My Daming New Empire

What the Ming Dynasty implemented on the grasslands was the Jiji policy, which is the autonomy model of later generations.

The main reason is that Ming did not like the land here, the cost of stationing troops here was too high, and the benefits were too little.

But everything is different now. For this mine, Zhu Di can mobilize hundreds of thousands of Han people to move here, and firmly control this place in his own hands.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang, the Zhu family has been fond of relocation. The well-known Shanxi Dahuaishu immigration is only 40 years ago.

In order to increase the population in the north, Zhu Di also moved more than [-] people from Shandong and Jiangnan to Peiping after he became the throne.

In the past, he didn't like the land here, so he could let Wulianghabu graze here, but with this mine, in order to ensure the safety of the transportation line in the future, Zhu Di began to move his mind.

And those frontier soldiers, frontier guards, were also excited, and wanted to stay here to protect Tongshan.With this copper mountain, their life will never be sad, which is much better than the life of guarding a few acres of land.

Recently, dozens of high-ranking generals other than the Jingjun and Jingwei have turned Zhu Di's Chinese military tent into a vegetable market, a court trial site, and only a gladiatorial arena.

Zhu Zhanji didn't think it was a big deal while watching the excitement, but found it very interesting.

Regardless of whether it is ancient or modern, for the sake of profit, everyone has a strong fighting spirit.

Even Zhu Di, the emperor, couldn't hold back anymore. He couldn't just scold everyone because the generals rushed to come and garrison here!

It was Liu Sheng's words that woke everyone up. "Everyone, even if you want to fight, you have to wait until you see whether it is worth fighting for here, right?"

He is not detached from the world, but because Shenjiying was first determined to have a share of it, so he has the current posture.

In this battle, everyone has seen the restraining effect of firearms on the Beiyuan people. No matter how good your riding skills are, you will have no resistance against firearms.

It is necessary to keep a Shenji Battalion here to protect the mine. Moreover, mining requires gunpowder. When it comes to playing with gunpowder, except for the craftsmen who prepare gunpowder, they are the only ones who are the best at it.

The craftsmen who prepare gunpowder belong to high-end technical talents in Daming, and they are all under the strictest protection in Daming, and they will never be allowed to come to the grassland.

Therefore, in addition to guarding the mission, the Shenji Battalion also has the technical guidance mission of mining. They are also the left-behind army that was determined from the beginning.

Then, the mine can no longer live here.

Because, deafening explosions can be heard all day long, and the surrounding area of ​​the mine is full of dust every day.

But except for Zhu Zhanji, no one disliked it.They looked at the rising smoke and the dust all over the sky, but they felt an extremely intoxicating sense of enjoyment.

Including Zhu Di.

More and more copper ores with extremely high purity were discovered, and everyone's emotions became more and more excited.When an associated gold vein was found at a mine vein, even the emperor Zhu Di ran over to see it for a long time, shaking with excitement.

There is no need for Zhu Zhanji to expound on the importance of the grassland to the Central Plains, and no one regards staying in the grassland as hard work.

After a full month of quarrels and struggles, Xuanfu, Datong, the guards near the grassland, won the competition.

A cavalry force of 10 people will be left on the grassland, and [-] guard soldiers will be relocated, and a minimum of [-] peasant households will be relocated from Shandong and other places, making this place the most important stronghold of the Ming Dynasty on the grassland.

Of course, these [-] farmers are not mainly for mining, but for transportation.

Because the extraction of copper will not be carried out here in the mine, but will be placed in Qiantunwei, Kaiping.There is also Xilin Gol of later generations, which has abundant coal resources and is closer to Daming.

In this era, there is no chemical refining method at all, and one can only rely on charcoal or coal to burn copper ore and then purify it.

For this reason, Zhu Di also decided not to repair the Great Wall, and transferred the craftsmen who repaired the Great Wall to build a direct road from Beiping to Tongshan.

This road is about [-] kilometers from Beiping to Kaiping Qiantunwei, and then to Tongshan. Although it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, what is directly dug out here is hard currency!

Post stations and military guard camps will also be set up along the road to protect the smooth flow of the road, and a large army of no less than 10 people will be stationed in front of Kaiping.

This place will also become the most important economic and military relay point between Daming and Mobei Grassland in the future.

This is enough, even better than Zhu Zhanji expected, all because of a mine.

Now that the power of Ming Dynasty is booming, Beiyuan is at sunset. As long as they are not given too much room to recover, they will always be weakened.

At the very least, it will never be like in the original history, where a good game with an advantage will be turned into a dead game.

The army began to retreat on June [-]th, and it was June [-]th when it arrived at the mine.But it was not until July [-]th that the affairs here were arranged and they continued on their way.

However, Zhu Di only brought back 60 people, leaving nearly 30 people in the area to protect the copper mountain.

Before leaving, Zhu Di swiped his pen and left three big characters Beimingshan.

This name also became the official name of Copper Mountain.

Zhu Di also discussed with the generals, including Zhu Zhanji, during the trip. After returning to Beiping, he will hold a court meeting and prepare to build a Dusi Mansion and Chengxuan Zhengshi here.

The Dusifu is in charge of the military, while the Chief Envoy is in charge of civil affairs.

In the past, the management here was unable to make ends meet, and it was not cost-effective.But now this copper mountain can bring countless benefits. In addition to enough military expenses for the army, it can also bring much-needed copper, silver, and gold to the country.

Seeing that everyone was excited and excited about this matter, Zhu Zhanji was truly proud.

Sometimes, there is no need to bother to fight against everyone at all, and there is no need to work hard to suppress the other party.

You only need to flip the weight on the balance lightly, and the balance will naturally tilt to your side.

This feeling of manipulating history and putting historical figures into one's own chessboard is really cool!

On July [-], the army arrived at Qiantunwei in Kaiping and rested for three days.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately went to the open-pit coal mine here to check it out, planning to build several charcoal kilns here in the future.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the ancients had already learned how to burn charcoal. In addition to charcoal and bamboo charcoal, they also dried coal into charcoal. The best charcoal was only for dignitaries, and the charcoal was for ordinary people.

But this is not absolute.Like Huaibei and Yangzhou, there are very few mountains and forests.Therefore, people here have long learned to bake bituminous coal at high temperature into smokeless coke, and most people use this kind of charcoal for heating.

The coke produced in Liyang is used in the imperial dining room of Yingtianfu Palace, and the amount is not small.

The Wuliangha tribe does not know how to make coke. In fact, their use of coal is still in its infancy. When it is cold in winter, those poor people will take one or two carts of exposed coal and go back to burn it for heating.

Zhu Di and his gang of war lunatics were unwilling to let the Wuliangha people take advantage of it. If they didn't care about face, they would have driven the Wuliangha people away.

However, Zhu Zhanji persuaded Zhu Di and used the ready-made benefits to win over the Wuliangha people. This is a good opportunity.

Instead of adding an enemy to yourself, add a friend.

Zhu Di knows better than Zhu Zhanji the reason why a tree stands at the south gate and a daughter is a city.After being awakened by Zhu Zhanji, before the army arrived at Kaiping Qiantunwei, Zhu Di had already issued a summoning order to the various ministries of Wuliangha.

After the army was stationed, Zhu Di entertained the tribal leaders for three consecutive days.According to Zhu Zhanji's proposal, all the coal was given to the various ministries of Wuliangha, and they were tied to Daming's chariot.

Chapter 58 Economic Control

Zhu Zhanji in his previous life had great influence in many countries, especially Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa.Because the economy of these countries is almost controlled by Zhu Zhanji, in these countries, his words are more effective than the words of a government.

The colonial history of the world has passed through three different stages in hundreds of years, from the armed plunder of Spain, to the colonial development of Britain, and finally to the economic control of the United States.