"Driving...... Drive! ”

"Bang bang bang-"

In May, while Lin Dan Khan was moving westward, he also sent some sentry cavalry to keep a close eye on the movements of the Ming army.

On the outskirts of the Yinli River Valley in the summer, the two sides engaged in a small-scale contact battle.

The two sides were in constant contact with dozens of people, constantly retreating, and pursuing.

However, this situation can occur, which also shows that the Ming army is not far from the Mongolian army.

Facts have also proved that they are indeed not far away.

"Beep-"

When the whistle sounded, all the Ming troops reined in their horses and watched dozens of Mongolian rangers flee in the distance.

"Don't chase, the general said, you can't chase too closely, it's enough to drive them to the west of Broken Leaf Water."

The cavalry squad of the Ming army was blowing the whistle and at the same time stopped the pursuit of his brothers, and also said the military order above.

When the cavalry of the Ming army heard this, they did not dare to complain, so they could only cruise in the Gobi Desert west of Broken Leaf Water, and did not return to the east of Broken Leaf Water until the unitary hour.

Dozens of squads returned, and their way back was a city entrenched east of the Shattered Leaf Water.

If you follow them into the city, you will see a wooden plaque on the road of the city gate before entering the city.

"This is the Broken Leaf City of the Tang Dynasty, it's a pity that we can't see a little bit of the Han and Tang Dynasty style......"

Standing in front of the tower of Broken Leaf City, Cao Bianjiao held the heavily sanded rammed earth female wall with both hands, followed by Li Dingguo, who had just arrived here.

For more than a month, although he did not experience a major battle, the wind and sand along the way still brought a trace of maturity to Li Dingguo's face.

Listening to Cao Bianjiao's sigh, Li Dingguo had mixed feelings.

He turned his head to look at the city, but saw that there were some high-nosed and deep-eyed Hui people wandering in the city, and the conspicuous buildings in the city were basically Huihui.

There are not many of them, but this is not because there are few people living here, but because Lin Dan Khan has slaughtered the local people since he captured it three years ago.

This time, he moved westward, and took with him the vast majority of the Hui who could not hide.

At present, although the entire Broken Leaf City is large, there are only more than 400 people in the city.

In comparison, the battalion of soldiers and horses brought by Cao Bianjiao may be the most Han time experienced in Broken Leaf City since Gao Xianzhi's defeat of Talas.

"This place is good, sandwiched between Yibohai (Lake Balkhash) and Atami (Yinsekh Lake), there is broken leaf water to provide water source, and there is a sea of sand in the west of the river as a barrier, if it is well developed, it will not be a problem to raise tens of thousands of people."

Cao Bianjiao's words brought Li Dingguo back to reality, and he said with a smile when he heard it:

"There are still more than 9,000 acres of land reclaimed by the Beiyu outside the city, and it shouldn't be a problem to raise 3,000 soldiers."

"Calculating the time, the tractor should have been transported out of Jiayuguan right now."

"This time, the DPRK suspended the distribution of tractors from the northern and southern provinces, and specially supplied 36,000 tractors to come."

"In addition to the need for more people for sowing and harvesting, it only takes less than 110,000 people to plow the land, and tens of millions of acres of cultivated land can be easily plowed."

"Hehe......" Cao Bianjiao smiled: "At present, there is not so much cooked land in the Western Regions for sowing. ”

"We have gone all the way down, and the land of this Western Regions is only one million acres, and the northern captives do not rely on rice and wheat, and a small amount of food is enough, but we are different."

"At present, more than 30,000 immigrants have been organized in Hexi to come, but most of them will not immigrate to Broken Leaf City."

"Before the railway was built, I'm afraid that Broken Leaf City was still dominated by military towns." Speaking of this, Cao Bianjiao looked at Li Dingguo:

"You kid, the burden on your shoulders is not light."

Cao Bianjiao's words seemed to be telling Li Dingguo that this Broken Leaf City would be his jurisdiction in the future.

In this regard, Li Dingguo had the heart to refute it, but he was unable to speak.

He knew that this matter was decided by His Royal Highness the King of Qi, but he also knew that it was an honor to be able to garrison the broken leaf side plug for the country.

He only hoped that His Highness would walk slowly, and when he returned to the capital from Broken Leaf City, he would take him with him.

"You should study how to clean up Broken Leaf City, anyway, I will bring them back to Hexi in a few days, and you can show your skills here."

patted Li Dingguo on the shoulder, and Cao Bianjiao also shook his head with a smile and walked down the city.

Looking at his departing back, Li Dingguo walked to the position where Cao Bianjiao had just now, and he looked at the northwest outside the Broken Leaf City.

However, apart from the slow flow of crushed leaf water, there was only sparse grass and a vast sky for him to see.

Obviously, the grasslands should be full of green in summer, but Lin Dan Khan moved west with most of his people, and many grasslands were almost eaten into the appearance of winter.

Fortunately, there is broken leaf water, as long as the construction of canals, weirs and embankments, with broken leaf water to irrigate more than 100,000 acres of cultivated land, it is not a problem.

"Three years...... I hope His Highness will still be there in three years......"

With a sigh, Li Dingguo also turned around and walked down the city.

Almost when he walked down the city, as the logistics transit station of the northern, central, and southern armies of the Ming Army in the west, Luntai County, which was only a camp, was also under the governance of Zhu Fuju, and transported grain and grass for the soldiers and horses in an orderly manner.

On the tenth day of the first month of May, this is the day when the fourth baggage team of the Jiayuguan baggage team arrived in Luntai County.

Arriving with the baggage caravan was enough food and some military supplies for the three-way army to eat for a month.

"20,000 stone of wheat, 74,632 stone of rice, 1,500 tons of cement, 800 tractors, and ...... of beans."

Outside the camp in Luntai County, the Tianshan Mountains, covered with snow, became the backdrop for the Ming army.

Zhu Fuju led more than 100 quartermasters in the army to inspect the baggage that had just arrived.

After the inspection, Zhu Fuju checked the list with the guard responsible for transporting the materials, and after confirming that there was no problem, he said:

"You have 5,545 people, and you will be allocated 5,000 stone rice and 1,000 stone of beans on the return trip, no doubt, right?"

"Back to the general, there is no ......" The garrison escorting the baggage team responded, and Zhu Fuju also turned his head and said to the quartermaster Sima beside him when he heard this:

"Leave 5,000 stone rice, 1,000 stone bean material for them, and transport 20,000 stone rice, 5,000 stone wheat, 2,000 stone bean material and 500 stone cement to the Northern Route Army stationed in Xuanchi."

"Deliver 5,000 stone wheat, 20,000 stone rice, 3,000 stone bean feed, 500 tons of cement, and 800 tractors to Broken Leaf City."

"The rest of the materials, except for 500 tons of cement, will be sent to Shule Town and delivered to the Governor of Mandu."

Zhu Fuju ordered in an orderly manner, and under his order, some vanguard baggage teams stationed in Luntai County began to transfer materials, and at the same time, Zhu Fuju also prepared to build a city in Luntai.

Before all kinds of factory machinery arrived in the Western Regions, cement in the Western Regions could only be supplied by Hexi.

If you want to build a Luntai City, even if you only build a city wall, the cement you need will probably need to be transported by several baggage teams.

Fortunately, due to the different current situation, the provincial capital of Daming'an Xixing Province is very likely to be set in Yili in the Yinli River Valley, so Luntai County only needs to be used as a transshipment town, and it does not need to be too large-scale.

Zhu Fuju calculated, according to the height of one zhang and three, the width of one zhang, and the circumference of six miles, it would require at least 20,000 tons of cement.

Counting the buildings in the city, 30,000 tons of cement can basically handle Luntai City.

With the capacity of the baggage team, it is almost necessary to transfer twice to meet the needs of Luntai County.

However, there are still many places where the Ming Dynasty needs to build a city in the Western Regions, and there are many that need to be repaired.

For example, the three castles of Shule, Broken Leaves, and Xuanchi (also Miri) are all rammed earth and need to be rebuilt first.

After that, it was necessary to restore some Tang Dynasty cities in the northern area of Xuanchi, and build the city to the north until it was adjacent to Lingbei City in Lingbei Province.

After doing this, all the cities in the Western Regions also had to be renovated, and the cost would be no less than three million taels.

It was the first time for Zhu Fuju to participate in such a large amount of logistics work, so he looked at this document over and over again for a long time, and after making sure that there was no problem, he sent someone to the capital.

When this document arrived in the capital, as Zhu Ciran expected, Zhu Youzhen began to transfer military power, and the first thing to transfer was the problem of army logistics.

Man Gui's request for a provincial recital and Zhu Fuju's "Fuxi Regions Solo" were sent to the East Palace at the same time.

Regarding Man Gui's recital, Zhu Ciran, who had just been newly married, didn't think there was anything, but he was a little hesitant about Zhu Fuju's recital.

Since the beginning of the 19th year of the Apocalypse, the drought in the north has subsided somewhat, but it still exists, and Sichuan has also suffered from drought, and Nanzhili is still drought.

Since there are still nine railways under construction, and the investment of each railway is about three million taels, the Ming Dynasty is still a little embarrassed in terms of money and grain.

"Uncle Zhenwu, do you think this matter can be postponed?"

Zhu Ciran couldn't make up his mind, and finally got up and personally took the music in his hand to Sun Chuanting's position next to him.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting got up and took it, opened it and looked at it, and said with a chin that seemed to be very satisfied:

"This Zhu Fuju is still relatively famous in the Northern Army, he can fight tough battles and govern places."

"The three million taels he reported are basically no problem."

"If the imperial court is short of money and food, it must be postponed, then the repair of the inner city in the Western Regions can be temporarily postponed, and the city of Biansai will be repaired first."

"Your Highness can reply to the approval and ask Zhu Fuju to report another copy of the cost of repairing and building the border fortress."

Sun Chuanting remembered Zhu Fuju, who had made a lot of contributions in encircling and suppressing the Xitao horse bandits, and he was also a good hand at managing the army, otherwise he would not have been promoted from quartermaster to general in four years.

"That's good......" Zhu Ciran breathed a sigh of relief, and then took out Man Gui's recital and said:

"Man Gui asked for a province, and Uncle Qi told me about this matter, and he is going to set up the Western Regions region to be recovered this time as two provinces, Anxi and Beiting."

"To the north of the Tianshan Mountains, except for Luntai County, the rest are all Beiting, and to the south is Anxi."

"And from the date of the establishment of the province, the exiled prisoners were divided into two classes, the lighter ones were exiled to Beiting, and the heavier ones were exiled to Lingbei."

Zhu Ciran talked about Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, which can also be seen that his policy towards Zhu Youzhen is indeed a real "Xiao Gui Cao Sui".

Therefore, Sun Chuanting had no objection to this: "Since it was His Royal Highness who said it, then follow what His Royal Highness King Qi said." ”

"However, it seems that the Jingjia Railway can send people to continue to survey, and according to what His Royal Highness the King of Qi said, two or three railways will be built in the Western Regions."

"Hmm......" Zhu Ciran responded:

"The Jingjia railway should be completed this year, and it is not a problem to continue to build the connection after that."

"At present, there are still 600 miles of Jinglong Railway to be repaired, and after these two railways are completed, only the continuation of the Jingjia Railway will be maintained, which should not be a problem."

Zhu Ciran is settling accounts, after all, Daming is currently suffering from natural disasters, and Daming has completely taken the three provinces of Anxi, Shan Yu, and Beiting, and the investment and immigration of these three provinces must also keep up.

Thanks to Lin Dan Khan's westward migration, he swept away most of the Mongols entrenched in these places, although he left empty cities and abandoned fields to the Ming Dynasty, but also took away most of the hidden dangers.

"Anxi and Beiting have a population of less than 200,000 at the moment, and His Royal Highness King Qi has said that he will move these people inward, and the population of the two provinces is almost none."

"Even if you add Shan Yu, the population of those three provinces is only 260,000, which is too rare."

Sun Chuanting looked at the Chinese book in his hand, calculated the situation in the three provinces, and finally said:

"Immigrants can be recruited from the northern provinces to go to these three provinces, and one tractor can be issued to each household."

"Although it may seem expensive to relocate, after all, the distance is long, and the number of people who will migrate is always a minority."

"Indeed......" Zhu Ciran nodded undeniably, he had seen the appearance of the people of Shanxi under natural disasters.

Even with the relocation policy, most of them are reluctant to leave for the sake of their "homeland".

This is true for migrating from Shanxi to the four northeastern provinces, not to mention going to the more distant provinces of Shanyu, Anxi, and Beiting.

In Zhu Ciran's view, the population of the three provinces can each exceed one million within 20 years, which is already extremely remarkable.

Therefore, he did not hesitate for Sun Chuanting's suggestion, and turned around and asked Li Yongzhen to write a holy decree, announcing to all provinces in the world and making the relocation policy of the three provinces transparent.

Such news naturally makes the world happy.

However, the joy of the people lies in the recovery of the homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties, and the joy of the expulsion of the northern captives.

As for the relocation of the three provinces of Anxi, most of the people, even the people in the disaster area, in fact, they are only smiling after listening to it, and they have no idea of relocation.

Even Hexi, the closest to Anxi and Beiting, began recruiting immigrants in March, and by the end of May, only more than 40,000 people had been recruited.

Compared with the difficulty of recruiting immigrants in these three provinces, the recruitment work in another place is already at full capacity.

"I'm going to move to the Qi country! Today's migration card has been distributed, please come back tomorrow! ”

In front of Longjiang Port in Nanjing, the Qi State immigration point at this moment has been surrounded by three inside and three outside.

As far as the eye can see, there are more than 1,000 people who want to relocate.

These people are old and young, but they are always old and widowed.

For the people who have experienced the weakness of the Ming Dynasty after Zhang Juzheng's death, the news that the King of Qi is going to be a vassal is as frightening as the news that Zhang Juzheng is about to die, and it is even more terrifying.

Although Zhang Juzheng's whip law continued the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty, the burden on the people was not reduced too much.

But King Qi's new policy is different, and Zhu Youzhen's new policy is to really divide land and work for the people.

Now that he has a few years to leave, many people are dragging their families and trying to move to the Qi country.

Such a "grand occasion" caught Zhu Youzhen off guard.

He thought that after the Ming Dynasty became better, even if he wanted to emigrate, there would not be too many people to go, so he could only lure.

As a result, he didn't use these means, and the number of people who moved to Qi increased from 30,000 at the beginning of the year to 160,000 now.

These 160,000 are not all, if Qi can issue enough immigration iron cards, I am afraid that the number of immigrants in Qi has reached hundreds of thousands.

This scene is embarrassing, even the crowd of onlookers standing in the port can't help but say:

"I don't know what the situation of Qi is going to move, and this group of people is really bold enough......"

"After all, His Royal Highness the King of Qi will follow him, and the place where His Royal Highness the King of Qi lives will not be too bad."

"That's ......"

"Long live really want to let His Royal Highness King Qi go?"

"What if you don't go? If you don't go, will your Highness ...... Anyway, it looks like I'm definitely going to go. ”

One person noticed that he had said the wrong thing, stopped in time, and then firmly talked about what Zhu Youzhen was leaving.

When the others heard his words, they couldn't help but sigh: "His Royal Highness the King of Qi is gone, and the divided fields won't be taken back, right?" ”

"It's okay to talk about the fields, but I'm most worried that I won't even have to do the work."

As soon as this incident was mentioned, people were depressed for a while, and these words were also heard by the group standing next to them.

"Head of ......"

Dressed in regular clothes, Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhu Youxiao cautiously, but found that his brows were furrowed, as if he was preoccupied.

"Let's go!" Zhu Youxiao answered, turned around and was about to leave.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly escorted him out of this place with several guards.

Not long after, Colonel Zhu You got into a carriage, and Wei Zhongxian cautiously followed.

Zhu Youxiao sat down and looked out the window, his eyebrows never stretched.

Today's trip was at his own request.

He wanted to see why his brother's vassal immigrants could attract so many people.

It's just that after arriving, he found that many people were complaining about him as the emperor, and some people were even bold enough to whisper why the emperor was not the king of Qi.

The ancients said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and Zhu Youzhen seems to have already won the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

As a vassal king, he won the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty, but what about himself as an emperor?

Zhu Youxiao's fists clenched, and this scene was also seen by Wei Zhongxian, so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head.

"My brother handed over the recital of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to the East Palace?"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly opened his mouth, and Wei Zhongxian hurriedly responded when he heard this: "Long live back, it's only a part." ”

"Part of ......" Zhu Youxiao narrowed his eyes, but didn't say anything in the end.

But after a long time, Zhu Youxiao spoke:

"Ome, do you think I'm alone now......"

"Long live ......" Wei Zhongxian was frightened by these words, and hurriedly knelt down.

However, Zhu Youxiao's attention was not on him, but in the city of Beijing.

Now that the government is in the hands of his younger brother and son, it stands to reason that he should be happy.

I don't know why, Zhu Youxiao was not happy at all.

Zhu Ciran is obviously his own son, but he regards his younger brother's policies as the truth.

The Ming Dynasty is a family in the world, and the art of controlling the world can make the Ming Dynasty last longer, but his own son is heavy on the world and light on the world.

The people can eat enough and live and work in peace and contentment, but they cannot be idle, and if they are idle, there will be chaos.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, his younger brother's new policy is a bit too lenient.

Only by making the people tense can the country last longer.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao thought that after his younger brother became a vassal, he could hold the power and change these new policies.

As a result, it now seems that his younger brother obviously sensed his thoughts and chose to hand over power directly to his son.

"......" Zhu Youxiao felt a little more resentful and aggrieved in his heart, he couldn't imagine that his younger brother would unite with his son to "target" him.

Not only that, since Zhu Ciran sat in the position of prisoner, Zhang Yan seemed to have discovered that Zhu Youzhen was preparing to directly transfer power to Zhu Ciran, so in some things, Zhang Yan also began to fall to Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Ciran.

Zhu Ciran's killing of the old party also made Zhu Youxiao feel cold, and he didn't understand why his family was targeting him.

Is there anything wrong with his mastery of the world? Heroes throughout the ages, which one is not the art of mastering the world, and the way of the world?

This is the origin of Zhu Youxiao's grievances, in this regard, after he returned to the Nanjing Palace in a carriage, he walked towards the inner court angrily.

Along the way, the Nanjing Imperial Palace has changed dramatically.

The once collapsed palace has been cleaned up, and even more has been erected, and is now being painted with wood paint.

Except for the three major halls in the outer court, which have not yet been repaired, other places have already taken shape.

Because the emperor was in Nanjing, the Nanjing Imperial Palace, which was originally just a decoration, also began to have people from the six departments of Nanjing come and go, even if it was just to show the emperor, but it always made this palace have some popularity.

"Peng!"

Zhu Youxiao vigorously pushed open a door, and the sound made Wei Zhongxian's heart beat straight, and he was very nervous.

He followed Zhu Youxiao back to the Qianqing Palace, and without waiting for him to step forward to dissuade him, he saw Zhu Youxiao take off his regular clothes and wear only a middle coat, so he picked up a planer and concocted the wood placed in the palace.

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao wanted to put the "unfairness" he received on this piece of wood.

Of course, he could write directly to question Zhu Youzhen, but he was afraid that after he questioned him, there would be a gap in the relationship between the two brothers.

Therefore, he can only use this method to vent the pent-up emotions in his heart.

This scene lasted for a long time, and when Zhu Youxiao felt that he was a little tired, as soon as he turned around, Wei Zhongxian immediately stood behind him with a plate of "Crispy Mountain".

"Long live, let's eat a crispy mountain to cool off......"

Wei Zhongxian cautiously handed it over to the mountain, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be a little moved when he saw this.

He took the crisp mountain, and after eating two bites, he felt that most of the anger had disappeared.

After putting down the Crisp Mountain, he looked at the old Wei Zhongxian, and couldn't help but sigh a little:

"Companion, you are also old, I don't know how many years you can stay with me......"

"As long as the slave maid is still needed, the slave maid will stay by Banzai's side to serve even if he dies." Wei Zhongxian said righteously, and at the same time looked distressed at the golden silk nanmu that had been concocted for most of the day.

That's a thousand taels of silver......

"Alas...... You step down first, let me be quiet" Hearing Wei Zhongxian's words, Zhu Youxiao remembered Zhu Youzhen, who was still ten years old and supported himself to ascend to the throne.

At the time, he also thought that the two brothers could be together for a lifetime, but now it seems that it was just a luxury when he was young.

After all, they are brothers, not one.

"The slave and maid are retired, long live if you have something, you will be informed, the slave and maid are ...... at any time"

Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhu Youxiao, who was sentimental again, and after expressing his loyalty, he withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Palace.

After he withdrew, there was only one person left in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Youxiao.

Looking at the empty palace, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but have a sour nose.

"Why are you starting to bully me......"