"Bell Bell Bell ......"

"Bang bang bang-"

Almost at the same time that Zhu Youxiao arrived in Nanjing, the Western Fleet also arrived in Daxing, the capital of the Tang Kingdom, from Guangping County four months later.

Daxing City is located in Lagos in later generations, and the main reason why it was chosen here is that it has been initially developed by European caravanserais.

Since the Thirty Years' War had not ended, European countries had not had time to build fortresses here, so Zhu Yulu took over the villages and towns here with a thousand soldiers and horses, and then purchased a different number of Kunlun slaves to build Daxing City.

The construction of Daxing City began in the 14th year of the Apocalypse, and it has been more than three years.

The city is located on the lakeside plain, bordered by rivers and lakes to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and the rivers in the territory are connected to the waterways of Benin, so the sea and land transportation is very convenient.

Because this place is very humid, after taking this place, Zhu Yulu sent 500 Gong Guard Battalion to direct Kunlun Nu to cut down forests, reclaim wasteland, build canals, and build cities.

At present, there are three counties in the Tang Kingdom, namely Hailing County on Bioko Island, Daxing County in Lagos, and Longxi County in Accra.

During the three years of development, the main population migrated from the Tang Kingdom was only 2,000 craftsmen and more than 6,000 rolls.

They live in Hailing City, which has been developed for most of the time, and there is a battalion of 3,000 Gong Guards to guard it, and the county commander of Hailing County is Zhu Yujian's fifth brother Zhu Yujian.

There are 60,000 Kunlun slaves in the county who are responsible for reclaiming the fields, and now there are 260,000 acres of cultivated land, which can feed more than 100,000 people.

Hailing County is also regarded as the rear of the Tang Kingdom, supplying Daxing and Longxi counties all the time, and Daxing is led by Zhu Yulu with a battalion of soldiers and horses and a thousand craftsmen, 60,000 Kunlun slaves are stationed, and Longxi County is led by Zhu Yuyi with a battalion of soldiers and horses and 500 craftsmen, and 30,000 Kunlun slaves are stationed.

There are no Ming people in the two cities of Daxing and Longxi, and there are only Gongwei battalions and craftsmen.

After three years of development, Daxingcheng has cut down more than 100,000 acres of forest.

These felled forests are turned into wood and grass fertilizer, which are used for the construction of Daxingcheng and the fattening of cultivated land in Daxingcheng.

20,000 acres of cultivated land have been reclaimed around Daxing City, and the wharf has also been built to be extremely large, enough to accommodate 20 ships of 3,000 tons to enter the port and berth at the same time.

In the distance, Daxing City has repaired the royal city wall with gravel and stone mixed with cement from the reclamation of fields, and the royal city wall is six miles in circumference, two zhang high, and one zhang and eight feet wide, and the interior is enough to accommodate 30,000 people.

The palace in the royal city has built the palace wall, the carrier hall, the heart hall, as well as the outer court buildings such as the Sheji Altar, the Mountain and River Altar, and the Shizi's Mansion, while the inner court has leveled the foundation and has not yet been built.

Outside the palace, many dwellings were built in the royal city, but not many people lived there.

It's not that Tang Guo doesn't want to recruit people, but he doesn't have that strength, and he doesn't have that capacity.

Therefore, when Xu Xiake and Huang Fei arrived with twenty ships, they were also warmly welcomed by Zhu Yulu.

The salute at the port sounded, and Zhu Yulu personally led the 500 Gong Guard Battalion to the port to welcome him.

Of course, they welcomed not only Huang Fei and Xu Xiake, but also the people of the Tang Kingdom who migrated in the future.

Xu Xiake and Huang Fei got off the boat, and after some politeness, Xu Xiake handed over an order.

"In March of this year, the old Tang Dynasty King passed away, and the son succeeded to the throne as the new Tang Dynasty, and at the same time canonized Zhu Yujian as the son of the Tang Dynasty and you as the county king."

"Before the departure of the Western fleet, His Royal Highness the Prince had already recruited five hundred craftsmen and their family scrolls, totaling more than two thousand eight hundred people."

"These people are the people of the Tang Kingdom in the future, please ask His Royal Highness the King of the County to send fields for them, don't be harsh."

Xu Xiake got off the boat and told Zhu Yulu a few good news.

The first is that his grandfather, who always wants to kill them, finally died, and secondly, his father sat on the throne of Tang, his brother sat on the throne of the world, and he was named the king of the county.

Secondly, his brother recruited more than 2,800 nationals to come to the Tang Kingdom, and handed them over to himself in Daxing City for arrangement.

These news made Zhu Yulu's eyes soften a lot when he looked at Xu Xiake, and he didn't dare to be harsh on the people of the Tang Kingdom.

"Naturally I don't dare, I'm overseas with them, how dare I be mean?"

Zhu Yulu's words came from the bottom of his heart, after all, Leviya was full of Kunlun slaves, and any vassal king of Levia knew that he wanted to benefit the people and thin the slaves.

For example, right now, Zhu Yulu said directly in front of Xu Xiake and Huang Fei:

"Daxing has reclaimed more than 28,600 acres of cultivated land, and it happened to be handed over to them."

Saying that, Zhu Yulu asked the Tang State Changshi next to him to arrange for the people who arrived in the Tang Kingdom, and then personally took Xu Xiake and them to visit Daxing City, which was the capital of the Tang Kingdom.

For Xu Xiake and them, in fact, the development of the Tang Kingdom was similar to that of the Levian domains, after all, West Liviya was four months longer than East Leviia.

Therefore, the vassal domains of Eastern Levia developed faster than the Tang, Ji, and Huai kingdoms, and the three kingdoms had a strong foundation, so they fought to catch up.

In general, the development of the kingdoms was similar, but the Tang State was more prosperous than the Huai State, which was also a Western Domain of Levia, because of its excellent talents.

"I wonder how the development of Huai in the south is?"

Walking at the head of the city, Zhu Yuqi asked about the Huai Kingdom in the south, and in this regard, Xu Xiake also stroked his beard and said: "It's not as fast as the Tang Kingdom, but it's almost the same." ”

The three kingdoms of Tang Huaiji were specially approved by Zhu Youjian to use cement, and their cement was mainly supplied by the Southern Kunlun Supervision Mission.

This is also the reason why Wu Aheng and Yan Yingyuan built cement yards on a large scale.

Since the Suyinz Canal has not yet been opened, these three countries are the three countries that will face Europe in the future, so there is a reason why they are the first to use cement.

Before the opening of the Suyinshi Canal, the geographical location of the three countries was very important.

They face Europe, backed by the Southern Kunlun Supervision Mission, once there is a conflict between the East and the West, they will be the bridgehead of the Ming Dynasty to Western Europe, so the South Kunlun Supervision Mission exists as a power bank for the three countries.

Zhu Changqing of Huaiguo is very capable, and he is adjacent to the Southern Kunlun Supervision Mission, so the development of Huaiguo is also very fast.

On 19 July, when Xu Xiake and his team arrived in Jiujiang, the capital of Huaiguo, Huaiguo already had one county and six towns, two battalions of soldiers and horses, 6,000 soldiers, 8,000 people, and 80,000 labor reformers.

The palace city and the royal city of Jiujiang City have been built, and now the inner city and the outer city are being built, and there are more than 220,000 acres of cultivated land in the local area.

Of course, compared with the concerted efforts of the five brothers of the Tang Kingdom, the Huai Kingdom is still a little weak by relying on Zhu Changqing alone.

Therefore, after hearing Xu Xiake's words, Zhu Yulu also smiled and touched his short beard, and then continued to take Xu Xiake and them to inspect the Tang King City.

Regarding the supply problem raised by Xu Xiake, Zhu Yulu did not refuse, but only said that Tang Guo could not come up with so much food, but vegetables and water were everything.

Although the tropical rainforest climate is not suitable for farming, fruits, vegetables, and water are inexhaustible.

The first year of reclamation is also often used to grow vegetables, then fattened and grow food.

The situation of the land in the Tang Kingdom is similar to what Zhu Youzhen said, at the beginning of planting, no matter how you plant, you can have a high yield, and occasionally there is a phenomenon of three stones per mu.

However, in the next three or four years, the nutritional degradation of the land will exceed the imagination of the people, and at this time, only by stopping cultivation and starting to fatten can the nutritional degradation of the land be stopped.

This stop can be as short as one year, or as long as two or three years, so if the Tang State wants to feed one million people, it must prepare at least 20 million mu of arable land and have enough fertilizer input.

The land must be planted for a batch, fattened for a batch, and a large number of water conservancy projects must be built, otherwise when the rainy season comes, a huge amount of rain will pour down, which will wash all the nutrients in the soil deep into the ground.

However, this is not difficult for the Tang State to deal with, anyway, the labor is free, as long as they eat and drink, so although Daxing City has only been built for three years, the local water conservancy projects are not worse than some counties in the south of the Daming River.

What Tang needed to solve was the problem of fattening, and the problem of fattening was mainly in the problem of chemical fertilizer.

On this issue, the three kingdoms of Tang Huaiji promised by Zhu Youzhen were the Qi State responsible for supplying fertilizers in the future, but now this matter has not been brushed up, so Zhu Qiqi and Zhu Yujian did not leave Daming.

Who knows if after they leave Daming, will Zhu Youzhen turn his face and deny it?

Therefore, after a simple communication, Xu Xiake and Huang Fei both learned about the situation in Tang Kingdom.

The two did not choose to rest in Daxing City, but chose to return to the fleet at sea to rest.

After returning to the fleet, Xu Xiake pondered for a long time before writing down his evaluation of Tang Guo.

"If there is no worry about chemical fertilizer and immigration, the Tang Kingdom can dominate the west for a hundred years."

After writing down his evaluation, Xu Xiake closed his travelogue, then blew out the oil lamp, turned around to wash and rest.

While he was washing, Mangazea, on the other side of the glacier in the northbound province of Damingling, also ushered in a well-equipped reinforcement.

The fifteen hundred fifteen hundred shooting regiments arrived at Mangazya on October 25, and when they saw that the snow outside Mangazzea was full of burned woods, and the fortress had been blown out of many gaps, everyone became nervous.

Fortunately, Mangazzeya had not yet fallen, and the governor of the Siberian administrative region, Golovin, also greeted them, saying that they were too late, and that the Ming army had already retreated to the east of the Yenisei River due to supply problems.

"That's great......"

Hearing this, Petrov, the military and political chief who commanded this firing regiment, breathed a sigh of relief.

He sat in the military and political chief's hall in Mangazze, a small Hunan, while Golovin sat opposite him and comforted:

"Rest assured, after the retreat of the Ming army this time, they will not attack in a short time, and their supplies have bottomed out."

"As for Mangazea's resistance, I will commend you in the military newspaper to Moscow, and say that it was because of your arrival that the Ming army withdrew back to the east of the Yenisei River."

Golovin was full of nonsense, but it was very pleasant to Petrov.

"I should thank you, and when the war is over, I will definitely show credit to the Count for you." Petrov smiled and thanked him, and Golovin, who heard this, also pretended to be righteous and awe-inspiring:

"No, I can't leave Siberia, because no one knows if the Ming army will attack us the next day."

Ulrich ...... You really ......" Petrov didn't know how to describe Golovin.

At this moment, Golovin seemed to him as a hero who fought bloodily for the stability of the kingdom's frontiers.

"Hehe, you should be very tired after walking such a long way, let's have a good rest tonight, tomorrow I still need you to reinforce Mangazya with us."

Golovin was afraid of talking too much, so he could only pretend to be calm and comfort Petrov.

Petrov also nodded when he heard this, he was indeed very tired, so after a brief small talk, he also picked up the military hat he had put aside and walked out of the military and political office.

"Hoo ......"

After he left, Golovin breathed a sigh of relief and slumped in his place.

"God, please let the Ming army stop for a while, I have two years to end my term......"

Golovin closed his eyes and began to pray, but it was not his god who saved him, but Zhu Youzhen, who had no intention of expanding the victory.

Golovin washed up and rested after praying, but the news of Mangazea's arrival of reinforcements was also learned by the Ming army Tangqi and sent the news to Lingbei City in the south.

It was already snowing in Lingbei City in October, and the snow was as thick as a foot.

Before October, Cao Wenzhao transferred 3,000 cavalry to Anbei Mansion in Shan Yu Province, leaving only 3,000 men to garrison Lingbei City.

The concrete-poured Lingbei Castle withstood most of the cold, but even so, the chill could not be dispelled.

"! -15 degrees Celsius! ”

took down the outdoor temperature gauge and took a look, and Cao Wenzhao, who was patrolling the city wall, couldn't help but scold.

Hu Dawei, the chief soldier standing next to him, couldn't help but smile and said: "Uncle, Lingbei is okay, Beihe County in the north is minus 20 degrees." ”

"In such a cold ghost weather, the Rakshasa Kingdom also sent reinforcements to help." Cao Wenzhao sighed, but then smiled:

"Tell me Luo Rucai, guard Beihe County for me, once the Rakshasa ghost dares to cross the glacier, you don't have to spare your hand, you will kill me!"

"Yes!" Hu Dawei smiled in response, and Cao Wenzhao also turned around and returned to the room in the barracks.

Compared to the cold outside, the inside of the house is much hotter.

Anbei City transported more than 30 tons of coal to Lingbei City and Beihe County, plus the firewood that Cao Wenzhao and them cracked before winter, it was not a problem to use it until the beginning of spring.

Enjoying the heating in the house, Cao Wenzhao also pulled Hu Dawei to drink, after all, in the face of an environment of more than ten degrees below zero and a foot of snow, if you want to carry out a sneak attack, you have to weigh whether you are qualified enough.

Before the city is laid, I am afraid that people will freeze into ice.

"Drive!"

Also when Cao Wenzhao and Hu Dawei were drinking, the envoy deer department in Lingbei City also took a sleigh and started to go south as a pond ride.

After a journey of more than 4,000 miles, Tang rode south by changing horses in Shan Yu Province, and finally reached the capital in the middle of winter with the news of the increase in the troops of Tsarist Russia in the north.

It was noon when Zhu Youzhen got the military information in Lingbei, and not long after eating, he was a little lazy, so he just glanced at it and reassured:

"Reply to Cao Wenzhao, let him not worry, in short, take the Western Regions first, and then recover the entire territory of Lingbei."

"The slave maid takes the order......" Cao Huachun responded, and Zhu Youzhen also washed up, preparing to take a nap in this cold winter.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty has long been invincible in the world, and unless civil strife breaks out, there is no external force that can defeat it.

Therefore, not only him, but in fact, most of the Ming officials are relatively lax.

After hastily sleeping for an hour, it was already Shen Shi when Zhu Youzhen got up again.

Seeing that there was movement in the Babu bed, a voice also came from outside the bed: "Your Highness, Bi Ge Lao and Cheng Zuo have been waiting for a quarter of an hour for the imperial history to see." ”

Wang Chengen's voice sounded, and Zhu Youzhen also frowned when he heard this: "Next time, if Bi Ziyan comes to find me, you will wake me up." ”

"The slave and maid take ......the order," Wang Chengen responded, and Zhu Youzhen also got up and walked out of the stepping bed, and put on a crimson round-necked robe under the service of the palace maids.

When he finished everything, Bi Ziyan and Chengde were also called.

The two waited for almost two quarters of an hour, but they were not in a hurry, but after entering the hall, they said to Zhu Youzhen: "Please be safe with Your Highness." ”

"Lonely ...... Say, what's the matter. Zhu Youzhen picked up the freshly brewed tea and moistened his throat, Bi Ziyan and Chengde were also arranged to sit down, and then Bi Ziyan said:

"Your Royal Highness, long live in Nanjing, order Zhang Yandeng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing, to prepare to expand the outer city, and the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing will report six million taels of silver."

"Long live has been approved, and it is said that it will be completed in three years."

"However, the lower officials think that the outer city is enough, so it is better to let the people live in the market town outside the city and expand the market town outside the city."

In Bi Ziyan's view, there is really no need to expand the outer city, after all, firearms are advancing, and no one knows whether artillery will progress to the point of destroying the city wall with one cannon.

Rather than throwing six million taels into the city wall, Bi Ziyan thought it would be better to build a new market town outside the city of Nanjing, and then throw the silver into the armament institute.

Zhu Youzhen also supported his idea, because he knew that the city wall would not last long.

It can be said that as long as gunpowder and artillery go one step further, the city wall is a joke for artillery.

Numerous battles in modern warfare in later generations showed that the walls could not defend against artillery.

The Ming city wall of Nanjing was the first in the country at the beginning of the 20th century, but in the later stage of the defense of Nanjing, the Nanjing city wall could only withstand artillery under 100 mm caliber.

Although the Ming Dynasty is now going to build a city wall with concrete, which is equivalent to a fortress in disguise, Zhu Youzhen still feels that it is not necessary.

To put it bluntly, the current territory of the Ming Dynasty is destined to be a dynasty of sea power.

If they were all beaten to Nanjing, it could only mean that there was internal turmoil.

If internal turmoil breaks out and it can still hit the city of Nanjing, it means that the firearms used by the other party are the same as those of the Ming army.

Zhu Youzhen can guarantee that the Ming Dynasty will not be chaotic within fifty years, because even if he is dead by then, Zhu Ciran and Zhu Cihong are still alive.

As for fifty years later, I am afraid that the artillery and gunpowder of the Ming army have already crossed that step, and the city wall is only qualified to be a target.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen does not intend to support the construction of the outer city, but he also does not intend to directly reject it to slap his brother's face.

He put down the teacup and said suddenly: "I will discuss this matter with the imperial brother, is there anything else?" ”

Zhu Youzhen said, but his eyes looked at Chengde.

Since Zhu Ciran was imprisoned, there has been constant noise within the Yanshan faction, but Chengde, as the leader, has not found fault.

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao made the right step to let Chengde become Zhu Ciran's teacher, at least Chengde was still a little reluctant to do it when facing the former students.

"Back to Your Highness......"

At the moment when Bi Ziyan shook his head, Chengde spoke:

"Recently, there have been many concerts of impeachment of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, some from all over the country, and some from within the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

"Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is young, he lacks etiquette, the review is too straightforward, and many national policies are not conducive to immigration, please discourage His Royal Highness the Prince."

There was a problem with Zhu Ciran's review, which Zhu Youzhen didn't expect.

He glanced at the many recitals next to Chengde and motioned for Wang Chengen to pick them up.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen also took over more than a dozen books and put them on Zhu Youzhen's table.

Zhu Youzhen picked up a book and flipped through it, at first glance, it was indeed a little helpless, after all, Zhu Ciran couldn't move to call himself and Zhu Youxiao with "I", "My father", and "Uncle I", Zhu Youzhen and them, everyone felt very helpless.

However, in addition to these, these recitals are still very level, that is, in some of the handling of the people, Zhu Ciran seems to be a little too benevolent.

For example, when the Huai'an Mansion in Nanzhili suffered from a drought, the Huai'an prefect asked the imperial court to issue food stamps to emigrate, but Zhu Ciran replied: "There are not many people in Huai'an Mansion, so they can provide disaster relief without immigration." ”

From a point of view, Zhu Ciran can be said to not see the long-term enough.

He thought very simply, there are not many local people, so don't toss the people.

However, in Zhu Youzhen's view, if the people of Huai'an Mansion can move out, then after the drought is over, the people from all over Nanzhili will naturally move over to fill the vacancy in this area.

This can't be said that Zhu Ciran did something wrong, at least from the perspective of the people, Zhu Ciran can be said to love the people very much, and he is also determined to move to densely populated places.

However, from Zhu Youzhen's point of view, as long as the people can be relocated, then other people will naturally migrate over to fill the vacancy after the drought.

It stands to reason that Zhu Youzhen should frown at Zhu Ciran's attitude of being too benevolent to the people, but in fact he was very happy.

He closed the song, raised his head and smiled at Chengde and said:

"The prince is only fifteen, but the handling is slightly lacking, and I will write a letter to guide the prince at this point, so there is no need for Shangshu."

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Shangshu, that is the minister to the king, the handwriting, that is the uncle to the nephew.

The attitudes of the two are different, and their identities are also different.

The Yanshan faction wanted to let himself be alienated as a courtier, and to put it bluntly, he wanted to attack Zhu Ciran's prestige.

However, their methods were too young in Zhu Youzhen's opinion, and Zhu Youzhen was determined to go to Qi State, so he would not do such a thing.

Besides, Zhu Ciran is doing well, but the means are still relatively immature, and it is enough to mention it as an uncle.

If you suppress him as a courtier and uncle, maybe you will have to make the "Second Wanli" again.

"The Minister's Command......"

Chengde didn't want to suppress Zhu Ciran, so he didn't say anything, just mechanically to complete the task assigned to him by the Yanshan faction.

"If you have nothing to do, just step down."

"The lower official retired ......"

Zhu Youzhen picked up the tea and signaled to serve the tea to the guests, Bi Ziyan and Chengde saw this, and they also made a move, and then withdrew from the carrier hall.

After they left, Zhu Youzhen put down the teacup, thinking about Chengde's emaciated appearance, he couldn't help but shake his head: "It's hard for him." ”

"It's really uncomfortable to be caught in the middle......"

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Wang Chengen also asked cautiously: "Do you want to write a letter to Banzai?" ”

"Well, I'll write it myself later, you can have someone prepare dinner, and go to the princess's to eat today."

Zhu Youzhen nodded, and Wang Chengen also withdrew from the carrier hall when he saw this, and ordered someone to arrange a meal.