did the ancestors say that a lord who was born as a scholar could not enter the cabinet? ”

"This ...... Not ......."

Zhu Youzhen's words stopped Shi Fenglai, and he responded to Zhu Youzhen by responding to the words of an ordinary emperor, but he forgot that Zhu Youzhen was not an emperor, and he didn't care about those bullshit rules.

Let Hong Chengchou get the uncle, enter the cabinet, and receive the book from afar, even if Zhu Youxiao refuses this matter, Zhu Youzhen must fight for it on the basis of reason.

Although Hong Hengjiu's guy is not a good thing, this Manchu Dynasty official is worse than him, at least this Hong Hengjiu is still doing things.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at Gu Bingqian, who was the secretary of the ministry and the first assistant of the cabinet.

"Does Gu Ge have any opinions?"

"The old man doesn't, Hong Hengjiu's merits deserve to be in the cabinet and knighted." Gu Bingqian, the old slippery head, continued to rot, and Zhu Youzhen ignored him when he saw this.

As for Yuan Keli, he has suffered from a cold recently and is recuperating at home, but even if he knows that Hong Chengchou has entered the cabinet, it is estimated that he will not evaluate it.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen glanced at the ministers in the palace, and after seeing that none of them refuted, he knew that the matter was settled.

However, after the matter of Luchuan and Hong Chengchou was decided, Zhu Youzhen had to appoint key officials to Luchuan.

"Mu Yi of the Western Military Governor's Mansion will stay in Luchuan and serve as the chief soldier of Luchuan."

"As for the political envoy of Luchuan, Hong Chengchou will serve as the temporary commander until the thieves in Luchuan are completely wiped out."

After that, Zhu Youzhen talked about one thing:

"Long live the appointment of Sun Chuanting to pass through Wusizang, this matter is understandable, Wusizang's internal turmoil is easy to produce thieves who threaten the country, and it should be recovered."

"However, the local people live on the plateau, and the geography is superior, so it is inevitable to be divided."

"Just recovering Wusizang can't satisfy the control of the national dynasty over the border fortress."

"Therefore, the cabinet drafted an edict to Sun Chuanting, and after Sun Chuanting pacified Wusizang, he moved the Wusi Zangfan people to Hexi for grazing."

"In addition, all the prisoners of the current dynasty will be detained, and when Uszang is pacified, he will be exiled in one fell swoop."

Zhu Youzhen's thoughts, Hong Chengchou did not guess wrong, Zhu Youzhen really wanted to move the people of Wusizang internally, and then use Han prisoners to fill the local population vacancy.

Every year, more than 10,000 people are imprisoned in the Ming Dynasty for corruption and bribery, as well as civil struggles and revenge, and they are exiled to Wusizang, and Zhu Youzhen has no guilt at all.

As for why he moved the people of Wusizang to Hexi, then he has to mention where the opposite side of Hexi is.

Western regions...... In a place where the Han people have been lost for more than 600 years, if there is at least a Guiyi army in Hexi, then it can be said that since the Anxi Protectorate that retreated to Qiuci City in the third year of Yuanhe was destroyed, there has been no deep influence of the Han dynasty.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, there is only the Hami area in the eastern part of the Western Regions, and the area is less than one-tenth of the entire Western Regions.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, it has been 824 years since the third year of Tang Yuanhe, that is to say, the territory east of Hami has been lost by the Han people for 824 years.

Although the Qing Dynasty was very bad, Qianlong and Zuo Zongtang of the Qing Dynasty still did quite well in this matter in the Western Regions.

Although sea power has risen, land power is also very important to the Ming Dynasty.

At present, the Western Regions has long since changed from a thousand-mile Buddhist country to an oasis, and only the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and some oases can be developed, which is very suitable for nomadism.

It is useless to migrate the Mongols, but the migration of the Uszangfan people, who can graze, farm, and also believe in Buddhism, to the Western Regions will have practical benefits for the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youzhen was not very satisfied with several sects in Wusizang, and he had to beat these sects, change the rules, and then let them go to the Western Regions.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also stood up:

"Scattered Dynasty—"

"Chitose, Chitose, Chitose......"

Seeing Zhu Youzhen get up, Honglu Siqing hurriedly sang, and hundreds of officials saluted one after another, and Zhu Youzhen walked out of the Huangji Gate in a grand manner......