"Driving... ...... driving"

In the vast steppe, when hundreds of horsemen rode their horses from the east, they soon crossed the hills and came to a river valley.

In the river valley, nearly 10,000 tents are stationed here, and tens of thousands of people come and go.

The difference is that the people here are not herdsmen, but men in armor.

Hundreds of horsemen rushed into the camp and rushed towards the big tent, and after arriving in a short time, the leading thousand households turned over and dismounted and walked into the big tent.

Inside the large tent that can accommodate dozens of people sat the nobles of the Juros clan, among which the lord sat Mahamu, who was in his forties, and beside him sat the grown up Dehuan.

Qianhu walked into the tent, knelt down with his chest hugged and said: "Taishi, the news from the east is not wrong, the Ming army is indeed on the way to Haila'er in the north, and Haila'er has gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. ”

"Whether to approve or not to approve is a matter for me and the Ministry of Households, but the Ministry of Industry must investigate and play."

Zhu Gaoxu deliberately put the weaker Nanyang in the north, the Ming Minmin in the south, and deliberately put Japan and Korea in the middle and adjacent to each other.

It is better to solve the Mongolian problem in Mobei than to let them go south without food to eat cholera.

At the same time, news came back from the north, and it was about the same as Zhu Gaoxu expected.

"This Mahamu suffered a pain, but he never dared to fight with the court again."

"Since the beginning of the year, Dongzhou has continued to transport gold, silver and copper ingots, and now in addition to gold, there are still nearly 27 million yuan of silver, old money and new money."

Guo Zi couldn't help but smile on his face, and Zhu Gaoxu's face was even more proud.

The tribes Mahamu refers to were the forest tribes of the Mongol Empire, and although most of them were taken away by the Mongol army to integrate into the area, a small number of them continued to live there.

"Brother Timur?" Yishaha's expression was a little confused, and he really couldn't remember this kind of little person for a while.

"Don't use it for the time being, just continue to cast Yongle Tongbao."

"If it weren't for the fact that there weren't so many people, the Ministry of Industry might be able to recruit hundreds of thousands of people to build this railway."

"Of course, this is based on the fact that the Northwest Railway is not built, and if the Northwest Railway is also built, the gap may expand to about 300 or even 4 million."

"You can't go southwest, you can only go northwest, and naturally move west to Penlanzhou (Abakan)."

Moreover......

By July, the Northwest Railway had already surveyed Suzhou, and as long as the railway sections from Suzhou to Shazhou, Guazhou and Hami were surveyed, the construction could start according to the situation of the imperial treasury.

Mahamu was already aware of the disparity in strength between himself and the Ming army, so he did not consider himself an opponent of the Ming army.

The amount of gold and silver left by Zhu Di to Zhu Zhanji is nearly 10 million, but as long as Zhu Zhanji is willing to invest, the situation in Liaodong will not be changed for more than 200 years.

In his impression, many people say that Mobei is bitter and cold, and it is difficult to grow food, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"However, three years later, the completion of the Liangjing Railway and the northern section of Shanxi will be reduced to more than 5 million passes."

All in all, since Mahamu escaped from Mobei, then he should not think about coming back, just stay in the Siberian steppes honestly.

All the way north, Zhu Zhanyan's number of troops has been cramped from more than 100 people at the beginning to 500 people now.

"Isn't it too cold when it's so far away?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu explained to Yizha beside him: "Make it clear to the Ministry of Industry that after the main line is completed, the mining areas on both sides of the main line will build railways to transport resources. ”

At that time, you can work to support your family, and who will rebel against the lords.

"Hmm" Zhu Gaoxu took it and opened it, and looked at it at a glance.

In general, Zhu Di didn't want this northern expedition to be in vain, so he hoped to bring Taiping and Balpola into the jurisdiction of Yan Ran Dusi, and at the same time canonize both of them as commanders and co-intellectuals.

Although Siam joined the Nanyang countries to form an alliance, it could only swallow its anger in the face of Japan's continuous encroachment on the river.

Zhu Gaoxu touched his mustache, and then continued to focus on Guo Zi: "How is the situation in the treasury?" ”

"Later, Zheng and the others brought back new crops, and Taixue made a water pump, so the crops here were abundant."

In addition, it is a multi-point construction, so there is no problem with five years of repair.

Zhu Di shook the reins of the horse as soon as he explained, and walked towards the horse in the distance.

The journey of nearly two months made Zhu Zhanyan and Zhu Zhanji dark, they were in charge of Zhu Di's escort work, and they had a thousand cavalry in their hands, and the two of them were divided into five hundred.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also continued to focus on Guo Zi:

Therefore, using the power of Daming to weaken Mahamu is what they think, and it is also the reason why Zhu Di is confident that they will not participate.

Although Fangshan's coal has been transported by rail to the southern part of Beizhili and the western part of Shandong, the overall coal production in Fangshan is not enough to meet local demand.

walked to the bookshelf and rummaged for a long time before he looked back and talked to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Majesty, he was sent to Nanjing, his wife and daughter were filled into the sixteenth floor, and he himself was sent to the filial piety tomb to guard the mausoleum."

Clashes broke out over a river, killing and wounding hundreds of people each.

Thinking of this, Mahamu spoke: "Order the camp to be pulled, and the troops are ready to move west." ”

If the Ming Dynasty did not deal with Mahamu, then Mahamu would probably turn his horse's head around and attack them after the annexation of Tatar.

Zhu Gaoxu was a little annoyed, he should have thought of these things early, but unfortunately he was so busy during this time that he even forgot these things.

Three days later, the 80,000-strong army marched westward, and Alitai led more than 10,000 Tatar cavalry as the vanguard of the army, searching for traces of Mahamu.

"Right now, how much money and grain does the imperial court have to consume every year?"

Guo Zi's proposal made Zhu Gaoxu pat his head: "I forgot about it......"

"If the railways in Fangshan, Luanzhou and other places can also be completed, it should drop to four million."

After the Qianhu official finished speaking, the nobles in the tent became nervous, and Mahamu's face was not good-looking.

In the end, according to the situation of the three parties, Zhu Gaoxu demarcated a gold panning exploration area for each of them, and ordered the Ming private merchant gang to pan for gold in the south and not to participate in the conflict in the north.

As long as the Northeast Railway is built, and then the railway from Hecheng to Hulan and even further west is built, the territory can be consolidated with pumping machines and new crops for Mobei immigrants.

"For the people of the Northeast, agriculture and industry are carried out in parallel."

After solving the affairs of Kunlunzhou, Zhu Gaoxu began to continue to pay attention to China.

"Your Majesty, the minister proposes to build a railway from Fangshan to Beijing East Railway Station, and another railway from Luanzhou Iron Mine in Yongping Prefecture to Yongping Station."

After the Japanese retreat, the DPRK launched an attack on the Japanese camp.

Yishaha's voice was a little quieter, Zhu Gaoxu was dumbfounded when he heard this, and finally smiled:

"We didn't catch the tongue, but judging from the scale of this time, the number of Ming troops probably won't be less than 50,000."

Japan, on the other hand, said that North Korea had caused nearly 1,000 casualties in the camp and plundered thousands of taels of gold.

Time passed little by little, all kinds of cement yards and iron-making yards in the north were constantly working, and the exploration of the Northwest Railway was also moving further and further to the west.

"The northeast is fertile for thousands of miles, but because it is not governed, a lot of land is silted and cannot be cultivated."

"If this section of the railway can be built, then the coal in the north of Shanxi will be able to transport a steady stream of coal to Jiangnan at the same time as the two Beijing railways are connected, realize the self-sufficiency of the coal yard in advance, and solve the firewood problem of the people in Jiangnan, what do you think?"

Guo Zi answered about the construction of the Northeast Railway, and Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head after hearing this.

The camp where 80,000 people gathered was large, and it seemed like a lot, but when the army arrived in Moxi, I am afraid that only 20,000 of these 80,000 people would remain.

Soon, Guo Zi, the head of the household, rushed to the Wuying Palace, and after entering the palace, he asked:

"Your Highness, does Yan Ran Dusi still need to continue to maintain?"

"Naturally!" Guo Zi replied without thinking.

"Do as the Emperor Taishang wants, and ask the Emperor when he will return south."

There will inevitably be friction between the two sides for resources, and this is what Zhu Gaoxu wants.

The northeastern floods during the Xiaoice River were severe because they were unmanaged.

Seeing this, Yisha bowed his head, and then took out the song and asked people to do it.

Being able to transport grain means self-sufficiency and grain storage, and in history, Liaodong needed to adjust the price of millions of stone Changping grain from Shandong and Beizhili every year to survive.

"This ......" Guo Zi paused: "Last year it was 6 million guan, this year so far it has consumed more than 4.3 million guan, and it is estimated that it will reach 7 million guan by the end of the year." ”

The purpose of his inquiry was probably that he felt that there was no need to invest a lot of resources in Mobei.

Of course, this also involves the lack of railways in Fangshan, and the need to use horse-drawn wagons to transport coal, resulting in inefficiency.

"It's better to be cold than to be hit hard, if the Ming army doesn't leave, then we will go west and annex Gilligis, Kereyiti, and Tiliangguti."

"Send?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned: "I didn't say that I would send him to Xiaoling." ”

These three years can also be spent with gold and silver seized in overseas wars, as well as the proceeds of the Xie Jin case and the Ji Gang case, but after three years, you will have to tighten your belt.

"They don't move, with only more than 20,000 cavalry in our hands, they are by no means the opponent of the Ming army."

Guo Zi responded to Zhu Gaoxu, and asked about coins by the way.

"You can think like that, but you can't really think like that."

They were not Mahamu, who captured many Tatar captives in these battles, so their strength increased, but the Taiping and the Vulture Polo suffered heavy losses in these two battles with the Tatars, and the headquarters had no more than 10,000 soldiers.

"Northeast Railway, where is it now?"

Therefore, when agreeing to the Northern Shanxi Railway, Guo Zi also suggested:

Zhu Di said a tongue twister, and at the same time set his eyes on the camp.

Of course, this is unlikely, and Zhu Di does not think that Taiping and Bald Polo have such courage.

"The people of Liaodong, Bohai and other places learned that the imperial court was going to build the railway, and His Majesty would go to Jilin after the railway was repaired, so there was an endless stream of people who signed up, and the number of workers was more than 100,000."

"Now that there are pumping machines, as long as there is enough manpower, the northeast is enough to reclaim tens of thousands of acres of arable land."

"It has been repaired to Ningyuan County, Liaoxi Prefecture, and it is expected to be repaired to the west side of the Liaohe River by this time next year."

Zhu Di explained, and Zhu Zhanji, who was beside him, heard the words and asked: "If that's the case, then with the pump, wouldn't it be possible to cultivate all the way to the west?" ”

"In addition, now that it is a new dynasty, do you want to replace Yongle Tongbao with Hongxi Tongbao?"

"This section of the railway is 600 miles, and the Ministry of Industry's quotation is 2.4 million yuan for three years, and the cost is not high."

Zhu Gaoxu circled red with a red pen, and he couldn't help but ask while explaining that he was also lost.

After the successive kings ascended the throne, they would make new money, but Zhu Gaoxu did not issue a will to cast Hong Xi Tongbao, so Guo Zi specially asked.

Although the area he has divided is larger than the mainland of the three powers, there are not many areas that can really be exploited by them.

Zhu Gaoxu also agreed with this very much, after all, with this name, the Ming Dynasty will have a name for building a city to the west and entering Mobei in the future, and what needs to be spent is nothing more than paying Taiping every year and tens of thousands of Guan Lu for the two parts of the Vulture Polo.

"Where are you moving west?" Sitting next to Mahamu, Tuhuan asked his father, after all, the current Eastern Chagatai Khanate was also participating in the encirclement and suppression of them.

Under his division, the local area was subdivided into four areas: the "Nanyang Alliance of Nations", Korea, Japan, and the Ming Dynasty.

"With the situation of the national treasury, it can probably last for about three years."

Soon, the Zoros tribe began to pull out the camp and began to gather the cattle and sheep of the tribe to migrate to the northwest.

"Judging from the annual financial growth of the national treasury, as long as there is no major war, the annual shortfall is estimated to be about 1 million yuan, and it will gradually parallel if it lasts for three or four years."

"The remaining 1,200 miles will take about five years to complete."

In mid-July, as the news from the north came back, Zhu Gaoxu said:

In June, North Korea, Japan, Siam and other countries continued to arrive in Beijing, mainly because of their competing interests in Kunlun.

Soon, under his division, each country got a territory with a large area, and this map was also named "Kunlun Kunyu Map".

"It's pretty much what I expected."

Zhu Gaoxu is not in a hurry to mint new money, in his opinion, if the people are living well, then they will naturally remember that it is the Hongxi year, and they don't need to be reminded of new money.

Thanks to him, the Liaodong and Bohai Seas of the Ming Dynasty were able to send hundreds of thousands of stone grains to the interior every year, although this is not much, but it is impossible in history.

In the north, there is the Mu Gu Du Shu Thousand Households as an overseer, and in the south, there is the Kunlun Zhou Propaganda Division as an overseer.

The two sides insisted on their own words, and after the news was transmitted back to China, they played to Daming, hoping that Daming would adjust.

Tuhuan frowned, after all, the place north of the mountains was extremely cold, and it was not inhabitable by ordinary people, let alone cattle and sheep.

Obviously, he came to inquire after Zhu Gaoxu's canonization of Taiping and the will of Bald Polo.

"If the Shanxi section of the Northwest Railway starts next year, plus the construction of railways in Fangshan, Luanzhou and other places, it is estimated that it will be as high as 8 million."

"There will be such a day!" Zhu Di was categorical, and Zhu Zhanyan also chuckled:

"At that time, the entire Mobei will be within the territory of the imperial court, and this Warat clown will retreat if he sees my heavenly army coming this time, and I am afraid that he will not dare to fight with it."

Zhu Gaoxu has a high opinion of the northeast, and if the cultivated land in the northeast can be reclaimed, even if it is only one-tenth, then the northeast during the Xiaoice River period will not be too sad.

If you can swallow them, you can naturally get a lot of food to help them survive the winter.

"Grandpa, wait for me!"

Seeing that Mahamu said this, everyone had no opinion, after all, a cold winter might lead to the death of thousands of people and cattle and sheep in the Queros, but a war with the Ming army could lead to their extermination.

Perhaps only when he rode a horse on the grassland could he find the once young Yan King.

Anyway, he can handle the big and small matters of the five hundred people under his command, but he is not as fast as Zhu Zhanji.

"Fifty thousand,......" Mahamu muttered, and finally said: "According to the situation last time, 50,000 Ming troops can escort 10,000 people to Moxi at most, and they will not use such a small number of troops to show their strength. ”

Although Japan is like a worm to the Ming Dynasty, it is a big country with several times the national strength of Korea and Siam.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly remembered Nurhachi's ancestor Meng's brother Timur, so he couldn't help but ask: "I remember that Chen Chang captured that Meng's brother Timur before, what about others?" ”

Mahamu made some analysis, but it did not alleviate the worries of the nobles of the Zoros.

Zhu Zhanji shook the reins of the horse, Zhu Zhanji followed without saying a word, and the figures of the three grandchildren gradually disappeared.

"Now their soldiers and horses are still gathering, and it seems that there will be no less than 80,000 people in the end, and the number of people who can escort them to the front line should be about 20,000 or 30,000."

At this time, they did not know that Mahamu had fled westward, and Zhu Gaoxu in the south of Beijing was having a headache with the government affairs at hand.

After Mahamu moved westward, the number of Mongols in Mobei would not exceed 400,000.

If the people are not doing well, then it is useless for him to mint more money.

In his opinion, since the emperor said it in such detail, it is obvious that this matter must be done.

"Let's go on the expedition in three days, you two boys, prepare well...... Drive! ”

When he came to this world, if Zhu Gaoxu was most satisfied with his achievements, it would be the development of the Bohai Sea and Liaodong.

This money is a lot, but Zhu Gaoxu will not give this money in vain, but needs Taiping and the Bald Polo and Alitai to resist Mahamu.

Zhu Di was wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket, and he pointed to the land outside the city with a horsewhip and said:

"You see wheat, soybeans, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and all sorts of other crops, which were not as abundant here before, only wheat and soybeans."

Although the number of casualties on the three sides seems to be small, if you want to send thousands of people to Kunlunzhou, the materials consumed are indeed not a few, not to mention whether the gold robbed by North Korea is more than 100 taels or thousands of taels, which is also open to debate.

Zhu Gaoxu did not immediately respond to Guo Zi, but asked about the situation of the Northeast Railway.

"If the handicraft industry is not suitable, then develop resources such as iron ore and coal, and at the same time develop agriculture."

"It seems that it was an order given by the Emperor Taishang at that time, and it has been castrated......"

"Grandpa, is this Hailaer City? Isn't it possible to grow food outside this city? ”

Historically, it took five years and four months for the Japanese and Russians to build the South Manchurian Railway, of course, the mileage of the South Manchurian Railway was much longer than that of the Songyuan-Haicheng Railway in the Ming Dynasty, but the treatment given by the Russians and the Japanese was better than that given by the Russians and Japanese, and Zhu Gaoxu's prestige in the northeast was high, and it was easy to recruit workers.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu asked: "How long will it take for the Liangjing Railway to be completed?" ”

His voice fell, and he also handed out a handwritten letter: "Your Majesty, this is the handwritten letter of the Emperor." ”

"Pumping water to irrigate the land allows these crops to grow so well."

"In this way, the Luanzhou iron ore mine and the Fangshan coal mine can be transported directly to the capital by train, and then transferred to the south."

Now Daming is building water conservancy in the northeast, and in two hundred years, it may be due to the cooling of the Xiaoice River that will lead to a reduction in grain production, but once chemical fertilizers are used, coupled with perfect water conservancy, even if the northeast encounters disasters, it can be self-sufficient, and Nurhachi, the king of the rolls, will not be born because of disasters.

North Korea claimed that it was attacking in self-defense, and only wounded dozens of Japanese people and stole more than 100 taels of gold.

It only takes more than 200,000 Han Chinese to move enough to assimilate these more than 400,000 Mongols, and the assimilation ability of the Han people is like this.

"It could have been planted, but it was just the cost."

At the same time, the large forces of the Ming army had already assembled in Hailar, and Zhu Di, as the commander-in-chief, also led 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 auxiliaries in Beijing to Hailar.

"Yanran Dusi needs to be maintained, although there is no output there now, and the imperial court needs to dispatch hundreds of thousands of stone grain from the Bohai Sea every year to maintain, but in the future, with the increase in the population of Mobei, the imperial court can also mine gold, silver and copper ore locally and transport it back to the customs by rail."

If the Ming army wanted to pursue them, they would need to march about four thousand miles to catch up with them.

Guo Zi vaguely reminded Zhu Gaoxu that the situation in the imperial court was not as optimistic as he imagined.

Mahamu said a place name, not to mention the Han people, but also the Warat people themselves.

Needless to say, the minerals of Mobei can not only deepen the Mongolians' sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty, but also bypass the leaders of various tribes and directly affect the grassroots Mongolians.

For Liaodong, Zhu Gaoxu changed a lot by himself, which also made Zhu Gaoxu disdain Zhu Zhanji's ten-year reign.

"About three years." Guo Zibi replied respectfully, and Zhu Gaoxu said when he heard this:

"Since the treasury is abundant, then I am ready to build the Beijing-Wanquan and Datong sections of the Northwest Railway first."

[Hearing that the imperial court sent troops, they fled with their subordinates, abandoned a lot of livestock along the way, and the tribes were scattered, our division searched and arrested along the way, capturing tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and thousands of women and children]

Under the choice between the two phases, as long as you are not stupid, you know what to do.

"Taiping and the two guys of Bald Polo will not move, it seems that Da Ming promised them something, otherwise they would not be so honest."

If Taiping and Bald Polo are suspicious soldiers, and they have actually hooked up with Mahamu, it will be enough for the Ming army to drink a pot.

To put it simply, Penlanzhou was 1,500 miles northwest of the place where they had last encountered Zhu Di.

Seeing this, Mahamu also explained.

Outside Hailar City, when the army was commanded by Zhu Neng to enter the camp to rest, the escort Zhu Di came to Zhu Zhan Lang outside the camp and pointed to tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land outside Hailar City with a horse whip to ask.

In response to this matter, Zhu Gaoxu decided to play 30 boards each, first ordering the DPRK to return the gold to Japan and compensate Japan with 100 copies of antimalarial powder.

Secondly, Japan stopped its invasion of the Siam River and returned the encroached river.

"That's it, since it's been dealt with, it's too lazy to deal with him."

Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, Zhu Gaoxu set his eyes on Guo Zi and continued to discuss with him where the imperial court needed money......

(End of chapter)