my days with tyrants

Chapter 379 Loyalty Test
The emirs from all over the Western Regions, who did not understand that they had been shackled, were still praising the Ming Emperor...

They are very satisfied.

Compared with Timur's rule, what Ming demanded from them was undoubtedly much less.

It's just a tribute.

It’s nothing more than horses, camels, and cattle. These are all they don’t lack. On the contrary, every tribute is also a process of trade. The rewards brought back by a tribute to the East are far more than what they paid. In the past, Timur didn’t say Excessive taxation is similar.The only thing they don't like is that they must protect the Ming merchants passing through their territory, especially their beliefs must be respected, even if they live in cities in various places.But for the emirs, it's just that they don't like it very much. Now they are the ones who submit to Daming, and it's not Daming who submits to them. They can't satisfy them in everything. Besides, they are secular rulers.

They care more about profit.

And the settlement of Ming merchants in the city will undoubtedly bring them commercial prosperity.

They can get more.

So what if the elders of the temple and the bottom are dissatisfied?

What happened with Shule has proved that as long as they are loyal to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty will really protect them and their descendants forever.

As long as I and my descendants can always be above the subjects...

What's wrong with being loyal to Daming?

I don't care what happens to the Ming Dynasty, as long as I can continue to enslave the people, then I will praise the Ming Dynasty.

Nothing else matters.

Baku.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty swept up the Western Regions and allowed Daming to expand thousands of miles. This achievement is almost impossible to reward."

Yang Feng looked at Zhu Di and said.

The return journey of the latter did not go to Persia according to the original plan. After all, there is no need for it now. Just take a boat across the sea in Baku. Although the sea route is relatively safer than the land route, for Zhu Di who almost became the overlord of the sea prefer.

The sea route across the Caspian Sea was nothing compared to the expedition across the sea to Japan.

It's just a big tub.

King Yan, who has experienced typhoons many times, doesn't care about the storm.

Of course, Kun Timur had to bring a large number of cavalry back to the south bank of the Caspian Sea. After all, Zhu Di still had tens of thousands of camels, war horses and even cattle during his trip.As for Yang Feng, he came to greet His Highness King Yan, at least Ambassador Yang's trip was an official mission, to welcome His Highness King Yan, the others were just incidental.

Next to them, Shirvan Shah or the Ningyuan County Prince of the Ming Dynasty, Shirvan King Ibrahim stood there groveling and waiting. Although it was his first time to see Ambassador Yang, the Armenian businessmen all regarded this person as Rendered as Priest John.But he definitely didn't believe in the sacrifice of King John, but what Timur was most afraid of was not Zhu Di, but this person. He knew this very well. This was the person who tore Miran Shah alive.The latter is the kind of person in this area who can stop children from crying at night. When he was guarding Tabriz for Timur, he massacred countless cities in Transcaucasus and Western Persia, killing countless people. Such a terrible guy was actually killed by this man. Tear it?

too frightening.

Torn alive!

A living person was torn directly by hand.

Thinking about that scene, Ibrahim shuddered.

"Did the ambassador say that I won't be rewarded for my great achievements?"

Zhu Di said calmly.

"I just remind the king, if you want to do something, then this is a good opportunity."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Zhu Di looked at him calmly.

Next to him, Ibrahim immediately felt the subtlety of the atmosphere. Although he didn't understand why, as an old fox, he still felt very keenly.

"Your Highness, Ambassador, let's go to the oil field first!"

He said with a smile.

Zhu Di ignored him...

"I'm not stupid enough to jump on it recklessly when someone throws some bait, and finally become someone else's plate."

Zhu Di said.

Then he and Yang Feng continued to look at each other.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The two suddenly burst out laughing at the same time.

Amidst their laughter, Ibrahim continued to accompany the smiling faces.

"Let's go, Your Highness the King, you will be rich from now on."

Yang Feng patted his shoulder and said.

"If this is true, I will keep one share of what I earn from now on, one share for King Yan, and one share for His Royal Highness. This will be the case from generation to generation. We will make an oath to His Majesty."

Ibrahim said quickly.

I have to say that this is indeed a smart man. He does not know the value of oil. Of course, it is not the real value. In fact, he has been extracting oil here for thousands of years, and crude oil has always been his main commodity for sale.But he definitely knew nothing about oil refining, but even so, when Yang Feng went to see the oil field, he immediately understood what he should do.The value of something that would make this guy who has been turned into a god and demon come to this poor place must be of huge value. Likewise, since the value is huge, it cannot be exclusive to a character like him, or even a big part of it.

The big head has to be given to others, and he is very satisfied if he is allowed to share a piece of the pie. After all, he is just a piece of fish, and even if Zhu Di wants to kill him now, it is just a word.

Persians, Black Sheep Turkmens, Armenians, Georgians, Kurds, all will swarm up without Zhu Di doing it himself. They just followed Zhu Di to sweep up the Ottomans, and now they are like a group of loyal dogs following Zhu Di.

Just waiting for the next target.

Every man is innocent, but he is guilty!

Although there is no such sentence in his knowledge base, he understands this truth!

"Then we're done."

Yang Feng said bluntly.

"That's a deal!"

Ibrahim hurriedly said with a hint of surprise that he guessed right.

Apparently he did something smart again.

"Then I will write this covenant, and we will all sign it and send it to the capital. As long as the imperial decree rules, whoever dares to covet this place in the future will be the enemy of me and Ambassador Yang, and the emperor of Ming Dynasty. Whoever dares to rob Baku and the land of Shirvan Kingdom, I will send troops to help the king."

Zhu Di said.

Ibrahim quickly thanked him again.

Therefore, his sensibleness is rewarded with real benefits!

To be a human being, you must know how to share.

In this way, the three of them completed the division of the Baku oil field.

Of course, Yang Feng definitely doesn't care about that little money. In fact, he doesn't even care about Baku's crude oil. As far as the current Daming is concerned, it is far from the point where it needs a Baku-level oil field to support it. Compared with the convenience of mining and transportation , Baku is obviously not as good as Nanyang.The latter's oil fields are all on the seaside, and even those in Myanmar are transported by the Irrawaddy River. It can be said that after extraction, they are directly shipped back to the Ming Dynasty.But the experience of extracting oil here and transporting it back to the Ming Dynasty can be said to be thousands of miles, and the volume of land transportation is not comparable to that of sea transportation.Not a good deal at the moment.

but……

What he wants is this thousand mountains and rivers.

"It seems I don't need to worry about oil extraction anymore."

Looking at the oil wells in front of him, Yang Feng said with some emotion.

real oil well.

Dig a big well at the oil seedlings, and then the coolies in the oil production can just take the buckets and put them outside.

This is the Baku oil field at this time.

Because the depth of the oil layer is almost zero, oil has been produced and sold here since the Han Dynasty, and then gradually developed to dig pits on oil seedlings. The extracted crude oil is sold throughout the Middle East, West Asia and even Eastern Europe, and has become a weapon used on the battlefield.

However, this efficiency is too low after all.

Low is good.

The lower the efficiency, the more manpower is required.

Then the more people who are out of production, the more serious the food problem will be, and the more unstable it will be in the end.

The consequence of instability is that His Royal Highness King Shirvan cannot leave Daming more and more.

Even in the future, Yang Feng will have to push the population here to turn into oil production workers. As long as the price of crude oil is kept high enough, the steady stream of profits will force King Shirvan to drive his subjects to the oil field to produce oil.

"Now the key is transportation. First, the camel caravan will definitely not work around Persia. A large number of ships must be built and transported across the Caspian Sea to the river, and then transported from the river to the inland. However, the camel caravan transportation is too small. Daming needs countless crude oil. As far as your current mining volume is concerned, if you expand it ten times or a hundred times, you will not worry about selling it. Therefore, we need to use horse-drawn carts while the camel caravans are transporting. I will be responsible for the horse-drawn carriage route from the interior to Beiting. When I return to the capital, I will use the name of military supplies transportation. , asked the imperial court to build the road from the capital to Jinghe. However, the road from Jinghe to Talas had to be repaired by King Yan, and then the three capitals in the river were confiscated to build the road from Talas to the coast of the Caspian Sea. From the east coast of the Caspian Sea all the way to the capital."

Yang Feng said with a proud face.

Of course, such a long transportation will make the price of crude oil extremely high, but even if it is extremely high, it must be maintained.

You have to be lucky if you lose money.

What matters is not crude oil.

Instead, the profits from the crude oil business were used to attract the Ming Dynasty's population to the Western Regions.

He has done very well in Gansu over the years. Every year, a large number of businessmen continue to transport crude oil on this transportation line. In order to obtain oil, they have to cultivate wasteland and farm in Gansu. The population of Gansu continues to grow.Next, the same routine is used to transport crude oil from the Western Regions. Transporting grain to the garrison is used in exchange for oil. However, transporting grain from the interior to the Western Regions is completely stupid. It is only right to directly establish commercial villages in the Western Regions. In this way, the population continues to migrate westward. .

What is losing money compared to this?
Now Daming has enough vast vassal states to dilute the treasure.

It's just more printing.

Before Ibrahim understood the plan, Zhu Di took a breath of air.

"Ambassador, I'm afraid there will be disturbance in the Western Regions!"

He said.

This is going crazy.

Now heading west from Jiayuguan, that is to say, you can take the camel caravan...

Edom need not care.

Now Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan and other places all have official roads that can pass four-wheeled carriages. After all, there were official horse-drawn roads, and those who can take old-fashioned carriages can also use four-wheeled carriages. It's a problem, you need to consider the bearing capacity of those old roads, but you don't have to consider this at all in the Northwest.

The transportation of crude oil in the northwest in recent years has also forced those businessmen to donate money to let local officials build roads for them.

The more you ship, the more you earn.

It’s not easy to make a lot of money!

To be rich, build roads first!
What's more, Yang Feng was able to use a four-wheeled carriage to bring Jingying to Shule, which proved that there was no road problem at all in this section.

In other words, the court didn't have to do anything at all.

After repairing the original road, it can basically be used directly.

The real problem is from Jiayuguan to the west, but Jiayuguan to Jinghe is not a problem. After all, there is no need to cross alpine rivers, but from Jinghe to Suiye you have to go to the Tianshan Mountains. It is impossible for a four-wheeled carriage to go this way without digging a tunnel. route.More importantly, including his site, there is no real road from Jinghe to the west. In a place like Central Asia, each city has an emir, who can build roads, and besides, they all ride horses and camels , and don't need a road.Getting to the Caspian Sea is even more of a huge project, because it needs to pass through a large number of uninhabited nomadic grasslands and even deserts. The commercial transportation of this route is indeed prosperous, but it all depends on camels.

Besides, is this a simple road repair?
After it is repaired it has to be maintained.

Need to replenish.

The carriage is not like a camel, there must be a place in the middle for the horse to drink and eat.

Still have to protect.

After all, there will definitely be bandits.

In the end, the entire Western Regions had to serve this road.

Disturbance in the Western Region is light.

It is possible that Yang Feng was forced to rebel because of his road construction project.

"If you can't even build a road for the Ming Dynasty, what qualifications do you have to say that you are a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty? Your Majesty, I am willing to select one of ten men and then carry at least three months of food to build a territory for the Ming Dynasty that runs through you. , a road all the way to the Georgian border? This road must be able to pass four-wheeled carriages, and every half-day along the way, a post station must be set up for the carriages to rest and even replace parts that need to be replaced."

Yang Feng said to Ibrahim.

"Ambassador, I am very willing. As a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty, I will unreservedly carry out the emperor's will, no matter how difficult it is."

Ibrahim said quickly.

It's not difficult.

His territory is nothing more than hundreds of miles from east to west, and there were even roads between many cities. His family is not one of those who change the king's banner at the top of the city. Their family has ruled Shirvan for hundreds of years. Not to mention, there are still some constructions .

It's nothing more than giving orders to the lords everywhere to quickly renovate the existing ones.

"Your Majesty is truly loyal to the country. It is enough to have His Majesty as an example. This road must be built. All the ministers of the Ming Dynasty along the route must draw one out of ten. They bring food to build the road for the Ming Dynasty. Whoever opposes it is right." If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is disloyal, if he is not loyal to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, then the only thing to do is to exterminate the clan."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

Zhu Di looked at him silently.

At this moment, His Highness King Yan suddenly understood.

This Tamar is a test of loyalty, a test for those lords who have just surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Either build roads for Daming, or you are unfaithful, and if you are not loyal, the clan will be exterminated.

Of course, after this road is built, it will be very easy for Daming's army to reach the river again.

At that time, you have to be loyal even if you are not loyal.

(End of this chapter)