parentshiftbook Chapter 754: Zhu Yuanzhang: Moving The Capital, Moving The Capital, Moving The Capital To Peking Can
Chapter 754: Zhu Yuanzhang: Moving The Capital, Moving The Capital, Moving The Capital To Peking Can
After hearing Yan Changqing say that Northern Xinjiang can not only raise tens of millions of cattle and sheep, but also cultivate crops, Zhou Wang Zhu Ju breathed quickly, and Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes turned red.
Farming can be said to be a natural instinct engraved in the blood of the Chinese nation.
It can be said that the most important thing for the Chinese nation to measure the value of a place is whether it can be farmed.
Even if Yan Changqing's technology in his previous life had developed to the point where he could land on the moon, the Chinese people were most concerned about whether they could farm on the moon!
After hearing that it was temporarily impossible to farm on the moon, countless Chinese people were disappointed, and even their love for the moon dropped a bit.
After all, if you can’t farm the moon, how can it be considered a good moon?!!
After hearing Yan Changqing say that Northern Xinjiang could be farmed, the value of Northern Xinjiang in the hearts of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhou Wang Zhu Ru was greatly improved to a level no less than that of other places in the Central Plains.
[Can northern Xinjiang grow wheat, corn, rice, sorghum, barley, millet, soybeans, and peas?!!]
[Is it still the best growing area for cotton?!!]
[Even the grapes, melons (cantaloupe), watermelons and other fruits grown are sweeter than those grown in other places?!!]
[Such a wonderful place, but the grandsons of Meng Yuan didn’t cherish it, didn’t work hard to cultivate it, and actually thought about going south to plunder the Central Plains every day?!!]
[Damn it, if you don’t farm, don’t occupy the manhole and don’t poop!]
[I really gave you gold and silver, but you don’t know how to cherish it. You deserve to be driven out of the Central Plains!]
[No, we will not only drive you out of the Central Plains, we will also drive you out of the grasslands!]
[It would be a waste to give you such a large piece of land in Northern Xinjiang to Beiyuan. Let us and Daming capture it and cultivate it for farming!]
At this moment, the status and importance of the northern Xinjiang grassland in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind even exceeded that of the Liaodong Plain.
Because although the Liaodong Plain is vast, the black soil is the best planting soil.
But compared to an empire, the Liaodong Plain was still a bit too small, too small to support the growth of a real empire.
Northern Xinjiang is different. The grassland in Northern Xinjiang is too vast, even wider than the Liaodong Plain, and even so vast that it is no smaller than the Central Plains.
That is a land where an empire can truly grow!
Coupled with the land in northern Xinjiang that was suitable for farming and grazing, the nomadic peoples who occupied northern Xinjiang began to develop and cultivate the grasslands of northern Xinjiang in the same way as the people in the Central Plains.
Then after experiencing a short period of pain, it will only take three or five generations for the development of the northern Xinjiang grasslands to bear initial results.
Even in just one hundred years, a huge and prosperous empire that is not inferior to the Central Plains will rise again from the vast grassland.
And the Northern Xinjiang Empire that rises this time will be even more terrifying and powerful than the previous Mongolian and Yuan Empire!
Because the previous Mongol and Yuan Empire was, after all, an empire dominated by nomadic peoples.
Although such a nomadic empire is very powerful in combat, logistics and foundation are always their biggest and difficult to solve problems.
Once they are unable to quickly support war with war and gain supplies and benefits from the battle, they will be slowly overwhelmed by the Central Plains farming nation empire relying on the dangers of mountains and rivers, as well as the continuous supply of logistics and solid foundation.
In the end, such nomadic empires were either directly brought down by the farming empires, or they were forced to withdraw from the Central Plains and retreat to the grasslands due to logistical and financial problems.
But what if the Northern Xinjiang Empire that rises this time is no longer an empire in the form of a nomadic nation, but an empire in the form of a farming nation like the Central Plains.
So if the Central Plains wants to rely on the dangers of mountains and rivers, as well as a steady stream of logistical supplies and solid foundation to slowly bring down the opponent, it is no less than idle talk.
After all, what an empire that has emerged as a farming nation has nothing to worry about is delaying logistical supplies.
Moreover, the new Northern Xinjiang Empire, which was formed by the transformation of nomadic people into agricultural people, might have both the bravery and fighting skills of the original nomadic people and the logistical background of the agricultural people.
When the time comes for a real fight, the soldiers of the Central Plains Empire might not be able to defeat the soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Empire!
In addition, the Northern Xinjiang Grassland and the Central Plains are almost adjacent to each other. Whether it is the Northern Xinjiang Empire or the Central Plains Empire, there is no retreat or avoidance between the two.
Once a fight breaks out, both sides must decide whether to live or die!
By then, the two sides will fight together. If one of them cannot achieve a quick victory, then the two sides will inevitably fall into a ten-long process of energy-consuming competition.
This process may take as short as three to fifty years, or as long as one or two hundred years.
Until finally, one of the farming nation empires completely annexed the other farming nation empire.
Then an unprecedented and more powerful farming nation empire that annexed the grasslands and the Central Plains will stand proudly on this continent and intimidate (bhfh) all directions.
And once things develop to that point, even Zhu Yuanzhang is not sure whether it is the farming nation empire in the Central Plains or the farming nation empire in Northern Xinjiang that will stand in the end.
Therefore, if we do not want a terrifying empire that combines both nomadic and farming to pop up in the future, the best way is for the Ming Dynasty to completely occupy and annex the grasslands of Northern Xinjiang, and then let the Ming Dynasty become the one that annexed the grasslands and The powerful empire of the Central Plains!
【Move the capital! Move the capital!】
[The capital must be moved to Peking!]
[The matter of moving the capital can be postponed, but it cannot be changed!]
[The only way is to move the capital to Peiping, and then build concrete highways connecting various parts of northern Xinjiang. 】
[In this way, it is really possible for the Ming Dynasty to manage the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the northern border area can also be included in the scope of effective management. 】
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of moving the capital was extremely strong.
On the other side, King Zhu Zhu of Zhou could not help but frown after getting excited.
[Although Northern Xinjiang is good, Ming Dynasty is really short of people now!!!]
[The initial development of the Liaodong Plain alone would have taken at least three generations of the Ming Dynasty and tens of millions of immigrants to complete. 】
[As for the Northern Xinjiang grassland, which is much broader than the Liaodong Plain, it would have been impossible for the Ming Dynasty to complete the initial development of the Northern Xinjiang grassland without investing five generations and immigrating more than 30 million people. 】
[For such a long and huge project, let alone my father, even my generation and even Ying'er's generation don't know whether it can be completed. 】
[Why didn’t anyone in the past dynasties discover the huge value contained in the Liaodong Plain and the Northern Xinjiang Grassland?!!]
[If they noticed the huge value contained in the Liaodong Plain and the Northern Xinjiang Grassland in the past, and then invested some manpower and material resources to develop it, then Ming Dynasty does not need to start everything from scratch for the Liaodong Plain and the Northern Xinjiang Grassland. 】
[If the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty had not been so fierce, and the number of surviving common people had been larger, the Ming Dynasty would not be so short of population now. 】
[Hey, we still have to think of ways to encourage people to actively have children. 】
【Direct bonus?!!】
[Regardless of whether the child is a boy or a girl, as long as the child is born, the court will reward him with a consistent amount of money every year until he is three years old?!!]
[Or should we provide rewards in other aspects?!!]
After Zhou Wang Zhu Ju thought about it for a while, he found that everything finally came down to the population.
Without a sufficient population, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to occupy either the Liaodong Plain or the Northern Xinjiang Grassland, let alone further development and utilization.
On the podium, Yan Changqing took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then wrote "Mineral Resources" next to "Cattle and Sheep Animal Husbandry" and "Northern Xinjiang Planting Agriculture":
"In addition to developing animal husbandry and agricultural planting, northern Xinjiang is also rich in mineral resources!"
"According to the books I collected about the geographical environment of Northern Xinjiang, Northern Xinjiang contains at least hundreds of mineral resources.'
"These include mineral resources such as oil, natural gas, coal, gold, and copper, especially the resource storage capacity of oil, natural gas, and coal, which account for a huge share of the country's oil, natural gas, and coal resource storage."
"Conservative estimates suggest that northern Xinjiang's oil resource storage accounts for at least three-thirds of the country's onshore oil resource storage!"
“The natural gas resource storage in Northern Xinjiang accounts for at least three-tenths of the country’s onshore natural gas resource storage.
"Similarly, northern Xinjiang's coal resource storage accounts for at least four-tenths of the country's onshore coal resource storage!"
"As for how important coal, oil, and natural gas are to Ming Dynasty now and in the future, I don't think I need to waste any more words on this."
"In addition, in addition to coal, oil, natural gas and other mineral resources, Northern Xinjiang also has other mineral resources such as gold, gems, jade and so on. Moreover, these mineral resources are not only diverse in variety, but also have huge storage capacity."
"In addition, the forest resources and biological resources contained in northern Xinjiang are also immeasurable.
"It can be said that Northern Xinjiang is a huge treasure mine, a mountain of gold and silver!!!"
At the end of the sentence, Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhou Wang Zhu Xi with a smile.
The resource data he just mentioned is also not nonsense.
There are 138 kinds of minerals discovered in northern Xinjiang in the past, of which 9 kinds rank first in the country in terms of reserves, and 32 kinds rank first in the northwest region.
Among them, there are rich reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, gold, chromium, copper, nickel, rare metals, salt minerals, building materials and non-metals.
For example, the oil resource storage capacity in northern Xinjiang has been proven to be 20.86 billion tons, accounting for 30% of the country's onshore oil resources.
The proven resource storage capacity of natural gas is 10.3 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 34% of the country’s onshore natural gas resources.
The predicted resource storage capacity of coal is 2.19 trillion tons, accounting for 40% of the country's total.
In addition, at the end of 2022 in his previous life, 153 mineral species had been discovered in Northern Xinjiang, and 103 mineral species had identified resource reserves, including 8 energy mineral species, 34 metallic mineral species, and 57 non-metallic mineral species. 14 new types of identified resource reserves were added.
In the past, the reason why the Ming Dynasty felt that the food in Northern Xinjiang was tasteless and it was a pity to abandon it was because they did not realize the huge value contained in Northern Xinjiang.
But now that he has pointed out the livestock value, agricultural value, coal, oil, natural gas and other values contained in Northern Xinjiang, he does not believe that Zhu Yuanzhang and Daming will be able to give up Northern Xinjiang in the future!!!
And if the Ming Dynasty could truly annex the northern Xinjiang grassland and merge the northern Xinjiang grassland with the Central Plains, then such a Ming Dynasty would probably be almost comparable to the former Mongolian and Yuan Empire in terms of land and territory.
And unlike the high-pressure, material resources, and powerful rule of the Mongol and Yuan Empire, which was composed of nomadic peoples in the past, the Ming Empire, composed of farming peoples, will have a stronger foundation for rule.
At the same time, the fault tolerance rate for various natural and man-made disasters in the Ming Dynasty will be further improved, and even the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty will be further extended.
Because of the dynastic periodic law of ancient dynasties, to put it bluntly
It is the increasingly exaggerated land annexation by the ruling class, which leads to the common people having no land to cultivate and becoming refugees. Finally, in desperation, they directly rebel and overthrow the original dynasty.
, the process of building a new dynasty.
Three hundred years is basically a time when land annexation by the ruling class of an ordinary feudal dynasty reaches its extreme, and it is also a time when social conflicts reach its extreme.
So in other words, if a feudal dynasty has enough land, the domestic ruling class will not be exhausted within three hundred years, and the vast majority of the people will not be destroyed within three hundred years.
In the end, there is still land that can be cultivated and you can ensure that you have food and clothing.
So even if this dynasty cannot break the dynasty cycle law, it can at least further extend its existence.
Like the Mongol and Yuan Empire in the past, although it could not break the law of dynastic cycles, in terms of the vast territory it occupied, as long as it was like the Central Plains Dynasty in the past,
Treat the people with lenient treatment.
So don’t talk about the national destiny of a hundred years, even the national destiny of three or five hundred years is worth it!!!
A feudal dynasty, no matter how fierce the struggle at the top is or how many problems there are.
As long as the people at the bottom are not oppressed to the extreme and cannot even eat, then the people will not take the initiative to overthrow it.
And as long as the people don't take the initiative to overthrow it, then at most the person sitting in the top position may be usurped, but the country will still survive on the whole.
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However, without if, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty chose a powerful, high-pressure, and violent way of rule. In the end, in less than a hundred years, the people of the Central Plains once again rebelled unbearably.
Turn it over.
However, this is also related to the fact that the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty is composed of nomadic people and the overall ethnic population is sparse.
Because if Meng Yuan really chooses to treat the people of the Central Plains equally and rule the Central Plains in the same way as the past Central Plains dynasties ruled.
So when the number of common people who make up its own nomadic nation is insufficient, even if the Mongolian Yuan itself is not willing, it has to take the Central Plains ethnic group as the main body.
Because only in this way can it rule the Central Plains in the way that the Central Plains dynasties ruled in the past.
And once they are forced to take the Central Plains ethnic group as the main body, the shortest time will be three or five generations, and the longest time will be more than ten generations later.
The Mongolian Yuan people will also be assimilated by the Central Plains nation and become a member of the Central Plains nation, just like other assimilated Xianbei, Man, Li, Xi and other ethnic minorities in the past.
By that time, even if the supreme ruler of the Jiayuan Empire did not become Han Chinese, the ruling class of the Meng Yuan Empire would inevitably transform into Han people quietly and directly.
By then, the Mongolian and Yuan Empire will no longer be regarded as an alien dynasty, but will also be regarded as an orthodox dynasty in the Central Plains.
This was probably unacceptable to the Mongolian and Yuan Empire, which was dominated by nomadic people.
And if the Ming Dynasty can annex and develop the northern Xinjiang grassland, then as long as the Ming Dynasty does not squeeze the people as hard as the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties did in the past.
So the combined land of the Northern Xinjiang grasslands and the Central Plains is enough for the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty to annex for three to five hundred years.
As long as the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty did not annex the land cultivated by the vast majority of the people, then the people would not revolt and overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty would naturally continue to exist.
survive.
By then, it will not be a problem for the Ming Dynasty to survive for three to five hundred years.
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