After all, judging from the current situation, Zhu Yunxi already has an absolute advantage.
Although he has not broken his heart, if Zhu Yunxi succeeds to the throne, as long as he is still in the capital, he will undoubtedly be like meat on the chopping board.
The same is true in Fuso.
Because Fuso doesn't have any direct descendants from him.
His guards are all in Peiping, and the Fuso Commandery Division currently belongs to the Southern Guardsmen from the previous campaign against Japan. There are a total of six guards there, two in the Echigo area, and four in the Kanto Plain, including Edo.
Wei. As for the commander of Fusang City, it is Qi Bin. His station is Furukawa Guard, which is actually Furukawa City. Then he recruited the chieftains to expand him into a new city...
That is to say, after improvement, it is more suitable for artillery defense.
Of course, it's not a bastion, but a Chinese-style city wall with forts like Ningyuan City.
As for the control method, it is similar to Guizhou. The Uesugi clan gets a Xuanfu envoy, and then Date and other major lords get a Xuanfu envoy.
Small lords got long lawsuits.
In fact, most of them are long lawsuits. After all, the Uesugi family alone has a lot of branches.
These branches are all city lords, and they all surrendered together. Of course, they have to be guaranteed fiefdoms, so they are all chief officials.
The entire Fusang has six guards under the command of the envoy department, eight guarding Qianhu posts, one Xuanwei envoy, six Xuanfu envoys, and dozens of chief officials.
The Ming army's guards were mixed with them.
The land of the guards was actually the land of those lords who were loyal to the Japanese country and participated in the resistance against the Ming army and were later destroyed.
As for the hairy people in the northern mountains and forests, they should be dealt with by the nearby chieftains. Hokkaido does not belong to the Fuso Commandery Department, but to the Huining Commandery Department. There are two Jisi guards on Sakhalin Island, but there is one guard in Hokkaido.
Yuqianhu Station. Even though this Qianhu Station stands alone, just like in exile, it is actually the most popular place in Huiningdusi at present. Everyone is rushing to go there. The reason is actually very simple.
It's more comfortable there than Longquanwei.
The climate of Longquanwei is barely able to sustain agriculture, while Whale Seawei is completely unable to farm, that is, it can only be used for fishing and hunting...
In fact, there is only one reason why thousands of Han households in Jinghaiwei can stay there.
whaling industry.
They are not permanently stationed like other military households. This is not possible there, so their family members are actually in the south, and then he goes to Whale and Sea Guard, rotating every three years, but this rotation is done by his brother, or perhaps also
It may be a son, in short, he is the replacement of Yu Ding in his family. The family of each soldier is fixed, but the person is not fixed.
Then they hunted whales there.
And their family members, of course, became whale oil sellers.
Very fat.
As for Sapporo, where Sapporo Sento is located in Hokkaido, the climate there is close to that of Peking, even slightly warmer.
Normal agriculture can now be maintained.
Compared with other guards in Huining Dusi, this is already the best place.
The Fuso Capital Commandery Department was Honshu Island to the north of Arakawa. Zhu Di could not do much in this area, even if Zhu Yuanzhang moved him there, it would be useless.
Raise an army with Japan?
Those chieftains would sell him without hesitation.
Now, he probably has no ambition to compete for the position of prince, but is more worried that Zhu Yunxi will kill him after Lao Zhu's death, so he has hidden as far away as possible in the past two years. After all, Lao Zhu's health is getting worse day by day.
.
Lao Zhu probably means the same thing.
He is not worried about Zhu Di's rebellion now, but he is worried about Zhu Yunxi killing his uncle.
Throw Zhu Di to Mobei, take an elite army with him, and when he is about to die, he will issue an order that no vassal kings from all over the country are allowed to return to Beijing for the funeral. In this way, it will be difficult for Zhu Yunxi to kill Zhu Di. After all, he is fighting outside, so you
It's a bit immoral to want to kill someone. Moreover, Zhu Di has an elite army in his hands, he still has his guards in Peiping, and there are a lot of old troops in the whole north who regard him as the god of war. If Zhu Yunxi goes too far, Zhu Di will be desperate and raise his arms.
There is no resistance.
As for taking Yang Feng...
That is to show Zhu Yunxi and the people of the world that he has no different intentions!
Because everyone knew that Yang Feng was with Zhu Yunxi, and he took Yang Feng with him. Zhu Di really wanted to rebel, but with Yang Feng's fighting power, he could directly win.
And Yang Feng's reputation was enough to suppress his subordinates.
But Yang Feng did not take orders from Zhu Yunxi. His identity was relatively neutral, and he could even be said to uphold justice.
He also has a good relationship with Zhu Di.
If Zhu Yunxi wanted to kill Zhu Di under such circumstances, he would mediate.
In this case……
Then just follow it!
It happened that Yang Feng was also going to Huining.
He has contracted the military supply for Huining Dusi in the future. Although the supply problem for Longquan and Jinghai Guards is indeed not big, after all, these are shipped by sea, leaving only the other three guards.
Huining Guard, Jilin Guard, Wuguo Guard.
In fact, not only these three guards, Huining Dusi also has seven guard posts for thousands of households.
In the Ming Dynasty garrison, there were actually a large number of garrison posts, which were directly under the command of the envoys.
Under the current situation, the supply of these garrisons can be met, but the cost is high. Instead of making any profit, Yang Feng will have to lose money. However, Yang Feng had no profit in the first place. The exchange condition for his contract was that all the development profits of the Huining Commandery Division would go to him.
It's just him, but there is no development income at this time. There are currently three routes supplying there, the first is the wooden rail in Liaodong, which will lead to Jilin in the future, the other is shipped by sea to Chongjin Port, and then transported by land to the upper reaches of the Songhua River
, that is, south of Antu. The starting point varies depending on the season. Anyway, it can be rafted. There are not even decent boats, because they are disposable and there is enough wood, so you can just build a raft.
Originally, it was the chieftains who were in the nature of serving, and the young men were sent out to shoulder the responsibility.
We drifted in this way until we reached the intersection of Hetudao River, where there was actually a shipyard, and there was a garrison of Qianhu of Huining Dusi.
That's a good place too.
Because this Qianhu Station is the temple guarding army.
They guard Changbaishan Temple, one of the three major temples in Huining.
The Changbai Mountain Temple in history was originally located at the Erdaobai River in Antu. The Ming Dynasty dispatched more than 18,000 troops to cut down trees along the way, and finally built the Changbai Mountain Temple there using the ruins of the Jin Kingdom Temple. However, Yang Feng thought this was a bit exaggerated.
Not only is the cost too high, but it will also be very painful for the masters in the future.
real.
It is difficult to find someone in that place in modern times, let alone in this era.
Although masters do need to be purified to study Buddhism, it is not necessary to be purified to this level.
So from Jilin Water Transport, we go to the Baishan Reservoir and pick a geomantic treasure land. It just makes sense to build one with Changbai Mountain at our back. The masters also like it. It is also convenient for the tribal people to worship. If they have to build it to Changbai Mountain, they can go to worship the Buddha.
It’s like surviving in the wilderness. Facts have proved that Yang Feng’s choice is very correct. Because this Changbai Mountain Temple is located at the water transportation node, it quickly became the spiritual destination of those chieftains who worshiped devoutly. Everyone went to Liangjiangkou to worship Buddha and conduct trade in their free time.
After being greatly satisfied, you can take the boat home with a peaceful mind.
Occasionally, masters, protected by soldiers, would go to these chieftains to preach Buddhism, and even build temples equivalent to semicolons.
In the primeval forest of Huining, the sound of chanting is everywhere.
Everyone is becoming more and more peaceful.
The Temple Guard Army is responsible for collecting taxes from the chieftains in the area, dividing the materials traded, and even dividing the donations received by the temple masters...
It's like dividing the spoils.
No one cares whether it's 37 or 46.
That place is isolated in the Changbai Mountains. Not to mention the court officials, even the Huining Capital Secretary is too lazy to take care of it.
Moreover, like the Whale Guard, the garrison is on a shift basis. In the final analysis, allowing people to garrison in such a place must provide sufficient benefits.
The third route is by sea to Longquanfu.
However, it is different from what Yang Feng imagined. Although wooden sailing boats can go upstream along the Tumen River to Longquan Prefecture, there are too many restrictions, especially the difficulty of transporting fully loaded transport ships. In fact, all ships going there currently dock at Maokouwei.
, and then transport it by land to Longquan Prefecture, and then from Longquan Prefecture to Dunhua. It depends on the situation in this section. If the situation is good, some water transportation can be carried out, and the rest is drifting on the Mudanjiang River. This line is mainly to supply the Five Kingdoms Guards, which is in Mudanjiang.
The north bank of the mouth was also what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to give up the most.
But supplying them is not the most important thing. We can maintain it for now, just lose some money.
What really matters is Yang Feng's Huining development.
If large quantities of materials are to be transported overseas, stable freight must be developed, and the harvest of grain is in late autumn, and winter is the end of the harvest, but it is definitely impossible to transport in winter. Minus 30 degrees is not a joke, so we can only wait until the following year.
Spring begins, but sea freight must go south in winter because the south wind blows in summer. Therefore, the transportation mode can only be to transport to the port in the beginning of the next spring. At the same time, the transport fleet goes north for loading, and then takes advantage of the north wind to leave the port and go south in winter.
It happened that the factories in the south started working in the winter, and the manure pills produced in large quantities were stored and sold to farmers before the wheat harvest.
Now this ancient version of compound fertilizer is selling like hotcakes.
Bean cake is used as the basis, and then more precious bird droppings are added to increase fertility, and then a small amount of insecticide is mixed in...
There is no standard formula for this thing. It is based on various materials that increase nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. As for the formulas that have been circulated, they are just based on the material because there are no better materials of this kind, but the number one among these things is
Guano, the second bean cake.
You don’t even have to go to that trouble, you can just use fermented bird droppings or bean cakes.
Since Yang Feng wants to ferment, he adds some messy substances to increase the mystery and attraction, especially insecticide materials.
There is limited guano here, but the supply of bean cakes is almost unlimited as long as the black soil is developed.
This was originally the main fertilizer in the rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, especially bean cake, which was the main support for the development of western Liaoning.
Every year, millions of soybeans are transported from the Liao River to Jiangnan.
Then here comes the problem.
How can we transport outwards on a large scale?
Only water transportation.
Neither does wooden rails.
And it must be the lowest cost downstream water transport.
Well, there is only one option, release them from the Songhua River, and after the beginning of spring, use a fleet of boats to go straight down the Songhua River to Whale Triton.
Go to Temple Street.
The shipping fleet rides the ocean currents and southerly winds to the north at the same time, arrives at Temple Street to load ships, and waits for the northerly wind to start heading south immediately. Although this kind of transportation distance is a bit exaggerated, the light will be as far as Whale Sea Guards, that is
More than 2,000 kilometers, and more than 3,000 kilometers by sea. But for the transportation of bulk commodities, this is the only option. After all, wooden rail carriages are not railways. That little transportation capacity can only transport some military supplies to the garrison, and it is expected to be responsible for the transportation of bulk goods.
It's impossible.
Such transportation can only be done by ship.
And even if you use a boat, in this era where you can only rely on sails, you can't go against the current unless there is a sufficient population along the route.
But what Huining lacks most is population, so we can only go down the river.
The farther the distance is, the farther it is. In fact, it saves time. One month is enough for rafting from Harbin to Temple Street.
The average flow speed is not more than one meter per second. Even if you don't dare to walk at night, two months is enough. And the sea transport with the wind and the flow in winter is even faster than this.
"Ambassador, why are you so obsessed with Huining? With your investment, it is easy to make money elsewhere in the Ming Dynasty. Only investing in a place like Huining will not bring any benefits except adding burden to yourself. Even if you
If you can complete this kind of transportation, you will actually not make any money. At most, you will lose less. Even if the output is indeed 30 to 40% more than that of the mainland, you will not make money because you have to pay more wages to the land reclamation teams.
Several times more than in the mainland.
Even if you have other income, such as gold mining, it is useless.
Gold mining also requires a large number of people. They need food, clothing, and a place to live, all of which are more expensive than in the mainland.
In Jiangnan, a bowl of rice and a plate of vegetables can fill you up. You can't survive without eating meat there, so you have to eat a lot of fish and meat. My appetite there is twice as much as in the capital. In the capital, I can eat whatever I want in the winter.
A thin cotton coat can last the whole winter. There you have to wear furs and wrap yourself up like a bear. In the capital, a thatched house is enough to protect you from wind and rain. The walls there are more than a foot thick and there is no fire pit.
It will freeze to death in winter.
And almost nothing can be done in winter.
In the winter in the capital, you can let your men build canals, roads, and dams, but here you can only let them hide in the house and warm themselves by the fire.
It means you have to raise them all winter in vain.
It's all money.
You won't make any money there.
No matter what you do, you won’t make any money.”
Ma He looked at Yang Feng in confusion.
At this time, they were on board the flagship of Jiahe. This giant ship with 5,000 materials was personally named Danque by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.
The red bird holds the golden harvest!
His Majesty the Emperor is still looking forward to it.
And Yang Feng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, who was worshiping in person among the ministers, and could see that His Majesty the Emperor was really old. Historically, he could only live for one year. Even if he could live longer this time, he would probably not live for more than one year.
It's just two or three years.
"What you said makes sense."
Yang Feng said.
He did tell the essence of the problem...
Unless there are strategic considerations that don't take cost into account, it won't be popular there because everything costs more.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation...
Even building a toilet has to be different.
"But the problem is that some things cannot be considered based on interests."