The emirs of the Western Regions, who didn't understand that they had been shackled, were still singing praises for the Ming Emperor......

They were satisfied.

Compared with Timur's rule, the Ming undoubtedly demanded much less from them.

It's just a tribute.

It is nothing more than horses, camels, and cattle, which they do not lack, on the contrary, every tribute is also a process of trade, and the harvest brought back by a tribute to the East is far more than what they paid, and in the past, Timur did not say that it was almost the same. The only thing that they don't like a little is that they must protect the Ming merchants who pass through their territory, especially their beliefs, even if they live in various cities. But for the emirs, this is just not very liked, now they are surrendering to the Ming, and not the Ming is surrendering to them, they can't satisfy them in everything, and they are secular rulers.

They are more concerned about profits.

And the settlement of Ming merchants in the city will undoubtedly bring them commercial prosperity.

They can get more.

What about the dissatisfaction of the temple elders and the low-level people?

Shule's matter has proved that as long as they are loyal to the Ming Emperor, the Ming Emperor will really protect them and their descendants for generations.

As long as you and your descendants are always above your subjects......

What's the harm in being loyal to the Ming Dynasty?

I don't care what happens to the Ming Dynasty, as long as I can continue to enslave the subjects, then I will sing the praises of the Ming Dynasty.

Nothing else matters.

Baku.

"The king, the king swept the Western Regions and made the Ming Dynasty expand the land for thousands of miles, and this credit is almost impossible to reward."

Yang Feng looked at Zhu Di and said.

The latter's return trip did not go to Persia as originally planned, after all, it is no longer needed, and it is possible to cross the sea directly by boat in Baku, although the sea route is relatively not as safe as the land route, but for Zhu Di, who almost became a sea overlord, he prefers it.

The sea route across the Caspian Sea is nothing compared to the cross-sea expedition to the Japanese Kingdom.

It's just a big bathtub.

Yanwang, who has experienced many typhoons, doesn't care about this wind and waves.

Of course, Kun Timur still had to return with a large number of cavalry to the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, after all, Zhu Di still had tens of thousands of camels, war horses and even cattle on this trip, which must not be transported by sea, and it was his escort who followed him back across the sea. As for Yang Feng, he came to greet His Royal Highness King Yan, at least Ambassador Yang's trip was an official mission, that is, to welcome His Royal Highness King Yan, and the others were just piggybacked.

And next to them, Silvan Shah, or King of Ningyuan of the Great Ming, Ibrahim, the King of Silvan, stood grovelling and waiting, although he saw Ambassador Yang for the first time, but the Armenian merchants had rendered this man as the sacrificial king John. However, he definitely didn't believe in any sacrifice to King John, but what Timur was most afraid of was not Zhu Di, but this person, he knew very well that this was the person who tore Milan Shah alive. The latter belongs to the kind of people who can stop crying at night in this area, when he was guarding Tabriz for Timur, he slaughtered countless cities throughout Transcaucasia and West Persia, killing people like hemp, so a terrible guy was actually torn alive by this man?

It's horrible.

Teared alive!

A living person, torn directly with his hands.

Ibrahim shuddered at the thought of that scene.

"Did the ambassador say that I would not be rewarded for my achievements?"

Zhu Di said indifferently.

"I'm just reminding the king that if you want to do something, then this is a good opportunity."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Zhu Di looked at him very calmly.

Ibrahim next to him immediately felt the subtlety of the atmosphere, and although he didn't understand why, as an old fox, he still felt very keen.

"Your Highness, Ambassador, let's go and see the oil production site first!"

He said with a smile on his face.

Zhu Di didn't care about him......

"I wasn't stupid enough to be thrown a bait and pounce on it desperately, and finally changed it to someone else's plate."

Zhu Di said.

Then he and Yang Feng continued to look at each other.

"Hahahaha......"

Both of them suddenly burst out laughing at the same time.

Amid their laughter, Ibrahim continued to accompany the smiling faces.

"Let's go, Your Highness the King, you're going to have a lot of money going on from now on."

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.

"If that's the case, I will divide the income in the future into three parts, I will leave one for King Yan, and one for Her Royal Highness the Princess, for generations, let's make an oath with Your Majesty."

Ibrahim said quickly.

I have to say that this is indeed a smart man, he does not know the value of oil, of course, not the real value, in fact, he has been extracting oil here for thousands of years, and crude oil is the main commodity he sells to the outside world. But he definitely didn't know anything about oil refining, but even so, when Yang Feng deliberately went to see the oil extraction, he immediately understood what he had to do. The thing that can make this guy who has been demonized by gods come to his place on purpose must be of great value, and since the value is huge, it is not something that a character like him can monopolize, or even that he can occupy the lion's share.

The big head has to be given to others, and he is very satisfied that he can be allowed to get a piece of the pie, after all, he is a miscellaneous fish, even if Zhu Di wants to kill him now, it is just a sentence.

The Persians, the Black Sheep Turkmen, the Armenians, the Georgians, the Kurds, all of them will flock to it, and they don't need Zhu Di to do it himself, they just followed Zhu Di to sweep the Ottomans, and now they are like a group of loyal dogs following Zhu Di.

Just waiting for the next target.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty!

Although he didn't have this sentence in his knowledge base, he knew it!

"Then we'll settle it."

Yang Feng said unceremoniously.

"It's decided!"

Ibrahim quickly said with a hint of surprise that he had guessed correctly.

Apparently he had done another clever thing.

"Then it is up to me to write this covenant, let's sign it and send it to the capital, as long as the holy decree is ruling, whoever dares to covet this place in the future will be an enemy of me and Ambassador Yang, and an enemy of the Ming Emperor, whoever dares to rob the land of Baku and Silvan, I will send troops to help the king."

Zhu Di said.

Ibrahim hastened to thank him again.

So his sensibility is in exchange for real benefits!

To be a human being, you have to know how to share.

In this way, the three of them completed the division of the Baku oil fields.

Of course, Yang Feng definitely doesn't care about that money, in fact, he doesn't even care about Baku's crude oil, as far as the current Ming Dynasty is concerned, it is far from the point where a Baku-level oil field is needed to support it, and compared with the convenience of exploitation and transportation, Baku is obviously not as good as Nanyang. The oil fields of the latter are all by the sea, and even those in Myanmar are transported by water from the Irrawaddy River, so it can be said that they are directly loaded and shipped back to Daming after they are mined. However, the oil extracted here and transported back to Daming can be said to be a thousand mountains and rivers, and the volume of land transportation and sea transportation cannot be compared at all.

It's not a good deal at the moment.

But......

That's what he wants.

"It seems that I don't need to worry about oil production anymore."

Yang Feng looked at the oil wells in front of him and said with some emotion.

Real oil wells.

Dig a large well at the oil seedling, and then the coolies inside take barrels and load them out.

This is the Baku oil field at this time.

Because the depth of the oil layer is almost zero, it has been extracted and sold here since the Han Dynasty, and then gradually developed to dig pits on oil seedlings, and the extracted crude oil was sold throughout the Middle East, West Asia and even Eastern Europe, becoming a weapon used on the battlefield.

However, this is too inefficient after all.

Low is good.

The lower the efficiency, the more manpower is required.

Then the more people who are out of work, the more severe the food problem will be, and eventually the more precarious it will be.

The consequence of instability is that His Royal Highness King Sylvan is inseparable from Daming.

Even in the future, Yang Feng will have to push the population here to completely switch to oil extraction, as long as the price of crude oil is kept high enough, a steady stream of profits will be directed to King Sylvan to drive his subjects to the oil fields without stopping.

"Now the key is transportation, first, the camel caravan around Persia is definitely not good, you must build a large number of ships and then cross the Caspian Sea to the river, and then transport from the river to the interior, but the camel caravan transportation volume is too small, the Ming Dynasty needs countless crude oil, as far as your current extraction volume, it will not be sold if it is expanded ten times and a hundred times. Therefore, we need to use horse-drawn carriages while transporting camel caravans, and I am responsible for the carriage route from the mainland to Beiting, and when I return to the capital, I will let the imperial court build a road from the capital to Jinghe in the name of military transportation. However, the king of Yan, who went from the Jinghe River to Talas, came to build the road, and then levied the three capitals of the river to build a road from Talas to the coast of the Caspian Sea, so that the carriages transporting crude oil could go all the way to the capital from the east bank of the Caspian Sea. ”

Yang Feng said with a proud face.

Of course, such a long transportation will make the price of crude oil extremely high, but even if it is extremely high, it must be maintained.

You have to be lucky if you lose money.

It's not crude oil that matters.

Instead, he used the profits from the crude oil business to attract the population of the Ming Dynasty to the Western Regions.

In recent years, he has played very well in Gansu, and every year a large number of merchants continue to walk on this transportation line to transport crude oil, and then in order to obtain oil introduction, they have to cultivate land in Gansu, and the population of Gansu continues to grow. Next, the same routine was used to transport crude oil from the Western Regions, using the transportation of grain to the garrison in exchange for oil introduction, but transporting grain from the interior to the Western Regions was completely brain-pumping, and it was only right to directly engage in business in the Western Regions, so the population continued to migrate westward.

What's the point of losing money compared to that?

Now the Ming Dynasty has a vast enough subject country to dilute the treasure money.

It's just a matter of printing more.

Ibrahim hadn't understood the plan yet, but Zhu Di gasped.

"Ambassador, I'm afraid that the Western Regions will disturb you!"

He said.

It's going to be crazy.

Now from Jiayuguan to the west, that is, it can walk the camel caravan......

Edom didn't care.

Now Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan and other places all have official roads that can pass four-wheeled carriages, after all, there was originally an official horse avenue, and those who can take old-fashioned carriages can also take four-wheeled carriages, which is nothing more than more load, which is indeed a problem in the south, and it is necessary to consider the bearing capacity of those old-fashioned roads, but there is no need to consider this in the northwest.

In recent years, the transportation of crude oil in the northwest has also forced those businessmen to take the initiative to donate money and ask the local officials to build roads for them.

The more you move, the more you earn.

It's not easy to walk and make a fart!

If you want to get rich, build roads first!

What's more, Yang Feng was able to use a four-wheeled carriage to bring Jingying to Shule, which proves that there is no road problem in this section at all.

Or that the court didn't have to do anything at all.

If you repair the original road, you can basically use it directly.

The real problem lies in the westward direction from Jiayuguan, but Jiayuguan to Jinghe is not a problem, after all, there is no need to cross the mountain river, you can go from Jinghe to Xiaye to go to the Tianshan Mountains, and it is impossible to let the four-wheeled carriage take this route without digging a tunnel. What's more, including his territory, there is no real road from Jinghe to the west, and in a place like Central Asia, there is a city and an emir, who can build a big road, and besides, they are all riding horses and camels, and they don't need big roads. Getting to the Caspian Sea is a huge project, because there are a lot of nomadic steppes and even deserts in between, and the commercial transport of this route is indeed prosperous, but it is all by camels.

Besides, is this a simple road repair?

After repair, it has to be maintained.

I still have to resupply.

The carriage was not like a camel, and there had to be a place in the middle for the horses to drink and feed.

And you have to protect.

After all, there will definitely be bandits.

Eventually, the entire Western Regions will have to serve this road.

The disturbance in the Western Regions is light.

Because Yang Feng's road construction project was forced to rebel, it is possible.

"If you can't even build a road for the Ming Dynasty, what qualifications do you have to say that you are a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty? Lord, would you like to take one out of ten men, and then carry at least three months' worth of food for yourself, and build a road for the Ming Dynasty that runs through your territory all the way to the border with Georgia? The road had to be accessible to four-wheeled carriages, and every half day along the way, a post station had to be set up for the carriages to rest and even replace parts that needed to be replaced. ”

Yang Feng said to Ibrahim.

"Ambassador, I am very willing, as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, I will carry out the will of the Ming Emperor without reservation, no matter how difficult it is."

Ibrahim said quickly.

It's not that hard.

His territory is nothing more than hundreds of miles from east to west, and even there are roads between many cities, and their family is not the one who changes the banner of the king at the head of the city, their family has ruled Sylvan for hundreds of years, not to mention anything else, there is still construction.

It's just an order to the lords of all places, so that they can quickly repair the existing ones.

"The king is really loyal to the country, it is enough to have the king as an example, this road must be repaired, all the Ming vassals along the line, must draw one out of ten, and bring food to build the road for the Ming Dynasty, whoever opposes it is disloyal to the Ming Emperor, disloyal to the Ming Emperor, then there is only extermination."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

Zhu Di looked at him silently.

At this moment, His Royal Highness King Yan suddenly understood.

This Tama is a test of loyalty, a test of those lords who have just surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Either build roads for the Ming Dynasty, or you are disloyal, and if you are not faithful, you will be exterminated.

Of course, after this road was repaired, it would be easy for the Ming army to get back into the river.

Then the unfaithful will have to be faithful.

(End of chapter)