Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 439: Surrender farce, splitting up the Western Regions

Zhu Qiyu was determined to abdicate.

Zhu Jianjian didn't want it anymore.

He previously thought that the biggest obstacle to abdication was domestic. After he dealt with the court officials, he realized that the resistance came from abroad.

He underestimated the influence of the vassal state in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the most important thing is that he does not want to accept the abdication of the throne.

Because he abdicated and inherited the throne, the people of the world would automatically replace Li Heng, Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty. It was obviously the old emperor who abdicated voluntarily, but in the eyes of the people of the world, it was he who forced his father to abdicate.

Look at the unpleasant things said by the vassal kings, especially the King of Wei, who did not listen to the central imperial edict and entered the capital without permission. At this moment, the King of Wei was already near the border between the two countries, waiting for the imperial edict to enter the capital.

All the vassal kings from all over the world submitted memorials at the same time. They all thought that Zhu Jianji had a disobedient heart and was suspected of imprisoning the emperor.

As a result, Zhu Jianzhen is no longer a human being inside and outside.

In the past few days, Zhu Qiyu advised him every day, son, take over the throne.

Zhu Jianjian: Dad, I really don’t want it.

Zhu Youyi, who was watching the show on the sidelines, couldn't help but laugh. Now anyone with a discerning eye knows that the old emperor cannot give in.

In the blink of an eye, the stalemate reached the end of June. The abdication ceremony and the enthronement ceremony were all prepared. Now the Ministry of Rites is also confused. Whether it can be done or not, the palace can give an accurate word.

Anyway, ask the old emperor. The old emperor has a decisive decision. He will abdicate regardless of the turmoil outside.

When I asked the East Palace, I found that Zhu Jian was unwilling to do anything about life or death. He had spoken out more than once and refused to accept concessions.

He was so depressed after being scolded that he did nothing.

This made the officials of the Ministry of Rites also become depressed.

Should we do it or not?

"Why not do it? My imperial edict has been issued, do you want to slap me in the face?"

Zhu Qiyu got angry: "I am ninety years old this year. I want to enjoy peace and happiness. Isn't that okay?"

"I voluntarily took the throne, it was not forced by my fourth son. I really don't want to sit on this throne anymore. Please let me go, okay?"

The officials of the Ministry of Rites were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweat: "Your Majesty, I don't dare to force you to do this."

"You haven't forced me yet? Do you think that I'm ninety years old and my life is too old? You think my life is annoying, so you just want to be angry with me?"

"I will never dare, Your Majesty!" the official of the Ministry of Rites cried bitterly.

"Then do it!"

But the officials of the Ministry of Rites didn't dare to leave. The prince had killed him and refused to accept the Zen position.

If the old emperor had to abdicate, then the throne would be vacant.

There was an emperor and a prince in the Ming Dynasty, but the throne was empty. Wouldn't that be a joke?
However, at this time, they also felt that the royal family did have family ties. The father and son of the Tian family did not fight for the throne, but instead showed humility to each other, which is also an eternal story.

"That's all. It's not difficult for me to do it for you. Go and announce the prince, and I'll tell the prince."

But Zhu Jianji said he was ill and did not come to Yangxin Hall.

After several invitations, Zhu Jianjiang refused to come.

"Is this traitor forcing me to go to the East Palace?" Zhu Qiyu was angry: "Go to the East Palace!"

"Your Majesty, please don't be angry. Your health is in critical condition."

The emperor abdicates, but the prince refuses to accept, what kind of trouble is this?

However, this farce really made people see the family ties between the Tian family, and Zhu Jianjian's bad reputation was actually slightly reversed.

Of course, he must not accept the abdication. Once he accepts the abdication, he will be scolded to death.

"go with!"

Zhu Qiyu didn't talk nonsense and showed off to the East Palace.

At this time, the courtiers were discussing important matters in the East Palace. When they heard that the emperor was coming, most of them looked sad. The old emperor had decided to abdicate, but the prince did not dare to take the throne. It was a headache.

Zhu Qiyu was still handicapped and came in in a wheelchair. He happened to hear the discussion about King Wei.

"Tell him to go back! I surrendered to the prince sincerely, it has nothing to do with him!"

Zhu Qiyu was very angry: "The vassal king cannot enter the capital without an edict. Is he eating the Ming Dynasty law? Send someone to give him thirty lashes to make him remember!"

"Without my will, he has no right to interfere with the affairs of the court!"

"I am his father, not him but my father!"

With the old emperor's imperial edict, the problem of King Wei's unauthorized entry into Beijing was solved.

However, punishing King Wei was a bit excessive.

Yang Tinghe interceded for the king of Wei.

"Well, he's not young anymore. He can't bear thirty lashes. But if we don't punish him, if all the feudal kings in the world follow the same example, wouldn't the world be in chaos?"

Zhu Qiyu snorted: "Ten whips, no more!"

"Copy the Ming Dynasty Law again so that he can remember it firmly!"

Punish the King of Wei and make Zhu Jianji feel better.

His father did this well.

Sincerely giving in and beating the feudal lord, he could relax a little from his very depressed mood.

"Fourth, don't worry about the attitudes of those feudal kings. It's just that I can give them more benefits by sitting on the throne."

Zhu Qiyu hit the nail on the head: "If you sit on the throne, you may not be able to benefit them."

"So I object to my abdication."

"Why don't I seal off Iceland, Greenland, the British mainland, the Netherlands, and Greece, and block their mouths, so they won't worry about the center."

"I abdicate, and they can't do anything about it."

Zhu Jianjian's eyes lit up.

He immediately felt sad. This is called bribery. The more he does this, the more it proves that he is guilty. In the future, when he ascends the throne, many brothers will be unconvinced.

Don't forget, he is the fourth child and the concubine.

Zhu Jianqi is the eldest son. Because Zhu Jianqi was deposed, he became the prince.

It stands to reason that if there is a direct line of succession but no direct line of succession, the 20th son should be the successor. The person who succeeded King Wei was the queen's second legitimate son.

Therefore, when Zhu Qiyu abdicated, King Wei had the greatest reaction.

Because the throne should be his, and it’s not the fourth child’s turn.

Moreover, the eldest family did not eradicate the whole family, but inherited the Shang Kingdom, the largest vassal state, which has every chance of resurrecting in the future.

All brothers are emperors, they all rule a country, and they all have large armies.

This is very dangerous.

If he is not in the right position, his father will surely be attacked by a group of people once his father dies. Can the domestic courtiers count on him then?
These old ministers are all his father's people.

Who knows if his father will regret it a few years after he takes the Zen throne? What last words will you leave behind?

Everything is out of control!

No matter how good he is at fighting, can he beat all the foreign princes? Even if you can win, what benefits will you get?

The biggest problem hidden here is that he is a bastard!
His father never posthumously conferred the title of empress on his mother, Concubine Hu, and made him his legitimate son.

It stands to reason that the old emperor insisted on letting the fourth child return to the country to succeed the crown prince. He should not be so careless and should have concubine Hu as the queen. In this way, Zhu Jianji's identity would be blameless.

But the old emperor didn't.

Until now, the old emperor has never mentioned it.

If his staff hadn't pointed it out, Zhu Jianji would still have been kept in the dark, foolishly accepting the abdication and inheriting the throne.

He has a bad name and a bad reputation, and he has inherited a shitty throne!
If he dares to inherit, once the old emperor dies, some people will question his legitimacy, and then his throne will not be secure at all.

If he is accused of bullying his father and pretending to ascend the throne, he will be completely doomed.

"Father, I would like to ask you to work hard for a few years." Zhu Jianji vaguely guessed that this was a trap set by the old man, but there was no evidence.

Zhu Qiyu's face turned gloomy: "How many more years will I have to work hard? I'm already ninety years old, and I still have a few more years to go! Can't you think about me? I've really had enough of this throne!"

"My lords, I am really suffering."

"I just want to be an old man and have grandchildren. Is it so difficult?"

The expressions on the courtiers' faces were extremely exciting. It was the first time I heard that someone had had enough of sitting on the throne.

However, Emperor Jingtai was really pissed. After 60 years, Jingtai basically stopped handling government affairs. In the first few years, he made major decisions, but in the next two years, he completely ignored the affairs and completely delegated power.

This was not the first time that he had abdicated, so everyone really didn't think that the old emperor was faking it.

But they never thought that if the old emperor valued the good reputation of the Eternal Emperor so much, would he give in easily?
The longer the reign name of Jingtai is used, the more beneficial it will be to him.

He could not surpass Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, or Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty in terms of merit, but he could outlast them in terms of the length of his reign.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Zhu Qiyu to give in.

If he wanted to, he could directly make Concubine Hu the queen so that the fourth child would not be stained.

He didn't do this.

There are his considerations in this. One is to check and balance the fourth child, and the other is to make Concubine Tan loyal.

He accepted Concubine Tan earlier than Concubine Hu. If he pursued Concubine Hu, he would also have to confer Concubine Tan as queen.

That would be uncontrollable.

Concubine Tan's sons will also become legitimate sons, especially the two older ones she gave birth to. These two were born earlier than the fourth child.

The throne of the fourth child will become even more unstable.

But if he didn't make Concubine Tan his queen, would Concubine Tan still be loyal to him?
Zhu Qiyu thinks a lot, and more about himself.

"That's all, I won't force you if you don't want to."

Zhu Qiyu's expression was sinister: "Minister of Rites, don't prepare any more. This farce ends here. Let me suffer alone for this throne."

"Dad, the child is unfilial!" Zhu Jianjian breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Qiyu ignored him and drove back to Yangxin Hall. He was not in a good mood along the way.

In fact, I feel happy.

When he arrived at Yangxin Hall, he complained to Concubine Tan.

"My dear concubine, I thought a lot on the way back."

"I can understand him too."

"The fourth son succeeds to the throne as a concubine, just like I did back then. Especially after I abdicate, he will be criticized by the world."

"So, I want to make Concubine Hu my queen and make him my legitimate son."

As soon as these words came out, Concubine Tan felt like she had been struck by lightning.

That was the last position, something that I had been fighting for half my life but could not get, but was obtained by a dead man.

But he still lowered his head: "Your Majesty is worried that this bastard is a bastard after all, and his life will be difficult. I know that."

But the old emperor grabbed her hand: "I have a deep relationship with Concubine Hu, but my relationship is just as deep as yours."

"I love her, and I love you too."

"Besides, she left me to be happy on her own, leaving me alone in the empty room."

"Now, you are the only one left by my side who has always been with me. You are the only one who is still with me, a lonely old man."

"After I pursue the title of Concubine Hu, I want to grant you the title of queen."

Upon hearing this, Concubine Tan looked at the old emperor in surprise: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, how can this be done?"

"How to prevent it?"

"As for feelings, how deep is my relationship with you? We have four sons and one daughter. You have been with me all my life. Aren't you enough to be a junior?"

"At the beginning, I was very utilitarian, because I didn't have a son at the time."

"My throne was unstable at that time, so I could only think that whoever fathered my son would be the queen."

"I don't want to mention what happened back then, but I know that you should be the queen."

Zhu Qiyu's words made Concubine Tan burst into tears.

She should indeed be the queen's, but she was a twin. In order to save the children's lives, she could only hold her nose and admit it, allowing Empress Tang to take the lead.

After that, Empress Tang rose to great heights, gained the throne, and her son became the prince.

At the end of the day, she was nothing more than an imperial concubine.

Today, she got the old emperor's promise to succeed him, how could she not be happy?

"Your Majesty, I blame my concubine for what happened back then." Concubine Tan is a doctor. She already knew that they were twins. Even if she wanted to keep the children, she should have told the emperor in advance.

But she didn't. She wanted to hide one and slowly reveal the secret after she became a queen.

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "Don't talk about what happened back then. After so many years, I have long since let go. Otherwise, I wouldn't have so many children with you."

"The children have grown up and have their own world."

"It's time for us to live for ourselves."

"So, I don't want to consider other people's thoughts this time. I just want you to get what you deserve."

Concubine Tan burst into tears.

I have entrusted my life to my beloved, and it was all worth it.

"Get up quickly, I know your thoughts." Zhu Qiyu pulled her up.

Concubine Tan cried for a long time, and Zhu Qiyu comforted her for a long time and asked her to rest.

He returned to expressionless.

So what if the fourth child becomes the legitimate son?
I can also make many sons into legitimate sons!

Without me, your throne will still be unstable.

The news that the emperor wanted to make Concubine Hu the queen spread like wildfire.

When Zhu Jianjian heard the news, he burst into tears. His mother's biggest regret was that she did not become the queen, and his biggest weakness was that the bastard inherited the throne of the prince.

This is his biggest flaw.

He has been making insinuations recently, but the old emperor pretended not to understand.

He couldn't figure out what the old emperor was thinking, but after being prompted recently, he finally understood that the old emperor was on guard against him.

A few days ago, he still believed that the old emperor was indeed abdicating the throne, but he was abdicating it to his illegitimate son, and that the old emperor had his own selfish motives.

But the old emperor suddenly issued an imperial edict and confused him.

The old emperor didn't seem to be on guard against him, but he was really confused because of his age, so he never thought about it. It was also his fault. He told his father directly, and his father would definitely help him.

He went to the Yangxin Hall to express his gratitude.

"Fourth, I have forgotten that you are a concubine."

"I was negligent!"

"One thing I have been doing over the years is to make the world have no distinction between concubines and concubines. We do not even allow people to take concubines. Monogamy without concubines is what I have been committed to doing."

Zhu Qiyu said: "So, I ignored that you are a bastard like me."

"I am a concubine and will inherit the throne."

"Only I know how difficult this journey is."

"I will not let my son go through the same path that I have walked."

Zhu Qiyu touched Zhu Jianji's face: "Don't worry, I will posthumously crown your mother as queen, and you will be the legitimate son. Your identity is beyond reproach. You will inherit the throne that I passed on to you, and you will be incomparably righteous. "

"You are different from me."

"I am the emperor elected by the ministers. The enthronement edict full of loopholes has become a pain in my life. I was in danger many times and almost died."

"Even twenty years before Jingtai, some people were saying that I was not in the right position."

"If my brother doesn't die, I won't be able to sit on this throne."

"But I can't kill him."

"Once I kill him, it will prove that my position is not right."

"I had a hard time in those years."

Zhu Qiyu shed tears as he spoke: "I can't let you walk my path again."

"From today on, you are the legitimate son."

"My legitimate son, after the boss passes away, you should take over the throne. Your legitimacy is beyond reproach."

Zhu Jianzhen was really moved. The old emperor's words were heart-warming.

"Thank you, dad." Zhu Jianjian kowtowed heavily.

"You are my son, how can I not miss you?" Zhu Qiyu sighed: "Go, I will prepare a canonization ceremony for your mother and posthumously make your mother the queen."

"I have been sorry to many people in my life."

"But the one I'm most sorry for is your mother. Your mother gave birth to children for me, but she never enjoyed a single day of happiness."

"She died at a young age because she had too many children, which caused the disease."

"I'm sorry for her."

Zhu Qiyu sighed.

Zhu Jianzhen knew that his mother's life was short because her vitality was damaged when she gave birth to him.

However, he also knew that his parents had a very good relationship.

He is still touched now, but when the old emperor canonizes Concubine Tan as his queen, he will probably cry.

On July 16th, the Zen Ceremony turned into a ceremony to posthumously confer Concubine Hu as Queen.

Zhu Jianji's identity as his legitimate son is completely finalized.

After all, Zhu Qiyu is still alive. Whoever he names as his queen will be the queen.

Zhu Houying was far away in Qinghai. After watching the farce in the court, he was somewhat relieved. He always believed that the old emperor's reign would be more beneficial to his lineage.

Because he was able to come out to inspect places because of the old emperor's instructions.

The old emperor allowed him to participate in political affairs in order to exercise his abilities.

If it were his imperial grandfather, he would definitely not be willing to give him authority in advance.

He went to the Western Regions from Qinghai.

The Western Regions will soon be split into two provinces, Kunlun and Ili. The reason why the Western Regions are not used is because the Western Regions is a conceptual term. The traditional Western Regions include Central Asia.

The Ming Dynasty used the Western Regions as the name of its province. In fact, it wanted to encompass Central Asia and push its territory to the Aral Sea.

However, the harsh geographical environment of the Aral Sea area made it difficult for Ming Dynasty to achieve its wish.

With the opening of the Zhonghua River, the Western Regions have become prosperous again. In the future, water from the Yenisei River and the Ob River will be introduced, and the Western Regions will become the most important core province in the western part of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty will also officially control the Pamir Plateau.

The terrain of the Western Region Province consists of three mountains sandwiched by two basins. The three mountains are the Altai Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains, and the Tianshan Mountains, with the Tarim Basin and the Jungar Basin sandwiched in between.

The Altai Mountains are in the north.

Tianshan, above the Pamir Plateau.

To the south is the Kunlun Mountains, which are adjacent to Wusheng.

The Tarim Basin will become the northwest reservoir in the future, and the Ming Dynasty is currently digging sand from it.

The original Western Region Province only assigned the Ili Valley area to Ili, while Ili owned the inner and outer river valleys, and the Balkhash Lake area became Ili Province.

Kunlun Province is still too big and will be split into Altai and Kunlun Provinces in the future.

The provincial government of Yili is temporarily placed in Kashgar.

Kashgar was built by Mansuer, and later Fan Guang stationed troops here, building the current Kashgar scale.

The name Western Region will also withdraw from the stage of history.

Ming Dynasty also officially added a province, Ili Province, the sixtieth province.

The splitting of the Western Region is more for political reasons. The Western Region is too big, with a population approaching 100 million. If it is not split in time, a military and political system will not be able to manage it.

The key point is that the Western Region is not yet the Ming Dynasty's border province. There is also a Fergana Province outside.

Splitting the Western Region is inevitable.

From now on there will be two provinces: Kunlun and Ili.

The richest one is actually Ili.

Originally, there are only two places in Central Asia that are the essence, one is the Ili Valley and the other is the Fergana Basin.

Other areas either lack water or are mountainous, making them not good places.

For the first time, the Ming Dynasty completely included the entire Pamir Plateau within the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The entire plateau was no longer called the Pamir Plateau, but was called back to Congling, and Congling Province was established, becoming the 61st province of the Ming Dynasty. .

This is Congling. Gonggong Buzhou Mountain is right on Congling!
Therefore, this is China's inherent territory.

But it is not the far west land of China.

Look at the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty. It occupies more territory in Central Asia than the Ming Dynasty now.

The entire east of the Aral Sea was the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

However, times have changed.

The Ming Dynasty voluntarily gave up the Aral Sea because it was no longer suitable for human habitation. The only prosperous area in Central Asia left was the Fergana Basin.

The Ming Dynasty could completely occupy the Aral Sea.

At that time, the imperial court calculated an account and found that the annual cost of setting up the Aral Sea Governor would exceed 20 million in military expenses.

The point is, the Aral Sea is surrounded by desert, which makes it useless.

It’s like having one more Qinghai.

If you can't get oil or water, you have to spend money to garrison it. The problem is that this place is unsafe and the cost of garrisoning is huge.

The climate in the northwest is so bad, think about how bad it will be in the Aral Sea.

The Ming Dynasty still needs to invest money to manage it, just like the Hindu Kush Mountains, but no country wants it. Why, it’s too poor.

Daming was also forced to take over.

This poor place, even in the technological age, is still a piece of bad land that cannot be developed at all. How much is the maintenance cost? How difficult it is to manage!

In recent years, the Pamirs have become a paradise for drug traffickers.

The imperial court cannot wipe them out at all.

Not to mention the Hindu Kush Mountains, which are more difficult to control. They are the graveyard of the empire, where the Soviet Union, the British and the Americans all fell.

How expensive is the maintenance?

The imperial court spends 50 million yuan on maintenance of the entire Hindu Kush Mountains every year, and tens of thousands of soldiers and policemen are killed here every year.

The most disgusting thing is that you can't fight in large groups here, you can only fight alone.

The battle damage rate is extremely high.

Frontier soldiers are protecting the country with their lives.

This is also the reason why the imperial court wants to bring these two pieces of land under its rule. More than one billion have been invested in it. Would it be stupid to spit it out again?

Within five years at most, the Ming Dynasty will have an additional 62 provinces.

Right on the Hindu Kush Mountains.

The Ming Dynasty really has its legal system here.

One is from the Tang Dynasty, and the other is from the Yuan Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, part of the area belonged to the Anxi Protectorate, and the other part belonged to Tubo.

During the Yuan Dynasty, this place belonged to the Timur Khanate, and the Ming Dynasty inherited the Yuan system. This is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it is undisputed.

Even the name was decided by the imperial court, and it was called Guixu Province.

Guixu comes from myths and legends. According to legend, there are five sacred mountains in Guixu, Daiyu, Yuanqiao, Fangzhang, Yingzhou and Penglai.

The Hindu Kush Mountains are just mountains with many mountains. They are named after the sacred mountains, so they are called Guixu.

Mainly because of the Anxi Protectorate and the Timur Khanate, the names they called were all unpleasant. Names such as Xiliuzhou, Tiaozhi, Xiaobolu, etc. were all transliterated.

Might as well come up with a new name.

Just like Fergana, Ming Dynasty is also going to change its name.

The old emperor liked Fergana very much. It was an ancient name, but Zhu Jianzhen felt that this name did not conform to the Eastern name and wanted to change it.

It was renamed Tianshan Province.

Because the Fergana Basin is a basin sandwiched between the Tianshan Mountains and the Gisar-Alai Mountains.

Zhu Jianjian always felt that this name was quite strange. In fact, Fergana was translated as Poluona in Wei Shu and as Bahanna in Tang Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, it became Fergan.

The Jingtai Dynasty was called Fergana. This was not called by Zhu Qiyu, but the transliteration in the Records of the Western Regions.

They are all transliterations, and the transliteration of "Record of the Western Regions" is more accurate.

After the Ming Dynasty took actual control, the name was not changed and was called Fergana Province.

After Zhu Jianji Bingzheng thought the name was not good, he deliberately changed it to Tianshan Province.

At the northern foot of the Altai Mountains, there was the Altai Province in the early days. Later, it was merged with the Tangnu-Ulyanghai Province, and there was no Altai Province.

After the restructuring of the northwest, the imperial court wanted to split the Western Region Province into three provinces: Altai Province, Ili Province, and Kunlun Province.

But the court discussed it over and over again, and still felt that it would remain unchanged for the time being.

Mainly, the population of the Western Region Province is mostly in the Ili and Altai regions. If Altai is also separated, there will be no one in Kunlun.

Even if it is split, it will have to wait until the water diversion is successful and the population between the north and the south is balanced before splitting.

In fact, the area where the Ming Dynasty had the weakest control was Tianshan Province, formerly Fergana Province.

Because the cleaning is the least thorough.

Mainly, it was very difficult to clean up. The natives would burrow into the mountains at every turn, but the others were very obedient. After all, they were all conquered peoples, and they would kneel down to anyone without hesitation.

As a result, Ming's local rule was the weakest.

The main reason is that the Pamir Plateau is full of criminals and is extremely difficult to govern, which makes Tianshan Province very chaotic.

In the sixty-fifth year of Jingtai, the imperial court made up its mind to rectify Tianshan Province.

The imperial court appointed the governor of Tianshan and vigorously rectified the situation. Three years later, about 120,000 people were executed and more than 300,000 people were arrested.

Tianshan Province was cleared from top to bottom.

When Zhu Houying came to Tianshan, he felt that it was quite rich. Except for drought and water shortage, it was almost as prosperous as Chang'an.

Tianshan Province is the third most populous province in the northwest, with a total population of 1.1 million and a permanent population of million.

The looks of the people here are more or less different from those of the Central Plains people.

Because the local area was not cleansed, they combined with the Han people, and the locals looked different.

However, the culture is indeed no different from that of the Han Dynasty.

In the 65th year of Jingtai's reign, the Tianshan Governor was appointed for a period of eight years to reorganize Tianshan Province.

The provincial capital of Fergana is Fergana.

However, the richest cities in Tianshan Province are Andijan and Khujand, both with a population of more than 1500 million, and they are both large cities.

The provincial capital Fergana has a population of only eight million.

This time, the imperial court officially incorporated the Pamir Plateau into the Ming Dynasty and turned it into the Congling Province of the Ming Dynasty. This means that it is determined to manage Congling. Only by keeping Congling clean and stable can Tianshan Province develop rapidly.

To the north of Tianshan Province is the newly established Ili Province.

It is expected that Altai Province will be established in ten years. To the north of Ili Province is Altai Province and to the east is Kunlun Province.

To the south is Congling Province, and to the south of Congling Province is Guixu Province.

However, despite the increase in provinces, it is actually useless to the economy.

Splitting the Western Region will just add several sets of administrative teams, increase administrative costs, and achieve no actual benefits.

Just like Gansu, if you don't split it up, governance will be very difficult. If you split it up, administrative costs will increase.

After all, the northwest is too poor.

Zhu Hooying was on patrol in the northwest, but he didn't take the initiative to report, and no one in the court asked him about it.

When patrolling in the south, there was basically one call a day. When patrolling in the northeast, there were quite a few calls.

After arriving in the northwest, Changan made a phone call and there was no sound again.

The imperial court did not pay attention to the northwest at all.

The old emperor once wanted to build the northwest into a science and technology center.

I haven’t mentioned it in the past two years.

Because the technology companies in the central region have been sucked away by Jiangnan.

After all, people open companies to make money, not to serve the court. They don't just go wherever the court tells them to go.

Just do some calculations and you will know, which one is higher, the cost of land transportation to the northwest or the cost of sea transportation to the south of the Yangtze River?

There is also the company cluster effect. The upper and lower industrial chains are all together, and costs are naturally reduced.

There are also many factors such as policy preferences, geographical advantages, and regional consumption power. Together, these factors will naturally encourage companies to move south of the Yangtze River.

Not to mention private companies, state-owned companies are all heading south.

The state-owned enterprises in Ming Dynasty are also for making money. It must be where they make money and where they move. The second thing is to stimulate the regional economy.

Let’s not talk about the imperial enterprise, which is a tool for the emperor to make profits.

Therefore, in the 67th year of Jingtai, the old emperor asked whether a long river could be built? Similar to the Yangtze River.

It runs from east to west and flows from Central Asia to the east. The basin is large enough to support river transportation.

The reason why I didn’t mention the Yellow River.

Because the dry season of the Yellow River is relatively long, about three months, it is useless during this period.

Moreover, there is a serious shortage of transportation capacity.

It is difficult to support the current shipping capacity. Nowadays, shipping is calculated in tens of thousands of tons. The Yangtze River is strenuous, let alone the Yellow River.

Therefore, the old emperor wanted to create a second Yangtze River.

But Central Asia is so dry, where would the big rivers come from?
This is the first point.

The second point is that there will definitely be a dry season in the north.

The third point is that the current shipping capacity requirements are too high, and the Yangtze River is not qualified. Shipping capacity requirements will continue to rise in the future.

It costs hundreds of billions to invest in such a big river. Is it worth it from a future perspective?

Obviously, it's not worth it.

And expanding the capacity of the Yellow River is not cost-effective.

However, the old emperor's idea has been studied by the government and the public for a long time. It is generally believed that if there can be such a big river in the northwest, it will have extremely high strategic value.

The old emperor also promised that as long as there is an effective method, the court is willing to invest the money.

In the past two years, water conservancy experts have also been studying it and soliciting opinions from the public.

But after researching and researching, everyone thinks that the possibility is very small.

Without a large river that can support enough shipping, the northwest is destined to be unable to compete with the south of the Yangtze River. Naturally, the court does not pay attention to the northwest.

Zhu Houying's footprints are all over Kunlun, Yili, Tianshan, Altai and Pamir Mountains.

I also discovered that the imperial court did not want the Aral Sea, how wise it was.

He took the train, circled around the Aral Sea and came back.

The Aral Sea is really desolate. It is a Kunlun and a Qinghai. It will not be of much benefit to him if the north is raised. Even if there is heat reaching here, it will only accelerate the soil erosion here, make the Aral Sea dry up even more, and make the already Water vapor loss in water-scarce Central Asia is serious.

However, this is Wei's problem.

King Wei is not a fool. He attaches great importance to the protection of the water and soil in the Aral Sea area. But it is one thing to pay attention to it, and it is another thing to manage it well.

The desertification of the Aral Sea region is really not caused by the Mongols, but by the Central Asians themselves.

To be precise, it was caused by successive wars.

When the Mongols arrived, the area was becoming desertified.

King Wei governed very well.

But still very poor.

There are only a few hundred thousand people living in the entire Aral Sea area, and the population of Wei State is mainly on the north coast of the Caspian Sea.

Wei State regarded this area as a military buffer zone.

　I have a fever again. It’s not serious. Now I have a fever all the time. I get sick twice a month.
　　After having the sheep during the Chinese New Year, my health has deteriorated a lot, and my body functions have seriously declined.

　　I owe two thousand, and I'll pay it back tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)