Chapter 464: A Long Way to Go II

In July of the third year of Shengwu, Chen Cao personally met Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, who had returned from the Middle East, in the Shanghai Puxi Military Port in Songjiang Prefecture.

After saluting, Sun Chuanting looked around and said with emotion: "When the minister set off, Shanghai was just a fishing village under development. ”

"The two of Boya went west on my orders, and now it has been six years, how about it, the Middle East has been taken by me for the Ming Dynasty?"

This is just a simple question, Chen Cao naturally knew it for a long time, thinking that the reason why he sent two people west to conquer Central Asia back then was that oil was secondary, and the most important thing was that Sun Chuanting, an old pedant, was caught in a civil war with the northern court, after all, he was a courtier of the Apocalypse.

"The ministers and the others are fortunate to live up to their lives, since Your Majesty marked Yemen and Oman have all been naturalized, and the civil officials sent by Your Majesty three years ago have also begun to educate locally."

"At the beginning of the first year of Shengwu, the minister and Boya went north to the Arab Empire in two ways, and at that time they were ruled by the Ottomans, and their will to fight was low, and after our army entered the desert, they were even led by the local people, so they attacked all the way, from the east and west to the north, and finally met in the so-called holy city of Mecca, and fought a decisive battle with the Ottomans."

"How's it going?"

Sun Chuanting looked disdainful: "The territory of the Ottomans is larger than my Ming Dynasty, they are not too concerned about running the Arab Empire, they only stationed heavy troops in the holy city, and when the battle was held, the Ottomans claimed to be 600,000 troops, and the 14th route outflanked our army..."

Lu Xiangsheng also smiled: "Many armies were countered by the Arabs, impacting the enemy's army formation, our army was surrounded by two roads, luring the enemy in the middle, and finally broke the enemy army in Mecca, killing more than 40,000 people, nearly 100,000 surrenderers, and the rest all fled. ”

"What about the people?"

"There are very few people of the other generation who are willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty..."Sun Chuanting shook his head.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "However, there are Ottoman captives who have given us an idea, they believe in Western religion, called 'Yi Silan', as long as they control the Holy City, they will control them..."

Chen Cao nodded, religious politics is an absolute control force for them, of course, it is not needed in China itself.

"In other words, the Central Asian territory of my Ming Dynasty now covers Arabia, Oman, and Yemen?"

Lu Xiangsheng clenched his fists: "The ministers follow His Majesty's policy of how far and how far to fight, coupled with the new revolver that arrived at the beginning of last year, it can be described as invincible in the Middle East.

As soon as the spring of the second year of Shengwu arrived, Chen and Boya marched together in the north and south again, annihilating the Iraqi imperial forces in Baghdad, driving the Ottomans out of the Middle East completely, and originally planned to enter Iran after the spring of this year, but received a recall from His Majesty. ”

Chen Cao was full of joy, after these oil-producing countries in the Middle East were annexed to the Ming Dynasty, the future world would be the Ming Empire, and no one would dare to say a word.

After talking all the way, he returned to the temporary line, and Chen Cao said at this time: "After Iran is defeated, I am ready to merge Oman, Yemen, Arabia, Iraq, and Iran into Xizhou Province, and the five prefectures are the five prefectures.

And set up the Anxi Governor's Mansion as the town, and Boya was the county official of Xi'an back then, so, this first governor of Xizhou, I decided to let you get it, how about it? ”

Sun Chuanting stood up and saluted: "The minister will definitely not disappoint His Majesty." ”

"And the position of the governor of the Anxi Metropolitan Mansion, Jiandou, you may be competent?"

Lu Xiangsheng saluted: "The minister worked hard to prevent a rebellion in Xizhou." ”

The governor of Xizhou Province is in charge of the administration of the five places, and the Governor of Anxi is in charge of the army, and the civil and military forces must be separated after all.

"Your Majesty, please migrate the Chinese people to enrich Xizhou Province, when fifty years later, it will be difficult for them to separate from our Ming Dynasty."

"Boya's meaning is also what I think, the green battalion soldiers were originally guards, and now that the civil war in the Ming Dynasty is over, these people are inseparable from production and construction alone, so I decided to choose from the surrender of troops and some of the affected people in the Central Plains, and let them immigrate to Xizhou."

"Xizhou is not like the land of China, the minister knows that there are many deserts in the five prefectures of Xizhou, and only the land next to the Euphrates River in the five prefectures is suitable for farming.

"Forced immigration is much better than voluntary, in addition to compulsion, I also ordered Henan, Shaanxi and other places, as long as the whole family migrates to the past, priority enclosure land, self-farm, according to the new land mu method, each household minimum 100 acres, and by the imperial court to provide all the cultivation tools, Xizhou in addition to the average land exemption, the local people have priority to enjoy part of the pension, but all single men, can marry Central Asian women in the local area, distributed by the imperial court, everyone has a daughter-in-law, since the end of last year, after the proposal, in March this year, As many as 600,000 people have signed up in the two places. ”

Both of them praised, and Chen Cao continued: "The land of Shaanxi is no longer as prosperous as it was in the former Tang Dynasty, and the Loess Plateau has a tendency to desertify after soil erosion, so I have ordered that the farmland should be returned to the forest in the Qinling Mountains first, and the people in this place must immigrate to Xizhou Province;

There are still 420,000 households in Shaanxi according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, with a total population of 2.47 million, and according to statistics, only 280,000 people have signed up in Shaanxi, less than one-fifth of the province. ”

"Your Majesty wants to immigrate all of Shaanxi?"

Chen Cao nodded, stood up and sighed: "I must emigrate, Juntian has not yet arrived in Shaanxi, if I don't take advantage of this moment, I am worried that those people are unwilling to immigrate, Xizhou Province, even if I go in person, it must be preserved for future generations." ”

Both of them knew that Chen Cao was talking about the oil resources in Xizhou, and they also tacitly understood it.

"I have already ordered a few days ago that all the areas west of Fengxiang and the southwest of the Yellow River in the territory will be relocated, and farmland will be returned to forests, and no more than 500,000 people will remain in Xi'an Prefecture alone."

Shaanxi is originally vast and sparsely populated, and with the arrival of the Xiaoice River period, Shaanxi's great drought is no less than Henan's, and it is already a top priority to relocate the people.

"The five prefectures of Xizhou are far away from China itself, and only Iran has areas connected to Hamiwei, but it is also a heavy mountain obstruction, which is not suitable for large troops, so I have decided to place a Chen royal family in each of the five prefectures of Xizhou, what do you and the other two think?"

The two of them looked at each other, thinking that this was also a must-do, but...

Chen Cao said: "I know what you are thinking, after the prince fiefdoms, will he be raised in the local area like the Zhu family and behave like pigs, or is it specific?" After all, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, even if you complain, it will take time. ”

Both of them smiled and did not speak.

Chen Cao said solemnly: "Xizhou is a heavy land, I deeply think that it is necessary to use five princes to defend it, in addition to avoiding the Tiangao Emperor Yuan and a certain prince from standing on their own, it is also necessary to let them guard the place, it is easy to open the country, and it is the most difficult to defend it." ”

"Your Majesty..."

"Well, I have also thought about this matter, so in the future, the successive governors of Xizhou are all unique members of my Ming Dynasty, the civil and military division, the governor of Xizhou is for a five-year term, and the governor of Dadu is for a three-year term, the governor can be re-elected, and the governor must be replaced, and the intention of doing so is also clear to you;

In addition, the governor of Xizhou must be appointed by the central court, and the officials are selected in the local area, and the five prefects are also the largest prefects, like the governors, they are all five-year terms, but they cannot be re-elected, and there is another key point, the governor, the prefect, and the county governors of Xizhou, and the local people are not allowed to come out, and the mayor level does not need this article;

You must know that within a hundred years, before the complete assimilation of Xizhou, officials at all levels should try to be mainly local officials of our Ming Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks, there is no need to be so troublesome, in the lifetime of the minister, it is to open up the connection between Xizhou and my mainland China."

That's right.

In the past, Iran was followed by Afghanistan in the northeast and Pakistan in the southeast, both of which are not good countries, but they are not impossible to include in the map.

Chen Cao nodded: "The two small countries in the east of Iran are not a problem to fight, but Hamiwei must be the territory of my Ming Dynasty, I have already ordered Tang Yannian to take three divisions west to Hamiwei, and when they take Yili and other places, they will change Yili and Hamiwei to Xinjiang Province, at that time, the west of Xinjiang is connected to Pakistan land, and the railway can be used to transport oil to the mainland through steam cars." ”

Fifteen days later, the group returned to the city of Beijing, and Chen Cao issued an order that worried the clan's harem.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: I hereby have Yong and Suguo Gong working together to make the borders of the five countries of Naman, Yemen, Arabia, Iraq, and Iran, and I am free of heaven......

The five provinces are the provinces of Xizhou, and for the tens of millions of years of our Chinese generations, the five princes of Qi, Yan, Chu, Han (Chen Bo, born to the noble concubine Zhou Yufeng), and Chen Bozhi, the king of Zhao (the second son of Empress Li Xiang), are divided into five provinces in Xizhou, and the five princes of Qin here..."

"The five kings are divided into towns and five mansions, hereditary replacement, can open the palace and build teeth, the prince of the five mansions brings a regiment of guards, the guard regiment is changed every two years, and in the territory of the five mansions, in addition to reporting to the governor, all major military affairs are reported to the prince's mansion."

"The prince and the prefect are in charge of the five provinces, and the governor of Xizhou Province is in charge of the prince of the five provinces, and each is in moderation, and it is used for ten thousand years..."

"The prince of the town guard went alone, you are all my wives and concubines, naturally advance and retreat with me, after he dies, if you are still alive, you can choose whether to go to their fiefdom or not..."

Although Iran has not yet been defeated, Chen Cao still sealed them out first, after all, it was a matter of time.

"As for now, while I'm strong and strong, let's hurry up and have children and go to Pakistan."