Chapter 4 King Yan’s Eastward Journey
King Yan has great ambitions.
He gave up the fight for the throne because he wanted to build a huge empire, not some small countries.
If the imperial court's ideas are followed, the future generals of Yan will be composed of a series of small countries. In this way, Yan State would not be able to threaten the imperial court.
But King Yan’s achievements may not wait until his second generation. There will be no more in this life.
King Yan did not want to see such a situation.
It's just that others think King Yan is majestic and domineering, but King Yan himself knows his confidence. Yan State claims to have a population of tens of millions, but in fact, it is not that number. The Han people are only one or two million. This is the result of his efforts to collect wool from the Central Plains.
The others are all Mongols, Hui Hui, each has his or her own thoughts, but King Yan cannot trust them anyway.
However, among the Han people whom King Yan relied on, many people had their hearts set on the imperial court. For example, Lian Zining is in front of him. King Yan was very troubled. Is Lian Zining a loyal minister?
yes.
If one day, Lian Zining's life had to be exchanged for the life of King Yan, Lian Zining would definitely be willing to sacrifice his life. But Lian Zi would rather be loyal to King Yan. It doesn't mean that Lian Zi would rather not go to the imperial court.
Lian Zining felt that the best outcome was for King Yan and the court to be at peace with each other.
so. Lian Zining actually supported King Yan at the cost of dividing the three kings in exchange for the support of the court.
But King Yan didn't want to.
After all, he wanted to build a huge empire. And the most important thing is that now that he has agreed to this one thing, when he fights again in the future, many things will be difficult to arrange.
Because he controls not one Yan country, but three small countries.
That's how people's hearts are.
As long as King Yan makes a promise, even if he has not yet divided the property, the children below will be willing to fight for more property for themselves.
In fact, King Yan also planned to give a fief to his son who could not inherit the throne in the future. After all, the most indispensable thing in Yan State today is fiefdom.
But this must be based on the premise that Yan Guo's center is strong.
Rather than the other way around.
King Yan realized that if he wanted to advance westward without any scruples, he had to solve rear problems, not just logistical issues, but to reach a new consensus with the court.
Therefore, even if King Yan doesn’t want to go to this Nanjing meeting, he won’t be able to do so. Must pass.
King Yan said: "I understand. Then get ready. After spring, I will return to Nanjing and take a look at where the railway has been repaired."
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When King Yan decided to go eastward.
Many people from other parties also received this invitation.
For example, Muchun, Yunnan.
Muchun had a premonition about this invitation. He even had a hunch that he might not return to Yunnan.
This premonition did not come for nothing. Rather, it was the imperial court's perception of a series of actions in Yunnan.
After Beijing captured Nanjing and officially became the imperial court, it issued many orders to Yunnan. First, Feng Cheng returned to Yunnan.
Originally, Feng Cheng should have appeared at the future national conference.
It is said that the matter of the Longwu meritorious knighthood has been discussed internally. Just waiting for a chance to announce it. He Xi set this time at the national conference.
This national conference will last for several days.
As one of the future knights, Feng Cheng should be in the imperial court. Now he is sent to Yunnan.
Moreover, as Feng Cheng entered Yunnan, the troops that followed him into Yunnan were not Feng Cheng's own troops, but many new northern troops. The imperial court already understood the situation in Yunnan very well.
Whether it's because two generations of the Mu family are in Yunnan, they should avoid suspicion. It was Mu Chun's mentality of watching from the sidelines during the Civil War, which made the court feel a little uneasy about Mu Chun.
In short, Muchun is leaving Yunnan.
Muchun didn't think there was any problem with this.
After all, the situation in Yunnan has not yet been formed for Mujiashi to suppress it. Muchun had foreseen it before making the choice.
suffered this fate.
However, he didn't care either.
After all, the Mu family has the closest relationship with Dong Palace, and Mu Chun and Zhu Xiongying are considered acquaintances, but their relationship has become estranged over the years. But it won't take a few years to recover.
Muchun has only been quiet for a few years.
In this case, Muchun also felt a little sad.
However, this time there was a lot going on in Dingguo Council, and He Xi allowed the people below to speak freely about local conditions and shortcomings. Muchun didn't know if it was true or not.
But now that He Xi has said it.
Muchun is welcome.
What he wanted to do was the governance of Yunnan.
Yunnan is divided into three parts: inner Yunnan, outer Yunnan, and the border between the two. Inner Yunnan is actually Dali, Kunming, which is almost Han territory. And Outer Yunnan actually refers to southern Yunnan, which is now Myanmar and other places. Between the two, there is a tug of war between the two sides.
In Muchun's view, in terms of situation. The border area between Inner Yunnan and Outer Yunnan is where the gate of Inner Yunnan is located.
Only with these places can Inner Yunnan be stable.
Otherwise, you will face the problem of Nanman kicking your nose and face.
But the problem is here, if these places are owned by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will have a situation in Yunnan, and it can be condescending to directly push these southern barbarians into the sea.
Luchuan and other chieftains were ready to take action because they had support from all sides.
Muchun followed his father to fight against Luchuan, and they fought very hard in history. Nowadays, the weapons of the Ming Dynasty have been updated, and they are like chopping vegetables and melons.
And Muchun had a new idea in his heart.
Nothing else. That is to go south and hit the sea directly.
After all, with the development of the Nanyang, a large number of ships appeared in the Western Ocean, and Ming Dynasty did not know everything about the Indian Ocean.
At least Muchun knew that it was possible to open a sea channel from Yunnan. After going to sea, it's not far away from the Nanyang Governor's Mansion.
This is a great thing for Yunnan.
Without him, it would be too difficult for Yunnan to communicate with the mainland. From Yunnan to Guizhou and then to Hunan, there are mountain roads all the way, which is simply not a human path.
There is no place in Guizhou that is three feet flat. No joke.
The Mu family father and son have been in Yunnan for most of their lives. Muchun also knew that if he left in the future, it would be difficult to come back. He even wanted to give Yunnan a way out.
Nowadays, the pattern of relying on the sea to eat is already obvious. But Yunnan does not have a channel leading to the sea. That’s all.
The reason why Yunnan connects with the Central Plains is also very difficult.
Speaking of which, there are only two roads, one is the five-foot road built in the Qin Dynasty and is only five feet wide, from Yunnan to Sichuan, and the other is from Yunnan to Guizhou.
So that later generations called Yunnan and Guizhou because before going to Yunnan, you must first go to Guizhou.
In Muchun's view, both of these paths were too unreliable. If something happens, Yunnan is likely to break away from the Central Plains.
From the perspective of later generations, many people think it is impossible, how could Yunnan not be China's Yunnan. But the problem is that at Muchun's time point, his worries were not false.
After all, Yunnan had just come into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and it had fallen into the hands of barbarians for hundreds of years before.
How could Muchun not think about whether the old things would reappear.
There are many rivers in Yunnan, and these rivers all flow to the Indian Ocean. As long as they are connected, it will be even easier for Yunnan to connect with the Indian Ocean than with the Central Plains.
Before that, Muchun would never have had this idea.
After all, he wanted to maintain Yunnan's centripetal force towards the imperial court. Therefore, even if the road from Yunnan to India was easier, Muchun would dig out these roads and was determined not to allow them.
But things are different now.
It is not difficult for the Ming Dynasty's fleet to appear in the Western Ocean. In other words, the merchant ships of the Ming Han people have arrived. The route from Yunnan to the sea will not only prevent Yunnan from centrifugal problems with the imperial court, but also bring Yunnan into more economic influence of the Ming Dynasty.
At least goods from Yunnan can have a new shipping direction.
Of course, Muchun also knew. In fact, there is another way to go to sea from Yunnan, and that is to go from Vietnam. However, today's Annan is probably honest. He didn't dare to be dishonest. But Luchuan was dishonest.
Although, I was beaten twice. Muchun still knew that some people in Luchuan were making small moves. I probably feel that deep in the tropics, many soldiers in the Central Plains cannot adapt to such a climate, so they dare to be so unrestrained.
However, Muchun also knew that Yunnan Province alone could not achieve this. Since Dingguo lets people talk, he dares to speak out loud.
