Chapter 4: King Yan's eastward journey

King Yan has ambitions within him.

He gave up the throne because he wanted to build a huge empire, not a few small states.

If according to the idea of the imperial court, the Yan Kingdom will be composed of a series of small states in the future. In this way, it is impossible for the Yan State to threaten the imperial court.

But King Yan's exploits are estimated to be less than second. I will not be there.

King Yan didn't want to see that.

It's just that others see King Yan as majestic and domineering, but King Yan himself knows his confidence, Yan Country claims to have a population of 10 million, but in fact, it is not this number, and the Han people are only one or two million. This is the result of his efforts to gather wool from the Central Plains.

The others are all Mongols, and when they return, they have their own thoughts, and King Yan can't be trusted anyway.

Among the Han people on whom King Yan depended, there were many people who wanted the imperial court. For example, Lian Zining in front of him. King Yan was very troubled. Is Lian Zining a loyal minister?

Be.

If one day, if Lian Zining's life is to be exchanged for the life of King Yan, Lian Zining will definitely be willing to pay with his life. But Lian Zining was loyal to King Yan. It doesn't mean that Lian Zining doesn't want to go to the court.

Lian Zining felt that King Yan and the court were at peace with each other, which was the best result.

So. Lian Zining actually supported King Yan at the cost of dividing the three kings in exchange for the support of the imperial court.

But King Yan didn't want to.

After all, he wanted to build a huge empire. And most importantly, he has agreed to this thing now, and when he fights again in the future, many things will not be easy to arrange.

Because he controls not one Yan country, but three small countries.

That's what the human heart is.

As long as King Yan promises, even if he hasn't divided the family belongings, the children below will make up their minds to fight for more family belongings.

King Yan is actually also preparing to give his son who cannot inherit the throne a fief in the future. After all, the last thing that is lacking in today's Yan Kingdom is fiefdoms.

But this must be based on the premise that the center of the Yan Kingdom is strong.

And not the other way around.

King Yan realized that if he wanted to advance westward without scruples, he had to solve the problem of the rear, not just a matter of logistics, but to reach a new consensus with the imperial court.

Therefore, this time in Nanjing, King Yan can't go if he doesn't want to. It must pass.

King Yan said, "I see. Then get ready. After the beginning of spring, I will go back to Nanjing, and by the way, I will see where the railway has been built."

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When King Yan decided to go east.

There are also many people in the rest of the world who have received this invitation.

For example, Muchun in Yunnan.

Mu Chun had a premonition about this invitation. He even had a hunch that he probably wouldn't return to Yunnan.

This hunch did not come out of nowhere. Rather, it was perceived by the imperial court on a series of actions in Yunnan.

After Beijing conquered Nanjing and officially became the imperial court, many orders were issued to Yunnan, first of all, Feng Cheng returned to Yunnan.

Originally, Feng Cheng should have appeared at the future national conference.

It is said that the matter of the knighthood of Longgong has been almost discussed internally. Just waiting for an opportunity to make an announcement. He Xi set this time above the National Assembly.

This congress will be held for several days.

And Feng Cheng, as one of the future knights, should be in the imperial court. Now he was sent to Yunnan.

And with Feng Cheng's entry into Yunnan, the army that followed him into Yunnan was not Feng Cheng's own troops, but many new troops in the north. The imperial court has a very clear understanding of the situation in Yunnan.

Whether it is because the two generations of the Mu family are in Yunnan, they should avoid suspicion. It was still Mu Chun's mentality of watching from the sidelines in the Civil War, so that the imperial court was a little uneasy about Mu Chun.

In short, Mu Chun is leaving Yunnan.

Mu Chun didn't think there was anything wrong with this.

After all, the situation of Mujiashi in Yunnan has not yet been formed. Mu Chun had foreseen it before he made his choice

This is the end.

He didn't care, though.

After all, the Mu family has the closest relationship with the East Palace, and Mu Chun and Zhu Xiongying are also acquaintances, and their relationship has been estranged over the years. But it doesn't take a few years to recover.

Mu Chun has only been silent for a few years.

In this case, Mu Chun is also a little sad.

However, this time Dingguo will have a lot of things above, and He Xi also let the people below speak freely and talk about the local conditions. Mu Chun didn't know if it was true or not.

It's just that He Xi has already said it.

Mu Chun is welcome.

He thought it was the governance of Yunnan.

Yunnan is divided into three parts, Inner Yunnan, Outer Yunnan, and the boundary between the two. Inner Yunnan, in fact, is Kunming Dali, almost Han land. Outer Yunnan actually refers to the southern part of Yunnan, which is now Myanmar and other places. Between the two, that's where the two sides tug at bay.

In Mu Chun's opinion, in terms of the situation. The border area between Inner Yunnan and Outer Yunnan is where the gate of Inner Yunnan is located.

With these places, Inner Yunnan can be stable.

Otherwise, you will face the problem of Nanban kicking your nose and face.

But the problem is also that here, if these places are owned by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will have a situation in Yunnan, and they can condescend and directly push these Nanban into the sea.

Luchuan and other toasts are ready to move because of the support of all sides.

Mu Chun followed his father to fight Luchuan at the beginning, and they fought very well in history. Now that the Ming weapons have been updated, they are like chopping vegetables and cutting melons.

And Mu Chun had a new idea in his heart.

Nothing else. That is, to go south, directly to the sea.

After all, with the development of the South Seas, there are also a large number of ships in the Western Ocean, and the Ming Dynasty does not know anything about the Indian Ocean region.

At least Mu Chun knew that it was possible to open up a sea channel from Yunnan. And after going to sea, it is not far to reach the Nanyang Governor's Palace.

This is a great thing for Yunnan.

Without him, it would be too difficult for Yunnan to connect with the mainland. From Yunnan to Guizhou and then to Hunan, there are mountain roads along the way, which is simply not a road for people to walk.

There is no three-foot flat land in Guizhou. It's not a joke.

The Mu family's father and son have been in Yunnan for most of their lives. Mu Chun also knew that it would be difficult for him to come back if he left in the future. He wanted to give Yunnan a way out.

Now the pattern of eating by the sea tomorrow is already obvious. But Yunnan does not have a single access to the sea. That's it.

It is also very difficult for Yunnan to connect with the Central Plains.

Speaking of which, there are only two roads, one is the five-foot road built by the Qin Dynasty, only five feet wide, from Yunnan to Sichuan, and the other is from Yunnan to Guizhou.

So much so that later generations called Yungui, because to go to Yunnan, you must first go to Guizhou,

In Mu Chun's opinion, these two paths are too unreliable. Once something happens, Yunnan is likely to break away from the Central Plains.

Judging from later generations, many people think that it is impossible, how can Yunnan not be China's Yunnan. But the problem is that at this point in time, Mu Chun's worries are not fake.

After all, Yunnan had just come into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and it had fallen into the hands of barbarians for hundreds of years.

How could Mu Chun not think about it, would the old things reappear.

There are many rivers in Yunnan, and these rivers all flow to the Indian Ocean, as long as they are opened, it is even easier for Yunnan to connect with the Indian Ocean than to connect with the Central Plains.

Before that, Mu Chun would never have this idea.

After all, he wants to maintain Yunnan's centripetal force towards the imperial court, so even if the roads from Yunnan to India are easier, Mu Chun will dig these roads and never allow them.

But that's no longer the case.

It was not difficult for the Ming fleet to appear in the Western Ocean. Or that the merchant ships of the Ming and Han people have arrived. The route from Yunnan to the sea will not only not make Yunnan centrifugal problems for the imperial court, but will also include Yunnan in more economic influence of the Ming Dynasty.

At least the goods in Yunnan can have a new shipping direction.

Of course, Mu Chun also knows. In fact, there is another way to go to sea from Yunnan, and that is to go from Vietnam. However, today's Annan is probably honest. He didn't dare to be dishonest either. And Lu Chuan is dishonest.

Although, it was beaten twice. Mu Chun still knew that some people in Luchuan were making small moves. I probably feel that deep in the tropics, many soldiers in the Central Plains can't adapt to such a climate, so they dare to be so presumptuous.

However, Mu Chun also knew that with the power of Yunnan Province alone, he could not do this at all. Since Dingguo can make people speak, he dares to say it loudly.