King Zhou, who had no idea what kind of difficult natural environment he would face, finally awakened his pioneering spirit...
After all, his fourth brother did gain a lot.
The war horses, gold and silver treasures, and women brought back from the Western Regions last year astonished everyone.
The high-quality war horses that escorted him were enough to make people envious. The escort cavalry brought by Zhu Di were all Arabian horses, and they stood out from the crowd on the battlefield. He had gained such a huge harvest in just less than two years of the Western Expedition, which is enough to prove that the Ming Dynasty
There are many good places outside. The Delhi Sultanate has already paid tribute to a group of Marwari horses. The people who went to India last time have also returned. After arriving in Delhi along the Ganges River, they have long compiled what they saw along the way into a book and received it by the old man.
Zhu was distributed everywhere.
The climate is like that of Jiangnan.
The water network is as crisscross as the south of the Yangtze River.
The land is fertile.
Rice and cotton are everywhere.
Its people are docile and have a clear distinction between high and low, and the lowly have no resentment.
Peaceful people...
Well, the civil servants who were envoys to the Delhi Sultanate did not hesitate to praise them, and even praised India's caste system as being very orderly, and praised the Asans' messy spirit as the peaceful people...
Sure enough, they are all from the same origin!
But it’s really exciting!
"Does the King of Chu want to take over a strategy? If the King of Chu wants to, he can control Annan, and then go to Champa, Chenla, Siam and other places. Although this generation has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the land is also considered to be full of princes. If the king
If you can conquer the land, the imperial court will be happy to support you."
Yang Feng looked at King Chu and said.
The latter smiled deeply.
"Ambassador, the young king has not even taken care of Annan. Although most of Annan has surrendered, there are still many wild and untamable people who resist the king in dangerous places."
he said.
Annan just surrendered.
In fact, Lao Zhu didn't think too much about it. A large number of powerful people were appointed as chieftains. It is of course impossible for these people to sincerely surrender. Otherwise, there would be no need for an army of 150,000 to suppress them. These chieftains are among the kings of Chu and the chieftains of Annan.
In fact, there have been small-scale conflicts. Even if the King of Chu goes back, he must suppress these chieftains first, otherwise Annan may be full of wars. After all, this land has not belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years. I think
To truly rule, it is impossible to suppress for decades or even hundreds of years.
"Wouldn't that be better? The king doesn't know what Yang did in the Western Regions, right?
Don't they like gold and silver women?
The king took them to conquer the non-subordinates, and they could take whatever they got from the plunder. Those places in the South were hot and humid, and plagues were rampant. Normally, a whole city would die even if there was no war, let alone a war. After all, it was difficult for the court to rule. The key was
We have too few people. If this is the case, let them reduce their number.
Since there is no one left, it will naturally be easier to manage.”
Yang Feng said with a smile.
King Chu smiled slightly.
"Been taught a lesson!"
He raised his hands and said.
Indeed, you can learn from Yang Feng!
After he returns, he can take those chieftains who rebel from time to time and go to other small countries to burn, kill and loot. Don't they like gold and silver? Don't they like to go out to burn, kill and loot?
Then the war reduced the population of these chieftains, and the territory they grabbed was still their fiefdom.
The best of both worlds!
"But since it's hot and humid and the plague is rampant, we will suffer a lot of casualties, right?"
King Shu said.
"No matter what you do, it's impossible to do it without any cost at all. Prepare more doctors and medicines, and overcome obstacles. Isn't this the case with all obstacles?"
Yang Feng said.
Of course, the main reason is that it will definitely not be dominated by soldiers from the Ming Dynasty. It will be an elite Ming army, and then bring the chieftains from Annan. The latter want to burn, kill and loot, and the King of Chu wants to capture his own territory. The two families hit it off immediately, and finally they went out
The war started, and the Ming Dynasty began to control the immigration to Annan. Annan Dusi's current army of 150,000 must gradually withdraw. These are all in the nature of a conquest. The southern guards gathered together to prevent them from coming back, and they themselves could not bear it.
As for Annan, just leave about ten guards to garrison, mainly in the Red River Delta, and then add the coastal fortress area.
Ignore the inland mountainous areas.
Let King Chu take the chieftains to play by themselves!
It is said that the inland mountainous area of Annan is not a good place, even the American soldiers were defeated.
"There is also the line from Yunnan to the south. Is the King of Shu interested?"
Yang Feng said directly.
Going south from Yunnan, that is, the three announcements and six consolations, these people indeed surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, they should welcome a Ming vassal king to serve as their ancestors. This is also the great grace of the Ming Dynasty...
Isn’t it enough of God’s grace to send the vassal king there to educate and protect them?
This is the grandson of Phoenix Dragon!
Blessed are they!
Therefore, we need a vassal king with the best image.
It’s the King of Shu.
"Ambassador, Xiao Wang is afraid that he can't stand the heat and humidity there."
King Shu said awkwardly.
"Well, your Majesty has misunderstood. It is not a hot and humid place. It is a plateau. There are even pastures for grazing war horses, and it is suitable for growing rice. Besides, I don't want you to go there right away. Your Majesty will take charge of the military affairs and station in Yunnan.
You will stay in Prince Min's Mansion for the time being, and you can just pay the rent to Prince Min later. The land and shops in the Prince's Mansion in Chengdu are still yours, so you can manage Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan and choose a suitable place to live in the land of three announcements and six comforts. After preparations are completed, you can leave to Mu.
Sheng will lead his army to escort us south. If we are not prepared well, you will stay in Kunming."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
King Shu understood instantly...
This Tamar forced Mu Sheng.
If Mu Sheng doesn't let him snatch a piece of fiefdom from the land of Sanxuan and Liuwei, he will always stay in Kunming.
Anyway, Mu Sheng did not dare to try every means to exclude him like he did to King Min. After all, King Min had no foundation to rely on, but the Sichuan Army was behind King Shu. If Mu Sheng dared to bully him, did he want generals like Qu Neng and Chen Xuan to go to him?
Talk?
"Does the ambassador know where is best suited?"
he asked.
"here!"
Yang Feng simply pointed to the plains in central Myanmar.
Then he poked another point emphatically.
"Especially here, this is where the Mogok Treasure Well is located. The rubies produced in the southwest basically come from here. You can just occupy this place, and then let the natives dig the gems and take the gems to Tengchong for processing. I guess this can support the guards.
"
he said.
The value of Mogok Baojing is limited at this time...
Zhu Yuanzhang was not good at this. The prosperity of Baojing was in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when dignitaries, wealthy merchants and landlords began to compete in extravagance. At this time, the gentry dared to wear gems and they were hacked to death. But the restrictions on clothing must be relaxed next, so
Mogok will usher in a period of glory, but these chieftains in Myanmar also rely on the profits from Mogok Baojing to develop rapidly and become a factor of instability in the southwest, eventually becoming Mang Yinglong.
The latter is based on Baojing.
The core of his war with the Ming Dynasty was actually the control of Baojing.
Not only the chieftains, but also the merchants dealing in gems from the mainland were involved. Tengchong was a gem processing center in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and a bunch of mainland merchants dealt in gems there. Several Han people who later participated in the civil strife among the chieftains were all gem traders.
so……
Let’s solve it from the root cause!
Let the king of Shu occupy Mogok and control the Mogok gems to prevent those chieftains from developing.
The king of Shu was unable to use the treasure well to develop, because the chieftains around him were looking at him with salivation. If he dared to be disobedient, these chieftains would happily fight for the Ming Dynasty, and then grab the Mogok treasure well. And Shu
Wang had to collude with the Mu family to control Baojing. After all, he only had three guards and lacked military strength, but he could just team up with the Mu family or even the generals of Sichuan.
In this way, Mogok Baojing has become an important link in the interest chain of southwest China.
These generals in the southwest will do their best.
Very simple.
These guys have servants and clan cronies, and they just travel to Myanmar like armed caravans to run the gem business.
The King of Shu directly helped as an armed caravan when needed.
From now on, the Ming Dynasty will engage in more armed caravans of this kind to the outside world.
On the contrary, the number of immigrants in the nature of health centers will be reduced.
Immigration of this nature can easily arouse their dissatisfaction, just like those in Daning before, but armed caravans are purely civilian and driven entirely by profit, just like the salt merchants' trading villages in the frontier fortress. They immigrated for
If there are benefits, then as long as the benefits continue, they will thrive there for generations.
Something like Mogok Baojing can really last for generations to come.
After all, it is still being dug up to modern times.
Moreover, immigrants lured by such interests form a chain.
From processing, transportation, mining, including service industries that serve people in this chain, even special service industries, there will be everything, like tentacles reaching into the interior of Myanmar.
The King of Shu didn't say much. Since it was impossible to stay in Sichuan, he might as well go out and give it a try. It didn't matter if he failed anyway. At worst, he didn't want to be granted a land and become an apartment in Beijing. But if he succeeded, he could have his own real territory, in his own country.
became the king of his territory.
The remaining ones include King Liao and King Qing.
Prince Qing actually made a mistake in judgment. He did not expect that there was such a line.
If there is no such line, then he can definitely get a fiefdom in Ningxia, where the agricultural conditions are still excellent.
but now……
"I'd better go to Beijing!"
he said.
"Well, Your Majesty, I actually think you should go out and explore. I have chosen a place for you. You can follow King Yan first, and then King Yan will go west and you can go south from the Western Regions. There is also a road to India here, but
But you enter India from the west. After passing through this plateau and passing through a mountain pass similar to Juyongguan, you will reach the vast plains of India.
The situation there is similar to our Central Plains."
Yang Feng said.
Of course, this plateau is so difficult to deal with that it is nicknamed the Imperial Cemetery.
He actually wanted to throw King Qing over and let Zhu Di arrange a place. After all, the territory Zhu Di would own in the future was large enough, so giving it all to him would be too cheap for him.
"No!"
King Qing said with certainty.
In this case……
Yang Feng looked at his uncle with a smile on his face.
"Is the King of Liao interested?"
he said.
"I would rather go to Nanyang."
His uncle said simply.
So the little princess must have told her brother where the money is most valuable.
"Your Majesty, according to your Majesty's decision during his lifetime, a government-run Nanyang Company will be specially established in the future."
Yang Feng said.
The expansion in Nanyang must be something like the East India Company. It is not that the Ming Dynasty did not have such commercial strongholds similar to European colonists. There are many in Nanyang. Hoi'an in Vietnam is home to thousands of Ming merchants all year round, crowding out Japanese merchants. The largest
There are at least 30,000 merchants from the Ming Dynasty in Pinghu, and of course, they can also be said to be pirates. Li Dan is the boss. There are others in Pattani and Batavia. The first time the Dutch invaded the Ming Dynasty was instigated by Zhangzhou merchants in Pattani with the intention of copying
Macau experience.
Not to mention a city like Manila with tens of thousands of people.
but……
Compromising each other.
Not only did they not unite against European colonists or local indigenous people, they often joined forces with European colonists or indigenous people to kill compatriots.
If the private sector is allowed to carry out such development, this will inevitably be the result.
Fujian maritime merchants preyed on Guangdong maritime merchants, and Zhangzhou maritime merchants pretended to be pirates and killed Chaozhou maritime merchants.
This is inevitable.
Only by forcibly integrating them into an organization can this be avoided to the greatest extent.
Maximum!
After all, even the captain of Daying often robbed Daying's merchant ships with a privateering license, but having organizational restraint is better than nothing. At worst, it would be changed to a joint-stock system, just like his Shanxi Development Company. By the Ministry of Household Affairs, the emperor,
Ambassador Yang's family, together with private investors, eventually established the Ming Dynasty version of the East India Company.
"Ambassador, you are talking about trade, but I am talking about land. The imperial court specializes in trade in Southeast Asia, but isn't the land in Southeast Asia not yet owned?"
King Liao said with a smile.
so……
"I understand, you don't care about trade, but you control the supply of goods."
Yang Feng immediately understood his uncle's goal.
This is a very smart choice.
"In this case, we would have to set up a special Nanyang economic envoy, but the imperial court does not have soldiers. After all, there is no one suitable for exploring in this direction."
he said.
"It's easy. Just set up a separate capital command department here, and then the imperial court will send a few guards to open it up. If that doesn't work, just move my three guards there. Agriculture and fishery are good there. Then give me a part of the Ying Jiahe fleet.
, I control the Ryukyu capital and command the envoys, and the rest is to open up step by step to Nanyang. From there it is not far to Luzon, and then from Luzon to the west.
But I have to be allowed to recruit people from the mainland, and I will pay for it myself."
The King of Liao pointed to a certain island and said.
He has money...
Well, actually his sister is rich.
Therefore, his loan from the bank should be the most lenient.
"OK!"
Yang Feng said.
In this way, the King of Liao also moved to the vassal state.
Of course, we can't say that we will move to the feudal state at the moment. Except for Zhu Di, we can't say that anyone else will move to the feudal state. We can only say that we are starting to prepare for the move. Their palaces and properties are still theirs. They just get a military envoy each, and then
Control one or several generals and envoys to secure a territory for yourself.
When they conquered it and thought it was time to move, they officially moved it.
As for Zhu Di, it was different.
His transfer to the vassal state was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang while he was still alive.
So he must move to the Western Regions immediately.
He had already built a palace for himself in Yili before, and among his five guards, two were already in place in the Western Regions. The other three depended on how many he could bring with him from Peiping. Anyway, he would make up for what was not enough.
.As for the guards belonging to the two capital divisions of Anxi and Beiting, they will be completed one after another. This was originally decided when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive.