Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 392: Wei State, the overlord that holds the vassal states hostage with water

In the 63rd year of Jingtai, the Ming-Wei Railway was officially opened to navigation, starting from Beijing and ending at Qiaodu (Jezkazgan), the southern capital of Wei State, on the north shore of the Caspian Sea.

It only takes twenty-four days to reach Qiaodu from Beijing.

This is not the terminus of the Ming-Europe Railway.

From Qiadu Station, it runs in the north-south direction, leading to India in the south and Yekaterinburg (Anyi) in the direction of the Ural Mountains in the north.

It is expected that in one year's time, the railway will be connected to the railway network of Dashang State, connecting the eastern capital of Kazan, the central capital of Moscow, and the southern capital of Crimea.

By the 63rd year of Jingtai, the railways in the Shang Kingdom had extended in all directions, and the railway network covering the three capitals was very complete.

The railway technology completely adopts the Ming Dynasty technology. The track system is the same as the open track. It only needs to be connected to realize a full trunk line railway from Beijing to Moscow.

Railways were also built in all the five kings of India.

It is estimated that around the 66th year of Jingtai, the entire Eurasian continent will be completely covered by the railway network. A tourist from the Ming Dynasty can take any domestic and international railway lines to travel around the vassal country, and can take back the scenery of the Black Sea in the far west.

After Zhu Jianqi experienced the feeling of separation of flesh and blood, he was unhappy throughout the first month of the year and even fell ill.

But at the end of the 63rd year of Jingtai, King Zhu Youke of Han and King Zhu Youjin of Liao went to succeed the vassal. Zhu Jianqi had a very troubled year.

After Khujand, multiple railway lines extend, one goes south to India, another goes west to the Caspian Sea, and another goes to Persia.

Maybe the old emperor also wanted to see his son, but the system didn't allow it.

After the discovery of iron ore, exploration was carried out. After the exploration was completed, the land was exchanged with the Wei State, and then Wulianghai was changed from the capital to a province, completely becoming the last province of the Ming Dynasty.

At first, Wei King Zhu Jianjun was worried that the people of the vassal state would flee the vassal state and return to the Ming Dynasty.

The end point of this railway is ultimately Lisbon in Chen State.

But they are concubines, and they can go out to other vassals, so they are already much better than other brothers.

The train entered the border of Wei State.

Therefore, this line is the main line in Central Asia and is under emergency construction.

All said and done, it was Prince Yiwen who made a good start. Although the Zhu family had its vassal cuts, troubles, and family seizures, in general, the royal family had family ties.

However, after the main railway line was opened for a period of time, few people fled back to the Ming Dynasty, and they were completely relieved and gradually relaxed controls, allowing people from the two countries to come and go freely.

There is still some royal family affection.

But the frozen soil area in the north was too big, so the old emperor gave a piece of it to Wei.

They took a train to the Black Sea.

Although they were the successor vassal kings, they still had court duties. They wanted to visit Uncle Wang along the way and send congratulatory gifts.

He even submitted memorials every year, requesting pilgrimage and thinking of his father, but was rejected by the central government.

The Ming Dynasty and the vassal states were still the same country.

As for the Almaty line, going north is still within the country. It is the Ulianghai capital of the Ming Dynasty. In the 60th year of Jingtai, the capital was removed from the capital and changed to a province, becoming the fifty-fifth province of the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, the two brothers Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin who went to succeed the vassal were very happy.

Wulianghai Province is adjacent to Ningxia and the Western Regions. It has all the territory sandwiched by the Ob River and the Yenisei River. It is the largest province in the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, he was exchanging territory with Wei State.

Zhu Jianqi didn't want to see his biological brother, he wanted to have a good time with his biological son.

When the Ming Dynasty opened a stock exchange, King Wei invested all his savings and packaged all domestic companies for listing.

To be precise, Ming and Wei are not two countries, but one country.

In the 55th year of Jingtai, the railway line from Almaty to Tomsk was built, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty was completely determined.

There are two railway lines to go abroad, one is to go abroad via Bak-Kashgar Lake, and the other is to go abroad via Kashgar-Khujan-Tashkent.

The railway will pass through the Cairo Canal and lead to Africa. Seventy years before Jingtai, the entire railway network in Asia, Europe and Africa was built.

The old emperor's affection for his sister, the prince and his daughter, the prince's affection for his younger brothers, and even the old emperor's affection for his elder brother are all worthy of praise.

Operations on the Southern Line have been suspended because the railway line to India is being built and is currently under construction.

By the 63rd year of Jingtai, the railway networks of Ming and Wei were completely connected, and people from the two countries could freely travel in and out of the two countries.

Currently, all trains departing from the west depart from Almaty.

Immigrants are now the second and third generation, and they still have deep feelings for their mother country. However, as time goes by, this feeling will become weaker, and finally a completely independent country will be formed.

The old emperor liked novels, so he selected novelists from home and showed them to the old emperor.

In the fifty-seventh year of Jingtai's reign, a huge iron ore area was discovered at the northern foot of the Altai Mountains in Wulianghai Province.

As the third biological brother of the prince, he has a reputation of filial piety among the people.

The King of Han and the King of Liao looked at the great rivers and mountains together, their hearts surging, and they were envious of their elder brother for being able to become an emperor with such a huge empire.

Go west out of Yumen and go abroad in the Balkhash Lake area.

The state of Wei followed closely in the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty.

In the 62nd year of Jingtai, the railway from Tomsk to Tyumen was connected, and Tyumen oil could just be transported to the Ming Dynasty via this train.

On the third day of November in the 63rd year of Jingtai, they got on the train from the capital.

The King of Wei sent people to guard the border, waiting for the arrival of the two princes.

Central Asia is very short of water.

Zhu You thought he would see the sight of rolling yellow sand, but surprisingly he didn't.

Thanks to the Zhonghua River connecting to the Ob River, the Ob River was diverted to the south. Under the joint construction of the four countries of Ming, Wei, Ningyi, the water from the Ob River was diverted to irrigate Central Asia and even Persia.

The project was established in the 42nd year of Jingtai, and put into practice in the 47th year of Jingtai. It took 14 years, and in the 61st year of Jingtai, the Central Asia water supply plan was completely successful.

Overall, the situation of extreme water shortage has been alleviated and indeed improved, but the problem of water shortage has not been completely eliminated.

This is also the reason why the two countries of Ning and Yi tolerate Wei in every possible way.

They all need the Ob River to flood Asia.

Water from the Ob River is needed.

If Wei loses water, all the countries in Central Asia may die of thirst. Therefore, when it comes to territorial negotiations, all countries can only endure Wei's tyranny.

The capital of Wei State was originally located in Qiu Ming, but Qiu Ming was changed to Xudu.

However, Zhu Jianjun considered defeat before victory. The capital was built on a plain. If the Ming Dynasty attacked westward and annexed the Wei State, the Wei State needed a stable backing capital.

He chose to build his capital in Yekaterinburg and renamed it Anyi.

Yekaterinburg was built in the Ural Mountains. The Ural Mountains are full of mineral resources. It can serve as the rear area of ​​​​the Wei State and can also serve as the resource capital of the Wei State.

The train is running in the territory of Wei State.

The two brothers opened their eyes and thought that the feudal kingdom was very poor, but they saw that the vendors near the station were overcrowded. They focused on the young market and the products they sold were all anime characters.

"Second brother, do you think they have authorization?" Zhu Youjin bought a pair of key chains.

I found that this key chain is very neatly made, and the workmanship is no worse than Akito's.

Zhu You wondered: "How come the sales are similar to those at the Jingshi Night Market?"

After asking, I found out that their key chains are exported.

Of course there is authorization.

Patent laws were still common in the vassal states and were authorized by the emperor.

After all, it is copyright-free for thirty years and can be used by people all over the world. All you need to do is register a license.

Although derivative copyrights are not free, the price is very reasonable.

"What we bought at the night market were Wei products?" Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin both saw each other's serious shock.

Logically speaking, this should be obvious.

It's impossible that the Ming Dynasty didn't have such craftsmanship. Wouldn't the small commodity factory in the capital make this kind of money?
After asking, I found out that Mingren also has a factory, but it is not as cheap as our factory. The labor cost of our factory is low, so the selling price of the goods is naturally lower.

Looking at the key chain in their hands, Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin looked at each other.

"It turns out that under the Ming Dynasty's monopoly on the entire industry, the vassal states were not so poor as to beg for food."

"Grandpa Huang always said to increase the added value of products."

"Well, if the added value of the product is increased, then the low-end industrial chain must be transferred to the vassal country, and the vassal country seems to be making a lot of money relying on these low-end industrial chains."

"If I remember correctly, Wei's population exceeded 1.2 million in the th year of Jingtai, and this year the population reached million."

"If there are more than 100 million people in Wei State, they want to have the same living standard as Ming Dynasty. In my original consciousness, I thought it would never be possible."

"So I'm not too interested in the succession."

Zhu Youjin told the truth: "However, this key chain made me see another side."

"As we go along, the prosperity of the Wei Kingdom is not much worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, and it is even richer than several cities in the Western Regions..."

Zhu Youque interrupted him: "I don't think it is worse than Chang'an."

Yes, no worse than Chang'an.

Although this is the western capital of Wei State, it is as prosperous as Chang'an.

Chang'an is the most prosperous city in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty. Due to drinking water problems, the population hovers around 10 million. When the water diversion from the Yenisei River is successful, Chang'an's population will quickly rise to exceed 20 million.

"The successor, it seems, is not as bad as we thought."

"We may not always be Ming's vassals."

"Our Korea and Liao Kingdom can also become as wealthy as the Ming Dynasty and become the overlord of one side."

Zhu Youque nodded.

"No wonder Grandpa Huang is always worried about the problem of hollowing out. Just look at the prosperity of Wei State. They just took advantage of Ming Dynasty's low-end industrial chain and achieved today's prosperity."

"If Wei continues to advance and rely on the low-end industrial chain to develop upward, it will seize the critical moment of the Ming Dynasty's industrial chain transfer and overtake in a corner."

"Perhaps Wei will become the hegemon, even surpassing Ming to a certain extent."

After Zhu Youjin finished speaking, he quickly shook his head: "No, King Wei doesn't dare. They don't dare to do so well. They are worried that the Ming Dynasty will swallow up the rich Wei State."

"That won't happen."

Zhu Youque said contemptuously: "Is our father a war person? My eldest brother is willing to fight. Does he have the skills of Grandpa Huang?"

"Look at Grandpa Huang's arrangements in recent years. He is worried that the vassal state will bite Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty will not be able to fight back."

"Grandpa Huang's strategic vision is the best in history."

These words made Zhu Youjin laugh.

He remembered the days when his father was dominated by his grandfather in the East Palace.

Immediately, they felt sad and went out to inherit the vassal. They would never be able to return to the Ming Dynasty in the future. Even if they could go back, they would never see their grandfather again.

Their relationship with their grandfather is deeper than that of their parents.

The train rides on the vast grassland.

It is impossible to grow food on the Kazakh steppe because the soil is thin, the fertility is too low, there is a lack of water for irrigation, and the climate is unsuitable, so even if it is planted, it will not produce food.

In recent years, Wei State has been engaged in planting on the grassland.

King Wei purchased a large amount of guano from the Tang State. Peru in the Tang State was a paradise for guano. By selling guano alone, the Tang State could become the overlord of South America.

The Wei State purchased large quantities of guano, hoping to use the guano to increase soil fertility and achieve the purpose of planting.

Wei State has two major drawbacks. One is that it is not close to the sea. Although it has two inland seas, the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, it has no outlet to the sea.

Another is that grassland and desert areas account for a high proportion, there is too little high-quality land, and food production is too low.

If Wei wants to become a hegemonic country, it cannot do so with just over 100 million people. Wei sits on a treasure trove of resources and has whatever oil and iron resources it needs.

Only these two things are missing.

When Wei had money, he began to build laboratories and study chemical fertilizers.

It can be said that the quality of the chemical fertilizers produced by the Wei State is better than that of the Ming Dynasty. Wei is at the forefront of many vassal states in the research of chemical fertilizers.

Because the food issue is a bottleneck.

If the Wei State does not overcome its own difficulties, it will never be able to seek hegemony. In the future, it will only become the younger brother of Ming Dynasty. The younger brother who follows suit will sooner or later be swallowed up by Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Wei King Zhu Jianjun has been planning the research on chemical fertilizers for a long time.

The Ming Dynasty exchanged soil and wanted to exchange the black soil in the frozen soil for loess, which inspired the Wei State.

Wei State also has a large area of ​​frozen soil.

You can also replace it with soil.

As a result, Wei experts discovered that the soil in the permafrost layer was not suitable for planting and was not black soil at all.

Because the fertility of soil is brought about by biological metabolism, frozen soil does not support organisms. Even if there is biological metabolism, it is frozen outside the soil and cannot chemically react with the soil at all, resulting in very poor soil and cannot meet the standards of black soil.

Replacing the soil is not feasible.

Wei Guo was wondering, could he artificially create soil suitable for planting?
The problem of planting is not limited to the Wei State, but only the Wei State is willing to spend money to study it and spend a lot of money to invest in research.

Countries like those in the desert area cannot engage in ordinary cultivation at all. They all rely on food supplies from nearby countries, which means they will never be able to dominate.

King Wei is different. He is also the Queen's legitimate son and one of the smartest princes in the royal family. He has had extraordinary ambitions since he was a child.

His father taught him since he was a child that to be ambitious, you must have the patience to match your ambition.

Without patience, ambition is always the most useless.

Therefore, after establishing the Wei State, what he cared about most were food issues and port issues.

The port is currently unavailable.

The food problem can be solved through hard work.

On the Kazakh steppe, the soil is poor in one aspect. The soil cover is shallow and plant roots cannot take root.

Then remove the frozen soil from the frozen soil area.

The Wei State was willing to invest in artificially activating the frozen soil to increase its fertility and then spreading it over the vast grasslands.

It happens that there is little soil layer on the grassland, so adding new soil can solve this problem.

Therefore, Wei State imported large quantities of bird droppings from Tang State.

The order was signed.

But how did the bird droppings come in?

Wei State has no ports.

Bird droppings are not expensive, and the transportation cost is acceptable, but if you use a car to push them one by one, the cost will be terrible.

There are two roads in front of us. One is to take the Persian Gulf and transport it through the Sui Dynasty to the Caspian Sea. This section of the road needs to be transported by train.

One is to go through the Red Sea-Cairo Canal-Istanbul-Black Sea, and also go through the vassal states of the Sui Dynasty, and then enter the Caspian Sea, and it will be transported in.

The freight cost of the second route is higher because it is guano shipped from South America, and the Persian Gulf is the closest.

Both roads pass through the Sui Kingdom.

However, Sui and Wei were not very easy to deal with.

The two countries still have territorial disputes, but this is easy to talk about. Ask the old emperor to come forward and he will give the Sui some territory, so that the Sui will not stumble over this matter.

Because the Sui State was also short of food, he also wanted to see if this road could work. When the plan was successful, he could sell this technology to the Sui State.

However, if you choose the nearest route, the cost will be doubled.

Wei's financial resources can support a small amount of transportation, but if it is a large amount of transportation, Wei's financial resources will not be able to bear it.

Because the Kazakh grassland is so large, it is estimated that the investment to pave all the soil here will be around 500 billion.

That’s right, 500 billion!
If there was a port, it would only be 100 billion. Without a port, it would take two trains, and everything would be transported by people. The labor cost would be too high.

You have to mine soil from permafrost areas and make artificial soil, which is all expensive.

In fact, there is farmland in the Wei State to the north of the Kazakh grassland, but this small amount of farmland is only enough to survive for 100 million people, and any more people will starve.

Feeding these people is still possible without eating much meat.

You read that right, a pastoral country is actually reluctant to eat meat because there is not enough food to eat. Meat must be sold and sold in exchange for food.

The State of Wei was the largest animal husbandry cooperative country of the Ming Dynasty. The livestock meat produced in the pastoral areas was sold to the Ming Dynasty.

In the entire Wei State, the maximum number of people it can support is around 6000 million.

But Wei State doubled its population and had to eat less meat to maintain its population.

In this way, Wei State still encourages childbirth.

In fact, the plan to utilize the Yenisei River was first proposed by Wei State.

At that time, Zhu Jianjun sent a message to the old emperor, meaning that if the Ming Dynasty did not use the water of the Yenisei River, it would be used by the Wei State.

The irrigation project of diverting the Yenisei River southward was first proposed by King Wei.

The old emperor made the final decision at the center.

It was not only used by the northern Ming Dynasty, but also promised to be used by Wei and other Central Asian countries.

Another disadvantage of farming on grasslands is the problem of irrigation. Central Asia is extremely short of water. Even with the Zhonghua River and Ob River drinking water plans, water sources are still relatively scarce.

The focus is on unbalanced distribution of water sources and insufficient use.

After Zhu Jianjun succeeded the vassal, he began to plant trees on a large scale. In desert areas, large areas of Populus euphratica forests were planted to prevent further desertification of the land. At the same time, the number of grazing animals was reduced, and the policy of returning farmland to forest and grazing to forest was carried out.

In the thirty years since the founding of the Wei State, a total of 17 billion trees have been planted, creating a large area of ​​artificial forest.

Including the total number of trees planted by the private sector, it has reached tens of billions.

It is particularly effective in preventing and controlling desertification. Planting a large number of trees also conserves water and soil and alleviates the problem of water shortage.

Like the Ming Dynasty, after occupying the Fergana Basin, they carried out a frantic afforestation plan in the areas that were undergoing desertification.

In total, the Ming Dynasty planted millions of acres of trees in the Fergana Basin.

The Fergana Basin became the fruit basin of the Ming Dynasty, with delicious fruits everywhere. The entire fruit basin supplied fruits for the Ming Dynasty and Central Asia.

Just like Tashkent, it was originally the residence of the Aral Sea Governor of the Ming Dynasty, but was later given to the Wei State.

When the Ming army first occupied Tashkent, it was in ruins and the land was rapidly turning into desert.

At that time, the Ming army, led by Fan Guang, planted trees in the Tashkent area. Today's Tashkent in Wei State is green and beautiful, and the city is beautiful and livable, all due to the Ming Dynasty.

Trees are being planted throughout Central Asia.

The entire Pamir Plateau is the Congling Mountains of the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty first occupied it, it was already in the process of desertification after being destroyed by the Mongols.

After more than thirty years of management, this land has regained its vitality. Under the beautiful green trees and green trees, there is actually a lot more water than before.

With the contribution of karez, why not the contribution of green governance?

The plan to use the Ob and Yenisei rivers to irrigate Central Asia has already started. It is expected that in 20 years, the entire Central Asia will no longer be short of water.

In terms of water resource utilization, it can even cover the Persian region.

All beneficiary countries must participate in the construction of this project and strive to complete it as soon as possible.

Many vassal states are definitely willing to participate in the construction. They are mainly worried that if their father dies, the prince will not care about them after he ascends the throne. The old emperor gave them reassurance that the projects under construction in Ming Dynasty must be completed with high quality and quantity no matter when.

The two brothers Zhu Youque met the King of Wei in the area between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea.

When King Wei succeeded to the throne, they did not exist yet.

The old man is nearly fifty years old.

The Wei Dynasty is building a railway between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea. This is the newly acquired territory of the Wei Dynasty. He is watching here.

For the guano plan, King Wei planned to negotiate directly with King Sui.

The two kings were invited to Baku.

Baku was a vassal state controlled by the Great Sui Dynasty. Setting it here also showed the sincerity of the Sui State. Even though they were brothers, they had to guard against some mistakes.

The Wei Dynasty decided to give up a small part of the territory on the west coast of the Caspian Sea. The circular inland lake of the Caspian Sea was the boundary line (Balkan State). The coastal part was given to the Sui State, and the rest was given to the Xu State.

If it weren't for the bird droppings, Zhu Jianjun would not be willing to part with these territories.

Xu Wang Zhu Jianzhe was his biological brother. He was the legitimate son of Empress Tang, and his same mother.

As a result, he even cheated his own brother.

In fact, he divided Turkmenistan into two parts. He only kept the ring-shaped ocean part, and split the other parts in half and gave them to the two kings.

This matter requires the two brothers Zhu Youque to bear witness.

So this meeting of three kings turned into a gathering of five kings.

King Yi will definitely be dissatisfied with this distribution, but who cares whether King Yi wants it or not, as long as the bird droppings can enter Wei smoothly, it will be enough.

When Wei turns the entire Kazakh grassland into fertile soil for planting, will Wei become the overlord of Central Asia?

In April of the 64th year of Jingtai, the five kings signed a peace treaty and redefined the territory.

The unlucky King Yi kept protesting.

The territory on the west coast of the Caspian Sea was an enclave for the Sui State. It did not border on their mainland. They had to walk a section of the Caspian Sea, but instead bordered on the Iraqi State.

King Yi is unhappy, he should obviously give it to me.

King Sui is bad. He talked to King Yi and wanted to tear off a piece of fat from Yi. To be honest, he looked down on this desert-like land. This place was extremely short of water and water was more expensive than oil.

His target is Türkiye, the Black Sea.

If King Yi is willing to spend money to buy it, he can agree.

In the Five Kings' Peace Treaty, there was a clause to purchase soil from the Wei State. The Sui State also wanted to purchase a batch of frozen soil and then mix it themselves to make a batch of fertile soil.

Sui Wang Zhu Jianxi was also extremely ambitious.

If you look at the titles, you will know that such big titles are only given to capable princes. His father has poisonous eyes.

He originally occupied the most fertile land in Persia.

After succeeding the vassal, he also frantically planted trees in desert areas to prevent the land from continuing to desertify, save the land that had already been desertified, and conserve water and soil as much as possible.

This place is very short of water.

The country of Iraq is even worse than him. It lacks everything except oil.

Therefore, Sui and Yi have been thinking about how to solve the water source problem.

In fact, we can find a way in India.

But when crossing a huge desert, how to protect water sources is a big problem. Current technology cannot do it.

King Sui was also thinking about this matter.

A few years ago, some ministers came to Shu, thinking that water from the Volga and Ural rivers could be diverted to irrigate the Sui Kingdom.

However, of these two rivers, one is in the Shang State, and the other is the dividing line between the Shang State and the Wei State.

The Ural River is a water source drawn from the Ural Mountains and eventually flows into the Caspian Sea.

The Volga River, the mother river of the Slavs, will eventually flow into the Caspian Sea.

The water sources for such a huge body of water like the Caspian Sea come from here, the Ural River and the Volga River.

If it were diverted to flow into Persia, problems would arise and the Caspian Sea would disappear.

Dashang did not want to directly border the Sui Dynasty.

The Wei Dynasty also did not want to completely directly border the Shang and Sui countries after the Caspian Sea disappeared.

This resulted in a serious water shortage in the Sui and Yi countries. They saw water flowing into the Caspian Sea, but they could not drink it.

The water of the Caspian Sea is not drinkable because it contains extremely high salt content.

To be honest, as for the Volga River, the entire Middle East needs the Volga River because they are all short of water.

During the negotiations between the Great Sui Dynasty and the Great Shang Dynasty, both kings Wei and Ying stood on the side of the Great Sui Dynasty, hoping that the Great Shang Dynasty would be willing to inject water into the Three Kingdoms.

Iraq hopes to get water from the Ural River.

Dashang is the natural overlord of Eastern Europe.

Just this territory and this geographical location determine that it is the hegemonic country.

The Great Sui Dynasty also had the ambition to dominate, so it was understandable that the Great Shang Dynasty was unwilling to provide water to the Great Sui Dynasty.

Unless the old emperor speaks.

But the old emperor could not open his mouth, because it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to go to the borders of Eurasia to fill the countries with water. It would cost too much money, and the courtiers would not agree.

This time, the Sui Dynasty and the Wei Dynasty broke the ice and cooperated. In fact, he wanted to save the country through a curve and get the water of the Ural River.

In the end, after several rounds of negotiations, Iraq decided to purchase land on the west coast of the Caspian Sea. He also wanted the land on the west coast of the Caspian Sea because it was extremely short of water. He paid Sui a sum of money to buy guano.

Why doesn’t Iraq need farmland?

The problem is, even if you get farmland, it’s useless without water for irrigation.

Among all the vassal states, Yi State is the poorest. It is all desert and has a population of only two million. It has not increased or decreased over the years, and its main character has a low sense of presence.

Renjia Wei and Britain, after all, have to sell oil, and their presence is quite high. There is nothing in Iraq, only desert tourism.

This time I got an oasis.

He also wanted to settle the feud with Wei because he wanted to get water from the Ural River.

The environment can be managed slowly. King Yi has this patience. He is still young. When he succeeded to the vassal, his mother clan gave him a large sum of money.

His mother was Song Shuqing, and the Song family gave him sufficient financial support.

He is the best tree planter among the princes.

During his 200 years of succession, he planted billion trees. He was either planting trees or on the way to plant trees every day. People said that he was the tree-planting emperor.

Iraq has the smallest population and the most trees, and the environment has improved visibly.

A hundred years from now, perhaps Iraq will also be lush and green.

This is Zhu Jianchu's greatest wish.

Like him, Xu Wang Zhu Jianzhe, who was sealed in Western India, also tried his best to plant trees, but he was not as fierce as him. After all, he stood on an oasis, and his territory was entirely desert.

Nothing but desert tourism.

The key point is that there are many countries that engage in desert tourism. The Wei Kingdom, the United States, and the Chu Kingdom all engage in desert tourism, and they are all very different.

If it weren't for the Kingdom of Yi in Journey to the West, he could still have refreshed the presence of the monkeys, otherwise there would be nothing.

The two brothers Zhu Youque followed the King of Wei back to Xudu, Qiu Ming.

A huge oil field was discovered in Tyumen. The old emperor said that there was an oil field here, and his words came true.

Xudu has now become the richest city in Central Asia.

Xudu has the most complex transportation network in Central Asia. Getting on the train from Xudu can lead to the Ming Dynasty, Shang Kingdom, Yi Kingdom, and Sui Kingdom. The roads to Xu Kingdom and Ning Kingdom are still under construction.

It won't be long before we can reach all countries.

There are many pearls in Central Asia, such as Tashkent, Samarkand, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Dushanbe, Kabul, etc., all of which are the top cities in Central Asia.

But none of these cities can compare with Xudu.

As the capital of the Wei State, the Forbidden City of the Wei State was modeled after the Forbidden City in Beijing, but its land area exceeded one million square meters.

The Forbidden City is only 72 square meters.

In the Forbidden City of Wei State, a Central Asian royal city and a Western European royal city were also built. These three royal cities together formed the Forbidden City of Wei State.

The two brothers Zhu Youque spent a whole day in Xudu and only visited one commercial street.

This is the largest shopping street in the world!
It is not the largest in Central Asia, but the largest in the world. There is no larger commercial street in Ming Dynasty than Xudu Commercial Street.

The total population of Xudu is only 800 million, which seems to be more than the number of people in Beijing.

Because when Xudu built the city, they designed the city to be full of layers, so that it would not look chaotic and feel open and vast.

Unlike Beijing, which is a city where old and new alternate, the old city is surrounded by the new city, and the layering is not well designed.

Xudu is a completely new city. It was built only about thirty years ago. Everything is designed according to the new design concept, and the designer is Kuai Xiang.

Kuai Xiang summarized and designed new drawings based on the new conditions of all cities at that time.

The big cities in the Wei Dynasty are very scattered, and the population is not particularly large.

Anyi, for example, Yekaterinburg has a population of only 700 million; Tashkent has a population of 820 million; Samarkand has a population of 790 million; and Tomsk has a population of 600 million.

The old emperor once said that the development of Wei State was the most balanced. Just look at the population of big cities and you will know that there is no highly concentrated urbanization, which has already prevented the development of real estate in Wei State.

That's right, Wei Guo's real estate has not developed.

King Wei was still worried. In such a big country with such a large population, real estate had not developed. Without the reservoir of real estate, the people seemed to be living a prosperous life, but in fact they could not save much money.

Their money will be withdrawn by Ming Dynasty like a water pump.

Because there are many good things in the Ming Dynasty, and the products of the Ming Dynasty are suitable for investment, many Wei people have invested in the Ming Dynasty.

They feel that buying a house in Wei does not maintain its value, but buying a house in Ming Dynasty does.

Especially once the railway is connected, buying a house in Chang'an will guarantee its value.

As a result, houses in Chang'an are so expensive that even locals cannot afford them, but housing prices remain high.

At that time, financial officials were confused because housing prices could not fall, no one was living there, and there were not that many people in Chang'an.

Later, after investigation, I found out that they were all bought by people from the Wei state.

Zhu Jianjun's face turned dark when he saw the report.

All the money we worked hard to earn was taken away by Ming Dynasty.

This is the disadvantage of being too close to the mother country. It seems that it can get help from Ming Dynasty at all times, but in fact it is sapped by Ming Dynasty.

The key point is that Ming Dynasty did not deliberately pump water, and the people took the initiative to send money to Ming Dynasty.

The King of Wei is thinking of ways to prevent domestic funds from leaving the country.

He is also looking for ways to increase housing prices, ensure that housing prices maintain their value, and let domestic assets enter his own reservoir to prevent them from being sucked away by Ming Dynasty.

After the dinner.

Zhu Youjin said in a daze: "Uncle Wang Shuxiong has great talents and strategies, but in the future, I am afraid that there will be situations where the princes will seize the throne."

Because Zhu Jianjun's eldest son passed away, there was no heir apparent.

His sons are all vying for position.

"What does it have to do with us?" Zhu Youque also saw it.

None of his sons are peaceful, and they will kill each other sooner or later.

"Silly, we are going to succeed the vassal. Wei is destined to be the overlord of Central Asia, but it has no port. We are on the Black Sea, and the straight-line distance from Wei is only the distance between two small vassals. , there will definitely be frequent trade contacts in the future."

Zhu Youjin said: "The purchase of guano from the Sui State this time just shows how important the port is to the Wei State."

Zhu Youque shook his head: "You only saw the surface, not the deep level."

"Looking for Sui to borrow a port is just Wei's superficial intention."

"In the last Central Asian War, the Ming Dynasty planted the seeds of disaster for the Central Asian countries. Uncle Wei is so smart, how could he not see it?"

"It's nothing more than using this purchase of guano to spit out some barren and water-deficient land and make good friends with other countries."

"Look at the map. This time the land was exchanged. The Wei State took out areas that were extremely short of water. The Xu State and Yi State that received the territory were already short of water. Doesn't this make things worse?"

"It seems that Wei is selling well, but it is actually digging a hole for Xu and Yi to jump into."

"If such a bad land is given to the two countries, they will go further and further away from the water shortage in their lives. It is simply impossible to get water from the Ural River."

Zhu Youque saw clearly: "Our successor is on the Black Sea, and he will not trade with us."

"Because we have no interest."

"The underlying reason for our cooperation with the Sui Kingdom this time is water."

“That damn place in Türkiye is also a water-scarce place.”

"But it's much better than Central Asia."

"We have nothing to do with the Wei State, and there is no conflict of interest between the Wei State and us. After this meeting, we will never have anything to do with the Wei State in our lives."

These words made Zhu Youjin blush.

"Who do you think Uncle Wei Wang is?" Zhu Youjin also felt that his second brother was right.

"Hmph, he's not a good person anyway."

Zhu Youque sneered: "He even takes advantage of his own brother, how can he treat a nephew like us who has never met before?"

"Wake up, there is no benefit in relying on others."

"If you don't believe it, just wait and see. This water injection plan can control the Sui, Yi and Three Kingdoms for ten thousand years, but in the end no one will get a drop of water."

Zhu Youjin opened his mouth, but after all, he did not speak for King Wei.

"We are inheriting the vassal on the Black Sea and will be enemies in the future. Will you do the same to me?" Zhu Youjin looked at his second brother.

"You kid dug a hole for me to jump into again?"

Zhu Youque sneered and said, "Third brother, this is not the palace. There is no need to pretend to be brothers and sisters in front of grandpa."

"When grandpa was building the most powerful brain, did you ever think about letting me be your brother?"

"You didn't let me, why should I let you?"

These words directly tore the brotherhood apart.

From now on we are neighbors and enemies.

It is much better to expose the bullshit brotherhood now than later when the murderous eyes are red and the domineering sister-in-law is bullying the daughter-in-law.

Zhu Youjin did not speak, but returned to his bedroom.

All night long he tossed and turned.

It’s not that I think the second brother is heartless, because he is the weakest.

He was thinking about whether he could get benefits from Wei. He was the king of Liao and granted most of the territory in the west of Turkey, bordering Sui and Wei and not far from the Caspian Sea.

I will definitely do business with Weiguo Duoduo in the future.

In fact, part of the territory in the west of Turkey has been swallowed up by the Sui State. The Sui State has already occupied the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

King Wei also got an oasis.

Early the next morning, the two brothers became brothers and sisters again.

The next stop is Anyi in the Wei State, and then get on the train from Anyi to Samarkand, and then go all the way south to visit the Yi State.

Go to India from Iraq, visit the Five Kings of India, and then take a boat to the feudal country.

In the feudal country, we also need to visit the Sui Kingdom, the Wei Kingdom and the British Kingdom.

As the brothers Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin left, Zhu Jianjun was also thinking, why did the old emperor send these two brothers to visit Wei?
The old emperor wants his uncle to help a bunch of nephews?
This is not like the old emperor's style.

Suddenly, he realized that the old emperor had seen through his use of water to play with the hearts of the princes, so he sent his grandson to beat him.

Tell him not to overdo it.

"My father, I really want to bring peace to a bowl of water. This great Wei Dynasty is the hegemon of Central Asia. Why can't it be that I can't help a few small countries?"

"You haven't destroyed the country, and you haven't killed your brothers. Why are you so anxious?"

Zhu Jianjun's face was full of amusement, and he was suddenly startled: "No, if my father cared about the vassal king, he would not have issued that imperial edict to sow discord!"

"What he means is, look at the reality of Wei State, he wants to use troops against Wei State!"

"No, no, no... they are inciting the Central Asian countries to fight and come together to bite our country, Wei!"

"The old emperor is so cruel!"

Zhu Jianjun exclaimed that he must prepare for war immediately.

Those two careless nephews will definitely tell the Central Asian countries about the reality of Wei State. When the Central Asian countries jointly attack Wei, what will I do?
No, no, the most terrifying thing is not being attacked by other countries.

But the heir has not been decided. As long as Gu Yi dies, the Wei Kingdom will fall apart in an instant. At that time, the great rivers and mountains will either benefit the vassal state or the Ming Dynasty.

Old Emperor, you are so cruel!
Zhu Jianjun was in a hurry and wanted to establish a throne immediately.

But, it can’t stand.

Prince Wei died of illness in the 60th year of Jingtai, leaving behind three sons. They are all young now, but they are ambitious.

He had nine sons, one died, and eight more.

There are two more legitimate sons.

But there were two concubines between the eldest son and the second son, and the two were equally ambitious. It wasn't that he didn't want to establish a prince, but that he couldn't.

The quickest solution is to seal off the vassal state and become an independent king.

However, the fourth child has a soft personality. Once he inherits the throne of Wei, he may be bullied.

If the second child is established, the third child will definitely be dissatisfied. As long as he dies, Wei will be in chaos.

In fact, his Prince of Wei is the son he is most satisfied with. He is polite and powerful, and very powerful. After all, he was trained by his father.

However, it was not a holiday and he died of illness.

If he is forced to establish a direct heir, the fourth child will not be able to support the family business.

If the second child is established, the third child will definitely shake things up, and the three brats in the prince's family will not calm down.

If you directly establish a grandson, there will be a scene of establishing civil society and cutting down vassals, which will still lead to chaos.

Zhu Jianjun was very depressed.

Seeing the old emperor conferring titles on Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin gave him new inspiration. He could seal off his ambitious older sons and send them as far away as possible. He didn't know how long it would take to get them back.

But there are also disadvantages to this. He is still young. What if the son he planned dies again?

Zhu Jianjun was in a dilemma both on the left and on the right.

He simply didn't want to enfeoff.

(End of this chapter)