"I have heard that those who follow the heavens prosper and those who rebel against the heavens die, and the common sense of fortune and misfortune is also determined in ancient and modern times."

"The national teacher Tulu Baihu returned to the Ming Dynasty, and was awarded Jin Manbo for the first time, and General Zhaoyong was awarded for the first time of the third grade, and he was rewarded with 1,000 taels of gold."

"Then give his nephew Ozir, his eldest son Yin Le Du Qi Zheng four-rank Mingwei general, the rest of the nine sons are five-grade Wude generals, and the first thousand households and hundreds of households are awarded the sixth rank Zhaoxin captain."

"Jin Manbo moved to Xi'an on the same day, stayed in the palace of Boryeong County, and looked forward to ......it."

On the sixth day of the first month of the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, when the northwest wind blew, the eunuchs who came from the capital also told Gushi Khan with the holy decree that the Ming was going to deal with them.

To tell the truth, he came to Shunshun with 30,000 people and six or seven thousand men, and he could also pick up an earl and dozens of loose ranks, which he didn't expect.

"Chantu Lu Bai Hu, thank Your Majesty Longen, long live Your Majesty...... Banzai...... Hooray......"

Outside the Jiayu Gate, Tulu Baihu knelt down with a group of generals and Shuote to receive the order, and the 30,000 troops behind him also knelt down, and the scene was spectacular.

At the same time as he received the order, General Jiayuguan also said to him:

"Jin Manbo, please immediately lead your generals to Xi'an City, as for your subordinates, they will be placed in the Qinghai area to live, and each household has tens of thousands of acres of grassland."

The general's words were translated by the officials of the Siyi Pavilion, and Tulu Baihu was also very helpless when he heard this, he knew that after he handed over the military power, he could only be a pleasant uncle in the future.

It's just that if he doesn't hand over the military power, he obviously won't be able to enter Jiayuguan.

He looked up at the majestic Jiayu Pass in front of him, and also saw the muzzles of nearly a thousand black holes at the pass, as well as the three thousand Ming troops who were vigilantly welcoming them outside the city.

Looking at the "fire gun" in the hands of the Ming army, as well as the equipment with a clear stomach, he didn't dare to have any other thoughts in his heart, so he could only raise his hand and express his response.

Seeing that he should go, the officials of the Siyi Pavilion also stepped forward to help him up, and took someone to change him into the military attache uniform of Zheng Sanpin.

After everything was done, Gushi Khan, who founded the Heshute Khanate in history, officially became the Jin Manbo of the Ming Dynasty.

They were brought into the Jiayu Pass, and the more than 30,000 people who remained outside the pass were organized by the 3,000 Ming soldiers and the people.

An hour later, the more than 30,000 tribes were divided into 6,437 households, making a total of 36,457 people.

According to Zhu Youxiao's will, each of their households will receive 10,000 acres of grassland in Qinghai.

As with the Ming herdsmen, they need to pay one-tenth of the cattle and sheep they give to the Ming as a pastoral tax every year.

Many herdsmen were overjoyed when they heard the news, after all, in Warat, they often had to pay three or four tenths to the lords above, but now they only need to pay one-tenth.

Not only that, when they were in the Western Regions, they often only had two or three thousand acres of grassland per household, but now they can have 10,000 acres of grassland, which they dare not imagine.

10,000 acres of grassland, if used to raise sheep, can raise hundreds or thousands.

Of course, these are only part of their happiness, and what is really happy is that their cattle and sheep will be bought and sold by the royal store, directly eliminating the step of finding a buyer by themselves.

The price given by the emperor store is 200 yuan per sheep, 3 taels of silver per cow, and 1 tael to 3 taels of horses depending on the situation.

Such a price is naturally worth being happy for the herdsmen, and it is also very profitable for the royal store.

As long as the train from Xining to Jiangnan is opened to traffic in the future, the sheep sold to Jiangnan for 200 wen will be 600 wen, and the cattle for 3 taels of silver will be 12 taels.

Horses and mules don't need to be said, in short, it is impossible for the royal shop to lose money in business, and the herdsmen will not lose money in business.

Giving farmland to the peasants and pasture to the herdsmen is the most powerful means to win the hearts and minds of the people.

Daming may not have a lot of arable land, but the amount of grassland is definitely very large, and it has even reached the point where it is completely inexhaustible.

The grassland of Wusi Tibetan Province alone has reached 1.4 billion mu, not to mention Nanzhou, Modong, Shanyu and Donghai provinces.

At present, the population of Uszang is only more than 500,000, of which more than 200,000 live in Xining and Qinghai provinces, and less than 300,000 people live in Lasa, Qamdo, Bolu and Changtang provinces.

500,000 people, more than 1 billion mu of grassland, and 2 million mu of land, this cannot be divided endlessly.

In this way, on the tenth day of the sixteenth month of the Apocalypse, after four days of preparation, more than 30,000 herdsmen began to migrate to Uszang.

Not only did the herdsmen begin to move, but the officials in charge of guarding the Siyi Pavilion also recorded Gushi Khan's mood all the way to Xi'an.

Although Hexi is densely populated and arable land is insufficient, and Shaanxi is also suffering from a severe drought, so that except for Hetao, Hanzhong, Guanzhong, and other places are very barren, but in any case, the Ming Dynasty is still the most prosperous and developed dynasty in the world.

Gu Shi Khan, who had never even seen a bicycle, saw the hard cement road paved for thousands of miles after entering Jiayuguan.

Sitting in the carriage to Xi'an City, he saw the Jingjia Railway under construction on the Fu Road, and arrived at Shouyang Pass in Gongchang Mansion at the end of January, where he met and boarded the train.

When he saw the train, his whole face was full of astonishment, as if he had traveled to another world.

At this time, Gu Shi Khan was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, feeling the huge difference between the Western Regions and the Ming Dynasty.

When he was still wondering how such a heavy "monster" as the train moved, the train had already sent him to Xi'an City.

After coming to Xi'an, he felt as if he had traveled to the future.

Uniform concrete masonry buildings, concrete pavement throughout the street, as well as wide roads, bicycles riding on the roads......

All these things made him feel like a lifetime, so much so that when an official of the Siyi Pavilion asked him how Daming was, he said with some melancholy in his tone:

"I never thought that the Celestial Empire was so prosperous, let alone that there was an iron car in the world that could travel thousands of miles a day."

When Gushi Khan said this, his eyes were full of melancholy, and his words were full of sadness and helplessness, but the generals of the Heshute Department and the heirs of Gushi Khan who were present felt that they had made an extremely correct decision.

They are different from Gushi Khan, Gushi Khan is a strong man, and in order to compete with other countries and return Warat to the top, he has been trying to make changes.

It was only in the end, when he came to Xi'an City, that he realized that the efforts he had made in Daming were nothing more than a dilapidated house that could be destroyed by a few hundred cavalry.

After seeing the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he spent his days in the palace of Baoning County, which was renamed Jinmanbo Mansion, and while learning the official language of the Ming Dynasty, he would also go out to Xi'an City every day to walk around, watching the people in the city.

All of his actions were reported to Zhu Youzhen by Jinyiwei.

"It's a pity ......"

In March, when Zhu Youzhen finished watching what Gu Shihan had done in the past few months, he couldn't help but shake his head, and there was some regret in his words.

If it weren't for the sudden rise of the Ming Dynasty and the westward migration of Lin Dan Khan, this Gushi Khan would have been able to return to the top with Warat, and then let Warat settle internally for more than 30 years at the cost of his own departure, until the rise of Galdan in Dzungaria.

It's just that these things will not appear, compared to the future of Gushi Khan, Zhu Youzhen is more concerned about the future of Daming.

[In the first month of the first month, Shanxi encountered a drought, and in February, Jihai and Shaanxi encountered an insect disaster, except for Datong Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion, all of which were out of harvest, begging for exemption and disaster relief]

[In February, Nanyang, Henan Province encountered a drought, and Chen Qiyu, the political envoy of Henan, played: When the hungry people had no food, the price of rice soared, and there were no wild vegetables in the mountains, so they had to eat bark and grass leaves. 】

[On the afternoon of February, Sun Chuanting, the Northwest Economic Strategy: Shaanxi except Shuofang, Ningxia, Hanzhong, and Chinese, the rain has not fallen in June, and I beg for exemption. 】

[In the first month, there are many places in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhenjiang, Danyang, the weather is very cold, there are many people in cotton, and there are frozen people on the road. 】

"Alas......" Looking at the book of books about the drought in the place, Zhu Youzhen sighed.

He knew it was going to be a difficult year, but he also knew that the hardest part of the year hadn't come yet.

The drought and floods in the south of the Yangtze River were what he was worried about, but this matter has not come for a long time.

"The three provinces south of the Yangtze River, have you ever encountered a drought this year?"

Zhu Youzhen was eating, dealing with the music, and asked about the matter without looking at the people in the hall, and Lu Wenzhao returned the salute when he heard this: "There is no drought in the three provinces. ”

"However, since the beginning of the first month, the number of rains in the three provinces has only been a handful, and if there is really a drought, it is not impossible."

Lu Wenzhao's words made Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen raise their heads and look at him, Zhu Youzhen also frowned slightly, and asked after groaning:

"How is the grain transported by the provinces? Have they all entered the north, Jiangnan, and northeast positions? ”

"Back to Your Highness, the time is too short, and it has not yet been fully transported, but it has already reached more than 40 million stones in the south of the Yangtze River, more than 30 million stones in the north, and more than 20 million stones outside the customs."

Wang Chengen hurriedly responded, and Zhu Youzhen didn't raise his head: "Speed up." ”

"Slave and maid receive ......"

Honestly saluted, and seeing that Zhu Youzhen had no other arrangements, Wang Chengen breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen glanced at the alarm clock on the table, and after realizing that the time was up (13 o'clock), he also got up and prepared to walk out of the carrier hall.

Seeing this, the three of them didn't get up, as if they knew what Zhu Youzhen was going to do, and they were no longer surprised.

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the carrier hall, and sure enough, when he walked out of the door of the hall, he saw Zhu Cihong lying on the steps.

He carried a food box, and with Yang Ru being led, he walked up the hundred steps step by step.

"Daddy!"

Looking up, when he saw Zhu Youzhen, he shouted happily, Zhu Youzhen also showed a smile, sat on the steps, and stretched out his hand to signal him to climb faster.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong also sped up, climbed up step by step, and did not climb the steps until five minutes later, and handed the food box in his hand to Zhu Youzhen with both hands:

"Dad, this is a crisp mountain made by Yuan Niangniang."

"Good ......" Zhu Youzhen took it with a smile, pulled Zhu Cihong to sit on the steps, and asked with a touch of kindness: "Have you eaten?" ”

"I'll eat it when I go back to the Heart Palace." Zhu Cihong shook his head.

"Then let's eat together."

Zhu Youzhen said, opened the food box, and used a spoon to dig out the crispy mountain and feed it to Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cihong's face was red because of the heat of climbing the steps, although it was only March, but the capital had already ushered in summer.

The heat in the body disappeared instantly when he took a bite of crispy mountain, which made Zhu Cihong nod his head again and again, and his face was full of smiles.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen also dug out another bite and fed it to Zhu Cihong, and only ate it himself from time to time.

In the end, after eating a plate of crispy mountains, Zhu Youzhen himself couldn't eat a few bites, and as time went by, the scorching sun began to exert his strength, and Zhu Youzhen led Zhu Cihong back to the carrier hall.

They sat at the door of the carrying hall, enjoying the wind blowing from inside the hall, and it was much cooler for a while.

"Is Dad done with it today?"

Zhu Cihong asked Zhu Youzhen, and leaned back, trying to see how many Zhu Youzhen's tables were still in the side hall.

"Not yet, but it's not too late."

In fact, Zhu Youzhen didn't play anything with Zhu Cihong, the father and son just sat at the door blowing the wind, chatting about some interesting things about what Zhu Cihong was playing when Zhu Youzhen couldn't see it.

For others, these things may be boring, but for Zhu Youzhen, who is tired all day long, it is also good to listen to the interesting stories of children.

After listening to it for only a quarter of an hour, the eighteen-year-old Yang said, "Your Highness, it's time to go back and practice calligraphy." ”

"Well......" Hearing that he was going to practice calligraphy, Zhu Cihong got up a little reluctantly, and turned to see that his father also got up, and then he saluted respectfully with a trace of reluctance.

"Dad, the kid went to practice calligraphy."

"Let's go......" Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, signaling that he could leave.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong reluctantly took Yang Ruye's hand and walked towards the stairs.

When their backs disappeared completely, Zhu Youzhen also breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the carrier hall to continue to deal with the music.

During the retreat, he paid special attention to the reclamation and population migration of the three provinces outside the Guanxi Province.

By the end of February, 1.16 million mu of cultivated land had been reclaimed in Beishan, and judging from the fact that 3.4 million mu of cultivated land could be reclaimed in the six months from April to September every year, the population of more than 300,000 in Beishan would be self-sufficient and support the army in six or seven years at most.

As long as Beishan can support the army, the 3,000 Ming troops east of the Nalena River can also start the westward expedition.

Tsarist Russia had less than 3,000 troops east of the Ural Mountains, and the Ming army could have swept all the way west to the Ural Mountains.

The only problem is supply, and it is not realistic to rely on Beishan alone for the supply problem.

Tsarist Russia relied on rivers to advance eastward, and the Ming army could do the same.

Relying on the Lena River, the Tunguska River, the Yenisei River, the Ob River...... The Ming army could transport supplies from Beishan Province, Shan Yu Province and the Western Regions to Siberia.

It's a bit unrealistic to maintain too many people, but it's okay to maintain 3,000 soldiers and horses.

However, the precondition of this method is that the Western Regions must be recovered, otherwise the supplies from the Western Regions will not be able to be transported to the Western Siberian Plain.

Relying on the Irtysh River and the Ob River in the Western Regions, the Ming Dynasty could transport supplies to the Ural Mountains, and it was not difficult for the 3,000 Ming army to take the Ural Mountains.

After taking the Ural Mountains, Tsarist Russia will inevitably panic, if there can be a truce, Zhu Youzhen is ready to digest the Western Regions, if not, then he can only transport tractors to the Western Regions on a large scale.

Not to mention the Yinli River Valley, more than 2 million acres of paddy fields can be reclaimed in the Altay region in the north alone.

Two million acres of paddy fields, even if one stone per mu is produced, can feed at least 500,000 people.

If you want to feed 3,000 troops and feed the peasants who farm, only 200,000 mu is enough.

To reclaim 200,000 acres of paddy fields, only 30,000 people and 10,000 tractors are needed.

In this way, 200,000 mu of paddy fields can be cultivated in one year, and at least 100,000 stones per mu can be produced in the first year after reclamation, and the imperial court can receive 10,000 stone of land endowment, which is enough to raise 3,000 troops for more than half a year.

By the second year, the Altay region was enough to feed 5,000 garrisons, and by the third year, it was able to feed 9,000 or even 15,000 people.

Fifteen thousand people, not to mention garrisoning the Ural Mountains, are more than enough to defeat Tsarist Russia.

However, in order to defeat Tsarist Russia, the Ming army had to have a province in Central Asia that could support their expedition.

Therefore, if you want to take the east of the Ural Mountains, you must take the Western Regions, and if you want to take Tsarist Russia, you must develop Central Asia.

The latter will take too long, not to mention anything else, and it will take more than ten or twenty years to build a railway from Jiayuguan to Central Asia alone.

This time is too long, and Zhu Youzhen can't afford to wait, so Tsarist Russia can only hand it over to Zhu Youxiao or Zhu Ciran to clean up.

What he has to do now is to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty into the Ural Mountains and the riverine region of Central Asia, and then organize the construction of a railway to Central Asia, and finally leave.

When the railway is completed, whether Daming wants to hit Europe or not, it is not a decision he can make.

"What is the production of tractors this year?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen, and the other party flipped through the documents of the Armaments Institute, and then responded: "By the end of the year, it will reach about 36,000 units." ”

"12,000 will be sent to Qi State, 4,000 will be sent to Nanhai Province in the old port, Luzon and Palembang and Jiugang will be 1,000 per province, 3,000 will be sent to Jiaozhi, and 2,000 will be sent to Nanzhou."

"The remaining 12,000 will be sent according to 8,000 in the East China Sea and 3,000 in Modong."

Zhu Youjian said without raising his head, but Wang Chengen said:

"Your Highness, long live the allocation of two million taels of silver, and Qi can buy 20,000 units."

"The dynasty still has to develop, and it is enough for the Qi country to take 12,000." Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but refute Wang Chengen's idea.

He wants to develop the Qi country, but he does not want to sacrifice the development of the Ming Dynasty.

If he really wanted to do it, he did it in the first place.

Moreover, the number of tractors will rise to 48,000 units starting next year, and Daming will spend 1.6 million taels to buy tractors.

In the year after that, this number will rise to two million taels, and from the nineteenth year onwards, it will reach two million six thousand taels.

In short, this amount changes every year, so you should save money for the next few years.

"How many fields are cultivated in Yingzhou?"

Zhu Youzhen dealt with the questioning without raising his head, Cao Huachun flipped through after hearing it, and finally raised his head and replied: "Beizhou Mansion has reclaimed more than 12 million acres of cultivated land. ”

"At the end of February, Yang Bu's political envoy said that it was necessary to transfer 300,000 labor reformers from the Qi State."

"Yang Bu's political envoy Shangshu expressed his support, and also explained that the fields in the Beizhou capital have been almost reclaimed, and the reclamation will be completed next year at most to 15 million mu."

"At the moment, there are still three years left for the labor camp, but the number has plummeted from more than 2 million seven years ago to 1.37 million."

"What Yang Bu's envoy means is that if the Qi State can take all of them to the Qi State by the end of next year, then the amount of grain that Yingzhou can transport to the National Dynasty every year can be increased to 14 million stones."

Yang Wenyue gave an offer that Zhu Youzhen couldn't refuse, he couldn't let people kill these million labor reformers, after all, the Qi State still needed it.

Therefore, it is a good choice to relocate the labor reformers to Qi and then let them use their surplus heat for the minerals and agriculture of Qi in the local area.

The only thing that needs to be cared about is whether Qi can support these 1.32 million labor reformers.

Thinking so, Zhu You checked and calculated the changes in the cultivated land of Qi State.

At the end of the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, the cultivated land of Qi should be able to reach more than 1.8 million mu.

The 1.8 million mu of cultivated land, according to the handwritten letter sent back by Kim Hyun, can basically feed 900,000 people by relying on the meat provided by local bison.

If it is postponed for another year, the number of acres of land in Qi will reach 2.6 million mu, which can support 1.3 million people by then.

Labor campers can eat sweet potatoes and potatoes, and only need to take out 500,000 acres of land to grow enough food to feed them.

If 1.3 million people were to be sent to the Qi country, it would take about four or five years to transport them to the Qi country without sending steamships and large-scale ships.

Therefore, if it is counted from this year, it will probably not be delivered until the twentieth year of the Apocalypse, and Zhu Youzhen does not have to worry too much about the food.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen responded to Cao Huachun:

"Tell Yang Wenyue that the imperial court has no spare strength to support him in transporting the labor reformers, so let him use Yingzhou's cargo ship to transport the labor reformers to the Qi country."

"If you don't have enough time, then tell some labor reform workers that as long as they work for Qi for three years, they will be given ten acres of arable land each."

Ten acres of arable land were given to Yingzhou labor reformers, which made Cao Huachun a little embarrassed, but when he thought of the matter of Yingzhou and Nankunlun, he immediately understood it in his chest, and slowly said: "The slave and maid understand." ”

Cao Huachun no longer spoke, and Zhu Youzhen calculated that according to the current distribution of tractors, when would Modong and Donghai feed back to Daming.

The East China Sea takes two-thirds of the tractors in the north every year, and according to the reclamation period of only nine months a year, although it cannot reach the reclamation rate of 20 mu per year in Qi State, it can be achieved with 15 mu per year.

8,000 tractors were transported, which is 120,000 acres of arable land every year.

This number is still increasing, and in the 20th year or so of the Apocalypse, the local tractors should be able to reach 80,000 units, and it is not a problem to reclaim 3 million acres of arable land before and after.

Counting manpower reclamation, in about 20 years after the Apocalypse, Donghai Province, with a population of more than 3 million, will have at least 18 million mu of arable land.

At that time, it will be possible to deliver at least 3 million stone rice and wheat to Kannai.

As for Modong, the situation should be similar.

In short, in the nineteenth year of the Apocalypse, it can be fed back to the Guannei, and the nineteenth year of the Apocalypse is the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

As long as the nineteenth, twentyth, and twenty-first three years passed, the Ming Dynasty could shift its energy from fighting drought to foreign conquest or consolidating its territory.

As for the complete end of the drought, it should be the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse, so he had to relocate the population to the Qi State before the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen felt pressure......