Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 259 Internal security and external expansion
"Your Highness can't treat us like this! We all sincerely convert to Buddhism!"

"Converting to Buddhism and having a wife and daughter?! Come on, hurry up!"

"Fusheng Wuliang Tianzun, you will be punished by heaven for doing this..."

"One more word, I will give you a set of punishments first!"

"God...ah!"

"Eating pork secretly, Allah will cast aside you!"

On March [-]th of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, following Zhu Youjian's order, a large group of fake Taoist priests and monks in Hexi were expelled from the temple and fined to hand over the land tax and poll tax that they had evaded for so many years.

For a time, nearly [-] people in Hexi were picketed out, accounting for almost one-thousandth of the population of Hexi.

When this group of people was caught out, some unidentified believers came to intercede.

But when they saw that the monks had wives and children, and the Quanzhen Taoists had wives and daughters, and the orthodox Taoist priests couldn't even memorize Taoist classics fluently, their whole worldview collapsed.

As for Zhu Youjian, not only liberated more than [-] manpower, but also recovered from them the taxes that were short of these years, and also let out a bad breath.

The group of people who were picked out were filled with grief and indignation, but he was on his way to Xining County contentedly.

I just don't know if the Little Ice Age is about to come. The snowstorm has been falling since before the start of the war, and with Zhu Youjian's eastward advance, the snow is getting heavier and heavier.

"If things go on like this, I'm afraid that the spring and summer planting in Northwest China will be delayed this year."

On the carriage, Sun Chuanting glanced at the snow-covered Qingtang mountain outside the window, and sighed with concern, while Zhu Youjian kept drinking with a wine gourd, and in his hand was a copy of the military newspaper of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies .

Generally speaking, although the battle of double sets was fought beautifully, it does not mean that all parts of Ming Dynasty are peaceful.

In February of this year, Nurhachi sent Manggurtai and Daishan to invade the south one after another. Fortunately, the number of troops was small, and their quality was not as good as the [-] horse infantry when they returned to Liao Dynasty. Therefore, He Shixian, commanded by Xiong Tingbi, easily defeated them. retreat.

As for the southwest, Hong Chengchou has led troops into Lin'an Prefecture, Yunnan.

However, after entering Lin'an Mansion, Hong Chengchou transferred Ma Xianglin, Mu Changzuo, Mu Zeng and other troops to Tengyue Eight Passes (west of Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, and even the territory of Myanmar).

After that, he transferred Tengyue Baguan and other chieftain soldiers who were reorganized to Lin'an Mansion, as if he was using Shadingzhou to train troops.

There was nothing wrong with this move. After all, Sha Dingzhou had less than [-] troops, while Hong Chengchou had maintained a suppression of more than [-] troops.

As for the money and grain, the money and grain after Yunnan's land reform, and the reputation of copying the family, Hong Chengchou's capital is still enough for him to fight for five or six months.

Therefore, before he asked himself for help, Zhu Youjian was not going to increase the military expenditure of the Western Army's Governor's Mansion.

Now he has to prepare to start saving money and food, and he can thoroughly digest Hexi, Hetao, and Jiugang.

In addition, after returning to the capital, he will also start preparing to call many vassal kings to Beijing to discuss going to the West and becoming a vassal overseas.

Time waits for no one, the five years of Apocalypse will soon pass, and the time given to him is only two years.

The severe drought is not only a test for Ming, but also an opportunity for Ming.

When tens of millions of people experience drought and become hungry, their strong will to survive doesn't care where they go.

At that time, the hungry people can be used to prepare for the migration, whether it is the current old port, Hexi, Liaodong, or the future Indochina Peninsula and Tianzhu.

In short, they will take the initiative to become a part of the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youjian will not harm them.

When one mu of domestic land can be exchanged for ten mu of overseas land, this exchange ratio is enough to drive most people with only one or two mu of land crazy.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian took out a blank order post and wrote down his own arrangements.

Of course, when he did this, Sun Chuanting was also watching.

Zhu Youjian didn't mean to cover up, so Sun Chuanting also saw many instructions about shipbuilding, relocation, and spying.

At this moment, he is sure that he has squeezed into the core position of Qi Wang's party, and Zhu Youjian also cut straight to the point:

"In the next few years, I am afraid that in addition to sweeping the north, you and Hong Chengchou will preside over the recovery of Wusizang, Sanxuanliuwei, Annan and other places."

"Your Highness gives orders, and I dare not disobey in humble positions." Sun Chuanting knew very well that Zhu Youjian was the one in his heart who could change Daming.

He knew very early on that since Zhu Youjian ordered him to abolish Bi Jiewei, he had roughly understood who he needed to follow.

As for Zhu Youxiao, although he is loyal to the emperor, if he was really given a choice, he would still choose patriotism.

What is patriotism?Who among the Ming Dynasty can make Ming Dynasty strong is the one who can truly strengthen the country, and following such a person is patriotism.

Coincidentally, Zhu Youjian is such a person, and Zhu Youxiao...

Sun Chuanting was deep in thought, but Zhu Youjian didn't know what Sun Chuanting was thinking, and he was still giving orders to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Yuma Supervisor on his own.

It's just that no matter how he ordered, his military orders were always repeated back and forth on the three points of reserve talents, preparations for drought resistance, and offensive and defensive warfare.

"The number of people in Liaodong has exceeded four million..."

Suddenly, Zhu Youjian spoke suddenly, and what he said caught Sun Chuanting's attention.

He took a closer look and found that the military information was sent by the Yumajian, which mainly said that the people in Liaodong broke through four million.

In the past year and a half, with the Liaodong relocation policy still in place, more and more people have migrated to Liaodong. After all, everyone knows that the territory of Ming Dynasty within the Great Wall of Liaodong is very stable.

Therefore, various policies have become the heroes of attracting people to migrate.

Zhu Youjian took a closer look, and it was not surprising that the number of people in Liaodong exceeded [-] million. He was more concerned about the number of acres in Liaodong.

After all, no matter how many people there are, if there are not enough acres, it will not be able to supply the army for the expedition.

It was so easy to re-enroll this time because we stood on the shoulders of nearly [-] million people and [-] million mu of cultivated land in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hexi provinces.

The foundation of Liaodong is still a bit weak, even at the moment...

"More than [-] million mu of newly cultivated land..." Looking at the number of newly cultivated land, Zhu Youjian nodded with satisfaction, and Sun Chuanting next to him also said:
"According to this speed, the number of acres of land that can stably produce grain in Liaodong may exceed [-] million acres in five years' time."

"When the time comes to support a Northern Expedition of [-] people, there will be no need to transfer food from other places."

"Almost, but five years is too long." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and gave the meaning of veto in terms of time.

Huang Taiji is not dead, he always feels that there is a heart disease.

Although Daming's size determines that even if Huang Taiji plays well, it is impossible to come back.

But I am not afraid of thieves stealing, but I am afraid of thieves thinking about it.

Who knows if this guy will go to Liaodong or outside the Yanshan Great Wall to put eye drops on himself when he sweeps the North, Pingnan, Dingxi, and appeases the internal affairs?
Right now, as long as the hungry people in Henan who migrated to Liaodong are stable and production resumes, then Zhu Youjian can organize a second sweep of the North.

Thinking of this, he circled red in the general's love circle, saying that he already knew it, and continued to pick up other military affairs to prepare for processing.

Among the many military information, the most prominent one is the military information sent by Shen Tingyang from the Old Port.

On the fifth day of March, Shen Tingyang had already arrived in Luzon, and then continued southward.

However, when driving to Boni, King Boni asked Shen Tingyang to temporarily sit in Boni's office, in order to help King Boni deter some nobles who were about to move.

Shen Tingyang thought about it. Boni is located in the center of the Nanyang waterway. Before Annan regained it, it was really good to stay here and work, so he stayed.

After arriving in Jiugang, he dispatched more than [-] clerks and more than [-] officials from the Shibo Department to various places. Except for Sanshan and Dongshan Prefecture, which did not send officials, other places that already had acquaintances were taken over.

After the takeover, Nanyang began to liquidate the land, and according to the statistics left by the various kingdoms, the total amount of cultivated land in the old port of Ming Dynasty is more than [-] million mu.

This is still the data that Huanglong did not recover the whole territory of Java. If Java is also recovered, the number of acres should be four times the number estimated by Zhu Youjian.

Regarding this, Zhu Youjian could only sigh secretly, "The sea has changed", and then continued to look down.

According to Shen Tingyang's report, the number of people under the management of the old Hong Kong Cheng Xuan Zhengsi currently totals more than [-] million.

Among them, the number of Han people is less than [-], of which [-] are newly migrated people to Luzon, and the rest are all natives.

This data made Zhu Youjian frown, but Shen Tingyang's relocation plan later made him feel a little more at ease.

Shen Tingyang divided the relocation into five stages, one stage is one year, and at least [-] people are relocated southward every year.

It sounds like [-] people may not be much, but this is already the maximum carrying capacity of Shibo.

After all, it is impossible for Shibo to stuff people into the cabin like animals like white people do black trade.

Therefore, even if it is a merchant ship with [-] supplies, it can at most transport [-] people to the south when the supplies are complete.

Of course, if you continue to build ships, then this carrying capacity can continue to increase.

At present, there are less than [-] merchant ships and cargo ships participating in the immigration, but only [-] of them are involved in transporting people to the south, and the remaining [-] are transporting grain, various cattle, and supplies.

If the number of ships increases, it will actually be easier for Ming to completely control Nanyang than to completely control the Northeast and Western Regions.

The consumption of sea transportation is only one-third or even one-fourth of that of land transportation, which is a natural advantage.

The voyage to the west is about to start, and after that, all the feudal states will also become feudal states overseas. With the current capacity, it is simply a dream to complete the overseas feudal feudalism.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian specially replied to Shen Tingyang, saying that the Shipbuilding Department can place orders for another [-] merchant ships and cargo ships with more than [-] materials from the five major shipyards.

The Yumajian currently has no extra silver, and the silver reward for the double set battle is still being calculated, so Shen Tingyang can only transfer the silver from the silver seized by Huanglong to place the order.

After the autumn harvest, the Yuma Supervisory Committee will allocate money and grain to the south to ease the financial problems of the Shibo Division.

After writing the reply, Zhu Youjian put down his pen, and Sun Chuanting, who had been watching from the side, also said:

"Your Highness asked Shen Buzheng to build the ship for the sake of overseas vassal kings?"

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian responded, and while looking at the military situation, he explained to Sun Chuanting:

"My Daming is now densely populated, and the gentry occupies a lot of fields, and the fields in the hands of the common people are not even as many as the gentry."

"If things go on like this, even if ZTE is revived again, it will only take decades to be lonely."

"Only by relocating the clan overseas, and then relocating the people overseas, and using the clan's vassal state to resist the barbarians who might invade our Ming Dynasty, can the Ming Dynasty survive for a long time."

Zhu Youjian's ideas are actually quite different from Zhu Yuanzhang's ideas, but the only difference between the two is the resources they use.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang still has a kind of empathy for the Chinese people in other countries, thinking that the whole world is the people of Ming Dynasty, and all the kings are the kings under the command of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, what he chose was to let the vassal kings station in some territories that needed to be consolidated, and use the local resources and the resources of the imperial court to defend the borders of the Ming Dynasty.

But in Zhu Youjian's heart, Ming is higher than the vassals, the vassals are higher than the foreign vassals, the foreign vassals are higher than the trading countries, and the trading countries are higher than other countries.

Therefore, what he chose was to send troops to help the vassal king conquer an overseas vassal state, so that the overseas vassal state could use overseas resources to feed back Ming Dynasty and at the same time establish its own vassal state locally.

In the end, the vassal state will become the garrison of a certain direction of Ming Dynasty, protecting this place of Ming Dynasty from being violated.

Just like if Tianzhu is canonized, then the only thing that needs to be guarded against and vigilant in Daming Sea is the direction from the east.

If the Western powers invaded from the west, they would first have to pass through the many vassal states of Tianzhu.

As for whether the Tianzhu Fan Congress will finally form an alliance to block Ming's maritime trade routes?
It can only be said that China is a culture and the blood of the clan, unless there is another Zhu Yunwen from Daming, the overseas vassal kings will not have the intention to fight against Daming.

Without the control of Ming Dynasty, after cleaning up other cultures in South Asia, those vassals who could expand would continue to choose to expand, while those who could not expand would start fighting among themselves.

At such times, Daming became a mediator.

Unlike the Zhou royal family, the emperor of Zhou, Daming's fist must be bigger than that of the vassal states, and for Daming, the stability of Tianzhu is the most important.

With the advancement of science and technology, sea trade routes will become more and more important, and many vassal kings in Tianzhu may rebel against Daming's discipline.

But the result was to be attacked by groups.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian was not worried about enfeoffing the feudal vassals who went to Tianzhu, but he was more worried about conferring feudal lords who were too far away.

Africa, America...

"It is still necessary to limit the vassal kings to Asia and Oceania, but my brother's other heirs and I can consider entrusting further overseas..."

Zhu Youjian doesn't trust other kings with weak bloodlines very much, and he is very clear about his own words. With his current power and strength, if the canonization is in a place close to Daming, then it will be a battle for both him and Daming. disaster.

Maybe there will be no gap between him and Zhu Youxiao, but what about him and Zhu Youxiao's descendants?What about his descendants and Zhu Youxiao's descendants?
The state of Qi must be canonized far enough away, otherwise, if the war among the feudal vassals starts, it will be the most intense between Qi State and Daming...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian felt a little headache, then opened the car window, and glanced at the white snow outside the window, as well as the valleys and mountains.

When the cold wind blows, he feels refreshed a lot, and at this time Sun Chuanting also said to Zhu Youjian:

"San Xuan Liu Wei and An Nan, Wu Si Zang, Duo Gan, who is His Highness planning to recover first?"

"If you talk about recovering, you must recover Annan first. After all, the land of Annan has its own legal system, and Annan is easier to recover than the other three places." Zhu Youjian replied without thinking:
"To fight against Annan, it is entirely possible for the South Army Commander's Mansion, the Western Army Commander's Mansion, and the Navy Commander's Mansion to jointly attack, and send troops from the coast, the mountains, and the north and the south."

"In the land of Annan, there is constant internal fighting right now. There are more than three million people, and tens of millions of acres of arable land, with three crops a year."

"If this place is won, for me, Ming, it will only take two or three years, and it will become another big granary."

"With it, Sumatra, and Sichuan, it will be much easier to recover the three places and six comforts."

Zhu Youjian's words made Sun Chuanting very agreeable, especially this re-set battle made him realize the importance of logistics.

Why did the replay battle go so smoothly?Not because of the bravery of the army, but because of the logistics in place.

Even if there is no Shangzhi and the reorganized Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, relying on the logistics of this battle, the Ming army can still solve the three major groups of captives.

Therefore, logistics is the top priority of the army. As long as there are no problems in logistics, Ming Dynasty will be able to deal with Jianlu, Beilu, Dongyu, Annan... all with ease.

Why didn't Zhu Youjian deal with the Jianlu in the Northeast?It's not because of the poor logistics in Liaodong.

When returning to Liaoning, you can go by sea, and then rely on sea transportation to fight wonderful defensive battles within the Great Wall of Liaodong.

But after that, the field battle seemed a bit out of order.

There were actually more than [-] troops in the Battle of Restoring Liao, but the problem was that the Ming army had almost zero horse and infantry. It was only thanks to Man Gui, He Shixian, and Cao Wenzhao's cavalry that they defeated the highly mobile Nurhachi.

If the Ming army had horse infantry in every department at that time, the result of the battle would have been better and the end would have been faster.

Even if it was raining, as long as the mobility could keep up, Nurhachi might be besieged and killed by the Ming army coming from all directions as soon as he left the Weining camp.

However, horse infantry is only one aspect of logistics. After all, the logistics they can carry are only a little more than infantry, which is nothing.

The real success of the first battle of the Liao Dynasty was because Zhu Youjian dispatched tens of millions of stones, grain and fodder to arrive in advance, which gave the army enough confidence.

For example, in the battle of Sarhu, if Yang Gao also had tens of millions of stones, grains and fodder, then Nurhachi would be dragged to death by him.

Therefore, in the face of sufficient logistics, some of the general's shortcomings can be made up for.

If Daming wants to clean up the three propagandas and six comforts, he must be prepared to go thousands of kilometers into the virgin forest.

This is still a distance between land and sea attacks. If the army is on one side, the depth will be two thousand or even three thousand miles.

It is precisely because of this distance that most of the Central Plains dynasty's battles against this place ended in failure.

Generals like Wang Ji who fought directly in the hinterland of Myanmar and even sent troops to the Assam region during the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty are enough to be boasted no matter which dynasty they are placed in.

The only advantage Zhu Youjian has over Wang Ji is that Wang Ji needs to face a Luchuan Dynasty with a population of millions, [-] armored troops, and a system similar to that of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

And what Zhu Youjian has to face is a Toungoo dynasty that is in the midst of internal strife. Although it is not divided, it is also considered to have its own ghosts.

So Zhu Youjian doesn't have to worry about how to fight, he only needs to care about how to ensure logistics.

"You have been to Guizhou. In your opinion, if Luchuan is attacked, what preparations should the court make now?"

Zhu Youjian looked at Sun Chuanting, but Sun Chuanting paused when he heard the words, and then said:

"The problem of food and fodder can actually be solved by water, but in terms of water, although there are big rivers in Yunnan, very few of them are navigable."

"The best way to go by water is to take the Yuan River to transport grain and fodder to Weishan in the south of Dali."

"But there is still thousands of miles to go from Dali to Tengyue Baguan, and according to my correspondence with Heng Jiu (Hong Chengchou's own name), he once told me that this place is dangerous, and I am afraid that it will take three times the normal transportation capacity. to get through."

What Sun Chuanting said should be Gaoligong Mountain and Hengduan Mountain Range, which Zhu Youjian roughly remembered.

Although he had never been to that place in his previous life, he had also heard that the local roads were dangerous.

"If His Highness wants to take back the three announcements and six comforts, I still suggest that you listen to Heng Jiu's suggestion first."

"After all, Heng Jiu and the others have stayed in Yunnan for so long, and now that Shadingzhou is about to be encircled and suppressed, he should be able to take a look around and give correct advice."

Sun Chuanting looked at Zhu Youjian, admonishing Hong Chengchou kindly, and Zhu Youjian nodded slightly to express his approval when he heard the words.

After the approval, he also took out a reply post, and wrote some Hong Chengchou's views on regaining Annan, three propaganda and six comforts.

After finishing all this, the speed of the carriage they were riding in gradually slowed down, and Cao Wenzhao also rushed to the window immediately, and said to Zhu Youjian in the carriage:
"Your Highness, you can see Xining County now."

"En." Zhu Youjian responded, then stretched out his head and glanced at the front of the carriage.

At the end of the horizon, a city standing at the mouth of Qinghai River Valley came into view.

The terrain around the city is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, surrounded by mountains, with Nanshan in the south and Beishan in the north.

Xining City happened to be stuck at the three forks of this river valley, walking out of Xining City to the east was the vast land of Hehuang in the Ming Dynasty.

Walking out of Xining City to the west is the majestic Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the magnificent Qinghai Lake.

As long as you find out the basics here, Zhu Youjian will know how to use troops in the Qinghai area...

"His Royal Highness, Xining and Songpan, if they want to take down Wusizang and Duogan, they must garrison troops and food in these two places."

Sun Chuanting just glanced at Xining City, and immediately gave it the highest evaluation, and Zhu Youjian also nodded slightly, and responded:

"How to do it, we still have to look at it. The snow season has not passed yet, and we have to wait until the snow melts before we can fully understand it."

After all, Zhu Youjian looked at the snowy sky and said to himself:
"From this point of view, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to the capital in a short time."

(End of this chapter)