Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Woooo-"

On the third day of heading south, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian's train successfully passed through Lin'an Prefecture from Yunnan and entered Xinghua Prefecture in Cochin Province.

They took the Kunming-Zhanzhan Railway from Kunming, Yunnan to Champa Province in the south of Cochin.

The Kunzhan Railway has a total length of more than [-] miles and a total of four tracks. Construction began in the tenth year of Tianqi, and it was not completed until March last year.

The Kunzhan Railway is divided into the Yunnan Section and the Jiaozhi Section. The construction of the two sections is very difficult, second only to the difficulty of crossing the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains from Chencang to Jiange on the Jinglong Railway.

During the construction period, people of all ethnic groups who migrated from Yunnan to Jiaozhi worked as guides to help officials of the Ministry of Industry choose the most suitable route.

Since the railway crosses the three major water systems of the Jinsha River, the Pearl River, and the Red River, the construction passes through undeveloped mountains, rivers, and canyons.

Therefore, within 12 years of construction, a total of 200 million soldiers and civilians and reformed laborers were mobilized to complete a total of 4000 million cubic meters of roadbed earth and stone, build 230 bridges, and 210 tunnels.

After the completion of the road construction, after half a year of testing, it was not until September 21, [-] of Tianqi that the entire line was officially opened to traffic.

Sitting in the train, Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao looked at the passing tunnels and mountains and rivers outside the window, and sighed sincerely.

Officials from Xinghua Prefecture accompanied the whole process, and at the same time introduced the difficulties in the construction of the Kunzhan Railway.

Among the Kunzhan Railway, the most difficult one is the "Ren" bridge in Lin'an Prefecture, Yunnan section.

The "Ren" bridge is erected between the cliffs of two mountains 22 feet apart, and the bridge body is about [-] feet away from the bottom of the valley.

The entire bridge body does not have a supporting skeleton, but is connected by steel plates, channel steels, angle steels, and rivets. The hundreds of tons of steel parts used are all made in Kunming. Climb up the hill and assemble at the construction site.

The bridgeheads of the "Ren" bridge are respectively connected to the tunnel entrances of the cliffs on both sides, and the tunnel turns in the mountain, which brings great difficulties to the construction.

The two iron chains used to pull the bridge were 120 feet long and weighed more than [-] catties. They had to be carried by [-] reformed-through-labour workers on their shoulders.

They lined up in a queue of hundreds of feet, crawling like a giant dragon on the rugged path, and it took three days to transport them to the construction site.

Phenomena like this emerge endlessly throughout the entire Kunming-Zhanzhan Railway, which shows how difficult it is to complete this railway more than 200 years ahead of schedule with the technology of the Ming Dynasty.

But even so, with the wisdom of Han craftsmen and the hard work of the labor camp workers, the entire railway was completed and opened to traffic without major changes.

With the opening of the Jinglong Railway, Luchuan Railway, and Kunzhan Railway, Yunnan instantly became the political and military center in the southwest of Ming Dynasty.

As for the economic center, it is still vacillating between the Golden Triangle and the Red Triangle.

Luchuan has the Luchuan Plain washed out by the Dajinsha River, the Dajin Delta, and the Ganges Delta in Dimasa.

Cochin has the Red River Plain and the Red River Delta washed out by the Red River.

These three deltas are all world-class. In the long run, the economic center may eventually fall on Luchuan.

However, when the Ming Dynasty destroys the Mughals, Luchuan will definitely be split into two provinces, and then the potential of Luchuan will decline.

But no matter what, Luchuan is still one of the provinces with the most potential in Ming Dynasty at least right now.

As a transportation hub leading to the seven provinces of Luchuan, Sichuan, Jiaozhi, Uzang, Guizhou, Guangxi, Nanzhang, and Siam, Yunnan's status is self-evident.

Therefore, Yunnan is also one of the most important provinces for the development of industrialization in Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the many rare metal deposits it owns, the types of factories built by Daming include but are not limited to machinery, chemicals, mining, matches, textiles, etc.

Last year alone, Yunnan produced 120 tons of crude steel, 900 million tons of pig iron, 650 million tons of coal, 320 million tons of cement, 26 million boxes of matches, 200 tons of kerosene, 42 kerosene lamps, and 270 million white cloth. horses, [-] tons of phosphate fertilizer, [-] tons of indigenous compound fertilizer, [-] million tons of feed...

Among them, the most noteworthy one is phosphate fertilizer, which accounts for 28% of Daming's total phosphate fertilizer production in Yunnan alone...

The output value of various factories also represents the economic level of Yunnan in disguise.

The reason why Yunnan's industry is mentioned has a lot to do with Zhu Youjian's upcoming Jiaozhi.

The main reason why Yunnan has so many industrial output values ​​is to develop itself and drive the five provinces of Luchuan, Sichuan, Jiaozhi, Guizhou and Guangxi.

Among them, Luchuan is the most important, followed by Jiaozhi, and finally Sichuan.

With the presence of Yunnan, major floods rarely break out in the Red River Plain in Cochin because the upper reaches are properly controlled.

Secondly, all kinds of raw materials produced in Yunnan are sold to Jiaozhi at a small profit price, so the price of Jiaozhi is not high.

For the common people, whether it is feed, chemical fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, white cloth, pig iron, or the associated prices of meat, food, and clothing, they are not too high.

The six provinces in the southwest, the four provinces in the northeast, and the two provinces in Nanyang have all enjoyed the dividends brought about by the industrial revolution.

Fertilizers are cheap, so grain production is bound to be high, and grain prices will drop because of too much grain output.

The relationship between fertilizer and grain is here, so is the relationship between meat prices and feed, and the same is true for pig iron and farm tools.

"Right now, the price of Jiaozhi rice is only two yuan a catty, the price of meat is only fifteen yuan a catty, mutton is seventeen yuan, beef is eighteen yuan, and a set of ready-made clothes is just over fifty yuan."

On the train, seeing that the train was about to enter the territory of Cochin Prefecture, the officials of the Cochin Chief Envoy Siyamen who accompanied the trip hurriedly came, wishing to tell the results of industrialization in Cochin to the Cochin officials.

However, regarding all this, Zhu Youjian had already talked to Zhu Youxiao on the way from Dali to Kunming.

The happiness of the people of Jiaozhi comes from industrial revolution, and such happiness is what Zhu Youxiao, a good-looking emperor, needs.

"Woooo-"

The piercing siren sounded, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, and waved his hands:

"Understood, you all step back, I have something to discuss with King Qi."

"I'm waiting to retire..."

Seeing what the emperor said, the officials of the Cochin Chief Envoy's Office looked at each other, showing helpless expressions, but at the same time restrained themselves quickly. After the respectful salute, they backed away and left the carriage.

After they left, only Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youjian and Lu Wenzhao, who was in charge of the guard, were left in the carriage.

Seeing the carriage door close, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing, and looked at Zhu Youjian at the same time:

"My brother is right. The officials in Jiaozhi really regard the industrial achievements of the imperial court as their own political achievements."

"I really don't know what they have learned in Yanshan, government schools, and government schools for so many years..."

Zhu Youxiao's words, the first half of the sentence still has a tone of mocking others, but the second half of the sentence seems to be mocking himself.

He may think that these officials who have received a new education should not have the same thinking as the conservative officials.

It's just that the reality slapped him hard, and Zhu Youjian also lightly enlightened Zhu Youxiao when pouring tea for him:
"It's easy to change what you learn and what you learn, but it's hard to change your mind."

"Even if many officials receive a new-style education, they will be eroded by a social style full of old-fashioned ideas, and the same is true for officialdom."

"If you want to change your mind, you can't succeed overnight, but it takes dozens or hundreds of years of gestation to gradually break out of the shell."

"Right now, the "five-year compulsory education" implemented nationwide in Ming Dynasty will last only four years, so it's normal that people's thinking cannot be changed."

"As long as you persevere, my brother may be able to see a great Ming Dynasty in his later years that the whole country does not pick up."

Zhu Youjian's words here are a bit exaggerated, but he knows that for his brother, exaggeration is only useful.

After all, my elder brother is in the aspect of saving face, but he will never give up those emperors who are overjoyed.

At times like this, Zhu Youjian is often thankful that his brother's hobby is carpentry.

After all, he is the emperor of technology, and he knows that messing around without technology is prone to accidents, so it is difficult to see his micro-manipulation in military and politics.

In the past 22 years, Zhu Youxiao has only done a few things, but generally let the people below do it, which is commendable.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at a wood carving on the table.

It was carved by Zhu Youxiao, and the object of the carving was Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youxiao seems to want to use this method to keep Zhu Youjian three-dimensional in his heart, so that his men can subconsciously carve out the appearance of the person he thinks of.

Zhu Youjian didn't want to talk too much about political matters, because at this moment he had already written his experience in books.

For example, the thick three books on the table are the best gifts Zhu Youjian left for his brother, nephew, and Daming.

"50 Years General Outline"

The written titles of the three books are like this, which is enough to show how much Zhu Youjian also thought of Daming.

As long as Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran follow the steps, this general outline is enough for Daming to follow the correct path for 50 years.

Naturally, this does not mean that Zhu Youjian will ignore Daming in the future, and he will also make changes to the general outline in the future.

After all, the ideal road is one thing, and how to take it is another.

"Woooo..."

The train's whistle sounded for a long time, which meant that it was about to refuel ahead.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian talked to Zhu Youxiao, then got up and went back to his compartment to rest.

As for Zhu Youxiao, he also continued to read the "50-year General Outline".

Although there are only three short volumes, the content in it is more than 60 words, covering all aspects.

Even Zhu Youxiao would have to spend a lot of time to read it and understand it thoroughly.

For a while, there was only the sound of flipping through the documents in the carriage, and it was not until half an hour later that the train started again.

With the sound of the train starting, the train gradually walked out of the rugged mountains in the northwest of Cochin and came to the vast plain.

This feeling made people suddenly enlightened, and after arriving at the Honghe Plain, the rice fields also came into everyone's eyes.

Although the Honghe Plain in the Ming Dynasty could achieve three crops a year, there were no common people planting crops in this season.

When Zhu Youzheng was puzzled, Zhu Youjian also finished his afternoon nap and walked over from his compartment.

Seeing him, Zhu Youxiao quickly asked: "Brother, this Cochin crops three times a year, why don't the local people grow crops?"

"Hehe..." Hearing his brother's words, Zhu Youjian laughed and said, "Of course it's for high production."

Then, Zhu Youjian explained: "Three crops a year does not necessarily mean a high yield per mu, otherwise Qiongzhou Prefecture may already be the granary of the country."

"Besides, the people of the country pursue taste. Even if they can be ripened three times a year, the people will only grow varieties that are ripened twice or once."

"Currently, Jiangnan rice is mainly planted in Jiaozhi. Jiangnan rice is grown twice a year in Jiangnan, and three times a year in Jiaozhi."

"However, although it is three crops a year, the yield per mu in a single season is not very high."

"Jiangnan rice yields one stone and two buckets per mu in a single season in Jiangnan, but it is only nine and a half buckets in Jiaozhi."

"After one year of planting, ordinary fields in the south of the Yangtze River can produce two stones and four buckets, and Jiaozhi can produce two stones and nine buckets."

"It seems that the output is high, but with only five buckets more grain, the taste is more than a little worse."

"So in Jiaozhi, even ordinary people don't eat Jiangnan rice, which is ripe three times a year."

"If things go on like this, many farmers will delay the harvesting time, try to let the rice grains grow full before harvesting."

"After doing this, although it is only double-cropped, the annual yield is two stones and five buckets, and the taste is greatly improved."

"Not only that, but only two crops of rice are planted, and farmers can rest for two more months. Therefore, even though this place can produce three crops a year, the people are still only willing to plant two crops of rice."

When Zhu Youjian explained in this way, the train passed through more villages and fields. During the period, you can also see many farmers who use tractors to reclaim the fields.

"How many acres of Jiaozhi Field are there now?"

Looking at the figure of the farmer going away, Zhu Youxiao questioned Lu Wenzhao.

"Back to Long Live, it should be about 200 million mu..."

"So much?" Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youjian was a little emotional.

You know, there are only seven or nine million people in Jiaozhi, and more than 500 million of them are local people.

The native people basically have two mu per person, while the Han people basically have five to twenty mu per person.

"How many natives are there in Jiaozhi?" Zhu Youxiao asked, but this time Zhu Youjian replied: "Less than 400 million."

"This..." Zhu Youxiao was at a loss for words when he heard that the number of natives had dropped from 700 million at the time of recovery to 400 million now.

"Brother, don't get me wrong..." Looking at his appearance, Zhu Youjian knew that he had misunderstood, and quickly explained:
"Women marry men, follow men's nationality."

"There are more than [-] million natives in Cochin, but over the years, many Cochin women have married immigrant Han men, which has led to a decline in the population of Cochin nationality."

"In addition, some rebellious Cochin people were arrested and reformed through labor, so there are fewer people."

"The immigrants here in Jiaozhi have 300 acres of land per person. However, due to the severe drought in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Central Plains in the past few years, too many people have migrated. As a result, more than 500 million Han immigrants now only have less than four acres of land. Thousands of five million mu."

"According to the current situation, Jiaozhi needs to develop at least another 500 million mu, which is enough."

Zhu Youjian explained the situation of Cochin.

As the first province outside the Central Plains that Ming conquered, there were too many Han immigrants in Jiaozhi, so it was normal for the land to be insufficient.

In fact, Luchuan, Jiugang, and Yingzhou also have this phenomenon.

"Will a cochin girl married to a Han immigrant also get [-] acres of land?" Zhu Youxiao asked curiously, but Zhu Youjian shook his head:

"This kind of woman is called a naturalized woman, and they can get an additional three acres of land. That is, after marrying a Han, they can upgrade from two acres of land to five acres of land."

Zhu Youjian knew in his heart that it was not enough to show the economic strength of the Han family man, and he had to show enough benefits to make the Han family man the target of the native women's family.

Therefore, it is basically an overseas province. As long as a native girl marries a Han man, her social status and economic strength will get a huge leap.

It is also under this policy that native women in various provinces will continue to pursue marriages with Han men.

At the same time, the improvement of the status and treatment of the Han people has also offset a lot of rebellious psychology among the few people who were originally Sinicized in four provinces such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi.

If someone calls them their original ethnicity, they will be impatient, for fear that if they lose their Han identity, they will lose a large area of ​​land and treatment.

It is also because of this that many Southwest minorities who have been naturalized as Han people are working hard to Sinicize, and the new generation of children can't even speak their own language.

Such a phenomenon has caused the population of Ming Dynasty to decrease every year, and it has even been less than 2000 million this year.

In the long run, it is estimated that native men will also want to have daughters to marry Han people, and then let their family obtain Chinese nationality.

Although the follow-up Chinese books are not as exaggerated as the [-] mu of land, the treatment of [-] or [-] mu of land still exists.

This kind of treatment is nothing compared to the treatment of the previous immigrants, but for the natives, it is already a windfall.

"The biggest problem right now is Yingzhou, and this is what my brother needs to pay attention to in the future."

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he continued to speak, and talked about Yingzhou across the sea.

"Yingzhou?" Zhu Youxiao frowned and thought about it, and then asked in doubt:

"I remember that they were suppressed a few days ago because they gathered people to burn and kill Han immigrants."

"There are quite a few, but there are too many of them who betray the Lord, and they need to be cautious at all times." Zhu Youjian didn't want to remind, Zhu Youxiao also asked curiously:
"How many natives of Yingzhou nationality are there in Yingzhou now?"

"About 600 million, there are more than 500 million naturalized married Han women in Yingzhou and more than [-] million men and women who immigrated overseas..." Lu Wenzhao said an embarrassing number as soon as he opened his mouth.

The population of Yingzhou continued to decrease, and more than 500 million people emigrated overseas.

"Who are the main people who immigrated overseas?" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly. After all, 500 million people is quite a small number.

"Women basically went to the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Central Plains, and men basically went to India and the feudal clans of Levia." Lu Wenzhao explained:

"In addition, among the more than 600 million people in Yingzhou who are purely native to Yingzhou, there are still 1605 million people waiting to be relocated."

"The vassals offered them the relocation conditions of five acres of land per person, and many people yearned for it very much."

Lu Wenzhao revealed the truth behind the huge number of immigrants in Yingzhou, and the main pushers were the various vassals.

The Ming Dynasty has a different attitude towards the immigration of the feudal vassals. It is relatively harsh to immigrate Han people. Not only do they have to relocate silver, immigrate fields, and farm cattle, but they also need to see whether the Migration Department of the Ming Dynasty approves it.

But the natives who immigrated to Daming were different. As long as they could speak official language and write Chinese characters, the feudal lords could recruit and relocate them.

This kind of situation is what Zhu Youjian likes to see, that is, the sea journey is dangerous, many ships will sink into the sand at sea, and a large number of immigrants die in shipwrecks every year.

Daming registers that more than 200 million male immigrants from Yingzhou have left Yingzhou, but the number that can reach the various feudal clans is unknown.

After they arrived in various vassals, most of them were used by vassal kings and officials to serve as government servants and local chiefs in charge of local people.

Once the local natives rioted, if Chief Jia knew about it and did not report it, he would be sent back to Yingzhou and all his property would be confiscated.

Therefore, in the job of monitoring the natives of India, they did it very seriously, which greatly reduced the phenomenon of sudden local rebellion and untimely mobilization of troops and horses.

This may seem unfair to the Yingzhou immigrants, but you must know that for them who lived under the notice of the Tokugawa shogunate, being able to live in Daming and the various vassals is simply to recreate their kindness.

At least the existence of the "Law of the Great Ming Dynasty" restricts the nobles from bullying and killing them, and gives them the dignity they deserve as a person, and they can also own their own houses and fields, and their taxes are ridiculously low.

Therefore, the immigrants from Yingzhou enjoyed it, and Daming and the feudal clans were happy to hear about it.

The only ones who are dissatisfied may be the group of Indians who work as servants in India.

"Woooo-"

During Zhu Youxiao's inquiry, the train arrived at Cochin City, the provincial capital of Cochin.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian took people off the train, and the Jiaozhi Railway Station that came into view was exactly the same as the one in Daming.

There were not many people in the train station, but all of them were dressed in Ming Dynasty costumes and spoke the language of Ming Dynasty.

The same is true when walking outside the station, and after entering Jiaozhi City, the scene, language and architecture of people coming and going in the city are also very Ming style.

If he hadn't listened to the melodious Jianghuai official dialect, Zhu Youxiao would have thought he had come to Jiangnan.

"My brother's method is really good. After 30 years of this, there will be no worries..."

Looking at the scene in front of him that was not much different from the Central Plains, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help expressing emotion.

Now next to him, Zhu Youjian is also happily admiring his "work".

Re-sinicization of Jiaozhi, which has been intermittently out of the hands of the Han people for hundreds of years, is perhaps the thing he is most proud of.

He and Zhu Youxiao walked the streets and alleys, and there was almost no trace of Annan in the entire Jiaozhi City.

You must know that it has only been more than ten years. If the past few decades, then Jiaozhi will probably become the No.13 Sinicized province in the two capitals of the Central Plains.

"Long live, Your Highness, the people of Jiaozhi basically live in the south at present, and the seven prefectures in the north have been Sinicized by more than [-]%, and there is really no trace of Annan."

The officials who followed Zhu Youjian and the others couldn't stand it anymore, explaining with trembling legs.

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian stopped in their tracks.

"This is indeed the case in Jiaozhi City, but the specific other prefectures need to be visited before we can get the answer."

"Go back and rest, and accompany me and King Qi to visit various mansions tomorrow morning."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, but the Cochin officials wanted to cry when they heard the words.

They also lamented the complete Sinicization of Jiaozhi, but it is not the case that Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian can walk more than ten miles in a row and see all of Jiaozhi City.

Listening to the emperor's words, it seems that they will use their legs to measure the prefectures and counties of Jiaozhi next.

With a hint of crying, dozens of high-ranking Cochin officials could only bite the bullet and salute in return:

"The minister... leads the decree..."

I worked too much overtime at work, which led to a wrong chapter name yesterday, and I made a fuss, sorry, sorry...