When the storm in the world began to stir rapidly because of the wings of Zhu Heji's "big butterfly". This Emperor Zhu has been living peacefully in Beijing. He doesn't seem to care much about the changes in the world. He is just concentrating on dealing with a lot of local affairs... By the way, he is still waiting for the future. The arrival of the Great Khan of America.
The country now ruled by Zhu Heji is still very different from the Great China in the inherent impression of later generations. The Great China of later generations is the home of 1.4 billion people. There are 1.4 billion people busy with all kinds of things there. Moreover, it is an information society and an industrialized country. The pace of life and work is extremely fast. .
The country ruled by Zhu Heji now only has a population of more than 60 million, which is the number after adding the millions of people in North Korea. The current Ming Dynasty, including the territory owned by the three vassal kings of Pingxi King Wu Yingxiong, Shunyi King Ge Erdan, and Chahar King Burni, has a territorial area even larger than that of the later Republic! There are just such a small number of people scattered across such a vast land. Except for a few industrial and commercial central cities where the population is slightly denser, most places are vast and sparsely populated. Some are remote or were destroyed during the Ming and Qing wars. It is a relatively miserable province, and you may not even see an inhabited village if you walk along the official road for a whole day. Many once-prosperous prefectures and county towns are in a state of complete desolation, and there are even wild beasts roaming the cities.
When doing things in such a large agricultural country with a vast land and sparse population, forget about efficiency. Most things are done slowly... Without anyone to do things, of course they can't be done quickly!
Things that may seem super simple to later generations and can be done in a short period of time are now done slowly in months or even years.
Even Zhu Heji, the "great emperor", could only wait patiently for the group of impatient bureaucrats below to implement the instructions issued by the Ming court step by step.
During this period, Zhu Heji's court was mainly busy with three major events.
The first was to regain the entire province of Gansu and establish political power in various parts of Gansu, suppress Confucian rural sages, organize local imperial examinations to select officials, implement the land equalization system and the military system, and establish a three-level education system of "elementary education - primary school - academy" - These things seem easy, but they take a lot of effort to execute. It is no exaggeration to say that establishing a colony in the New World is easier than this!
Because starting from Jiangnan, adding some supplies in Japan, and finally crossing the Pacific Ocean to reach the top of the New World, it took three months. The journey from Nanjing to the westernmost place in Gansu Province is at least 5,000 miles. Traveling 50 miles a day would take 100 days, and three months have passed!
Moreover, as long as the ship does not capsize when hauling a ship of supplies to the New World, the consumption on the road will be negligible. . And if you want to take the land route from Nanjing to deliver some grain to the westernmost state capital of Gansu Province, according to a delivery rate of 10% per thousand kilometers (this is a data delivery rate that can only be achieved by station-to-stop relay transfer). More than 99% of it can be consumed on the road... The cost is so high that it is beyond imagination!
The second major thing that the Ming Dynasty court is busy with is preparing to deal with the three warlords, Wu Yingxiong, the king of Pingxi, Wu Guogui, the general of Pingxi, and Zu Zeqing, the governor of Guangxi, hiding in nooks and crannies in the southwest!
Among the three major warlords, Zu Zeqing is actually easier to deal with. The two sides were connected by water transport along the Xijiang River, and they could also take the sea route to Qinzhou Bay to land (Qinzhou Prefecture belonged to Guangdong at this time), but it was not easy to deal with the Erwu who were huddled in Yunnan.
Because Erwu's territories are all vast and sparsely populated, and most of the places are high in mountains and densely forested... If the Tomorrow's soldiers don't want to march all the way in, burn, kill, and loot, they have to advance on the borders of Hunan, Hubei, and Shaanxi provinces Build military stations and stock up on food and grass.
In addition, the humans in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces under the rule of Er Wu were already as rare as giant pandas. So Zhu Heji doesn't want to go on a killing spree... if he kills again, there will be no more killings! There is really no one left. It would be very difficult to develop and construct these three provinces again. Perhaps Zhu Heji will never see a Sichuan that can be called the land of abundance in his lifetime.
Therefore, the crusade against Er Wu and Zu Zeqing was almost seven parts politics and three parts intimidation.
It would be ideal if we could scare them to Myanmar and Annan!
Therefore, while the Ming court was slowly preparing for a crusade, it also sent an endless stream of messengers into Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi to negotiate with people from all walks of life.
The third major event that the Ming Dynasty court is pushing forward with all its strength is of course the colonization of the New World!
Although it is easier and cheaper to go to the New World from Nanjing than to Gansu. But now the New World is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty... and Zhu Heji does not want to send precious people to the New World to work for Westerners as long-term workers.
What he wants is a colonial country that can strangle the Great American Empire and deliver various resources and precious metals to the Ming Dynasty!
To achieve this goal, it is not enough to just capture the narrow section of the west coast in the north... If the future Great American Empire captures the vast central plains in the north, or even penetrates deep into the Rocky Mountains in the north and west . Then sooner or later they will complete industrialization, absorb a large number of white European immigrants, and turn themselves into a powerful country with tens of millions of people, rich resources, and developed industry!
By then, the Ming Empire would have to cross the Pacific to support its American vassal states.
So Zhu Heji's plan was to control the vast and boundless Great Plains in central North America before the European whites!
Without the resources and fertile land of the Great Plains of North America, the American Empire would not be able to attract enough white immigrants and would not be able to complete industrialization—the iron ore in North America is all in the Great Plains area west of the Great Lakes region. There are no iron mines, there are no great plains where cotton and wheat can be grown, and there is no gold, silver, or oil in the west. If you want to industrialize, you will only have to endure hardship...
In order to take over the Great Plains in central North America, Zhu Heji needed a Mongol Khan who could lead tens of thousands of Mongolian households across the ocean to the New World... After all, each Mongolian household could control it. The territory is far wider than 10,000 households of Han farmers and craftsmen!
Regardless of how open the Great Plains in central North America looks like, if there are 30,000 to 50,000 Mongolian households, they can basically control them firmly. By then, the Han people of the Ming Dynasty will be able to establish another tycoon country in the Rocky Mountains to mine gold and silver, and it will be difficult to think of imperialism in North America.
And the Great Khan who led the Mongols to herd sheep in North America... was of course Ge Erdan's son!
Well, it was Ge Erdan's wife Anukedun who gave birth to her. If this wasn't Ge Erdan's son, who else could it be?
In the Shunyi Palace in Beijing, Zhu Heji is holding the future American Khan in his arms, smiling so hard... Although the child was only born a few days ago, he is not small and weighs as much as Eight catties and eight taels! He has a tiger-like head and a majestic appearance. His brows are still furrowed when sleeping, and he looks like he is "unaware of himself". I guess he will be a majestic and good man when he grows up!
"Hahaha, Anu...you have done a lot of work!" Zhu Heji looked back at Anu, who had just given birth to a son and his body was moisturized a lot, and asked with a smile, "This child is famous. ?"
"Yes," Anu said with a smile, "Celling...it means longevity."
Zhu Heji smiled and nodded: "Oh, Zhu Changshou, not bad, not bad."
"Saint!" Anu glanced at Zhu Heji angrily, "How can you call him Zhu Changshou? He should be called Choros Changshou."
Zhu Heji smiled and said: "I will give him the surname Guo, and he will be a baby with the surname Guo. From now on, he will be called Zhu Celing!"
When Anu heard this, he knelt down to Zhu Heji happily and said, "I thank you Lord for your kindness."
Zhu Heji smiled and said, "Thank you for nothing...it's just the same surname. I'm going to make this kid a sweat in the future!"
