"Then where are they now?"
Zhu Biao narrowed his eyes and asked.
"Probably in the country of Yue, but their whereabouts are not stable now, and their personnel are still scattered."
"At this time, they seemed to have learned about the fact that the Yue State had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and were preparing to leave."
Xiao Han spoke calmly.
Yue country.
On a barren mountain.
"Tenai's!"
"These weaklings from the Yue Kingdom can actually agree to Ming Dynasty's conditions."
Xiao Wu spoke angrily.
"Mr. Five, instead of worrying about these meaningless established facts, it is better to complete the plan quickly."
"Master said, since the Yue Kingdom has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, it will definitely not be able to stay for a long time. Although you have no clues, you must have attracted the attention of the Ming Dynasty. The people of the Ming Dynasty must be searching in secret. He has already found another way out. Please also ask Mr. Five to move with us."
Lone Wolf said to Xiao Wu.
"snort!"
"I hope the profiteer Wan Shanhou didn't lie to me, otherwise..."
Xiao Wu snorted coldly.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a hidden clue left by Hu Weiyong. Although Xiao Wu and others were just street rats, their hands and eyes were very good at the local level. Xiao Wu and the others could easily do many things that were impossible for people behind the mountains.
But after the Ming Dynasty, they were reduced to a group of bandits in an instant, and they even needed to rely on Wanshan Queen to hide.
Such a contrast made Xiao Wu feel extremely depressed.
British government.
"Your Highness, we are in the agricultural and sideline industry zone and the various industrial chains have been basically completed. Do we want to start full operation?"
Jiang held a piece of news in his right hand and said to Xiao Han.
"etc."
"First go to the Ministry of Household Affairs and bring me the relevant information on our Ming Dynasty's grain output and land under cultivation in recent years."
Xiao Han glanced at the report brought by Jiang You, threw it aside, and turned to Jiang You.
"promise!"
Jiang You responded and slowly stepped back.
"Fengxue, what are you doing?"
Not long after, Jiang You returned and brought a large amount of information from the Ministry of Revenue, and Zhu Biao came with him.
"I want to calculate how much production capacity needs to be activated in the agricultural and sideline industry zone to allow the Yingtianfu area to operate normally."
Xiao Han took the information and began to calculate, while saying to Zhu Biao.
"oh?"
"Although your agricultural and sideline industry area is not small, our Ming Dynasty has also had bumper grain harvests in the past two years. I think it is enough."
Zhu Biao said to Xiao Han.
"That's not the case. We have limited horses and there are limits to our transport capacity."
"If the food is transferred from other state capitals, the transportation cost is too high, and you may lose money even if you are running around."
"In addition, for Yingtian Mansion, we must also be precise and ensure that after the annual grain production is consumed by the people and consumed by production, some surplus will enter our Daming Grain Depot to prepare for emergencies."
"Only when the food supply is full will we need to further increase production capacity to achieve a balance."
Xiao Han explained to Zhu Biao.
"Looking at it this way, our agricultural and sideline industry chain must not be able to operate at full capacity."
"Is this what the industrial chain supply is for?"
Zhu Biao asked Xiao Han.
"That's right."
"Anyway, most of our production lines have not yet been assembled and officially put into operation, and there are no large-scale equipment."
"After the calculation is completed and enough production capacity is left for Yingtian Mansion, I will prepare to send other production lines to other places."
Xiao Han said.
"Then why not send some to Lingnan."
"When war breaks out in the south in the future, we can also use the sea route to dump goods."
Zhu Biao said to Xiao Han.
"Yo!"
"You have learned well during this period."
"Yes, that's what I have in mind. We should put enough of it in Yingtian Mansion, and the rest should be placed in Lingnan and Northern Xinjiang respectively."
Xiao Han said to Zhu Biao.
"Why let Northern Xinjiang go?"
"During this period, Can Yuan is also recharging his energy. It's good that we can find a way to suppress them. Should we also give them food and clothing?"
Zhu Biao said in confusion.
"You haven't learned anything from this, haven't you?"
"For us to do business with them is to suppress them."
"Canyuan is based on the grassland and has nomadic characteristics, which makes it difficult for them to achieve such stable production line operations."
"And we sell their fine clothes, spirits and famous teas, which are all high-value items."
"They don't use our Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes. If they want to sell our things, they have to exchange them with real gold and silver or their cattle and sheep."
"There is no doubt that whether they have less real gold and silver or their cattle and sheep, it will be a great benefit to our Ming Dynasty. If we consume them to enrich us, isn't it the opposite?"
Xiao Han said to Zhu Biao.
"But... oil, wine, and cotton-padded clothes are all important strategic resources and will enhance their combat effectiveness."
"Especially cotton-padded clothes. Our cotton-padded clothes are cheaper than their furs. They can use one fur to get two or three pieces of cold clothes."
Zhu Biao continued to argue.
"There's nothing you can do about it. You have to give people some visible benefits, so they will be willing to do business with you, right?"
"Not only does it look like Ming Dynasty is taking advantage unilaterally, but Wang Baobao is not a fool either and will definitely object to it."
"Don't worry, as long as we strictly limit iron and copper, which are strategic resources that are directly related to weapons, the Mongolian Yuan army will not be able to get a substantial improvement."
"Moreover, once the scale of trade increases, it will not be so easy for Wang Baobao to control the consumption of cattle and sheep."
"After all, the nobles of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty have bought enough brocade clothes, but other tribal chiefs still wear animal skins. If I were their chief, even if the Yuan Court ordered the large consumption of cattle and sheep, I would quietly sell them."
"The cold clothes can really prevent their people from freezing to death. Mobei is not as cold as our Yingtian Mansion. The cold can really freeze people to death."
Xiao Han spread his hands.
"That's true, but the horses are fine, and cattle and sheep need to eat fodder every day. We, the Ming Dynasty, can't digest so much in a short time, so wouldn't it be..."
Zhu Biao frowned.
"Who said it can't be digested?"
"You don't really think that my oil extraction production line can only extract vegetable oil, and my textile production line can only use thread, right?"
"We will keep some of it as meat reserve, and the rest will be used to make fine furs, meat oil and dried meat."
"After production, we can even sell it back to Can Yuan. Our craftsmanship is more sophisticated than theirs. Over and over again, we have secretly made away a lot of wealth."
"By then, unless Wang Baobao directly mobilizes the army under the orders of Emperor Yuan and forcibly reduces or even closes the mutual market, otherwise, given our production capacity, the Mongolian people will never be able to save enough military rations to go south."
"Because once each tribe has excess cattle and sheep, they will quietly send them to the Ming Dynasty."
Xiao Han said to Zhu Biao.
"Hey! I finally know how the former Song Dynasty defeated the Liao and Jin Dynasties one after another."
"If you play like this, as long as you take a breath and expand the scale of the mutual market, the Liao and Jin Dynasties will be unable to continue southward. What was the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty at that time... Ah, yes, the economy is too big, and there is no support for the Southern Song Dynasty Enough time, otherwise your head will be buzzing."
Zhu Biao's mouth twitched slightly.
"Then if Can Yuan takes our Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes, will there be any impact if we haven't released the binding between the treasure banknotes and the grain?"
Zhu Biao asked again.
"hehe."
"There will definitely be some impact, but it won't be very big. After all, we will issue as much treasure as the grain we collect, and the remaining yuan is not a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. It cannot be exchanged for grain, but can only be used as money."
"The big deal is, if the treasure banknotes are taken away by the residual yuan, we won't print them again. It can be regarded as giving some unstable benefits to the people, and the residual yuan will pay for it."
Xiao Han chuckled.
"Haha, if things continue like this, I'm afraid it won't be long before we can save enough money to go north and completely eliminate the residual Yuan."
"Unfortunately, the Mobei grassland is very vast. Even if the Ming Dynasty beats Can Yuan, it cannot be directly and completely controlled. I am afraid that new nomadic shortages will breed in the future."
Zhu Biao smiled, then sighed softly.
"There is actually a way to do this."
"We can build a city in Mobei, move the production lines there, and then divide the Mobei pastures into pieces like land and distribute them to the various tribes that surrendered to our Ming Dynasty to prevent them from continuing to nomadic."
"Of course, the pasture provided by each family is much larger than the cultivated land. After all, grazing consumes much larger land."
"Finally, we will station a large army in the city. If anything happens in the area under our jurisdiction, we will immediately rush to the rescue."
Xiao Han said to Zhu Biao.
"But what if there are differences in the quality and time of grass growing in different places? What if for some reason, a certain tribe's pasture is no longer viable and they are clamoring to go nomadic?"
Zhu Biao asked.
"As you say, don't we, the people who farm in the Ming Dynasty, never have a harvest failure in some places?"
"When we collect taxes in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to collecting cattle and sheep, we can also collect some fodder for deployment in case of emergencies."
"Of course, our Daming Agricultural College can also cultivate hybrid grass. After all, the yield of grass is very variable. If we can get it right, maybe the people of our Daming will not be short of meat in the future."
"At that time, the world will say that it was Emperor Zhu who allowed the people of Ming Dynasty to eat meat."
Xiao Han chuckled.
Listening to Xiao Han's teasing, Zhu Biao couldn't help but feel a little dazed, as if through time, he saw Zhu Chongba in Fengyang County with a group of little brothers stealing cattle and eating meat.
Isn’t the emergence of Ming Dynasty due to such a simple wish?
This is why Lao Zhu has always insisted that the Ming Dynasty did not share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, but shared the world with the common people.
Because I have been caught in the rain, I want to hold an umbrella for everyone in the world.
For the Zhu family, these thousands of miles of land represent not only power, but also a heavy responsibility.
I welcome the snow of thousands of mountains alone and protect the spring of the world for thousands of years.
Maybe, this is the reason why Zhu Chongba must become Zhu Yuanzhang. After all, the shoulders of the cowherd boy are too small to carry the wind and snow of thousands of mountains. Only Emperor Hongwu can do it.
(End of chapter)
