Brother Zhu Youxiao

On the 12th day of the first month of the 330th year of Tianqi, when the battle at the foot of Mansha Mountain ended with the Ming army wounding three people and killing [-] people, the Ming Dynasty's campaign against Toungoo also basically came to an end.

Huang Fei didn't care about the other routs, but pursued Maung Ki with [-] soldiers and horses, and met Ping Dali who was heading north on the southern plain.

Shuangfa went to war in an instant, but Maung Ki, who reacted, quickly ordered his son Ping Dali to retreat towards Qinshan in the west.

The Burmese army began to retreat westward, and the Ming army continued to pursue them under the command of Huang Fei.

Tens of thousands of the 100 Burmese troops were shot and killed on the [-]-mile retreat. Pindarik, who was still in the main battle at the beginning, ran faster than anyone else.

Finally, on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Maung Ki took his son Ping Dali and more than 4 defeated troops to hide in the border of Qinshan Mountain.

On the same day, Taigong City was destroyed, and Mu Yi and others led their troops to the south. After a series of battles, they finally surrounded Binya City. Du Modi, the guard of Binya City, surrendered decisively.

So far, the Ming Dynasty has successfully established the Luchuan Chief Envoy in the southwest, and the 23 provinces in the two capitals have become 24 provinces in the two capitals...

"About..."

"About..."

"Ok!"

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when Huang Fei hid in Qinshan during the siege and was heading towards the remnants of the Burmese army hiding in the Rakhine Mountains, Hong Chengchou also sent troops to Mu Qiyuan to lead the troops to the Rakhine Mountains to participate in the siege, while he himself came Bin Ya City.

The reason why he hurried to Binya was very simple, that was to ask for credit.

"Hurry up and send a letter to the capital, asking the court to send officials to organize immigrants to come to Toungoo, and at the same time ask the court for instructions on how to deal with Ahaom in the north and Siam in the south."

Hong Chengchou walked into the temporary Jinglue Mansion in Binya City, and at the same time gave orders to Mu Yi beside him.

Mu Yi responded repeatedly, and Hong Chengchou also walked into the Jinglue Mansion, and sat in the temporary Jinglue Mansion in the style of Dongyu Chieftain.

Seeing this, Mu Yi couldn't help saying congratulations: "Congratulations to Jinglue, Dongwu was destroyed in this battle, Guochao recovered Liuwei area in one fell swoop, and re-established Luchuan."

"Hmm..." Hong Chengchou just responded, but he couldn't hide the smile at the corner of his mouth.

Now that Luchuan has been wiped out, the next thing he has to do is to manage Luchuan well.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou looked at Mu Yi: "I'm going to recommend you to the imperial court as the general soldier of Luchuan. If you want, you can take the lead in relocating and running Luchuan with the soldiers and horses of the Mu family in Qamdo."

Hong Chengchou was afraid that Mu Yi would not understand why he wanted the Mu clan to move, so he gave an example:

"As for the matter of Wusizang and Duogan, if there is no accident, His Royal Highness King Qi will merge them into one province in the future, and this province may only become a white land in the future."

Hong Chengchou described Wusizang and Duogan as white land, which naturally does not explain how the military will deal with the two places, but expresses Zhu Youjian's policy for governing the country.

At present, the population of Daming is seriously "undersufficient" compared to the territory, and a large number of plains are filled with other ethnic groups, and have not even been developed.

To rule Uzbekistan, one must immigrate to Shibian.

But the problem is that there are so many good places in Ming Dynasty that lack Han people, so why throw Han people on the plateau?

Therefore, in Hong Chengchou's view, it is very likely that Zhu Youjian would relocate the Xifan people in Uzbekistan, and then exile a small number of criminals there, so as to stabilize the local demand.

If this is the case, then the Mu family who are still mining in Qamdo and other eastern Tibet areas are a bit inappropriate.

The base camp of the Mu family is Lijiang, but the reason why they can defend the border for Daming in Lijiang for a long time is, firstly, loyalty, and secondly, Daming needs Lijiang to help take care of the eastern Tibet area.

Now Sun Chuanting is about to lead the army to quell Uszang. Once Nauszang is pacified, the Mu family, which is mining in eastern Tibet, will be overstepped.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou persuaded Mu Yi to move the troops from Qamdo to Luchuan.

This can solve the problem of the Mu family in eastern Tibet, and secondly, Daming needs someone to help guard Luchuan, and Luchuan also has mineral deposits, so it will not embarrass the Mu family.

The third, to put it bluntly, is that Luchuan was brought down by Hong Chengchou, and he will not let others get involved.

Not only Luchuan, it can be said that the entire Indochina Peninsula has to be stable, otherwise where will he put his old Hong Ge's face?

You fought in Jiaozhi and Luchuan, you flattened Yunnan and Guizhou, and in the end the turmoil in the Southwest, no matter who caused it, anyway, you Hong Chengchou will be the first to take the blame.

What Hong Chengchou likes is to let others take the blame for him, rather than himself, so he naturally has to arrange good people for this kind of thing to prevent future chaos.

The Mu family has been arranged in Jiaozhi by King Qi. The Long family is too small and my family is brutal. Only the Mu family is suitable for stationing in Luchuan.

"The final general has long been waiting for Jinglue to drive, please rest assured Jinglue, my Mu family's people in the eastern Tibet area will take the lead in relocating."

Mu Yi is not an idiot, Hong Chengchou has made it clear enough, and compared to Yunnan, Luchuan is hotter and more humid, and can be described as rich.

Especially the plains. Although Yunnan is a plateau, there are not many plains, but the mountains are many and difficult, and the roads are relatively scattered.

However, if compared with Luchuan, most of Yunnan's advantages will become disadvantages.

Luchuan's plain area is several times that of Yunnan, which is enough to feed tens of millions of people.

If Mu Yi hadn't been afraid that the relocation of the family would be considered a separatist regime, he would even have wanted to take the entire Mu family to relocate to Toungoo.

With tens of millions of acres of vast plain land and hundreds of millions of acres of undeveloped land, even if the Mu family encloses millions of acres of land, it is likely that the court will not pay attention to it.

It's just that he is a minority, so he still needs to pay attention to the migration.

However, even if the whole family cannot be relocated, most of the relocation is no problem. In this way, the land in Lijiang will be vacated, and the remaining Mu clan can easily take over.

Mu Yi's thinking is in line with the thinking of most gentry and officials in this era.

Although Ming Dynasty is already entering an industrial society, the existing industrial influence is too small, and it is only limited to business. Agriculture and all walks of life still haven't exploded with any potential and characteristics that have attracted the attention of the country's dignitaries.

Therefore, land is still an important resource for gentry, officials, and common people to fight for.

Mu Yi is not short-sighted, but he can only see the value of the land. He has never seen or touched a steam engine thousands of miles away.

Want to change his opinion, unless one day he really sees the benefits of these things.

"It's up to you to do the finishing touches. Luchuan's railways and government roads are not easy to build. It's impossible to count on the old port for support."

When Hong Chengchou said such a sentence, Mu Yi immediately comprehended and responded:

"Don't worry, many people in this land of Luchuan colluded with the chieftain, and they will definitely clean up these moths before the imperial court relocates the people and appoints officials to come!"

"Well, you can figure it out yourself, and send additional people to encircle and suppress the remnants of Dongwu in the Rakai Mountains." Hong Chengchou responded, then picked up the thick tea next to him, Mu Yi saw the situation and left.

Not long after he left, a group of Tangqi also started heading north along the Dajinsha River towards the capital.

Time flies, until the 12th day of the first month of the [-]th year of Tianqi, after eight days, Hong Chengchou's good news was sent to the capital across more than [-] miles.

Zhu Youxiao has not yet returned to Beijing, so the court meeting was held at Huangji Gate under the auspices of Zhu Youjian, who is the supervisor of the country.

Only more than 200 officials above the fifth rank and above participated in the court meeting, and Zhu Youjian sat under the imperial platform in a scarlet round-neck robe and a winged crown on his head.

Although it was just an ordinary wooden chair, when he sat there, that chair became the throne that determined the life and death of the world.

"The matter of Luchuan is over. It is only a matter of time before the defeat of King Maung Ji of Talong. The main purpose of the convening today is how to immigrate to the real border, how to build government roads, and the management of railways."

Sitting on the chair, Zhu Youjian leaned back very relaxedly, but the more than 200 officials in the hall did not dare to neglect in the slightest.

The first to speak was naturally Gu Bingqian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and his attitude was very concise:
"Your Highness, the old man thinks that all the [-] officials in Enkeliujing this year can be sent to Luchuan to organize household registration and measure the acres of land in time, and then discuss governance issues based on Luchuan's annual revenue estimates."

The meaning of Gu Bingqian's words is plain, that is, he does not intend to spend the tax money in the customs to support Luchuan, and wants Luchuan to be self-sufficient.

In this regard, most officials nodded after hearing the sound. After all, in their opinion, Luchuan is too far away.

However, Bi Ziyan was opposed to this. He took a step forward, held the wat board and said:
"Your Highness, the old man does not agree with Gu Ge's words."

"The old man once read the "Overview Map of Luchuan" ordered by His Royal Highness, and found that the land of Luchuan can reclaim tens of millions of acres of arable land, but even half of the local people have not reclaimed it."

"In the early years of the Guochao, Luchuan was not taken because of the emptiness of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi. Now that Luchuan has been won, and the population of the Guochao is sufficient, it should be paid by the Guochao to immigrate to the border, so that the people can live in peace. Let the frontiers enjoy their careers."

Bi Ziyan is pragmatic. He carefully read all kinds of information about Luchuan, and checked the location of Luchuan many times.

He found that Luchuan is a very large place, and its territory is roughly the sum of the areas of Jiangxi, Nanzhili, and Huguang provinces, and nearly a quarter of it is plain.

In addition, this area is a place where crops are cultivated for more than one year. As far as agriculture is concerned, this area is more vigorous than the above-mentioned Yangtze River provinces.

Bi Ziyan conservatively estimated that according to the area in the "Overview Map of Luchuan", Luchuan can at least reclaim tens of millions of acres of arable land.

With tens of thousands of acres of arable land, how much wealth is there?How many people can it feed?How much wealth can be created?The value of Luchuan is self-evident.

Even according to the current tax of ten taxes and one tax, Luchuan can contribute more than 1000 million shi every year. At present, only two provinces of Nanzhili and Jiugang can meet this standard. Therefore, in terms of agriculture, Luchuan and these two provinces The value of the province is equivalent.

In addition, the reason why Bi Ziyan compared the above-mentioned one Beijing and two provinces along the Yangtze River with Luchuan is because Luchuan also has a river from north to south.

As the most important river in Luchuan, the Dajinsha River is navigable from the north of Menggong to the bottom, and its shipping value is very high.

In addition, it faces the Little Western Ocean and is located in the westernmost place along the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. If there is a problem with the old port in the future, the Ming Dynasty can still connect the feudal clans of the Little Western Ocean and the feudal clans of Leviathan through this place, so as not to be interrupted. Fan contact.

Therefore, the more Daming invested in this place, the higher the return it would bring to Daming.

Knowing all this, Bi Ziyan kept persuading officials of various factions in the court from the perspective of agriculture, geography, and shipping. Some officials of the Yanshan faction also nodded when they heard the words, and seemed to agree with Bi Ziyan's deduction.

As for Gu Bingqian, as soon as he heard Bi Ziyan stand up and speak, he stopped talking immediately.

To put it bluntly, he just stood up to express his opinion. As for whether to use this suggestion, or whose suggestion to use, in fact, Zhu Youjian had already made up his mind.

Thinking of this, Gu Bingqian looked at Zhu Youjian secretly. Sure enough, although Zhu Youjian was looking at Bi Ziyan at the moment, his eyes were a little distracted, probably thinking about something.

Looking at it this way, Gu Bingqian had a bottom line in his heart, so he stopped speaking.

As for Zhu Youjian, he knows the importance of Luchuan to Daming better than anyone else.

Bi Ziyan's vision and focus are mainly what people of this era pay attention to, but Zhu Youjian takes a longer-term view.

Among other things, according to the process of industrialization, once Daming has established a border with its immigrants and can directly communicate with the local area, it will be able to radiate the entire southwestern area of ​​Daming by virtue of its own advantages.

From the current point of view, after Luchuan was included in the territory of Ming Dynasty, Guangxi and Jiaozhi, which were originally in the southwest, became the provinces in the south.

After excluding these two provinces in the southwest, the provinces of Ming Dynasty in the southwest are Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Luchuan. The population of the four provinces plus the natives is about 700 million.

In terms of the land carrying capacity of this era, the upper limit of the four provinces is at least 6000 million people. After the development enters the industrial age, with the popularization of expenses, this upper limit can reach [-] million. In the electrical age, the upper limit can reach [-] million.

That is to say, no matter how you look at it, the Southwest with its large population serves as a support, and the Dajinsha River Delta region, which is the estuary of the Southwest to the sea, is likely to become the top three economically prosperous areas in the Ming Dynasty.

Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Golden... Triangle?
Thinking that the Irrawaddy River was called the Great Jinsha River by the people of Ming Dynasty, and the Delta of the Great Jinsha River might be called the Golden Triangle, Zhu Youjian felt a little strange.

But all in all, opening up Luchuan is of great benefit to the southwest region. Although the development is still not as good as that of the coastal areas, at least the upper limit of development will be much better than the current situation. At least many people in the southwest region will pass through this channel , get rich.

Therefore, the construction of Luchuan is the top priority of Ming Dynasty's construction of the Southwest.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian took a deep breath and interrupted Bi Ziyan and other officials' rebuttals:
"All right……"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the entire hall was instantly quiet, and everyone quickly bowed and bowed their heads to listen to the teachings.

Zhu Youjian glanced at everyone, then changed his sitting position, and then said:
"The people of Luchuan need to accept the way of saints. How much does it take for 500 million people of Luchuan to start a government school?"

Zhu Youjian looked at Chengde, and Chengde, who had not been involved in the topic, felt the gaze, took a step forward, and responded with a wat board: "According to the calculation of the age of one of the five people in the country, there are about a million students. "

"Recently, the quality of government schools has increased to [-] to [-], so about [-] teachers are needed, and [-] government schools are needed."

"The initial investment is about 20 taels, the follow-up teaching salary is 60 taels per year, and the government-school cooking and maintenance expenditure is about 3 taels per year, so it is 63 taels after stabilization."

After Cheng De finished speaking, he stepped back, and Zhu Youjian looked at Wen Tiren, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry:

"In the land of Luchuan, I plan to set up twelve prefectures and sixty counties. How much will the prefectural and county roads cost?"

"Looking at the local terrain, the cost will be lower than Yunnan, slightly higher than Sichuan, depending on the location of each prefecture and county, but in general it will not exceed 700 miles in Yunnan, and the cost will not exceed [-] million taels."

"Xiu traveled directly from Longchuan to Shalian in the south, then from Miaodang to Zhou Guo, and from Shalian to Chiang Mai. How much is the contract?" Zhu Youjian asked again.

"This..." Wen Tiren was stopped by the question, and could only bow his head and said, "I only found out after the actual survey of the railway. If the mileage does not exceed five thousand miles, the construction cost should be around 700 million taels."

"What about city repairs?" Zhu Youjian knew that Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru were two big toads, and they didn't do anything if they didn't poke, so he asked immediately.

"According to the standard of 120 counties in [-] prefectures and about [-] market towns, more than [-] million taels will be needed."

After Wen Tiren finished answering his question, seeing that Zhu Youjian didn't ask any more questions, he bowed and retreated to his seat.

As for Zhu Youjian, he looked at Bi Ziyan:

"Bi Shangshu, you should have heard that the budget for government schools, railways, government roads, county roads, city repairs, etc. is no less than 600 million taels. Based on your estimates, how long will it take for the land of Luchuan to earn back so much?" A lot of money."

"In addition, how much can Luchuan bear by itself? How much should Guochao help share?"

Bi Ziyan listened respectfully to Zhu Youjian's question, bowed his head after he finished speaking, and said in front of all the officials:

"Hong Jinglue hasn't sent Luchuan's documents and accounts yet. According to Beizhen Fusi's estimate, Luchuan should have more than 700 million acres of land and a population of [-] million."

"According to the new policy, there should be more than 300 million Ishida taxes, and the business tax is unknown, but judging from the same population of Jiaozhi, as long as the Huangdian opens in Luchuan, it should have an annual income of [-] million taels."

"Together with these two, the direct commercial tax and royal store income, plus land tax, can solve about 500 million taels."

"If the estimate of the Ministry of Industry is divided into years, Luchuan can be self-sufficient in eight years, but if the problem of the local chief envoy is added, it will take ten years for Luchuan to solve it by itself, and the railway cannot wait for this Long."

"In addition, the official school does not include the study problem of subsequent immigrants. The old man believes that the construction of Luchuan can be 500% paid by Luchuan, [-]% by Guochao, and an annual investment of [-] million taels of silver will be completed in about eight years."

Bi Ziyan made it clear that Hong Chengchou of Luchuan settled 300 million taels by himself, and the Ministry of Households paid 200 million taels for eight consecutive years of construction.

This is not a big burden on Luchuan, and it is not a big burden on the court, but...

"However, since Luchuan has been pacified, should the taxes in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Jiaozhi be handed over to the Ministry of Households?"

Bi Ziyan said that he wanted to solve the real problem of Luchuan's finances.

Before Hong Chengchou managed the Southwest, the finance of the Southwest has not been handed over to the Ministry of Accounts. Now that Luchuan is settled, Hong Chengchou only needs to manage Luchuan, and then the taxes of the other four provinces can be handed over.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian also agreed, so he said to Baiguan:

"From today onwards, Hong Chengchou will be promoted to be Nan'an Bo, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, and the Grand Master of Zhongji Palace."

"This……"

As soon as Zhu Youjian opened his mouth, the civil servants in the palace hesitated, and Shi Fenglai from the Zhejiang Party stepped forward and bowed:

"Your Highness, since the establishment of the cabinet, there has never been a precedent for a minister to join the cabinet. This..."

"There is no precedent, and it will start from the Tianqi Dynasty!" Zhu Youjian's voice was not loud, but it was deafening.

Like Nanming, in history, Nanming used Shi Fenglai's reason to prevent people from the four towns in Jiangbei from joining the cabinet.

However, for Zhu Youjian, there are no rules, so he will make rules for the Ming Dynasty.

"Then Hong Chengchou is also a Jinshi from the Bingchen Imperial Palace Examination, why? Did your ancestors say that a noble official with a Jinshi background cannot join the cabinet?"

"It's...but not..."

Zhu Youjian's words stopped Shi Fenglai. He responded to Zhu Youjian with the words of ordinary emperors, but he forgot that Zhu Youjian was not an emperor, and he didn't care about those shit rules.

Even if Zhu Youxiao refused to let Hong Chengchou be the uncle, enter the cabinet, and receive the minister from afar, Zhu Youjian would still fight for it.

Although Hong Hengjiu is not a good guy, the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are worse than him, at least this Hong Hengjiu can still do things.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at Gu Bingqian, Minister of the Ministry of Officials and Chief Assistant of the Cabinet.

"Mr. Gu Ge, do you have any objections?"

"I don't have it. Hong Hengjiu's merits should be admitted to the cabinet and be conferred a knighthood." Gu Bingqian, an old trickster, continued to play badly, and Zhu Youjian ignored him when he saw this.

As for Yuan Keli, he recently suffered from a cold and recuperated at home, but even if he knew that Hong Chengchou had entered the cabinet, he probably would not comment.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian glanced around at the court officials, and seeing that none of them refuted, he knew that the matter was settled.

However, after the matter between Luchuan and Hong Chengchou was settled, Zhu Youjian had to appoint major officials to Luchuan.

"Mu Yi from the Governor's Mansion of the Western Army will stay at Luchuan and serve as the general soldier of Luchuan."

"As for the chief envoy of Luchuan, Hong Chengchou will be in charge temporarily until the bandits in Luchuan are completely wiped out."

After all, Zhu Youjian talked about one thing:
"Long Live appointed Sun Chuanting to manage U-Tsang. There is nothing wrong with this matter. The internal turmoil in U-Tsang is likely to produce bandits who threaten the country. It should be recovered."

"However, the local Fans live on the plateau and have a favorable geography, so it is inevitable to separate themselves."

"Just recovering Uzang is not enough to satisfy the government's control over the frontier."

"Therefore, the cabinet drafted an imperial edict for Sun Chuanting, writing the Uszang Classics. Sun Chuanting moved the Uszang people to Hexi for herding and reclamation after the suppression of Uszang."

"In addition, all the prisoners of this year's state will be detained, and they will be exiled in one fell swoop when Uzang is settled down."

In Zhu Youjian's mind, Hong Chengchou guessed right. Zhu Youjian really wanted to relocate the Fan people in Uzang, and then use Han prisoners to fill the local population vacancies.

There are no less than [-] people imprisoned in Daming every year because of corruption and bribery, civil struggles, and seeking revenge. Zhu Youjian has no guilt at all when they are exiled to Uzang.

As for why he wanted to move the Fan people from Uzang to Hexi, we have to mention where is opposite Hexi.

The Western Regions...a place where the Han people have been lost for more than six hundred years. If there is at least a Guiyi army in Hexi, then the Western Regions can be said to have no Han people since the fall of the Anxi Protectorate, which retreated to the city of Kucha in the third year of Yuanhe The influence of the dynasty deepened.

Even the Great Ming is actually only the Hami area in the eastern part of the Western Regions, and its area is less than one-tenth of the entire Western Regions.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, it has been 820 four years since Tang Yuanhe three years ago, that is to say, the Han people have lost the territory east of Hami for 820 four years.

Although the Qing Dynasty was terrible, Qianlong and Zuo Zongtang of the Qing Dynasty did a pretty good job in the matter of the Western Regions.

Although sea power is rising, land power is also very important to Ming Dynasty.

Right now, the Western Regions have already turned from the Thousand Miles Buddha Kingdom into an oasis, and only the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and some oases can be developed in the local area, which is very suitable for nomadic herding.

It is useless to relocate the Mongols, but the relocation of Uzang people who can graze and farm, and also believe in Buddhism, to the Western Regions will have practical benefits for Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youjian was not very satisfied with the several sects in Uzang. He had to beat these sects, change the rules, and then send them to the Western Regions.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also stood up:
"Sancha-"

"A thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years..."

Seeing Zhu Youjian got up, the minister of Honglu Temple sang quickly, and all the officials saluted one after another, Zhu Youjian walked out of Huangji Gate in a grand manner...