Chapter 385: The Avenue to Heaven is wide and wide
However, Khalil reminded Yang Feng.
He can indeed introduce Ah San in large quantities!
It is inevitable to migrate to the Western Regions in the future, but with the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, it is not very easy for the people in the interior to move west......
It will be more and more difficult in the future.
No matter how much he blows the Western Regions into a mess, and no matter how well he does the infrastructure, he can't change the fact that he needs to leave his hometown and go thousands of miles away to overcome obstacles, the better the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, the more no one is willing to immigrate to the Western Regions, after all, there is no need for this. The effect of trade attraction is also limited, the Ming Dynasty can sit and wait for the merchants of the Western Regions to come to the door, there is no need to trek through mountains and rivers to send goods to the Western Regions, everyone can lie in the mainland and wait for business to come to the door, why do you have to travel thousands of miles in order to make more profits?
Danger on the road isn't a cost?
Trade at this distance is like a national highway, and you may die on the road one day.
It is true that you can earn more.
But lying down is just as profitable!
Not dangerous.
This is also the main reason why there were no great voyages in the Ming Dynasty.
It is accurate to say that the DPRK did not miss the great voyage.
At the end of the Great Voyage was the Ming Dynasty.
The goal of all the efforts of European countries is to send silver to Daming.
They plundered everywhere.
They ventured across the ocean.
They mine in the Americas.
……
The goal of all efforts is to carry silver to the Ming Dynasty.
And all the Ming gentry needed to do was to lie on the couch and wait for the Europeans to send the silver to the door......
Whether you want it or not depends on your mood.
Even the Europeans had to use force to try to force the Ming gentry to accept their silver, whether it was the early coastal conflict with the Portuguese, later with the Dutch, or even with the British, the root cause was that the Europeans wanted to send the silver to the Ming Dynasty, and then exchange it for the goods they wanted.
And the next economic development of the Ming Dynasty will comprehensively surpass the Ming Dynasty in the original history.
Then I don't want to go outward.
At the current rate of development, the Ming Dynasty will have to enter the steam age in less than fifty years, and the Ming Dynasty at that time is tantamount to the kingdom of God on earth for other countries, and it is they who dream of stepping on the Ming Dynasty, not the people of the Ming Dynasty to go out. At least serious people will not go out, it is estimated that it is some scum outward, Yang Feng does not want to turn the Western Regions into the sewers of the Ming Dynasty, the sewers have to be undertaken by Australia, the East Indies and other isolated places, so it is easy to close up, and the land area is used as the sewer, which is too harmful to the mainland, after all, the connection of the land is easy to spread.
So he still has to pull out those good families.
Among the various means of attracting people to the Western Regions, only Zhu Di's means are the most effective.
Give the land, give the slaves, give the livestock.
As a worker in the interior, as a yeoman farmer, he is the owner of the manor when he goes to the Western Regions, and he can live the life of a knight in the Western Regions, only in this way can people really yearn for the Western Regions, after all, the future of the mainland must be Juntian, who doesn't want to be a serf owner with a mining estate? Go to the Western Regions, all your dreams will come true, you will get hundreds of acres of fertile land, groups of slaves and maids, and beautiful girls from the Western Regions. But in this way, a stable and sufficient source of serfs is needed in the future, but there are fewer and fewer serfs and the like, after all, the population base of the Japanese country, North Korea, including Annam, is very small, after these years of continuous extraction, now it can be squeezed out less and less, the Japanese country has sent more than 500,000 young and middle-aged men to the Ming Dynasty over the years, and there are not less than this number of young women.
And that's not even counting the silver mountain.
These Japanese slaves undertook the work that the people of the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to do in all the most difficult places in the Ming Dynasty, cultivating fields in Huining, rowing boats along the coast, and doing those poisonous jobs in the mines.
Silently acts as the most secret septic tank of this pavilion in the prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty.
The situation is similar in North Korea.
However, the treatment of Korean slaves is slightly better, they are considered sewage pipes!
And this is an official statistic, not counting that it is not in the official statistic.
For example, running away.
Where else can escapes go?
The North Korean fled to Longquan Mansion, and they fled there or sold themselves into slavery, and the Japanese fled to Fuso, and they also fled to sell themselves into slavery, but compared with the oppression and hunger and cold of the daimyo in the Japanese country, they were very satisfied even when they were septic tanks in the prosperous Ming Dynasty.
But they can't really squeeze out much now.
After all, the population has decreased to a certain extent, and the remaining population has become fertile land, and naturally they will be able to eat enough, and I will naturally start to flourish with sweet potatoes after killing all the people without food in the Qing Dynasty, and the Wa Kingdom and North Korea are now restoring stability as the population decreases to a certain extent, and there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to sell themselves as slaves, and they are now also obedient to the Ming Dynasty, and they collect millions of taels of silver for the Ming Dynasty every year, and they can't still hire people to catch slaves along their coast, right?
To be a human being, we must speak of conscience.
Therefore, Yang Feng must find a stable and sufficient new goal.
Ah San.
Perfect choice.
Although lazy, at least under the whip of the British, it is still capable.
The key is peace!
"Tell Khalil that he can continue to go south and plunder the population, but in order to take care of your faith, he is only allowed to arrest those Hindus, and those caught must be purified first, and then sold to the city of Naturalization, and I will give him a good price."
Yang Feng said to Shaharu.
"Both men and women?"
Shaharu said immediately.
This was originally their regular operation, and after his father washed Delhi in blood, tens of thousands of slaves were arrested, and their family was originally engaged in the slave trade.
"Both men and women."
Yang Feng said.
Black dots are black spots!
The point is that Indian women are very hardworking!
"Then he can't do it alone."
Shaharu said with a smile.
This kind of good thing can't be cheaper than Khalil, and everyone can form a group to go south in the future, anyway, the green ridge is under the command of the embassy, including the upper reaches of the Indus River, at this time, because the Delhi Sultanate has perished, North India is in the midst of a warlord melee, and the Delhi Sultan, who is a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, has died in the war.
No offspring were found.
Therefore, for the Ming Dynasty, the vassal state of the Delhi Sultanate was still in a state of civil strife and ownerlessness.
Then, as the most recent vassal of the Ming Dynasty, it is reasonable for him to command a large army into the Delhi Sultanate to quell the civil strife.
And then it went on and on.
As long as Yang Feng doesn't care, he can be pacified there for decades.
"Well, I don't care about this, I just take people."
Yang Feng said.
As for the Afghan side, there is no need to provoke those tribal elders, the curse of the Imperial Graveyard should not be tried, anyway, they are harmless to the Ming Dynasty, let them continue to maintain their poor life in the ravines! As long as they don't rebel openly, let them be, anyway, they don't have a problem with the courtiers......
The tribal elders of Afghanistan were not opposed to paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty.
They don't have much ambition.
And their world is almost like two parallel worlds with Da Ming.
Leave them alone.
They just like to be in their own little world, what's wrong with them!
Ambassador Yang stood in the steppe outside Samarkand with a sigh, and in front of him were the people who had already begun to build roads, but these were certainly not forcibly recruited from other places, but locally. Anyway, this is also the royal city of King Kangju, and the people of Samarkand certainly don't have to go to the desert, just build roads in front of their own homes. The men who were pulling the wooden rammers kept shouting and hitting the loess roadbed mixed with quicklime, and the water-mixed road genes were constantly bubbling with mist for quicklime heating, and it was clear that Shaharu was going directly to the steaming clay in order to show his loyalty, and also to facilitate his own transportation. This technique is necessary for repairing the city wall, after all, it is impossible to put glutinous rice juice on the Western Regions, and on the roadside that has been tamped and dry, there is an awl to tie the road surface with an inspection quality, and it is qualified if it is not tied.
As soon as he moved, he pulled the man in charge aside and whipped him.
"Ambassador, I am going to build all such roads from Talas here.
There are mountains along this road, and you can use lime nearby, but from here on, you can't maintain a large amount of lime transportation, so it's hard to say where you can repair it in this way. ”
Shaharu said.
"I know, you do your best!"
Yang Feng said.
He's not the kind to be vexatious.
It is indeed a bit too much for Shaharu to transport large quantities of lime to hundreds of kilometers away to build roads under the conditions of this era.
In Shaharu's obvious relief, Yang Feng looked at those people......
"Do a good job, as long as this road is repaired, you can all go to the capital to see the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, this is to build the road for yourself, as long as the road is repaired, you can also wear the silk and satin shipped by the Ming Dynasty, eat the white sugar shipped by the Ming Dynasty, and your women will also have the mirrors transported by the Ming Dynasty. Even your children and grandchildren can go to Daming along this road to go to school, if you can be admitted to the Jinshi, you can also go to Daming to become an official, you are all subjects of Daming, you are the same as the subjects of the mainland. Soon the Ming Emperor will send you teachers, they will open schools for your children, and the Ming Emperor will not forget you, you are already the subjects of the Ming Dynasty! ”
Ambassador Yang shouted.
"Quick, get down on your knees and thank you!"
Shaharu shouted.
Those people hurriedly knelt down in confusion and thanked the Ming Emperor for his great kindness.
It's like their women can really afford a glass mirror with a hundred gold coins, and they really have the money to let their children go to school in the capital, but since Ambassador Yang said, there must always be dreams, and people can't be without dreams, so those people who got up and rammed the earth are obviously more motivated.
In the sound of their rammed earth trumpet, Ambassador Yang finally ended his trip to the Western Regions and officially embarked on the journey back to the east, because those carriages were in Shule, so he still chose to pass through the Wakhan Corridor.
At this time, Zhu Di was already planning his next round of western expedition in Beiping Prefecture.
I have to say that he really likes to conquer.
The last expedition to the west allowed him to gain too much, and he also really saw his future.
to the west.
The West has endless borders waiting for him.
More than two months later.
Gao Chang.
"What do you want to ask, King?"
Yang Feng looked at Zhu Di who came to see him off.
They are in the saltpeter mine at this time, this saltpeter mine has now become a strategic pillar in the Western Regions, but it is not a long-term mining, because Zhu Di does not want to purify nitrate, new gunpowder manufacturing and other spreads, so every year is to regularly send guards with slaves here for a period of time to collect......
Anyway, at least for now, it can still be said that it is everywhere here.
In modern times, because of the huge amount of mining, it is produced by pumping water from the ground, but now the surface is to scrape the nitrate layer on the ground, and then transport it to a place where there is water to pour out the nitrate solution, and then boil out the crude nitrate. But the crude nitrate is not processed here, but transported to a closed factory near Beiping Prefecture, which is actually a small city, and then purified in the next step. Including Zhu Di's gunpowder manufacturing, and even weapon manufacturing are also there, but Zhu Di's iron smelting is in Aksu, to be precise, in Baicheng, where not only iron smelting, but even copper, in fact, Qiuzi has been a copper and iron source since ancient times, plus oil, it can be said that it is the most important military base established by Zhu Di in the Western Regions.
The mined copper and iron were then transported to Beiping Prefecture, where they were cast in that small closed city to make other weapons.
These weapons are not just for Zhu Di.
Both Anzai and Beiting both commanded the envoys to use some of his manufactures.
These two were originally transported from the mainland.
They don't make munitions in the Western Regions.
One is limited in manpower, after all, the two have commanded the envoys so far, and there are a total of six guards, and these military households still have to reclaim the wasteland for farming and construction, and they also have to maintain military control, so there are not so many people. It is not difficult to transport from the mainland, after all, Yang Feng has that oil introduction system, and those who transport military supplies to the Western Regions can directly command the envoys to lead the oil in Beiting and Anxi, and the number that goes to Beiting is double that of Gansu, and the price of those that go to Anxi is doubled.
That's enough to make businessmen flock to it.
Second, it is easy to leak secrets.
After all, if you don't have enough manpower, you have to hire locals, and these guards and locals are mixed, so it's hard to guarantee that there will be no leaks.
"What is the cure for the plague you are talking about?"
Zhu Di said.
"What's wrong?"
Yang Feng said suspiciously.
"Fancha sent me an urgent report that a Genoese merchant ship had arrived in Jianzhou, and the people on board had found the plague you mentioned."
Zhu Di said.
"What did he do?"
Yang Feng said.
My ancestors of the Qing Dynasty don't want to be served in one pot.
"It's very simple, he killed the ship, along with the people who boarded it, and the people who came into contact with the ship, and for insurance, he even killed all the people on the nearby ships and the dock where they docked, and then poured gasoline on the dock and burned it."
Zhu Di said.
"He's smart."
Yang Feng said with satisfaction.
At this time, several Italian city-states were experiencing plague outbreaks, especially in Milan and other places.
"As for how to solve this thing, there is really no way to do this, there can be no medicine at this time, and if you meet it, you will learn from Fancha, but everyone who touches the side will be killed quickly, and then set it on fire, if you really go west, it is the best way to light a fire in any city, and the other way is that way, take as many cats as possible, and let cats re-populate in Europe.
Of course, if you're safe, don't go to Europe. ”
Yang Feng said.
"When they all arrived in Constantinople, there was no reason to stop.
If it is really unfortunate, it is also the will of God, the way of heaven is far away, and no one can know, but the ambition of the husband has been set, and he can only move forward with all his might. ”
Zhu Di said calmly.
(End of chapter)