King Yan's ambition didn't need Yang Feng to worry about him, anyway, there were no really powerful opponents in front of him.

The fratricidal Golden Horde.

Tokhtamysh, supported by Lithuania, Khudurut, supported by Timur, and Decai, who was not a golden family that oversaw Timur's army but controlled the Nogai steppe......

It's messy.

There was also the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which was still very weak and was still a vassal of the Golden Horde.

While they are in Dmitry. Under the leadership of Donskoy, he did defeat the Golden Horde, but only had the right to bargain with the latter, and in fact he was still subject to the latter, and the Grand Duke at this time was the son of the former, Vasily I, and his main enemy was not the Golden Horde, in fact, unlike his father, he used bribes to solve the Golden Horde's interference in his expansion.

Anyway, the latter was in civil strife, and he was not interested in giving justice to other grand dukes who were attached to the Golden Horde, Vasily I gave some bribes, and then the Golden Horde acquiesced in his annexation of other grand duchies.

It's a bit like the wild boar skin that grovelled to the Ming Emperor while constantly annexing the surrounding Jurchen tribes before the rebellion......

It is said that before the rebellion, the wild boar skin was the most diligent among all the chiefs in the entire Northeast.

In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, he also specially rewarded him with official uniforms and official boots of several hundred taels of silver.

Like a loyal dog.

And at the moment, the strongest force is Lithuania.

One of the future Bo Three Fools was still strong at this time, and under the rule of Vytautas, the strongest monarch in their history, but theoretically Lithuania and Poland shared a monarch, the former Grand Duke of Lithuania was also his cousin who married the Queen of Poland and thus became the King of Poland, and he finally reconciled with his cousin after a series of armed struggles, and then his cousin lent him the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania, and he ruled Lithuania as Grand Duke, but he needed to return it after his death.

Of course, the main thing is that he doesn't have a son.

And the reason why his cousin agreed to this was because his wife died, and his status as king of Poland was because his wife was queen, so his authority in Poland declined.

According to the agreement between the parties, if he dies and Vytautas is alive, then the latter has the right to participate in the election of a new Polish king.

In addition, he was the father-in-law of Vasily I, Grand Duke of Moscow.

The latter married his only daughter.

So this old guy is also very playful, when he has a bad relationship with his cousin and needs to be scared, he can hook up with his son-in-law, when he needs to scare his son-in-law, he can hook up with his cousin, he converts to Catholicism in the west, and he considers himself the protector of Orthodox Christianity in the east.

At the same time, he also became a lost supporter of Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde, who called himself the Great Khan.

Old Yan Baichuan.

In short, the next Ming Yan King will be like Batu back then, commanding the army of the Western Expedition that is like a natural disaster army into this troubled world.

He's going to crush all the forces.

After all, none of these forces could defeat him.

As long as he can withstand the cold.

However, this should not be a big problem, after all, he has also fought in Huining for many years, and he has survived the severe cold of the Mongolian Plateau.

As for the imperial court, Her Royal Highness the ruling princess is still lost in the praise of the holy lord Mingjun by the ministers, and continues to develop towards the likes of Wei Wei, Shu Bao, and A Yu, who spent a lot of money in the capital to celebrate the birthday of the queen mother in the capital......

for herself, to be exact.

In order to make the capital look new, not only all the main streets are hardened, but also all the street lamps are installed in these streets, although they are only oil, but they are still with glass windshields, and kerosene is burned in them, and the source of kerosene is of course Yumen, crude oil in northern Shaanxi. In order to turn the capital into a city that never sleeps, countless merchants traveled thousands of miles to these remote places, transported grain to these places, and even cleared the wasteland in these places, and then exchanged them for oil and supplies.

As with the salt industry, crude oil cannot be trafficked without this.

And it is more ruthless than salt introduction, after all, salt introduction cannot completely prevent private salt, which as long as the people have demand, they will take risks.

But there is really no such thing as a private introduction.

Because there is no demand for crude oil in the people, this thing can only be collected by the refinery under the name of the little princess, and the merchants who traffic crude oil can only be sold in this one place, and in these places there must be oil to collect. The refinery, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary, uses an earthen oil refining kettle to refine crude oil, kerosene to burn street lamps in the capital, lighthouses on the coastal wharves, and lighting in various cities, while gasoline is used to make incendiary bottles for the army, diesel is used as fuel, and the last asphalt is used for anti-corrosion and sealing of the shipyard.

In fact, diesel fuel can also be used for corrosion protection.

It's just that the taste is a little worse.

But many black-hearted shipowners will also buy it and use it for the embalming of their ships, after all, even people can't stand the smell, let alone moths.

It can completely replace tung oil.

Tung oil is also flammable, and diesel fuel is not easy to ignite.

As long as my heart is dark enough, I can completely ignore its shortcomings.

Therefore, this oil refinery has really solved the food problem in Gansu and northern Shaanxi.

The former has sufficient food, and the road to the Western Regions is guaranteed, so that merchants do not need to worry about the problem of food being too expensive in the Hexi Corridor.

The oil dealers are becoming a scene in the northwest, transporting crude oil to Shaanxi in camel caravans, and then loading them on ships and shipping down the Jialing River.

As for interior lighting, whale oil has been started on this one.

Whale Haiwei, Longquanwei, and even Fusang all command the guards under the jurisdiction of the embassy, and they all have more or less whaling business.

In addition to these, in order to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother, the ruling party is also engaged in a new life in the capital, that is, sanitation, for example, sanitation workers must have, the streets must have garbage cans, no garbage is allowed to be thrown away, horse manure must also be cleaned up in time, and all flowers must be planted on both sides of the street in order to smell better, especially pyrethrums, etc., which have begun to be planted in various places. Also for the sake of the new style, many clothing taboos have been completely abolished, except for not being allowed to wear dragon robes, others are not allowed to wear casually, but Hu Feng is not allowed, shoes are also let go, boots are worn casually, gold and silver jewelry and even gemstone jewelry are worn casually.

She has her own jewelry store, who do she sell it to if she doesn't wear it?

Even she repaired the public toilet.

Similarly, the building restrictions in the capital have also been relaxed, and you can build whatever you like if you have money, even luxury houses, garden villas.

She's old enough of her own anyway.

In short, it is not only the court to spend money madly, but also the people to spend money madly, and the Ming Dynasty began the era of competition and extravagance in advance.

All the court needed to do was print more money.

In the same way, the continuous growth of the output of silver mines in various places, including Iwami Yinshan, and the continuous expansion of the area of dung dan in the rice producing area of the south of the Yangtze River brought about by the continuous expansion of the soybean planting industry in Huining, and finally brought about a substantial increase in grain production, and also kept the value of the treasure banknote at an almost unchanged level. As long as the food supply is sufficient, it will be difficult for the currency to depreciate sharply, and once the food supply is insufficient, you can't suppress the currency depreciation regardless of any economic policy, unless the rationing system is implemented.

Food is the foundation of everything.

The increase in silver will not really ensure the value of the banknotes, but the abundance of food supplies will really ensure this.

In the same way, the value of the banknotes has always been stable, so that the collusion between the bank and the household can continue to send more banknotes out, and the financial problem does not need to be concerned at all.

It's about spending money.

The army was reformed, and the military was paid directly, and all soldiers had it.

The yamen increased the number of servants hired and reduced the levy of civil servants.

Local infrastructure construction has increased, bridges have been built, roads have been built, rivers have been dredged, small reservoirs have been built, and irrigation canals have been built.

……

Even the great project of spectacle and misdirection of the country has been launched.

For example, Yang Feng's brain-opening Yellow River diversion project.

To be precise, it is a project to protect the ancestral mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty.

According to his plan, starting from Tongwaxiang, on the basis of the old river channel, to the north, through dredging and deepening, on both sides of the river embankment extending to Cangzhou, the river embankment should be built wide enough, and even in some places a large amount of concrete and stone should be used. As for the employment system for all the people, the surrounding people will be left with idle farming, and it will take 20 years to complete according to the plan, and once it is completed, it will be possible to divert water from the Yellow River to the north, and then cut off the current two southbound rivers. In this way, the siltation of Qingkou was completely solved, so that the area of Hongze Lake would not be expanded, and at the same time, a canal was dug in the Huai'an area to enter the sea and irrigated, so that the flood of the Huaihe River could also be dredged, and finally the danger that the ancestral tomb of Sizhou could be submerged at any time was completely relieved.

No one refuted this plan.

After all, the hat is too big.

This is to protect the emperor's ancestral tomb, and even not only the court itself, but also other vassal kings have to pay to participate.

In front of this big hat, even Jianwen didn't dare to object.

In fact, the little princess was even ready to give her nephew an edict to ask her nephew to pay for it.

As for the affected people, that is, part of the population of the Beiping Political Envoy Division, but this political envoy has a total population of only about 2 million at present, and only one Hejian Mansion is affected, and it is a very small part of Hejian Mansion, and it is also a sparsely populated area. In addition, there are still some affected populations in Henan and Shandong, but the actual total is only a few hundred thousand at most, and it will not exceed 500,000, and this is within the scope of the river repair, as for the real population involved in the relocation, I am afraid that the total will not exceed 50,000.

Moreover, the people along the line can dig rivers in the future during the slack time, not only to have food but also to receive wages.

As for the huge investment, since it is a 20-year construction period, it is not a big deal, as long as the printing of the treasure money is not enough to shake the stability of the currency.

In fact, at this time, the vast majority of people had begun to realize the benefits of this court.

Yang Feng and the little princess do not use Confucianism, but the question is how many Confucian students are there in the country, less than one percent of the total population, which is less than one percent, how many of them dare not do anything else except scolding a few words? I'm afraid that nine out of ten, that is, one out of a thousand, at most, will try to rebel because of this. What can they do with this ratio? As for the landlords, the same is true, the Juntian system strikes at the landlords, but the problem is that Zhu Yuanzhang has laid an excellent foundation, and there are not a few real super landlords in the Ming Dynasty, and those who can survive under Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife are nothing more than small and medium-sized landlords of hundreds of acres and thousands of acres, and they have no ability to really resist.

They are not at all like those super big landlords in the late Ming Dynasty, sitting on countless child servants.

During the Jiajing period, Wuxi Zou Wangtong served 5,000.

And he can only say one of the landlords in Jiangnan, Wuxi alone and his level are Anguo and Huacha, they can mobilize huge financial resources, and any of the three of them can come up with more than one million taels.

The role that this financial resource can play is huge, from the ministers to the bandits, from the people to the army, and even the pirates and pirates, they have the ability to get it.

It is not a problem for any family to raise a few hundred dead soldiers.

Very simple.

I will raise your family, give them the best land, send your son to the school I opened, your daughter marries my clan, and they will not be hungry if our family does not die in the future, and if you succeed, you will be given a thousand taels of silver, which is already a lot, and a hundred taels is enough to make many people work hard, after all, a little girl who is smart and smart is worth more than a dozen taels of silver.

The Dead are really not worth mentioning for a family of this level.

Isn't Wang Wenyan a dead man?

A certain eunuch in Jiangnan hired him to buy a prison student, and let him keep an eye on the movements of the imperial court in the capital, and then he endured all kinds of torture in the imperial prison, was beaten to an inhuman shape, and still gritted his teeth, and finally exchanged his life for it, isn't it that his descendants can be protected by these wealthy families?

But how can there be such a thing now?

Anyone with this ability has been cut down by Zhu Yuanzhang a long time ago.

The power of the gentry in Dengzhou could not fight Liu Wen's eleven people, and the power of the gentry in Xiangyang Mansion was beaten by Li Xin.

Why?

They don't have the ability to resist, they just have to resist.

They have no dead soldiers, at most collude with a few bandits, and they can only rely on the clan, but the clan will not die for them, Li Xin dispersed in a few words, this is the foundation laid by Zhu Yuanzhang, he has long destroyed the ability of the landlords to resist, Yang Feng is just beating the water dogs. These are the need to resist, there are not many people and no ability, and the vast majority of people are adapting to this new era, the merchants feel the breath of more freedom, the peasants' burdens are greatly reduced, the soldiers are beginning to lead the salaries, the craftsmen are raising their eyebrows, and even the vast majority of the students who originally studied Confucianism have begun to pick up new books.

In the final analysis, Confucianism is just a stepping stone, and now this stepping stone is useless, and now a new one is needed, so of course smart people are quick to pick up new ones.

Who would fight hard for a stepping stone!

In the end, the ones who are really resisting are those so-called Confucian families who cultivate and read heirlooms, because they throw away this stepping stone and have a starting line with others, and all their advantages in the past are based on their ancestral Confucianism, they don't know anything about new learning, and there is no difference between a mud leg who has just become literate in elementary school. What they hated was not that Yang Feng abandoned Confucianism, but that Yang Feng let them have a starting line with the mud legs, who could have almost stood on the finish line with their advantages, looking at the back and running desperately, but they could never catch up with their mud legs, and then took a step gracefully, put on their official hats, and then said to those crying mud legs......

You have to work hard!

If you work harder, you can be like me.

However, Yang Feng ruined everything and forced them to stand on the same starting line as the latter.

Don't wear it together!

(End of chapter)