Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 585: Exhausted Japanese Land
Zhu Su pondered a little more and considered: "Timur's rise was very fast, but if Ruo Erchen remembers it correctly, he became successful because he claimed that he had the Chagatai Khanate... Oh, that is, the DPRK Zhong became the successor to the country of Yili, and it started when he raised his troops and devoured the country's heritage."

"Judging from the news from my second brother, the Timur Empire is already on the rise at this time, and Yili is in decline. Can I, the Ming Dynasty, find a way to support Yili first? As long as Yili is As long as Li can retain some strength, the rise of Timur's empire will inevitably be curbed."

"How much support is there?" Lao Zhu frowned slightly.According to his original intention, it would be best to send troops to the Western Regions quickly and take back the Han and Tang Dynasty homelands that Yili occupied as soon as possible.

However, he also knew that Ming Dynasty was indeed unable to expand anymore.He stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, and then said: "We know what you mean. Now, Yingzhou and Sanhan have not swallowed the two pieces of fat in their mouths. If I try to pinch Yili again, This piece of meat may overturn the meat pot and damage the vitality of Ming Dynasty."

"Alas... there are still too few people! We have ordered the establishment of almshouses, pharmacies, and other places to help the people survive poverty, disease, and famine. We have also ordered the poor to give up their children, and those who are infertile should be given money to support them. Why are the people of the Ming Dynasty still so slow to give birth to babies... We really wish we could see the pits and valleys in the territory of the Ming Dynasty tomorrow filled with babies from the Han family!"

Lao Zhu patted the table in depression. Seeing how he hated the common people, Zhu Su found it funny.

But yes, it is normal for Lao Zhu to feel this way.After all, when it comes to fertility, no one can compare with his old man.Zhu Su now has more than a dozen brothers alone.

"It is true that there is a shortage of manpower... There are not enough people. Even if our sons of the Ming Dynasty fight to the ends of the earth, they will not be able to immigrate to the territory that our Han family has fully expanded. These conquered places will always be just an illusion. . I wonder if the imperial court can come forward to transfer women from Yingzhou, Sanhan and other places to China to be matched with military households and poor families of the Ming Dynasty..."

Hearing Zhu Su's words, Lao Zhu glanced at him inexplicably: "Why, it's not enough to move the men to these places, you also want to move the women?"

"You are thinking of exterminating households... Do you want to move all the Dingkou in these places into white households?"

Zhu Su laughed loudly: "We are not robbing the women of the people. Nowadays, most of the Japanese Japanese from Yingzhou are serving as serfs in the Ming Dynasty... They know clearly in their hearts whether life is better or worse than when they lived in the Japanese lands. Send a few A serf went to the Japanese land to preach for us. The Japanese people naturally know that becoming a common citizen of our Ming Dynasty is the way out."

"Moreover, our great dynasty is the upper state, and the people there are not as heroic as those of the Japanese and Sanhans. Should I marry the people of the upper dynasty and enjoy the blessings, or should I marry the skinny, short, ugly barbarians in the wilderness, those Japanese girls? , Korean women have their own choices.”

"This is not a sinister and destructive thing, but it is a benevolent policy that can not only save these barbarian women, but also strengthen our Ming Dynasty and benefit the country and the people!"

When it comes to propaganda and warfare, all the people in this world put together can hardly match even one finger of myself from the future generations.When the minds of later generations were slightly enlightened, those Japanese women were still able to rush to serve the soldiers of the beautiful country with their bodies and take pride in comforting them.I have been encouraging them to marry Han descendants for hundreds of years, so what's the difficulty?
"You kid. You're full of evil ideas." After hearing Zhu Su talk about this matter so grandly, Lao Zhu scolded him with a smile.Then he said: "Since it is a benevolent policy that benefits the country and the people, then hurry up and get it done. You go find someone to write a statement and submit it directly to us tomorrow."

Tiao Chen was just going through the motions. Listening to this tone, Lao Zhu was already determined to do it.

Come to think of it, Lao Zhu has never been a benevolent vegetarian.Besides, who cares whether Yingzhou and Sanhan will really be exterminated into a barren land?
Our people in the Ming Dynasty have not yet married, so who will care about the foreign country of Guizhou...

"One more thing is food." Zhu Su continued, talking about food, his expression became much more solemn. "If we want our Ming Dingkou to grow explosively, we must have enough food to supply... There is nothing we can do about this in the short term. We can only open up wasteland and cultivate the land intensively, and that's it."

"However, now there is a way, which may be done overnight..."

"American god... right?" Lao Zhu's expression also became serious. "If we can really get the divine seed, and the people's warehouses will be abundant, the number of people in our Ming Dynasty will naturally increase." "The number of people in Ming Dynasty will naturally increase." "The number of people in Ming Dynasty will increase, and the military power of Ming Dynasty will increase; my Ming Dynasty will be self-sufficient in taxation; we will have enough people to move to..."

Lao Zhu's eyes flashed.Compared with the so-called Timurid Empire, Dingkou is the most significant problem that the Ming Dynasty has to face today.

The key that can solve this problem in a short time is likely to be in the Americas.

"When will the treasure ship fleet set off?" Lao Zhu asked Zhu Su.

"Currently, there are still people in the ports along the coast of Ming Dynasty that have not thawed. According to the calculations of the Navigator, we should be able to set sail in more than a month." Zhu Su said.

"More than a month..." Lao Zhu thought silently.The word "thaw" that Zhu Su just mentioned reminded him of the "Little Ice River" period that he had mentioned before, which plunged the Ming Dynasty into a critical situation.The feeling of not waiting for me is even stronger. "That being the case, let them set sail immediately when the day comes."

"...They are our warriors for the Ming Dynasty. We really can't bear to let them go out in silence."

Worried that if their party fails and wastes so many years of preparation and waste, the courtiers and people will firmly oppose the search for a new continent in the future.Therefore, Tie Xuan and Zhang He proposed on their own that they should quietly lead the fleet to the expedition without holding a grand ceremony.After discussing with Liu Bowen, Zhu Biao and others, Lao Zhu agreed to their request.

"But if they can find the divine seed, we will definitely give them a big reward! Build a temple for them to worship, teach them to honor their ancestors, and give them eternal fame!"

Lao Zhu's eyes were blazing, and the emperor's words were fulfilled. These words showed that he valued the soldiers on this expedition.

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In the days that followed, there were frequent decrees from the palace. First, Deng Yu and Fu Youde were moved to the northwest border area of ​​the town to take precautions while also inquiring about news about Timur's empire.These two men once penetrated the Western Region and gained a great reputation in the West.With these two people in charge, there should be no need to worry about border troubles in the northwest; then Lao Zhu recalled Mu Ying from Yingzhou and replaced Li Wenzhong with Mu Ying who was putting down the rebellion of the [-]th clan in Taozhou.After Taozhou was pacified, Mu Ying was asked to guard the border of Yunnan and keep an eye on the Southeast Asian countries; while the Xuanwei Division of Yingzhou was handed over to Xin Guogong Tanghe for management. Almost everything has been wiped out. It is more suitable for the mature and prudent Xin Guogong to guard the now settled Yingzhou Xuanwei Division than the sharp-edged young general Mu Ying.

Li Wenzhong guarded Taiyuan on behalf of Zhu Fan. He was also famous in the grassland, almost as famous as Xu Da.Zhu Di returned to Shuntian with Fei Ju, Lan Yu and others who were determined to fight. Their task was to cooperate with Li Wenzhong and Xu Da to compete with Wala Yesudier for control of the grassland tribes.All the family assets left by Dayuan were regarded by Lao Zhu as belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and naturally they were not allowed to be easily coveted by others.

Generally speaking, Ming Dynasty has entered a relatively stable digestion period.Digest the territory previously developed so that it can be transformed into its own heritage.The courtiers' attention was focused on the emperor's schedule and layout in recent days, and almost no one noticed that several giant ships were moored at Liujiagang Port in Taicang and were preparing to go to sea.

Zhu Su was standing on the port at this time. Although the sea breeze blowing in front of him was still strong, it was already a bit warm.Looking at the shocking giant ship moored in the port, his heart became even more intense.

"Spring has begun...the ice has melted!"

(End of this chapter)