Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 393: Sui Kingdom: The hub country waving its wings
Brother Zhu Youque's special train should pass through Tashkent.

However, the Tashkent section is under maintenance and is temporarily closed.

The special train traveled between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea, passed through Turkmenistan, and arrived in Iraq first.

The Yi State and the Sui State traded and obtained the desert territory on the east coast of the Caspian Sea, which is equivalent to saying that the Yi State and the Xu State equally divided Turkmenistan.

The land was so deprived of water that it had no use other than being a piece of land.

During the war to destroy the Khanate, the allied forces of the vassal states drove the indigenous people here, resulting in the complete destruction of the already thin vegetation and the complete depletion of water resources.

In the end, mass graves were formed, and Wei State completely occupied this place.

Only in the past two years have trees been planted and management started, but it has been difficult to curb grassland desertification.

The State of Wei gave this rotten land to the State of Sui.

The Sui State resold it to the Yi State.

He petitioned his father dozens of times to change the feudal vassal, but all the land in the world was owned, so how could he change the vassal?
However, his father gave him a large amount of money to support his industrial development.

Depravity is not allowed in the country, so they go abroad to degenerate secretly.

There are only a few people in Iraq, but we cannot let them run away.

Zhu Jianchu knew that if his country wanted to prosper, he would have to go to extremes. Otherwise, where would the money come from to protect the environment? Where does the money come from to distribute money to the people?

Known as the Kingdom of Heaven in the Desert.

The Ming Dynasty was so strict that even shit and farts had to be controlled. In large vassal states like Wei, Shang, Sui, Tang, Xia, Chu, and Wu, the laws were equally strict.

But in Confucian education, these are prohibited.

There are always exceptions.

Not to mention others.

Besides, if there is demand, there is a market, and if there is a market, there is money to be made.

Not only is it short of water, it is also poor in resources. There are no resources under this desert, no oil or iron, not to mention gold and silver mines, nothing.

This thing is the weakness of human beings. The more restricted people are, the more curious they are, and the more curious they are, the more eager they are.

Like the small island countries dotted across the ocean, if they are not allowed to specialize, they will not survive. The Ming Dynasty and the vassal states did not strictly prohibit immigration, so why should their people suffer in your place? No matter how bad things get, people should flee back to Ming Dynasty.

Before the Ming Dynasty envoy came, the railways between Iraq and Wei were not connected, and there was no railway coverage within 20 kilometers of the border between the two countries.

The island paradise was born.

Those vassal states sealed on small islands cannot be self-sufficient in food, and they have no other choice but to die of poverty if they rely on stupidity.

A highly civilized society must naturally be vibrant, prosperous, and full of positive energy. Is it really glorious to put things that cannot be put on the table?
These are strictly prohibited in the Ming Dynasty. The law is extremely strict. It is so strict and classified. There are very few things that teenagers can watch. In order to take care of the healthy development of teenagers, the whole society does not allow these things to appear.

They can only go to extremes and develop this kind of extreme entertainment industry, which they have researched.

The Ming Dynasty didn't do it, and the great vassal states didn't do it. Where the market is, there must be someone doing it for money.

You can only engage in the entertainment industry.

A drinking water problem can bring death to the Iraqi court.

The two countries use barbed wire as a barrier, and people from the two countries must go through formal procedures before they can go to the other country.

This kind of entertainment concept is really not Zhu Jianchu's own idea, but the clan and small vassals all do this.

Some people are just restless and like to wander in gray areas, especially those with money. The so-called pursuit of freedom is actually the pursuit of depravity.

However, there will always be bad elements.

Let's put it this way, what is written in the law is what capable people want.

The household registration control in Iraq is the strictest among all the vassal states.

Zhu Jianchu had so many ideas that he started an extreme entertainment industry.

The country of Iraq has started to develop an extreme entertainment industry, where everything is available and flowers are available.

The central government imposed strict restrictions, and everyone in the government and the public supported them. Even some love stories were restricted, but the emperor lifted the ban.

But this is a land that is extremely short of water. At this stage, industry is all labor-intensive. How can the desert support large factories with tens of thousands of people?

The country of Iraq is not too broken.

Love is something that is difficult for people to express.

Therefore, don’t even think about running a business, you can only find another way.

In fact, the country of Iraq is not poor, and thieves have their own ways. There is a water shortage, a serious water shortage. They use ancient methods to obtain water, and they are reluctant to waste a drop of precipitation.

The people of Yi were poor, the people of Sui were rich, the people of Ming were rich, and the citizens of the five Indian kings were all rich, but their country's laws were strict.

In fact, people of Ming Dynasty are very accustomed to it. Their emotions are always restrained and restrained, and they suppress those things to the utmost. This is something engraved in their bones through thousands of years of ethics.

The train enters the border of Iraq.

In order to maintain the average income level of the people of the country of Iraq, the court of the country of Iraq distributed money to the people, but this money could not be printed by the court of the country of Yi. It had to find ways to make money.

They have everything strictly prohibited by Ming law.

If it’s not exciting, why would rich people from other countries travel thousands of miles to come to you to spend money?
Normally, the vassal state and the Ming Dynasty uniformly use the same Ming law. If the Ming Dynasty prohibits it, the vassal state must also prohibit it.

This feeds the country of Iraq.

The two million citizens of Iraq do not engage in farming or business. They rely entirely on imports for everything, but they live like masters. The per capita salary is about 1700 yuan, which is higher than that of Wei.

In the past ten years, there has been a net inflow of people into Iraq, especially women from the Ming Dynasty. In the past ten years, 30 women have flowed into Iraq.

What did they come in for? Just think about it.

And doesn’t the court know this?
Of course I did.

It even took care of it. In the 53rd year of Jingtai, the central government issued an order requiring immigrants to show their reasons for immigration.

What's the use of the result?
The court has no control over people leaving!
The imperial court can only strictly enforce its own laws and prohibit its citizens from engaging in illegal activities. Is it possible to stop people's hearts?

Some people are not willing to work hard to make money, some people admire professionals who are proud of their profession, and some people are willing to do these unethical things.

Some people say it may be forced by life.

No.

Since the 55th year of Jingtai, almost all the people have been covered. It is impossible for the extremely poor people to get rich, but it is no problem to have a bite of food.

In the 15th year of Jingtai, the minimum standard of the Ming Dynasty's subsistence allowance was 30 yuan per month, and the maximum subsistence allowance was yuan.

This kind of subsistence allowance is suitable for severely disabled, poor elderly people without children, and people who have no ability to work.

Regardless of the lack of money, there is definitely enough food to eat.

When the subsistence allowance policy was first implemented, the central government planned to distribute rice. In fact, the Hongwu Dynasty had a subsistence allowance policy, and the subsistence allowance policy was distributed in rice. The subsistence allowance policy lasted for a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty.

We have been distributing rice for two years, but due to the reaction of the subsistence allowance households, the local grain depots have enriched their own pockets, and the rice distributed is moldy, inferior, and cannot be eaten at all.

Only later did the money be distributed.

Money also rises and falls every year. As the price of food rises, it also falls with the price of food.

As for the poor, local officials are responsible for helping them find jobs. As long as you have the hands and feet, you can earn dozens of yuan a day by standing on the job.

Therefore, there are no truly poor people in the Ming Dynasty, and almost none of them are said to have died of starvation.

So those who engage in these professions are not because they are poor, but simply because they are willing, or simply because they are lazy.

In the 60th year of Jingtai, there was an article among the people saying that this was an era in which poverty was laughed at but prosperity was not laughed at.

The emperor personally went out and demanded policies such as rectifying folk customs and restoring ancient folk customs, but the people took this as fart.

All eyes are on money, no one cares about morality or immorality.

The entertainment industry in Iraq has endured for a long time.

The largest entertainment city is built in Chabahar, a curved bay, with high-rise buildings full of art, but it is engaged in shady activities.

In Iraq, high-ranking officials from various countries are likely to run into each other.

Worms from all over the world like to come here to consume.

The result is that Iraq has become a desert pearl.

There is only one capital city in the country of Iraq. It is on the edge of the Caspian Sea, the port of Tolkaman, which was renamed Yindu.

This is also the reason why the Yi State must get the territory of the Wei State. The capital in the north has no depth. Now that it has obtained this land, the capital of the country is considered stable.

This is also a rare oasis in Iraq and one of the few planting bases in Iraq. The basic grain output of Iraq comes from here.

The king of Yi was very generous to his two eldest nephews. He took out the best things from the country and entertained his two eldest nephews.

King Yi really hoped to get water from the Ural River.

He didn't care if Caspian disappeared.

Like the Aral Sea, after water was injected from the China River, the water body became significantly larger, doubling its original size.

However, in the 57th year of Jingtai, the Wei State changed the course of the Zhonghua River and flowed into farmland, causing the Aral Sea water to return to its original state after expanding.

But the Syr Darya River does not flow into Turkmenistan, but flows northward into the Kazakh steppe.

causing the prairie to become a swamp.

This project almost killed Wei State.

The King of Wei killed the engineer who proposed the project and killed many people. He had to change the Syr Darya River back to its original course, which cost money, effort and work.

In fact, Wei State is not short of water at all.

But Wei wanted to turn grasslands into cultivated land. This huge project would definitely require a lot of fresh water resources for irrigation.

The Aral Sea is formed by the alluvial deposits of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers.

The amount of water in the Amu Darya River has been reduced a lot due to the diversion of the Zhonghua River. Now the Aral Sea is mainly filled with water from the Syr Darya River.

The China River connects to the Syr Darya River and is mainly used to irrigate the Fergana Basin.

The Zhonghua River connects the Syr Darya, Amu Darya and Ili rivers and becomes the main water source of the three major rivers in Central Asia.

In the 62nd year of Jingtai, the Wei State started construction again to let the Syr River flow into the grassland and irrigate the grassland.

Now that Iraq has obtained the western half of Turkmenistan, it has been able to use the water of the Amu Darya River. However, after the Amu Darya River was intercepted by the Zhonghua River, the water body decreased significantly.

It is already the limit to maintain water supply for the people along the coast.

It is difficult to extend further west.

The problem is that this area is completely desert. Even if the Amu Darya River is diverted to prevent it from flowing into the Aral Sea, it will not be possible to pass through this desert.

If the Amu Darya River can be extended, the water problem of Yindu, the capital of Iraq, will be solved.

As for whether the Aral Sea will disappear, this is not within the scope of Iraq's consideration.

The Aral Sea is an inland lake in Wei State, and everyone owns it.

After this soil exchange is completed, the north bank of the Amu Darya River is all the territory of the Wei State, and the north of the Aral Sea is all the territory of the Wei State.

The land area of ​​Wei State exceeds five million!
The land is barren and is all grazing land. If Wei's land exchange plan succeeds, Wei will not only be the hegemon of Central Asia, but one of the global hegemons.

Iraq does not dare to think of a hegemon, it just wants to get water from the Amu Darya River.

The major river systems in the Wei Kingdom are the Irtysh River, the Ob River, the Amu Darya River, the Syr Darya River, and the Ural River.

The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers merge into the Aral Sea.

The Ural River flows into the Caspian Sea.

The Ob and Irtysh rivers enter the Arctic Ocean.

They are all big rivers, and they all belong to Wei State.

If the Amu Darya does not flow into the Aral Sea and the Irtysh, Ob and Ural rivers flow south, then the drought problem in Central Asia will be alleviated.

King Yi knew that he was of low importance. He was an entertainer and an actor. Who would care about what an actor thinks.

I have to ask my dad for permission on this matter.

The reason why his father is so good is because the sources of the Amu Darya, Syr Darya, and Irtysh rivers are in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ob River is shared by the two countries.
The Ural River was shared by Shang and Wei.

As long as the father is dealt with, Daming can make the decision.

Therefore, King Yi was extremely kind to his two nephews.

Zhu Youqi's mouth was tight and he just wouldn't spit.

The country of Iraq is really miserable. The King of Iraq has been planting trees for more than 20 years, but he still can't stop the desertification of the land. This land has been damaged too seriously, and the root cause is still a serious lack of water.

There must be sufficient water sources to completely solve the serious drought problem in Iraq.

Fortunately, Zhu Jianchu is a chronic person and works slowly. He can tolerate it and wait.

Zhu Youjin is smarter. He still wants to curry favor with Uncle Wei. How can a poor country open its mouth to the overlord? Favors must be used sparingly.

After all, Zhu Jianchu had been emperor for so many years.

I had long seen the perfunctory attitude of these two gangsters, so I could only sigh in my heart.

He received a systematic imperial education since childhood and read books from sages. Now he relies on entertainment to survive, which is somewhat like forcing good people to sing.

He really wanted to live an upright life, but reality didn't give him a chance.

I can only turn my grief into strength and continue to plant trees.

Wei State used water to hold other countries hostage, Zhu Jianchu didn't know it, but a desert country has no ability to fight. Once a war occurs, the trees he has worked hard to plant for more than 30 years will be destroyed.

If you don’t want war, you have to negotiate.

Zhu Jianchu had already thought about it. In the future Central Asian war, Iraq would be absolutely neutral and act as a neutral mediator. After all, what qualifications does an entertainment person have to participate in the war?

Sometimes he laughs at himself. A majestic prince has turned into an actor. How can he have the face to meet his ancestors?
After Zhu Youque's brothers stayed in Yi for a few days, they set off for Sui.

There is no railway connection between the Yi State and the Sui State.

The closest point of the railway between the two countries is only three kilometers, and it has not yet been repaired.

Zhu Youguo felt disappointed because he did not go to the entertainment city to experience this trip. He still had business to do.

The Sui Kingdom was also miserable, completely located on a plateau.

This plateau ranges from 900 meters to 1500 meters above sea level and stretches for 2000 kilometers. Blocked by mountains, many basins have been formed inside the plateau. It also blocks water vapor from the ocean, leading to serious desertification inside the plateau.

The Ming army gnawed down this piece of land and smashed into it, killing and injuring 300,000 people.

The reason why the Safavid dynasty was able to break away from the Timurid Empire and still survive was because of its terrifying geographical advantages.

In that war, famous generals such as Li Zhen, Ou Xin, and Liu Ning participated in the war, with a total force of more than one million. In the later period, Han Yong, Xiang Zhong, and Li Bing personally took command and conquered this plateau.

The old method of the Mongols is still used.

This is an oblique triangular plateau with extremely complex internal terrain. Without a local guide, you will get lost.

At that time, the Mongols chose the gap in the mountains northeast of the Caspian Sea as the passage for their attack. This gap was called Khorasan, and they finally invaded the plateau from the city of Mashhad.

The Ming army used the same tactics, and the army was also composed of Mongolians and Afghans. They captured the plateau regardless of the consequences, and suffered 300,000 casualties and countless losses before taking over the entire plateau.

Ou Xin died of illness during the battle. A few days after the victory, Li Zhen also died of illness here. Li Bing became seriously ill. His death at the age of seventy was closely related to this serious illness.

For the cleanup activities on this plateau, as many as 41 people were lost before this land was completely cleared, but the cleanup was not complete.

Many Persians became Sui and Yi people.

There is no way to completely clean up, just get rid of the die-hards and then purify the bloodline, little by little.

There were about seven million Persian immigrants in the Sui Kingdom.

According to the national policy of the Sui Dynasty, intermarriage between the same ethnic groups was not allowed, and intermarriage between Han and Bo was forced.

In recent years, talents with completely Persian looks have gradually disappeared in the Sui Kingdom.

And those old Persians hated the Ming people very much, because the Ming people were intruders and invaded their homes.

Akito also dislikes these guys who look different.

After the Sui king succeeded to the vassal state, he also carried out a cultural cleanup and burned all Persian texts.

If the old emperor hadn't stopped it, Persian culture would have been wiped out.

But these things were all shipped to the Ming Dynasty and became part of Han culture.

Folks are not allowed to speak any language other than Chinese, and speaking it is a serious crime.

In order to force Hanization, the Sui Dynasty had a population of 40 million and recruited 7 million troops, all scattered throughout the plateau, and every small mountain pass was guarded.

Non-Han people are not allowed to possess sharp weapons.

These non-Han people are those Persians who have not been naturalized. There are always some die-hards in this world. They are the most praiseworthy figures of a nation.

When a nation is in crisis, there will always be people who step forward and shed blood for the nation. Such heroes are not only found in China, but also in all ethnic groups in the world.

But his hero is my enemy.

The people of the Ming Dynasty hated these people, and even the Chinese Persians also hated these restless people.

The Chinese-style Persians lived well in the Sui Kingdom.

The Persians like to do business. The Sui Kingdom is located in the middle of the Eurasian continent, and it has assumed the position of a trade hub between the East and the West. It is also located in the Three Seas, the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Persian Gulf. It has an advantageous geographical location. The Sui Kingdom's free trade port, It is the world's largest trading port.

In order to smoothly Chineseize the Persians, the Sui State encouraged Persians to engage in business and naturalization.

The hatred between the country and the family can also be healed with time.

Because the Sui State had very tight control over the entire plateau, the pier system in the Ming army was applied to its extreme here.

In the past, Ottoman came to help the Persians recover.

With the Second Ming'ao War, the Ming Dynasty ended in victory, causing Ottoman power to move away from the plateau.

In recent years, groups of Persians who had gone deep into the mountains came out of the mountains and were willing to obey.

After all they had just been enslaved by the Mongols.

Now that we are Han Chinese, we can accept being enslaved.

It's just that the Han people are more ruthless than the Mongols. The Mongols want money, but the Han people want their lives.

This is also the reason why the Persians resisted fiercely.

If Ming people were willing to live in peace, they would also obey, but Ming people are ruthless. What they want is living space, not people.

As of the 4200th year of Jingtai, the total population of the Sui Kingdom was 3700 million, and the Han people were million. Persian women automatically transferred to Ming citizenship after marrying a Han.

Men cannot marry Han women, and no Han women will marry them. Because I dare not.

Ming girls are the most popular ones in the world. How can they take the risk to marry a foreigner? If the foreigner rebels, the whole family will be in trouble.

As a result, a large number of Persian men were forced to marry foreign women, and the children they gave birth to were not officially registered, so they became black households.

There were many shady people in the Sui Dynasty.

But the life of the black households in the Sui Kingdom was not good. The Sui Kingdom was short of water, and the geographical environment caused desertification of the land. The grain-producing area was at the southern foot of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, and the traditional Persians were squeezed out and forced into Zagha. Ross Mountain Survival.

What can be grown in the plateau mountains?

The food supply of the Great Sui Dynasty was basically supplied by the plains of Eastern Europe, and the main population lived in the plains at the southern foot of the Greater Caucasus Mountains.

In order to prevent land desertification, the Sui king banned the planting of food in non-grain-producing areas and designated many areas as protected areas. On the surface, they protected water and soil, but in fact they starved to death.

It would be better if the gangsters come out to rebel. I am worried that I can't find you.

The poor mountains and rivers bring out unruly people. This plateau has a harsh climate and environment, and all the unruly people are there, but that was an ancient war.

In contemporary war, soldiers have become consumables, and it is essentially a war of ordnance.

No matter how powerful a person is, can he be more powerful than a cannon?
The Sui State had 200 artillery troops and million standing cannons. It was known as the country of ten thousand cannons.

If there is no war, why should we fire a few artillery pieces, let alone dare to rebel?
Kuroto can only survive in the mountains.

I can't even get enough to eat.

To buy food, you need to see your ID card. Where do the gangsters get their ID cards? The key is that they look different from the people in the public. Borrowing their ID cards is useless.

In the Sui Dynasty, food was a big problem, so soldiers stood guard in grain stores, and food control was extremely strict. This caused the black households to automatically reduce their numbers in the mountains.

As for growing food secretly, the mountain patrol team is equipped with guns. If they go on patrol for several days, instead of killing them, they just dig up the seeds they have planted. Then they will starve to death.

According to estimates, there were about 500 million black households in the Sui Kingdom.

The geographical environment determines that this terrain will never be cleaned up, just like Laos and Cambodia, which cannot be cleaned up at all.

At that time, the Japanese army was the most powerful liquidator in the world.

The Japanese army was the best in the world in cleaning up their forces.

In terms of ferocity and cruelty, no country's soldiers in the world can match it, and the emperor is still willing to invest huge sums of money. In this way, Southeast Asia has been cleared of about 5% of the population.

When clearing this plateau, there were very few Japanese troops, so we couldn't use Ming people. The Afghans were too busy to work, so they rushed up to grab things and retreated after killing people.

But it cannot withstand the Ming Dynasty's long-term occupation. One day, the remaining people will either be assimilated or disappear completely.

The capital of the Sui Kingdom was finally settled in Yerevan and renamed Daxing.

The Sui Kingdom was a natural overlord. From a strategic perspective, its territory was perfect. The entire country was located on a plateau, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The capital is built at the southern foot of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, sandwiched between Mount Alborz and the Greater Caucasus Mountains, and between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. It is definitely a chosen place.

Normally, the entire territory of the Yi Kingdom and the Sui Kingdom is located in the middle of five mountains, making it absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But the Sui State and the Yi State were separated, and both countries also had their chosen places.

The problem is that the country of Iraq is all desert and barren areas, and it is absolutely impossible to become the opponent of the Sui Kingdom.

After the Sui State got rid of the desert of Yi State, it immediately became the overlord of Western Asia.

Historically, this plateau was conquered only once by the Mongols, and no country has ever ruled this plateau again.

The Sui Kingdom was different from the traditional country established by the Persians. The Persians were very confident, so confident that they were arrogant. They were different from the Ming people. The Ming people were humble and studious. This caused the Ming people to feel inferior easily, while the Persians were Extremely confident, even arrogant.

Precisely because the people of Sui ruled this area, they were humble Ming people, and Ming people were the best at guarding.

So this area will never be conquered.

The Safavid Khanate was conquered by the Ming army because of their arrogance. They never thought that the Ming Dynasty would adopt the tactics of the Mongols hundreds of years ago. It was still the same place. The Safavid Khanate fell into history again. .

As for the Sui Kingdom, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire.

They also obtained a large area of ​​territory on the Black Sea, basically swallowing as much as they could, almost reaching the Ordu region. This area was the protruding land that cut the Asia Minor Peninsula into pieces according to the continental territory. The country does not want it, and everything on the continental shelf belongs to the Sui Dynasty.

The reason why the Ottoman Empire was so tyrannical was because its own peninsula, Asia Minor, was impossible to conquer because it was completely covered by plateaus.

But the Ming Dynasty had experience in attacking plateaus more than once, and only then did it win the Second Ottoman War.

The territory of the Sui Kingdom expanded towards the Black Sea, so it was more appropriate to establish its capital here.

The left and right sides of the capital are like two wings, waving their wings.

But the problem is also huge. Originally, several large mountains were natural barriers. Now that the territory extends to the west, a large number of troops will be needed, and the cost of garrisoning will increase.

At the same time, the Ottomans sneaked in, and the ethnic issue arose again.

The Sui State never tired of its troubles.

The citizens also hate this kind of life being attacked by outsiders, so they are unwilling to move westward.

The Sui king could only relocate the people by building railways.

Sui Wang Zhu Jianxi entertained his two eldest nephews well.

Obviously, the attitude is different from that of King Yi. King Yi is more or less respectful to his two eldest nephews.

The king of Sui Dynasty, Zhu Jianxi, was an uncle to a nephew.

Especially the King of Liao, who will be bordering the Sui Kingdom in the future and will be his opponent.

The Liao Kingdom is from Ordu to the west.

Ordu, which happened to be the place where the root of the peninsula of Asia Minor stretched out completely, was allocated to the Liao Kingdom and South Korea. The inland area belonged entirely to the Sui Kingdom.

After the dinner, the King of Sui and the King of Liao formally exchanged letters of credence and demarcated their territories.

If the Sui State wanted to dominate the world, it had to meet its food needs. The Sui State's territory was only about 150 million people, which was incomparable to the Wei State.

However, Wei State had no outlet to the sea.

The Sui State was seeking an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea. Logically speaking, with a cut from Ordu, the Sui State should get an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea.

But the access to the sea was taken away by Weiguo. Weiguo had no shortage of access to the Mediterranean Sea, but it did not allow the Sui State to own it. However, this was still being discussed, and the Sui State was confident of taking over the access to the sea.

Even if there was no outlet to the Mediterranean Sea, the Sui Kingdom had an outlet to the Persian Gulf.

The Sui State was short of food and water.

As for the water shortage problem, as long as the Volga River and Ural River fill the Sui Kingdom with water, the Sui Kingdom will not be short of water.

In fact, the Sui State was discussing with the Wei State to dam up the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and irrigate the plateau in the same way as the Zhonghua River.

In order to threaten the Wei Kingdom, the Sui Kingdom must obtain access to the Mediterranean Sea.

Weiguo will relent sooner or later, Zhu Jianxi is sure.

As the Volga River goes south, it will drill through the Greater Caucasus Mountains, which will allow warm currents from the ocean to enter the Eastern European plains and improve the cold climate of the Eastern European plains.

In the same way, the temperature in the Sui Kingdom will drop and the climate will become pleasant.

But the Shang Kingdom had no intention of changing the course of the Volga River.

Obviously, Shang State does not want a new hegemon to emerge in Eastern Europe. Shang State not only wants to be the hegemon of Eastern Europe, but also the second largest hegemon after the Ming Dynasty on the Eurasian continent.

The Shang State is currently taking over the territory of the Cossack Khanate and has not yet entered the stage of hegemony.

But the fight for hegemony is getting closer.

Although the Sui Kingdom was short of water, it was not as serious as the Yi Kingdom. As long as enough trees were planted, the water shortage problem could be alleviated to a certain extent.

Regarding the food problem, Wei Guo gave the best answer.

Where there is no soil, create soil.

If there is no geographical environment, create geographical environment.

A vast prairie can be transformed into a large farm. What can't happen in our mountainous areas?
Isn’t Jiangnan also a mountainous area? Didn’t it also become the richest area in the Ming Dynasty?
When it comes to farming, Mingren are experts.

The Yi State spent money to redeem a large piece of land, which gave the Sui State enough benefits, and the Sui State also planned to purchase a large amount of guano.

A large amount of frozen soil was also purchased from Wei State and manually mixed to turn it into fertile soil.

If there are many mountains, then blow up the mountains and turn them into flat land, fill them with soil, and create artificial plains. What's wrong?

If the Sui Dynasty wanted to dominate, it could not take the ordinary path.

The Zhu Youque brothers took the train of the Sui Dynasty, which was very exciting. The railways of the Sui Dynasty were built against the mountains and were extremely difficult to build.

But the Sui State had a very complete railway network.

The economy of the Sui State was dominated by animal husbandry and transportation, especially the transportation industry, which was the economic pillar of the Sui State and was one of the best in the world. It was also known as the sea coachman.

If the Sui Kingdom obtained the outlet of the Mediterranean Sea, it would become a country spanning the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Persian Gulf.

Completely became the hub of East-West trade.

The Sui State has the third largest number of cargo ships among the vassal states. The first is the Xia State, the second is the Chu State, and the third is the Sui State.

The Sui Kingdom also had the freest trading island in the world, known as the Free Port.

There’s also mining and manufacturing.

The Sui State was the largest exporter of oil, mainly exported to European countries such as the Chu State and the Xu State. The Ming Dynasty also imported oil from the Sui State.

There is also manufacturing, which is a heavily polluting enterprise transferred from Ming Dynasty.

The Sui State, with a population of more than 3000 million, had an annual fiscal revenue of about million. It was very difficult for a country that was not self-sufficient in food but did not develop in an evil way.

In the past two years, the Sui State was creating artificial plains.

Flatten some mountains and turn them into plains, mainly near the capital, to level the land for the food supply in Daxing City.

Also doing experiments.

On the train, the commentator told Brother Zhu Youque what the Sui court had been doing in recent years.

These mountains have been ruled by the Mongols for many years and overgrazing has caused serious desertification of the land.

The Great Sui Dynasty was in the process of controlling desertification, and trees were planted every year to protect the soil and water. The entire Sui Kingdom was visibly turning green.

When the special train stopped, Zhu Youque saw some small traders getting on the train to sell goods. He had never seen the small commodities in their hands.

He asked someone to buy a few pieces and asked the commentator.

The commentator said that these are things from Persian culture. Because the Sui State did not allow the spread of foreign culture, these things were only sold secretly.

"Uncle Wang doesn't care?" Zhu You played with the small toy and frowned.

"We can't control them. These people are hiding in the mountains. If we send our people here, they will disappear. They are also poor people."

The commentator did not dare to hide anything: "In the past few years, vehicle traffic police were allowed to carry guns. Later, many manslaughter incidents occurred, and this policy was stopped."

"The imperial court did not kill them all, it just let them come out, forced them to become Chinese and enter the Ming Dynasty."

"Those who can sell small commodities must speak Chinese. They dare not speak dialect, otherwise they will be killed."

"So, this is also a form of Chineseization."

The problem of illegal households in the Sui Dynasty can only be solved by time.

In a few decades or hundreds of years, there may no longer be a distinction between Han and Bo.

Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin couldn't help but think of their successor land, which was also on a plateau and where tens of millions of Ottomans also lived.

It can't be completely cleaned up.

South Korea and Liao will also be like this in the future, and the problem of black households cannot be solved.

They boarded the ship in the Gulf of Aden and crossed the country of Iraq to the country of Xu.

As we all know, Xu Wang Zhu Jianzhe was also restless and wanted to dominate West Asia.

But his territory is terrible.

A large desert, with only a small oasis in Western India, and a small oasis in the north of the Gulf of Kutch.

The royal capital of the Xu Kingdom was also built here, in Hyderabad, and was renamed Jiangdu.

The Bay of Kutch is not a good place. It is a large desert area. Jiangdu is sandwiched among many deserts. It is still an oasis at least. It is a good place in the bad land.

Xu State occupies all of Pakistan, a small part of Afghanistan, and half of Turkmenistan. The land is very mixed.

In Afghanistan, the Ming Dynasty occupies one area, the Wei State occupies another area, and the Ning State occupies another area.

The four families share the profits.

The Ming Dynasty occupies a large part of the entire Pamir Plateau, and a small part of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

The Pamir Plateau, like the Ussun Plateau, has no practical use and is just a strategic fortress.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty occupies so much is because the vassal states don't want it.

The old emperor really didn't want these bad lands, as long as he occupied a few mountain passes, that would be enough.

But the vassal state doesn't want it.

It was extremely difficult to clean up at that time, and the climate in these areas had been severely damaged due to heavy grazing, making it difficult to clean up, control, and manage.

This place is far away from the heart of the empire, and it is difficult for the empire's tentacles to govern here.

The Pamir Plateau became a breeding ground for crime in the Ming Empire.

It also borders many vassal states, making this area a crime-prone area. The annual governance and management costs are more than the fiscal revenue of Iraq.

This is why the feudal state does not want it.

A worthless piece of land requires huge management costs. If it is placed in the hands of the feudal state, it will either be given up voluntarily or it will be under nominal jurisdiction.

It was different in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was really under direct jurisdiction.

Originally, the old emperor wanted to set up the Pamir Province, but the court believed that there was no need to set up a province, so it set up a general to govern it, and the Pamir General's Mansion was under the jurisdiction.

In the 60th year of Jingtai, it was incorporated into Fergana Province and became the 54th province of the Ming Dynasty.

As for where the national border is, it is still not determined.

Daming is sending it everywhere.

Whoever is willing to take over the offer will be fine, and it will be given away.

The vassal states kept retreating, not wanting at all, and even giving way. The Ming Dynasty occupied the entire Pamir Plateau, and the national border was still advancing towards the Hindu Kush Mountains.

This is another large piece of ruined land.

Management is extremely difficult.

There are still savages living inside. Can you believe it? Even in this day and age, there are still savages. There are not only some but many savages.

Originally, it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to govern the Western Regions.

With the addition of the Pamir Plateau and the Hindu Kush Mountains, the difficulty of governance has doubled Him.

This terrain is similar to that of the Sui Dynasty. It is all plateau and the land is severely desertified.

The Ming Dynasty was not about expanding its land. It was all about farming or burning money.

Tens of millions are invested in these desert lands every year, all in the name of planting trees.

Ming Dynasty originally owned the entire Wushen.

Much larger than later maps.

Coupled with the Pamir Plateau and the east of the Hindu Kush Mountains, the territory looks huge, but it is useless.

In the 62nd year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty compiled statistics on poverty-stricken areas, and the Pamir region was on the list. The top five were Pamir, Hindu Kush, Qinghai, and Ussun.

One is poorer than the other.

The court can't just ignore it, it has to pay for it.

The key point is that some people who are not Chinese Miao people have come in to enjoy the benefits of the Ming Dynasty, which makes the people very dissatisfied.

These people have nothing to do with China at all.

Even if we are looking for history, we can just stick to some connection. No matter how we look for it, there will be no connection at all.

You have to come in and enjoy the best benefits.

Ming Dynasty’s subsistence allowances are all used by this group of people.

The old emperor thought, since all the rotten land has been occupied, let’s occupy Kabul. This is the only pearl in the Hindu Kush Mountains.

As a result, Xu Guo quit! Wei Guo quits! Ning Guo doesn’t do it anymore!
The three countries almost started fighting over Kabul before.

How could Daming be allowed to pick peaches?

Oh, you grab the good ones, and all the bad ones belong to the Ming Dynasty.

The old emperor was very angry at that time.

There are also Dushanbe and Tashkent. In the fifty-ninth year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty asked Wei for Dushanbe and Tashkent, but Wei refused.

The king of Wei kept crying and complained that the country was poor.

The old emperor was so angry that he vomited blood and said directly, "If I don't give you the Pamirs, King Wei would just stop talking."

Anyway, they just refused to return Dushanbe and Tashkent to the Ming Dynasty.

These two cities were established by the Ming Dynasty.

This white-eyed wolf.

All the rotten land belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and not a single piece of good meat was eaten.

Just like the Hengduan Mountains, all the bad land was in the Ming Dynasty, and the good places were taken away by Annan. The Red River Plain is the essence of the Hengduan Mountains, but it ended up not in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty occupied it, and Annan was restored to power.

In other words, the old emperor didn't care.

If the crown prince ascends the throne, he will definitely fall out with the Wei State and start a war with the Wei State.

Needless to say, Wei Guo’s food appearance is indeed ugly.

When the Ming Dynasty cleans up the Pamir Plateau and manages it successfully, these vassal states will definitely lick their faces and ask for it from the Ming Dynasty.

It’s not that they don’t want the land, but they don’t want the rotten land. After the construction is completed, everyone is greedy and wants it.

But then the old emperor will no longer be in charge. If they want it again, they will have to fight.

(End of this chapter)