Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 586
"Drive... drive!"

"Bang bang bang-"

In May, while Lin Danhan moved westward, he also sent some sentry cavalry to keep a close eye on the Ming army.

On the outskirts of the Yili River Valley in summer, the two sides launched a small-scale contact war.

With dozens of people as the scale, the two sides kept contacting, retreating and pursuing.

However, the fact that this situation can happen also shows that the Ming army is not far from the Mongolian army.

Facts have also proved that they are indeed not far away.

"Beep-"

When the whistle sounded, all the Ming troops reined in their horses and watched as dozens of Mongolian rangers fled away in the distance.

"Don't chase them. The general said that you can't chase them too hard. It's enough to drive them to the west of Suiye Shui."

The squadron of the cavalry squad of the Ming army was blowing their whistle and at the same time stopped the pursuit of their brothers, and also spoke out the military order from above.

A group of Ming army cavalry didn't dare to complain when they heard the words, they could only cruise in the Gobi desert west of Suiye water, and they didn't return to the east of Suiye water until Youshi.

Dozens of teams returned, and their way home was a city entrenched in the east of Suiye Shui.

If you follow them into the city, you will be able to see the wooden plaque on the corridor of the city gate before entering the city.

"This is the Broken Leaf City of the Tang Dynasty. It's a pity that we can't see the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties..."

Standing in front of the tower of Suiye City, Cao Bianjiao supported the severely desertified rammed earth female wall with both hands, followed by Li Dingguo who had just arrived here.

For more than a month, although there was no major battle, the wind and sand along the way still brought a trace of maturity to Li Dingguo's face.

Hearing Cao Bianjiao sigh, Li Dingguo had mixed feelings.

He turned his head and looked into the city, only to see some Hui Hui people with tall noses and deep eyes wandering in the city, and the conspicuous buildings in the city were basically the wind of Hui Hui.

There are not many of them, but this is not because there are few people living here, but because Lin Dan Khan has slaughtered the local people after he captured here three years ago.

This time he moved westward and took away most of the Hui who could not hide.

Although the entire Suiye City is large, there are only more than [-] people in the city.

In comparison, Cao Bianjiao and the others brought a battalion of soldiers and horses that may have been the most Han people in Suiye City since Gao Xianzhi defeated Talas.

"This place is good. It is sandwiched between the Yibo Sea (Lake Balkhash) and the Hot Sea (Lake Issyk-Kul). There is also broken leaf water to provide water sources. There is also a sandy sea in the west of the river as a barrier. If it is well developed, it will benefit the people. Tens of thousands is not a problem."

Cao Bianjiao's words brought Li Dingguo back to reality, he nodded and said:
"There are more than [-] acres of land outside the city that were previously reclaimed by the northern captives. It shouldn't be a problem to raise [-] soldiers."

"Calculating the time, the tractor should have been shipped out of Jiayuguan by now."

"This time, Guochao suspended the distribution of tractors in the northern and southern provinces, and specially supplied [-] tractors."

"In addition to requiring more people to sow and harvest, less than 11 people are needed to plow the land, and tens of millions of acres of arable land can be easily plowed."

"Hehe..." Cao Bianjiao smiled: "There are not so many mature lands for sowing in the Western Regions right now."

"We have traveled all the way, and the land in the Western Regions is only a million acres. The northern captives do not rely on rice and wheat, and a small amount is enough, but we are different."

"At present, Hexi has organized more than 3 immigrants to come here, but most of them will not immigrate to Suiye City."

"Before the railway is not completed, Suiye City may still be dominated by military towns." Having said that, Cao Bianjiao looked at Li Dingguo:

"You boy, the burden on your shoulders is not light."

Cao Bianjiao's words seemed to be telling Li Dingguo that Suiye City would be his jurisdiction in the future.

In this regard, Li Dingguo wanted to refute, but was unable to speak.

He knew that this matter was decided by His Royal Highness King Qi, but he also knew that it was an honor to be stationed at Suiye Frontier Fortress for the country.

He only hoped that His Highness would walk slowly, and take him along after he returned to the capital from Suiye City.

"You should study how to deal with Suiye City. Anyway, I will take all the Huihui in the city back to Hexi in a few days. This is where you can show your skills."

After patting Li Dingguo on the shoulder, Cao Bianjiao also smiled and shook his head and walked down the wall.

Watching his leaving back, Li Dingguo walked to Cao Bianjiao's position just now, and he looked towards the northwest outside Suiye City.

However, apart from the slowly flowing broken leaf water, there is only sparse grass and the vast sky for him to watch.

Obviously, the grassland in summer should be full of greenery, but Lin Danhan moved westward with most of the people, and many grasslands were almost eaten up to look like winter.

Fortunately, there is broken leaf water. As long as we build canals and dikes, it is not a problem to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of cultivated land with broken leaf water.

"Three years... I hope His Highness will still be there after three years..."

With a sigh, Li Dingguo also turned and walked down the wall.

Almost when he walked down the city, Luntai County, which was only a camp, was a logistics transfer station for the northern, central, and southern armies of the Ming Army in the west. .

On the tenth day of May, this is the day when the fourth convoy of the Jiayuguan convoy arrived in Luntai County.

Arriving with the convoy team, there is still enough food and some military supplies for the three-way army to eat for a month.

"630 shi of wheat, [-] shi of rice, [-] tons of cement, [-] tractors, beans..."

Outside the camp in Luntai County, the snow-covered Tianshan Mountains became the background of the Ming army.

Zhu Fuju led more than a hundred quartermasters in the army to check the situation of the newly arrived luggage.

After the inspection, Zhu Fuju checked the list with the guard in charge of transporting the supplies, and after confirming that there was no problem, he said:
"There are five thousand five hundred and forty five of you, and the return trip will be allocated according to five thousand shimi and one thousand shi for beans, no doubt?"

"Return to the general, no..." The guards escorting the supply team bowed in response, Zhu Fuju also turned his head and said to the munitions Sima beside him when he heard the words:

"Leave [-] shi of rice and [-] shi of beans for them, and deliver [-] shi of rice, [-] shi of wheat, [-] shi of beans, and [-] shi of cement to the North Route Army stationed in Xuanchi."

"Send [-] shi of wheat, [-] shi of rice, [-] shi of beans, [-] tons of cement, and [-] tractors to Suiye City."

"The remaining materials, except for [-] tons of cement, will be sent to Shule Town and handed over to the Mandu Governor."

Zhu Fuju ordered in an orderly manner, and under his order, some leading convoys stationed in Luntai County began to transfer supplies. At the same time, Zhu Fuju also prepared to build a city in Luntai.

Before all kinds of factory machinery arrived in the Western Regions, the cement in the Western Regions could only be supplied by Hexi.

If you want to build a Luntai City, even if you only build the city walls, the cement you need may require several transport teams to transfer.

Fortunately, due to the different current situation, the capital of Daming Anxi Province is very likely to be set up in Yilibali in the Ili River Valley. Therefore, Luntai County only needs to be used as a transit town, and it does not need to be too large.

Zhu Fuju did the math, and based on the calculation of the height of [-] zhang [-], the width of [-] zhang, and the circumference of [-] li, it would require at least [-] tons of cement made in the Ming Dynasty.

Counting the buildings in the city, [-] tons of cement can basically handle Luntai City.

With the capacity of the transport team, almost two transfers are needed to meet the needs of Luntai County.

However, there are still many places that Daming needs to build in the Western Regions, and there are still many places that need to be repaired.

For example, the three cities of Shule, Suiye, and Xuanchi (Yemili) are all rammed earth and need to be rebuilt first.

After that, it is necessary to restore some cities of the Tang Dynasty in the northern area of ​​Xuanchi, and build the city northward until it is adjacent to Lingbei City in Lingbei Province.

After finishing these, all the cities in the Western Regions will have to be rebuilt, and the cost will be no less than 300 million taels.

It was the first time for Zhu Fuju to participate in such a large-scale logistics work, so he went through this document for a long time, and after confirming that there was no problem, he sent someone to the capital.

When this document arrived in the capital, as Zhu Ciran expected, Zhu Youjian began to transfer military power, and the first thing to transfer was the problem of army logistics.

Man Gui's request for the establishment of a province and Zhu Fuju's "Zou Shu of the Western Regions" were sent to the East Palace at the same time.

As for Man Gui's memorabilia, Zhu Ciran, who was newly married, didn't think anything of it, but he was a little hesitant about Zhu Fuju's memorabilia.

Since the beginning of Tianqi 19 years ago, the drought in the north has subsided somewhat, but it still exists, and Sichuan has also suffered from drought, and southern Zhili is still in drought.

Since there are still nine railways under construction at present, and the investment of each railway is about 300 million taels, so Daming is still a little embarrassed in terms of money and food.

"Uncle Zhenwu, do you think this matter can be postponed?"

Zhu Ciran couldn't make up his mind, finally got up and took the memorial in hand to Sun Chuanting's seat next to him.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting got up and took it. After opening it and looking at it, he nodded in satisfaction and said:

"This Zhu Fuju is quite well-known in the Northern Army. He can fight tough battles and govern the country."

"The 300 million taels he reported is basically no problem."

"If the imperial court is short of money and food, it must be postponed, then the repair of the inner cities of the Western Regions can be postponed temporarily, and the frontier cities should be repaired first."

"Your Highness can return the approval and ask Zhu Fuju to report the cost of repairing and building the frontier city."

Sun Chuanting remembered Zhu Fuju. He made a lot of contributions in encircling and suppressing the horse bandits in Xitao.

"That's good..." Zhu Ciran breathed a sigh of relief, then took out Man Gui's memorial and said:

"Mangui requested the establishment of a province. Uncle Qi Wang told me about this matter. He plans to set the recovered Western Regions as Anxi and Beiting provinces."

"To the north of Tianshan Mountain, except for Luntai County, the rest are Beiting, and to the south is Anxi."

"And from the date of establishment of the province, the exiled prisoners are divided into two categories, the lighter ones are exiled to Beiting, and the more serious ones are exiled to Lingbei."

Zhu Ciran talked about Zhu Youjian's arrangement, which can also be seen that his policy towards Zhu Youjian is indeed a real "Xiao Gui Cao Sui".

Therefore, Sun Chuanting had no objection to this: "Since His Highness said it, then follow what His Highness King Qi said."

"However, it seems that the Jingjia Railway can send people to continue the investigation. According to what His Royal Highness King Qi said, two to three railways will be built in the Western Regions."

"Hmm..." Zhu Ciran responded:
"The Jingjia Railway should be able to be completed this year, and it will not be a problem to continue to repair the connection."

"There are still [-] miles of Jinglong Railway to be completed. After these two railways are completed, it should not be a problem to only maintain the continuation of the Jingjia Railway."

Zhu Ciran is trying to settle the score. After all, Daming is currently experiencing constant natural disasters, and Daming has completely won the three provinces of Anxi, Shanyu, and Beiting. The investment and immigration in these three provinces must also keep up.

Thanks to Lin Dan Khan's westward migration, most of the Mongols entrenched in these places were swept away. Although Daming left empty cities and deserted fields, it also took away most of the hidden dangers.

"Anxi and Beiting currently have a population of less than 20. His Royal Highness Qi Wang said that these people will be relocated inland, and the population of those two provinces has almost never been counted."

"Even with Shan Yu included, the population of those three provinces is only 26, which is too sparse."

Sun Chuanting looked at the Chinese booklet in his hand, calculated the situation in the three provinces, and finally said:

"It is possible to recruit immigrants from the northern provinces to go to these three provinces, and distribute a tractor to each household."

"Although it seems that the cost of relocation is high, after all, the distance is long, and the number of people who will relocate is always a small number."

"Indeed..." Zhu Ciran nodded irrefutably, he had seen what Shanxi people looked like under natural disasters.

Even if there is a relocation policy, most of them are still reluctant to leave for the "homeland".

This is the case for migrating from Shanxi to the four northeastern provinces, let alone the more distant provinces of Shanyu, Anxi, and Beiting.

In Zhu Ciran's view, if the population of each of the three provinces can break through one million within 20 years, it is considered extremely remarkable.

Therefore, for Sun Chuanting's suggestion, he did not hesitate at all, turned around and asked Li Yongzhen to write down the imperial decree, announcing it to all provinces in the world, and making the migration policy of the three provinces transparent.

Such news naturally made the world happy.

However, the joy of the people lies in the recovery of the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the joy of the expulsion of the northern captives.

Regarding the relocation of the three provinces of Anxi, most of the people, even those in the disaster-stricken areas, actually just smiled after hearing it, and had no intention of relocating.

Even Hexi, which is the closest to Anxi and Beiting, started recruiting immigrants in March, but only recruited more than 4 immigrants by the end of May.

Compared with the difficulty in recruiting immigrants in these three provinces, the recruitment work in another place is already at full capacity.

"Those who want to relocate to Qi State! Today's iron plate for relocation has been issued, please come back tomorrow!"

In front of Longjiang Port in Nanjing, the immigration point of Qi State at this moment has been surrounded by three layers of inside and outside.

Looking around, there are no less than a thousand people who want to relocate.

Some of these people are old and some are young, but they are always old or young.

For the common people who experienced the weakening of Ming Dynasty after Zhang Juzheng died of illness, the news that King Qi was about to take over the feudal clan was just like the news that Zhang Juzheng was about to die of illness, and even more frightening.

Although Zhang Juzheng's whip method continued the fortune of the Ming Dynasty, it did not reduce the burden on the people too much.

But King Qi's New Deal is different. Zhu Youjian's New Deal is to actually distribute land and work for the people.

Now that he has a few years to go, many people are trying to move to Qi with their families.

Such a "grand occasion" caught Zhu Youjian himself off guard.

He originally thought that after Daming became better, even if he wanted to immigrate, not many people would go there, so he could only lure him.

As a result, he didn't use any of these methods, and the number of people who moved to Qi increased from 16 at the beginning of the year to [-] now.

The 16 is not all. If the Qi State can issue enough immigration iron cards, the number of immigrants in Qi State may reach hundreds of thousands.

This scene is embarrassing, even the crowd standing at the port can't help but say:

"I don't even know what the situation in Qi State is going to relocate. This group of people are really courageous..."

"After all, His Royal Highness King Qi will follow. The place where His Royal Highness King Qi lives is not too bad."

"That's true……"

"Long live, do you really want His Highness King Qi to go?"

"What if you don't leave? If you don't leave, your Highness... It seems that you will definitely leave anyway."

One of them realized that he had said something wrong, stopped in time, and turned to talking about Zhu Youjian's leaving.

When other people heard his words, they couldn't help sighing: "His Royal Highness Qi Wang is gone, won't the allocated fields be taken back?"

"It's okay to talk about the field, but I'm most worried that I won't even have to do the work."

When this incident was mentioned, people were depressed for a while, and these words were also heard by the group of people standing next to them.

"Homeowner..."

Wearing a uniform, Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhu Youxiao carefully, but found that his brows were frowning, as if he was preoccupied.

"Let's go!" Zhu Youxiao responded, turned around and was about to leave.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian quickly escorted him away with several guards.

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao got into a carriage, and Wei Zhongxian followed carefully.

Zhu Youxiao sat down and looked out the window, his eyebrows never stretched.

Today's trip was at his own request.

He wanted to see why his younger brother's immigrant country could attract so many people.

But after arriving, he found that many people were complaining about him as the emperor, and some people were even bold enough to whisper why the emperor was not the king of Qi.

The ancients said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and Zhu Youjian seems to have already won the hearts of the people of Ming Dynasty.

As a vassal king, he won the hearts of the people of Ming Dynasty, but what about himself as the emperor?
Zhu Youxiao's fists were clenched tightly, Wei Zhongxian also saw this scene, and he was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head.

"Did my younger brother hand over the memorial to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion to the East Palace?"

Zhu Youxiao spoke suddenly, and Wei Zhongxian responded quickly after hearing the words: "Long live back, it's just a part."

"Part of it..." Zhu Youxiao narrowed his eyes, but he didn't say anything in the end.

But after a long time, Zhu Youxiao said:

"Big companion, do you think I am lonely now..."

"Long live..." Wei Zhongxian was startled by these words, and quickly knelt down.

However, Zhu Youxiao's attention was not on him, but on the city of Beijing.

Right now, the government is in the hands of his younger brother and son, logically speaking, he should be happy.

But for some reason, Zhu Youxiao couldn't be happy at all.

Zhu Ciran is clearly his own son, but he regards his younger brother's policy as the truth.

The Ming Dynasty belonged to the world, and the art of controlling the world can make the Ming Dynasty last longer, but his own son puts more emphasis on managing the world than controlling the world.

The common people can have enough food and live and work in peace and contentment, but they can't be idle, otherwise chaos will arise.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, his younger brother's New Deal was a little too lenient.

Only by making the people tense can the country last longer.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao thought that after his younger brother became a vassal, he could hold the power and change these new policies.

As a result, it now appears that his younger brother has clearly noticed his thoughts and chose to hand over power directly to his son.

"..." Zhu Youxiao felt a little more resentment and grievance in his heart. He never thought that his younger brother would unite with his son to "target" him.

Not only that, since Zhu Ciran took the position of supervisor, Zhang Yan seemed to have discovered that Zhu Youjian was going to transfer power directly to Zhu Ciran, so in some matters, Zhang Yan also began to lean towards Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youjian. Kindness burns.

Zhu Ciran's killing of the Conservative Party also chilled Zhu Youxiao. He didn't understand why his family was targeting him.

Is there any problem with his technique of re-mastering the world?Of all the heroic lords throughout the ages, which one didn't emphasize the art of controlling the world and despise the way of governing the world?
This was the source of Zhu Youxiao's grievances. For this, after returning to the Nanjing Imperial Palace in a carriage, he walked towards the inner court angrily.

Along the way, the Nanjing Imperial Palace has changed a lot.

The collapsed palaces have been cleaned up, and what's more, they have been erected, and the wooden paint is being painted at this moment.

Except for the three main halls of the Outer Court, which have not yet started repairs, other places have already taken shape.

Since the emperor was in Nanjing, the Nanjing Imperial Palace, which was originally just a display, began to have people from the Six Departments of Nanjing come in and out, even if it was just to show the emperor, but it still made the palace more popular.

"Oh!"

Zhu Youxiao pushed open a door vigorously, and the sound made Wei Zhongxian's heart beat and he was very nervous.

He followed Zhu Youxiao back to Qianqing Palace. Before he stepped forward to dissuade him, he saw Zhu Youxiao took off his regular clothes and only wore a middle coat. He picked up a plane and worked hard on the wood placed in the palace.

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao wanted to put the "unfairness" he had suffered on this piece of wood.

Of course he could directly write a letter to question Zhu Youjian, but he was afraid that after his questioning, there would be a gap in the relationship between the two brothers.

Therefore, he can only use this method to vent the backlog of emotions in his heart.

This scene lasted for a long time, and when Zhu Youxiao felt a little tired, when he turned his head, Wei Zhongxian immediately stood behind him with a plate of "Sushan".

"Long live, let's cool off the heat by eating crispy mountains..."

Wei Zhongxian handed it to Sushan carefully, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help being moved when he saw it.

He took Su Shan, and after eating two mouthfuls, he felt that most of his anger disappeared.

After putting down Sushan, he looked at the old Wei Zhongxian, and couldn't help but sigh:
"Big companion, you are getting old too, I don't know how many more years you can be with me..."

"As long as Wansui still needs servants, even if the slaves die, they will stay by Wansui's side to serve them." Wei Zhongxian said righteously, and at the same time looked at the golden nanmu that had been processed for a long time with distress.

This is 1000 taels of silver...

"Hey... you step back first, let me be quiet." Hearing Wei Zhongxian's words, Zhu Youxiao thought of Zhu Youjian who was ten years old and supported him to ascend the throne.

At that time, he also thought that the two brothers could be together for a lifetime, but now it seems that it was just an extravagant wish when he was young.

After all, they are just brothers, not one.

"Your maidservant is leaving, long live, if you have something to do, please let me know, this maidservant is always here..."

Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhu Youxiao, who became sentimental again, and quit the Hall of Mental Cultivation after expressing his loyalty.

After he withdrew, Zhu Youxiao was the only one left in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Looking at the empty palace, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but have a sore nose.

"Why are you starting to bully me..."

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