Looking at the vast Eurasian continent on the map, His Royal Highness King Yan fell into deep thought.

It's tempting indeed!

Compared with the Ming Dynasty in the back, there is a much more vast land in front of him, several times that of the Ming Dynasty, and the spheres of influence of each country are also marked on it, even including the general population of these countries......

This, of course, has to be added.

Of course, he wasn't immediately impressed.

Yang Feng belongs to painting flatbread, anyway, this guy will pull it when he touches his mouth up and down!

But the actual operation ......

Zhu Di looked at the 20,000 troops behind him.

It's extremely difficult to fool!

Not to mention the difficulty of opening up the territory, just letting his soldiers follow, it can be said to be hellish difficulty, after all, he does have ambitions, but his soldiers have completed the task, and the actual fight here is already overfulfilled. However, one was inspired by Yan Ran Shanming, and the other was the consistent principle of the Ming army to chase and fight against the remnants of the Yuan, since the enemy ran to the Western Regions, then chase and kill to the Western Regions, and the farther the enemy was driven, the safer his relatives would be.

These are all soldiers of Beiping, Beibei Parallel Division, and Shanxi Xingdu Division.

They are guards.

Their homes are also in these places.

And once Mongolia moves south, the first wave will face these places.

They are for their homeland and relatives, and solve the threat in advance, as long as they destroy Erlebok, which can be said to be the last strength of the Northern Yuan, then their homeland will no longer face the flames of war.

This is the support of the soldiers who have followed the expedition for more than 6,000 miles so far.

But......

It is another thing to continue to move forward for King Yan's ambitions, or even to move his family to the Western Regions.

Don't talk about them, Zhu Di's three guards may not be willing to do it.

The third guard has been in Peking for twenty years, and has long lived and worked in peace and contentment, and for the sake of his ambitions, he abandoned the homeland he had established and continued to start a migration of thousands of miles, which is obviously difficult to accept.

"I've already thought about it."

Yang Feng looked at Zhu Di's gaze as he turned to those soldiers, and said as if he had a heart in his heart.

"First, you have to get enough wealth in this expedition, you have to make a lot of money, let all the soldiers go back, I will help you to do your best to publicize, describe the Western Regions as a mountain of gold and silver, and full of fertile land, not afraid to boast better than Jiangnan. In fact, it is completely possible, at that time, this land was an important grain producing area, not only in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but also in these places in the river, especially in the south of the river, which can really be described as the country of abundance.

So we're not lying. ”

Yang Feng said.

"You just didn't tell them about the difficulty of pioneering?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

Everyone has long understood Yang Feng's set.

used to blow Huining into a happy land, and he said that he beat the roe deer and scooped the fish, and finally coaxed a group of people who didn't know the details, and signed a contract with him like a deed of sale, but he was dumbfounded in the first year.

I'm afraid I'll be frozen when I go out to pee in winter!

If you come to the big one, you have to take a stick and prepare, and if you don't go, you have to knock it.

There is no place to cry one by one.

After all, compared with the huge amount of liquidated damages to go back, I can only grit my teeth and insist.

It is said that at the beginning, the Ming army in Huining watched these fools being coaxed, and they all sighed that Ambassador Yang's ability to pit people was amazing, and they were not embarrassed to say that Ambassador Yang's heart was too dark. Although he did not treat those who cultivated the wasteland, and the trick he engaged in could indeed turn Huining into fertile fields, if he hadn't been coaxed away, people who knew the real situation would not have been fooled like this.

I just can't go back.

And he did fulfill his promise, so he had no choice but to accept his fate.

Now playing this again?

"King, if you don't use some means, how can you let people overcome obstacles and open up foreign lands?

After all, someone has to take the first step.

As long as we can get these soldiers to make a fortune from this expedition, then I will go back and boast about this place, and then we can partner up to start a company to open up the Western Regions, and then use this company to hire those who want to get rich. At that time, we called this mercenary, in fact, many countries in later generations expanded their territories in this way, and the British East India Company was even able to rule the whole of India, including invading our southeast coast.

It's all them.

They have a fleet of sailors, an army, and the land they have laid down in the east is almost equivalent to the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty.

We can do the same.

Buy out the prisoners in the prison when necessary.

Then buy some slaves and maidservants from those toasts.

You ask Your Majesty for a holy decree, as much as you lay in the Western Regions, it will be counted as your fiefdom, as long as you can maintain the expenses of this mercenary army in this process, not to mention that you still have three guards, even if they are not all willing to follow, one guard is no problem, right?

Besides, if it is really by divine decree, they will have to follow it even if they don't follow it.

That's when you have to be ruthless.

Three guards, plus mercenaries, more than 50,000 troops can be obtained.

Don't worry about logistics.

I can guarantee that you can build everything you need in the Western Regions, guns and ammunition, including farming places, and even salt and sugar, and the Western Regions is the best cotton producing area, and textiles can be made.

There are even some places where silkworms can be raised and silk.

There is no need to transport anything from the mainland at all. ”

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't know how long he can live, once Zhu Yunxi succeeds to the throne, he will definitely not do it for his uncle to go on an expedition to the Western Regions with the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty.

He paid for the money, and his uncle took advantage of it?

How can there be such a good thing.

But it's no problem to give his uncle a license to open up the Western Regions, anyway, his principle is to throw his uncles as far away as possible, it's a good thing that Zhu Di likes the Western Regions, at least for now, there is nothing farther than the Western Regions, he will definitely promise to let Zhu Di fight down and become a fief.

But......

Soldiers will not come out.

At most, the three guards of Beiping were forced to follow King Yan with a holy decree.

So I had to think of something else.

That is, the mercenary mode.

If you want to make a fortune, you will come to the Western Regions and use the knife in your hand to kill the glory and wealth.

No longer enough, there are also punishment camps.

The Han Dynasty could play it, and of course it can now.

As long as they are willing to come, then Yang Feng can ensure that they have a huge profit, with Daming's current technical advantages, it is not easy to go out and grab it? What's more, you can also make a fortune through trade, even if you don't start a war with Timur in a short time, just controlling the land trade routes is good business.

Not to mention that you can also engage in development.

Then take the three guards as the basic plate, and then expand through the purchase of a large number of slaves and maids, at this time the slaves and maids are very easy to buy, North Korea, the Wa Kingdom, Annam and even the hands of Yungui Tusi, all can be bought, and the guards are equipped with a few, the guards are responsible for fighting, and the slaves and maids are responsible for farming. To put it simply, it is a knight mining system, a guard rewards a fief, anyway, the most important thing in the Western Regions is land, including those who are willing to stay in the mercenary corps, and they are also mined for them in the same way. There is no need to do anything else here, the feudal fiefdom system is sufficient, and it is also the most effective way to attract the population to come.

It's the little lord who comes.

Then continue to expand, continue to occupy the land to capture slaves, continue to seal more estates, and continue to move forward in this way.

Backed by the huge population base of the Ming Dynasty, even if one of the hundred young men is willing to go to the Western Regions for various reasons, and use the battle to lay down the towns and slaves for themselves, then it is also tens of thousands of soldiers.

And although Zhu Di dominates one side outside, he can't get away from Daming after all.

After all, Daming is his source of soldiers.

He is still just a vassal king in the Ming clan system, and he is just a big territory.

But his military resources, trade, and the legitimacy of his rule all come from the Ming Dynasty, and he has always been tied to the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the relatives of the little lords under him are also in the Ming Dynasty. Don't worry about the rest, no matter how they develop in the future, they can't get rid of this root, so if it lasts for decades or more, the territory of the Ming Dynasty will almost encompass the entire Eurasian continent. Even with such a large land, it is not necessarily only Zhu Di himself, his brothers can also join, such as the King of Xiang, who has the best relationship with him, can also use this way to lay a fief for himself.

At present, there is still a remnant of the heart area of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the King of Xiang.

Of course, there are several smaller kings.

But most of them are not yet in the domain, and the real strength is the three kings of Qin Shu and Xiang, but the king of Shu is actually a side stopper, and his wife is the daughter of Lan Yu, and he himself is honest, Zhu Yunxi is at least very relieved about him for now, the king of Qin has Chang Sheng to watch, and the distance is also far away, and the only one who really poses a certain threat to the capital is the king of Xiang.

Then let him take the lead, take the other vassal kings who have not yet become a vassal king, claim a piece of territory by themselves, and then play this mode and go to build a fief for himself.

There are a lot of them around Daming.

There are also several small countries in the South Seas, and they can also develop into South Asia.

It can go even further.

There's no better place on land, so you can organize a fleet of expeditions! When they reach new good places on the ocean, the emperor will directly give them them, for example, they can go to Australia and East Africa, and whoever arrives first with their fleet will be their fief.

Then go to the frontier with the escort.

The vassal king!

Even if they go to Australia, the Ming Emperor must at least have to give them a guard, and this rule cannot be abolished.

So there are immigrants who are starting out, and there are also systematic immigrants with armies, artisans, agricultural population, and even schools and hospitals.

Of course, the premise is that Zhu Di can really play this strategy well.

There's one more problem, though.

Black death.

At this time, although the Black Death in Europe had passed its worst stage, it had not disappeared.

So......

No big deal.

Since Timur did not suffer a large-scale Black Death during his conquest of the Middle East and Western Asia, it means that this time period was not serious, at least in Central Asia, West Asia, and the Middle East.

Sooner or later, this thing will have to be faced, and it is a thing that has spread around the world.

Get more cats.

Da Ming was originally a per capita cat slave.

Coupled with the modern epidemic prevention thinking, even if it is really infectious, it will be controlled in the Western Regions.

It is even possible to use the Western Regions as a buffer zone, and release a large number of cats in this area, so that the entire Western Regions can be full of wild cats......

It seems that the Western Regions are also full of wild cats now, such as some kind of widely loved.

The horn sounded.

Yang Feng and Zhu Di raised their heads and looked at the flags waving on the hot air balloon in the air.

The banner there was telling them that a hundred-man cavalry was coming.

"A small group of cavalry dares to come and send them to death?"

Zhu Di sneered.

In fact, small groups of cavalry have long begun to appear around them, maybe they want to sneak attack, or they may just be harassing, but with hot air balloons in the air, they will be spotted dozens of miles away. Zhu Di brought a total of six hot air balloons, all of which were tied to the camels' backs, a combination of four camels, and a double hot air balloon was raised on them.

An observer, a signal corps, and occasionally a high-altitude command post.

These hot air balloons are tethered with raw silk ropes and rise to an altitude of nearly 100 meters.

And they are all telescopes given by Yang Feng.

If it was a sunny day, you could see the dust raised by the cavalry from a distance of thirty miles.

You can sneak up at night.

But the Ming army at night is shrunk in a camel city, after the first few battles, the Mongolian cavalry has not dared to attack the camel city, the biggest advantage of this thing is this, can provide the Ming army with a mobile castle, to avoid the battle by the enemy to be supplied, or the night by the sneak attack.

Soon, nearly 100 Mongolian cavalry, in the custody of Zhang Fu's cavalry, appeared in their field of vision.

"It's not like, it's supposed to be a messenger, who came to negotiate or come to war."

Yang Feng said.

Indeed, this is the time to make a covenant for war.

As the Great Khan of Mongolia, Erleboke invited His Royal Highness King Yan of the Ming Dynasty to hunt in Hetongnaoer half a month later.

"Go back and tell him that this king should be a prisoner!"

Zhu Di looked at the messenger in front of him and said.

The latter cautiously kowtowed, and then returned with his companions.

"No, when have they been so civilized and polite."

Yang Feng looked at the back of the envoy and said.

"Are there any other routes here that can come from the south side of the Golden Mountain?"

Zhu Di said.

"Yes, there should be another one here, and we were the main one here at that time, in fact, it was a little strange to me to take and pass this route at this time, and it is said that this is the most suitable passage."

Yang Feng pointed to the location of the Hongshanzui port on the map and said.

He had always believed that this was the main line of communication, but in fact at this time, the journey north from the Junggar Basin through the Altai Mountains was further north, and then through a valley, at which point even the snow may not have completely melted. From there, through the Altai Mountains, first to Hetongbo, and then from Hetongbo to Kobdo, the only explanation should be that the line of Hongshanzui is farther, it needs to go around hundreds of kilometers more, and the water source is not convenient, after all, the line of Hetongbo is a series of lakes.

The only downside is that the Altai Mountains are so far apart.

But the Altai Mountains themselves are an excellent alpine pasture.

"Stabilize us with regular battles, and a strange army will raid our rear, they want to swallow us in one bite."

Zhu Di sneered.

"What about us?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Don't worry about them, if this battle is lost, we don't need to go back, if this battle is won, what do they have to do with us, order all the troops to march to Hetongbo, this battle has no retreat."

Zhu Di said.

(End of chapter)