Zhu Youxiao listened to the opinions of the ministers and put aside the series of ideas and plans in his mind.
In order to further put pressure on Lao Nu, Zhu Youxiao formally appointed Zhou Xingwu as the chief military officer of Shanhaiguan, and led troops to garrison this important passage connecting the inside and outside of the pass.
Now that the support points with Liaoning and Shenyang as the strategic center have been formed, the logistics support and transportation information naturally cannot fall behind.
This also once again strengthens the imperial court's control over the outside world. None of the powerful landlords who have lived in Liaodong for generations has a clean net worth. Zhu Youxiao will slowly eliminate them all.
And now he is facing a big problem. There are hundreds of thousands of people who have moved from Liaoyang, Shenyang to Guangning, Jinzhou and other places. Zhu Youxiao has to solve their survival problem.
It is not a problem for the imperial court to allocate food to support them all the time.
In addition, the weather in Liaodong is so bad that they are homeless and do not even have a stable place to live. It is okay for a month or two, but if time goes on, chaos will inevitably occur.
With such a large population outside the customs, it is completely a drag on the current Zhu Youxiao and the Ming Dynasty.
Even if there were no slave-building and Mongolian invasion and rebellion, the people would not be self-sufficient at all with the food production they cultivated by themselves. The national treasury would allocate a large amount of materials for relief every year.
The bitter cold land is not an alarmist statement. The climate and environment outside the customs are simply not suitable for the survival and development of agricultural civilization.
Even the foreigners who grew up in that land could not endure this kind of physical and mental torture, let alone the Han people who had not experienced these bitter colds.
This is also the reason why the past dynasties did not expand aggressively. In this regard, the emperors and those in power cannot be completely blamed.
For a farming civilization, if it is destroyed and unable to live and grow food, it is simply worthless and of no use at all.
Why did the Ming Dynasty voluntarily give up the land outside the customs? In addition to the serious decline in its own national power and armaments, another important reason was that it could not move people to farm.
Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang used various preferential policies to fill Liaodong. It can be said that he used coercion and inducement. I don't know how much thought he spent to make Liaodong so popular.
Even if you are as powerful as the Tang Dynasty and have conquered such a large territory, these places are still useless. There are not many Han people. Instead, people of foreign races are pouring into the Central Plains in large numbers.
The national policies of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in this regard can be said to be consistent in general. They both used the Yi Di to control the Yi Di, divided and attacked the foreign tribes, and they themselves were the chess players.
The result is obvious. Both the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty failed. The prosperous Tang Dynasty developed an unsolvable vassal system, while the Ming Dynasty developed a powerful opponent, Hou Jin.
Although the Tang Dynasty conquered those lands, strictly speaking, it did not implement complete rule and control. Instead, it incorporated those foreign races into its own body. This was also the fundamental reason for the chaos in the feudal towns.
The Tang Dynasty was able to maintain its territory for decades. In addition to the country's wealth, its biggest reliance was on the support of an army capable of conquering and fighting.
After the central government gained power, the ambitions of these foreign races that thrived under the protection of the Tang Dynasty increased instantly. They either wanted to separate themselves from one party or to replace them.
The outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion was inevitable, not because of one person, but because of the shortcomings of the system.
Even if Li Longji had died twenty years earlier, without Concubine Yang, without people like An Lushan and Shi Siming, there would have been others to replace these roles. It was just a matter of time.
Because you can't keep yourself at the peak of invincibility forever. The bigger your plate is, the more eyes are watching you, and the less you can make any mistakes.
As long as your defenses are slightly slack and your strength has declined, those ambitious ministers will immediately seize this golden opportunity.
Endless tolerance and generosity created the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also destroyed it.
The Tang Dynasty could still last for more than a hundred years, but as for the Ming Dynasty, as soon as Zhu Di died, Nuer Gandusi declined day by day, and by the Zhengtong period it was already dead in name only.
There was no way around it. The national power of the two dynasties was too far apart. During the Yongle period, the government was clear and clear, the treasury was full, and the army was extremely powerful. It was easy to subdue and suppress them.
But the further they go, the worse it becomes. Without the support of a powerful army and a rich treasury, the Ming Dynasty has gradually lost its dominance over them. When the tribes outside the pass saw this, their restless hearts began to agitate again. .
The emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were not as tolerant and trusting of foreigners as the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty. Except for Zhu Di and Zhu Jianshen, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were extremely wary. This may also be because of the Tang Dynasty's experience.
If we want people who are still in the farming civilization to take root in the undeveloped black mountains and white waters of the Northeast, we must first solve the big problem of local people being able to produce and sell their own food.
In the later years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was a very large-scale migration period in the Northeast, which was called Lower Guandong.
The population in the Northeast has increased dramatically. A region with only a few hundred thousand people has grown to tens of millions in just a few decades, which is shocking.
The fundamental reason that prompted people to migrate spontaneously was the availability of a cold-resistant rice seed that could grow in the erratic cold weather in the Northeast.
Coupled with the development of science and technology at that time, the mineral materials in the Northeast became extremely important and precious resources. The huge treasures in the Northeast were discovered for the first time, which naturally attracted a large number of people to explore Guandong.
This kind of cold-resistant rice seed was not available in the Ming Dynasty. It was introduced to Korea from Japan and after decades of cultivation by the Koreans, it was known and widely used by the people of Northeast China at that time.
Zhu Youxiao is in urgent need of this kind of cold-resistant rice seed. With it, it is no exaggeration to say that it can basically solve the food production problems of the people outside the customs.
It has not yet reached the heyday of Little Glacier, and the people of the Ming Dynasty still have decades of hard times to endure. Zhu Youxiao does not want the words "thousands of miles of red land and starvation everywhere" to be recorded in future history books.
Only if we can achieve self-production of food outside the border can we station heavy troops and expand northward. The location of the northeast is too critical, and it also has one of the best resource wealth in the entire world.
Zhang Zuolin relied on the strategic location and resource output of the Northeast to remain standing. No matter how badly he was defeated in the pass, as long as he defended Shanhaiguan, he would be able to resurrect with full health in less than three to five years.
Although he does not have this kind of cold-resistant rice seed now, he does have Song Yingxing, a master of agriculture. With Song Yingxing's talent and knowledge reserve, it is not too difficult to develop this kind of rice seed.
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