Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 727 The plan to share the spoils
Of course, Gao Yantai is not a person of benevolence and righteousness. Let’s not talk about the three Xuanfu divisions of Nghe An, Hue, and Guangnan in southern Xinjiang, but the Thang Long and Haiyang Xuanfu divisions that he took away in Bei’annan are obviously out of the question. On benevolence and righteousness.

That area is the most essential part of the Red River Delta, which is equivalent to the two municipalities of Hanoi and Haiphong plus the four provinces of Haiyang, Taiping, Xing'an, and Bac Ninh in later Vietnam. Roughly speaking, it accounts for 90.00% of the Red River Delta.

Expressed in terms of the weights and measures of later generations, this is a fertile land of about [-] square kilometers. The land is fertile, well-watered, and sunny. It is a natural choice for the development of agriculture, especially rice planting. The whole world is comparable to it in this respect. areas are few.

Then Gao Wushi swiped his pen, I want this land...

You know, the entire Red River Plain is only about [-] square kilometers, and he is going to go to one-third of it at once, which is the most essential part. How dare you talk about benevolence and righteousness?

However, even so, the Cen and Huang families can still accept it, because if there is no high pragmatism, they will not get anything.

However, to be more pragmatic, the grain-producing area of ​​the Red River Delta is not mainly considered from the perspective of economic interests, but from a political point of view: mastering the grain can control the population, so mastering the grain-producing area is the only way to "immigrate and exchange blood". At the same time, it also laid a material foundation for the continued expansion of the Han family's power in the future. Otherwise, in the future, if they expand southward or something, would the food have to be transferred from Daming?

Daming is about to enter the Little Ice Age, and he may have to transport food back to the emergency, so how can there be so much food to pull out!

Therefore, the Red River Delta must be controlled, otherwise things will be difficult in the future.The Cen and Huang families divided up the remaining 1 square kilometers of the Red River Plain, which was already a huge surprise for them.

In the past, the Huang family still had a narrow and cramped Mingjiang Plain, where they could grow some food, but the Cen family was almost all mountain fields, and there were not many acres of good land at all.

The unit per mu yield of rice in Vietnam in later generations is far lower than that in China, but its total grain output is equivalent to the sum of Hunan and Hubei, the two main grain producing areas in China, which is close to 5000 million tons. You must know that Guangdong owns the Pearl River Delta, and its grain output is only one About 300 million tons.In Vietnam, only 5000 million tons were produced. What is the concept?
This means that in the period when the yield per mu between Daming and Annan has not widened much, the grain yield of a Red River Plain may be close to that of the entire Huguang.

Huguang is cooked, the world is full.

The Cen and Huang families each got a third of Huguang, which is already crazy!

Of course, it doesn't mean that all these fertile fields belong to Gao Wushi and Cen Huang's family. After all, Mo Chao and those people are not dead... They still have to find excuses to divide the land by beating local tyrants.

The division of the Red River Plain is okay. Starting from Nghe An, the areas further south were taken away by Gao Yushi, let alone benevolence and righteousness.

Although these areas are still wild lands even in the eyes of Annan people, Gao Pragmatism knows their development prospects.Although the agriculture in this area is not as good as the Red River Plain and the Mekong River Plain in the high-practical long-term plan, self-sufficiency can actually be achieved, and its real advantage lies in minerals.

Originally, with a high level of practical geography, he knew that Hejing had a large high-grade iron mine, and he basically didn’t know anything else, but after he started thinking about Annan, he sent someone to write a letter to Liu Xin, Ask her about the distribution of mineral resources in Vietnam in later generations.

After Liu Xin contacted the Panax notoginseng supply in Sichuan, she went to Tengchong, Yunnan to meet her elder brother Liu Ting. The place is very close to Guangxi, and the reply was naturally fast. Distribution map of mineral resources.

Liu Xin not only marked some of the important mining areas and main mineral types she remembered for Gao Yushi, but also carefully drew various metallogenic belts - Gao Yushi didn't really understand this thing, but he generally knew what it meant.

The Nghe An, Hue, and Guangnan three Xuanfu he won were clearly marked in the map given to him by Liu Xin as belonging to the "Changshan Fault-fold Metallogenic Belt" and "East Indochina Fault-Block Metallogenic Zone". Gao Pragmatism brought manganese ore, lead-zinc ore, bauxite and other things that he could not do anything about. The most critical and immediately available minerals in these two places were iron ore, gold ore, and copper ore.

There is still coal here, but according to Liu Xin, it is not convenient to dig coal here, because it is hidden deep, and it is not easy to do it with the technology of this era. If you want to dig coal, it is best to go to Quang Ninh Province-this is according to Liu Xin What the political district planning of later generations said actually corresponds to the Anbang Propaganda Department that has been assigned to Huang Zhiting.

Anbang Xuanfu Division's coal reserves are huge, and they are high-quality mines. This place is also near the sea, so the sea transportation is very convenient.The only trouble is probably the pirates near Halong Bay, which can only be wiped out after the battle-but theoretically, pirates should not rob coal ships, right?Annan is not cold, what is the use of them grabbing coal, cooking?

As for the northwest region that Cen Ling was assigned to, it is actually rich in mineral resources - there are many mountains there, and there are copper and iron, but because the Ha Tinh iron mine is strong enough, Gao Pragmatic does not need Cen Ling to dig iron ore, he only needs It is enough to dig copper mines on the land of Xinghua and Xuanguang Xuanfu Divisions. After all, copper mines are a good thing in this era. Whether it is casting coins or casting guns, copper mines are indispensable. However, there is a shortage of copper in the Ming Dynasty (no wind note: In fact, China has always been short of copper, so now the domestic bullets are all copper shell steel core bullets that have been developed with great effort, and a huge amount of copper ore is imported every year).

Gao's pragmatic plan is that the copper mines in the area under his control will be developed and utilized by himself, while the copper mines on Cen Ling's side will go out to sea along the Red River and be transported back to Daming.As for what Daming used it for, making money or making cannons, high pragmatism didn't care.

In the area assigned to Huang Zhiting, there is still a large iron mine in Lang Son, which can also be developed there, but also because Gao Pragmatic does not need it, so the iron mine there can also be transported back to Daming.

Cen Ling's copper and Huang Zhiting's iron are both free gifts from Gao Yushi's plan to Zhu Yijun. They say they are free, but they are actually spending money to buy peace. They are not much different from paying tribute, except that Zhu Yijun does not need to give them back.

What Zhu Yijun has to do is very simple - just give him a name.

This approach is very high-level and pragmatic. That's how he got the monopoly on soap from Emperor Longqing back then.It's just that the situation has changed a little now. It was Cen Ling who took the copper and Huang Zhiting the latte in exchange for the recognition and approval of Zhu Yijun, His Majesty the Ming Emperor, for their "moving town to Annan".

Speaking of which, Zhu Yijun is the best deal in terms of cost-effectiveness. Nodding his head and writing "yes", he will receive a large amount of income. It couldn't be more enjoyable.

(End of this chapter)