The garrison of the new army of Hami went to Jiayuguan.

The team of the Exploration Department, which had passed through the great desert, had returned with the garrison after learning the news, and had traveled 1,300 miles, and the caravan traveled 60 or 70 miles a day for a full twenty days.

The small size of the team, and it is not a large army traveling, it is equivalent to traveling lightly, and if it is a large army marching, it will take longer.

If it is a civilian who transports supplies for the army, it will take even longer.

"When will the railroad open?"

"Expected by the end of the year."

The explorers belong to the Ministry of Railway Engineering of the Western Regions Province, so they can answer.

"Twenty days is enough for me to go from Xi'an to Beiping, and I can have two trips back and forth." The garrison sighed.

With the production capacity of the steam engine locomotive factory, it is no longer a rarity.

Even Jiayuguan has a steam locomotive every three days, and instead a large number of railway carriages are eliminated.

The cost of maintaining a railroad carriage is at least ten times that of a steam engine train.

"If it weren't for the transfer of the railway headquarters, a large number of old workers would have been transferred to Yingtianfu, and they might have been opened to traffic now."

The staff laughed.

"The capital is the capital in the end." The garrison nodded.

"It's not just the capital."

Having seen the shadow of Jiayuguan, the group breathed a sigh of relief, the mood was good, and the dullness on the road became active.

"Hami and Yili are too big, if they are not suitable for growing cotton, the yield and quality of cotton are better than those in the mainland, and it is really unprofitable."

The staff shook their heads and said.

"I've heard you say that there are a lot of minerals."

The guard asked curiously.

"The minerals explored in Shanxi contain less sulfur and are convenient to mine, mainly because they are not massive, and they have not been probed so far, and there are several mining areas in Senan."

The staff believes that the mines in these areas alone are enough for the Ming Dynasty to be used for hundreds of years, and the mining cost is low.

The guard was speechless in his heart.

It's too big.

The area south of Hami, Yilijiangli and the area south of the area where the Ghost Li Chi Khan is located is nearly two million square kilometers.

However, in the nineteenth century, when the world's population grew rapidly, there were only more than 1 million people, and these more than 1 million people included 600,000 Han Chinese, and the population of the late Qing Dynasty was just over 2 million.

Population is not the decisive factor.

But with an area of 2 million square kilometers and a population of only a few hundred thousand, it is self-evident what it means.

"What?"

The garrison saw the commander-in-chief and was stunned by the leaked news.

Their camp is to be withdrawn.

"Let's take a look at who is trying to destabilize the region, and make it clear who is the enemy and who is the friend."

Zhu Neng barged in, with a smile on his face.

"Governor."

The garrison hurriedly saluted, but he didn't expect the governor to be there.

Zhu Neng returned the military salute.

"We are not afraid of frontal combat, but the situation is different, Ghost Lichi is not a mediocre person, and we must treat them with care."

The concept of guerrilla warfare was put forward by later generations, but the reality of guerrilla warfare has existed since ancient times.

Both in the North and in the South.

The north is surrounded by endless deserts, and parts of the south are surrounded by endless mountains. There are '10,000 officers and 10,000 soldiers, and I have 10,000 mountains; The ballad of 'soldiers come and I go, soldiers go and I return'.

"We withdrew, Ankh Timur asked, what to say?"

"It doesn't matter, we have sent someone to inform him and let him be on guard, as for whether he listens or not, I see that he still has a lot of thoughts."

Zhu Neng said very calmly.

Since their garrison in Hami, although Tokhtar has been leaning towards the Ming Dynasty, only Anke Timur has wavered.

He was willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty, but he was unwilling for the Ming army to live in Hami.

The railway in Hami is still a few months away, but in fact, the section north of Jiayuguan can be opened to traffic, but it is not open.

Zhu Neng received the news.

Ghost Lichi wants to attack their station in Hami, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days.

Although there were only more than 400 people in the new army, Zhu Neng believed in their combat effectiveness.

Fight head-on, with the help of camp defense, even several times the enemy is not afraid.

But guerrilla is the door.

Zhu Neng didn't want to gamble, so he directly withdrew the small battalion of the new army, unless Anke Timur agreed to the Ming army entering Hami in a big way.

There is a stranger by Zhu Neng's side.

"This is the steward of the military-commercial joint office......

With Zhu Neng's introduction, the middle-aged man beside him who was a little chubby had a big mouth and could see his front teeth in his smile.

"Military-commercial joint office?"

The garrison only knows about the military-industrial joint office, and the military-commercial joint office is still because of Ma Wangxuan, because the military-commercial joint office was established by Ma Wangxuan.

The first time the garrison met the people of the military-commercial joint office, what was the purpose of this organization?

With doubts.

The garrison returned to Hami with the middle-aged man.

……

Capital.

After the workers' activities in the city, it was an eye-opener for everyone, and it turned out that it could still be like this, although a long time has passed, but there are still discussions among the market.

Zhu Gaochi breathed a sigh of relief.

The hot weather in June has passed, Zhu Yuanzhang is alive and well, and it seems that history has changed somewhat.

Focusing on the reform of the grain point, Zhu Di discussed with the officials of the six ministries, paying attention to the implementation of Ying Tianfu.

Ying Tianfu is not the same as Beiping.

The entire Beiping Province initially had a population of only 2 million, while Yingtianfu Province had a population of tens of millions, five times that of Beiping.

Moreover, the proportion of military households in Beiping is also high, which is completely different from the situation in Yingtianfu Province.

In addition to the development of industry and the improvement of agricultural productivity, a large number of human resources have been liberated from the agricultural population, and the population environment of the northern parallel province is also due to the smooth reform of grain points in the northern parallel province.

"According to the inventory of the 26th year of Hongwu, there are 10,652,870 households in the country."

"Excluding the urban wings, there are nearly 100,000 Jiajia in the countryside, and with the organizational strength of the local government, it is powerless to control it."

Hubu Shangshu Yuxin is full of worries about the trial trial of grain points.

"A mix of old and new."

Zhu Gaochi said, "The trial implementation of grain points mainly revolves around grain merchants, and the local side is still the same. ”

And Zhu Gaochi doesn't believe the officials' statistics.

Because Da Ming is too big.

A little less here, a little less there, adds up to a staggering number.

The government is already understaffed, how can it implement the policy of inventory, and for the sake of its own political achievements, it must be underreported.

Originally, it was 10,000, but it was quoted as eight or nine thousand, and the government could still leave a balance, which was equivalent to the small treasury of the local government.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the moisture was still a little smaller.

Then in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this moisture became the sea.

Hearing that the imperial grandson was not unreasonable and did not ask for blind strength, Yu Xin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

The previous emperor's grandson's big move in the capital stunned everyone.

It also made everyone realize the facts.

This imperial grandson really dares to do it, and he has the strength to do what he wants to do, and what makes people even more speechless is that the saint and the prince did not stop such a ridiculous thing.

Zhu Gaochi also knew.

If the local organizational relations remain unchanged, then controlling the country's grain production is tantamount to losing at least half of expectations.

However, governing a large country is like cooking small and fresh, and it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions, just right, and too late.

"Although the present remains the same, it does not mean that the future will remain the same, and the household department needs to make preparations, which will be done in one step within five years."

Zhu Gaochi emphasized.

Yu Xin did not refuse.

With the expansion of the railway, people know that the times have changed, and the control of the local area has changed qualitatively.

The pattern that used to be local will also change.

Zhu Gaochi was not surprised.

Although the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are limited by the limitations of the times, it is not that they are stupid than anyone, and it is not that they do not understand economic principles.

Being able to come up with a way to open China and France, let the north and south economies interact and achieve a good domestic demand model, has proved that the depth of people's understanding of the economy is not low.

Zhu Di saw that there was no doubt about the problem of the grain point, so he asked Xiang Jianyi.

Jian Yi took out the constitution of the Ministry of Officials.

"This is the list of elected cabinets, please take a look at the prince."

Zhu Di took it from the eunuch's hand.

The people on the list, in addition to the old people in Beiping, also the talents absorbed by Zhu Di in Yingtianfu, showed a satisfied smile.

"There is also a roster of the Ministry of Officials on the transfer of Beiping."

Governing the country is inseparable from talents, and the Beiping model has been set in the direction of pushing to the whole country, and a large number of officials who are familiar with the Beiping model are needed.

Zhu Di asked the officials to send officials to Beiping, and at the same time transfer the officials from Beiping to various places.

It is not only to lay the foundation for the promotion of the Beiping model, but also to strengthen his prestige and eliminate the influence of the imperial grandson as soon as possible.

When Zhu Di was discussing with the officials, Zhu Gaochi looked at the cabinet list submitted by the officials, and there were many acquaintances among them.

Reform from the top down is far easier than reform from the bottom up, but top-down reform is also inseparable from the bottom up, complementing each other.

The reform of the military household of the guard and the rise of factories were all from the bottom up, while the cabinet was promoted from the top down.

From the cabinet to pry the six ministries, in the six ministries to pry the world.

For example, schools.

After Zhu Gaochi left Wuying Palace, he asked people to invite Xie Jin, a scholar who went to Beiping and followed Zhu Gaochi south.

Xie Jin is on the cabinet list.

It's not Xie Jin's most talented.

It is the current situation, whether it is talent, qualifications, or position, which makes Xie Jin the most suitable.

Zhu Gaochi wants to change the world's government and the country's prison.

Schools cannot be run in rural areas.

Schools can only have social studies, that is, they are run by local households.

Because the rural population is too scattered, only the cities can. Similarly, the concentration of population in cities has given rise to the rise of schools.

Therefore, all parts of the Ming Dynasty have government schools, state schools, county schools, and even the highest school Guozijian.

According to Zhu Gaochi's request, the prefecture, state, and county schools in various places need to include new textbooks for Beiping schools.

At the same time, in Beijing and Beiping, a school specializing in cultivating teachers was established, as well as a training institution.

"The imperial examination should still be cautious." Zhu Di came suddenly.

"Prince."

Xie Jin hurriedly saluted, and Zhu Di waved his hand.

"The imperial examination will not be canceled." Zhu Gaochi said with a smile.

Even the United Kingdom, which later generations, has always created a civil service examination system for them, abolishing the original official system and being proud, believing that they are advanced.

The imperial examination has never been a cancer.

If it doesn't develop, it's a cancer.

Zhu Di saw that Zhu Gaochi knew the importance and had nothing to do with the school, so he asked how Zhu Gaochi planned to do it in the Western Regions.

(End of chapter)