my days with tyrants

Chapter 310
King Zhou, who didn't know what kind of difficult environment he was going to face, finally awakened his pioneering soul...

After all, his fourth brother has indeed gained a lot.

The war horses, gold and silver treasures, and women brought back from the Western Regions last year all amazed everyone.

The high-quality war horses of those guards alone are enough to make people enviable. The guard cavalry brought by Zhu Di are all Arabian horses, which stand out from the crowd on the battlefield. He has gained such a huge harvest in less than two years of Western Expedition, which is enough to prove that Ming Dynasty There are plenty of good places out there.The Delhi Sultanate had already paid tribute to a batch of Mawarima, and the people who went to India last time had also returned. They traveled all the way to Delhi along the Ganges, and they had already compiled a book of what they had seen along the way and distributed it to various places by Lao Zhu.

The climate is like Jiangnan.

The water network is as vertical and horizontal as the south of the Yangtze River.

The land is fertile.

Rice and cotton are everywhere.

Its people are docile and obedient, with a clear distinction between high and low, and the lowly have no resentment.

Peaceful people...

Well, the civil servants who went to the Delhi Sultanate were not stingy with praise, and even hailed India's caste system as a normal and orderly system, and the bad spirit of the three as a peaceful folk...

Sure enough, they are all in the same line!

But this is indeed a bit tempting!
"Does the King of Chu want to take over a strategy? If the King of Chu is interested, he will just restrain Annan, and then go to Champa, Chenla, Siam and other places. Although this generation has surrendered to Ming Dynasty, the land is also considered to be full of princes. If the king If you can subdue the land, the imperial court is willing to support it."

Yang Feng looked at King Chu and said.

The latter smiled deeply.

"Ambassador, Xiao Wang hasn't even taken care of Annan. Although most of Annan has surrendered, there are still many wild and unruly people who resist Wang Shi in dangerous places."

He said.

Annan just surrendered.

In fact, Lao Zhu didn't think too much about it. A large number of tyrants were appointed chieftains. Of course, it is impossible for these people to say that they sincerely surrendered. Otherwise, there would be no need for 15 troops to suppress them. , in fact there have always been skirmishes.Even if the king of Chu goes back, he must suppress these chieftains first, otherwise Annan will be full of wars. After all, this land has not belonged to the Central Plains dynasty for hundreds of years. If he wants to truly rule, it will take decades. Even hundreds of years of suppression are impossible.

"That would be better, Your Majesty doesn't know what Yang is doing in the Western Regions, right?
Don't they like gold and silver women?
Your Majesty took them to conquer dissidents, and they took whatever they took when they returned. The places in Nanyang were humid and hot, plagues were rampant, and people often died without fighting, let alone fighting.After all, the imperial court is not easy to rule, the key is that we have too few people, if this is the case, let them reduce their number.

If there is no one else, it will be easy to manage. "

Yang Feng said with a smile.

King Chu smiled slightly.

"Been taught a lesson!"

He cupped his hands and said.

Indeed, you can learn from Yang Feng!

After he went back, he could take those chieftains who rebelled from time to time, and go to other small countries to burn, kill and loot together. Don't they like gold and silver?Don't they like going out to burn, kill and loot?
Then the war reduced the population of these chieftains, and the land they grabbed was still his fief.

Best of both worlds!
"But since it's hot and humid, and the plague is rampant, we have many casualties, right?"

Shu Wang said.

"Whatever you do, it's impossible to do it without any cost at all. Prepare more doctors and medicines, overcome thorns and thorns, isn't it always like this?"

Yang Feng said.

Of course, the main reason is that the soldiers of Ming Dynasty will not be the main ones, that is, they will get an elite Ming army, and then take Annan and those chieftains with them. After the war, Ming Dynasty began to emigrate to Annan for control.Annan Dusi's current 15 army must be gradually withdrawn. These are all conscripts. The southern guards have gathered together, and they can't bear it if they are not allowed to come back.

As for Annan, it is enough to leave about ten guards for garrison, mainly in the Red River Delta, and then add the coastal fortress area.

Don't care about the inland mountainous areas.

Let the king of Chu take the chieftains to play by himself!

It is said that the inland mountains of Annan are not a good place, and the American soldiers are all defeated.

"There is also the line from Yunnan to the south. Is the King of Shu interested?"

Yang Feng said directly.

Going south from Yunnan to attack, that is, three propagandas and six consolations, these are indeed surrendered to Daming, but if you surrender to Daming, you should welcome a Daming vassal king to serve as your ancestor in the past. This is also the great grace of Daming...

Sending the vassal kings there to educate and protect them is not enough grace, is it?

This is the son of the phoenix and the grandson of the dragon!
Blessed are they!
Therefore, one needs the best image among the feudal lords.

It is the king of Shu.

"Ambassador, I'm afraid Xiao Wang won't be able to stand the heat and humidity there."

The King of Shu said awkwardly.

"Uh, Your Majesty misunderstood. It's not a place of hot and humid miasma. It's a plateau. There are even pastures for grazing war horses, and it's suitable for planting rice. Besides, I don't want you to go there right away. Your Majesty will guide you to station in Yunnan. Temporarily live in Prince Min’s Mansion, and you can pay the rent to King Min later. All the real estate and shops in the Prince’s Mansion in Chengdu are still yours. Use the strategy to control Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and choose a suitable place to live in the place of three publicity and six comforts. After the preparation is complete, Mu Cheng leads the army to escort the south, if you are not ready, you will stay in Kunming."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

The King of Shu understands in seconds...

This damn is forcing Mu Sheng.

If Mu Sheng didn't give him a piece of fiefdom from the land of three declarations and six comforts, then he would just stay in Kunming.

Anyway, Mu Sheng didn't dare to try to squeeze out like he did to King Min. After all, King Min had no foundation to rely on, but the Sichuan Army was behind the King of Shu. Mu Sheng dared to bully him. Did he want generals like Qu Neng and Chen Xuan to find him? talk?

"Does the ambassador know where the best place is?"

he asked.

"here!"

Yang Feng simply pointed to the central plains of Myanmar.

Then he poked another point emphatically.

"Especially here, this is where the treasure well of Mogok is located. The rubies that come out of the southwest basically come from here. You can just occupy this place, and then let the natives dig the gems, and take the gems to Tengchong for processing. It is estimated that this can feed the guards. "

He said.

Mogok Treasure Well is of limited value at this time...

Zhu Yuanzhang was not good at this. The prosperity of Baojing was in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after dignitaries, rich merchants and landlords began to compete for extravagance. At this time, gentry dared to wear gems and were hacked to death.But in the future, clothing restrictions will definitely be lifted, so Mogok will usher in a glorious period, but these chieftains in Myanmar also rely on the profits of Mogok Treasure Well to develop rapidly and become an unstable factor in the Southwest, and finally achieve Mangying dragon.

The latter relies on Baojing.

The core of his war with the Ming Dynasty is actually the control of Baojing.

Not only chieftains, but also gem merchants from the mainland were involved. Tengchong was a gem processing center in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and a bunch of mainland merchants were engaged in gemstones there, including several Han Chinese who later participated in the chieftain civil strife.

and so……

Solve it from the root!

Let the king of Shu occupy Mogok and control the gems of Mogok, lest those chieftains develop.

But the king of Shu was unable to use Baojing to develop, because the chieftains around him were all salivating, and he dared to be disobedient. These chieftains would happily fight for Daming, and then snatch Mogu Baojing.And the king of Shu had to collude with the Mu family to control Baojing. After all, he only had three guards, and his military strength was insufficient, but he could just partner with the Mu family and even those generals in Sichuan.

In this way, Mogu Baojing has become an important link in the southwest interest chain.

These generals in the Southwest will work hard.

Very simple.

Like these guys, they all have servants and clan cronies, and they just travel to and from Myanmar like an armed caravan to do gem business.

The King of Shu directly helps as an armed caravan when needed.

In the future, Ming Dynasty will engage in more armed caravans.

On the contrary, immigration in the nature of guards will decrease.

Immigrants of this nature can easily arouse their dissatisfaction, just like the ones in Daning before, but the armed caravans are purely private and driven entirely by profit, just like the salt merchants in the frontier business village, they immigrated for If the benefits go, then as long as the benefits continue, they will thrive there for generations.

Like Mogok Treasure Well, it can really last for generations.

After all, it is still digging until modern times.

Moreover, the immigration attracted by this kind of interest is linked together in a chain.

From processing, transportation, mining, including service industries that serve people in this chain, even special service industries, there will be all of them, and they will go deep into the interior of Myanmar like tentacles.

The King of Shu didn't say much. Since it is impossible to stay in Sichuan, he might as well go out and try. It doesn't matter if he fails anyway. At worst, he shouldn't entrust his land and enter Beijing as a residence.But if he succeeds, he can have his own real territory and be a monarch in his own territory.

There are Liao Wang and Qing Wang left.

King Qing actually made a mistake in his judgment. He didn't expect this line to exist.

If there is no such line, then he can completely ask for a fief in Ningxia, where the agricultural conditions are still excellent.

but now……

"I'd better go to Beijing!"

He said.

"Uh, my lord, I actually think you should go out and explore. I have selected the place for you. You can follow King Yan first, and then King Yan will go west and you will go south from the Western Regions. There is also a road leading to India here. But you enter India from the west, pass through this plateau, and pass through a mountain pass similar to Juyongguan, which is the vast plain of India.

The situation there is similar to our Central Plains. "

Yang Feng said.

Of course, this plateau is not easy to deal with, and it has a nickname called the Imperial Graveyard.

He actually wanted to throw King Qing over there and ask Zhu Di to arrange a place for him. After all, Zhu Di would own a large enough territory in the future, and it would be too cheap to give it all to him.

"no need!"

King Qing said with certainty.

In this case……

Yang Feng looked at his uncle with a smile on his face.

"Is King Liao interested?"

He said.

"I'd rather go to Nanyang."

His uncle said bluntly.

So the little princess must have told her brother where the money is most valuable.

"Your Majesty, according to His Majesty's decision before his death, an official Nanyang Company will be established in the future."

Yang Feng said.

The South Seas development must be similar to the East India Company. It is not that the Ming Dynasty does not have such commercial bases similar to the European colonists. There are many in the South Seas, such as Hoi An in Vietnam, where thousands of Ming merchants live all the year round, crowding out the Japanese merchants.The largest Hirado in the Japanese country has at least [-] Ming merchants. Of course, it can also be said to be pirates. Li Dan is the boss. In other Beida years, Batavia has them. The first time the Dutch invaded Ming Dynasty, it was the Zhangzhou merchants in Beida years. Intended to replicate the Macau experience.

Not to mention that there are also tens of thousands of people like Manila.

but……

Compete with each other.

Not only will they not unite against European colonists or local aborigines, but often unite with European colonists or aborigines to kill their compatriots.

If the folks are allowed to carry out this kind of pioneering work, this will inevitably be the result in the end.

Fujian marine merchants pit Guangdong marine merchants, and Zhangzhou marine merchants pretend to be pirates to kill Chaozhou marine merchants.

This is inevitable.

Only by forcibly integrating them into an organization can it be avoided to the greatest extent.

Maximum!
After all, even the captain of Daying often robs Daying's merchant ships with a private plunder license, but having an organizational constraint is better than nothing after all, and the worst is to change the shareholding system, just like his Shanxi Development Company.The Ministry of Household Affairs, the Emperor, Ambassador Yang's family, and private investors finally established the Ming East India Company.

"Ambassador, you are talking about trade, but I am talking about land. The imperial court specializes in Nanyang trade, but isn't the land in Nanyang still unowned?"

King Liao said with a smile.

and so……

"Understood, you don't care about trade, but control the supply of goods."

Yang Feng immediately understood his uncle's goal.

This is a very smart choice.

"In this case, we have to set up a Nanyang Economic Strategy Envoy, but the imperial court has no soldiers. After all, there is no one suitable for this direction."

He said.

"It's easy. Set up a separate commander here, and then the imperial court will send a few guards to open it up. If it doesn't work, just move my three guards there. Agriculture and fishery can be done there. Then give me part of the Jiahe Fleet. , I will control the commander of the Ryukyu capital, and the rest is to open up step by step to Nanyang, from where it is not far to Luzon, and then from Luzon to the west.

But I have to be allowed to recruit people in the Mainland, and I will pay for the expenses myself. "

King Liao pointed to an island and said.

he has money...

Well, it was actually his sister who was rich.

Therefore, his loan from the bank should be the most lenient.

"Row!"

Yang Feng said.

In this way, the king of Liao also moved his domain.

Of course, we can’t talk about moving the feudal clan at the moment. Except for Zhu Di, others can’t talk about the shifting of the feudal clan. It can only be said that they have begun to prepare for the transfer of the feudal clan, and their palace and property are still theirs. They just each receive an economic envoy, and then Restrain one or several commanders to lay down a territory for themselves.

When it was laid down, they thought it was time to move, and they officially moved the domain.

As for Zhu Di, it was different.

Zhu Yuanzhang decreed his transfer of the feudal domain while he was still alive.

So he had to move to the Western Regions immediately.

Before that, he had already built a palace for himself in Yili, and among his five guards, two were already in place in the Western Regions, and the other three depended on how much he could take away from Beiping. Anyway, if it was not enough, he would make up for it .As for Anxi, Wei, which belongs to the two capitals of Beiting, will be completed one after another in the future. This was originally decided by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was alive.

(End of this chapter)