But Zhu Youjian was unwilling to let Zhu Youjian tell lies with his eyes open.
After all, what goes up works and what goes wrong is wrong. If the emperor of a country chooses to lie on such a big matter, wouldn't he be teaching the people of the world bad things?
Cutting off the foundation of the country?
And there is another point, that is, Qi Jiguang is a national hero and has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youjian does not want to see him and the soldiers he brought out suffer unjust injustice.
"Wait for Jin Yiwei to investigate. I will deal with it when the results come out. Don't be too smart, or I will never spare you."
Zhu Youjian said.
"As you command, Your Majesty."
"Okay, let's put this matter aside and inspect Jizhou first."
Zhu Youjian said.
In fact, it is not difficult at all to restore the 11 million square kilometers of land that the Ming Dynasty had at its peak with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty.
In the court, some people have been suggesting that Zhu Youjian regain the lost territory.
However, Zhu Youjian has not conducted large-scale external operations except for annexing the Korean Peninsula and the Annan region and regaining 500,000 square kilometers of land for the Ming Dynasty.
Without him, it was because Zhu Youjian knew in his heart that Ming Dynasty would face a huge test next.
A severe drought will occur in Chongzhen.
From the tenth year of Chongzhen to the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, a huge disaster will occur in the Ming Dynasty.
Its long duration and large drought range are unprecedented in the past millennium.
23 provinces (autonomous regions) in southern and northern China have suffered from severe droughts.
The main areas with drought and lack of rain are in North China, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Shandong. These areas have been in drought for more than five consecutive years. Henan Province, where the center of the drought area is located, has been in drought for seven consecutive years.
In the early stage of the drought event, there was a pattern of drought in the north and floods in the south, and the drought area expanded to the east and south year by year; after 1640, rainfall increased in the north, turning into floods in the north and drought in the south. During this period, plague was prevalent and locust plagues were rampant.
With this big disaster pressing behind him, Zhu Youjian would naturally not choose to go north to regain the lost ground.
Otherwise, not only will they have to rescue the territory they currently control, but they will also have to rescue an additional 5 million square kilometers of disaster areas, which will be enough to bring down Ming Dynasty.
Even if he had a system to transfuse blood to Daming, it would be difficult to support him.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian adopted an escrow method, which was to force the Mongols to surrender. The Mongols were provided with sufficient cold weapons and matchlock guns to allow them to go north to fight the Rakshasa people.
He secretly planned to win over India as soon as possible to reserve a new granary for the Ming Dynasty.
After all, India has 3 million square kilometers of land.
The terrain of India stretches from the Himalayas to the south and into the Indian Ocean. The north is a mountainous area, the center is the Indus-Ganges plain, and the south is the Deccan Plateau and its coastal plains on the east and west sides.
Plains account for about 40% of the total area, mountains only account for 25%, and plateaus account for 13%. However, most of these mountains and plateaus are no more than 1,000 meters above sea level.
The low and gentle terrain has an absolute advantage in the country. Not only is transportation convenient, but also with the cooperation of the tropical monsoon climate and fertile soil conditions such as alluvial soil and tropical black soil suitable for agricultural production, most of the land can be used for agriculture, and crops can be grown all year round. It can grow and has unique natural conditions. [4]
India is hot throughout and most of it has a tropical monsoon climate.
As long as water conservancy is well constructed, three crops a year will not be a problem.
By then, with the basic base of India, Ming Dynasty will have an important grain production base.
At that time, there will be India to resettle the people of the Ming Dynasty.
If grains are continuously transported from India to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will not be in chaos.
