Chapter 137: Varat Independence
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang had a headache about Suzhou, he thought of a way, at present, the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions should be the most developed in the south, the Jianghuai cultural belt, the Huai River and the Yangtze River will divide the entire northern part of Jiangsu and Zhejiang into three parts, of which the south of the Yangtze River has the highest level of development, followed by the north of the Huai River, Huaiyang and Huaiyang, which are located between the Huai River and the Yangtze River, have successfully sacrificed, if they are in peacetime, Huaiyang and Huaiyang will develop very quickly because of the peace factor, but if they are in a war period, in ancient times when rivers are often bounded, Huaiyang will become the object of contention between the regimes, especially the regime of the confrontation between the north and the south, Huaiyang has basically become a buffer zone, and it is still in the turbulent late Yuan period, the population and development degree of Huaiyang and Huaiyang have plummeted, compared with other more stable areas, the economic level is much lower.
The policy that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to adopt was to relocate the people from the areas originally controlled by Zhang Shicheng to Huaiyang and the more northern areas, which was the historical Hongwu expulsion. Although the time of occurrence is different, but the measures are still the same, are to disperse the population of the southern part of Jiangsu, Zhejiang Province to the north, let them in the northern area of the land reclamation, on the one hand, this measure can curb the power of the rich and noble families in the Jiangnan area, on the other hand, can punish Zhang Shicheng's old troops who had fiercely resisted Zhu Yuanzhang's troops, it can be said that it kills three birds with one stone, and the plan of Hongwu's expulsion will also begin at the end of the year.
The situation in the Northern Yuan Dynasty was not much better, on the one hand, the internal Warat Department was unstable and sought independence. On the other hand, there are also wars with both countries on the front. If they only face two enemies, it's okay, they can't control the rebellion of the Warat, the Warat is 108,000 miles away, and they can't spare their hands to quell the rebellion, but Tuhuan Timur naturally didn't want to let the Warat be divided in his own hands, so he sent an envoy to Warat to negotiate with the rebels.
Therefore, something that shocked the world happened, the rebels of the Warat Department refused to sue for peace, they had only one condition, the Northern Yuan recognized the independent status of Warat, the Yuan envoy was naturally not allowed, seeing that the two sides could not reconcile, the envoy was preparing to return to China, but he did not expect the Warat rebels to directly detain the messenger, and then officially declared independence in the Hetong area, the country was called Warat, and soon Warat successively controlled Chenghua, Altai and Kobdo. Tuhuan Timur only knew about this from the mouth of the merchants, after all, the envoy was detained, and he also lost the news of the Oirats.
Warat independence naturally slapped him in the face, and he knew that the Oirat Department was not honest, but he didn't expect the Oirat Department to do it so quickly, in fact, this also benefited from the Yuan-Han War, for the Yuan-Han War, Tuhuan Timur mobilized the Yuan troops from all over the country, and those people saw that there was no garrison to manage them, so they were naturally not honest.
The nobles in various places first pulled out all the eyeliner of the court, so that the court lost control of the various departments of Oirat, and then they raised troops to seize control of these areas, and when the army was raised, it was their officials everywhere, and it was naturally much easier to seize the control of these tribes.
The rebellion of the Warat Department also instigated the uprising of other parts of the Warat, and now the entire western region of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has been in chaos, Tuhuan Timur is naturally furious, since the beginning of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, his influence on the Western Mongolian tribes has gradually declined, so he stationed a considerable number of troops in the Warat area, just to prevent Western Mongolia from having wolf ambitions. And now, as soon as their army left, they launched a rebellion, and even captured the messenger, which was simply a slap in the face, of course, he could also scold, and now that the pressure on the south was not over, he simply did not have the energy to take time out of Annei.
Compared with the turmoil in the Central Plains, the Nanyang region is much more peaceful, although the independence of Borneo is vigorous, but most of the countries have surrendered, and the remaining countries that have not surrendered are only one Bo Ni country, but how can a Bo Ni country withstand the attack of Majapahit, and the Borneo War of Independence is close to the end.
At present, the production of sugar comes from the import of sugarcane from other regions, and the growth cycle of sugarcane generally ranges from seven to nine months, and the current river network has only been perfected for about two months, and there is still a period of time to wait before the sugarcane matures, so the current raw materials are purchased from Natuna from various countries or directly purchased from various parts of the Cham country.
Recently, another mineral has been discovered in Champasak, and another copper mine has been found in Champasak, which has caused a lot of fluctuations, but fortunately, Lancang's blockade of Champasak is in place, so that the news has not spread so quickly, but some countries close to Champasak have naturally heard about it, but because the source cannot be confirmed, they cannot confirm the authenticity of the news.
Now Fa'ang is already a small mouth, this exploration did not take much effort to find a number of minerals, of course, this time for them did not spend much effort to find enough minerals for future generations to enjoy, these months, Lancang has sent 80,000 tons of copper ore to the Champa, making Pengyu is naturally eating the whole plate, and soon he found that the copper products that Lancang provides to them every month or the cost of Cham copper in Lancang has exceeded the monthly income. Although their processing and resale is a profitable business, processing takes enough time, and now the production speed of Lancang has exceeded the processing speed of Cham, which means that the current income is less than the expenditure in terms of product processing.
Since our processing speed is not as fast as their production, then expand the staff and have a few more assembly lines, although it will reduce the efficiency to pay the wages of the workers, but it can indeed improve the productivity and let the money-losing refineries get economic benefits, which is much better than copper piling up the warehouse and not being able to sell it.
The Cham's copper is very famous, and compared to the copper sources in other places, the copper of the Cham is of high purity, and it looks much better than other regions in terms of appearance, so many countries that lack copper import copper from Natuna to produce money. In addition to currency, the most common is copper weapons, of course, there are not many copper used to produce cold weapons. Compared to iron, everyone tends to use iron to make weapons, after all, the cost is cheap and durable, who doesn't like it? In addition to these, there are some aspects that require the use of copper, that is, in terms of musical instruments, all suona is made of copper.