"Woo-"

On the third day of departure to the south, the train taken by Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen successfully passed through Lin'an Province from Yunnan Province and entered the territory of Xinghua Province in Jiaozhi Province.

They took the Kunzhan Railway from Kunming, Yunnan Province to the Cham province in southern Cochin.

With a total length of more than 3,000 miles and a total of four tracks, the Kunzhan Railway began to be built in the tenth year of the Apocalypse and was not completed until March last year.

The Kunzhan Railway is divided into Yunnan section and Jiaozhi section, and the construction of the two sections of the railway is very difficult, second only to the difficulty of the Jinglong Railway from Chencang to Jiange and the difficulty of crossing the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain.

During the construction period, people of all ethnic groups who migrated from Yunnan to Jiaozhi worked as guides to help the officials of the Ministry of Industry choose the most suitable route.

Because the railway spans the three major water systems of the Jinsha River, the Pearl River and the Red River, the places where it was built are all undeveloped mountains, rivers and canyons.

Therefore, during the 12-year construction period, a total of 2 million military, civilian, and labor workers were mobilized, and a total of 40 million cubic meters of roadbed earthwork was completed, and 4,237 bridges and 219 tunnels were built.

After the completion of the road construction, after half a year of inspection, it was not until September 13, the 21st year of the Apocalypse, that the whole line was officially opened to traffic.

Sitting in the train, Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao looked at the tunnels and mountains and rivers passing by outside the window, and sighed sincerely.

Officials from Xinghua Prefecture accompanied the whole process, and also introduced the difficulties in the construction of the Kunzhan Railway.

Among the Kunzhan Railway, the most difficult is the "human" bridge in the territory of Lin'an Province in the Yunnan section.

The "human" bridge is erected between the two mountain cliffs that are 22 zhang apart, and the bridge body is about 40 zhang away from the valley bottom.

The whole bridge body does not have a supporting skeleton, are connected by steel plates, channel steel, angle steel, rivets, hundreds of tons of steel parts used are all made in Kunming, transported to Lin'an Mansion, by the labor workers back up the mountain section by section, in the construction site assembly.

The bridgehead of the "human" bridge is connected to the tunnel mouth of the cliff on both sides, and the tunnel turns in the mountain, which brings great difficulties to the construction.

Two iron chains used to tow and build the bridge, 120 zhang long and weighing more than 9,000 catties, had to be carried by 500 labor reformers on their shoulders.

They lined up in a hundred-foot-long queue like a giant dragon crawling down a rugged path that took three days to reach the construction site.

Phenomena like this are endlessly occurring throughout the Kunzhan Railway, which shows how difficult it was to complete the railway more than 200 years ahead of schedule with the technology of the Ming Dynasty.

However, even so, with the wisdom of the Han craftsmen and the hardships of the labor reformers, the entire section of the railway was completed and opened to traffic without too much change.

With the opening of the three railways, the Beijing-Long Railway, the Luchuan Railway and the Kunzhan Railway, Yunnan instantly became the political and military center of the southwest of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the economic center, it is still oscillating between the Golden Triangle and the Red Triangle.

Luchuan has the Luchuan Plain, the Great Golden Delta, and the Ganges Delta in Demassa.

There is the Red River Plain washed out by the Red River in Cochin, the Red River Delta.

All three deltas are world-class, and in the long run, the economic center may end up falling on Luchuan.

However, when the Ming Dynasty overthrows the Mughals, Luchuan will definitely be divided into two provinces, and the potential of Luchuan will decline at that time.

It's just that in any case, Luchuan is still one of the most potential provinces in the Ming Dynasty at the moment.

As a transportation hub to the seven provinces of Luchuan, Sichuan, Jiaozhi, Wusizang, Guizhou, Guangxi, Nanzhang and Siam, Yunnan's status is self-evident.

Therefore, Yunnan is also one of the most important provinces for the development of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to its many rare metal deposits, the types of factories built by Daming in the local area include but are not limited to machinery, chemicals, mining and metallurgy, matches, textiles and so on.

Last year alone, Yunnan produced 36,000 tons of crude steel, 1.2 million tons of pig iron, 9 million tons of coal, 6.5 million tons of cement, 3.25 million boxes of matches, 60,000 tons of kerosene, 260,000 kerosene lamps, 2 million horses of white cloth, 36,000 tons of phosphate fertilizer, 420,000 tons of soil compound fertilizer, and 2.75 million tons of fodder......

Among them, the most noteworthy is phosphate fertilizer, Yunnan Province alone, accounting for 28% of the total output of phosphate fertilizer in Daming......

The output value of various factories also represents the economic degree of Yunnan in disguise.

The reason why Yunnan's industry is mentioned has a lot to do with the Jiaozhi that Zhu Youzhen and they are about to go to.

The main reason why Yunnan's industrial output value is so large is to develop itself and drive the five provinces of Luchuan, Sichuan, Jiaozhi, Guizhou and Guangxi.

Among them, Luchuan is especially important, followed by Jiaozhi, and finally Sichuan.

With the presence of Yunnan, major floods rarely occur in the Red River Plain in Jiaozhi because the upper reaches are properly controlled.

The second is that all kinds of raw materials produced in Yunnan are sold to Jiaozhi at a small profit, resulting in the price of Jiaozhi is not high.

Related to the people, whether it is feed, chemical fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer, white cloth, pig iron, or the associated price of meat, grain, and clothing, it is not too high.

The six southwestern provinces, the four northeastern provinces, and the two provinces of Nanyang have all enjoyed the dividends brought by the industrial revolution.

Fertilizer prices are cheap, grain production is bound to be high, and food prices will also be reduced because of excessive grain production.

The relationship between fertilizer and grain is here, the same is true for the relationship between meat prices and feed, and the same is true for pig iron and farm tools.

"At present, the price of Jiaozhi rice is only 2 wen a catty, the price of meat is only 15 wen a catty of pork, 17 wen for mutton, 18 wen for beef, and more than 50 wen for a set of ready-to-wear clothes."

On the train, seeing that the train was about to enter the territory of Jiaozhi Province, the officials of the Yamen of the Political Envoy of Jiaozhi who accompanied the trip hurriedly came, and they couldn't wait to tell the achievements of industrialization in Jiaozhi on the officials of Jiaozhi.

However, for all this, Zhu Youzhen had already told Zhu Youxiao on the way from Dali to Kunming.

The happiness of the people of Jiaozhi comes from industrial transformation, and this happiness is also needed by Zhu Youxiao, a good-faced emperor.

"Woo-"

The piercing whistle sounded, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly and waved his hand:

"Got it, you guys step down, I have something to discuss with King Qi."

"The ministers retired ......"

Seeing that the emperor said this, the officials of the Yamen of the Jiaozhi Political Envoy looked at each other, showing helpless expressions and quickly retracting at the same time, and only after the respectful salute was over, they retreated and left the carriage.

After they left, only Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youzhen and Lu Wenzhao, who was in charge of the guard, were left in the carriage.

Seeing the door of the carriage closed, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing, and looked at Zhu Youzhen at the same time:

"My brother is right, this group of officials in Jiaozhi really regard the industrial achievements of the imperial court as their own political achievements."

"I really don't know, what they have learned in Yanshan and the government and government schools for so many years......

Zhu Youxiao's words, the first half of the sentence still had a tone of mocking others, but the second half of the sentence seemed to be laughing at himself.

He may have felt that these officials who have received a new education should not think the same as the old-fashioned officials.

It's just that reality slapped him hard, and in this regard, Zhu Youzhen also lightly enlightened when pouring tea for Zhu Youxiao:

"It's easy to change what you're learning and learning, but it's hard to change your mind."

"Even if many officials receive a new education, they will be eroded by a social style full of old-fashioned ideas, and the same is true of officialdom."

"If you want to change your mind, you can't succeed overnight, but it takes dozens or hundreds of years of gestation to gradually break out of your shell."

At present, the "five-year compulsory education" implemented in the whole country of the Ming Dynasty is only four years old, and it is normal for the ideological change to not come. ”

"As long as you persist, my brother may be able to see a Ming Dynasty that the whole country will not leave behind in his later years."

Zhu Youzhen's words here are a bit exaggerated, but he knows that for his brother, it has to be exaggerated to be useful.

After all, his brother is in a good face, and he can never be inferior to those emperors who are so happy.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen is often glad that his brother's hobby is carpentry.

After all, he is the emperor of technology, and he knows that it is easy to mess around without understanding technology, so it is difficult to see his micro-manipulation in military and politics.

In the past 22 years, Zhu Youxiao has also done a few things, but he still lets go of the people below to do it, which is commendable.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at a wood carving on the table.

It was carved by Zhu Youxiao, and the object of the carving was Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youxiao seems to want to use this method to keep Zhu Youzhen in his heart, so that his subordinates can subconsciously carve the appearance of the person he wants.

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to talk about too many political things, because at this moment he had already written down his experience in books.

For example, right now, the thick three-book book on the table is the best gift that Zhu Youzhen left to his brother, nephew, and Daming.

Fifty Years of General Principles

The written name of the three books is like this, which is enough to show how much Zhu Youzhen also thought of it.

As long as Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran follow the step-by-step process, this general outline is enough for Daming to take the right path for fifty years.

Naturally, this does not mean that Zhu Youzhen will not care about Daming in the future, and he will also make revisions to the general outline in the future.

After all, the ideal path is one thing, and how to take it is another.

"Woo ......"

The train's whistle is long, indicating that it is about to refuel ahead.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen said to Zhu Youxiao, then got up and returned to his carriage to rest.

As for Zhu Youxiao, he also continued to read the "Fifty-Year General Outline".

Although it is only three short volumes, the content in it is more than 600,000 words, covering all aspects.

If you want to read it and eat it thoroughly, even Zhu Youxiao has to spend a lot of time.

For a moment, only the sound of reading the books remained in the carriage, and it was not until half an hour later that the train started again.

With the sound of the train starting, the train gradually stepped out of the rugged mountainous area northwest of Cochin and onto the vast plain.

This feeling is suddenly refreshing, and after coming to the Red River Plain, the rice fields also come into view.

Although the Red River Plain in the Ming Dynasty could be harvested three times a year, there were no people planting crops in this season.

When Zhu Youzhen corrected his doubts, Zhu Youzhen also finished his nap and walked over from his carriage.

Seeing him, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly asked: "Brother, this Jiaozhi crops three times a year, why don't the local people grow crops?" ”

"Hehe......" Hearing his brother's words, Zhu Youzhen smiled: "Naturally, it is for high yield." ”

Speaking, Zhu Youzhen explained: "Three crops a year may not necessarily have a high yield per mu, otherwise Qiongzhou Mansion may already be the granary of the national dynasty." ”

"Moreover, the people of the country pursue taste, even if they can be three crops a year, the people will only grow two varieties, or one ripe varieties."

"At present, Jiangnan rice is mainly planted in the land of Jiaozhi, and Jiangnan rice is harvested twice a year in Jiangnan, and it is three crops a year in Jiaozhi."

"However, although it is three crops a year, the yield per mu in a single season is not very high."

"Jiangnan rice yields one stone and two buckets per mu in a single season in Jiangnan, but it is only nine and a half buckets in Jiaozhi."

"After planting in a year, ordinary fields in the south of the Yangtze River can produce two stones and four buckets, and Jiaozhi can produce two stones and nine buckets."

"It seems that the yield is high, but there are only five buckets of grain, and the taste is more than a little worse."

"Therefore, in Jiaozhi, even ordinary people will not eat Jiangnan rice that crops three times a year."

"In the long run, many farmers will delay the harvest time and try to make the rice grow full before harvesting."

"After doing this, although it is only two crops, the annual yield per mu is two stones and five buckets, and the taste is greatly improved."

"Not only that, but with only two crops of rice, farmers can rest for two more months, so even if the land can be cropped three times a year, people are still willing to plant only two crops of rice."

When Zhu Youzhen explained this, the villages and fields that the train passed through also increased, and many farmers who used tractors to plow their fields could be seen during this period.

"How many acres of cochin fields are there now?"

Looking at the figure of the peasant in the distance, Zhu Youxiao asked Lu Wenzhao.

"Long live, it should be about 52 million acres......

"So much?" Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youzhen was a little emotional.

You must know that there are only about 79 million people in Jiaozhi, and more than 5 million of them are local people.

The native people are basically two acres per person, while the Hermes-Epitek is basically five to twenty acres per person.

"How many people are there in Jiaozhi right now?" Zhu Youxiao asked, but this time Zhu Youzhen replied: "Less than four million." ”

"This ......" Hearing that the number of local people had actually dropped from six or seven million at the time of the recovery to four million now, Zhu Youxiao was a little speechless for a while.

"Brother, don't get me wrong...... Looking at his appearance, Zhu Youzhen knew that he had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained:

"When a woman marries a man, she follows the man's nationality."

"There are more than 6 million native people in Jiaozhi, but over the years, many Jiaozhi women have married Han men who have immigrated, which has led to a decline in the population of Jiaozhi."

"In addition, there are also some rebellious Jiaozhi people who have been arrested and re-educated through labor, so there are fewer."

"The immigrants here in Jiaozhi are 20 acres of land per person, but because of the severe drought in the two capitals and 13 provinces in the Central Plains a few years ago, there are too many people who have migrated, resulting in more than 3 million Han immigrants now only dividing less than 45 million mu of land."

"According to the current situation, it is enough to develop at least 15 million acres of Jiaozhi."

Zhu Youzhen explained the situation of Jiaozhi.

As the earliest province outside the Central Plains that the Ming Dynasty took, there were too many Han immigrants in Jiaozhi, so it was the norm that the fields were not divided enough.

In fact, Luchuan, Jiugang, and Yingzhou also have this phenomenon.

"Will a Jiaozhi girl who marries an immigrant from the Han family also give out twenty acres of land?" Zhu Youxiao asked curiously, but Zhu Youzhen shook his head:

"This kind of woman is called a naturalized woman, and she can get an additional three acres of land, that is, after marrying a Han person, they can be promoted from two acres of land to five acres of land."

Zhu Youzhen knew in his heart that it was not enough to show the economic strength of the Han family's men, and he had to come up with enough benefits to make the Han family's men become the objects pursued by the local women's relatives.

Therefore, it is basically an overseas province, as long as the local woman marries a Han man, her social status and economic strength will be greatly improved.

It is also under this policy that the native women of the provinces will continue to pursue marrying Han men.

At the same time, the improvement of the status and treatment of the Han people also made the young people who were originally sinicized in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou offset a lot of rebellious psychology.

If someone calls them their original ethnic group, they will be anxious, for fear that they will lose a large area of land and treatment after losing their Han identity.

Because of this, many of the young people in the southwest who have been naturalized as Han Chinese are working hard to sinicize, and the children of the new generation do not even speak the language of their own ethnic group.

This phenomenon has made the young population of the Ming Dynasty decrease every year, and it is even less than 20 million this year.

For a long time, it is estimated that Tumin men will also think about giving birth to a daughter to marry a Han person, and then let their family obtain Han nationality.

Although the follow-up Han nationality is not as exaggerated as dividing 20 acres of land, the treatment of dividing 5 or 6 acres of land still exists.

This kind of treatment is nothing compared to the treatment of immigrants before, but for the natives, it is already a windfall.

"The biggest problem at the moment is Yingzhou, and my brother needs to pay attention to it here in the future."

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he continued to speak, and talked about Yingzhou, which is separated by the sea.

"Yingzhou?" Zhu Youxiao frowned and thought for a while, and then wondered:

"I remember that some time ago, they were suppressed by a lot of people because they gathered a crowd to burn and kill the Han immigrants."

"There are a lot of them, but there are many of them who betray their masters, and they need to be cautious at all times." Zhu Youzhen didn't want to remind him, Zhu Youxiao also asked curiously:

"How many native people from Yingzhou are there in Yingzhou right now?"

"About six million, there are more than two million naturalized married Han women in Yingzhou and more than five million ......men and women who have emigrated overseas," Lu Wenzhao said an embarrassing number as soon as he opened his mouth.

The population of Yingzhou continues to decline, with more than 5 million people emigrating overseas.

"Who are the main people who emigrate?" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, after all, five million people is a small number.

"The women basically went to the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Central Plains, and the men basically went to the Indian and Levian vassals." Lu Wenzhao explained:

"In addition, among the more than 6 million Yingzhou people who are purely from Yingzhou, there are still 1.65 million people waiting to be relocated."

"The feudal clans gave them the conditions of relocation of five acres of land per person, and many people yearn for it."

Lu Wenzhao revealed the truth about the huge number of immigrants in Yingzhou, which was mainly driven by the feudal domains.

The attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the immigrants of the feudal domains is different, and it is more demanding to immigrate the Han people, not only the conditions for migrating silver, immigrating fields, and cultivating cattle, but also to see whether the Ming Migration Division passes.

But the local people who immigrated to the territory of the Ming Dynasty were different, as long as they could speak official dialect and write Chinese characters, the feudal lords could recruit and relocate them.

This kind of situation is what Zhu Youzhen likes to see, that is, the sea journey is dangerous, many ships will be broken and sunk at sea, and a large number of immigrants die in shipwrecks every year.

The Ming Dynasty registered that there were more than 2 million male immigrants from Yingzhou, but the number of people who could reach the feudal domains was unknown.

When they arrived in the feudal domains, most of them were used by the feudal lords and officials as local chiefs to serve as officials and manage the local people.

In the event of a riot among the local people, if the chief of the first place does not report it, he will be repatriated to Yingzhou and all property will be confiscated.

Therefore, in the work of monitoring the natives of India, they did a very serious job, which greatly reduced the phenomenon of sudden rebellion in the local area and the untimely movement of troops and horses.

This may seem a little unfair to the immigrants of Yingzhou, but you must know that for them who lived under the notice of the Tokugawa shogunate, being able to live in the Ming Dynasty and the feudal domains is simply a reinvention of kindness.

At least the existence of the "Da Ming Law" restricts the bullying and killing of the nobles, gives them the dignity that a person deserves, and they can also own their own houses and fields, and the taxes are also outrageously low.

Therefore, the immigrants from Yingzhou are happy to see it, and the Ming Dynasty and the feudal clans are happy to see it.

The only people who are dissatisfied may be the indigenous people in India.

"Woo-"

During Zhu Youxiao's inquiry, the train arrived at Jiaozhi City, the provincial capital of Jiaozhi.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen took people off the train, and the Jiaozhi Railway Station that greeted them was exactly the same as that in Daming.

There are not many people in the train station, but they are all dressed in Ming costumes and speak the Ming language.

The same is true when you walk outside the station, and after entering Jiaozhi City, the scenes, languages, and buildings of people coming and going in the city are also very bright.

The pleasant Jianghuai official dialect, if he hadn't listened to it deliberately, Zhu Youxiao would have even thought that he had come to the Jiangnan area.

"My brother's method is really good, so for thirty years, I don't have to worry about it......"

Looking at the scene in front of him, which was not much different from the Central Plains, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh.

Now next to him, Zhu Youzhen is also happily admiring his "works".

Let the intermittent detachment from the hands of the Han people for hundreds of years of cochin re-sinicization, this is perhaps the thing he is most proud of.

He and Zhu Youxiao walked through the streets and alleys, and there was almost no trace of Annan in the entire Jiaozhi City.

You must know that it has only been more than ten years, and if it has been a few decades, then Jiaozhi will probably become the thirteenth Sinicized province of the two capitals in the Central Plains.

"Long live, Your Highness, at present, the people of Jiaozhi basically live in the south, and the seven northern provinces have been sinicized by more than ninety percent, and there is really no trace of Annan."

The officials who followed Zhu Youzhen and them through the streets couldn't stand it, and explained with trembling legs.

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen stopped unsatisfied.

"It's true that this is the case in Cochin City, but the specific other prefectures still need to be visited before we can get an answer."

"You go back and rest, and then accompany me and King Qi to visit the mansions tomorrow morning."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, but the officials wanted to cry without tears when they heard this.

They also lamented that the sinicization of Jiaozhi was complete, but there was no situation like Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen who could walk more than ten miles in a row and see all over Jiaozhi City.

Listening to the emperor's words, it seems that they will also use their legs to measure the prefectures and counties of Jiaozhi next.

With a hint of crying, dozens of high-ranking officials could only return the salute:

"Minister...... Decree ......"

There was too much overtime at work, which led to a mistake in the chapter name yesterday, and it was an oolong, sorry, sorry......