"This is the hero!"

Ambassador Yang could not help but sigh at the outcome of this conflict.

Of course, this is already two months later.

The distance is too far, even if the post road is relayed, the transmission of news can only be maintained at a speed of four or five hundred miles per day, and the post road in the Western Regions can only form a relay in theory, but in fact, there are still many places because the natural conditions are too harsh, it is impossible to maintain the normal post station distance.

For example, the 200-kilometer no-man's land between Xingxing Gorge and Hami.

Such a place can only stretch distances.

Wherever a well can be dug, it will be built.

From Talas all the way to the east, there are many similar situations along the entire post road.

In places like these, there is no way to carry out five hundred miles of expedited transmission, and the messenger can only be allowed to travel as long as he wants.

And in the event of a sandstorm or something, it may have to be delayed even longer.

And there is no good solution, only to accept this frustrating reality.

Although the experiment with signal towers has begun now, and the banking system has also made a few lines, but don't count on the western regions, there is a distance limit between this kind of signal towers, which is shorter than the distance between post stations, and the signal towers are even more impossible in the environment where even the post stations cannot maintain a normal distance to the west of Xingxing Gorge. In fact, even if the signal tower in the interior of the Ming Dynasty can only be maintained in some densely populated provinces, this thing needs to be watched by people on duty, like the mountainous area, and even needs to be stationed alone on the top of the mountain for a long time.

In addition, it is also very restricted in the foggy and rainy provinces.

After all, it's a thing to see with the eyes, and no matter how good a telescope is, it can't pass through the rain and fog!

Moreover, the information that can be delivered is limited, and it must be as short as possible, so it is the post station that can really convey a large amount of information.

It just needs to be reformed into a real postal system.

In short, it is very difficult to really solve the problem of information transmission in this era, and the only feasible way is to work hard to build a transmitter, but it is also difficult for the cable telegraph to be popularized in the environment of the Western Regions, even in the mainland, it is necessary to prevent theft and cut wires!

Well, it's got copper.

At present, at most, it is to build a central city in a large area of various places, and then install your own women as much as possible.

Give them watches.

But considering that this thing cannot be recharged, it should only be used in extremely emergency situations.

The real solution has to be self-made radio.

"If he didn't even have this kind of forbearance, he wouldn't have become the overlord of the entire Western Regions, before defeating Bayezette, he wouldn't have turned his face with Daming, he still had to rely on trade with Daming to get the arms he wanted, and even if he defeated Bayezette, he might not dare to turn his face with Daming, originally in history, he may not really want to attack Daming.

Maybe it's just a fake way to destroy Yu and want to destroy Dongchagatai. ”

Sister Liu said.

It's quite possible.

No matter how you count Timur's plan for the Eastern Crusade of the Ming Dynasty, it is like a brain pump.

Because the supply capacity of this era can't sustain an expedition of his level at all, even if his 800,000 is bragging, he can still gather the 200,000-level expeditionary corps, and he mobilized 120,000 troops for the decisive battle with Bayezet, and the troops he mobilized from last time to the end were close to 150,000. But he had a steady supply along the way to Ankara, and there were cities on the Persian plateau to ensure that his army of 120,000 would not be lacking.

But who supplied him for the Crusade?

The whole of southern Xinjiang is nothing more than a string of small cities far away, and the large cities have a population of only a few tens of thousands, and they can provide very little surplus food.

Why did he bloodied Kashgar last time?

Isn't there just not enough supplies to get his tens of thousands of troops back?

But it is equally impossible to force Kashgar to offer it, because his needs are too great, and the latter cannot satisfy his needs unless he starves to death and gives him everything he can eat.

Can only be grabbed.

Killing all the people and snatching all the food and livestock was enough to sustain him on his way back to the river.

But he has a place to rob in southern Xinjiang, where can he rob from Turpan to the east?

He slaughtered all the living creatures in Hami, including the living people, as military rations, and it was not enough for the 200,000 troops to get out of the 200-kilometer no-man's land, not to mention food supplies, even water had no drink.

It's the same with taking the South Road.

Because the south road has to pass through Lop Nur.

Even if he brought livestock, his livestock would all starve to death and die of thirst in the process of passing through these no-man's lands that were hundreds of kilometers away, and then he took such an army that was estimated to be almost starved into the walking dead, walked out of the Star Gorge and ran into Jiayu Pass, but if the Ming army held on for a day or two, he would have people to eat people on his side. The key to the expedition is not the combat effectiveness of the army, but the supply, and the success of Yang Feng and Zhu Di lies in the fact that they have a total of only that few people, and the camels and horses they carry are almost three times the number of people.

And also robbed the herdsmen all the way.

As for the march across southern Xinjiang, Yang Feng really had a few thousand people under his command, and the rest were all servants who brought their own dry food.

And more importantly, Yang Feng can ensure that every time he goes to a city, he is basically in one go, so there will be no people who are blocked outside the city and have no food.

Of course, the main thing is that he did the same thing as Timur, and he also kept reducing the number of cities along the way, and when people die, they will naturally have surplus food.

I like it.

Timur would not have been unaware of this.

His tributaries, or caravans, have been traveling back and forth along this line.

What does he not know?

He should be playing a false way to destroy the enemy.

Coaxing Kugatai Khan, Dong Chagatai Khan and these people thought that his purpose was really Ming, and at the same time, he also coaxed his subordinates with ghosts, painted a big cake for them, and then took them into southern Xinjiang, taking the opportunity to destroy Kugatai and Dong Chagatai Khan. In this way, he will complete the unification of the Western Regions, and even use this as a springboard to conquer the Mongolian Plateau in the north, at least the Warat tribes are within his ability, as for the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, at least he has to control the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and after many years of operation, he has stored enough materials in Turpan and even Hami to support a strong army to advance eastward.

That's just reasonable.

But he ultimately lost to Providence.

And as soon as he died, the Timurid empire immediately fell apart, and quickly declined in fratricidal warfare, and even his son turned to Zhu Di's feet.

This hero doesn't blink an eye!

As for now......

"Let the princess give him a map of Western Asia and Europe.

But he had to trade cattle and horses.

He washed Delhi in blood, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and robbed many horses, cattle and sheep, at least he had to show some filial piety to the Ming Dynasty, and said that the Queen Mother heard that there were some rare birds and beasts, such as rhinoceros, white tigers, small-headed turtles or something, and said that the Queen Mother believed in Buddhism, these are all foreign beasts in Buddhist legends.

Gotta find him something to do! ”

Yang Feng said.

Imagine Timur traveling thousands of miles to transport a few giant small-headed turtles to the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty......

It's really brain-pumping.

Although it wasn't a fish, it couldn't be left out of the water for too long, so he needed to find a way to transport this two-hundred-kilogram giant turtle through countless deserts along the way, constantly pouring precious fresh water on them during the process, and finally transporting it to the Empress Dowager Damingbo. It's okay to say that he has admiration for the Queen Mother! It is said that his subordinates have to be angry to death, and they are all already angry now, and if they make such a come, they must treat him as Emperor Yang of Sui.

As for giving Timur a map, this, of course, is not a big deal.

Just give him the Western ones.

The Ottomans, Egypt, the Balkans, and even those of Western Europe and North Africa could be given to him.

Anyway, the plague is still rampant in Western Europe.

If he likes to go, go for it!

"But if Zhu Di goes west, I'm afraid he will also have to encounter the plague in Europe, although the peak of the plague has passed, but Europe has actually continued to break out in the next few hundred years, although Eastern Europe is not a hard-hit area, but it is not nothing, and the Middle East also has, it is inevitable to run into this when marching westward, and it is inevitable to enter the Ming Dynasty."

Sister Liu reminded him.

"The bubonic plague is not uncommon in the East, it is a very common infectious disease, but why is it not so devastating in Europe?

Unless this thing is in troubled times, it is unlikely to cause much harm at all.

The root cause of the plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not the plague, but that the whole country had entered a troubled era, the country's medical system had collapsed, local management had also collapsed, and the ability to fight infectious diseases had been lost, let alone an outbreak of plague, even if it was the flu. But in a stable era, even if it breaks out, it will only cause harm in a very small area, and it is impossible to do it nationwide, at most it is at the village level, and it will reach the county level, not to mention that the medical system of the Ming Dynasty is sound now, and Lao Zhu has made free medical care for all. There is also a well-established government system, it is still a country with heavy cat slaves, and even health systems have begun to be established in various places, even if there is a real introduction of plague, it is only a minor problem.

It can't be worse than the flu.

In addition, quarantine can also be established at various passes such as Jiayuguan.

This has been around since the Tang Dynasty. ”

Yang Feng said.

It's inevitable that this thing will come over.

Even now, it's hard to say whether it's already passed in.

Not to mention the last expedition to the west, it can be said that every year it can be said that the merchants and envoys from the Western Regions who come to the Ming Dynasty in an endless stream are difficult to ensure that they do not carry, this kind of thing is really inevitable, and the most closed during the entire Ming Dynasty is precisely when the plague broke out at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the trade route from the Western Regions to the Ming Dynasty was completely cut off by war.

Instead, it exploded.

The point is not the plague.

It's that the rule collapsed and there was no ability to cope.

Suspected records of plague outbreaks in ancient history, such as the Bianjing plague at the end of the Jin Dynasty and the plague in the north of Chongzhen, were all the collapse of the end of the reign, and the plague also broke out at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but it was still easily extinguished. The plague itself is arguably the oldest infectious disease, but why was it only in medieval Europe, that it was devastating? The root cause was not the plague itself, but the fact that Europe at that time provided the conditions for the epidemic to rage, and without the cooperation of Europe at that time, the plague could not have been so lethal. But as long as Poland does a good job of isolation and quarantine, it will become a unique existence, so this kind of thing can't make any waves in the Ming Dynasty at all, it's just an ordinary infectious disease.

There is no need to give up this good opportunity to go to the West because you are worried about this.

In addition, this thing raged in Europe for 300 years, and until 1660, there was still a large-scale plague outbreak in London, England, and the final solution was a fire that burned almost all of London.

For such a long time, it is impossible to stop all the time because you are worried about this.

"We need to strategically plan for the future of this country now and not be influenced by this kind of detail stuff."

Yang Feng said.

Then he looked at the vast expanse of land in front of him.

At this time, he was standing on the embankment of the Yellow River, and the small village in front of him was called Tongwaxiang.

Originally, after more than 400 years in history, the Yellow River broke here, and then changed from south to north, but now he is ready to artificially change it in advance.

Two miles in front of him, there are tens of thousands of busy people, they are using shovels, carts, flat poles and baskets, they are doing the work of excavators and mud trucks in later generations, digging in the vast land as wide as four miles and piling up the excavated soil on both sides, the two embankments are piling up, and there are a large number of people on the embankment tamping and even building stone slope protection for the embankment, both of which are very wide, after all, there is enough soil, according to the standards designed by Yang Feng, it will be used as a road in the future.

"Twenty years, twenty years, can you complete such a huge project?"

Sister Liu said with some disbelieving.

"Twenty years is not enough for thirty years, thirty years is not enough for forty years, slowly cultivate, even if it takes fifty years to cultivate, and it is not really cultivated all the way to the sea, just repair to Cangzhou, from Cangzhou to the east as it can flood by itself, anyway, there is no one there now."

Ten kilometers are dug in one year, and they are dug in fifty years.

Besides, it's not really all about digging, in fact, there are old rivers along the way that can be used, but now this is just an interface, so it needs to be really excavated.

In fact, this project is just an addition, the real purpose is financial transfer, you ask the southern provinces to pay money to support the construction of the north, they will definitely not do it, and even accidentally provoke resistance, but you want to say that under the banner of protecting the ancestral tomb, let them pay for this project, they are still barely able to accept it, and Jiangbei, especially along the Huai, is more willing. And this project is to spend money to recruit people, so the young and middle-aged people in Shandong, Henan, and Hebei can come over to make money during the slack time, which is to pay the taxes paid by the south to the poor in the north.

As for New River, it's a payment code. ”

Yang Feng said.

This new Yellow River is essentially the capital that replaces Zhu Dixiu.

Now that the Ming Dynasty will not move the capital and remain in Nanjing, then it is necessary to find another way to solve the problem of economic imbalance between the north and the south.

How to develop the economy?

Engage in a big project!

There is such a grand project as the diversion of the Yellow River, and there is no problem for the development of the three northern provinces in 50 years.

The taxes collected by the south, or the income obtained from controlling the economy of the south, are all filled in this project, so that the northerners can take from it, the wages of the people, the procurement of various materials, not to mention the fact that in order to support the construction, it is necessary to build a large number of cement factories and steel plants in the mountainous areas of Hebei and Shandong, and the transportation of materials are all in the north, which brings about the vigorous development of the economy in the north.

Fifty years later, the three provinces of North China should be transformed into industrial bases.