"Pasta pasta! Delicious pasta! ”

"Freshly baked hot buns, soft and delicious!"

"Let's take a look and buy a few toys for the doll isn't a bad thing"

"Guest Officer ......"

Sichuan, as the rear of the southwest in later generations, also played a role in the Ming Dynasty.

As the provincial capital of Sichuan, Chengdu City occupies the 800-mile plain of Chengdu, and no matter how the times change, its economy is still one of the better cities in the Ming Dynasty.

Although due to the immigration and territorial expansion during the Apocalypse, it led to economic changes and became the hinterland of the dynasty's territory, it still assumed the important responsibility of supporting the food of the people in the northwest, Wusizang and other places.

The peasants grow grain, and the government buys grain......

Such a simple economic structure has benefited the people of Sichuan, and once the farmers in Chengdu have silver, they will naturally think of spending in Chengdu, making Chengdu more prosperous.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian, under the leadership of Li Banghua, shuttled through the city of Chengdu and felt the life of the people of Chengdu.

Standing on the city tower, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen looked down and saw the sparse flow of people in the streets and alleys.

Compared with the city of Chengdu in the Song Dynasty, the city of Chengdu in the Yuan Dynasty actually suffered a lot of damage, especially the population.

During this period, the entire population of Sichuan was slaughtered, the city was overthrown at will, and the traditional Han culture was once wiped out in Sichuan.

Before the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, due to the long period of peace in Shuzhong, the population increased sharply to more than 16 million, and also because of the peace for a long time, no one cared about the defense of the cities in Sichuan.

Therefore, when the Mongol army was about to penetrate into the Shu realm, the slackening of the defense of the western Sichuan Plain had reached the point of no return.

Mianzhou (Mianyang), known as Chengdu's "outer shelter", has not been repaired for a long time, resulting in "decadence and decay.

The Huai'an Army, known as the "East and West Rush", did not repair the local fortifications, so that "the years have passed, and they have gradually collapsed", and "everyone can surpass".

As for the city of Chengdu, which is known as the "Southwest Metropolis" and the Sichuan System and Establishment Division, there was no danger to defend, and the city defense deployment was weak; when the Mongolian soldiers approached the city in the third year of Duanping, the total number of troops under the management of the city was only 700, and the city walls and towers were in vain, which can be seen from this.

In the Song and Yuan Wars, Chengdu City was the first target of the Mongol army, and it was burned down.

Although Chen Longzhi, the envoy of Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, once "re-established his city" on the basis of the old cities of Chengdu and Hanzhou in the first year of Chunhu, he was soon broken again.

In view of the fact that in the face of the impact of the Mongol iron cavalry, the western Sichuan Plain had no danger to defend, the Southern Song Dynasty had to abandon the plain counties including Chengdu, and the military and political institutions located in Chengdu were also successively relocated to Jintang Yunding Mountain to build cities and defend them.

More than ten years after the city of Chengdu was abandoned by the Song army, the local area was still basically in ruins, and the Mongol army did not enter the Chengdu Plain until 12 years later, and rebuilt the "Lou Huang Trench" of the abandoned Chengdu city of the Song army, thus laying the foundation of the city defense of the Mongol rule of Chengdu in the Yuan Dynasty.

However, in the subsequent tug-of-war, the Mongols also believed that the Chengdu Plain was more suitable for horse breeding and grazing, so the construction of Chengdu City often only cared about the inner city, and did not care about the unexpected city.

This situation was not announced until the Ming Dynasty was overthrown by the Ming Dynasty in the fourth year of Hongwu, and Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao Guo, entered Shu to Fusui and the people of Shu and built the new city of Chengdu in the Ming Dynasty.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongwu period has increased the outer city of Chengdu, and the city of Chengdu has undergone many repairs, namely the 22nd year of Hongwu, Xuande and Jiajing.

Therefore, although the people in Chengdu have changed over and over again, Chengdu still retains the original flavor of the early Ming Dynasty.

In the city of Chengdu, there is a big flag on the four towering towers, and a small temple is painted in the space of the moon city.

The east gate is the Wuxian Temple, the south gate is the Guanwang Temple, the west gate is the Wenshuai Temple, and the north gate is the Xuantan Temple.

Zhu Youzhen and the others are standing above the Xuantan Temple at the north gate at the moment, standing here with an unobstructed view of Chengdu City, and among them, the most prominent is a circle of mansions in the center of the city.

"Where is that? How did you occupy such a large position? ”

Looking at the building complex that accounted for nearly one-third of Chengdu, Zhu Youxiao frowned and raised his hand, pointing to the building complex and asking Li Banghua.

In this regard, Li Banghua was a little hesitant, but after a while, he replied honestly:

"Long live, that is the Shu King's Mansion where the King of Shu Domain lives, and it is a city within a city."

"The buildings around it are a number of county palaces, among which Nanchuan County Palace, Qingfu County Palace, Deyang County Palace, Taiping County Palace, Fushun County Palace and other county palaces are the largest."

"......" Hearing Li Banghua's words, Zhu Youxiao's old face turned red, he really didn't expect that the king of the Shu Prince's Mansion would occupy such a large area as Chengdu City.

Since the king of Shu is still moving to India to serve as a vassal at present, these vassal palaces and county king's mansions are all managed by the inner court, and the expenditure is not small.

"What is the use of this Shu Wangfu and the Junwang Mansion now?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Li Banghua, and Li Banghua replied when he heard the voice:

"The objects in the palace have long been moved by the princes, and what is left now is only an empty palace, so it is now a place for the people to play."

"For just a penny, the people can wander around, but it is basically limited to the main palace, and some remote palaces are still locked up."

"The annual income of the Shu Wangfu is no less than 2,000 taels of silver, and the income is basically used by the officials of the local yamen and the inner court to repair and maintain the palace."

"As far as the minister knows, this is the idea of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and the royal palaces in various parts of the dynasty are basically the same, and the annual income is not a small amount."

"Really, brother?" Hearing Li Banghua's words, Zhu Youxiao turned his head to look at Zhu Youzhen curiously.

"It's my brother's idea." Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, and explained:

"These things used to be handed over to Wang An to do, and he went to the palaces of the princes of the kingdom and the world as a separate garden for the people to hang out, and the annual income was more than 70,000 taels of silver, which basically filled most of the maintenance costs of the palace."

"After Wang An left, this matter was handed over to Ruoyu, and the imperial brother can ask Ruoyu when he goes back."

Zhu Youzhen explained, Zhu Youxiao also nodded after listening, indicating that this idea was good, and no longer entangled in the affairs of the Shu Palace, but pointed to the large buildings not far from the Shu Palace, and asked:

"What's over there?"

"Long live the ......," Li Banghua replied: "Over there are the official offices of the entire Sichuan and Chengdu Prefecture, Chengdu County, and Huayang County. ”

As soon as Li Banghua said this, Zhu Youxiao looked in that direction very concernedly.

The government office is the place where the rulers of the past generations give orders, and it has a great deal to do with the control of the city. Through the analysis of the architectural pattern and layout of the government office in the historical period, we can reflect the evolution of the political system of the state and county and the trend of urban development at that time.

Under Li Banghua's explanation, Zhu Youxiao gradually understood the location of each official office.

Sichuan Cheng announced that the political envoy was in the northwest corner of Chengdu City, at the southern foot of Wudan Mountain, and the Sichuan Procuratorial Department and the Western Army Governor's Mansion were in the east gate.

These three main yamen are surrounded by many subordinate yamen, and carefully calculated, among the 260,000 people in Chengdu City, nearly 30,000 are officials, government officials, and soldiers, and half of them are officials of the Western Military Governor's Office.

This development is somewhat deformed, but it is helpless.

For the military, Zhu Youxiao has his own opinions, although he is not as good as Zhu Youzhen, but he can also feel that it is inappropriate for the Western Military Governor's Mansion to continue to be placed in Chengdu, so he turned his head and asked Zhu Youzhen:

"Brother, does this Western Army Governor's Mansion need to be relocated?"

"Naturally, I am going to relocate it to Anxi City, Anxi Province, move the Northern Army Governor's Mansion to Beiting City, Beiting Province, and move the Southern Army Governor's Mansion to Kunming, Yunnan, and keep the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion in Shenyang."

Zhu Youzhen stated his own arrangements, in which the relocation of the Western Military Governor's Office to Anxi (Ili) was also out of his own considerations.

First of all, there are less than 60,000 people in Anxi City now, and if the Western Military Governor's Mansion is moved, the number of Anxi people can be increased to 90,000 by officials alone, and if their families are included, I am afraid it will exceed 150,000.

If Anxi City had a population of 150,000, it would be much easier to develop the entire Ili River Valley.

As for the relocation of the Southern Army from Guangzhou to Kunming, he also had his own considerations.

The Southern Military Governor's Mansion was originally placed in Guangzhou, because from this place, whether it was directly supporting Jiaozhi, the old port, and Nanzhou, it was relatively easy to cross the sea by boat.

However, with the successive recovery of Luchuan Province, Demasa Province, and Bengal Province, the place where the Southern Military Governor's Office needed to rush to help was much more distant.

In addition, the population of the Han family in the two provinces of Jiugang and Nanzhou still reaches more than 60% of the local population, and there is basically no major national rebellion, so Luchuan, Jiaozhi, Demasa, Bengal and other places have become the places where ethnic rebellions are most likely to break out.

If the Western Military Governor's Office was placed in Anxi to consolidate the Ming Dynasty's rule in the Southern Frontier of the Western Regions and the Hezhong region, and to guard against Persia, and the Northern Military Governor's Office was placed in Beiting to consolidate Lingbei and the Northern Frontier of the Western Regions, as well as to guard against Tsarist Russia, then the Southern Military Governor's Office was placed in Kunming to guard against the Mughal and Indian vassals.

At present, Kunming is the transportation hub of the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, first of all, its location is condescending, followed by the railway that it has direct access to Sichuan, Luchuan, Jiaozhi three Daming granaries, and the future may also build through Guizhou, Guangxi, Siam railway, which means that it will be the top priority of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest.

It only takes three days to travel from Kunming to the westernmost part of the Luchuan River in Bengal, and it only takes two days to travel to the southernmost point of Cochin.

If you want to go to the old port and Nanzhou, you can also spend six hours to go to the port of Jiaozhi in Cochin, and take a boat to the old port in 10 days and arrive in Nanzhou on the 20th.

In addition to these, there are also internal reasons for the establishment of the Southern Military Governor's Office here, that is, to prevent the rebellion of more than 9 million young people in Luchuan and Jiaozhi, and at the same time to deter the three kingdoms of Siam, Nanzhang, and Gan Pozhi, which have a total population of 10 million.

A national issue has tied up the Ming Dynasty for more than 260 years, and it will continue to bind the Ming Dynasty in the days to come.

In addition to the ethnic issue, there is another issue that is binding the Ming Dynasty, and that is the religious issue.

Just like Chengdu at the moment, when Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao walked around Chengdu under the leadership of Li Banghua, they also noticed that some public buildings in Chengdu were very conspicuous.

In the city of Chengdu, there are many buildings of a very significant religious nature, including Zhaojue Temple, Daci Temple, Golden Statue Temple, Qingyang Palace, Zhenwu Palace, Chongyang Temple, Baoguang Temple, Baiyun Nunnery and other 72 Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.

In addition to these, there are also buildings dedicated to lay gods, such as the City God Temple, the Fire God Temple, the Guanwang Temple, the Wenshuai Temple, the Xuantan Temple, the Old Ghost Temple, the Eight Wax Temple, and other 26 temples.

Finally, there are temples and shrines that worship sages in Chengdu, such as Yuwang Temple, Zhuge Temple, Wuhou Temple, Shehong Temple, Xiangxian Famous Eunuch Temple, Liuxian Temple, Zhao Gong Temple, Qiao Gong Temple, Great Confucian Temple, Qianxi Temple, Wenchang Temple and so on.

The explosion of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" began in the early Ming Dynasty, but many stories of the Three Kingdoms have been circulated since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, among which Zhuge Liang is the most famous.

Zhuge Liang has a deep relationship with Chengdu, originally his Wuhou Temple was just an ordinary sacrificial temple on the west side of the Han Zhaolie Temple, but in the twenty-fourth year of the Ming Hongwu Dynasty, Zhu Chun, the king of Shuxian, carried out a comprehensive repair and integration of the Wuhou Temple and the Han Zhaolie Temple.

While abolishing the Wuhou Temple on the west side of the Han Zhaolie Temple, he also moved the Zhuge Liang statue to the east side of the Liu Bei statue in the Han Zhaolie Temple, and arranged the statues of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the west, so as to merge the temple and the ancestral hall.

Later, the officials of Sichuan accompanied Liu Chen, the king of Beidi, Zhuge Zhan, the son of Zhuge Liang, and Fu Yan, who died in a battle at the pass, to the temple.

Zhuge Liang's fame is not accidental, even in the Apocalypse year, Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, stopped when he walked to the Han Zhaolie Temple.

He walked into the Han Zhaolie Temple with his entourage, and was not interested in Liu Bei, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of Han Zhaolie, perhaps he thought that Liu Bei's merits could not be compared to himself.

But when he arrived in front of Zhuge Liang, he pointed at Zhuge Liang and said:

"My brother is to me, as Kong Ming is to the queen......"

"Hooray!"

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Li Banghua couldn't help but whisper a reminder, because Zhu Youxiao's analogy was like comparing himself to the queen Liu Chan.

However, in this regard, Zhu Youxiao laughed and said:

"It's just a pity that Kong Ming can only help the Liu family father and son divide the world, but my younger brother can help me create a prosperous world.

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen said in a light tone to Zhu Youzhen: "Kong Ming has assisted Liu's father and son for twenty-seven years, and my younger brother has assisted me for only twenty-three years, and I still need to be diligent." ”

“……”

For a while, no one spoke, because everyone could hear that the emperor was retaining King Qi.

For the emperor's retention, whether it is Li Banghua and others in the old school, or Lu Wenzhao and others in the Qi Palace, their hearts are hanging in their throats.

They were all afraid that King Qi would be soft-hearted for a while, so they agreed.

"The hegemony has been achieved, even Kong Ming should also return to Nanyang to farm."

Zhu Youzhen's answer made the light in Zhu Youxiao's eyes converge for a moment, and the surrounding officials were even more relieved.

"Let's go to the Shu King's Mansion to rest......"

Zhu Youxiao seemed to have lost his temper, and he was not ready to look at the scenery of Chengdu again, but turned around and let Li Banghua lead the way.

Seeing this, Li Banghua hurriedly stepped forward to lead the way, and many officials of the old school also followed.

In the end, only Zhu Youzhen, Lu Wenzhao, and more than a dozen brocade guards were left in the Han Zhaolie Temple.

"Your Highness......"

Lu Wenzhao wanted to step forward and say something, but Zhu Youzhen stepped forward indifferently, took out the long incense from the incense cabinet, lit the long incense to Liu Bei, the owner of the Han Zhaolie Temple, and bowed respectfully, and then withdrew from the Han Zhaolie Temple.

He is not narcissistic enough to think that he can be compared to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, because the living are not compared with the dead.

The living can speak of the dead, but they can't speak because of the dead.

Whether it is his background, background, or experience, he is much ahead of the two, and he can accomplish such a great feat just by relying on his own experience.

With this thought, Zhu Youzhen walked out of the Han Zhaolie Temple and came to the Jinli Long Street behind the Han Zhaolie Temple.

As a long street that was already famous during the Zhuge Liang period, Jinli's fame did not decline with the departure of the aborigines, but became more and more famous.

Moreover, when Zhu Youzhen arranged for the relocation of the Sichuan people, he did not move all the Sichuan people, so there are still aborigines living in Chengdu.

However, when Zhu Youzhen didn't expect it, when he walked into Jinli, what appeared in front of him was not a traditional Ming Dynasty building, but a Qing * temple with West Asian style.

"What's going on?"

Zhu Youzhen looked back at Lu Wenzhao, obviously he didn't expect that Chengdu actually had these existences.

In this regard, Lu Wenzhao could only say: "Your Highness, there are many Semu people in Sichuan, and after the former Yuan Tuchuan was slaughtered, most of the Semu people who fought with the army in the army were left behind. ”

"Some of them stayed in Chengdu, some served in politics, and some went to Chengdu for business and trade."

"In addition, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, many warlords surrounded and suppressed the Semu people, and after the national dynasty pacified the world, due to the excessive number of Semu people in Hexi and Shaanxi, they had to migrate most of them to Jiangnan, Sichuan, Huguang and other places."

"After Emperor Taizu Gao ordered them not to violate the "Da Ming Law", he didn't care about them anymore."

"Although there are still such temples now, in fact they are no different from the Han people."

Under Lu Wenzhao's explanation, Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, and couldn't help but feel sincere admiration for the laws that Zhu Yuanzhang had formulated.

If the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties could continuously use Zhu Yuanzhang's policies and attitudes towards the nation, then I am afraid that many ethnic problems would be eliminated.

"In the Da Ming Law, the policy on the young people will be backed up and sent to my resting place later, and after I screen it, I will order someone to implement it in the Qi country."

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Lu Wenzhao responded honestly, but after the response was over, he raised his head and cautiously asked:

"Your Highness, Xia Changshi's recital, you haven't approved it yet."

"Right now, you're making Banzai unhappy again, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to transfer 200,000 teachings."

Lu Wenzhao talked about the affairs of Qi State, and Zhu Youzhen also frowned slightly when he heard this, and then said:

"My brother is just angry for a while, just rest for a while."

"The matter of teaching and training can be prepared in advance, and it is impossible to transfer 200,000 teachers at one time."

"Doing this is no less than moving millions of people to Qi country, so you can only come step by step."

"The population of Qi is insufficient, and there are only a few thousand students studying in the Siyi Pavilion, so let Xia Yunyi send two thousand officials who know the language of the young people in the south to come to the Ming Dynasty, and there are tens of thousands of students in the Siyi Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty, even if only some people are interested in it, it is enough to strengthen the rule of our Qi State over the south."

"Another ......"

When Zhu Youzhen said this, he had already gotten into his carriage, and the carriage was heading towards the Shu Palace, and at the same time, Zhu Youzhen also took out the map of Qi from the bookshelf he was familiar with.

He scribbled on the map, and handed it out a moment later:

"Set the state of Qi as three capitals and twenty-five prefectures, and add thirteen prefectures on the basis of the original three capitals of Jingzhao, Gyeonggi, and Zhongdu, and the nine prefectures of Jinshan, Gaomi, Anling, Pingling, Chengshan, Hejian, Ninghai, Wendeng, and Jinghai."

"The original Haiyang Mansion was abolished, and the new Pingyang Mansion was established, and Gaotang, Dongyang, Qufu, Weiqiu, Taoqiu, Chongqiu, Chuqiu, Zhulin, Changyan, Quchi, Langya, and Wuzhong were added."

"Migrate skilled 3,000 battleship shipwrights from Tianjin shipyard to Qi State, and build five major shipyards of Qi State in Jingzhao, Gyeonggi, Anling, Wendeng, Pingyang and other five prefectures."

"In addition, recruit 600 skilled craftsmen from the two major arsenals of Shuntian and Yingtian and their families to go to the Qi State to prepare the Xijing Arsenal in Jingzhao Mansion."

"Recruit students, teach and their families from the two major schools of Shuntianfu and Yingtianfuxue to go to the country of Qi."

"Tell Xia Yunyi again that after taking over the mines left by the Francis, he will immediately organize the start of construction, the Ming Dynasty urgently needs a lot of gold and silver, and the Qi country urgently needs the population, and the two sides take what they need, and pay both people and money."

"The purchase of tractors can't be stopped, if the silver is not enough, I will find a loan from Daming Bank, I need to arrive in Qi in the twenty-fourth year of the Apocalypse, and see that the cultivated land of Qi has exceeded 40 million mu, and the population of Qi has exceeded 20 million."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, he sent a lot of materials from Daming to Qi State.

Although the Qi Kingdom used silver to buy, it is not only the Qi country that has silver in the world, but many other countries have silver.

Even if those countries have silver, they can't spend it at all, and they can't buy technology with silver.

The industry of Qi is a process of accumulation, from the development of the 12th year of the Apocalypse, to the successful operation of the first batch of industrial zones in the 15th year of the Apocalypse, and now the construction of the fourth batch of industrial zones has begun, and the fourth batch of industrial zones will also be put into operation in the 24th year of the Apocalypse.

Qi's own industrial zone has been able to produce more than 50,000 tractors per year, and counting the support of the Ming Dynasty, the tractors produced and obtained by Qi can increase by 3 million mu of arable land every year.

If you add the more than 200,000 tractors that have been produced before, then Qi can reclaim more than 5 million mu of arable land every year.

At the current rate, as long as there are enough workers, the Qi State can complete the feat of 40 million mu of cultivated land in the twenty-fourth year of the Apocalypse.

Zhu Youzhen knew that he was creating a vassal state that had the ability to challenge the authority of the Ming Sect, but he knew one more thing.

If the Ming Dynasty does not have a strong enemy, then it will also stagnate.

Qi and Daming are not only competitive in the future, but also a cooperative relationship.

The resources of the two countries are enough for each of them to be peaceful for 100 years, or even 200 years.

What they really need to care about is other countries with large populations and insufficient resources.

The rise of the Qi State, at least for the next hundred years, will not be a bad thing for the Ming Dynasty......