Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 413 Three major water diversion, reclamation and heightening projects, rising temperatures and melting snow-capped mountains are in danger
In the 60th year of Jingtai's reign, the plan to inject water to the north from three major rivers, the Ob River, the Yenisey River, and the Shule River, was officially launched.

As the electrical revolution unveiled, Daming's main investment projects were mainly dam projects, electrical tools, etc., which were mainly used for construction operations.

After changing the crown prince this year, Zhu Jianji invested billions in the business, stimulating the rapid development of the electrical revolution.

In order to speed up the construction of the three major projects, Zhu Jianji further expanded investment, accelerated the construction speed, and accelerated the construction period.

The Lena River is a year-round frozen river that originates from the west coast of the Fishing Sea and flows into the Arctic Ocean.

It originates from the northwest foothills of the Baikal Mountains and flows northeastward, where the Kilinga and Viking rivers merge into it. After joining the Olokma River, it passes through the largest city of Yakutsk and enters the lowland area. The river then turns north and joins the Aldan River on its right branch.

The Ming Dynasty’s water diversion idea was to divert the Lena River from its source.

Yakutsk is called Lena.

In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, the Lena River was called the Lena River, and it was under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty. In the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the Qing Dynasty originally wanted to use the Lena River as the boundary. What was lost on the battlefield could never be obtained at the negotiation table, and it was left to the outside world. Xing'anling is the boundary.

The Maple Leaf Map of the Qing Dynasty is bounded by the Waixing'an Mountains.

Lena City is the northernmost city in the Ming Dynasty, with a population of only 12.

The solution was proposed by the old emperor, artificial rainfall.

There are two water resources in these two provinces. Bohai Province has three major rivers, extending the Yalu River and Liaohe River.

The outlet of the Yellow River is no longer in Shandong, but from the Yellow Sea Province.

The Kherulun River is introduced into Hebei, merges into the Yongding River and Hutuo River in Hebei, and enters Bohai Province and Huanghai Province.

At the same time, it is also possible that the entire Gobi Desert has turned into an endless swamp, which will increase the difficulty and cost of Ming Dynasty's rule in the north.

But the difficulty is that subsequent maintenance costs are extremely high, and this kind of artificial river can easily cause water pollution.

The Ministry of Water Resources of the Ming Dynasty believes that cement dams should be built throughout the section that passes through the Gobi Desert to ensure that the water is not lost.

The geographical location has been artificially changed, but the climate has not changed. Rising temperatures will accelerate evaporation, leading to surface drought and further land desertification.

Daming has launched three major projects at the same time. Even if there is financial support, it can only save money.

Therefore, Lena Province is one of the two largest provinces in the Ming Dynasty, with a total area of ​​more than three million square kilometers, but a population of only 146 million.

How much does it cost to artificially heat the water to thaw it?
After two years of repeated research on these issues, a theoretical breakthrough was finally achieved.

After adding the Xing'an Mountains, it will make the area north of the Xing'an Mountains even colder, and will it freeze the fishing sea? Once frozen, the water diversion project will be completely useless.

There is also an unexpected problem.

In other words, it is very likely that there will be no large arable plains in Hebei, and it will even become deserted into grasslands or even degenerate into Gobi.

Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty took control of this city, it was called Lena City according to the local transliteration.

Some experts have proposed building artificial underground rivers to transport water from underground.

Experts conducted repeated calculations and experiments to determine that this project is feasible. It will use barriers to reduce the cold current from the Arctic Ocean and increase the temperature in the Northeast.

Geographical experts predict that the 400 mm isohyet line is likely to move southward.

The winter in this area is severe and long. The average temperature in January is -38.6°C, and the extreme minimum temperature is minus 64.4°C. The absolute temperature difference exceeds 100°C. In midsummer, only 1.2 meters of frozen soil on the ground can melt.

As long as the project is successful, Hebei, Shanxi, and Shaanxi will no longer be short of water.

Climate experts predict that after the northern mountains are raised, the temperature in Hebei may increase by six to seven degrees, and the temperature in the Rehe area will increase by four to five degrees. This means that rainfall in the area will further decrease and drought will occur.

The Ming Dynasty was very, very gentle towards this area, because the savages here were really good at conquering and fighting, and the old emperor loved them as his sons.

At that time, experts did not understand that artificial rainfall could be achieved with current technology as long as we figured out how rainfall occurs.

Cost is another big problem.

The 400 mm isohyet is the standard for dividing cultivated land and grassland, and is also the natural dividing line between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization.

The Ming Dynasty dug several artificial rivers, mainly connecting the Lena River with the Selenge River and the Klulen River, and leading the Selenge River into Jehol and Shanxi.

The two new provinces of Bohai and Yellow Sea will also have abundant water resources.

In such a city, as the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty intensified, most of the people moved to the warmer south. The decline of this city is visible to the naked eye.

This can ensure that the temperature of the Lena River, which originates from the Baikal Mountains, will not freeze at least in summer, ensuring the water supply problem in the northern region.

Borrowing water from the Lena River is not to let the Lena River dry up, but to use water from the north to the south and divert water from the fishing sea.

Let the Yellow River pass through the two provinces of Bohai and Yellow Sea.

The so-called raising of the Xing'an Mountains does not mean just to raise the Xing'an Mountains, but to raise the mountains in the northern permafrost areas such as the Baikal Mountains and the Yansk Mountains, as well as the Central Siberian Plateau and the East Siberian mountains to allow the cold current from the Arctic Ocean to form A vortex uses physical principles to heat up the Northeast region.

The Lena River basin alone may not be able to fully supply the Kherulun River, so water from the Songhua River must be diverted into the Liao River, and a new river should be extended from the Liao River into Bohai Province.

The difficulty of the project is that the water has to pass through the Mongolian Gobi, which spreads thousands of miles. The amount of evaporation is large, and the water flow does not have enough power. It will penetrate into the Gobi, turning the Gobi into a swamp, eventually leading to the failure of the project.

According to expert calculations, if enough water is allowed to pass through the Great Gobi, the Lena River will not be able to move northward, resulting in a severe water shortage in the north. The natural environment in the northern permafrost area will be severely damaged, which will threaten human survival.

Rainfall is when water evaporates from the ground into water vapor, rises into the atmosphere, and condenses into small water droplets or ice crystals when it encounters cold. These water droplets or ice crystals gather to form clouds. When the water droplets or ice crystals in the clouds grow to a certain extent, their gravity exceeds that of the updraft. When the support force is strong, it will fall from the clouds and form rainfall.

The traditional 400 mm isohyet is likely to change.

The local indigenous people should be the Ewenki people, collectively known as the Sauron people in the Ming Dynasty. The Sauron elite are warriors recruited from these frozen soil areas.

The old emperor believed that the main limitation on the development of the north was water resources. As long as there were abundant water resources, the north could reclaim the North China Plain and the Hebei Plain, and even the Jehol Grassland could be improved into cultivated land.

The problem of cold climate can be solved by raising the height of Mount Baikal.

As long as we make good use of clouds, artificial intervention can achieve rainfall.

In other words, the 400-meter isohyet line is useless. Even if the temperature in Hebei area will rise, as long as there are enough rivers and abundant water sources, there will be enough water vapor, and the water vapor will condense into clouds and rainfall will occur.

If you want to change the Jehol Grassland, you must understand how the grassland was formed.

Grasslands are formed due to shallow soil and low rainfall.

As long as water is diverted from the three major rivers in the north, the river water on the grassland will definitely increase, and the rainfall on the grassland will also increase.

It’s okay if the soil is shallow. There is a lot of frozen soil in the north, so just fill it in.

Besides, as long as technology develops, artificial soil creation is cheaper than digging soil, and modern fertilizers are gradually successfully developed, and the dependence on traditional fertilizers has gradually declined.

Over the years, in order to maintain ecological balance.

The Reclamation Department plants trees every year. In the Western Region Province, 15 acres of forest belts have appeared since the recovery. In Altai Province in the north, the tree planting area has increased year by year, and it has changed from a gray area to a green province.

Ulyasutai Province in the north of Altai Province is the area sandwiched between the Yenisei River and the Ob River. It is the border province of the Ming Dynasty and the Wei State. It has a huge area, but 70% is a permafrost area. This area is covered by Mongolia. The most serious human disaster, mixed with deserts and Gobis, is really not a good place, but after more than years of management, it has regained its vitality.

Tangnu Ulianghai is the Republic of Tuva and belongs to Russia.

Tangnu Uryanghai Province in the Ming Dynasty, based on the original area, added the area sandwiched by the Yenisei River and the Kolbdo River, with a vast area.

This area was not overly developed when the Ming Dynasty occupied it, but with the discovery of huge iron mines and rough development, the ecological environment here soon collapsed.

It took the Ming Dynasty fifteen years to govern, but it has not yet returned to its original state.

Therefore, in recent years, Ming Dynasty has stopped over-exploitation and left sufficient natural resources to future generations.

Over the years, the Reclamation Department has strived to restore green waters and green mountains, investing a huge amount of money every year to give this piece of land that has been cultivated by the Han people for more than 5,000 years a new look and a new lease of life.

It has been fifty-seven years since the eighth year of Jingtai. In addition to fixed expenditures every year, expenditures will also be increased as appropriate.

Now, the whole Ming Dynasty is green everywhere.

Therefore, it is completely feasible to fill the Jehol prairie into cultivated land without causing huge damage to the ecological environment.

And with sufficient water resources, there is no need to worry about the grassland becoming desertified or Gobi.

Geographical experts have calculated that if the entire Siberia is raised, the border provinces in the north of the Ming Dynasty, such as Uliasutai, Tangnu Ulianghai, Altai, Western Regions, Qinghai, and Ningxia, will all benefit from this.

Only Yenisey and Lena provinces, the two permafrost provinces are completely destroyed. The four provinces of Yuerhai Province, Mongolia Province, Tatar Province and Turkic Province are affected to varying degrees, but they are basically not suitable. Human habitation.

The factor limiting the development of the northwest is also water.

The northwest is located in an inland area, and the humid climate from the ocean cannot penetrate deeply into the mainland. If you want to change the original appearance of the northwest, or restore the style of the Han Dynasty, you need water.

After the successful excavation of the Zhonghua River, it nourished the people of the northwest. However, it is far from possible to restore the vitality of the northwest to the Han Dynasty era.

Therefore, there was a plan to divert water from the Ob and Yenisey rivers into the northwest.

In fact, the vassal states had some opinions on the use of the Ob River by the Ming Dynasty. They all believed that the Ob River should be diverted to nourish Central Asia, which was really short of water.

Because after calculations by water conservancy experts in Iraq, the Yenisei River has been successfully diverted, which is enough to warm and moisten the northwest. The Ob River is best used to nourish Central Asia.

Countries like Xu and Yi are really short of water.

But if the two countries want to use the Ob River, they must obtain the consent of Wei.

The vast areas of the Pamir Plateau and Hindu Kush Mountains occupied by the Ming Dynasty are areas with serious water shortages. It is also very feasible to divert the Ob River to nourish these areas.

The Yenisey River has two sources, one is the Big Yenisey River and the other is the Small Yenisey River. The two rivers merged near Kizil and were called the Yenisei River.

The Little Yenisei River originates from Tangnu Ula Mountain, which was called Tangnu Uliang Mountain in the Ming Dynasty. Ula was changed by the Russians.

It originated from Tangnu Ulianghai Province in the Ming Dynasty.

Tangnu Ulianghai is the last country to leave the embrace of the motherland. Don’t underestimate this place. This place has some of the world’s largest reserves of coal and iron ore.

The Great Yenisey River originates from Kala Brook Lake in the Eastern Sayan Mountains, which was once the ancestral land of the Khalkha tribe. After the Khalkha tribe was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, their ancestral land naturally belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, from a legal point of view, the legal system of the entire Siberia and Central Asia, in Mongolia, inherited the legal system of the Mongols in both the Ming and Qing dynasties, and should fully enjoy the sovereignty of this area.

Unfortunately, the rules of the world have changed, and the rule of law no longer works.

After converging, the Yenisey River flows from south to north, and finally flows into the Yenisey Bay of the Kara Sea, which is where it flows into the Arctic Ocean.

Tangnu Uliang Mountain belongs to the Altai Mountains.

The Ming Dynasty planned to pass through the desert between the two Altai Mountains and divert the river southward into the Western Region.

The Zhonghua River flows from Tarim River to Shule River to Datong River.

The Yenisei River flows southward, mainly connecting the Shule River and Weishui.

Some geographical experts believe that connecting the weak water is too far and requires an extremely long artificial river, which will cause huge changes.

It is better to connect the Corbudo River, expand the basin of the Corbudo River, and push the Corbudo River into weak water.

This will also enrich the Mongolian Plateau. After raising the northern mountains, the temperature in Mongolia Province can increase by two to three degrees, and the entire climate will change. With abundant water resources, whether you continue to graze or engage in farming, you will have a unique natural environment. .

In this way, Mongolia Province will not be completely abandoned and become a no man's land.

However, if we want to enrich the Mongolian Plateau, we need two large and small Yenisei rivers to be filled with water at the same time and the two Yenisei rivers to be diverted at the same time. Then the natural environment of the northern permafrost area will definitely be destroyed on a large scale.

Besides, the entire Mongolian Province will have a population of 30 million in the 59th year of Jingtai. In the past two years, the net population outflow has exceeded 15 million, and the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Even if Mongolia is made rich, the people who fled will not come back.

The imperial court's intention is to maintain the Kolbdo River as it is, artificially dig out a new river, go straight to the weak water, expand the weak water basin, and make the weak water into the second largest river in the northwest.

If the part of the Zhonghua River is not moved, it will not be connected to the Shule River.

Because the Zhonghua River has become very stable after years of development, water conservancy experts have calculated that if more water is added to the Zhonghua River, it may cause downstream flooding and affect the livelihoods of millions of people.

Expand the weak water and turn the weak water into a large river flowing from north to south, then change its course through Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei, merge into Bohai Province and Huanghai Province, and finally go out to sea and become a long river.

In fact, the imperial geographers miscalculated the Yenisey River basin.

The source of the water of the Yenisey River is one of the source water, and the other is the melting of snow water along the way. In addition, it is located in the cold north and has low evaporation, creating this huge Yenisey River.

Therefore, the geography experts of the imperial court preconceptionally believed that this diversion from Henan could nourish the entire northwest and even Hebei.

It's actually wrong.

Without the melting water of ice and snow, coupled with high evaporation due to climate warming, the Yenisey River basin will be greatly reduced.

Also, like the Lena River, it has to pass through the huge Gobi and Mongolian Plateau before it can flow into the northwest and truly connect weak water. How much water will be left?
In the 63rd year of Jingtai's reign, some experts proposed it, but construction had already started.

The Ministry of Water Resources is checking for deficiencies and trying to make up for them. It wants to divert water from Yuerhai to expand the drainage basin of the Selenge River, so that the Selenge River can first cross the Hangai Mountains, then the Altai Mountains, and finally the Yinshan Mountains and enter Ningxia.

At that time, the old emperor was furious. How could there be such a major flaw in such a huge project? All the experts were killed, including the officials who had approved it. They were killed and exiled. More than a hundred people were killed.

If the Selenge River project is added, the cost will increase by more than 60 billion.

In this case, one Yenisei River is not enough to divert water.

It is necessary to divert water from the Ob River.

After careful consideration, the Ministry of Water Resources was infiltrated by Wei State. Wei State was unwilling to save Yi State and Xu State, and wanted Central Asia to continue to be drought, so it tried to find a way to make the Ming Dynasty water diversion project go wrong.

In fact, it is most convenient to divert the Ob River water into the Western Region.

Just expand the Irtysh River directly, utilize the old channel of the Ulungu River, connect it to the artificial river of the Zhonghua River, and inject water into the Shule River.

By taking the Datong River-Taohe-Weihe River, changing course at the Weihe River, and going north to inject water into the Wuding River and Fenhe River, the entire Shanxi can be nourished. At the same time, the Fenhe River is connected to the Yongding River, and the water from Hebei will come.

But there is also an international issue.

Once the Ming Dynasty uses the water of the Ob River, the water-scarce countries of Iraq and Xu will immediately separate from the Ming Dynasty. Don't forget that the Hindu Kush Mountains occupied by the Ming Dynasty border the two countries.

Therefore, the center only wants to make good use of the two major rivers in the country, the Yenisei River and the Lena River.

Construction has been started for three years, and many river channels have been built. We are just waiting for the water to be released from upstream. If we start work again at this time, billions of dollars will be wasted.

Key economic development cannot wait.

After three months of suspension, work resumed again, adding the Selenga River project, with an additional investment of 72 billion yuan, and is expected to be completed in years.

The Selenge River is used to nourish the entire Mongolian Plateau. It does not need to flow into the Yinshan Mountains to nourish Ningxia. It only needs to be able to nourish the Rehe River and northern Shanxi.

The water used in the Selenge River is water from the Fishing Sea.

A dam must be built on the fishing sea to use water, and the cost has increased.

In the 60th year of Jingtai, the reclamation project also began.

Bohai Bay has an average water depth of 12.5 meters and a deepest depth of 70 meters.

It was also after one year of calculation and one year of carrying materials that Jingtai started construction in the 60th year.

In fact, it is not difficult to fill up the Bohai Bay. After tens of thousands of years of alluvial erosion by the Yellow River, a huge amount of river sand has accumulated offshore, and cultivated land has been continuously created.

In fact, the diversion of the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty had huge disadvantages, but it had one advantage.

It just enlarges the area of ​​Jiangsu Province.

Before the Song Dynasty, Jiangsu Province did not have such a large area. After it merged into the Huaihe River, a coastal plain was alluvially created.

Shanghai just came out of it.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhenjiang and Yangzhou were the outlets to the sea, and now the outlet is Shanghai. These are all bits of land formed by alluvial deposits.

After the Yellow River was redirected back to the outlet of the Bohai Sea, the land of the Bohai Bay is expanding every year.

Reclamation is still a relatively traditional method, reclamation with dikes.

Historically, the Chinese nation has been reclaiming land from the sea.

Just look at the comparison of the coastal maps between the Three Kingdoms period and the Ming Dynasty, and you will know that they are constantly expanding.

Polder reclamation is a method of building a polder around the area that needs to be reclaimed, and filling the reclamation materials into the polder. Through a step-by-step approach, the dikes in the reclamation area are connected, reclamation stones are added, and after a period of sedimentation, more detailed reclamation steps are carried out.

It is actually better to use mountains in the southwest for reclamation stones. However, mountains are needed to raise mountains, and mountains are needed to create a new continent. Stones are not enough.

But there is a lot of sand in Daming.

Daming has many large natural deserts, and the sand is inexhaustible.

In fact, in the fifty-eighth year of Jingtai, the old emperor proposed an idea: What is under the desert?
The Ministry of Industry sent people to estimate that the Taklimakan Desert was the largest desert in the Ming Dynasty. The result was that the sand was 3.7 meters deep.

The Taklimakan Desert covers an area of ​​33.7 square kilometers and contains approximately 1.81 trillion tons of sand.

The old emperor proposed that if the sand in Taklimakan was dug out and trees were planted, would this desert turn into an oasis?

As for filling the Bohai Bay, the Yellow River transports 32 billion tons to the Bohai Bay every year, but it will take 2500 years to fill the Bohai Bay.

Therefore, one Taklimakan Desert is enough.

Beginning in the 59th year of Jingtai, the Ministry of Industry began to dig sand from the Taklimakan Desert and transport it to the Bohai Bay, filling it while transporting it.

It cannot be filled entirely with sand, as this will make the foundation unstable. Reinforced concrete must be filled appropriately to create a solid foundation.

For the polder, concrete is used to drive river piles to create a space, and then sand is poured into it.

Step by step towards the depths of Bohai Bay.

In the 62nd year of Jingtai, electrical appliances were used in reclamation projects, greatly improving efficiency, and more than a dozen thermal power plants were built in Shandong.

In the same year, the Ming Dynasty established the first hydroelectric power plant in Yuerhai to supply electricity for water diversion projects.

But hydroelectric power plant technology is not yet mature.

It was also the 60th year of Jingtai's reign that the mountains of Eastern Siberia began to be raised. However, because the area was too cold, the construction time was only two months, so the construction period was slow. As a century-old project, we cannot rush it.

The imperial court steadily invests funds in the construction of three major projects every year.

During the Jingtai Dynasty, there were a total of eight major projects that shocked the past and the present, including the radical control of the Yellow River, the excavation of the Zhonghua River, the construction of 1200 million kilometers of asphalt roads, the 21 kilometers of railway lines, the agglomeration of the Xing'an Mountains, the filling of the two bays, the north water and the south, and The Wusheng Railway can be called a heavenly road, one of the eight major projects.

The old emperor was also jokingly called an infrastructure madman by both the government and the public.

At this moment, this infrastructure maniac was drowsy. Zhu Jianji reported to him the resettlement problems of the Japanese country, and he almost fell asleep while listening.

"It's up to you."

Zhu Qiyu barely opened his eyelids: "Fourth, the map of Yangxin Hall is too small, I can't see it. You have someone draw a bigger one."

The map of Yangxin Hall is already the largest map in the world.

The old emperor still couldn't see it.

"My son, I obey."

Zhu Jianjian smiled and said: "Dad, you have the map of the world in your heart. You can see every street in the Ming Dynasty with your mouth. Why do you need to look at the map? You are the living map."

"hehe."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "I don't like to look at beauties, I just like to look at maps."

"As soon as the Ming Dynasty accepted a new place, I racked my brains to think of a name and wrote down the entire outline. Then I remembered it city by city, and finally memorized it street by street."

"New lands like those were built by me city by city."

Speaking of maps, the old emperor was very excited.

"Lao Si, I have been thinking these days, once the height of the north is raised to block the cold current, can the Qinghai Gobi Desert be changed?"

"There is a lot of frozen soil in the north. With the development of the electrical revolution, the difficulty of excavation is also decreasing. As long as I am willing to invest money, there will be an endless supply of soil. Besides, the soil dug out for river construction in various places can be used. ”

"If the temperature in Qinghai increases and the Yenisey River is introduced, water resources will be available."

"In the huge Gobi Desert, if the soil is raised, can farming be done?"

"Even if you can't farm, can you herd cattle?"

Ming Dynasty never wanted the bad land of Qinghai.

In the end, it was the local Mongolian Wanhu Mansion that begged to be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would not have wanted it.

Qinghai has a harsh climate, harsh natural environment, harsh farmland environment, and harsh pasture environment.

It can be said that there is no benefit.

However, he is the heart of Ming Dynasty.

If we abandon it, Ussun will be gone, the three provinces of Western Region, Altai, and Fergana will be gone, and Gansu will have no cover.

These old emperors have been thinking about how to govern him well.

But I can't do it.

The huge Qinghai Province has a population of only 1200 million, which is even less than Mongolia Province, because the ecology here is too fragile and cannot support so many people.

Then there is the development of industrialization. People in Qinghai are being sucked away to Chang'an and Gansu, and further afield to Turpan, Fergana, and the capital.

Qinghai, a huge area, has become a burden to the development of Ming Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, the land of Hehuang was the foundation of the king's hegemony. This was because the climate was mild and humid. At that time, Tubo was still a powerful country, and all the snow-capped mountains had melted.

But after that, the temperature in the Song Dynasty was three degrees lower than that in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

So the snow-capped mountains froze, farming in Tubo's river valleys disappeared, and they went back to eating highland barley, and Qinghai also completely declined.

If the north is raised higher and the cold current from the Arctic Ocean is blocked, the temperature in Qinghai will increase, and the temperature in Wusheng is expected to also increase.

Suddenly, Zhu Jianjian trembled: "Dad, are you worried that Xueshan will become the second Tubo?"

"The fourth child knows my heart very well."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "Yes, I checked the information. During the heyday of Tubo, which was the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the temperature was 2 degrees higher than now."

"In just two times, an extremely powerful dynasty emerged in the Snow Mountains."

"You know I like to use Buddhist soldiers."

"You have also seen the fighting power of the Buddhist soldiers. They are not weaker than the Sauron people."

"Can four million Buddhist soldiers destroy the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Jianji looked stern.

After thinking for a few minutes, he said: "If Wushen becomes Tubo and his son personally leads the troops, he has no chance of winning that territory."

Not to mention Zhu Jianji, even the most capable emperor in the world, Li Shimin, could not defeat Tubo.

Just look at the topography of Wushen. Don’t dream about attacking Wushen. Attacking a mountain range of more than a thousand meters is just a dream.

Just look at how difficult it is to make toast in Guizhou.

Wushen, the average altitude is over 3000 meters. It’s difficult to even breathe. Do you want to fight? Stop dreaming.

The key point is that this place is extremely closed. If people don't want to fight, you won't be able to find them for the rest of your life.

If someone wants to hit you, I will hit you when you come down the mountain.

This ghost place is an absolute nightmare.

"If it's defensive, I'm not absolutely sure, but I can guarantee that the hinterland will not be lost, that's all."

The fact that Zhu Jianji could say such unambitious words meant that there was really nothing he could do.

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Look at the map again."

"Dad, when you split Sichuan and Chongqing, were you trying to contain Wushuang?" Zhu Jianjian discovered how prescient his father was.

In fact, from an economic perspective, the original split of Sichuan and Chongqing was a failure.

If Sichuan and Chongqing combined the entire Sichuan Basin, the economic strength of this place would be no worse than that of the coastal areas.

However, the old emperor split Sichuan. Sichuan was divided into two provinces along the Chengdu line, and annexed the eastern part of Wushuang and the southern part of Qinghai to the west, becoming a poor province mostly covered with mountains, plateaus, and Gobi.

But from a military perspective, it's amazing.

The old emperor silently disintegrated Wushen's military armament. Because of this, Sichuan under Han Yong's control continued to invade the snow-capped mountains, and finally won the victory from behind, and sent officials to the snow-capped mountains for the first time. Only then did he formally take control of this territory, and finally abolish the Xuanwei Division and make it a province.

Even now, Sichuan and Chongqing have not merged.

Some people say that the old emperor liked to add provinces to increase his medals of merit.

However, when the temperature in Ussun rises by two degrees, and when the Tubo, which had terrified the Tang Dynasty all day long, comes back, they will know how prescient the old emperor was in splitting up.

In Sichuan, there is a large snow-capped mountain.

The old emperor occupied the entire Wushen area, which was much larger than that of later generations, but the old emperor did not put the entire Wushen in one province.

Instead, it was split into five provinces, with Wusheng Province occupying the largest share, and Dali, Sichuan, Qinghai, and the Western Regions all occupying a piece.

"If the courtiers hadn't stopped me, I would have split Ussun into Ussun and Duos provinces."

Zhu Qiyu sneered: "However, when I split up Yunnan, when I separated Yunnan and Dali into provinces, I drew a block from Wushen. The Yarlung Zangbo River is the intersection of the three provinces."

"As long as heavy troops are deployed in Dali, Sichuan, Qinghai, and the Western Regions, Wushen will still be unable to escape the Ming Dynasty even if it warms three degrees."

"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Zhu Jianjie prostrated himself on the ground.

Zhu Qiyu asked him to get up: "I have recently read the history of Tibet and found that the rise of Tibet is inseparable from Songtsen Gampo and Lun Qinling."

"So, only a wise emperor and capable ministers can make a country prosperous."

"Fourth, I want you to go back and take a good look at the history of Tubo."

"My son, I obey the order." Zhu Jianji looked solemn.

The Tang Dynasty's repeated defeats in the war against Tibet were directly related to Wu Zetian's constant raids on the court, which resulted in fewer and fewer generals who were good at fighting in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

The political chaos of the Tang Dynasty also gave Tubo an advantage.

In the end, Tubo cut off his own arms and executed Lun Qinling, which also led to the decline of the Tubo dynasty.

Therefore, how important it is to have a monarch who is willing to trust his ministers.

"You should go back and think about Qinghai's affairs carefully."

"We can't get to the plateau."

"It's useless to build a railway. Once it's repaired, it can be destroyed."

"As long as people are ambitious, there is always a way to rebel."

"How to control the plateau is your problem. I'll leave it at that."

Zhu Qiyu asked him to retreat.

Qinghai is the heartland. If it remains desolate forever, it will affect the further development of the Ming Dynasty. If Qinghai is turned into the second Shaanxi, this pearl will be the greatest benefit to the development of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, Wushen was just a border province and a strategic province.

As the temperature may rise, this very closed area will most likely be the first to emerge from the Ming Dynasty independently, so we must take precautions before they happen.

Strengthening marriages is useless, and wars will not stop because of small favors.

We have to find a way to completely control this plateau.

And if Wushen is used well, Wushen will become a wealthy province of the Ming Dynasty, and its future prospects are limitless.

Zhu Jianji read the history of Tubo and announced the arrival of the courtiers before the palace gate was closed.

"I have been to Europe."

Liu Daxia was the first to speak: "At the same latitude, Europe is warmer than the Ming Dynasty."

"As the mountains in Siberia are raised, it is inevitable that the temperature in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty will rise, and the temperature in Ussun will definitely rise."

"The Tubo rebellion may occur, but I think it is impossible."

"The rise of Tubo was caused by huge accidental factors."

"The old minister is from the Tang Dynasty. The old minister never imagined that climate factors would lead to the emergence of a hegemonic country."

"The successful founding of Tubo coincided with the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars. Tubo took advantage of the fact that the Tang Dynasty had no time to take care of it. After the Tang Dynasty defeated Tuyuhun, it took advantage and swallowed Tuyuhun, thus laying the foundation for a great power."

"Every subsequent rise was closely related to the politics of the Tang Dynasty."

"Without the Wu Zhou chaos, Tubo would not have risen. Without the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo would have been destroyed by the Tang Dynasty."

"Therefore, the rise of Tubo was highly accidental."

"The Ming Dynasty is different."

"Our Ming Dynasty is a unified empire, the country is rich and the people are strong. Moreover, Wusheng is in the interior of the Ming Dynasty. There are frequent intermarriages between Han and Han Dynasties, and there are many people-to-people exchanges."

"Even if Wushen wants to split, my Ming Dynasty has raised Wushen for more than a hundred years, and Wushen has been Chineseized for more than fifty years. Isn't there a loyal person?"

"Also, with the excavation of the Zhonghua River and the construction of the Tianlu Road, our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can climb to the plateau at any time."

"Tubo during the Tang Dynasty was an independent country. Wushuang in the Ming Dynasty was a province of the Ming Dynasty. If they split, it would be called a rebellion and there would be no legal system."

"Another point."

"When Tubo was strong and powerful, the Yellow religion did not spread throughout the plateau. Now all the Yellow religions are in Wushuang."

"The Ming Dynasty has complete freedom of belief and supports all kinds of beliefs. Even you, veteran, are considered yellow believers."

"We have the same roots, why should we split?"

“Then there’s the process of industrialization.”

"Nowadays, people are working hard for money and want to live a good life. They don't want to fight and kill."

"The Ming army encountered obstacles at every turn during the Ottoman War, which was the reason why the Ming army's combat effectiveness declined because they no longer wanted to fight."

"So I feel that Wushen is not in serious trouble."

Liu Daxia thinks so.

"Ma Shangshu, what do you think?" Zhu Jianji still wanted to ask such a handsome man.

Ma Wensheng was still thinking deeply, and then he said after a moment: "If the old minister leads the army, he will not be able to attack the snow-capped mountains."

"I don't even have this ability." Zhu Jianjian said honestly.

"The Ming Dynasty cannot be defeated, but others can be defeated. How can they not rebel?"

Ma Wensheng said: "With such a favorable time and place, rebellion will inevitably continue."

"There is no ambition now. As the temperature rises and a new farming civilization appears, ambition will come."

“It’s time to nip problems in the bud.”

"What Mr. Liu means is reasonable. There are no major troubles, but small troubles continue."

Ma Wensheng said: "In such a huge plateau, once someone rebels, how long will it take for the news to reach the center?"

"You can set up a phone line." Liu Jian said.

Ma Wensheng shook his head: "If someone rebels, the phone line will be cut off. It must be delivered manually."

"If there are many interceptions, it may not be possible to pass the ball in a month."

"Prince, if you lead the army, how much territory can you capture in one month without interference from the court?"

Zhu Jianjian chuckled: "I can defeat the entire Wusheng, but I will not attack and disturb the Ming Dynasty. Instead, I will attack India, eat India, then eat Central Asia, and finally eat Qinghai and the Western Regions! Then turn around!" Come and eat Daming!”

He held out two fingers: "You can do it alone in two years."

Ma Wensheng frowned slightly: "And in two years, the imperial court sent troops to annihilate it. Can it be annihilated?"

"Hey, Gudu has gone to India, how do you wipe out Gudu?" Zhu Jianjian said with a smile.

Liu Jian interjected: "That is to say, once a rebellion breaks out, the entire Wusheng will be lost."

"That's right!"

Ma Wensheng said: "Small rebellions can also lead to big rebellions. Anyone has ambitions and wants to be emperor, so we must guard against it."

"How to prevent it?" Zhu Jianjian asked.

Liu Jian asked: "What if we replace the Han people?"

"Worst, don't the Han people have any ambition? Huh, on the contrary, the Han people are most likely to rebel." Ma Wensheng sneered.

Scholars are the most reactionary.

Li Dongyang, who had been silent until now, said slowly: "Send heavy troops to guard the fortress. If there is rebellion, they will be wiped out immediately."

"Is there no order to send troops? Will the rebels be the officials of the imperial court?" Ma Wensheng asked him.

Li Dongyang was speechless.

It is a serious crime to send troops without an imperial edict.

Any general, no matter what time, must wait for the imperial decree to arrive before sending troops. Unless the court grants the right to send troops, the general does not have this power.

"This place is a hot potato. It has been frozen in the past, which is a good thing." Xie Qian smiled bitterly.

"Yes, spring is blooming, but a piece of land is about to be born."

Wang Hao murmured: "Your Majesty is reluctant to use stones to fill the sea. There are so many stones on the plateau. How about blowing up the dangerous terrain and turning it into stones to fill the sea and turn the natural chasm into a thoroughfare?"

"How much will it cost? How much time will it take?" Ma Wensheng asked him.

"What else can I do?"

The courtiers were also distressed.

"Prince, what can you do?" Ma Wensheng saw Zhu Jianji and remained silent.

Zhu Jianjian cleared his throat: "There is no way, but as the temperature in the snow-capped mountains rises, the snow on the mountains will also melt. The basins of many rivers such as the Zhonghua River, Lancang River, and Nu River will increase, and water resources will become abundant."

"With abundant water resources, Wushen has become a treasure land. Wouldn't the probability of rebellion increase again?" Wang Hao said.

This problem is really unsolvable.

(End of this chapter)