"In this place in the Northeast, as long as there are people and enough people, it is impossible to lose money!"

Zhu Daohua shook his head and said.

"Why is the Northeast a bitter cold land now? It's not because there is no one, talent is the foundation of the development of the Northeast, as long as there are people, the imperial court still has to worry about not receiving money from the Northeast? Are you worried that you won't be able to collect money in Liangjiang or Guangdong? ”

Luo Fangbo paused for a moment: "Can the Northeast be compared with Liangjiang and Guangdong?" ”

"How can it not be compared? This Northeast mineral deposit is so rich, it is a good place to run an industry! In addition to mineral deposits, the land in the Northeast is fertile, all of them are black and dark land, which is a first-class good land in the world, some of the Northeast is mine, some is land, and some are wood, but why has it become a bitter cold land? ”

"Because there's no one! People are the market, and without the market and demand, these resources will not be developed. And to develop the Northeast, to make the mines, the land in the Northeast, and the timber in the Northeast become money, we have to build railways, we have to build ports, as long as the railways and ports are in hand, the Northeast Development Corporation still needs to worry about the land rent of the three melons and two dates? ”

Luo Fangbo nodded when he heard this.

This is true, as long as the railways and ports are controlled.

It is equivalent to controlling the passage of grain, timber and minerals in the northeast.

And it's still a monopoly business.

Collect low and sell high.

It's a human being.

The Northeast is vast and sparsely populated.

Not counting timber and various mineral deposits.

It's just rice.

Now the price of rice in Liangjiang and Guangdong is about 2 yuan a stone, and the Central Plains is more expensive.

And the population here in the Northeast is so small, and the territory is so large, the purchase price of rice can be earned.

Trafficking to the South, that's double the gross profit.

One million farming households farm in Northeast China.

There are at least hundreds of millions of stone of rice every year.

A million peasant households can eat up to 20 or 30 million stones, and the remaining more than 70 million stones have to be sold.

70 million stones, purchased for one yuan, sold for two yuan.

One in and one out is a gross profit of 70 million, deducting various costs, and then discounting.

A net profit of 10 million a year is a very conservative estimate.

And that's just selling rice.

The revenues from timber, ore, and railway ports have not yet been calculated.

Thinking of this, Luo Fangbo admired it and threw himself to the ground: "The emperor's words, let the ministers suddenly open up, this Northeast Development Corporation is really profitable, in this case. The minister wants to vote more. ”

He paused, and then asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to be the emperor's manor in the northeast circle?" ”

Zhu Daohua couldn't cry or laugh.

These landlords are old and wealthy.

Why do you value these farming lands so much?

How much money can you make from farming.

Luo Fangbo asked the emperor's son-in-law to enclose the land, not because he was worried that the emperor's son-in-law had too few Zhuangzi on hand.

Instead, they waited for the emperor's son-in-law to go to the Northeast to enclose the land, and they were courtiers who followed the core to go to the enclosure together.

Zhu Daohua shook his head and said: "What do I want to do with so much arable land, the local owner is not my specialty, my father-in-law, if you listen to me, don't go to the countryside to buy land, take advantage of the low land prices in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuchang, Chengdu, Zhongdu, Beidu, Tianjin, etc., to buy more shops and fields around the city, these are the golden rice bowls that can be passed on." Especially in Shanghai, I dare to guarantee that the land price in Shanghai will definitely increase more than tenfold in ten years! ”

These were the central cities of the Ming Dynasty.

The future will definitely be a booming real estate site.

What is the most important thing about real estate?

Lot, lot, or other lot!

Investing in real estate in the deep mountains and forests of the Northeast?

Isn't it like you have money and nowhere to spend it?

How could a shrewd person like Emperor Zhu do such a stupid thing.

To buy.

I also want to buy land in Shanghai.

Emperor Zhu bought a lot of land in Shanghai County.

And now Shanghai is about to be encircled to build a commercial city.

Together with Tianjin, it is one of the two municipalities directly under the central government in the north and south.

In Shanghai, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it will definitely be the largest commercial city in Daming in the future.

Luo Fangbo quickly wrote it down when he heard this, and he could make a fortune with Emperor Zhu, which was the consensus of the magnates of the Ming Dynasty.

As the two of them spoke.

Suddenly, there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves.

A knight of the brocade guard rode in.

In front of Zhu Daohua, he turned over, dismounted, raised his hand, and gave a military salute.

"Your Majesty, Irkutsk intelligence, Tsarist Russia took advantage of the summer when the rivers thawed to add another 13,000 troops to Irkutsk, and now Irkutsk has a total strength of nearly 20,000, including 8,000 Cossacks and 12,000 shooting troops!"

Zhu Daohua's face became serious when he heard this.

The army of the battalion is still training and rectifying, and now it can pull out no more than 20,000.

And Irkutsk is the core of Tsarist Russia's rule in Siberia, and it seems a little rash to attack Irkutsk and rely on 20,000 battalions without many heavy artillery to conquer the west

"Your Majesty, even if you only have 20,000 troops, it will be enough to defeat the Russians."

In front of Emperor Zhu, he was full of confidence in the former Qing military aircraft Dong He.

"The Russians don't actually have much heavy artillery, and Irkutsk is certainly a strong fortress, but we can adopt a strategy of encircling but not fighting!"

"Surround but not fight?" Emperor Zhu showed a rather interested look.

"Yes, it's really hard to break through the fortress without heavy artillery, but this Tsarist Irkutsk is on the North Sea, we can just graze around Irkutsk and cut off the material passage, or it won't be long before these Russians will starve to death - if they would rather starve to death than come out to fight."

Emperor Zhu nodded slightly.

Well.

It is indeed not good if Irkutsk is conquered too quickly.

Because Le Bao is still in the Western Regions Province, there is intelligence that Le Bao is likely to run away, but before he runs, it is best not to let the people who march to the west have any contact with him.

Let these people surround Irkutsk, spend a year or two, and after capturing Irkutsk, it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between Tsarist Russia and Eastern Siberia, so won't this Siberia naturally fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty?

"Chongru, this errand will be handed over to you to do, make a contribution, and I will not hesitate to be a prince!" Zhu Daohua said.

Dong Huan was overjoyed when he heard this, and bowed down: "The minister will not disgrace the emperor's order!" ”

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, this is Irkutsk, the central city of the Empire in Siberia!"

At this time.

From the river port of the Angara River, dozens of large ships flying the red, white and blue flags took advantage of the time when the Yenisei River thawed in summer and the ice on the coast of the Arctic Ocean was weak and easy to break through, set out from Moscow and passed through the river port and a small part of the sea route, entered the Yenisei River upstream, and arrived at Irkutsk, the most important fortress of Tsarist Russia in the East, through the Angara River, the main tributary of the Yenisei River.

This river flotilla brought a large supply of food and ammunition, as well as a firing corps of a regiment transferred from Moscow!

The one who led this army.

It was the crown prince of the Russian Empire, Paul. Petrovich.

Paul. Petrovich stepped down from the ship and looked up at the completely fortified military city.

This was already the end of the Russian Empire, where it was possible to send large-scale troops to the East.

This is guaranteed by the wide surface of the Yenisei River.

And if there is a war with China.

This must be the most important battlefield!

And for Paul at this time. Petrovich said.

He was not worried about the war with the Chinese - in his opinion, the ministers in Moscow who shouted and killed and the emperor's mother, who was eager to provoke a war against the Ming Dynasty, really had a hole in their brains!

Why does Russia need this war?

There is no benefit at all in such a war!

However.

In Moscow, the frenzied atmosphere of war could no longer accommodate such voices of reason.

Empress Catherine also needed war.

Whether against the Ottoman Empire or the Ming Empire.

She doesn't even think about whether this war will bring real benefits - she thinks about her own throne.

The Slavs worshipped the strongman.

As long as she can win the sustained foreign war, the throne of Empress Catherine will be strengthened - after all, she came to power through a modest palace coup d'état.

And Paul did not have a good relationship with his own mother of the Great.

Even he thought that between his eldest son and those lovers who were favored by the emperor, the empress would not hesitate to choose her lover.

And Paul's eldest son, Alexander. After the birth of Pavlovich.

The Empress seems to think that her eldest grandson is a better and better successor than her eldest son.

So much so that for a long time Alexander followed the empress.

Paul, the crown prince, was marginalized.

And this time, he was sent to distant Siberia with more than 10,000 marksmen - this is even equivalent to exile!

And the reason is unassailable: the eastern part of the empire faces the threat of the Ming Empire, and needs a truly powerful man to sit in charge.

Lead troops to fight the Chinese.

Could Paul have refused?

If he refused, the nobles of Moscow would not support him as tsar - the Slavs would not support an emperor who was afraid of war!

(End of chapter)