King Zhou, who didn't know what kind of difficult natural environment he would face, finally awakened his pioneering spirit......

After all, his fourth brother has indeed gained a lot.

The war horses, gold and silver treasures, and women that were brought back from the Western Regions last year all amazed everyone.

Just the high-quality war horses of those guards are enough to make people envious, the escort cavalry brought by Zhu Di is all Arabian horses, standing out on the battlefield, he has gained so much in less than two years of his expedition to the west, which is enough to prove that there are good places outside the Ming Dynasty. The Delhi Sultanate had already paid tribute to a number of Mawarima, and the people who had been to India last time had returned, and they had already compiled what they had seen and heard along the Ganges River to Delhi and had been distributed by Lao Zhu everywhere.

The climate is like Jiangnan.

The water network is as vertical and horizontal as the south of the Yangtze River.

The land is fertile.

Rice and cotton are everywhere.

Its people are docile, the noble and the lowly are distinct, and the lowly have no resentment.

The people are peaceful......

Well, the ministers who sent to the Delhi Sultanate did not hesitate to praise them, even praising the caste system of India as orderly and the sloppy spirit of the Assan......

Sure enough, they are all in the same vein!

But it's really tempting!

"Does the King of Chu want to take a scripture? If the king of Chu is interested, it is just to control Annam, and then to Champ, Zhenla, Siam and other places, although this generation has submitted to the Ming Dynasty, but its land is also counted as a forest of princes, if the king can subdue his land, the court is willing to support. ”

Yang Feng looked at the King of Chu and said.

The latter smiled deeply.

"Ambassador, Xiao Wang hasn't even packed up Annan yet, although most of Annan has surrendered, there are still many wild and untamable people who resist Wang Shi in dangerous places."

He said.

Annan just surrendered.

In fact, Lao Zhu didn't think too much, a large number of heroes and powerful people were appointed as Tusi, of course it is impossible for these people to say that they are sincerely surrendering, otherwise they will not need to be suppressed by an army of 150,000, these Tusi and the King of Chu and Annan Dusi, in fact, there has always been a small-scale conflict. Next, even if the king of Chu goes back, he must suppress these toasts first, otherwise it will be impossible for Annan to be full of smoke, after all, this land has not returned to the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years, and if you want to really rule, it is impossible to suppress it for decades or even hundreds of years.

"Isn't that better, the king won't know what Yang is doing in the Western Regions, right?

Don't they like gold and silver women?

The king took them to conquer the ministers, and when they went back to plunder, they took what they had gained, and those places in the South Seas were hot and humid, and the plague was rampant, and people who often died in a city without fighting, let alone fighting. In the final analysis, the court is not easy to rule, the key is that we have too few people, since this is the case, let's reduce their people.

If there is no one, it will be easy to manage. ”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

King Chu smiled slightly.

"Taught!"

He arched his hand.

Indeed, you can learn from Yang Feng!

He can go back and take those toasts who rebel from time to time and go to other small countries to burn and loot, don't they like gold and silver? Don't they like to go out and burn, kill and loot?

Then the war reduced the population of these Tusi, and the territory he grabbed was still his fiefdom.

The best of both worlds!

"But since it's hot and humid and the plague is rampant, we have a lot of casualties, right?"

King Shu said.

"What to do, it is impossible to have no price at all, prepare more doctors' medicines, overcome obstacles, isn't this the case?"

Yang Feng said.

Of course, the main thing is that it will definitely not be dominated by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, that is, to get an elite of the Ming army, and then take those Tusi of Annan, the latter wants to burn and loot, and the King of Chu wants to take down his own territory, and the two families hit it off, and finally they went out to fight, and the Ming began to immigrate to Annan to control. The current 150,000 troops of the Annan Metropolitan Division must be gradually withdrawn, these are all conscriptive natures, and the southern guards have made up their own can't bear it if they don't let them come back.

As for Annam, it is enough to leave about ten guards to garrison, mainly in the Red River Delta, and then add coastal fortress areas.

It doesn't matter if it's in the inland mountains.

Let the King of Chu take the toasts to play by himself!

It is said that the inland mountainous area of Annam is not a good place, and the Ameritan heavenly soldiers have all been defeated.

"There is also the line to the south of Yunnan, is the King of Shu interested?"

Yang Feng said directly.

From Yunnan to the south, that is, the three Xuan and six comforters, these do surrender to the Ming, but if you surrender to the Ming, you should welcome a Ming vassal king to serve as an ancestor in the past, which is also the grace of the Ming Dynasty......

It's not enough to send the vassal kings over to educate and protect them, isn't it enough?

This is the grandson of the phoenix and the dragon!

Blessed are they!

Therefore, you need a vassal king with the best image.

It's the king of Shu.

"Ambassador, Xiao Wang is afraid that he can't stand the humidity and heat there."

King Shu said embarrassedly.

"Well, the king misunderstood, it is not a place of damp heat and miasma, it is a plateau, and there is even a pasture for grazing war horses, and it is suitable for growing rice, and it is not for you to go immediately, the king will lead the passage to Yunnan, and you will temporarily live in the Minwang Mansion, and you can pay the rent to the Minwang when you go back. Chengdu's Wangfu Tianshan shops are still yours, in order to slightly control Yunnan-Guichuan and choose a livable place in the land of Sanxuan and Six Comforts, and then escort the army south by Mu Sheng after preparation, if you have not been well prepared, you have been living in Kunming. ”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

The king of Shu understands in seconds......

This Tama is forcing Mu Sheng.

Mu Sheng didn't give him a fief from the land of Sanxuan and Six Comforts, then he would always be in Kunming.

Anyway, Mu Sheng didn't dare to try his best to squeeze out like King Min, after all, King Min had no foundation to rely on, but behind King Shu was the Sichuan Army, Mu Sheng dared to bully him, did he want Qu Neng, Chen Xuan and other generals to talk to him?

"Do you know where the ambassador is best suited?"

He asked.

"Here!"

Yang Feng pointed to the plains of central Myanmar very dryly.

Then he poked another dot hard.

"Especially here, this is where the Mogu Treasure Well is located, the rubies from the southwest basically come from here, you just occupy here, and then let the local people dig up the gems, and take the gems to Tengchong for processing, it is estimated that this can feed the guards."

He said.

Mogu Baojing is of limited value at this time......

Zhu Yuanzhang is not good at this, the prosperity of Baojing is in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after the dignitaries and nobles, wealthy merchants and landlords began to compete extravagantly, at this time the gentry dared to wear gems and were carefully hacked to death. But then the clothing restrictions must be relaxed, so Mogok will usher in a glorious period, but these Tusi in Myanmar also relied on the profits of Mogu Baojing to develop rapidly and become an unstable factor in the southwest, and finally achieved Mangyinglong.

The latter is by the treasure well.

The core of his war with the Ming Dynasty was actually the control of Baojing.

Even not only Tusi, but also mainland merchants dealing in gemstones, Tengchong in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was a gem processing center, and a bunch of mainland merchants dealt in gems there, including several Han Chinese who later participated in the civil strife in Tusi.

So......

Let's get to the root of it!

Let the king of Shu occupy Mogu and control the gems of Mogu, so as not to develop those toasts.

And the king of Shu is not able to use the treasure well to develop, because the surrounding toast is salivating and watching, he dares to have a heart of disobedience, these toasts will be happy to rebel for the Ming Dynasty, and then grab the Mogu treasure well. And the King of Shu has to collude with the Mu family to control Baojing, after all, he has three guards, and his military strength is insufficient, but he can partner with the Mu family and even those generals in Sichuan.

In this way, Mogu Baojing has become an important link in the chain of interests in the southwest.

Southwestern these generals will do their best.

Very simple.

These guys have families, clan cronies, and they just need to travel to Burma like armed caravans to run the gemstone business.

The King of Shu directly helped as an armed caravan when needed.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty will engage in more such armed caravans.

On the contrary, the number of immigrants in health facilities should be reduced.

Immigrants of this nature can easily cause their dissatisfaction, just like those in Daning before, but the armed caravans are purely civilian, completely driven by interests, just like the salt merchants in the Shangtun of the border fortress, they emigrated for profit, so as long as the interests continue, they will also multiply there for generations.

Like Mogu Baojing, it can really be for generations.

After all, it was still digging until modern times.

Moreover, the immigrants lured by this interest are strung together in a chain.

From processing, transportation, mining, including services that serve the people on this chain, even special services, all of them will be like tentacles deep into the interior of Myanmar.

The king of Shu didn't say much, since it is impossible to stay in Sichuan, then he might as well go out and try, it doesn't matter if he fails anyway, it's a big deal not to enter Beijing as a fief. But if he succeeds, he can have his own real territory and be a monarch in his own territory.

There are also the kings of Liao and Qing.

King Qing actually made a mistake in judgment, he didn't expect that there would be this line.

If there was no such line, then he could have asked for a fief in Ningxia, where the agricultural conditions were still excellent.

But now......

"I'd better go to Beijing!"

He said.

"Well, the king, I actually think you should go out and explore it, I have chosen the place for you, you can follow the king of Yan first, and then the king of Yan will go west from the Western Regions to the south. There is also a road to India, except that you enter India from the west, and from this plateau, you pass through a mountain pass that resembles the Juyong Pass, which is the vast plains of India.

The situation there is similar to our Central Plains. ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, this plateau is not easy to do, and it is nicknamed the Imperial Cemetery.

He actually wanted to throw King Qing over and let Zhu Di arrange a place, after all, Zhu Di's future territory is large enough, and it would be too cheap for him to give it all.

"No need!"

King Qing said with certainty.

In that case......

Yang Feng looked at his eldest brother with a smile on his face.

"Is the King of Liao interested?"

He said.

"I'd rather go to the South Seas."

His eldest brother said very dryly.

So the little princess must have told her brother where the most valuable thing was.

"King, this is according to His Majesty's decision during his lifetime, and a government-run Nanyang Company will be set up in the future."

Yang Feng said.

The development of the South Seas must be similar to the East India Company, the Ming Dynasty is not without this kind of commercial base similar to the European colonists, the South Seas have, Hoi An, Vietnam, thousands of Ming merchants live all the year round, and the Japanese merchants are squeezed out. The largest Wa country Pinghu at least 30,000 Ming merchants, of course, can also be said to be pirates, Li Dan is the boss, other Pattani, Batavia have, the first invasion of the Ming by the Dutch was instigated by the Zhangzhou merchants of Pattani, intending to copy the experience of Macao.

Not to mention the same tens of thousands of people like Manila.

But......

Dump each other.

Instead of uniting against European colonizers or natives, they often join forces with European colonizers or natives to kill their fellow citizens.

If the private sector is allowed to carry out this kind of development, it will inevitably end up with this result.

Fujian maritime merchants pit Guangdong maritime merchants, and Zhangzhou maritime merchants pretend to be pirates to kill Chaozhou maritime merchants.

It's inevitable.

They can only be avoided by forcibly integrating them into an organization.

Maximum!

After all, even the captain of the British ship often robbed the British merchant ships with a privateer license, but there is an organizational constraint, which is better than nothing after all, and it is a big deal to change the joint-stock system, just like his Shanxi Development Company. By the Ministry of Households, the Emperor, Ambassador Yang's family, plus private investors, the Ming version of the East India Company was finally established.

"Ambassador, you're talking about trade, but I'm talking about land, the imperial court specializes in Nanyang trade, but isn't there no owner of Nanyang's land?"

King Liao said with a smile.

So......

"Understood, you don't care about trade, but control the source."

Yang Feng immediately understood his eldest brother's goal.

It's a smart choice.

"In this case, we have to set up a special Nanyang Economic Envoy, but the imperial court has no soldiers, after all, there is no suitable for this direction."

He said.

"It's easy, set up a separate command envoy here, and then send a few guards to the imperial court to open up, if it doesn't work, move my three guards over, where agriculture and fishing are all good. Then give me a part of the Yingjiahe fleet, and I will control the Ryukyu capital to command the envoys, and the rest is to open up to the South Seas step by step, from there to Luzon not far away, and then from Luzon to the west.

However, I have to recruit people in the mainland, and I will pay for the cost myself. ”

King Liao pointed to a certain island and said.

He has money......

Well, it's actually his sister who is rich.

So his loan from the bank should be the most lenient.

"Okay!"

Yang Feng said.

In this way, the king of Liao also moved to the domain.

Of course, at present, it can't be said that the feudal domain is moved, except for Zhu Di, nothing else can be said to be transferred, it can only be said that they began to prepare for the transfer of the feudal domain, and their palace and industry are still theirs, they just each receive a strategic envoy, and then control one or several of them to command the envoys to lay down a territory for themselves.

When it was laid, they thought it was time to move, and then they officially moved the domain.

As for Zhu Di, it is different.

His transfer was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was alive.

So he had to move to the Western Regions immediately.

Previously, he had already built a palace for himself in Yili, and among his five guards, two were already in place in the Western Regions, and the other three depended on how much he could take away from Beiping, and he would make up for what was not enough anyway. As for Anxi, the Wei to which the Beiting Liangdu Division belongs, will be completed one after another in the future, which was originally set when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive.

(End of chapter)