my days with tyrants

Chapter 384 The Avenue to Heaven is wide and wide

But Khalil reminded Yang Feng.

He can indeed introduce a large number of Asan!

Immigration to the Western Regions is inevitable in the future, but with the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, it will not be easy for people from the mainland to move westward...

It will become increasingly difficult in the future.

No matter how much he boasts about the Western Regions or how to improve the infrastructure, it can't change the fact that he needs to leave his hometown and go thousands of miles away to overcome obstacles. The better the Ming Dynasty's economic development, the less people are willing to immigrate to the Western Regions. After all, there is no need at all.The effect of attracting trade is also limited. The Ming Dynasty could just sit back and wait for merchants from the Western Regions to come to their door. There is no need to travel across mountains and rivers to deliver goods to the Western Regions. Everyone can lie down in the mainland and wait for business to come to their door. Why travel thousands of miles to make more profits?
Isn’t the danger on the road a cost?

Trade at such a distance, even if there is a national highway, may one day die on the road.

You can indeed earn more.

But lying down also makes a lot of money!
Not dangerous yet.

This is also the main reason why there was no great voyage in the Ming Dynasty.

It accurately shows that North Korea did not miss the great voyage.

The end of the great voyage is the Ming Dynasty.

The goal of all European countries' efforts is to send money to the Ming Dynasty.

They plundered everywhere.

They ventured far across the ocean.

They mine in America.

……

The goal of all efforts is to carry money to Ming Dynasty.

And all the Ming gentry had to do was lie on their couches and wait for Europeans to bring money to their doorsteps...

Whether you want it or not depends on your mood.

The Europeans even had to use force to try to force the Ming gentry to accept their silver. The root cause of the coastal conflicts with the Portuguese, the Dutch, and even the British in the early days was because the Europeans wanted to send their silver to the country. Daming, and then exchange them for the goods they want.

In the future, the economic development of Ming Dynasty will completely surpass the original Ming Dynasty in history.

Then I don’t want to go out.

At the current rate of development, the Ming Dynasty will enter the steam age in less than 50 years. At that time, the Ming Dynasty will be no different from the Kingdom of God on earth to other countries. It is they who dream of stepping into the Ming Dynasty, not the people of the Ming Dynasty.At least serious people will not go out, and it is estimated that some scum will go out. Yang Feng does not want to turn the Western Regions into the sewers of the Ming Dynasty. The work of sewers has to be undertaken by isolated places such as Australia and the East Indies, which are easy to seal. Using land areas as sewers would do too much harm to the mainland. After all, land connections can easily spread.

So he had to attract those good families.

Among the various means of attracting people from the Western Regions, only Zhu Di's means are the most effective.

Give land, give slaves, give livestock.

Work as a worker or a farmer in the Mainland, and then become a manor owner in the Western Regions. You can live the life of a fief knight in the Western Regions. Only in this way can people truly yearn for the Western Regions. After all, in the future, the Mainland will definitely have equalized land. Who doesn’t want to be What about serf owners with fiefs?Go to the Western Regions, and all your dreams will come true. You will get hundreds or thousands of acres of fertile land, groups of slaves, and beautiful girls from the Western Regions.But in this case, a stable and sufficient source of serfs will be needed in the future. However, there are fewer and fewer Japanese slaves. After all, the population bases of Japan, North Korea, and Annan are very small. After years of continuous extraction, they can now squeeze The exports are getting less and less. The Japanese country has sent more than 50 young and middle-aged men to the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and there are also no less than this number of young women.

This doesn't even count.

These Japanese slaves took on jobs that the people of Ming Dynasty were unwilling to do in all the most difficult places in Ming Dynasty. They cultivated wasteland and farmed in Huining, rowed boats along the coast, and did poisonous work in mines everywhere.

Silently acting as the most secret septic tank of this pavilion during the prosperous Ming Dynasty.

The situation is similar in North Korea.

However, the treatment of Korean slaves is slightly better, they are considered sewage pipes!

And this is official statistics, not counting those that are not included in official statistics.

Such as running away from home.

Where else can a fugitive escape?
Those from North Korea fled to Longquan Prefecture, where they were still sold into slavery. The Japanese fled to Fusang, and they also sold themselves into slavery. However, compared with being oppressed, hungry, cold and oppressed by the daimyo in Japan, even when they were the cesspools of the Ming Dynasty, Pool they are also very satisfied.

But they really can’t squeeze out much now.

After all, when the population is reduced to a certain extent, the remaining population will turn into fertile land, and they will naturally be able to have enough to eat. Our Qing Dynasty will kill all the people who have no food, and the sweet potato flourishing will naturally begin. The Japanese and Korean countries have now reduced their populations to To a certain extent, stability has also been restored, and fewer and fewer people are willing to sell themselves as slaves. And they are now obedient citizens of the Ming Dynasty. They mine millions of taels of silver for the Ming Dynasty every year. They can't still hire people to catch slaves along their coast, right?

To be a human being is to have a conscience.

Therefore, Yang Feng must find a stable and sufficient new goal.

Asan.

Perfect choice.

Although he is lazy, he is at least capable under the whip of the British.

The key is peace!

"Tell Khalil that he can continue to go south to plunder people, but in order to take care of your beliefs, he is only allowed to catch those Hindus, and those caught must be cleansed first, and then sold to Guihua City, I will give him a Good price.”

Yang Feng said to Shaharu.

"Both men and women?"

Shaharul said immediately.

This was their normal operation. After his father's bloodbath in Delhi, tens of thousands of slaves were captured. Their family was originally engaged in the slave trade.

"Both men and women."

Yang Feng said.

Just be black!

The key is that Indian women are very hardworking!
"Then he can't just do it by himself."

Shaharu said with a smile.

This kind of good thing can’t be cheap for Khalil. In the future, everyone can form a group to go south. Anyway, the command of Conglingdu includes the upper reaches of the Indus River. At this time, because the Delhi Sultanate has perished, North India is in the middle of warlords. The professed Sultan of Delhi had died in the war.

No descendants were found.

Therefore, for the Ming Dynasty, the vassal state of Delhi Sultanate was still in a state of civil strife and ownerlessness.

Then, as the latest vassal of Ming Dynasty, it is reasonable for him to command a large army into the Delhi Sultanate to quell the civil strife.

Then it just calmed down.

As long as Yang Feng doesn't care, he can calm down there for decades.

"Well, I don't care about this. I just accept people."

Yang Feng said.

As for Afghanistan, there is no need to provoke those tribal elders. It is better not to try the curse of the Empire Cemetery. They are harmless to the Ming Dynasty anyway, so let them continue to maintain their poor life in the ravines. Live life horizontally!As long as they don't openly rebel, let them do whatever they want. Anyway, they have no objection to paying tribute...

The tribal elders in Afghanistan were not opposed to paying tribute to Ming Dynasty.They have no ambitions.

Moreover, their world and Ming Dynasty are almost like two parallel worlds.

Leave them alone.

They just like to be in their own little world, what's wrong with them!
Ambassador Yang stood on the grassland outside Samarkand with some regrets. In front of him were the peasants who had started to build the road. However, these were definitely not those forced from other places, but local recruits.After all, this is also the royal city of King Kangju. Of course, the people of Samarkand don't have to go to the desert. They can just show off by building roads in front of their homes.Those peasants pulling wooden rams kept shouting and beating on the loess roadbed mixed with quicklime, and the roadbed mixed with water was constantly emitting mist due to the heat generated by the quicklime. In order to facilitate his own transportation, he went directly to the steaming soil.This technique is necessary for building city walls. After all, it is impossible to serve glutinous rice juice in the Western Regions. On the roadside that has been compacted and dried, those who have inspected the quality can use an awl to pierce the road surface.

If he couldn't move, he pulled the responsible worker aside and whipped him.

"Ambassador, I am ready to build such roads from Talos to here.

There are mountains along this section, so lime can be burned nearby. However, going forward from here, it is impossible to maintain a large amount of lime transportation, and it is hard to say where it can be repaired in this way. "

Shaharu said.

"I know, just do your best!"

Yang Feng said.

He is not the kind to be unreasonable.

It is indeed a bit too much for Shah Ruh to transport a large amount of lime to build roads hundreds of kilometers away under the conditions of this era.

Yang Feng looked at the peasants while Shaharul breathed a sigh of relief...

"Everyone works hard. As long as this road is repaired, you can go to the capital to see the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. This is to build the road for yourself. As long as the road is repaired, you can also wear the silk and satin brought by the Ming Dynasty and eat the food brought by the Ming Dynasty." of sugar, your women will also have mirrors shipped from the Ming Dynasty. Even your descendants can follow this road to study in the Ming Dynasty. If they can pass the Jinshi examination, they can also become officials in the Ming Dynasty. You are all subjects of the Ming Dynasty. , you are the same as the subjects in the mainland. Soon the Emperor of Ming will send you teachers, and they will open schools for your children. The Emperor of Ming will not forget you, you are already subjects of Ming!"

Ambassador Yang shouted.

"Quick, kneel down and thank you!"

Shouted Shahru.

The civilians quickly knelt down in confusion and thanked the Ming Emperor for his great kindness.

Just like their women can really afford a glass mirror with a hundred gold coins, and they really have the money to send their children to school in the capital. But since Ambassador Yang said, you must have dreams, and you can't live without dreams, so those The peasants who got up to pound the soil again were obviously more energetic.

Amidst the chants of their ramming earth, Ambassador Yang finally ended his trip to the Western Regions and officially embarked on his journey back east. Since all the carriages were in Shule, he chose to pass through the Wakhan Corridor.

At this time, Zhu Di was already planning his next western expedition in Beiping Prefecture.

I have to say that he really enjoys conquest.

He gained a lot from the last Western Expedition, and he also truly saw his future.

To the west.

Endless frontiers awaited him in the West.

More than two months later.

Gaochang.

"Your Majesty, what do you want to ask?"

Yang Feng looked at Zhu Di who came to see him off.

They are currently in the saltpeter mine. This saltpeter mine has now become a strategic pillar of the Western Regions, but it is not a long-term mining, because Zhu Di does not want to purify the saltpeter, make new gunpowder and other rumors, so every year he regularly sends guards with slaves, Come here to collect for a period of time...

Anyway, at least for now, it can still be said that it is everywhere.

In modern times, due to the huge amount of mining, water is pumped from the ground to produce it. But now on the surface, the nitrate layer is scraped off the ground, then transported to a place with water, the nitrate solution is leached out, and the crude nitrate is boiled out.However, the crude saltpeter is not processed here. Instead, it is transported to a closed factory near Beiping Prefecture, which is actually a small city, and then undergoes the next step of purification.Including Zhu Di's gunpowder manufacturing, and even weapons manufacturing are all there, but Zhu Di's iron smelting is in Aksu, to be precise in Baicheng, where not only iron is smelted, but also copper. In fact, Qiuci has been a copper and iron producing area since ancient times. , coupled with oil, it can be said that it is the most important military industrial base established by Zhu Di in the Western Regions.

The mined copper and iron were then transported to Beiping Prefecture, where other weapons were cast in that closed town.

These weapons are not only used by Zhu Di.

The commanders of Anxi and Beiting also used some of his products.

These two companies were originally transported from the mainland.

They did not manufacture arms in the Western Regions.

One is that the manpower is limited. After all, the two commanders and envoys combined have a total of six guards. These military households still have to cultivate wasteland for construction and maintain military control, so there are not so many manpower.It is not difficult to transport from the mainland. After all, Yang Feng has the oil diversion system. When transporting military supplies to the Western Regions, he can directly command the envoys to lead the oil diversion in Beiting and Anxi. The number of oil diversions to Beiting is twice as high as that to Gansu. Anxi's doubled.

This is enough to make businessmen flock to it.

Second, it is easy to leak secrets.

After all, if you don't have enough manpower, you have to hire local people, and these guards and local people are all in the field, so it is difficult to guarantee that secrets will not be leaked.

"What are the ways to avoid the plague you mentioned?"

Zhu Di said.

"what happened?"

Yang Feng said doubtfully.

"Fancha urgently reported to me that a Genoese merchant ship arrived in Jianzhou, and the plague you mentioned was found on the people on board."

Zhu Di said.

"How did he deal with it?"

Yang Feng said.

My ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, please don’t be fooled.

"It's very simple. He killed all the people who boarded the ship and those who had contact with the ship. To be on the safe side, he even killed all the people on the nearby ships and docks. The dock was doused with gasoline and burned."

Zhu Di said.

"He's smart."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

At this time, several Italian city-states were experiencing plague outbreaks, especially Milan and other places.

"As for how to solve this thing, there is really no way. There is no medicine at this time. If you encounter it, just look for it. Kill everyone who has anything to do with it, and then set it on fire. If you really go west, attack any city you capture. The best way is to start a fire, and the other way is to bring as many cats as possible, so that cats can flood Europe again.

Of course, if you want to play it safe, don’t go to Europe. "

Yang Feng said.

“Now that we have reached Constantinople, there is no reason to stop.

If it is unfortunate, it is God's will. The way of heaven is far away and cannot be known by humans. However, a man's ambition is set and he can only move forward with all his strength. "

Zhu Di said calmly.

(End of this chapter)