"Crackling!"

In the smoke of gunpowder and firecrackers, Hong Xi passed quietly for three years, and Hong Xi was greeted by the people of Daming for four years.

On the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Gaoxu decreed that the fourth day of the first lunar month should be set as the National Day, and the New Year's Day and Lantern Festival would be closed together, for a total of 15 days.

In addition, for the cold food festival, Shangsi Festival and other important festivals also set up one to three days of holidays, since then the Ming Dynasty festival has 16, 62 days off, compared with Hongwu, Yongle between a lot of rest days.

Of course, for the rest of the officials, the yamen each scheduled a rest at the beginning of the month, and they could also take consecutive holidays, but they could not take more than a month of rest at most.

After the decree was issued, the officials sang long live, and their joy could not be hidden.

After this was announced, Zhu Gaoxu also ended the court meeting and began his daily work.

Zhu Zhanyan explained, and the stationmaster withdrew from the carriage.

High labor and low prices are the status quo of Bohai, and cement roads in various counties and towns are connected.

"There won't be any war in Mobei in the next few years, but it's always better to be prepared, you and Hu Lun, Wang Rong, and Meng Zhang will explain."

At the same age, Li Shimin rescued Emperor Yang of Sui at Yanmen Pass, but his Majesty has already destroyed Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain.

At the age of seventeen, he marched north to Uliangha and destroyed the Vulyaha Bald Mountain.

Zhu Gaoxu narrowed his eyes, he knew very well that this was a test of Shaharu's strength of the Ming Dynasty, so he spoke: "Let Cao Guogong treat the mission well, and let the mission enter Beijing by the route of Hexi, Ningxia, Hetao, and Datong." ”

He asked Yisha, and Yishaha also nodded: "I ask every once in a while, but I am prevaricated." ”

Due to the terrain problem, the local Tusi basically did not have much contact, so it was not difficult to take this place and assimilate, after taking it, the Ming Dynasty could connect Siam, Gan Pozhi and Champa by sea, which could better control the three vassal states, and also allow Yunnan to obtain access to the sea in the South Seas.

The stationmaster of Beijing East Railway Station looked at Zhu Zhanyan, who was surrounded by more than ten West Factory whelms, and respectfully brought him to the platform, and then took him to the carriage where he went north.

In the final analysis, Zhu Zhanyan is still too well protected.

An hour later, the sky was already starting to lighten, and what appeared outside the window was melted snow and muddy farmland.

In the letter, Zhu Zhanyan vaguely raised the imbalance between the development of the Bohai Sea and other places, and Zhu Gaoxu was only helpless about this.

Here, it is the norm for the people to wear silk cloth, and they will not be like the people in the south, who are worried about wearing out their clothes and go shirtless when working, and they don't even bother to change their cloth clothes, so they walk around the fields and work in silk clothes.

"Is the Emperor still talking about the Northern Expedition these days?"

"Your Highness, this time it is a total of 1,300 miles, and since you need to board the ship on the Panzhou line, it will take fourteen hours to arrive."

All this stemmed from the fall of Uliangha and the inclusion of the Bohai Sea in the Ming Dynasty, as well as Zhu Gaoxu's policy of moving millions of people into Liaodong many years ago.

When Li Shimin fought against Song Jingang, His Majesty had already broken through Nanjing City and helped his father to ascend the throne.

At the age of 20, he raised troops and conquered Nanjing, that is, the crown prince was in charge of the country, and at the age of 22, he implemented the Yongle New Deal......

Previously, when Zhu Zhan Yan accompanied Zhu Di to the north, the cultivated land here would be reclaimed five or six miles out of the city at most, but now it needs to go out of eight or nine miles.

Now the railway cannot reach Yunnan, so the only way to move the population by sea is to assimilate.

Sitting on the bed, looking at the regressing scenery, Zhu Zhanyan was very curious about the place where his father made his fortune.

The mutton in the south of the Yangtze River is still as high as 15 wen per catty even if the Liangjing Railway arrives in Fengyang, but here it only needs 12 wen.

Although Zhu Zhanyan is twenty-one years old, he has almost no contact with power schemes.

"Bohai has pastures, large tracts of cultivated land and various types of workshops, and with a small population, it is difficult for families to be uncomfortable with the DPRK Chinese military officials."

In addition to the high prices of silk and sugar, the prices of various commodities in the Bohai Sea seem to be very low.

This is a good thing, which means that they are beginning to become self-sufficient, and they rarely need to transport grain from the outside world except for war, except for the need to rely on the Bohai sea for war.

In the sound of the train's whistle, Zhu Zhanyan packed his bags and took the train to the northeast.

The "slave and maid received the order" also lost his answer, and at this time, the eunuch on duty also sent a recital.

In comparison, the first battle of Mengmao made the Tusi under the rule of Luchuan and the Tusi in Myanmar and other places aware of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and the relatively large Tusi was still more obedient to the Ming Dynasty.

At the age of fifteen, he went to Bohai and could not rest, conquered Xiyangha, guarded Jixiguan, and fought a bloody battle against Harawu.

Even pork is extremely cheap here, the same price as beef, only ten cents.

As for those small toasts, Wang Xuan has also been leading the troops to clean up, and one day they will be able to clean up.

Although this section of the city wall is vacant, there are two jack gates at the high place, and once the jack gates are lowered, this gap can be closed.

Zhu Zhanyan didn't expect the train to be able to board the ship, after all, when he took the train from Fengyangfu, because the railway station was in the north of the Huai River, he had never experienced the train crossing the river.

Laos has to be cleaned up, at least the Tusi north of Vientiane has to be changed and returned, but not now, at least until Hong Xi has balanced his income and expenditure for ten years.

As Zhu Zhanyan expected, the military registration card he received was indeed the chief flag officer, and he would also spend a year of border time here as a chief flag officer.

They have already seen the power of the sea of Daming, and this time let them see the power on the land.

Obviously, it is only a metropolitan department, but the situation is richer than those places managed by the political envoys, and all this is the result of the policy tilt.

In the Bohai Sea, beef and mutton and grain were not sold at all, and the imperial court would transport grain from here to Daning, Liaodong and even Beiping every year.

Seeing the train slowly stop on the track of the ship's deck, Zhu Zhanyan got off the train and looked at the huge horse ship.

"The people of Liaodong don't have much arable land, why do they all wear silk and brocade?"

The price of grain in Bohai is only 2 wen per catty, and miners can get 120 wen wages for one day of work.

"Is this how the train crosses the river?"

Zhu Gaoxu commented on Zhu Zhanyu's words, and also lost his jaw and said:

"If these words are heard by the people below, I'm afraid that Song Shu will be indispensable."

Lux's words made Zhu Zhanyan speechless: "In this way, the ordinary people of Liaodong are much more comfortable than the ordinary people of Nanzhili." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was referring to North Korea and Japan, and they have had a lot of friction recently.

Although Zhu Zhanqi also brought a thousand soldiers and horses with him on his last expedition to the north, due to Zhu Di's preference, his 1,000 soldiers and horses almost had thousands of households to help, and he was only responsible for leading the team, which was not too difficult.

The terrain of Laos is mainly plateaus and mountains, and it stands to reason that Zhu Gaoxu should not have invested troops to change the land here, but he could not stand the fact that there is a Lancang River (Mekong River) navigable to the whole country.

In the past 30 years, the population of Liaodong has increased from 400,000 in the Hongwu period, to more than one million after the Jingjing disaster, and to 2 million in the 10th year of Yongle.

In later generations, the local poverty was mainly due to inconvenient transportation, backward technology and insufficient funds, so it was unable to develop enough gold, silver and copper mines.

Zhu Zhanyan looked at the pasture outside the window in the carriage, with a smile on his face.

It's just that Bohai's policies are all formulated by his own father, and this is indeed the land of Longxing, and it is normal for the policy to be tilted.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites sent a song, and the lord of Timur Shaharu sent his eldest son Ulubo, his second son Yibula, his third son Beisun Hu, and his fourth son Su Yuer and his fifth son Juqi to envoy to the Celestial Empire, and the number of the envoy was more than 3,000 people, did you receive it?"

After thinking about it, he was still unwilling to let Zhu Di leave on the couch with regrets.

There are many passengers and merchants coming and going here, mainly selling southern vegetables that are relatively shelf-stable, as well as brown sugar, white sugar and other commodities from the south.

The average water depth of the estuary of the Liaohe River is in Zhangxu, although the width is not more than 100 steps, but because there is no sandbar in the river, the Ministry of Industry has not built a high bridge in consideration of technical problems.

"If the two sides fight, will the court have to take care of it?"

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu both experienced the experience of being taught by Zhu Yuanzhang when they were teenagers, but Zhu Zhanyan did not.

Of course, in addition to the high income of the people in Liaodong, the more important thing is that with the standardization of the textile industry in Jiangnan, the price of all kinds of silk and satin has been reduced, so that more people can enjoy better material garments.

Zhu Gaoxu entered Beijing to study at the age of thirteen, accepted the training of Fu Youde and Feng Sheng, and was coaxed by Zhu Yuanzhang to change his temperament, and was targeted by Zhu Yunwen with a soft knife.

The speed of the carriage on such a concrete road is not slow, and it can travel forty miles every hour, but it is only necessary to change horses after arriving at the post station.

Before dusk, the train passed through Shanhaiguan, and in order for the train to pass, a section of the city wall was rebuilt here, leaving two tracks four zhang wide.

Zhu Zhanyan became curious, and Lux didn't think twice when he heard this: "Naturally, it's Bohai." ”

Laos is very rich in mineral resources, and Zhu Gaoxu remembers coal, copper, gold, silver and other resources.

Three hours later, as the train slowly stopped at the station, Zhu Zhanyan and the others also came to Tieling Station, the northernmost point of the Northeast Railway.

Zhu Di was sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to Fengyang at the age of sixteen to understand the people's livelihood and suffering, and married Empress Xu.

Looking at the spring outside the window, Zhu Gaoxu also remembered Zhu Di in his mind.

Now, 11 years later, the population of Liaodong has exceeded 4 million, and the cultivated land has benefited from the promotion of new crops, many slopes have been utilized, and the population growth rate is very stable.

This is the station of Yanran Dusi in the past few years, and the soldiers and horses gathered are 11,200 soldiers and horses of Erwei.

When Li Shimin was defeated in the shallow water plain due to illness, his majesty had already conquered Liaodong and crossed the sea to take Denglai Erzhou.

When riding in a carriage, occasionally passing by some of the older horse farms, the image of hundreds or thousands of horses galloping is even more exciting.

Getting into the carriage and lying down, the familiar whistle sounded again, leading him north.

Compared with Laos, Myanmar and Mengyang are more difficult to deal with, and they must be attacked by land and sea to clean up the local area.

The original locomotive was pulled down and sent for overhaul, and a new locomotive and driver took over the rest of the journey.

Zhu Zhanyan asked curiously, and the driver who got out of the car said when he heard this: "Back to Your Highness, naturally not." ”

Walking out of the train station, they changed carriages and headed north.

Faced with this phenomenon, Zhu Zhanyan did not sigh, but was faintly worried.

"I see it."

When I came here, the prosperity of the Bohai Sea gradually faded.

This time it is estimated that he personally commanded and led the team, so this experience is very valuable.

He was to take a car to Tieling, then to Songyuan on horseback, then to Hecheng by boat, and then to Hailaerwei on horseback.

"The contradictions between the DPRK and Japan in Kunlunzhou have become more and more serious recently, and the two sides have increased their troops three times, and at present there are 9,000 troops in Korea and 12,000 in Japan."

Of course, the main reason is that the Lao Tusi is disobedient and has repeatedly attacked the Ming people in Cheli Province.

Although it is troublesome, it can save nearly a month.

A short time later, the train started and headed northeast with the carriage.

Sitting in the car, Zhu Zhanyan began to habitually flip through the newspaper, and the time passed quickly.

"Okay, I see, you can step down."

Time passed, and soon it was the beginning of March.

"Slave and maid command!" The eunuch on duty retreated, and he bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, this Shahru's mission is not good." ”

If you include wine and meat, then one day of labor is enough for a person to eat wine and drink meat at home for seven or eight days.

Many people got up early, but instead of farming, they went out for a walk.

With just one word, the boat arrived at the east side of the Liao River.

Pastures in the Bohai Sea are everywhere, and large areas of wetland pastures are fenced off by wooden fences, and people plant wicker next to the fences, so that the herds dare not cross these fences.

It is only when they go to the mines that they don't wear coarse linen clothes that are not very comfortable.

"After the completion of the construction of the Northeast Railway, it is reported that the construction of the railway from Changchun to Jilin will begin, and there will be the Bohai Sea transportation and railway blessing, and the life of the people can be imagined."

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhan Yan quickened his pace, and finally arrived at Hailaer City in the east of Mobei at the end of March.

"If you have friends from afar, you naturally want to be hospitable."

It is parked in the ship's position, and to the left and right is the pier road where the concrete extends into the water.

Zhu Gaoxu's words are not false, as long as Shaharu is not stupid, he should know what kind of strength it is to send more than 100,000 troops to Hami in half a month.

"The reason why I drove the car on the boat today is because this carriage is specially made, and there is no such carriage on the other side of the river."

"When the railway is completed, these cattle and sheep can travel south for the people in the south to eat!"

"Only by properly displaying your strength can you better govern the vassal states under the command of the Celestial Empire, especially those two guys in the northeast."

Moreover, due to the relatively large area of the plains, the local population is also relatively large, and assimilation is more difficult.

This is still Zhu Gaoxu did not put the steam engine into the textile industry, after all, now the Ming Dynasty has to solve the problem of employment of the people, before there is no new industry in Jiangnan, rashly promote the textile industry into the steam age, which is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the people in Jiangnan.

Zhu Zhanyan took the newspaper and asked curiously, and Xichang Lux who was sitting in his room and was in charge of protecting him replied:

"It's not good, but if you use it well, you can let him continue to be honest for more than ten years."

"The income of the people of Liaodong is mainly the workers and officials at home, and the miners here pay 120 wen a day, and the price of coal, cattle and sheep is cheap, so they have spare money to buy silk brocade and silk to dress up."

Zhu Zhanqi asked people to buy a newspaper from Liaodong, and what caught the eye was that the population of Liaodong exceeded 4 million and the cultivated land reached 27 million mu.

Seeing Zhu Zhanyan wake up, they said, "Your Highness, the train is boarding." ”

Zhu Zhanyan did not get on the train, but got off the boat and stood on the dock, watching another locomotive pull the train and carriages down.

In mid-April, in the reminder of Yisha, Zhu Gaoxu read the letter sent by Zhu Zhanyan.

"Usually people and vehicles are separated, and passengers take a boat to the other side to change trains again."

In Zhu Zhanyan's description, ordinary people are rural people, and the rural people in Liaodong can wear silk cloth, which is enough to show their strength.

After a brief stroll, Zhu Zhan Yan went north to Songyuan and arrived at Hechengwei by boat.

"Bohai or Liaodong, whose life is more comfortable?"

"I haven't been to Liaodong and Bohai yet, and I don't know what it will be like."

At this moment, it was slowly moving forward, and after a while, it felt a shaking, and then Zhu Zhanyan saw a huge horse boat.

Zhu Gaoxu leaned back in his chair and poured tea for him.

A few decades ago, Liaodong was a representative of bitter cold, and today's Liaodong, although it cannot be regarded as the country of abundance, but the people's lives are also extremely comfortable.

He wanted to get out of the car in a daze, but saw two wrestlers from the West Factory standing at the door.

"I heard that over the years, many people in Korea and Japan have fled into Liaodong and hidden differences?"

Since the people of Liaodong basically migrated from Shandong and Huaibei, Zhu Zhanqi was able to understand a lot when the train stopped and replenished water and coal.

"The weak will help the court, and the weak will help the sun, so that they will set their sights on Kunlunzhou, and the imperial court will dump goods on their homeland."

Yisha was asking, and Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head: "It depends on the situation." ”

"That's right." Yisha nodded.

Tsurujowei hasn't changed much from a few years ago, and the only change may be that there is more wasteland to be cultivated.

Such prices, not to mention in Jiangnan, are difficult to enjoy even in Beiping.

Zhu Zhanyan felt this very clearly.

Another four hours passed, and when the time came to Yin, Zhu Zhanyan felt a vibration in his sleep.

Bohai has a population of only 600,000, and there are only more than 100,000 households, and there are as many as 40,000 sergeants who have walked out of here.

"Boarding the ship?"

The driver's voice fell, the stern of the train in the direction of entry was lowered and fixed with wooden planks, and the wheels of the train were mechanically locked.

Since this time it was a border attack, he did not take Mu Shi and Zhu Qiyue to the north, and even the dozen or so wrestlers beside him would be secretly lurking after he arrived in Hailaer City, and would not directly help.

Zhu Zhan's achievements can only be regarded as upper-middle among the military academies, and among the more than 800 people at each level of the military academy, he can only rank more than 180, so the official position he held after graduation and internship was only a general flag officer.

"It's best to turn around, if you don't turn around, how can the imperial court recover the Western Regions?" Zhu Gaoxu touched his mustache and leaned back on the chair to be confident and open.

The people here are dressed the same as the people in the capital, and it can be seen that it is a very wealthy place.

"This is a good way, so that the people of both countries yearn for the Celestial Empire, and once they have a disobedient heart in the future, the Celestial Empire will also clean them up."

In the words of Xichang Lux, that is to arrest any person, and maybe his relatives are the commanders of a certain guard, or even all of them.

He thought it was a passenger taking a boat and leaving at the train station on the other side of the river, but he didn't think it was.

"Prevarication ......"

As his thoughts fell, Zhu Gaoxu looked out the window.

Thinking of this, he looked out curiously, and sure enough, he saw the train docked in a place similar to a port.

Due to the small space for movement, the rails on the deck of the ship are easy to secure.

"Even this horse boat was temporarily remodeled."

"Your Majesty, Your Highness has arrived in Hailar City."

In a few years, I'm afraid that we will be able to hoard food here and supply it to Yan Ran Dusi.

Bohai is the land of Longxing, or the nest of the Bohai faction, if Bohai is not well managed, then how can he run other places?

"This kid is a little naïve, I hope that after the end of the border and the south of Yunnan, he can change his attitude."

Once the railway is opened, it will become the granary of Beijing, which can transport nearly one million stone of grain every year to alleviate the food problem in Beijing and Daning.

With water transport, terrain is no longer a problem.

He also knows that His Majesty relies on the basic plate of Bohai to implement the new policy, and if Zhu Zhanyan continues to evaluate Bohai without hesitation, it will inevitably cause many people to be unhappy.

Yishaha said: "Once the Northwest Railway is completed, I am afraid that they will turn the spearhead to the imperial court. ”

Not only that, some bred beef cattle can be slaughtered at will, and the price is even cheaper, about ten wen per catty.

After taking a sip of tea, Zhu Gaoxu continued: "The toast in Laos is not very stable, if it weren't for the fact that the car could not supply the army, I would have thought about changing the local land and returning it to the river. ”

"The Eastern Chagatai Khanate has gradually deepened its vigilance against us over the years, and has repeatedly asked for tribute over the years, apparently observing the movements of the imperial court."

After Changchun City was established, tens of thousands of people now live in it, most of whom make a living working in the nearby government-run mines.

Before the steam engine ship could be built, it was still difficult to assimilate the local sea and land and migrate a large number of people.

Throughout the ages, there was anyone else who could beat him at the same age, and I couldn't think of it, and I didn't even think that there would be any more in the future.

The road from Tieling to Hanzhou is basically an official road of rammed earth road, but after entering the boundary of Changchun, the rammed earth road instantly becomes a smooth cement road.

The train slowly passed through the gate, and this also represented that Zhu Zhanyan had officially set foot in the northeast boundary in Zhu Gaoxu's mouth.

Although it is only mid-March and the land is not easy to cultivate, people who have nothing to do will apply for workers and go to work in the mines.

Zhu Zhanyan shook his head when he heard this, and then continued to read the newspaper in silence.

"Your Highness, the car is ready."

Zhu Gaoxu touched his mustache, and at the same time said: "Let them see the operation of the imperial court in Gansu, Ningxia, and Hetao, especially let them know about the Northwest Railway, so that they can learn that the Western Regions, which Timur cannot cross, can easily be determined." ”

Although it was a horse-drawn carriage, because Bohai was the first place to make cement, many official roads in Bohai began to lay cement as early as 20 years ago.

However, since it was already dusk, after a short stroll, he returned to the car and continued his journey north.

It's really embarrassing to compare him with his own prince.

Soon, the ship began to move forward in the dark night, Zhu Zhanyan walked up to the bow of the ship to look, although it was dark, he could still hear the sound of ice floes hitting the hull.

Zhu Gaoxu slowly closed his eyes, as if he was recuperating and compromised.

"If the Emperor asks about the Northern Expedition again, you will say that you can go Northern Expedition when the Northeast Railway is completed......"

(End of chapter)