There are not necessarily mines in mountainous areas, but mines are generally in mountainous areas.

There are mines in Tosan, and there are a large number of mines, and it is one of the few mineral areas in southern Goryeo, and it has been recorded for a long time that people have discovered and used open-pit mines here.

The Wanderers absorbed the miners, and they quickly abandoned the mining area, destroying the steam engine for pumping water and other equipment that Nanwang had finally introduced from the Ming Dynasty.

The mining base in southern Goryeo was once wiped out.

The king of the south didn't care about being distressed, the more than 100,000 troops, in addition to the ones left behind, could only mobilize 50,000 or 60,000, which still consumed his savings over the years, and the collapse of the 20,000 southern army had an impact far more than 20,000 soldiers.

In addition to the resurgence of the Wandering Army, and its morale was even higher, the 30,000 troops that had originally besieged the remnants of the Wandering Army were also affected, and their morale plummeted, and they were even reluctant to fight again, clamoring for military pay and rations.

In less than a year, the strategic situation of the Liumin Army and the Southern Army of Goryeo has changed, and the cities in various places dare not open their gates, and the local armies do not dare to dispatch.

The outcasts were fleeing in all directions, not only did they not resist, but a large number of people joined them, and their power snowballed.

"When they were weak, they held together, and after they took the advantage, those thieves who were originally working closely together became wary of each other, and even clashed and became enemies."

Two brocade guards brought back news from southern Goryeo.

Zhu Gaochi has stayed in the Ping'an Capital Division for three months, and in the original plan, he should have entered the Nuer Gandu Division by now to meet with the Liuguan and local officials appointed by the imperial court in the Capital Division.

The matter of the displaced people in southern Goryeo did not happen suddenly, and there were a large number of displaced people in southern Goryeo very early, and the displaced people were arrested by local soldiers from the beginning, and they went step by step to raise troops to rebel.

But no one expected that the situation would develop so quickly, and it also exceeded Zhu Gaochi's expectations.

Since ancient times, the uprising of the displaced people, if it refers to the uprising to overthrow the old dynasty and establish a new dynasty, then China really meets Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, not much, Li Zicheng and Huangchao quickly failed.

There are also many uprisings of displaced people in Europe, but there is no successful template such as Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang in the strict sense, and the feudal aristocratic serfdom maintained in Europe has no opportunity for local displaced people to grow, and the population of various places cannot be moved, so it cannot be connected.

Therefore, although there are many uprisings of the displaced people, very few can become a climate, no one will think that Goryeo can be overthrown by the uprising of the displaced people, and Zhu Gaochi also thinks so, because there are too many shortcomings at the bottom, and there are too few elements for success.

Drawing on history, Zhu Gaochi ignored this uprising of the displaced people, thinking that it was just a wave in history, but now looking back, it is actually different.

The official power of Goryeo was squeezed too hard by the Ming Dynasty, which caused the regular army of Goryeo to be unable to extinguish the Wandering Army in time, coupled with its own collapse, which gave the Exiled Army a chance to become a climate.

"The minister thinks that the current situation is very clear, first of all, the king of Goryeo will not be given a chance, and the Seoul side will remain the same, and secondly, he will contact the Goryeo Right Army Temperance Envoy, agree to the request of the Goryeo Governor's Office, and relax the restrictions on the Ming merchants, and finally contact several large thief army leaders at the same time, if the Goryeo Right Army is temperate and does not repent to death, we can try to win over the thief army."

Jiang Binzhi stepped forward and arched his hand, and in his words, he took care of His Royal Highness the Prince's face. The exile army of Goryeo, known as the thief army in the mouth of the Ming Dynasty civil and military, was completely considered from the perspective of the royal family.

Zhu Gaochi doesn't care much about these statements, it comes from his own confidence.

"Actually, I prefer to maintain the original situation, not because of the overthrow of the Goryeo royal family by the displaced people, but because whether it is the king of Goryeo or the king of Goryeo, we know the roots, even if the king of Goryeo is wary of us, it is still easy to control."

"The Wandering Army is different, their temper is elusive, reasoning may not work, it will increase the cost of our control of Goryeo, and even make us enemies and have a direct war."

Zhu Gaochi explained.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's reasons were very convincing, and Jiang Binzhi also pondered.

The king of Goryeo Nam is also the temperance envoy of the right army of Goryeo, and it is true that because of his reasons, the influence of the Goryeo Governor's Office is not easy to involve the southern region of Goryeo, but on the whole peace is maintained.

Speaking of management costs, although the current management costs are high, they are acceptable, but I am afraid that after the displaced people gain power, they will not be able to maintain the old situation and destroy the interests of the Ming Dynasty in Goryeo.

"What does His Highness the Crown Prince recommend?" Jiang Binzhi asked sincerely.

Jiang Binzhi's attitude is not as modest as the traditional old officials in China, and Zhu Gaochi didn't care.

Since the literati in the new era who are accustomed to the new rules are different appearances, those literati who have grown up in the new atmosphere and new social atmosphere will also take it for granted, which is the inevitable development of things.

It's like less than a hundred years ago, and the attitude of the people towards officials a hundred years ago is completely different from the attitude of the people towards officials a hundred years later, and they are completely two worlds.

Fifty years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, more than 20 years of industrialized society has developed, not only people's economic level has increased significantly, but also the social atmosphere has been greatly reversed.

Zhu Gaochi didn't answer immediately, but looked at the map behind him.

His Royal Highness the Prince's behavior made the civil and military personnel in the hall look over one after another, and the huge slaves were all in charge.

The scope of the Nuergandusi, at least on the map, expanded every few years until it reached Khuwu, or Sakhalin, which had been Chinese land since ancient times, and was later divided by the great powers as its national power declined.

Every year, the exploration team has been going north in extreme environments, exchanging materials with the tribes it encounters, and hiring guides.

The Northeast is an undeveloped area, which has changed from the Great Northern Wilderness to the Great Northern Warehouse, relying on the industrious hands of the people and the organizational power of later generations.

The population of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong has just exceeded two million, and Liaodong has not even been developed, not to mention the harsh environment of Nuergan, half of the year is covered with ice and snow.

The further north you go, the longer the snow and ice cover is, which is not conducive to the environment in which humans can thrive, and the population of this area is very, very small, at least in ancient times.

The current map of the Ming Dynasty is not as complete as the world map of later generations, but Zhu Gaochi knows what it looks like in those undetected places.

In ancient times, the distance from China to the Americas was three times longer than that from Europe to the Americas, and it was also a vast Pacific Ocean, and Europe could reach regions with better climates, while China arrived in cold regions and was blocked by mountains in the eastern part of the Americas, which was more than ten times more difficult.

Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to reach the Americas, he had to work hard, regardless of the rest of the aspects, and there were two ways that he could learn from, one was to imitate the Spanish galleon route, and the other was to imitate the footsteps of Russia to reach the Americas.

Spain's transpacific galleon trade routes, due to distance and ocean risks, the sinking rate of ships is very high, and it is also one of the main reasons why the national transport of Spain and Portugal cannot be sustained.

The Spanish and Portuguese fleets would have a considerable profit to share if one of the fleets had returned half of the ships, and if most of the merchant ships had sunk or been robbed by pirates, the investors would have lost all their money.

The high sinking rate has made it impossible for the fleet merchants to build commercial ports and wharves around the world, so many of their businesses are one-shot deals, and the high and frequent mortality rates make the two countries even more powerless.

So why is there such a high mortality rate, the Netherlands and Spain still have the rise of the world's shipping, and they are even called sea coachmen.

For example, the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is located in a cold region, and people have to be very industrious to produce and make enough to feed themselves.

Herring is fished only once a year, and although 10 million kilograms can be caught, it is about 10 kilograms per capita, which is not only unable to feed the people of the entire region, but also the fishermen themselves.

Most of the fishermen in the Netherlands thought of using their fishing boats to transport goods to the rest of Europe, and it came to be known as the "coachmen of the sea" of the Dutch.

This is the same reason why the nomads in northern China have to keep going south despite the high mortality rate.

The galleon trade in Spain was a highly profitable commercial route for luxury goods, with a maximum of twenty to thirty ships per year, because of the high commercial interests, even with a high sinking rate, which still maintained the trade interests of the route.

And their own population in the Americas was maintained and colonized through the Atlantic, not the Pacific, so the Spanish galleon commercial routes could not carry large-scale immigration at the moment.

Unless, regardless of the death of the people, a million immigrants are transported to the New World, and half a million or more die on the sea, prepare to sink half the ships on each voyage.

This is still based on the fact that Spain has explored a complete route, and Zhu Gaochi does not dare to regard the lives of the people as a game, which is a long road that cannot meet Zhu Gaochi's requirements.

So can it imitate Russia?

Russia's defeat in the Americas was not primarily due to geography and climate, and although this path was not easy to follow, compared to the Pacific Ocean, if successful, it could become a channel for large-scale migration.

The Russian Bering fleet arrived in the Americas on behalf of the Russians, following roughly the route of the first human migration to the Americas, but it was all uninhabited wilderness, with frozen soil and rocks scattered on the ground, and there was no land suitable for cultivation and settlement.

For nearly 60 years, Russia failed because he arrived in the Americas too late, the last pioneer forces to arrive in the Americas, they could not get better land, coupled with the fear of Russia in the West, the countries put aside their contradictions, jointly expelled and suppressed Russia, and the perennial obstruction led to Russia's defeat in the Americas.

But now it is different, as long as the Ming Dynasty arrives in the Americas, invests heavily in the early stage, and builds a shipyard there, it can sail along the coast and reach wealthy areas, becoming a large supply point for large-scale immigration.

Although it is also very hard and there will be many difficulties, it can achieve the effect of large-scale immigration and development under the situation of ensuring the safety of the people's lives, and the most important thing is that there are no colonists in the Americas now.

Most of the natives in the Americas are also very friendly, and the Western colonists can settle in the Americas without the help of the local aborigines, if it were not for the treatment and supplies of the local aborigines, the Western colonists would have starved to death and died of illness.

As long as the Ming people lived in harmony with the peaceful tribes and brought them trade, they could gain their friendship and resist the bad tribes together. Of course, the natives are also bad, but under the long-term propaganda of the West, people have the old impression that the natives are generally very barbaric and kill people without blinking an eye.

If the Ming Dynasty took root in the New World, relying on the advantage of first-hand layout, even if Westerners came to the New World many years later, it would be easy to be driven out by the Ming people.

Then to open up the Northeast and the Far East, and even build railways, it is not enough to rely on the current number of casters, and it is necessary to have more cheap labor and a lot of sacrifices, so that it is possible to build a railway in the current era.

Just like the Great Wall built during the Qin Dynasty, the technology is not enough, and the manpower is to make it up.

The construction of the railways of the seven western provinces, if it is to stabilize the west, solve the problem of prisoners of war, expand the population of the Ming Dynasty, and build the Nanyang Railway is to develop the Nanyang, the former and the latter are profitable, and the time span will not be too far, and it will soon be able to return to blood, then the construction of the railway of Nuer Gandu Division is a loss-making project that cannot bring income for a long time, and it is destined to require a large amount of investment and commitment in the Ming Dynasty for a long time.

Then the use of domestic workers, the monthly income of 18 yuan per person, good social welfare and treatment, etc., will not attract many people, and the country cannot afford it, and it will bring a large number of casualties.

The cost of building the Nuergan Railway had to be kept down in order to meet the needs of his plan.

Zhu Gaochi retracted his gaze.

I have been inspecting the Northeast for so long this time, and it is also a preparation to conduct on-site inspections, lay the foundation for the future project start, and relax the regulations on the use of casters.

The number of eunuchs alone is not enough, hundreds of thousands of eunuchs sound like a lot, but the technology of the Ming Dynasty is not enough, it is not as good as the United States in the nineteenth century, the only thing that can be compared is the agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the advantage of ancient China, even in the games of Westerners in later generations, the stunts of Chinese civilization in the game are also high grain yields.

Therefore, to meet the needs of a million, or even more people who build the Nuergan Railway, the current Ming Dynasty can get it, in addition to the domestic grain, as well as the grain of the South Seas, which can be transported to the Northeast at low cost through the domestic railway.

The climate and environment of Nanyang, coupled with the agricultural production technology of the Ming people, is the confidence of the Ming Dynasty not to lack food, even if it has not yet obtained high-yield crops from the Americas.

Since there may not be enough eunuchs, add Goryeo.

Who let Goryeo start a civil war on its own, otherwise under the stable situation of Goryeo, it can only meet the manpower needs of the Ming Commercial Bank in Goryeo, as for the transfer of people from Nanyang to Nuergan, it is not that Zhu Gaochi is unwilling to do it, but the mortality rate is too high.

The Koreans and the Japanese are hardy, and the best manpower to build the Nuergan Railway, and Liaodong has used eunuchs for 20 years, and has an extremely mature management system.

The industry of Jinzhou, the industry of Beiping, and the river transportation of Nuer Gandusi have the conditions for transportation and industrial materials required in the early stage. Historically, the Hongwu Dynasty used the Nuergan River, built the Jilin Shipyard, and supplied the Nuergan and each guard through the rivers.

The weather is cold, and there are Goryeo and Wa people who are "not afraid" of the cold.

In the early stage, the roads were not smooth, and there were highly developed rivers.

The main thing is food abundance.

Zhu Gaochi made up his mind, the excess grain, because of the short shelf life, is also rotten in the warehouse, and taking out the grain for consumption not only does not waste the grain, but also provides a bright path for the future of the Ming Dynasty.

"Goryeo is full of displaced people, the people are not living, it is too uncivilized, as a kingdom, the Ming cannot stand by and watch the innocent people die tragically, so the Ming must reach out."

Zhu Gaochi said slowly.

Zhu Gaosui on the side was sour, he grew up with his eldest brother, what kind of personality the eldest brother is, can he still not be clear, what the eldest brother says should be listened to in reverse.

People who don't know the eldest brother will be dizzy because of the morality on the left and civilization on the right, if you really believe in the big brother's set, the end will definitely be miserable.

It's weird, people are still confused by the big brother, and no one has reflected.

Jiang Binzhi didn't have Zhu Gaosui's thoughts, Daming is so civilized, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, quietly waiting for His Royal Highness the Prince's next words.

"I plan to set up the Nuergan Railway Engineering Department, absorb displaced people from Goryeo in the form of labor and disaster relief, build railways in Nuergan, and promote the development project of Nuergan, so that everyone can benefit from it."

Work-based disaster relief was not invented in the United States, it has existed since ancient times.

In the book "Guanzi Riding Horses", there is Guan Zhong's remarks about the country's disaster of drought and flooding: "If the year is fierce and the drought is flooded, and the people lose their roots, then the palace and the pavilion will be repaired. Therefore, the repair of the palace room and the pavilion is not a beautiful music, and the national policy is also peaceful. ”

The meaning of this passage is that if there is a year of great drought and flood, the people are displaced and unable to farm, and their livelihood is not secured, they can build palaces and buildings on a large scale, and employ those poor people whose families are poor and destitute, and they cannot even afford to raise pigs and dogs.

Therefore, sometimes, the construction of palaces and pavilions is not for the king's enjoyment, but to implement the economic policy of the state to invest in construction to restore people's livelihood.

This was later known as the method of work relief.

Because it has the effect of "killing three birds with one stone", it has the advantages of saving government financial expenditure and preventing the generation of displaced people and thieves in the disaster relief or public affairs, and is favored by the ruler.

However, first of all, the economy must be stable, otherwise even if it knows how to do it, the government will not be able to afford it, so at the end of the dynasty, because of the collapse of the economy, there is a way to provide relief, and the problem of displaced people cannot be solved.

Jiang Binzhi's eyes lit up, His Royal Highness the Prince's method was very much in line with his mind.

"After this disaster, under the huge blow, it is difficult to maintain the original attitude, even if you want to insist, you can't do anything, the minister thinks that you can contact the king of the south, and the Ming merchants will recruit all the homeless people and cut off the foundation of the homeless army."

"The Ming merchants can also take advantage of this opportunity to strengthen their influence in southern Goryeo, the imperial court not only maintained the situation in Goryeo, but also prevented southern Goryeo from being out of the control of the imperial court because of the self-reliance of the exile army, and also stabilized the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in Nuergan, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone."

Sure enough, he is a smart person, and it is easy to talk to a smart person, Zhu Gaochi showed an appreciative look.

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The original Goryeo governor Xie Gui died of illness, the assistant guard corps was disbanded, and the current Goryeo governor is Zhou Xing, the former general of Guangning, when Zhu Di was still the king of Yan, because of the struggle for military power in Liaodong, there was a conflict, and he once went to the palace, and later completely surrendered.

Zhou Xing received Zhu Gaochi's will, and with 3,000 Ming soldiers and 10,000 Goryeo troops under the command of the Ming military attaché, he controlled the southernmost areas of Gyeonggi Province and Gangwon Province and prevented the displaced people from entering.

The king of Goryeo, Yi Fangguo, also met with the envoys of the Ming Dynasty and learned of the decision of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to help the Goryeo clan.

Although Li Fangguo hated Li Fangyuan, he didn't want the exile to defeat his younger brother, the exile gave his younger brother a big lesson, Li Fangguo was very satisfied, but if the exile defeated his younger brother and obtained the three paths, Li Fangguo should be restless.

Since Da Ming supported the Goryeo clan, Li Fangguo fully supported it, but he couldn't sleep at night, worried that Da Ming would reconcile with his younger brother and threaten his throne, so he became worried again.

Li Fangyuan also soon met with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, who brought the requirements of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and half of Li Fangyuan's territory lost order, especially the fall of the military powerhouse Maozhu.

Not only could the grain from Chungcheong-do not arrive, but now even the grain from Gyeongsang-do was cut off, and they were worried that the grain and grass from the two places would fall into the hands of the displaced people's army, which strengthened their strength even more.

Because of the lack of food and grass, the army in his hands was unstable, and he could not gather troops, and Li Fangyuan, who was in a hurry, could only agree to the requirements of the Ming merchants when he was powerless.

The most abundant people in Goryeo were not the local two classes, but the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty happily supported Li Fangyuan's 20,000 stone of grain and grass, which solved Li Fangyuan's current urgency.

Soon after, in the stable place of order in the south of Goryeo, the major trading houses of the Ming Dynasty recruited unlimited people and put forward the slogan of three meals a day, attracting a large number of poor people to join.

September of the twelfth year of Yongle.

After all, the southern army of Goryeo was a regular army, with high organizational strength, and it was not comparable to the short-term exile army, and the southern army deliberately retreated, defeated first and then won, conquered the exile army, achieved a great victory, and reversed the situation in southern Goryeo.

With the imperial army victorious and the homeless fleeing more and more, the homeless army collapsed and was finally besieged back to Tongshan, this time without incident.

At this time, Zhu Gaochi had already left the Ping'an Capital Division for two months, went to the Nuer Gandu Division, met with hundreds of Ming officials from all over the country, and reached a lot of agreements.

The premise of the construction of the railway is stability.

Whether it is the southern province of Sainan, or the northern part of the country, or Cochin, the seven western provinces, Nanyang, etc., they are all stabilized first and then built.

Except for Laos and other places, the rest of Nanyang is not stable, so Zhu Di wants to go south.

Zhu Gaochi maintained a close relationship with the local officials of various ministries, and the organizations of the Daming Industry Bureau, the Nuergan Railway Engineering Department, which was jointly established with the Ministry of Railway Engineering, was also established in September of the 12th year of Yongle.

Liaodong Railway, Nuergan Railway, Seven Western Provinces Railway, Nanyang Railway, and major domestic railways.

Coal mines, iron ore, coking, smelting, iron smelting, kerosene, ammonia, steam engines, forging machines, blast furnaces. An industry drives an industry, and an industry gives birth to many industries, such as coal black, kerosene, and ammonia spawned by coking, which are the main materials needed for chemical fertilizers, and the chemical industry brought by it.

The income of the workers increased, the military households had a place to go for food, and the domestic and export sales of Daming's commodities were unimpeded.

Those high-risk and inefficient industries due to technological limitations and the limitations of the times were replaced by eunuchs and prisoners of war, and the whole society entered a stage of vigorous development, and the population of the Ming Dynasty reached a new high.

With a population of more than 100,536,000 in the second year of Yongle, many of the teenagers had grown up and started families, and the second baby boom began.

In the spring of the thirteenth year of Yongle.

In the old years, the population of the Ming Dynasty was reported by statistics from various places, plus the border areas such as the seven western provinces, the Ping'an Prefecture, and the Hamgyong Provincial Division, which were officially recognized, and the population of the Ming Dynasty was more than 139,292,000.

The largest number of non-Ming people is in the seven western provinces, followed by Zhancheng.

For example, the population of the original Timurid Khanate was about 28 million, divided into two, and the seven western provinces controlled by the Ming Dynasty had roughly 10 million people, and those recognized by the Ming Dynasty were less than 5 million people over the years.

"Zhuang, the Ming Dynasty has restored Chinese civilization for fifty years!"

"The Great Ming."

"Fifty years of great accomplishments."

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

In the second month of Zhu Gaochi's return to the capital, enthusiastic activities broke out in an organized manner among the people below, banners were hung on the streets, and firecrackers were set off in front of the shops.

Dragon and lion dances, eight immortals cross the sea, and flower boats parade the street.

The fur shop, which buys furs from the Nuergan area, hung up the news of a 50% discount on the whole store at the door, attracting people on the streets, and the goods in the store were sold out.

People wear new clothes of various colors such as leather clothes, cotton clothes, wool materials, etc., and the girls wear various styles of exquisite headdresses on their heads, and their faces are puffed with white powder, and the bright colors of the clothes set off are more and more beautiful and lively.

"Outside Zhou, I wish your family a prosperous business."

"Okay, good, happy together."

In the alley.

The neighbors came to congratulate the merchants in the alley, and the old man and his children stood at the door with smiles on their faces, greeted each neighbor, and gave him a red envelope, which was sealed with a dime, and he was generous.

There was a lot of traffic outside the alley.

A sea of people. (End of chapter)