Chapter 260 Can you make a lot of money in the grassland?

The Ming Dynasty swept across the grassland like wind storming the broken clouds in the northern battlefield, without a single enemy.

After Lan Yu won a major victory, he soon took the Emperor of Northern Yuan to return to the Liao King Zhu Qi.

After all, the Liao King Zhu Qi is the nominal master, so he can't go directly to Yingtian Mansion by his master.

This does not comply with the rules and is easily left behind.

Zhu Qi didn't think so much. He was sincerely happy for Lan Yu. While writing a letter to ask for help from Lan Yu, he was waiting to bring Feng Sheng over to meet him.

After Lan Yu arrived at the camp, she learned that Feng Sheng was also winning.

Moreover, compared to Lan Yu directly capturing the emperor, Feng Sheng won tens of thousands of Northern Yuan people. It can be said that both of them have made great contributions.

But if we really want to divide it into one before and after, it must be Lan Yu’s contribution to it.

After all, he was the emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and Wang Baobao ran away with oil again.

Wang Baobao, who should have died in history, was still leaping in Hongwu 16 years, which made Zhu Qi feel angry.

Why is this man not dead yet?

Although Zhu Qi had been cursing Wang Baobao to die quickly, this curse seemed to have never worked.

Although it doesn't matter now. Even if he doesn't die, it's no different from being dead.

The north can no longer be helped, and the Northern Yuan Emperor is in our hands, what else can we do?

In fact, not long after the news spread, Zhu Qi had received private messages from several large tribe chiefs surrendered at the border.

However, Zhu Qi just pressed all these letters and did not reply. He had to send them back to Zhu Yuanzhang for processing anyway.

At that time, they would probably be included in the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence, but as Zhu Qi said before, the Ming Dynasty's rule over the grassland was definitely not just nominal.

What Zhu Qi wanted to do was to truly incorporate the grassland into the Ming system.

In fact, rule was carried out, and this was something that the Ming Dynasty had never been able to do in history.

Even the Qing Dynasty later continued marriage with Mongolia, it actually only deepened its control over the grassland.

But to say that actual rule is actually far from it.

What really made China actually rule over the grassland was the later breakthrough of Guandong in the late Qing Dynasty.

A large number of Han people went to the three northeastern provinces and Mongolia to fill the population there.

Only when the population composition is changed can a large amount of wealth be created and the country's control over these places is greatly improved.

However, if you still want to fill in immigration, you are not so anxious. Anyway, just take your time.

The population on the grassland is not as large as in Yunnan. The grassland is typically vast and sparsely populated. I don’t know if there are more than 5 million people in total.

There were tens of millions of people in the Central Plains region of the Ming Dynasty. In comparison with such a population size, Zhu Qi was not very anxious.

However, the first thing to do is to completely bind the grassland in terms of economy.

The first thing is to vigorously promote the Ming Dynasty’s banknotes. Although the previous trade has caused a large amount of banknotes to pour into the grasslands.

But for ordinary people, they don’t have many opportunities to use Ming Dynasty money.

Most of the time, they still barter, either waiting for others to reward or steal other people's things.

After all, they rarely have their own property, and those herders who own their own cattle and sheep are just a few.

Most people on the grassland exist in the form of slaves.

What Zhu Qi had to do was to be a liberator, completely liberate these people's serf identity, and suppress those few oppressors.

Doing this will inevitably cause many nobles on the grassland to rebel again, so Zhu Qi is not in a hurry to implement his plan.

The benefits are also very obvious. The labor force on the grassland has increased greatly, and new cities can be formed. With excess labor, large areas of farmland and pastures can be established, etc.

Instead of being like now, many places have been abandoned, which is a pity.

Although many places in the grassland are not suitable for human habitation, it is certain that most of the grassland plots have not been fully developed at this stage.

In fact, many places are suitable for growing corn, potatoes, grazing and building cities.

Aren’t there many brilliant cities on the grasslands of modern China?

What Zhu Qi needs to do is develop the grassland.

Establish new strongholds, reclaim wasteland and roads, etc., and think that there are still too many things to die.

Fortunately, the labor force has been obtained. Although Feng Sheng did not capture Wang Baobao, there were still nearly tens of thousands of North Yuan soldiers captured.

These tens of thousands of people can be brought over to work hard labor, starting with road construction, and then transporting various raw materials to start casting the city.

More labor will be needed in the future, so it will be better to recruit from the public.

Of course, these things need to be approved by Zhu Yuanzhang. After Zhu Qi waited for Feng Sheng to come back with the prisoners, he confirmed it and left a small number of soldiers to defend and govern the surrendered tribal chiefs.

Zhu Qi took his men and went back to Yingtian Mansion with his troops.

This is a real triumphant return.

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December 2016.

If someone tells you in advance, he can set out at the beginning of the year and defeat the Beiyuan in one year, and he can return to Yingtian Prefecture to report to the emperor at the end of the year.

Then no matter who it is, you will definitely say you are crazy and talk about these nonsense things.

But the fact is that someone really did it, that is our King of Liao Zhu Qi.

No one expected His Highness the King of Liao to be so fast, and no one suspected that His Highness the King of Liao could defeat the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

But I don’t know that in just such a short time, I was beaten down by the Beiyuan.

He captured the Emperor of the Northern Yuan, although in a strict sense, it was Lan Yu who captured the Emperor of the Northern Yuan.

But Lan Yu is the deputy general of His Highness the King of Liao, so this contribution is naturally half as much as His Highness the King of Liao.

Later, I heard that His Highness of the Liao King decisively asked the two generals Lan Yu and Feng Sheng to divide the troops into two groups.

This made Feng Shuai attract Wang Baobao's attention, and Lan Yu had the opportunity to rush to the royal court thousands of miles away.

The arrest of the Northern Yuan Emperor in one fell swoop, which means that if His Highness of the Liao King did not decisively divide the troops, it would be a question whether he could capture the Northern Yuan Emperor.

Thinking of this, isn’t it the greatest contribution that our King of Liao has made to be able to succeed in this battle and achieve such great results?

If His Highness of the Liao King had not been in charge of the proper command and courage and strategy, it would not have been so smooth. This is how everyone thought in the court.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally thought of this in his heart. Although Lan Yu made great contributions once, in contrast, the Liao King Zhu Qi made great contributions.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Lan Yu a lot of rewards. In addition to being the Duke of the State, he also gave various beauties of gold, silver, jewelry and other families.

By the way, Lan Yu's official title is Duke Liang.

Some people may say that Zhu Yuanzhang originally conferred Lan Yu as Duke of Liang.

It was only later that Lan Yu defiled the concubine of Beiyuan, so he changed his character and became Duke Liang.

Even a word difference also shows Zhu Yuanzhang's change in attitude towards Lan Yu, which is actually nonsense.

I won’t talk about it at this time of the Ming Dynasty. Do you know what the joke Liangliang means?

Just talking about this font size, Liang is not a bad name at all.

Such as li, waste, etc., are evil names.

Therefore, it is normal to be called Duke Liang. It is not like what is written in some public accounts. Because I am dissatisfied with Lan Yu, I changed this word.

If he was really dissatisfied with Lan Yu, Zhu Yuanzhang would have put him under house arrest and was still a Duke in his country?

But no matter what, Lan Yu did not defile the imperial concubine of the Northern Yuan Emperor before. Although some rumors spread, Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe it very much.

At this time, I was naturally very happy to reward merits. However, when Lan Yu knew that King Liao Zhu Qi was ranked first in the military merits with him, to be honest, I was still a little unhappy.

But when I thought of myself, after I caught the Northern Emperor, I almost made a mistake because of a single thought.

It was the King of Liao who arranged in advance that Zhu Neng would stop him so that he would not get stained with reputation. At this time, the historian would not write about the fact that he defiled the imperial concubine.

Otherwise, if the imperial concubine was really defiled, the historian would definitely record differently now.

That's really a pity for Lan Yu.

So Lan Yuxin is still very grateful to His Highness the King of Liao, and even her senses have improved a lot.

But after all, Lan Yu thinks he is still the Crown Prince. The Liao King Zhu Qi is too capable and has too high abilities, and now he has a strong prestige.

If the Liao King Zhu Qi had an idea about the throne, he would definitely be the enemy of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Thinking of this, Lan Yu frowned again, and the little gratitude for His Highness Liao was hurriedly hidden.

After all, it is likely that the two of them will still be enemies in the future, so Lan Yu dare not neglect the slightest.

After rewarding merits here, we naturally dealt with the Northern Yuan royal family.

As for the Northern Yuan royal family, Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to kill them all.

But it is naturally unlikely to let them become officials in the court.
To be continued...