my days with tyrants

Chapter 241 Go Forward, Your Highness King Yan!

Looking at the vast Eurasian continent on the map, His Royal Highness King Yan fell into deep thought.

It is indeed very attractive!

Compared with the Ming Dynasty behind, in front of him is a vaster land, several times larger than that of Ming Dynasty, and the spheres of influence of each country are also marked on it, even including the approximate population of these countries...

Of course this should be added.

Of course, he wasn't immediately impressed.

Yang Feng belongs to the big pie, anyway, if this guy touches his mouth, he will talk about it!
But in practice...

Zhu Di looked at the [-] troops behind him.

This fooling is extremely difficult!

Not to mention the difficulty of expanding the territory, it can be said that it is hell difficult just to let the soldiers follow. After all, he does have ambitions, but the soldiers under him have completed the mission, and the actual fight here is already an excess. Finish.However, one is inspired by the Yanran mountain inscription, and the other is to pursue and fight against the remnants of Yuan. This is the consistent principle of the Ming army. Since the enemy has gone to the Western Regions, they should chase and kill them to the Western Regions. Safety.

These are all soldiers from Beiping, Beiping Capital Division, and Shanxi Xingdu Division.

They are guards.

Their homes are also in these places.

And once Mongolia goes south, the first wave will also face these places.

They are for their relatives in their homeland, to solve the threat in advance, as long as Elebok, which can be said to be the last power of Beiyuan, is destroyed, their homeland will no longer face the flames of war.

This is the support that the soldiers have followed the expedition for more than 6000 miles so far.

but……

It is another matter to continue to move forward with the ambition of King Yan, and even move the family to the Western Regions.

Not to mention them, Zhu Di's three guards may not be willing to do it.

The third guard has been in Peiping for 20 years, and he has already lived and worked in peace and contentment. For his ambition, he abandoned his established homeland and continued to migrate thousands of miles, which is obviously difficult to accept.

"I've already thought about this question."

Yang Feng looked at Zhu Di's gaze towards those soldiers, and said as if he had a tacit understanding.

"First, you have to get enough wealth in this expedition, and you have to make a fortune so that all the soldiers can go back with a fortune. I will help you to promote it with all your strength, and describe the Western Regions as mountains of gold and silver, and there are fertile fields and fertile soil everywhere. , I’m not afraid to boast that it’s better than Jiangnan. In fact, it’s perfectly fine. At that time, our land was an important grain-producing area, not only in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but also in places like the middle of the river, especially the south of the middle of the river. It can really be described as the land of abundance. .

So we are not lying. "

Yang Feng said.

"It's because you didn't tell them about the difficulty of pioneering?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

Everyone has already understood Yang Feng's set.

In the past, he boasted that Huining could be a paradise, and he talked about beating roe deer and scooping fish with sticks. In the end, he coaxed a group of people who didn't know the details, and signed a contract with him that seemed to be a contract of prostitution, but he was dumbfounded in the first year.

Going out to pee in winter is afraid of being frozen!

Those who are too old have to prepare a stick, in case they fail to go, they have to be knocked.

There is no place to cry one by one.

After all, compared with the huge liquidated damages to go back, he can only grit his teeth and persist.

It is said that when the Ming army in Huining saw these fools being coaxed away, they all lamented that Ambassador Yang's ability to deceive people was amazing, so they were embarrassed to say that Ambassador Yang was too dark-hearted.Although he did not treat those land reclamation badly, and the way he did it could indeed turn Huining into a fertile field, but if he hadn't been coaxed away by him, people who knew the real situation would not be fooled by this kind of trick.

Just can't turn back.

And he did fulfill his promise, so he could only accept his fate.

Playing this again now?
"My lord, if you don't use some tricks, how can you make people overcome obstacles and open up foreign lands?
After all, someone has to take the first step.

As long as we can make these soldiers all get rich because of this expedition, then I will go back and boast about this place, and then we can partner to set up a company to open up the Western Regions, and then use this company to hire those who want to make a fortune.We called them mercenaries at that time. In fact, many countries in later generations expanded their territories in this way. Among them, the British East India Company was even able to rule the whole of India, including invading our southeast coast.

All of them.

They have a navy fleet and an army, and the land they conquered in the east is almost equivalent to the entire territory of Ming Dynasty.

We can do the same.

Buy out the prisoners in the prison when necessary.

Then buy some slaves from those chieftains.

You ask His Majesty for an imperial decree, as long as you can maintain the expenses of this mercenary army in the process, as long as you can maintain the expenses of this mercenary army in the process, it is fine, not to mention you have three guards, even if they are not all willing to follow, a guard It's always okay, right?
Besides, if it is really an imperial decree, they have to follow even if they don't follow.

At this time, you have to be ruthless.

Three guards, plus mercenaries, an army of more than [-] is available.

Don't worry about logistics.

I can guarantee to build everything you need in the Western Regions, including guns and ammunition, including farming places. I can even make salt and sugar, and the Western Regions are the best cotton-producing areas, and we can do textiles. stand up.

There are even places where silkworms can be raised for silk production.

There is absolutely no need to transport anything from the mainland. "

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't know how long he can live. Once Zhu Yunxi succeeds to the throne, he will definitely not do it with the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty to send his uncle an expedition to the Western Regions.

He took the money, but his uncle took the benefits?

How can there be such a good thing.

But it’s okay to give his uncle a license to open up the Western Regions. Anyway, his principle is to throw his uncles as far away as possible. It’s a good thing that Zhu Di likes the Western Regions. At least for now, there is no place farther than the Western Regions. He will definitely agree to let Zhu Di become a fief if he is defeated.

but……

Soldiers will not come out.

At most, the imperial decree was used to force the three guards of Peiping to follow King Yan.

So we have to think of other ways.

That is the mercenary mode.

If you want to make a fortune, come to the Western Regions, and use the knife in your hand to kill the glory and wealth.

If it is not enough, there is a punishment camp.

It can be played in the Han Dynasty, and of course it can be played now.

As long as they are willing to come, then Yang Feng can guarantee them huge profits. With Daming's current technological advantages, it is not easy to go out and grab it?What's more, you can also make a fortune through trade. Even if you don't start a war with Timur in a short period of time, just controlling the land trade line is also a good business.

Not to mention you can still engage in development.

Then take the three guards as the basic disk, and then expand by buying a large number of slaves. At this time, slaves are easy to buy. North Korea, Japan, Annan, and even Yunnan and Guizhou chieftains can buy them all. Slaves are in charge of farming.To put it simply, it is a knight fief system. A guard rewards a fief. Anyway, the most indispensable thing in the Western Regions is land, including those that the mercenary group is willing to keep, and they are given fiefs in the same way.There is no need to do anything else here, the feudal fiefdom system is enough, and this is also the most effective way to attract people.

Here comes the little lord.

Then continue to expand forward, continue to occupy land and arrest slaves, continue to seal more fiefs, and continue to move forward step by step in this way.

Backed by Daming's huge population base, even if one out of a hundred young men is willing to go to the Western Regions for various reasons, and use fighting to win fiefs and slaves for himself, it will be tens of thousands of soldiers. In the future, the population of Daming will continue to grow, and young people There are constantly going to the Western Regions, and the source of soldiers can be said to be endless.

Although Zhu Di dominated outside, he could not leave Daming after all.

After all, Daming is his source of troops.

He is still just a feudal lord in the clan system of the Ming Dynasty, just with a larger territory.

But his source of troops, trade, and the legitimacy of his rule all come from Daming, so he has always been tied to Daming, not to mention that the relatives of his small lords are also in Daming, although everyone is in the Western Regions. The roots are in Daming!Don't worry about the rest, no matter how they develop in the future, they can't get rid of this root. If this continues for decades or more, the territory of Ming Dynasty will almost cover the entire Eurasian continent.Even such a large land is not necessarily limited to Zhu Di himself, his brothers can also join in, for example, King Xiang, who has the best relationship with him, can also use this method to lay a fief for himself.

At present, what is left in the heartland of Daming is the King of Xiang.

Of course, there are several smaller kings.

But most of them have not yet settled down. The real powerful ones are the three kings of Qin, Shu and Xiang, but the king of Shu is actually considered a frontier fortress, and his wife is the daughter of Lan Yu. Chang Sheng looked at it, and the distance was also far away. The only one who really posed a certain threat to the capital was the King of Xiang.

Then let him take the lead, and take the other vassal kings who have not yet settled down to claim a piece of land, and then play this model to create a fief for themselves.

There are many around Daming.

There are still several small countries in Nanyang, which can also develop into South Asia.

You can even go further.

There is no better place on land, so you can organize a fleet to go out to explore!When new good places are reached on the ocean, the emperor will grant them directly. For example, it is possible to go to places such as Australia and East Africa. Whoever's fleet arrives first will be the fief.

Then take the guards to open up.

Prince!
Even if they go to Australia, the Emperor Ming must at least provide them with a guard. This rule cannot be broken.

So there are first-time immigrants, and there are still systematic immigrants with the army, artisans, agricultural population and even schools and hospitals.

Of course, the premise is that Zhu Di can really play this strategy well.

But there is one more problem.

Black Death.

At this time, although the Black Death in Europe had passed its worst stage, it had not disappeared.

and so……

no big deal.

Since Timur did not encounter a large-scale black death attack during his conquest of the Middle East and West Asia, it means that this period of time was not serious, at least in Central Asia, West Asia and the Middle East.

This thing has to be faced sooner or later, and it is something that spreads around the world.

Get more cats.

Daming was originally a per capita cat slave.

Coupled with the modern idea of ​​epidemic prevention, even if it is really contagious, it will be controlled in the Western Regions.

It is even possible to use the Western Regions as a buffer zone, and release a large number of cats in this area, so that the entire Western Regions will be full of wild cats...

It seems that now the Western Regions are full of wild cats, such as some kind of popular ones.

The horn sounded suddenly.

Yang Feng and Zhu Di looked up at the flags waving on the hot air balloon.

The semaphore there was telling them that a hundred-man cavalry was coming.

"A small group of cavalry dare to come and die?"

Zhu Di sneered.

In fact, a small group of cavalry began to appear around them, maybe they wanted to sneak attack, or they might just harass them, but with hot air balloons in the air, they would be spotted dozens of miles away.Zhu Di brought a total of six hot air balloons, all of which were tied to the backs of camels. A combination of four camels raised a hot air balloon for two people.

An observer, a signaler, and occasionally a high-altitude command post.

These hot air balloons are tied with raw silk ropes and rise to an altitude of nearly [-] meters.

And they were all telescopes given by Yang Feng.

If it is sunny, you can see the dust brought up by the cavalry from thirty miles away.

It can sneak attack at night.

But at night, the Ming army shrank in the camel cities. After the previous battles, the Mongolian cavalry did not dare to attack the camel cities. The biggest advantage of this thing is this. It can provide the Ming army with mobile castles to avoid During the battle, the enemy brought supplies, or was attacked at night.

Soon nearly a hundred Mongolian cavalrymen appeared in their field of vision while being held by Zhang Fu's cavalrymen.

"It's not like, it should be an envoy, who came to negotiate or make an appointment to fight."

Yang Feng said.

This is indeed for a fight.

Eleboke, as the Great Khan of Mongolia, invited His Royal Highness King Yan of the Ming Dynasty to hunt in Hetongnur in half a month.

"Go back and tell him, this king should use him as a sacrifice!"

Zhu Di looked at the messenger in front of him and said.

The latter kowtowed cautiously, and returned with his companions.

"No, when did they become so civilized and polite?"

Yang Feng looked at the messenger's back and said.

"Is there any other route here from the south of Jinshan?"

Zhu Di said.

"Yes, there should be another one here, and it was the most important place for us at that time. In fact, it's a little strange to take the route of connecting and berthing at this time. It is said that this is the most suitable passage."

Yang Feng pointed to the location of Hongshanzui Port on the map and said.

He had always believed that this was the main line of communication, but in fact, at this time, from the Junggar Basin to the north and through the Altai Mountains, he went further north and then passed through a valley. At this time, even the snow may not completely melt.From there, go through the Altai Mountains, first to Hetongbo, and then from Hetongbo to Kebduo. The only explanation should be that the line of Hongshanzui is farther, it needs to go around hundreds of kilometers, and the water source is not convenient. , after all, the line with Tongbo is a series of lakes.

The only downside is that the Altai Mountains lie across.

But the Altai itself is an excellent alpine pasture.

"Stabilize us with regular engagements, and a surprise army raids our rear. They want to swallow us in one bite."

Zhu Di sneered.

"What about us?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Don't worry about them. If we lose this battle, we don't need to go back. If we win this battle, what do they have to do with us? Order all the ministries to march towards Hetongbo. There will be no retreat in this battle."

Zhu Di said.

(End of this chapter)