"So, how long can His Majesty the Emperor last?"

Ambassador Yang, who was satisfied with the child's mother, lay on the belly of the family, looked up at the starry sky, and said with interest.

Lao Zhu is still not dead.

Although it is completely impossible to get up and deal with the government.

"It's hard to say, at least half a month ago, there was a critical illness, and the imperial grandson, King Guangze and others were called over, but I don't know why, as if there was some wish unfulfilled, it was actually relieved, in short, the last urgent report I received was that His Majesty the Emperor was already available, and he had already made trouble once before in this situation.

also saw that he was about to die, but miraculously relieved, making the ministers happy. ”

Zhang Ying said.

"Unfulfilled wishes?

He can't be because he hasn't seen Golden Harvest yet, right? ”

Yang Feng said in shock.

Quite possibly.

Lao Zhu had nothing to worry about at this time.

Even the Great Khan of Mongolia was exhibited to him in a cage.

However, Erlebok was pardoned by him again, and then he also named a Chengenhou, as soon as there was a foreign tribute envoy, let Chengenhou be responsible for the reception, the dignified Mongolian Khan is now the Ming Dynasty professional welcome, fortunately, the Great Khan is very satisfied with this profession, after all, although he used to hold the title of Great Khan, but in fact, he was also quite displaced, and he was not Emperor Yuan Shun.

The Great Khan's blessings were not enjoyed much, that is, Guang was hunted down and killed as the number one target of the Ming army.

Now I don't have to worry about food and clothing, I drink in a bustling city, and it is quite comfortable to visit the teaching department.

The latter is licensed by Lao Zhu.

Ming officials are strictly forbidden to go to the Teaching Division.

However, the impeachment of Cheng Enhou for entering and leaving the Jiaofang Division was rejected by Lao Zhu.

As for the issue of the two grandsons fighting for the throne, at least for now, it seems that it has ended, Zhu Yunxi continues to study honestly, and Zhu Yunxi has actually completely taken over the government, that is, he has not yet ascended the throne. Although the folk gentry were dissatisfied with the imperial grandson, they were only dissatisfied, and the industrialists and businessmen generally supported the imperial grandson, and those who really did not like him were those so-called cultivators and heirlooms. But whether he likes it or not, he can only accept it, after all, the Shenji Battalion in the capital suppresses all dissatisfaction, and everything in the Ming Dynasty is developing in the direction that Zhu Yuanzhang is satisfied with.

That is, he was worried about his fourth son and Yang Feng, but now his fourth son has accepted the arrangement.

Went to the Western Regions.

This problem is solved.

And he also gave him a breath to subdue all the countries in the Western Regions, Lao Huai is very relieved!

This son is still like him after all.

As for Yang Feng......

It's useless for him to worry!

So according to his temper, he doesn't seem to have seen Jiahe's wish unfulfilled.

"That's why he can't take his last breath?"

Zhang Ying was speechless.

"It's hard to say this kind of thing, sometimes people's obsession is very deep, and there is no news about Ma He?"

Yang Feng asked.

It's not impossible.

Lao Zhu is actually a peasant in the final analysis.

He is too obsessed with eating, and when he is old, he has the world, and there is nothing to pursue, that is, the Jiahe that Yang Feng said, like this, has strong willpower, and it is not an incurable disease, it is purely old and dead, if there is an obsession that is not completed, he can survive for a certain time even if he grits his teeth and insists on eating normally.

He's just too old.

It's not that he's old, seventy isn't too old, but the overdraft of life in the first half of his life is too serious, and it is difficult for people like him to live a long life.

Therefore, only seventy can be said to be close to running out of oil.

But by willpower, as long as you stick to a normal diet, it doesn't mean you can't continue it.

"No, the ships sent by Guangdong have been waiting in Luzon, and if the fleet returns, they will report to Guangzhou immediately, but at least the news we have received has not yet returned.

Nothing really happened, right? ”

Zhang Ying said.

"This, I can only resign myself to fate!"

Yang Feng said.

Indeed, it can only be left to fate.

But this is the way to go to sea in this era, to go out is to resign yourself to fate, not to mention a few months later than the scheduled time, it is not uncommon to be a few years late, this is the case in the Age of Discovery, and even spend a few years to go to sea, return with a full load and then sink at the door of the house.

For example, the hapless Gothenburg.

It took nearly three years to complete a trade trip, during which twenty percent of the crew died, and when they returned to Gothenburg, their tentacles sank under the watchful eyes of the people who greeted them on the shore.

To go to sea is to resign yourself to fate.

Ambassador Yang's fleet carrying his righteous daughter, gold, silver and jewels sailed down the river, causing enthusiastic onlookers along the way......

After all, this is too much of an exaggeration.

After going west for more than a year, it was already necessary to use a fleet of ships that stretched for dozens of miles to transport.

Are you going to the West or moving?

And this is his own, that is to say, there are tens of thousands of Ming troops behind, and they are not robbing anything, so how rich is this Western Regions, can you grab so much wealth and women in one trip?

"To the west, the west is full of gold, the rivers are flowing with milk and honey, the cattle and sheep are boundless, the land is boundless, as long as you go, everyone can be a landlord, millions of thousands of acres are allowed to be cultivated, rice can be planted, and silkworms can be raised. Look at this silk in my hand, this is where it is produced, where everything you want, here you are just a tenant, you can't even afford to marry a daughter-in-law, you are all landlords and lords when you go there.

A group of wives and concubines! ”

Ambassador Yang was like a magic stick fooling the poor ghosts of Europe to join the crusade, holding silk in one hand and holding his most beautiful righteous daughter in the other, shouting at the onlookers.

Then there was an envious exclamation.

Then he performed the same in all the cities he passed.

Anyway, don't kill or bury.

It has nothing to do with him to fool people.

Because it is a military household that wants to go to the Western Regions, at present, the people have not been released to go spontaneously, and what they want to go to is to sign up for the guards in various places, and then send it to the Metropolitan Command Embassy to organize and go west as a military household.

There are also merchants.

Merchants can also lead the way.

In the future, the business group formed by Yang Feng will also be a businessman.

Then there are the officials appointed by the imperial court, although they are all commanding the envoys, but there are also civilian officials.

In short, that's all there is to the Western Regions at present.

Zhu Yunxi gave the commanders and envoys of all localities a target.

According to the different circumstances, there is one who commands the envoy to make up a guard, and there is also a who commands the envoy to make up a few guards, like those whose population is too small one or two thousand households, Huining does not need it, in short, the task of making people is handed over to these commanders, but the military households in the Western Regions are different from the mainland, they do not have to pay military rations......

Not only do you not have to pay, but as long as you have the ability to open up the wasteland, there is no restriction.

You can drive as much as you want.

In addition, all those who traveled westward, the imperial court also gave a sum of money to buy what they wanted to buy, not only the materials needed to immigrate to the Western Regions, including slaves and maids, but also the civilians of the Ming Dynasty could not buy slaves and maids, but this kind of military households who went to the frontier could.

In fact, this system is the fiefdom designed by Yang Feng.

It is true that there is no restriction on land reclamation, but the amount of cultivation by a family is limited, and what should I do if I can't cultivate it due to the limitations of my family's ability to look at the boundless fertile fields in front of me?

Use slaves!

Where to get slaves?

Wa Kingdom, Korea, Annam......

Buy whatever you want.

After arriving there, take the slaves and maids to open up the wasteland, and then the slaves and maids are responsible for farming, and what the real landowners need to do as military households is to fight, they are like knights in Europe, in places like the Western Regions, if you want to attract people to the past, and let them take root, this is the simplest and most effective.

If you go, you will be a landlord, and if you go, you will be a knight with a miner.

More modern social systems are useless.

The place was too big, and the population was too small to play anything else.

Even the current Ming Army's Shenji Battalion is a disciplined army, although Zhu Di is eager to establish such an army, but in fact he can't do it at all, because if he wants to establish a disciplined army like the Shenji Battalion, he must first have a sufficient population settlement. Because these soldiers had to train together for a long time, the nomad could not enter this era, because he did not have this foundation, his nephew could achieve it, but he could not. His nephew is in a city with a population of one million, even if you don't count the surrounding cities, there are more than 200,000 military households in the capital alone, and his Yili is currently about 10,000 or 20,000 people, but if he concentrates his guards in this way, then he will have to face the problem of grain transportation and local control.

He couldn't live in large groups.

The population of tens of thousands of cities in southern Xinjiang is already the limit.

The largest Kashgar is 24,000 households.

This is the limit.

Because productivity is limited.

On the contrary, this system of mining can manage a fragmented control area with a low output per unit area that is inferior to that of the mainland, lacks contiguous large plains, and can only rely on oasis irrigation with minimal maintenance costs.

This is also the main reason why the Western Regions are basically one city and one city lord in this way, and there has never been a real unification, which is originally broken and useless. Timur claimed to be an empire, but it was really a union of faith, and he sat on the largest cities and plundered artisans from all over the country to control manufacturing. Divide his son and control the main cities in the region, and then the emir of the various places has the final say, but he needs to pay taxes, but how to govern him does not care. It's not that they don't understand the benefits of a unified empire, it's that their conditions dictate that they can only divide.

The same is true for the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions.

It is the system of fiefdoms.

Go to have a fief, and then play the manor.

But......

The status is a military household.

Therefore, to dare to run back is to desert.

Ambassador Yang doesn't care about killing or burying it, he just brags and coaxes people there, and he can't come back if he is not satisfied after he arrives, whether it is the military household of the guard or the business group he is about to start, the former is pressed by the law, he is a woman and the indemnity is pressed, in short, he must stay honestly if he goes.

Besides, it's not a trick for them.

Now even the reclamation team in Huining has adapted to the environment.

In the end, it's a matter of initial adaptation.

After getting used to it, you get used to it, and besides, the home is already there anyway, so you have to get used to it if you don't get used to it.

Yang Feng passed through Sichuan next, of course, he couldn't fool many people, Sichuan commanded the envoy to apportion a guard, at this time Sichuan has a small population, and it itself is a wasteland, no matter how much he brags, it is difficult to be tempted, and Ambassador Yang has a bad record in this regard, everyone actually knows that he is quite able to fool people, after all, there is a painful lesson in Huining. But his righteous daughters are excited, for these girls who grew up in the Western Regions and are accustomed to the wind and sand every day, the great rafting of the Jialing River and the endless green along the way are undoubtedly like another world. They looked at everything along the coast with longing on the boat, and also showed their faces to the people along the coast, and arrived in Chongqing.

Chongqing.

"Xiaguan has seen the ambassador!"

The prefect of Chongqing is waiting at the wharf.

"Yang is just passing by, and he is not ready to enter the city, but there is the Governor of Lao."

Yang Feng said.

He didn't enter the city all the way, after all, he was behind a fleet of ships that stretched for dozens of miles, once he went ashore and entered the city, it was easy to cause chaos, this is thousands of righteous girls, just like thousands of little yellow ducks, and they have not undergone any training, they don't understand the language, and they look different, once they enter the city, it is easy to cause chaos.

Just stop by the shore and add some food and drink.

"Ambassador, Xiaguan has an urgent need to transfer it to the ambassador in the capital."

The prefect said.

He then took out an urgent document of five hundred miles and handed it to Yang Feng.

Yang Feng took it and opened it suspiciously......

"What's wrong?"

Zhang Ying asked.

"Your emperor's holy decree, let me not return to the capital for the time being, go directly to Guangdong, and then take the fleet of sailors to Luzon to welcome the horses and them.

What's the use of this kind of thing? ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, it may also be that the imperial grandson is trying to appease his grandfather, after all, Lao Zhu is in such a state, he doesn't do anything It seems very unfilial, but this kind of thing can only be done by Yang Feng, and if he wants to meet a fleet at sea, he can only rely on Yang Feng's high magnification mirror.

At least this thing can be seen far.

And Ma He's fleet return route is designed by Yang Feng, although there is no real route at sea, but because it depends on ocean currents, then at least within the width of the current, but if you want to determine where it is within the width of the current, this can only rely on Yang Feng's watch positioning.

It's winter and there are no more typhoons.

"What then?"

Zhang Ying said.

"You take them to the capital, and I'll go to Guangdong to have a look, since he invited me to go, it always means something.

How to get to Guangzhou from here. ”

Yang Feng said.

"The ambassador can cross the river from here, take the post road to Banzhou and then to Guiyang, from Guiyang to Guangxi's Anlong long lawsuit, the rest is to go straight to Guangzhou by water, but there are mountain roads along the way, and even many post roads can pass a horse, and the road is not easy to walk. And they are all Tusi jurisdictions, but since the army crusaded last year, these Tusi are still obedient, and the ambassador is invincible in the world, so he doesn't have to care. As for other than that, it is to take the Yangtze River out of the river, and then take the post road from Huguang, a little farther, but the road is much easier. ”

The prefect said busily.

"Let's go to Guiyang, the mountain road is no different from flat land for me."

Yang Feng said.

Indeed, the mountain road did not need to be considered by him, and the toast was even less to consider.

Walking through Guizhou, it is drifting along the Beipan River, Hongshui River and Xijiang River.

To go to Huguang, you can only ride a horse or hike all the way.

Let's go rafting.

Anyway, it's just a fool, maybe by the time he arrives in Guangzhou, Ma He's fleet has already returned.