Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Pasta pasta! Delicious pasta!"

"The hot steamed buns just out of the oven are soft and delicious!"

"Let's go and see, it's not a bad thing to buy a few toys for the doll"

"Guest officer..."

Sichuan, as the southwestern rear of later generations, played the same role in the Ming Dynasty.

As the provincial capital of Sichuan, Chengdu City occupies the Eight Hundred Li Plain of Chengdu. No matter how the times change, its economy is still one of the better cities in Ming Dynasty.

Although due to immigration and territory expansion during the Tianqi period, its economy changed and it became the hinterland of the dynasty's territory, it still bears the important responsibility of supporting the people in Northwest China, Uzbek and other places with food.

Farmers grow grain, government buys grain...

Such a simple economic structure benefits the common people in Sichuan. Once the farmers in Chengdu have money, they will naturally think of spending money in Chengdu, making Chengdu more prosperous.

Under the leadership of Li Banghua, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian shuttled around the city of Chengdu, feeling the life of the people in Chengdu.

Standing on the tower, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian looked down and saw the sparse flow of people in the streets and alleys.

Compared with the Chengdu City in the Song Dynasty, the Chengdu City in the Yuan Dynasty actually suffered a lot of damage, especially the population.

During this period, the entire population of Sichuan was massacred, cities were torn down at will, and traditional Han culture was once eliminated in Sichuan.

Before the Yuan Dynasty annihilated the Song Dynasty, due to the long period of peace in central Sichuan, the population suddenly increased to more than [-] million. Also because of the long period of peace, no one cared about the defense of cities in various parts of Sichuan.

Therefore, when the Mongolian army was about to go deep into the territory of Shu, the defense of the Western Sichuan Plain had reached the point where it could not be further relaxed.

Mianzhou (Mianyang), which is known as Chengdu's "outside shelter", has not been repaired for a long time, resulting in "decadent and bad moats, if there is nothing, a three-foot child shepherd can pick it up."

The Huai'an Army, known as the "Clash of East and West", did not repair the local fortifications, so that "the years have passed, and it has gradually collapsed" and "everyone can pass."

As for the city of Chengdu, which is known as "the Metropolis of the Southwest" and was stationed in Sichuan Province, there was no danger to defend, and the city's defense deployment was weak. It can be seen that the battlements are useless.

During the Song-Yuan War, the city of Chengdu was the first target captured by the Mongolian army, and it was completely burned down.

Although Chen Longzhi, the envoy of Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, once "reestablished his city" on the basis of the old cities of Chengdu and Hanzhou in the first year of Chunhu, he was soon destroyed again.

In view of the fact that there was no danger to defend the Western Sichuan Plain in the face of the impact of Mongolian iron cavalry, the Southern Song Dynasty had to abandon the plain counties including Chengdu, and the military and political institutions in Chengdu also moved to Jintang Yunding Mountain to build a city.

After Chengdu City was abandoned by the Song Army for more than ten years, the local area was basically still in ruins, and the Mongolian army did not enter the Chengdu Plain until 12 years later, and rebuilt the abandoned "Chengdu City" of the Song Army. It established the city defense foundation for the Mongolian rule of Chengdu in the Yuan Dynasty.

However, in the ensuing tug-of-war, the Mongols also believed that the Chengdu Plain was more suitable for raising horses and grazing, so the construction of Chengdu City often only focused on the inner city, not the unexpected city.

This situation was not announced until the Ming Xia regime was overthrown by the Ming Dynasty in the fourth year of Hongwu, and Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong entered Shu to comfort the army and civilians under the command of the Ming Taizu to build a new city in Chengdu.

Since the construction of the outer city of Chengdu during the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, the city of Chengdu has been dredged several times, including the 22nd year of Hongwu, Xuande, and Jiajing.

Therefore, although the people in Chengdu have changed over and over again, Chengdu still retains the original flavor of the early Ming Dynasty.

In the city of Chengdu, there is a big flag planted on the four towering towers, and a small temple is painted in the space of the moon city.

The east gate is Wuxian Temple, the south gate is Guanwang Temple, the west gate is Wenshuai Temple, and the north gate is Xuantan Temple.

Zhu Youjian and the others are standing above the Xuantan Temple at the North Gate. Standing here, they can have a panoramic view of Chengdu City. Among them, the most prominent one is a circle of mansions in the center of the city.

"Where is there? Why does it occupy such a large area?"

Looking at the buildings that accounted for nearly one-third of Chengdu, Zhu Youxiao frowned and raised his hand, pointing to the buildings and asking Li Banghua.

Regarding this, Li Banghua was a little hesitant, but he answered honestly after a while:
"Long live, that is the Shu Palace where the King of Shu resides. It is a city within a city."

"The buildings around it are several county palaces, among which the Nanchuan County Palace, Qingfu County Palace, Deyang County Palace, Taiping County Palace, Fushun County Palace and other county palaces have the largest area."

"..." Hearing Li Banghua's words, Zhu Youxiao's old face blushed. He really didn't expect that the vassal kings of the Shu Palace would occupy such a large area of ​​Chengdu City.

Since the king of Shu is still moving to India as a vassal, the current vassal mansions and county mansions are all managed by the inner court, and the expenditure is not small.

"What is the use of the Shu Palace and the County Palace now?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Li Banghua, and Li Banghua bowed and replied:

"The objects in the mansion have already been removed by the princes, and what is left now is only an empty palace, so it is now a place for the common people to play."

"For only one penny, the common people can wander in it, but it is basically limited to the main palaces, and some remote palaces are still locked up."

"The annual income of the Shu Palace is no less than 2000 taels of silver, and the income is basically used by the local yamen and the officials of the inner court to repair and maintain the palace."

"As far as I know, this is His Royal Highness Qi's idea. The same is true of the royal palaces in various places in the country. The annual income is not a small sum."

"Really, brother?" Hearing Li Banghua's words, Zhu Youxiao turned to look at Zhu Youjian curiously.

"It's my brother's idea." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and confessed:
"These things used to be handed over to Wang An. Last year, the mansions of the feudal vassals were used as gardens for the people to hang out. The annual income was more than [-] taels of silver, which basically covered half of the maintenance costs of the mansion."

"After Wang An left, this matter was handed over to Ruoyu. Brother Huang can ask Ruoyu after he returns."

Zhu Youjian explained, and Zhu Youxiao nodded after hearing this, saying that this idea is good, and he no longer entangled with the affairs of the Shu Palace, but pointed to the large building not far from the Shu Palace and asked:
"What's the place over there?"

"Long live back..." Li Banghua bowed and replied: "Over there are the government offices of the entire Sichuan and Chengdu Prefecture, Chengdu County, and Huayang County."

Once Li Banghua said this, Zhu Youxiao looked in that direction with great concern.

The official office is the place where the rulers of the past dynasties issued orders, and has a great relationship with controlling the city.Through the analysis of the architectural pattern and layout of the government office in the historical period, it can reflect the evolution of the political system of the state and county and the trend of urban development at that time.

Under Li Banghua's explanation, Zhu Youxiao also gradually understood the location of various government offices.

The Chief Secretary of Sichuan Chengxuan is located at the south foot of Wudan Mountain in the northwest corner of Chengdu City, and the Division of Criminal Procuratorate and the Governor's Office of the Western Army are in the main street inside the East Gate.

These three main yamen are surrounded by many subordinate yamen. According to careful calculation, nearly 26 of the [-] population in Chengdu are officials, servants, and soldiers, and half of them are officials of the Western Army's Governor's Mansion.

Such a development is somewhat deformed, but it is helpless.

Regarding the military, Zhu Youxiao has his own opinions. Although it is not as good as Zhu Youjian, he can also feel that it is inappropriate to continue to place the Western Army Governor's Mansion in Chengdu, so he turned his head to ask Zhu Youjian:

"Brother, does the Governor's Mansion of the Western Army need to be relocated?"

"Naturally, I plan to relocate it to Anxi City in Anxi Province, move the Northern Army Governor's Mansion to Beiting City in Beiting Province, move the Southern Army Governor's Mansion to Kunming, Yunnan, and keep the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion in Shenyang."

Zhu Youjian stated his own arrangements, including the relocation of the Western Army's Governor's Mansion to Anxi (Ili), which was also out of his own consideration.

First of all, there are less than 15 people in Anxi City now. If the Western Army's Governor's Mansion is moved, the officials alone can increase the population of Anxi to [-]. Counting their families, it may exceed [-].

If Anxi City had a population of 15, it would be much easier to develop the entire Yili River Valley.

As for the relocation of the Southern Army from Guangzhou to Kunming, he also has his own considerations.

The Southern Commander’s Mansion was first placed in Guangzhou, because it was easier to cross the sea by boat, whether it was to directly support Jiaozhi, Jiugang, or Nanzhou from this place.

However, with the successive recovery of Luchuan Province, Dimasa Mansion, and Bengal Mansion, the places where the Confederate Commander's Mansion needed help were much farther away.

In addition, the population of the Han family in the two provinces of Jiugang and Nanzhou still reached more than [-]% of the local population, and there will be basically no major ethnic rebellions. The place where national rebellion is most likely to break out.

If the purpose of placing the Western Army's Governor's Mansion in Anxi is to consolidate Ming's rule in the southern border of the Western Regions and the Hezhong area, and to guard against Persia, then the Northern Army's Governor's Mansion is placed in Beiting to consolidate Lingbei and the northern border of the Western Regions, as well as to guard against Tsarist Russia. Therefore, the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion was placed in Kunming to guard against the Mughals and Indian clans.

At present, Kunming is the transportation hub in the southwest of Ming Dynasty. Firstly, its location is condescending, and secondly, it has direct railways to Sichuan, Luchuan, and Jiaozhi, the three major granaries of Ming Dynasty. In the future, it may also build railways to Guizhou, Guangxi, and Siam. It means that it will be the top priority of Ming Dynasty in the southwest.

It only takes three days from Kunming to the Bengal area at the westernmost point of Luchuan, and only two days to go to Champa at the southernmost point of Cochin.

If you want to go to the old port and Nanzhou, you can also spend six hours to go to the Cochin port in Cochin, arrive at the old port by boat on [-] days, and arrive at Nanzhou on the [-]th.

In addition to these, there are also internal reasons for the establishment of the southern military governor's office here, that is, to prevent the more than 900 million minorities in Luchuan and Jiaozhi from rebelling, and at the same time deter the three kingdoms of Siam, Nanzhang, and Ganbozhi, which have a total population of 1000 million.

An ethnic issue has bound the Ming Dynasty for more than 260 years, and it will continue to bind the Ming Dynasty in the days to come.

In addition to the ethnic issue, there is another issue that is binding Ming Dynasty, and that is the issue of religion.

Just like the current Chengdu, when Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao were walking around Chengdu under the leadership of Li Banghua, they also noticed that some public buildings in Chengdu were very conspicuous.

In Chengdu, there are many religious buildings, including Zhaojue Temple, Daci Temple, Jinxiang Temple, Qingyang Palace, Zhenwu Palace, Chongyang Temple, Baoguang Temple, Baiyun Temple and other 72 Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.

In addition to these, there are also 26 temples dedicated to vulgar gods, such as Chenghuang Temple, Huoshen Temple, Guanwang Temple, Wenshuai Temple, Xuantan Temple, Laogui Temple, and Bawa Temple.

Finally, there are also temples and shrines dedicated to sages and sages in Chengdu, such as Yuwang Temple, Zhuge Temple, Wuhou Temple, Shehong Temple, Xiangxian Temple, Liuxian Temple, Zhao Gong Temple, Qiao Gong Temple, Daru Temple, Qian Xi Temple, Wenchang Temple and so on.

The explosion of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" began in the early Ming Dynasty, but many stories of the Three Kingdoms have been circulated since the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Among them, Zhuge Liang is the most famous.

Zhuge Liang has a deep relationship with Chengdu. Originally, his Wuhou Temple was just an ordinary sacrificial temple on the west side of the Han Zhaolie Temple. However, in the 24th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Shuxian King Zhu Chun carried out a comprehensive renovation and restoration of the Wuhou Temple and the Han Zhaolie Temple. integrate.

While abolishing the Wuhou Temple on the west side of the Han Zhaolie Temple, he moved the statue of Zhuge Liang to the east of the Liu Bei statue in the Han Zhaolie Temple, and arranged the statues of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the west, thus merging the temple and the temple. .

Later, officials in Sichuan also enshrined Liu Chen, the king of the Northland, Zhuge Zhan, the son of Zhuge Liang, and Fu Qian, who died in fighting at the gate, in the temple.

Zhuge Liang's fame was not accidental. Even in the Tianqi period, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, stopped when he walked to the Han Zhaolie Temple.

He walked into Han Zhaolie Temple with his entourage of officials. He was not interested in Han Zhaolie Emperor Liu Bei and Zhu Youxiao. Perhaps he thought that Liu Bei's achievements could not compare with his own.

But when he arrived in front of Zhuge Liang, he pointed to Zhuge Liang and said:
"My younger brother treats me like Kong Ming treats his empress..."

"Long live!"

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Li Banghua couldn't help reminding him in a low voice, because Zhu Youxiao's metaphor was like comparing himself to Liu Chan, the queen master.

But regarding this, Zhu Youxiao laughed and said:
"It's just a pity that Kong Ming can only help Liu's father and son divide the world, but my younger brother can help me create a prosperous world. If you talk about famous ministers and kings in ancient and modern times, my younger brother is definitely the number one."

As he said, Zhu Youxiao spoke softly to Zhu Youjian: "Kong Ming has assisted Liu and his son for 27 years, and my younger brother has only assisted me for 23 years, and I still need to work hard."

"..."

For a while, no one spoke around, because everyone could tell that the emperor was trying to keep the king of Qi.

For the emperor's retention, whether it was the conservative Li Banghua and others, or Lu Wenzhao and others from the Qi Wangfu, their hearts hung in their throats.

They were all afraid that King Qi's heart would soften for a while, so they agreed.

"Hegemony has been achieved, even Kong Ming should return to Nanyang to cultivate."

Zhu Youjian's answer made Zhu Youxiao's eyes dim for a moment, and the officials around him breathed a sigh of relief.

"Go to Shu Palace to rest..."

Zhu Youxiao seemed to have lost his temper. Instead of looking at the scenery of Chengdu, he turned around and let Li Banghua lead the way.

Seeing this, Li Banghua hurried forward to lead the way, and many officials of the old school also followed.

In the end, only Zhu Youjian, Lu Wenzhao, and a dozen Jinyiwei remained in the Han Zhaolie Temple.

"Your Highness..."

Lu Wenzhao wanted to go forward to say something, but Zhu Youjian stepped forward calmly, took out a long incense stick from the incense cabinet, lit the long incense stick to Liu Bei, the owner of Han Zhaolie Temple, saluted respectfully, and then withdrew from the Han Dynasty. Zhaolie Temple.

He is not so narcissistic that he thinks he can be compared to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, because the living are not compared to the dead.

The living can talk about the dead only because the dead can't speak.

He, Zhu Youjian, was much ahead of the two in terms of background, background, and experience. He was able to accomplish such a great feat only because of his own experience from time travel.

With this thought in mind, Zhu Youjian walked out of the Han Zhaolie Temple and came to the Jinli Long Street behind the Han Zhaolie Temple.

As a long street that was already famous during Zhuge Liang's time, Jinli's reputation did not decline with the departure of the aborigines, but became more and more famous.

Moreover, when Zhu Youjian arranged for the relocation of Sichuan people, he did not relocate all Sichuan people, so there are still aborigines living in Chengdu.

But what Zhu Youjian didn't expect, when he walked into Jinli, what appeared in front of him was not a traditional Ming Dynasty building, but a Qing* temple with West Asian style.

"How is this going?"

Zhu Youjian looked back at Lu Wenzhao, obviously he didn't expect these things to exist in Chengdu.

Regarding this, Lu Wenzhao could only bow his head and say, "Your Highness, there are many Semu people in Sichuan. After the Yuan Dynasty slaughtered Sichuan, most of the Semu people who accompanied the army in the army were left behind."

"Some of them stayed in Chengdu, some served in politics, and some traded in Chengdu."

"In addition, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, many warlords besieged and suppressed the Semu people, and after the national dynasty pacified the world, because there were too many Semu people in Hexi and Shaanxi, most of them had to be relocated to Jiangnan, Sichuan, Huguang and other places."

"Emperor Taizu Gao ordered them not to violate the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", so he didn't care about them anymore."

"Although there are still such temples, in fact they are no different from the Han people."

Under Lu Wenzhao's explanation, Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and couldn't help feeling sincere admiration for the laws that Zhu Yuanzhang had formulated.

If the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties could continue to use Zhu Yuanzhang's policies and attitudes towards ethnic groups, I am afraid that many ethnic problems would disappear.

"Daming law, the policy on the young people will be backed up and sent to my resting place later. After I screen it, I will order people to implement it in Qi."

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Lu Wenzhao responded honestly, but after the response, he raised his head and cautiously asked:

"Your Highness, you haven't approved Xia Changshi's memorial yet."

"Now that you have made Wan Sui unhappy again, I'm afraid it will be difficult to allocate 20 teachers."

When Lu Wenzhao chatted about the affairs of Qi State, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly when he heard the words, and then said:

"Brother is only angry for a while, rest for a while and he will be fine."

"The transfer of teachers can be prepared early, it is impossible to transfer 20 teachers at one time."

"Doing this is no less than migrating a million people to Qi, so we can only do it step by step."

"The population of Qi State is insufficient, and the number of students studying in the Siyi Hall is only a few thousand. Let Xia Yunyi send two thousand officials who understand the language of the minority people in the south to Daming. If you are interested, it is enough to strengthen our Qi State’s rule over the south.”

"in addition……"

When Zhu Youjian said this, he had already got into his carriage, and the carriage drove towards the Shu Palace. At the same time, Zhu Youjian also took out the map of Qi State from the bookshelf he was familiar with.

He scribbled and drew on the map, and handed it out a moment later:
"Set Qi State as three capitals and 25 prefectures, and add thirteen prefectures on the basis of the original Jingzhao, Gyeonggi, and Zhongdu Sanjing, Jinshan, Gaomi, Anling, Pingling, Chengshan, Hejian, Ninghai, Wendeng, and Jinghai nine prefectures. government."

"The original Haiyang Mansion was abolished, Pingyang Mansion was newly established, and Gaotang, Dongyang, Qufu, Weiqiu, Taoqiu, Chongqiu, Chuqiu, Zhulin, Changyan, Quchi, Langya, and Endless were added."

"Three thousand skilled battleship crews were transferred from the Tianjin Shipyard to the Qi State, and the five major shipyards of the Qi State were built in the five prefectures of Jingzhao, Gyeonggi, Anling, Wendeng, and Pingyang."

"In addition, recruit [-] skilled craftsmen and their families from the two major arsenals of Shuntian and Yingtian to go to Qi State to prepare the Xijing arsenal in Jingzhao Mansion."

"Recruit students, teachers and their families from Shuntian Fuxue and Yingtianfuxue to go to Qi State."

"Let Xia Yunyi tell Xia Yunyi that after taking over the mine left by the Frankies, he will immediately organize the start of construction. Daming urgently needs a lot of gold and silver, and Qi urgently needs population.

"The purchase of tractors cannot be stopped. If the bank is not enough, I will ask Daming Bank for a loan. I need to see Qi's arable land exceed 24 million mu and Qi's population exceed 4000 million when Tianqi arrives in Qi State in 2000 years."

As soon as Zhu Youjian opened his mouth, he sent a lot of supplies from Daming to Qi.

Although Qi will use silver to buy, it is not only Qi that has silver in the world, but also many countries that have silver.

Even if those countries have money, they can't spend it at all, and they can't buy technology with money.

The industry of Qi State is a process of accumulation and development. From the development of the 12th year of Tianqi to the successful commissioning of the first batch of industrial zones in the 15th year of Tianqi, Qi has now started the construction of the fourth batch of industrial zones, and the fourth batch of industrial zones has also It will be fully put into production in the 24th year of Tianqi.

Qi State's own industrial zone has been able to produce more than 5 tractors per year. Counting the support from Ming Dynasty, Qi State's annual production and acquisition of tractors can increase 300 million mu of arable land.

If the more than [-] tractors that have been produced before are added, then Qi State can reclaim more than [-] million mu of arable land every year.

At the current speed, as long as there are enough workers, Qi can completely complete the feat of 24 million mu of arable land in the 4000th year of Tianqi.

Zhu Youjian knew that he was creating a vassal state capable of challenging the authority of the Ming suzerain, but he knew one more thing.

If Daming had no strong enemies, it would stagnate itself.

Qi and Daming will not only be in a competitive relationship in the future, but also a cooperative relationship.

The resources of the two countries are enough for their respective peace for a hundred years, or even 200 years.

What they really need to care about are other countries with large populations and insufficient resources.

The rise of Qi, at least in the next hundred years, will not be a bad thing for Ming...