Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

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After explaining things about Lu, Zhu Biao continued:

"The fourth thing is that I am very pleased that you were able to tolerate the idea of ​​expanding the territory in your first five-year plan after taking the throne."

"But I guess you've had enough of it. The next five-year plan should be to completely annex the northern Xinjiang grassland."

"Even after annexing the northern Xinjiang grasslands, the next five-year plan may take action against Central Asia or South Asia."

"I have no objection to any of this. In other words, the wealth I have saved for you during my previous twenty years in power is just to enable you to have enough wealth to expand your territory."

"But I have one request, that is, you must know when to stop, and not to resort to violence, increase taxes, and squeeze the people. Do you understand?"

At the end of the sentence, Zhu Biao stared at Zhu Xiongying closely.

He also knew Zhu Xiongying very well, and naturally also knew the desire to conquer, or the desire to open up territories and expand territory, hidden in Zhu Xiongying's heart.

But this is normal. After looking at the world map, any ambitious emperor will want to conquer and annex lands beyond their control.

Even Zhu Biao is no exception to this point.

However, Zhu Biao knew that after the expansion of territory by his father's generation, the people of the Ming Dynasty needed more time to recuperate rather than continue to fight foreign wars.

Therefore, during the 21 years of Zhu Biao's rule, there were almost no large-scale wars involving more than 50,000 people. Most of them were small wars with less than 50,000 people.

Because for the Ming Empire, whether it was the small vassal countries of Southeast Asia or the various tribes on the grasslands of northern Xinjiang.

When they conflict with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty only needs to send an army of less than 50,000 people, which is enough to suppress all dissatisfaction!

And even small wars involving less than 50,000 people occur very rarely.

However, this does not mean that Zhu Biao has no achievements in opening up new territories.

"July 10" If Zhu Yuanzhang's achievement is to restore the Han people and make the Ming Dynasty almost uniform in East Asia.

Then Zhu Biao’s achievement is not only to make Ming East Asia completely uniform, but also to make Ming Southeast Asia completely uniform!

Nowadays, there are no vassal states in Southeast Asia, and they were all annexed one after another during Zhu Biao's 21 years in power.

However, after achieving the complete uniformity of Southeast Asia during the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao did not continue to take action against the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang. Instead, he concentrated on the development of internal affairs.

During the 21 years of Zhu Biao's rule, all ethnic minorities in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing successfully returned to their native land and became Miao surnames like other Lai people and Miao surnames.

At this point, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing and other places have truly become one of the basic areas of the Ming Dynasty. There is no need to worry that Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing and other places will emerge from time to time in the future. Three or five chieftain chiefs who are not convinced by the king will lead their people to rebel against the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the construction of various infrastructure projects that will benefit the country and the people is also in full swing.

One of the most important national infrastructure projects is the laying of railway tracks and train roads.

After twenty-one years of continuous laying, not only the provinces, prefectures, and prefectures in the Ming Dynasty were connected by corresponding rail and train roads, but rail and train roads were gradually laid across the grasslands of northern Xinjiang.

Of course, the Taipei Xinjiang Grassland Ministry also disagreed at the beginning.

After all, the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland are not all fools. Although the Ming Dynasty laid railroad tracks and roads just to make transactions with the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland more convenient and faster.

But after knowing the role of railway tracks and train roads, the various tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands naturally understood that after laying these railway tracks and train roads, Ming Dynasty would not only be able to conduct transactions with them more conveniently and quickly.

Similarly, the Ming Dynasty was able to transport troops from the hinterland of the Central Plains to the grasslands of Northern Xinjiang more conveniently and quickly, and even dispatched large armies to their grassland tribes in the morning and evening!

Therefore, when Ming Dynasty wanted to build railway tracks and train roads, they strongly opposed it, and even threatened that as long as Ming Dynasty dared to build it, they would dare to demolish it!

Facing the threats from the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland, the Ming envoy also looked cold and gave a direct reply:

"As long as the northern grassland tribes dare to demolish the railway tracks and train roads built by Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty will immediately regard it as a declaration of war against Ming Dynasty, and both sides will fight to the death!"

After saying that, the Ming envoy turned around and left, leaving the leaders of the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland cursing.

But even though all the leaders of the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland were clamoring to teach Ming a lesson.

But no matter how harshly they scolded them, in fact no one dared to dismantle the railway tracks and roads built by the Ming Dynasty.

In recent years, under the influence of the Ming Dynasty's "sheep eat cattle and sheep" policy, not only all the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland have changed to raising sheep, but at least more than 80% of the livestock raised by each tribe are sheep!

After all, the demand for wool brought about by the booming population in the Ming Dynasty also exploded, and the benefits brought by wool also increased explosively.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the number of sheep raised by various tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands is also increasing.

Now that all the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang have united, they don't know if they can raise 500,000 horses.

And among them, I don't know if there are even 100,000 middle- and upper-class horses that can really be used as war horses.

And even the most basic horses for cavalry are not enough. The northern Xinjiang grassland tribes want to reorganize the grassland cavalry that used to go south to plunder the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, it is just nonsense.

Secondly, when tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands saw that the Ming Dynasty built cities on the northern Xinjiang grasslands, planted pastures, and raised cattle and sheep, the benefits were far greater than those of them living in pursuit of water and grass.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was also willing to teach and help them how to build cities on the northern Xinjiang grasslands, plant pasture regularly, and raise cattle and sheep.

The various tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands gradually became like the Ming Dynasty. They built cities on the northern Xinjiang grasslands, regularly planted pastures, and raised cattle and sheep.

The current grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang are said to be grassland tribes, but in fact they already have their own cities for permanent residence, their own large pastures for grazing, and their own large pastures for planting, etc.

To put it bluntly, the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang have now become a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral nation.

If they went to war with the Ming Dynasty, all the cities, pastures, and pastures they had built and managed over the years would have to be abandoned.

Because these cities, pastures, and pastures cannot be moved, and Da Ming knows their specific locations.

As long as they go to war with Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty will definitely go directly to their cities, pastures, and pastures.

And with their strength, they will definitely not be able to defend these cities, pastures, and pastures, so the final result is that they are forced to abandon these cities, pastures, and pastures and flee in confusion.

But the effort, money, and resources they have spent on their cities, pastures, and pastures over the years are simply countless. If they just give up like this, they will vomit blood in distress.

Thirdly, due to the huge benefits brought by the wool trade and the further circulation of materials brought by the domestic steam trains in the Ming Dynasty.

Now, as long as they, the leaders of the grassland tribes, sit quietly in the grassland city where they live, they can buy all kinds of rare treasures from all over the Ming Dynasty through the official trade team of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if they, the leaders of the prairie tribes, want to eat seafood, as long as they give them enough money, Daming can sell them live, fresh seafood!

Such days are far better than the precarious life they had before.

To put it bluntly, why did they prefer to go south and invade the Central Plains with their heads tied to their waists? "Isn't it just to make their lives easier?"

But now their life is not only comfortable, it is simply extremely comfortable!

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

Under such circumstances, no leader of the grassland tribe with a normal mind would do this if they were allowed to go to war with the Ming Dynasty and risk their lives.

So in the end, the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland could only watch helplessly as the Ming Dynasty built railway tracks and roads little by little in front of their respective tribal cities.

Some leaders of the grassland tribes even had the mentality that since they couldn't resist, they would just enjoy it.

After seeing that the Ming Dynasty's railway tracks and train roads were built near their tribal city, they asked them if they could take a steam train to visit the Ming Dynasty.

After all, not all prairie people like the endless prairie. There are also some prairie people who like the majestic Mt. Tai, the gentle Jiangnan, the endless sea, etc.

As for this kind of thing that would help further assimilate the grassland tribes, Ming Dynasty naturally agreed.

Therefore, some nobles, leaders and others of the grassland tribes often took steam trains to visit various places in the Ming Dynasty with a one-month or half-month tourist visa specially approved by the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the construction of various infrastructure projects that benefit the country and the people, Yinming's exports cannot be underestimated.

As the most civilized empire in the world today, the Ming Dynasty can be said to have the most advanced and largest material production capacity.

Such supplies were in very short supply for the feudal states of Qin King Zhu Di, Jin King Zhu Fan, Yan King Zhu Di, Chu King Zhu Zhen, Qi King Zhu Su, and Yong King Zhu Youdun.

After all, their respective feudal states were only established for more than ten or twenty years, and were only established for seven or eight years.

Naturally, the material production capacity in all aspects cannot be compared with that of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in these years, the Ming Dynasty also obtained countless financial resources through various low-end and mid-range necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation [from the seals of Qin Wang Zhu Di, Zhu Zhu Fan, Yan Wang Zhu Di and others].

It can be said that through investment (national expenditure on education, military, infrastructure construction, etc.), consumption (income brought to the people through work-for-service, thereby promoting consumption and increasing tax revenue) and export (dumping domestic products overseas countries).

The economic growth and prosperity brought about by this "troika" are far from comparable to those of previous dynasties!

To put it bluntly, from ancient times to the present, there have been prosperous times, but all of them added together are not as rich as the family fortune Zhu Biao left to Zhu Xiongying!

This is the glorious and prosperous age that Zhu Biao brought to the Ming Dynasty for 21 years in power!

Although Zhu Biao worked hard to accumulate a very solid family background, once Zhu Xiongying began to expand outwards, it was still difficult to say whether the wealth was enough for Zhu Xiongying to squander it.

Compared to the Northern Xinjiang grassland that the Ming Dynasty has already managed and conquered, it only needs the final step to annex it...

Neither Central Asia nor South Asia is a piece of soft flesh.

It was not easy for Zhu Xiongying to bring Central Asia or South Asia into the Ming Dynasty's actual ruling territory.

Therefore, in order to prevent Zhu Xiongying from getting ahead of himself in expanding territory like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhu Biao warned Zhu Xiongying in advance.

Looking into his father's eyes, Zhu Xiongying nodded seriously and agreed:

"I understand, father, and I promise you that we will never increase taxes and pressure on the people because of foreign conquests!"

"Once we reach that point, as long as it is not an invasion of foreign enemies,

If there is any intrusion, I will immediately turn it back to the aspect of self-cultivation, accumulate knowledge, and wait for the next opportunity!"

After receiving Zhu Xiongying's assurance, Zhu Biao also had a smile on his face and continued:

"The fifth thing is that the way to govern a country lies in relaxation. Each generation has its own mission and responsibility."

"For my father's generation, their mission and responsibility was to restore the Han Dynasty and expand the territory, so wars were frequent.

"But the Ming Dynasty cannot always be under the high pressure of foreign wars, so the mission and responsibility of my generation is to recuperate and live in peace with the people."

"After having peace with the people for so long, the mission and responsibility of your generation is to open up new territories and expand externally."

"This is why I have always asked you to communicate and learn more with military commanders."

"But what about the next generation after you?"

"Then it will be their turn to recuperate and live in peace with the people."

"So when you select and train the next generation of Ming Dynasty's heirs, you can't select and train them in the direction of you, but you have to select and train them in the direction of me. Do you understand what my father means?

?"

Zhu Xiongying was stunned for a moment, then he nodded and said:

"Well, I understand, Father!"

After Zhu Xiongying listened, Zhu Biao wanted to say something more.

"IZIZIZ......"

Zhu Biao coughed violently and even coughed up a large mouthful of blood.

Seeing this, Zhu Xiongying immediately recalled in shock:

"Father, are you okay?"

"I'll call your doctor right away!"

Seeing Zhu Xiongying want to call the imperial doctor, Zhu Biao grabbed his wrist, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, shook his head and said:

"No, there is no need to call the imperial doctor. You can go and ask the Imperial Master and your Uncle Zhou Wang to come in. They should have already arrived in the side hall."

"If you are worried, I will ask your Uncle Zhou to diagnose and treat you later."

After hearing this, Zhu Xiongying immediately went out and called Yan Changqing and Zhou Wang Zhu Ju to come in.

After Zhou Wang Zhu Ju came in, his expression changed when he saw Zhu Biao's pale face and the blood on the corner of his mouth. He immediately rushed forward, held Zhu Biao's wrist and began to feel his pulse.

After quite a while, King Zhu Zhu of Zhou finally let go of Zhu Biao's wrist with an ugly look on his face.

"Uncle Zhou Wang, how is my father doing?"

Zhu Xiongying asked anxiously on the side.

Zhou Wang Zhu Ji glanced at Zhu Biao, then at Zhu Xiongying, but did not speak for a while.

Zhu Biao smiled and said:

"Fifth brother, just speak frankly. Matters of life and death are not things that cannot be said to others."

After hearing this, Zhou 2.6 Wang Zhuji just closed his eyes and said sadly:

"We have reached the stage of reflection."

Zhu Xiongying on the side immediately knelt down and cried.

Although Zhu Biao had a look of surprise on his face, he immediately smiled freely and said:

"Then it seems that it's almost time for me to go find my father and mother."

Then, Zhu Biao turned to look at Yan Changqing aside and said:

"Sir, Xiongying is still young and may act impulsively. I would like to trouble you and my fifth brother to keep an eye on him."

Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Biao who was about to pass away in front of him, his eyes also showed sadness, and he sighed:

"This is my duty."

Zhu Biao, who received Yan Changqing's answer, turned to look at Zhu Xiongying who was kneeling again and said:

"If you encounter any problems and have difficulty making a decision, you might as well ask the Emperor Master and Fifth Brother.

"In the whole world, they are the only ones who will not harm you, and they are the only ones who will wholeheartedly think about you and the Ming Dynasty.

After admonishing Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Biao finally turned to look at Yan Changqing and Zhou Wang Zhu Ru:

"Xiong Ying and Daming, please leave it to the emperor and fifth brother."

"I'm a little tired. Let's take a rest."

After saying that, Zhu Biao closed his eyes and leaned on the bed with a smile on his lips.

Looking back on my past life, I moved the capital to Fengtian, traveled through the grasslands, and the southeast...

Zhu Biao was quite satisfied with his achievements. At least even if he went down to see his father and mother, he could talk about his achievements with his head held high.

As Zhu Biao recalled, the pictures in his mind changed faster and faster, flashing like the new slides released by Ming Dynasty in recent years.

Finally, all the images turned into a bright white light, and then slowly dimmed.

Looking at Zhu Biao who was completely breathless, Zhu Ru slowly covered him with a quilt.

But Zhu Xiongying couldn't hide the grief in his heart and cried loudly.

On this day, Ming Taizong Zhu Biao passed away at the age of sixty. .