The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 203 The Central Plains Nation is the Real Fighting Nation

Zhu Ying explained the track in great detail, including the difficulty and requirements of making it.

How much benefit will it bring to Daming in the later stage.

Undoubtedly, assuming that Daming now has track lines across the country, the overall combat power of the entire Ming Dynasty will form a qualitative improvement.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened carefully, but frowned slightly under Zhu Ying's impassioned explanation.

"It's a good idea. It's just that if we build it like this, it seems that there will be too much manpower and financial resources to be mobilized nationwide." After Zhu Ying finished explaining, Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Zhu Ying didn't think too much, and said directly: "If all the laying is completed, the scale will be very large. Suner estimates that millions of people will be used."

Zhu Ying obviously didn't realize the point of the old man's words, and directly talked about the population required for planning all the tracks.

Of course, such a large project as the track cannot be done with a little money, and corvee is inevitable.

For the country, corvee is free labor for whoring.

However, with Zhu Ying's character, of course, these laborers will not be allowed to work for nothing. In the places where the track passes by, these common people who participated in the track construction will give them preferential taxation.

The breeding of horses at rail stations and the maintenance of wooden rails can be used as a long-term source of income for nearby people.

It can also be regarded as driving the local economy, which is similar to the road project contracting of later generations.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Since Dasun knows that it will take millions of people, and it will take a long time without delaying the busy farming. We estimate that there are 2000 million people who may be involved."

"Now in Daming, how many people are registered in the household?"

"The household account is 65 nine, and the population account is 780."

"This also means that the production of such tracks will involve [-]% of the Ming Dynasty's calculations, and among them, how many people are subject to corvee."

Hearing this, Zhu Ying explained: "Naturally, there can't be so many people. Grandpa must have misunderstood a little. What grandson means is that this is a long-term matter, not to exhaust the power of the whole country. Within a few years Finish."

"Naturally, there is no need for too many lines for laying the track, only a few trunks are needed to make it."

Wooden rails are just a transition. When the industrial capacity of the entire Ming Dynasty came up in the later period, the appearance of railroad rails and even steel rails was the time to really make the national railroads of Daming.

In Zhu Ying's vision, the current wooden rails are mainly used for war, transporting luggage, and even soldiers.

Even if he said that, Zhu Yuanzhang did not loosen his brows.

Although Dasun had put forward many ideas earlier, and felt that he wanted to expand the territory, even Zhu Yuanzhang was a little moved.

But in the construction of the track, this is purely for war construction, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang still somewhat repulsive in his heart.

Conquer the Wa Kingdom and control Annan.

On these two points, it is already Zhu Yuanzhang's biggest concession to the grandson.

This is also because it is related to Daming's food and money.

Zhu Yuanzhang really doesn't have much interest in places like grasslands now.

The grassland is mainly because it is not easy to build a city defense, and a large number of soldiers have to be sent to guard it. The grassland has no natural dangers to defend, and it is vast.

It is not allowed to lay down this year and be captured next year.

"Dasun's method is indeed good. If it is really implemented, it will be extremely beneficial to our Daming. We can also think of it."

"However, Daming seems to be peaceful now, but in fact, there are internal and external troubles, and there are constant natural disasters. The life of the people is not very good, and most people can hardly eat enough."

"From our point of view, let's put this matter aside for now. After a few years, sweet potatoes and other crops have been popularized. It won't be too late to talk about the track."

Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was a little impatient, but he still forcibly suppressed his emotions when facing the eldest grandson.

The eunuch Liu He, the supervisor of ceremonies, was trembling slightly at the moment, and even Jiang Yu, the guard in Jinyi, was sweating coldly on his back.

As Zhu Yuanzhang's close personal, they are of course very familiar with His Majesty's character, and it is completely unprecedented for His Majesty to talk about this.

Even the former His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, or the Empress, would understand that this matter should come to an end after hearing His Majesty's words.

And the reason why they acted like this was because His Highness the eldest grandson had no intention of stopping at all.

Sure enough, Zhu Ying didn't seem to notice Zhu Yuanzhang's state at all, and said to himself: "Grandpa, the impact of the orbit on Daming is far beyond Grandpa's imagination."

"The mobilization of soldiers is only one aspect, and more is the rapid transportation of goods from various places. Although it can't be done all at once, Suner feels that it is possible to start preparing in advance."

"The route of the track, as well as the need for timber, these cannot be completed in a few days, and may not be all completed by next year."

"Grandpa's worry and grandson are naturally aware of it, but the promotion of sweet potatoes and other crops means that they will be able to pass through the entire Ming Dynasty in the next year. It just so happens that next year's conquest of the Wa Kingdom will be used by the criminals of the Wa Kingdom."

In fact, what Zhu Ying wants is not to mobilize a large number of civilians immediately to start casting orbits, but to be accurate about the orbits.

Zhu Ying is very clear about the difficulty of track construction. Even for an underground high-speed railway in the province in later generations, it will take three to five years if there are enough equipment and machinery.

Although there is a difference between Zhu Ying's track and the high-speed rail, due to manpower, it will take longer.

Just a single survey can only be measured with two feet, and it may not be possible to produce a result in a year or two.

Zhu Ying didn't find it strange even if it was prepared for three to five years.

But in Zhu Ying's plan, within five years, the danger to the frontier on the grassland must be eliminated on a large scale.

Near the border of the grassland, there are rail carriages to assist, and the efficiency of its mobilization of luggage is enough to crush the threat of the border grassland.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his breathing became a little rough, which was a sign that he was about to get angry.

Liu He and Jiang Yu next to them were too frightened to look up. They were preparing for the coming storm.

However, Zhu Ying, facing the old man's extremely oppressive gaze, looked at him calmly.

This expresses the persistence and stubbornness in Zhu Ying's heart.

Just when everyone thought that Zhu Yuanzhang was about to lose his temper, he took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed it.

After a long time, he said: "Your grandson, you know that the first emperor built the Great Wall and built the Afang Palace, which made the people in the pre-Qin period unbearable, so the second generation died."

"How powerful the Sui Dynasty was. Together with China, it cost a lot of money and manpower to open the Grand Canal. Under such a waste of money and people, it is like the pre-Qin and Sui II's death."

"It has been 25 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Over the years, we have lightened corvee labor and reduced taxes so that the people can recuperate. Now, it has been more than 20 years since the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The people have not yet recovered, and the Ming Dynasty is struggling everywhere."

"Under such circumstances, why is Dasun so impatient. Of course, we also know that whether it is the Great Wall of the First Emperor or the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty, they are extremely important to China."

"But, they are dead. Why can't Dasun take this as a warning?"

Zhu Yuanzhang quoted the classics and said earnestly that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it was the first time he tried to persuade him in this way.

When Liu He and Jiang Yu heard this, they also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Anyway, His Majesty is not as angry as Longyan, so His Highness Changsun here should have to stop it.

However, Zhu Ying's eyes still did not waver.

He knew very well in his heart that whether it was now or in the future, the thought collision with the old man this time would never stop.

Zhu Ying was also very clear about what the old man wanted to express. In the old man's heart, Daming belonged to him.

What he hopes more is not any achievement that will go down in history. He just hopes that future generations can take good care of this family, maintain this family well, and prevent it from having any major problems.

This is the most real thought in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

One is defending and the other is attacking.

Naturally, Zhu Ying and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't talk about it when they were here.

Zhu Ying knew very well how powerful the rail carriage would be against the grassland.

In fact, the country of Wa was not taken very seriously by Zhu Ying. Although there was a hatred engraved in the bones of the country of Wa, as far as the country of Wa was concerned, apart from being blocked by the sea.

Compared with Daming, he is really the younger brother of younger brothers, the younger brother of younger brothers.

As long as there is a guide to avoid the storm at sea, in the current situation of the Wa Kingdom, 20 Ming soldiers can log in, and the entire Wa Kingdom can be completely penetrated.

Force values ​​are not on the same level.

The biggest threat to Ming Dynasty at present still comes from the grassland.

Many people may not know the situation on the grassland, but Zhu Ying has been in the grassland for a long time, so how could she not know.

That was a scene that the imperial court, and even most inland officials, had never seen before.

Perhaps during the Mongolian Yuan rule, the situation on the grassland frontier was much better. After all, they all belonged to the nomadic people and belonged to the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.

After the Yuan Dynasty, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the situation in the northern frontier has never been better.

Every year, the villages on the northern frontier are plundered from the grasslands.

With the continuous disasters in the future, the grassland will be peaceful?

In fact, the survival of nomadic peoples on the grasslands is much more difficult than that of the common people of Ming Dynasty.

The nomadic production method itself is inefficient, and with such a foundation, it cannot carry a large population.

One mu of land in the Ming Dynasty produced more than 300 catties of grain every year, and the average annual rations needed by an infantryman was about [-] catties, which could be fed by three mu of land.

But for herdsmen, [-] mu of pasture is needed to graze one sheep on the grassland, and a family of five needs three to four hundred sheep to survive, which means at least six to seven thousand mu of land.

Historically, nomads have always been attached to farming civilization. Through trade and plunder, they can obtain metal products, living utensils, and even salt necessary for survival in the Central Plains Dynasty.

In the impression of many people, it seems that the nomads are very good at fighting, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

In fact, this is an illusion.

Most of the time, it is impossible for the nomads who wear rough clothes made of animal skins to just pass the farming civilization on the front.

Whether it is armament, mobilization scale, or organizational form, it is far from being comparable to the civilization of the Central Plains.

The weapons used by most soldiers on the grasslands are mainly wood or even animal bones.An iron pot is a rarity on the grassland, only the nobles have it.

This gap is too big, it can be said that it is crushed in all aspects.

Frontier looting, it is because they can't survive, so they gather a team of half army and half civilians, and go south into the frontier of the Central Plains to fight the autumn wind.

For those big cities guarded by heavy soldiers, no one dared to go, and they all plundered some small villages or small towns.

The small villages that can stay in the frontier are not good, and they will fight back.

Some small grassland tribes with small populations may all be wiped out in these villages and towns.

The Central Plains nation is the true fighting nation.

The three large-scale nomadic invasions in history were also based on the internal strife in the Central Plains dynasty.

In the Jin Dynasty, there was the Rebellion of the Eight Kings first, and after years of wars and the population of the Central Plains withered, there was the "Five Random China".

In fact, the Wuhu people in that matter are no longer pure nomads.

It can be regarded as a semi-farming and semi-nomadic people, with a very high degree of Sinicization.

Then there is Meng Yuan.

Genghis Khan's Mongolian Empire was very strong, but it flattened half of the Eurasian continent.

Xixia, a small half-nomadic and half-agricultural country, was nothing more than a separatist regime in the civilization of the Central Plains. The Duke of Xia in the Tang Dynasty was appointed as an envoy.

It was such a small separatist country that Genghis Khan fought three times before defeating it. If the Jin Kingdom next to him refused to send troops to aid Xixia, Genghis Khan would not have been able to defeat it.

It also happened that Wanyan Yongji of the Kingdom of Jin at that time was a semi-literate man with little reading, which led to Xixia being forced to beg for peace with Mongolia and stationed in Mongolia to cut gold.

The Mongol-Gold War in the later period lasted for 24 years. Seven years after the death of Genghis Khan, Mongolia broke through the Jin Kingdom in one fell swoop, let alone fought the Southern Song Dynasty and unified the Central Plains.

Even if Kublai Khan entered the Central Plains, it was because the Southern Song Dynasty lost the barrier of Yanshan Mountain, and the agriculturally developed Beijing-Tianjin area, Liao, Jin, and Mongolia successively inherited control of the north, so that they became stronger and stronger.

From the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty to the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

The north has been under the rule of ethnic minorities for 240 years.

A full 240 years, 20 years is a generation, and it has been reproduced for twelve generations.

The difference is already very different.

This was also the origin of the contradiction between the northern and southern Han people at that time. In the eyes of the southern Han people at that time, the northern Han people could no longer be called Han people.

It was Zhu Yuanzhang who merged the northern and southern Han people again after 240 years.

However, the current grassland is very different from the past.

After occupying such a large territory, the Mongol Empire is no longer behind in terms of weapons and armaments. For Ming Dynasty, the threat is completely different from what it used to be.

Moreover, the grassland really didn't mean much to the agrarian and civilized Ming Dynasty. There was no way to grow food, and it was difficult to defend the plains. When an army entered the grassland, it was easy to be dragged to death.

Even if it was the third time that the Manchus entered the Central Plains, the Ming Dynasty was not destroyed by Manqian, it was Li Zicheng who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchus took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to pick up a big leak.

Throughout history, it is more often that nomadic peoples pay tribute to farming peoples, and if they raise their heads a little, they send troops to attack.

Like the Han Dynasty against the Huns, the Tang Dynasty against the Turks, the Uighurs, Rouran, and Goguryeo.

Now Daming is facing the grassland in the same way.

It's just that the literati who recorded the history books yelled and wrote a lot when we were beaten.

When we beat others, we often take it all in one stroke, that is, we don't accept Wanghua, and so-and-so flatters him.

The reason for this is that most of the dynasties, except for the founding period, were mostly civilized and military.

There are natural contradictions between literati and warriors, and it is naturally impossible for literati to praise warriors.

From this point of view, Zhu Ying didn't seem to have much need to build a track to target the grassland.

This depends on the goal.

The first is the large number of war horses on the grassland.

In ancient times, the speed of information dissemination was the extent to which the imperial court controlled the place.

The faster the information spreads, the stronger the court's control over the place will be.

It is true that maritime trade will make Daming richer as a whole, but in fact, the strength of control will be reduced.

Because the voyage on the sea often takes half a year, or even a reincarnation of several years.

Foreign military orders will not be accepted.

It means that maritime trade, and the imperial court's ability to restrict it, will become very small.

It is easy to create a situation where the local government is rich and the central government is weak.

In the past, the grasslands were not included in the territory of the Central Plains because there was no benefit.

It is different now, a large number of horses can maintain the track, and it is much easier to lay the track on a plain on the grassland.

The planting of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes will also allow the Central Plains to have enough food to support the people on the grasslands.

The increase in population and territory means the prosperity of Ming Dynasty. Starting from the grasslands, we will conquer the Eurasian continent again.

There is farming civilization behind to help out, plus prairie cavalry and firearms.

Incorporating all the territory of the peak period of Mongolia into the Ming Dynasty will not be just a thought, but practical.

Therefore, after being silent for an unknown period of time, Zhu Ying slowly raised her head, which was slightly lowered.

Just like before, looking at the old man with calm eyes, he said in a firm voice, "Grandpa, grandson wants to do the orbital thing."

Bang!
Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table so hard that the whole table vibrated and the dishes splashed everywhere.

(End of this chapter)