Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 379: Increase the Xing'an Mountains, fill up the two bays, and fill the Yenisei River with water. The Ming Dynasty's infrastructure is far ahead

The fifty-seventh year of Jingtai, the first month of the year, National Day.

Zhu Jianqi was angry in the East Palace: "What do you think, old man? There are more than 4,000 Chinese heroes, how much does it cost!"

"When sacrificing a heroic spirit, does it require someone to guard the tomb? Select one of their descendants to be the tomb guard, and you will support a big family in the future."

"It's not about raising it for a year or two, but it's raising it for generations."

"More than four thousand people, that's more than four thousand big families!"

"How heavy the burden will be on the central nervous system!"

"Sacrifice every year and spend money every year."

"Now that the fiscal revenue and expenditure are sufficient, we don't need this small amount of money. What about in the future? There will always be a difficult time and this money will become a fixed expenditure."

"Last year, we built a railway for Kunlun's Zen ceremony, which cost several hundred million!"

If his son hadn't gone to plead for mercy, the old man probably wouldn't have let go.

Yang didn't like him.

"Just follow the old man." Yang comforted him.

After the morning court, his father scolded him and made him kneel at the door for an hour before driving him back to the East Palace.

"No, this shouldn't be done this way."

"The old man is thinking about this thing today and that thing tomorrow. It costs money everywhere."

What he did as an emperor was that he didn't have much credibility in the previous dynasty. He was angry with his father in the harem, and when he came back he scolded his wife, and she refused to deal with him. He was really a coward.

He always thinks, if I am not the eldest son, it would be great if I go out to inherit the vassal, so I don't have to watch his father's face at home.

He was the only one who was unpopular with the whole family. The emperor liked his daughter-in-law and his grandchildren, but he hated his own son, as if he was picked up.

Although it is winter, the earth dragon is burning in the palace, and the four seasons are like spring.

Yang rolled her eyes wildly, the prince was just looking for money.

"In the Ming Dynasty and other major vassal states, the festival was jointly held on the same day, celebrated by the whole world, and held in all provinces, and then the party was toured from city to city."

Yang came back angrily: "I don't want to be angry with you anymore, and I won't live in the East Palace to suffer your idleness. I will go to the Longevity Palace to live with my son."

"I see, he just wants to watch a show. Is he so unreliable? How much does it cost to hold such a party?"

"Didn't the old man say that the Spring Festival, National Day and New Year's Day should be held in a big way?"

"The prince is angry with your majesty. Why should I take it out on my concubine, a woman? Since the prince doesn't like my concubine reciting poems, I won't touch these elegant things from now on. I'll just cut my nails and go do it." Go do the rough work."

Zhu Jianqi threw the heat on her: "You depend on him for everything. No wonder he loves you the most. At the banquet, he always praised your daughter-in-law for being a great poet, virtuous and filial. On the contrary, I am not a human being inside and outside. I should This is the Ming Dynasty’s family, and if we rely on him for everything, how can the people of that world survive?”

Although she is the Crown Princess, she is in charge of the affairs of the Sixth Palace. The emperor likes her and everyone in the world knows it.

Seeing that Mr. Yang was really leaving, Zhu Jianqi panicked. He didn't say whether his father would scold him. This was a big deal. It was Chinese New Year, and it was National Day. It was two festivals. The princess had gone home. It would be ugly if word spread. .

Zhu Jianqi smiled bitterly: "And your son, that one is even more irrelevant."

Crown Princess Yang comforted her: "The old man is happy, and it is for the good of the Ming Dynasty. It is not considered a waste of money."

"Ma'am, ma'am."

Zhu Jianqi was very angry: "This year, the old man is going to confer honorary honors on a large scale. I tried to persuade him a few times in the Yangxin Hall, but he said that my rewards and punishments were unfair and told me to get out."

After being coaxed for a few words, Mr. Yang showed a slight smile on his face: "You, just go up against the old man. Can you beat the old man? Follow the old man's wishes and make him feel comfortable serving the old man. This is more important than anything else."

"The Ming Dynasty seems to be in bloom, with opportunities everywhere, gold and silver everywhere, but if we don't prepare for a rainy day, I'm afraid this prosperous age will collapse if I don't get it."

Zhu Jianqi was furious: "I came back and told the old man, but the old man scolded me for being a petty person. He is not a family man and doesn't know about the financial difficulties."

"This is money that shouldn't be spent."

His son Zhu Youquan lives in Wanshou Palace.

"Then the boy told the old man to hold a big Chinese party, select the best opera troupes, cross talk masters, song and dance performances and other cultural and artistic performances in the world, and move them to the party."

"I am the boss of the family. I was scolded by my ministers in the morning, and even scolded by my father when I returned to the palace. I, the prince, think I am not a human being inside and outside."

"Why doesn't it count?"

"To pay homage to the heroic spirits, it is enough to pay homage in one place. If you pay homage everywhere, you will incur maintenance costs in the future."

Zhu Jianqi refused to bow his head and said in a low voice: "If writing poetry can govern the country, I will also write poetry. How can I govern the country?"

Mrs. Yang asked people to come over and fan themselves, and bring down the fire to the prince.

He is really angry today.

Her influence is really greater than that of the prince.

Zhu Jianqi quickly said a few soft words: "I am confused by the old man's anger."

Mrs. Yang has two daughters and one son, both of whom are married.

Although she has no martial arts skills, she is the most talented poet among women and has many fans among the people.

"I was granted Zen status on behalf of my father, and the trip cost more than 20 million!"

"Tell me, is this money enough for him to spend?"

No wonder the old emperor looked down upon him. If we can make money, we must also be able to spend money. You can't get rich by saving money.

His son is different from him.

My son is good at spending money, but his ability to make money doesn’t seem to be very good. Fortunately, the old man has saved enough wealth, uh, maybe it’s enough for his son to spend money...

"After he succeeds to the throne, I think the Ming Dynasty's family will be ruined by him sooner or later."

Zhu Jianqi was angry: "Madam, do you have the same view as me?"

Because of this, his father scolded him again.

His father supports his eldest grandson. As long as he spends money to do things for Ming Dynasty, the money will not be lost.

He really wanted to get his wife's support so he could suppress that kid.

That boy is so great now that even his father dares to ignore him, so he shouldn't be allowed to live in the palace. His wife is even more restless.

The old emperor couldn't do anything to her and loved her so much that he didn't even want to see her.

"I think this is not a bad thing..."

Zhu Jianqi's face turned dark immediately and he walked out. I wanted to bury my head in the snow and calm down.

But the previous dynasty was more supportive of the prince.

They all felt that the emperor was too extravagant and wasteful.

In fact, the emperor was not lavish on himself. After the emperor turned sixty, he stopped eating cold food, including ice, so the palace no longer spent money to store ice.

This money was used by the emperor for earthquake relief.

The emperor also saved what he could when eating, and generally used it in almshouses to support orphans.

As soon as I went out, I saw Xie Qian coming over in a hurry: "Prince, please go and persuade His Majesty. Your Majesty has another whim."

"What?" Zhu Jianqi was excited. His father wouldn't spend huge sums of money to hold a party, would he?

"It's not about the party. The Chief Minister of Heilongjiang said that according to geographers' predictions, the temperature in the Northeast is more than ten degrees lower than the temperature at the same latitude."

"The reason is that the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains cannot block the cold current from Siberia, resulting in very low temperatures in Northeast Asia."

"When the emperor heard this, he wanted to raise the height of the Xing'an Mountains in the northeast."

Before Xie Qian could finish speaking.

Zhu Jianqi's head was buzzing: "How much will this cost?"

"The plan is 10 billion."

Zhu Jianqi covered her heart: "Doctor Xuan, I'm going to die here."

"Prince, don't say such unlucky words during the Chinese New Year."

"If you fall, there will be no one to advise Your Majesty."

Xie Qian smiled bitterly: "This is not a matter of money. Your Majesty can think of it now. The successful construction of the Zhonghua River has destroyed the natural environment of Ussun, caused extreme drought in northern India, and changed the climate. Generally speaking, it has disadvantages. More than profit.”

"What Weichen is most worried about is that if the cold current is blocked, Northeast Asia will no longer be cold, and the three provinces of Turks, Tatars, and Yuerhai will easily be completely frozen."

Zhu Jianqi smiled bitterly: "My dad feels uncomfortable if he doesn't do anything for a day. Why do you think it's so troublesome?"

The two of them walked quickly to the Yangxin Hall.

Zhu Jianqi's heart fell into the abyss when he heard the enthusiastic discussion between the emperor and Zhu Youqi, the grandfather and grandson.

It's over. It's not scary if his father is persuaded. It's the most terrifying thing if his son is persuaded.

He is fifty years old this year and may be ahead of his father.

When his son succeeds to the throne, he will definitely follow his grandfather's route. Will Ming Dynasty be any good?

He knew best how unreliable his son was, and he was probably the only one who kept him in the dark.

Before, he said that his great-grandson was unreliable, and the old man scolded him, telling him that he knew nothing and told him to get out of here.

"Prince, come and take a look at this secret memorial." Zhu Qiyu was in a good mood.

Zhu Jianqi said she didn’t want to watch it.

His son Zhu Youqi told him about it with great interest, but there was another line in his language, filling in the Bohai Bay and the Korean Bay, filling in two provinces.

Then connect all the three islands of Sakhalin, Hokkaido, and Japan.

Qiongzhou Prefecture must also be connected.

It is also necessary to build many islands in the Yanhai Sea and completely connect them with Borneo with islands and reefs, so that the Ming Dynasty will become a big whole.

The direct benefit of increasing the Xing'an Mountains is that the temperature in Northeast Asia, which is already rich, will become richer and more livable, and countless more farmlands will be added.

The disadvantage is that the Turks, Tatars, Yuerhai, and even the four provinces of Mongolia may be hit by the cold wave for a second time and become extremely cold.

But these areas have little value.

To give up is to give up.

According to Zhu Youqi's plan, the investment is expected to be 280 billion, and the construction is planned to take 100 years. The temperature in Northeast China will first be raised.

Turning Heiji, Liao and Japan into a rich and livable place, because the two border provinces of Turks and Tatars are lost and the Bohai Bay and Korea Bay are filled in, two more rich provinces can be added.

When the technology matures in the future, we will find a long stretch of high mountain in the four border provinces and raise it to create a second Northeast.

If we exchange the rich temperate provinces for the cold frontier provinces, it is estimated that we can support an additional 5 million people, which is a good deal.

After adding to the Xing'an Mountains, the temperatures in Hebei, Henan, and North Korea will rise, causing severe environmental impacts.

There are indeed disadvantages.

Geographers from the Ming Dynasty conducted a temperature survey on all cities at the same latitude and found that only the northeastern part of the Ming Dynasty had the lowest temperature.

Because Siberia is a plain, cold currents from the Arctic can invade this continent at will.

A high mountain is needed to block the cold current.

As for filling sand, where to find it? There are plenty of deserts in the northwest.

Daming concrete technology is very mature, and buildings can already be built with 11 floors, but there are no elevators, but manual escalators.

In the 11th year of Jingtai's reign, the first residential building in Ming Dynasty was born, an -story building.

The tallest building in the Ming Dynasty is the Qiongzhou Lighthouse. With a height of 109 meters, it is the tallest lighthouse in the world.

There is technology and ability.

If the China River can be successfully constructed, the Xing'an Mountains can be enlarged, and the Bohai Bay and Korea Bay can be filled in, what's the difficulty?

"Your Majesty, are you asking for your opinion, or are you?"

Zhu Jianqi didn't finish speaking.

The memorial was snatched away by the old emperor: "The person who talks to you in a nagging way is very unhappy. Grandson, please tell him."

When Zhu Youquan told his father what the emperor meant, he spit out foam and stars and was even more excited than the old emperor.

Zhu Jianqi knew he was going to be bad.

"Xie Qian, if you don't need the court's money, why don't you give me the money?" Zhu Qiyu was eager to give it a try.

Filling in two wealthy provinces is enough to offset the losses of the four northern provinces.

In fact, these four provinces are just strategic depth.

The total population of the four provinces has not exceeded one million.

Besides, we can not only raise the Xing'an Mountains, but also the mountains to the north. It would be best to create a Wushen.

"Your Majesty, this is not about money."

Xie Qian was speechless: "The central government is releasing slaves, and you suddenly want to start a big project. How many slaves do you need?"

"Your plan is for a hundred years. How many changes will there be in the meantime?"

"Actually, the Northeast is doing pretty well right now."

Zhu Qiyu was unhappy: "In the past, Ming Dynasty didn't have the ability, and I didn't force it. Now we can build high-rise buildings, so what's the difficulty in reclaiming the sea and creating land?"

"Raising some mountains can make the Northeast have the same climate as Henan. If we raise the mountains north of the fishing sea, maybe Mongolia will also become a prosperous province."

"You are just a bunch of deadheads!"

"I just like to rest on my laurels and enjoy it. Don't you have any predecessors who want to plant trees?"

"I want to plant trees for the Ming Dynasty, but you are trying to stop me in every possible way. You have already said that you don't need to pay for it, I will pay for it myself."

"Only tens of billions."

Xie Qian didn't hear the previous words, but heard the last words.

Just tens of billions?

How much money does the emperor have?

No one knows how much money the emperor has. It does not mean that the emperor has invested heavily in various industries, so no one knows how much money the emperor has.

Rather, the emperor was heavily involved in mining gold and silver in America.

The Central Committee has secretly discussed that the gold in the emperor's hands is estimated to be more than 700 tons, making him the richest emperor in the world.

Anyway, some people say that money is buried underground in the Forbidden City.

This is true.

The cabinet also received news that there was a huge treasure house under the emperor's Yangxin Palace, which contained countless gold and silver treasures.

No, the money is not worthy of being hidden here.

Hidden are top-notch treasures.

This does not include calligraphy, paintings, antiques and other treasures. Those are placed in two museums. They are also personal belongings of the emperor, and they are all surnamed Zhu.

Zhu Jianqi was also shocked. He didn't know how much money his father had.

Anyway, he knew that the emperor was throwing money at all walks of life, and he did not see the emperor as poor at all.

Zhu Youju curled his lips. Grandpa is so rich. When it comes to him, how about he just quietly be a prodigal?

"Cough cough."

Zhu Qiyu found that his wealth was exposed: "My dear friends, I mean it should be repaired."

"Your Majesty, are you sure that all 280 billion will be paid by you?" Li Dongyang asked in a low voice.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Where did I get so much money?"

But no one in Yangxin Palace believed it.

"Don't talk about money. This is a major matter for the sake of the people. Money is not money, how vulgar." Zhu Qiyu changed the subject.

"Your Majesty, there is still a shortage of 20 million for the special environmental management of Wushen. How about using internal funds?" Liu Jian said with a big face.

"If you can't do it, let Li Dongyang take over." Zhu Qiyu changed his face. It was agreed that the money would come from the national treasury, so why should it come from internal funds.

"Your Majesty, you see what you said, the humble minister has no money even if he comes here." Li Dongyang smiled evilly.

Zhu Qiyu's face turned dark: "Prince, pull them out, I don't want to see them."

"Your Majesty, ten million, just ten million."

Liu Jian chuckled and said, "You paid for it, and Weichen will help you find a solution for the party."

"Go away, the party is the grandson's business. You asked the grandson to pay for it." Zhu Qiyu is not stupid. If he paid for it this time, the cabinet will come to him next time. The emperor should not take advantage of him.

Liu Jian looked at his grandson with evil intentions.

Zhu Youju didn't dare to stand against Grandpa Huang. He also wanted to inherit the Wan Guan family wealth.

In the end, after some hard talk, the emperor paid two million from his own funds before sending them away.

"Grandpa Huang, please tell your grandson the truth, how much money does our family have?" Zhu Youqi was a little excited. The good days of being a prodigal were coming.

"There is money. The court needs money for this and that, private development also needs money, and research and development also needs money. Where do I get the money? Get out of here, if it's a little later, I will chop you up and sell you for money. .”

Zhu Youqi dared to conclude that his grandfather must be rich.

He suddenly understood a little bit.

The old emperor spared no effort to support the vassal state. Those emperors of the vassal state were not filial and filial to their fathers during festivals. America, Australia, and Africa had the most gold, silver, jewelry, and diamonds.

As long as the old emperor twitches his fingers, they will keep sending them to the emperor's hands.

Therefore, it seems that the vassal state did not benefit the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, these benefits were given to the emperor.

But the old emperor did a good job of keeping secrets, and even the court didn't know that the emperor was doing big business in the vassal country and making huge amounts of money.

The emperor was very interested in adding to the Xing'an Mountains.

He has already sent people to Siberia to investigate to see if there is a more suitable place in the north than the Xing'an Mountains.

In the morning of the next day, Zhu Jianqi and the ministers were all complaining.

I think there is no need for Daming to bother.

However, the emperor has already sent people to inspect the Northeast and solicit opinions from the whole society. Anyway, the central government wants to quarrel, so let everyone in the world follow suit and see what results the quarrel will produce.

Sure enough, the contents of the secret music were exposed and aroused heated discussion in the whole society.

Northeasterners hope to live a warmer life.

But people in Hebei and Henan don't want to think about it. Summer is already hot enough. If this prevents the cold wave from coming over, will they get even hotter?

The people in the four Turkic provinces are firmly opposed. They are used to cold life and do not want to change their living environment.

As for filling in the two bays, there is not much opposition.

Some ecologists are also worried about whether filling in the bay will cause the loss of biodiversity and whether it will cause irreversible effects on the environment.

In recent years, with the promotion of steam engines and the increase in factories, the pollution problem has aroused the vigilance of the whole society.

In addition, the construction of the Zhonghua River has seriously damaged the good ecological environment of Wusheng. In recent years, the central government has spent a lot of money to improve the environment.

Pollution has been the hottest topic in recent years.

The central government is also spending money on governance, and is constantly issuing documents to solve pollution problems such as sewage and emissions. It even moved heavily polluting factories to Tianjin in order to protect the Gyeonggi environment.

In Beizhili, there are only two cities left, Beijing and Tianjin. The land is completely connected and it is difficult to tell which is Beijing and which is Tianjin.

The same goes for South Zhili, which only has two cities: Nanjing and Shanghai.

With the relocation of factories, housing prices in Beijing have dropped and real estate values ​​in Tianjin have increased. However, environmental problems in Tianjin have become increasingly severe.

In the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai, the central government decided to move 20 heavily polluting enterprises from Tianjin to Japan.

At the beginning of this year, another 20 heavily polluting enterprises were relocated to Japan. Housing prices in the two places have declined slightly, and there has been a wave of people leaving Beijing.

The permanent population of Beizhili is 3000 million, and the resident population is as high as 5000 million.

But there was no severe smog in the capital.

Because of early attention to environmental issues, all enterprises that did not meet environmental protection regulations were shut down, and a large number of enterprises were transferred to Japan.

The country of Japan has become the main area where heavy pollution industries were transferred during the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor's definition of Japan is a heavily polluting enterprise.

Because the Japanese country is close to the sea, it is suitable for sewage discharge. Furthermore, the geographical environment of the Japanese country is too poor, with earthquakes and volcanoes all year round, which is very unsafe.

Besides, the Ming Dynasty has not yet put the reconquest of Japan on the agenda, although the Japanese shogunate kept begging the emperor to accept us.

The emperor was still draining the last bit of Japanese vitality.

There is another factor. Since the eighth year of Jingtai, large-scale tree planting has been carried out. For fifty years, no felling is allowed, and trees have been planted continuously. The entire Beizhili is lush and green.

In recent years, with the promotion of new pigments, private houses have also begun to be painted in colorful colors. The emperor allowed private citizens to use royal colors and red, and there are many folk colored houses.

Not only Beizhili, but the entire Ming Dynasty is colorful.

It's not the original gray and black color.

In the past, pigments were expensive, but as paint was dismantled from petroleum, the price of pigments plummeted. In the 46th year of Jingtai, paint entered thousands of households.

During the Spring Festival of the 47th year of Jingtai, internal funds were used to paint the city walls.

In recent years, the emperor would spend money during the New Year and festivals to add color to the world, but the emperor did not intend to pay this money himself.

He proposed the concept of advertising, allowing businessmen to bid for city wall advertisements, and use the money to cover the cost of painting the city wall and make a profit.

After that, the local government swallowed up the money, and there was no need for the emperor to fund the painting of the city wall. It was just left to the local government.

In the 50th year of Jingtai, the Forestry Department introduced desert date palms from Iraq and tried to plant them in the northwest desert.

Date palms are tropical trees that need to be genetically modified to be successfully grown.

The Research Institute of the Forestry Department is studying this subject.

After the vassal state took over the world, it began to exchange supplies with the Ming Dynasty. Things from the Ming Dynasty appeared in the vassal state, and things from the vassal state appeared in the Ming Dynasty. The whole world was gradually connected into a whole.

"The forty-year-old man can really think of good things. He asked his second son to go to Denmark. Why doesn't he go to heaven!"

Zhu Jianqi received Chen Guo's memorial and directly refuted it.

This memorial was copied by the copying officials and sent to the Yangxin Hall.

The forty-first eldest son set out to join the vassal vassal. Now, the second and third eldest sons of Zhu Jianqi's family, Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin, are the emperor's masters.

They selected the memorials that the emperor needed to read and showed them to the old man.

After Zhu Qiyu read it, he exclaimed: "Your father is just a little family man."

"The forty-year-old is discerning."

"Denmark is a place that can contain the Kamal Alliance and Germany's ambitions. It has a good strategic vision."

"It's no wonder your father is unhappy. The old man, Forty, only wants to help Ming Dynasty, and does not benefit Ming Dynasty. Chen Guo takes advantage and makes his prince suffer. Is your father happy?"

Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin looked at each other.

They knew that when Osman was defeated, the old man would divide them both.

Therefore, they not only need to be familiar with government affairs, but also the affairs of various vassal states. After they succeed to the vassal state, they will have to deal with these countries.

"Grandpa, the Ming Dynasty has no spare energy to fight for the vassal state." Zhu Youjin tested the emperor's attitude.

"It's not a question of whether we can spare any effort."

Zhu Qiyu said: "This is a matter of attitude. This time I helped the Chen State. What about the other vassal states? They all want their sons to succeed the vassal state. Can I help?"

"Send it to Chen State as approved by your father."

"Chen Guo wants to occupy this place, and I agree, but he has to fight for the territory himself."

in fact.

Zhu Jianmin also knew that the old emperor would not agree.

Chen Guo just wants to occupy this place, and it must collapse the Kamal Alliance before it can get something out of the fire.

He actually thinks the British dog is easier to use.

With the Netherlands lying flat and Britain alone, this is the best time to tame Britain.

Zhu Jianming made the worst decision in his life.

Conquer Britain.

The UK is a bastard. It first mixed with Spain, then with Portugal, then with the Netherlands, and now with Chen Guo.

The British king surrendered so quickly because the Ming Dynasty won an overwhelming victory in the Ming'ao War. In June of the 57th year of Jingtai, soldiers surrounded the capital Seyute.

There were several Ottoman capitals, Seyut was just one of them.

The Ming Dynasty paid hundreds of thousands of casualties and won the first stage of the war.

Ming Dynasty began to use his usual skills to massacre all the cities near Seyute.

As a result, large-scale defections occurred in the occupied areas, and the Ming Dynasty fell into a quagmire of war.

All the newly achieved results were vomited out in August.

The Ming'ao War actually ended with the defeat of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army suffered a total loss of more than 200,000 people, which was considered a major defeat.

This was a rare defeat in the Ming Dynasty's foreign wars.

But the Ottomans also suffered. They lost more than 40 soldiers, nearly 500 million civilians were killed or injured, and burned more than a hundred cities, which shows the destructive power of the Ming army.

In the Ming-Hungary War, even though the Kaiser participated in the war, the Ming Dynasty overthrew Hungary and began to massacre the Hungarian region.

Cai Wang Zhu Jianya succeeded here.

In the same year, Zhu Youchen of Zhao State captured Finland and became the overlord of the Baltic Sea.

It accelerated the collapse of the Kamal Alliance.

The territorial disputes between the four Central Asian countries have given the center a headache.

The Wei Dynasty had greedy for too much territory, which made the other three kingdoms dissatisfied, and if the central government mishandled it slightly, the four vassal kingdoms would become alienated.

Zhu Jianqi did not dare to deal with it and asked the emperor to deal with it himself.

With a wave of his hand, the emperor redrawn the boundaries of the vassal states and ordered the vassal states to define their territories according to the boundaries drawn by the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jianqi almost vomited blood when he saw it.

The emperor gave all the rich territory to Wei, forcing Central Asia to fight.

The countries were originally dissatisfied with the division of territories.

This time the emperor supports Wei, and it is estimated that a war in Central Asia will immediately ignite.

At the same time, he was relieved that the emperor was both helpful and defensive to the vassal state.

If Central Asia is peaceful, Ming Dynasty will not be peaceful.

really.

After the old emperor's circle was drawn, Xu State thought that the old emperor favored the King of Wei, and immediately launched an army to attack Wei. Yi State and Ning State responded, and the Three Kingdoms attacked Wei.

The king of Wei, Zhu Jianjun, coveted all the territory of Afghanistan.

The three countries just put their excuses on the lips of Wei State. Wei State acted first and swallowed up the entire territory of Afghanistan. It also recruited troops on a large scale in Afghanistan and actively prepared for war.

Central Asia was instantly covered with war clouds.

This was also the first war within the Ming Dynasty.

It attracted the close attention of many vassal states.

The main thing is to see how the central government reacts. Will the central government order a ceasefire and restore peace?

If not, does the center support the expansion of various countries? Or only support Wei's expansion?

The old emperor is still here, and everyone has to consider his thoughts.

It's not because of my biological father.

But the old emperor was unpredictable, and no one knew what trump card he was hiding.

The old emperor dared to destroy the vassal country if he dared to enfeoff it. Don't think that the old emperor was a good man and a believer. It was not because he was defeated in the first stage of the Ming'ao War that he dared to underestimate the Ming Dynasty.

Let's see, the old emperor will never change his commander before the battle, but will tell the commander to know his shame and then be brave. I want to see victory.

This is the old emperor's ambition and confidence. He has huge confidence in the Ming army.

It is estimated that it will not be long before Ming Dynasty will achieve a great victory.

When war breaks out in Central Asia.

There is a lot of quarrel in China because of four major projects.

At the end of the 57th year of Jingtai's reign, the emperor ordered that the plan to raise the Northeast Mountains be implemented, and all civilian geographers were recruited to go to the Northeast to start calculations and come up with plans.

The quotation given by the Ministry of Industry is 160 billion.

The old emperor thought it was expensive and could not use so much.

Start listening to quotes from private construction companies. This is also the first time a private construction company has participated in large-scale national infrastructure construction.

By calculation, the private quotation is around 90 billion.

As for why there is such a huge difference, you have to ask officials at all levels how much they get.

The emperor was not satisfied with the price.

Don't think that he doesn't know that corruption is serious in the court and how much the project cost. He has been benchmarking against Jingtai for about fifteen years, and it is clear at a glance.

At that time, the cost of building a complete Beijing-Shanghai Expressway was about 700 million.

Now, a highway of the same mileage costs more than 3000 million.

Don’t forget, how expensive was asphalt at that time? How much is asphalt worth now? There was also railway transportation, which at that time was all transported by flatbed trucks.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry went back and forth to the Yangxin Hall, hoping that the emperor would let the Ministry of Industry take charge of the construction. Although the cost of the Ministry of Industry was high, the quality was very good.

The asphalt road built in the twelfth year of Jingtai has been in use for forty-five years. It only has minor repairs and is still in normal use.

The major projects of rebuilding the Yellow River and the Zhonghua River have stood the test.

The emperor was also settling an account.

It is cost-effective to hand it over to private companies, plus the subsequent maintenance costs, even if it is used for a short time. The problem is that the mountain is raised, and it is not used by humans, so how can it break?

In the fifty-eighth year of Jingtai, on the first day of the first lunar month, the emperor decided to reduce the project price to 85 billion and hand it over to private companies.

The central government sent officials to coordinate.

It was the first time for a private enterprise to participate in a major national project. This experiment was the first shot in the rise of local construction enterprises.

Both state-owned enterprises and imperial enterprises have construction companies, but the emperor thinks they are expensive.

The construction period is expected to be 40 years.

During this period, a supporting railway will be built to transport civil engineering and other raw materials, and supporting factories will also be opened in the frozen land area.

These supporting facilities are not included in the project quotation. Including them all, the total quotation is 120 billion.

But the supporting projects can always be used, and sooner or later the cost will be recovered.

The summer time in frozen soil areas is short, so the construction time is short, so be fully prepared and seize the construction deadline.

At the same time, plans to fill in the Bohai Bay and Korea Bay are also on the agenda.

After careful research and scientific experiments by geographers and meteorologists, it was concluded that filling the two bays would easily lead to dry climate and scarcity of water resources in the four provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong and North Zhili.

But the biggest problem is that many natural harbors will be lost.

The biggest impact is on Tianjin.

Tianjin can serve as the gateway to Gyeonggi Province because of its superior maritime transportation advantages. Once Tianjin Port disappears, a new province will appear.

Then the capital will completely become the mainland.

Transportation costs have greatly increased, and Tianjin’s existence has become less meaningful.

Even Tianjin, the second largest city in North Zhili, will decline because of this.

But the reason why the ruling and opposition parties are very supportive is this.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty was far away from the sea route and had sufficient strategic depth. Even if there were Japanese pirates on the seaside or a vassal state knocking on the door of the Ming Dynasty, it would not threaten Beijing.

With Rehe to the north and Xindi to the east of the center, there was no need to worry about the risk of the capital being exposed to enemy troops.

The development of railways has replaced maritime transportation to a certain extent.

Or introduce another river and replace sea transportation with river transportation.

Another advantage is that the Ming Dynasty is closer to North Korea and the Japanese state. Land transportation means that North Korea will never be able to break away from the Ming Dynasty.

With North Korea, there will be an opportunity to fill the road from North Korea to Japan in the future, and Japan will never be able to break away from the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after repeated discussions, the Central Committee decided to fill in the two bays.

Because the black soil is very rich, the two pieces of new soil need to be transported with black soil from the frozen soil area in the north and filled with about one meter.

The black soil in the northeast is only about one meter.

The two newly filled provinces are also constructed in accordance with the Northeast Black Land Regulations.

The emperor still listened to the private quotation, which was 60 billion and a construction period of 40 years.

The emperor felt that it took too long.

The final cost was 78 billion and it took 30 years to complete.

Some private scholars said that to protect marine resources, marine life should be driven away before filling.

The center ignored it.

It is very difficult to fill up the current productivity. No matter what the environment, we will find a way later.

The most important thing is water resources.

North China does not lack water, but with the addition of two new continents, it may not.

Some scholars have proposed the South-to-North Water Diversion, which means transferring water from the south to the north for use.

But with current technology, it is impossible to achieve this.

Some scholars also proposed that building dams, artificially regulating water resources, and generating hydropower would kill two birds with one stone.

This statement was recognized by the central government.

It is believed that dams can be built on many water systems in North China to artificially adjust the water volume according to the climate, save water, and strive to allow the new land to fully use water resources.

But saving is not the answer.

The emperor set his sights on the Yenisei River.

Can we divert water from the fishing sea and use the water from the north to the south?

It is a complete waste for water from permafrost areas to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Water from the fishing sea is used to nourish Mongolia, Rehe, Hebei and Xindi.

This project is huge.

The quotation given by the Ministry of Industry is 70 billion. No private company dares to take this kind of order. In terms of water control, the Water Control Department has experience.

The Flood Control Department's quotation is 77 billion, and the effect cannot be guaranteed.

To be honest, the entire Yenisei River has almost no use and is a completely wasteful river.

If the Yenisei River can be diverted, the entire north will be revitalized.

Scholars even proposed using the Yenisei River to inject water into the entire north of the Ming Dynasty, so that Guanzhong, Shanxi, and Ningxia would all benefit.

Originally, after adding Xing'an Mountains, the northern permafrost area was completely sealed, making it completely uninhabitable for humans.

The Yenisei River is completely useless, and even the existence of the fishing sea is a question, and there is a possibility of being completely frozen.

You have to find a way to take advantage of it.

After some discussion, it was decided to start the Yenisei River diversion project, with an investment of 80 billion from internal funds and a construction period of 25 years.

Use the Yenisei River to fill the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty with water.

Increase the Kainan Mountains and turn Northeast Asia into a treasure land with a pleasant climate.

The Bohai Bay and Korea Bay were filled in, creating two provinces.

The fourth project is to fill in the shortest distance between Leizhou Peninsula and Qiongzhou Prefecture, fill in artificial islands in Yanhai, and shorten the distance from Qiongzhou Prefecture to the three provinces of Borneo.

The fourth project is the smallest and can be operated in all seasons, with a total investment of 50 billion. It is expected to create a perfect island chain connecting the mainland and Borneo.

There are many Daming Bays.

From west to east are the Bay of Bengal, Bay of Motama, Bay of Bangkok, and Gulf of Tonkin.

His grandson Zhu Youquan was eager to try. The old emperor filled in two bays. After he succeeded to the throne, the first one to fill in was the Beibu Gulf.

Shorten the distance between Jiaozhi and Guangxi.

Building another artificial canal will reduce the uniqueness of Malacca and make Malacca no longer the only strategic focus of the Ming Dynasty.

He didn't dare to tell his father these thoughts.

The prince was opposed to the emperor's blind construction.

There is no shortage of land in Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had a territory of more than 20 million, so what kind of territory could be filled in? If we had this time, it would be better to clean up a few vassal states and let the vassal states accept the land and become their vassals.

Unfortunately, the prince did not have any say.

The emperor was afraid that the prince would interrupt the project after he succeeded to the throne, and directly issued a death order. My national policy, and the kings of future generations, dare to abandon it halfway, and all the feudal states in the world will attack it together!

This is too cruel!

That is to say, if Zhu Jianqi dares not to do it, then he will change the emperor. All emperors of the vassal state have the right to enter the Forbidden City, and the one who enters the Forbidden City will become the emperor.

Zhu Jianqi said that he was suffering, so these words put a tight curse on him.

Look at Zhu Youju, that little bastard, who has been talking to his grandfather for several days, with a look of excitement on his face, as if to say, when I come to the throne, I will fill up all the bays.

I don't care, you can just mess around.

In the fifty-eighth year of Jingtai, the central government announced four major projects in Jingtai.

Counting these four major projects, there were a total of six major projects in the Jingtai Dynasty. The radical control of the Yellow River and the construction of the Zhonghua River were enough for Emperor Jingtai to leave a strong mark on history.

As for the reputation of these four major projects after they are launched, only future generations can judge.

The total investment of the four major projects is 330 billion, and the completion period is expected to be about 100 years.

Although the money is all from internal funds.

But the finances will probably have to help. If the internal funds cannot be spent, the finances will also have to bear the burden.

So, the cabinet ministers have been squeezing the old emperor's coffin book these days.

The people were very happy.

If you do projects, you will make money. If you work on royal projects, you don't have to worry about wages. This is an iron rice bowl.

Construction is expected to begin in the 60th year of Jingtai.

This plan will affect the Millennium Plan of future generations and will be more useful than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

(End of this chapter)